A NEW CHALLENGE #6, WINNERS ANDDDD A DT CALL!!!!!

Good morning crafty friends, I hope you're having a lovely creative weekend! We've got a new challenge starting and we've also got a DT CALL as we're looking for some new teamies to join our creative adventures!  

We're a wee bit thin on the ground and our lovely Alysha is a very busy bee so she is taking a short break from DT duties. We'll miss her very much but hopefully she'll be back before too long.As a result we're looking for new teamies to join us. You don't have to be an expert with PanPastels as we want a diverse mix of crafters in our team, in fact quite a few of us had never used Pans until we joined. We do need people who are reliable, creative and enjoy creating mixed media projects. We will provide you with products to play with and in return we're asking for crafters who are happy to:

• create a new project every two weeks using our products (occasionally we may ask for additional physical projects if we need samples for TV shows etc)
• Post your project on your personal blog
• Comment on challenge entries (we have a comment rota to share this between the team)
• participate in our facebook group and also the DT facebook group

IF you'd like to be considered for a place on the team , please just add DT after your entry to this challenge! We'll be in touch with successful  applicants in early April!! Good luck everyone!! 

After all that excitement it's back to business and  our new challenge where out theme is

Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes

As always we have a fabulous prize of crafty stash for our random winner thanks to the lovely people at Premium Craft Brands

You don't have to use our products to enter but of course we love it when you do! Our DT have lots of inspiration for you but before we see what they have been busy with this week it's time to announce the lucky winner and Top 3 from Challenge 3.

Our lucky winner, chosen by Random.org is ......

13. Kym

Congratulations Kym!! please email us (details in sidebar) quoting your snail mail details and your winners code which is PPWK.04001

As always it was a difficult decision as we had so many beautiful entries but the votes are in and counted and this time around Top 3 honours go to .....

12. Jana K
14. Susanne
18. Made with love by Elli

Congratulations! Please help yourselves to a badge for your blogs


Right back to our new challenge,  let's see what beautiful makes our DT have created this week...

Claire C PanPastels are perfect for a quick scenic card as they blend so easily, especially with the colourless blender. I've used  my PanPastels to create the background before stamping the images and adding some colour with my PanPastels and Lyra pencils

Here are the colours I've used to make this card:

PanPastel Ultramarine Blue	Ultramarine Blue Tint	White Fine Pearl Medium for Pan Pastels	Bright Yellow Green Pan Pastel
Bright Yellow Green Shade	Diarylide Yellow PanPastel	Pan Pastel Colourless Blender

Lou: I decided to use my pan pastels to help stamp and colour all my images, create backgrounds, and finally to also soften the edges of all papers. Full details and more photos can be found on my blog.

Pan Pastel - Magenta	Orange Pan Pastel	Violet Pan Pastel	Pan Pastel bright yellow green shade	Pan Pastels	PanPastel - Sofft Knives and Covers
Polka Doodles Belle Papillon A5 stamp set	Bella Fleur Large stamp set	VersaMark Stamp Pad	Polka Doodles Ribbon Gift Frame

Terry, Hey there crafters I had loads of fun making this Spring Canvas, playing with lots of different spring colors and I made the background with lots of PanPastels. After the first layer I thought I would work with the fabulous Stencil A5 Victorian style. It is just amazing to play with this stencil. I sprayed water on top and made sure the stencil would show after I finished playing with PanPastels. Than I placed the stencil again on my canvas and played with some crackle. Next I rubbed the PanPastels on the background that was created with the stencil and this gave such a nice effect. Since I am just in love with butterflies I colored a large butterfly with PanPastels and placed it in the centre of the canvas. Last but not least a few sentiments were glued onto the canvas. 

Products that I have worked with are: 

stencil A5 Victorian	Panpastel Bright Yellow Green Tint	Red Iron Oxide PanPastel	Permanent Red Tint Pan Pastel	Pearlescent Violet Pan Pastel
PanPastel Turquoise Tint	Pan Pastel pearlescent orange	Pan Pastel, White (fine) Pearlescent	White COARSE Pearl Medium for PanPastels	Panpastel Diarylide Yellow Tint
Panpastel Permanent Green Tint	Soft Tools	Soft Tools

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We don't really do loads of rules here but we do have a couple so please take note:

1. No back links

2. Only 2 entries to make it fair for everyone

3. The main prize can only be posted to a UK address - if the prize is not claimed within 14 days it will be offered to someone on the Top 3 from the same week.

4. You MUST be a follower of this blog to enter

The challenge will run until  1st April and the winner and top 3 will be announced 

on Sunday 16th April 2017!!

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Challenge 24 Anything Mixed Media/Creative Goes

Good morning crafty friends and welcome to a brand new challenge here at We Love 2  Create!! A big thank you to everyone who entered our last challenge, we'll be announcing the winners next week along with Top 3 honours so make sure you pop back!!

We're keeping it nice and easy for you and our theme is ...

Anything Mixed Media/Creative Goes

You don't have to use our products to play along but of course we love it when you do! As always we've got some lovely crafty goodies up for grabs for our lucky winner thanks to our generous sponsors Premium Craft Brands so don't miss out on your chance to win!!

