We Love to Create mixed media Challenge Blog...sponsored by Polkadoodles: Katie

Sunday, 17 January 2016

Challenge 2 ...Anything Goes Crafting with Mixed Media at We Love 2 Create Pan Pastels challenge

Good morning crafty friends and a big thank you to everyone who entered our last challenge, we'll be announcing the lucky winner and Top 3 next Sunday but today we've got a new challenge for you.

You don't have to use PanPastels to play along and our lucky winner will receive some fabulous crafty goodies from the lovely people at Premium Craft Brands

As always we like to keep the challenge easy and simple for you all so you can all enter so it is

Anything Goes

and you have until Sun 31st Jan to enter, just add your entry to Mr Linky - please follow the challenge rules at the top of the page.

So let's see what inspiration we have for you this week...

Nikky....Today I'm sharing a make I made a while back - now I'd love to say I finished this but the truth is it is still in this same, original state! ie about 15% done! To explain, this is one of my colouring pages from the Colour Therapy 1 Collection. I sent this off to a specialist printer online and had it printed off as a GIFREAKINGANTIC A1 poster (this only cost me about £13 which I thought was a bargain)...

AND then I decided to colour it in with my Pan Pastels. I LOVE the result! The paper is heavy but quite shiny and smooth because it's a poster print - I was a little worried the pastel would just dust right off but it seems to love this paper - so vibrant!

I used my Sofftt Tools to colour this - they're just the right size to get in the details with it being a large piece, and enabled me to get some lovely smooth swishes of colour down nicely...to give you some perspective on the size those leaves are about 5 or 6 inches long and the flowers are about 3 or 4 inches wide LOL...

I'd love to say that there was a whole lot of artisticness gone into this but I must confess I just let the paper and the pastel do the work here really... What I really adore about pastels is the ability they just seem to have to mix themselves which makes really unique colours...I'm so lazy I dont really worry about colour contamination because you actually CANT contaminate the pans anyway, so I just work away with one or two tools and just let it happen. It seems to give a real depth to your colour when you work this way.

This poster is so huge I really want it to go on my Living Room wall but I do need to find time to work on it some more yet. If I had space I'd mount it on the wall and have it as a WIP and work on it every time I passed but that is never gonna happen in this shoebox of a house!

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Katie here with a colourful journal page to share. I started off by applying bands of Magenta, Turquoise and red across the page. I then blended them in and added a bit of yellow over the red to create a sunset effect.

I stamped over the page with texture stamps and the new Papermania Geometric set and then sealed the page off with gel medium.

I love how the colours have melted together.

Products and links:

PanPastel - Sofft Tools Kit

Diarylide Yellow PanPastel

Magenta pan pastel

Perm Red Pan Pastel

Phtalo Blue Pan Pastel

Permanent Red Tint Pan Pastel

So we'll be back next week with more inspiration for you - so just add your entry to Mr Linky below!

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Sunday, 13 December 2015

Challenge 25 Inspiration and winners

Good morning folks, we've got lots of inspiration lined up for our 'Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes' Challenge but if your visiting to add your link just click here to go straight to the linky.

Before we have a look at the awesome artwork our lovely DT have been busy creating though its time to announce the winner and Top 3 from our last challenge as we always have some fabby crafty goodies lined up for one lucky entrant thanks to our generous sponsors Premium Craft Brands!

The lucky winner from challenge 24 has been chosen by random.org and this time around the goodies go to

30 Carol Gill

Congratulations Carol!! Email us (details in sidebar) quoting your winners code which is PPWK24001 along with your snail mail details and your prize will soon be winging its way to you!#

As always we had some stunning entries, you're all sooooooo talented so it was a difficult decisio
n but Top 3 honours go to

1. Craftyfield

7. Irena Stefanova 2

31 Gail Lett

Congratulations ladies, we were blown away by your beautiful projects!

As usual our DT have been busy this week, let's check out what they've been up to. We're also welcoming a very talented new teamie this week, give the lovely Katie a very warm welcome and if you have a min, pop over to her blog and check out her gorgeous artwork!

Nikky...Be gone, printed colouring books, you are a one-hit wonder! This is my favourite image from Florabunda, and I part coloured this with my adorable PanPastels of course! I sent this image off to a Professional printer online and for a mere £12 (about $18?) I had this printed super huge at A2 Poster size which is 23.4 x 16.5" big - MASSIVE!

The Sofftt tools are truly amazing and you really MUST use them with your pastels - nothing else lays down the pigment in the same way - this looks really accomplished in the colouring but really all I did was sweep the colours on with the sponges and it kinda just happened on it's own! See more about this on my blog...

Katie

I have a journal page to share using Pan Pastels to create a background.

I used Phthalo Green and Turquoise on the background i then used a couple of stencil masks with Phthalo Blue to create the pattern.

I coloured the fairy in using a mixture of markers and Phthalo Green pastels. i sealed everything in using a gel medium. I used an alphabet stamp set to create the wording.

PanPastel Phthalo Green

Pan Pastels - Phthalo Blue Tint

Phtalo Blue Pan Pastel

Lou: I decided to alter a frame I have had kicking around for ages. I covered the back piece with paper and then began building up the sides.

Next using raw umber and yellow ochre pan pastels, plus a little touch of yellow green, I covered the card sides. I set this with a mixture of water and gel medium. When dry, I used a stencil and irridescent paste to go over my base layer; which adds a real tectural feel to the frame. Once this was dry, I used fine white pearl on the top to add extra irridesence.