The random winner and Top 3 for Challenge #20  will be announced next week, so check back to see if it's you!

As always our DT have been creating some mixed media magic, let's check out what they've been up to this week:

Nikky....I've been dying to do something funky with this image for ages but havent had chance to sit down properly with my Stampbord and PanPastels for a while. I transferred this digistamp onto my Stampbord using a laser print and Acetone (just print with a laser printer then rub acetone over the image to transfer it onto virtually any surface). I didnt get a brilliant outline but I quite like that as I then traced over the faint lines with a fineliner to outline them more.
You can WIN this little mini piece of art - just go to my blog and follow the instructions there...

I then just coloured it up with various PanPastel colours, some went on dry, others I mixed up with a little water to paint on where I wanted a more vivid colour. I then scratched into the Stampbord to get some texture, scratched out the pink heart and some details as highlights and as we are all thinking of Paris this weekend, scratched out the word Peace as it just was the only thing that came to mind. 

The background is made using a star texture stamp and versamark ink, it just holds the pastel so well, and I sprayed with hairspray in between layers to seal them and enable me to layer the colour up properly. Finally I edged the square with the Graph'It Glitter shake gold marker and added a few white dots using my Graph'It Shake white marker (best white in the world). 

I used the following products on my make: 

Stamp: Polkadoodles Oddella Fairy

Permanent Red

Orange

Soft Tools

Pan Pastel - Magenta

PanPastel Ultramarine Blue

Black fine Pearl

Yvonne - This was such a fabulous project to work on as there is layer upon layer, which I love. I started with a piece of watercolour card which had a pattern made with silver acrylic paint through a stencil. This was a leftover piece from another project but much too good to waste.  I then used the same stencil, slightly offset, and popped through some light modelling paste. Once dry I coloured this with panpastels and was delighted to see that the acrylic paint still showed through! The background script was then added using modelling paste through a stencil, the depth is definitely building up nicely now! Once the script was dry I replaced the stencil and added the Coarse white Panpastel which gave it a lovely shimmering effect. The bits and bobs were then added, I did leave the centre quite open as all the layers were far too effective to cover up.  I've popped a photo step by step on my blog if you'd like to take a look.

White COARSE Pearl Medium for PanPastels

hansa yellow

Orange

Raw Umber PanPastel

Black

Claire C  I've been colouring with my PanPastels this week, they blend so easily especially if you add the amazing colourless blender into the mix that they are perfect for colouring stamped images.

I find that Burnt Sienna Tint is a fab base skin colour and use Burnt Sienna and Raw Umber to add depth and shadows. Although these colours seem really dark I just use a little colour and then dip my Sofft tool in the colourless Blender and then they blend in easily. I coloured the image using Sofft tools, the teeny ones like eyeshadow applicators for the skin and one of the sponge bars for her hair. 

The bar applicators are fab as they can add a broad sweep of colour or if you use the edge you can add very fine lines. Don't forget you can use a pencil eraser with your PanPastels. I used an eraser to lift colour to create the highlights in her hair, removing the brown PanPastel and then applied Hansa Yellow Tint over the top

 The background was created with Turquoise and Bright yellow Green, blended and then overstamped with some background stamps. I framed her with a plastic frame from the poundshop that I painted with acrylic paints and then swiped with versamark and applied Light Gold PanPastel here and there before sealing with some matte medium

Burnt Sienna Tint	Burnt Sienna	Raw Umber PanPastel	Permanent Red Tint	Permanent Red
PanPastel Ultramarine Blue	Turquoise Pan Pastel	Bright yellow green	Neutral Grey Pan Pastel	Hansa Yellow Tint
PanPastel Light Gold Metallic	PanPastel - Sofft Tools Kit	Pan Pastel Colourless Blender

Terry: I have played with a canvas and made a wallhanger out of it. The first layer is Gesso, When the Gesso was dry I got the Light Modelling Paste with the Butterfly/Roses Stencil from Premium Art Brand and worked a bit on the background, the other half of my background was made with the Leaves stencil from Dutch Doobadoo. When everything was dry I was thinking about what colour I wanted to use. I really love the Metallic PanPastels, when applied and sprayed with water it gives such a very nice colour to the Roses. The leaves were colored the same way with the Lighter brown Metallic Colour. Everything was covered with the White Coarse PanPastel. The last layer on my background is Crackle, I love butterflies and was certainly going to use a lot of butterflies for this canvas. They were also colored with a waterpen and Metallic PanPastels. To seal the PanPastels I sprayed mixed Iridescent Paste with Water in my waterbottle. Last but not least I have placed a sentiment.

The products that I have worked with are:

Pan Pastel, White (fine) Pearlescent	Pearlescent Pan Pastels	Metallic PanPastel Set	White COARSE Pearl Medium for PanPastels	Copper Panpastel
Maimeri Light modelling paste	Gesso	Iridescent Paste	Mask Stencil A4 Butterfly

I hope you're going to play along with our challenge, you have two weeks to enter and if your mojo is missing we'll be back next week with lots more inspiration from the DT and of course we'll be announcing the winner and Top 3 from our last challenge too.

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