Wk 48 Dec 1 - Winter Wonderland - use metallics ONLY plus ONE other colour

Good morning, can you believe its December already? Its also time for a brand new challenge here in PanPastel land but before we move on to our new challenge its time to announce the winner and top 3 from Challenge 46 so without any further ado, the winner (chosen by random.org) is........................................................................

Number 4, thats you Karen P!!!

Congratulations Karen, please email us to claim your fabby PanPastel goodies.

And our top 3,as voted by our design team are:

1. Julie Short

5. Sam21ski

7. Janesjournal

Congratulations ladies, we all loved your beautiful artwork!! Don't forget to grab your blinkie from the sidebar

Right then, on to this weeks challenge which is 'Winter Wonderland', using metallics plus one other colour. Our extra twist for the DT was to use the gorgeous new metallic PanPastels plus one other colour but as they are so new we know not everyone has them yet so that doesn't apply to challenge entrants. The winner will be announced on Sunday 15th December and our lucky winner will receive a fabulous prize of goodies from Premium Craft Brands

Before we showcase the gorgeous projects from the DT, we've got a very special guest designer joining us this month,the lovely and very talented Rachel Fisher! Rachel has created this stunning canvas for this week's theme

As always our design team have created some amazing artwork to inspire you

Zoe I used Phthalocyanine blue tint Pan Pastel as my base, stamped with Versamark and used Pewter Metallic Pan Pastels over it! Please visit my blog.

Claire C I've used silver, pewter and white PanPastels to create this wintery scene

Terry I made a Christmas Tag worked on it with lots of Modelling Paste and stencils for the background. Used the Silver Metallic PanPastels on my Tag and the Blue PanPastel.

Tracy - Snowflake Wishes
A quick and simple ornament to share with you all today using Metallic Pans, Phthalo Blue Shade Pan and a few other bits and bobs along the way. Please pop on by my blog to see more here. xox

Suzi - I created a Metallic Merry Christmas Card to share with you today, featuring black card stock, a festive embossing folder, Turquoise Pan Pastels, along with Silver and Pewter Metallic Pan Pastels.

I'm sure the gorgeous work from our DT will have inspired you to play along with us this week, the challenge will run until Tuesday 10th December and the winner will be announced on Sunday 15th December here on the challenge blog.

Don't forget to check out the rules, we don't have many but it makes it fair for everyone 

1. remember to link to your blog post not just your blog so our DT can find your projects and leave you some love.

2. No backlinking, new projects only

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Wk47- Pan Pastel UK Challenge...Mix It Up!

Sunday again and another challenge day here at the Pan Pastel UK blog!

We hope you all managed to see last week's Create and Craft show and see all the lovely new products we had to show you and some great techniques and amazing samples from the team!

Our random winner chosen by Random.org this week from Week 45 is *drum roll please*...

ta da!!! Sue the Iron! 

Well done Sue, you've won some fab Pan Pastel goodies so please email us to claim your prize! 

Our favourite Top 3 from Week 45 are:

No 6 Donemark, No 11 Catherine and No 17 Katharina....great work everyone, we loved your makes! Please feel free to grab your winners blinkies from the sidebar!

So let's get to the challenge this week - as you know, Premium Art Brands bring us some amazing products, including the fantastic quality Maimeri Mediums....so our challenge this week to the team is:

*Mixing It up*....

the team were asked to mix their Pan Pastels with some kind of medium or fluid, which could be anything they wished from water to crackle glaze to Maimeri...the choice is theirs, and YOURS. We realise not everyone has medium ready at hand at home so if you'd like to join in this challenge you can enter any make you wish but we'll give you extra brownie points if you join in the challenge too so show us what you can do, we know you all have some awesome talents up your messy sleeves!

The winner of this challenge will be chosen at random and announced on 8th December and you'll win £30 of Premium Arts goodies! You have until 3rd December at noon to enter!

So let's get on with the challenge and the stunning inspiration from the team...

Zoe - I have mixed Bright Yellow Green Ex Dark PanPastels with Glassy Medium and put it through a mask.  Please pop along to my blog to find out more....

Claire I've used Permanent Red and Black PanPastels to create the music script for the Christmas Tree. The background was made by mixing silver PanPastel with water in a mini mister and spritzing the black card - once it was dry I stamped snowflakes with versamark ink and then applied Rich Gold PanPastel over the top....

Terry ...I altered a photo frame and had lots of fun with making my own background for the frame. I worked with Gesso, the Metallic Acrylic Mediums, crackle, Metallic PanPastels and Utee on the flowers together with embossing powder and inks. So lots of mixing with fluids me thinks xxxx

Suzi I decided to create a mini canvas, using Maimeri Iridescent Paste, Magenta Pan Pastels and my Graph'It Markers. I used the Iridescent Paste to create my embellishments as well as to colour my canvas, such a wonderful versatile product.

So there is our inspiration from the fabulously talented Pan Pastel UK team this week!... 
You have until Tuesday 3rd December at noon GMT to enter below by adding your creation to Mr Linky below - don't forget you have the chance to win a fabulous prize! 
The winner of this challenge will be announced on Sunday 8th December here on this blog. 

Please check our rules for all entries:  

1. Please link your blog post and not your blog address with the linky tool - this saves us from searching your blog for your entry. 

2. No back-linking to previous posts - these will be disregarded from our voting.

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Wk 46 Pan Pastel UK Challenge - Embellishments and £100 Blog Candy Winner

Hello and welcome to another Creative Sunday!

Hi everyone! We have some more great inspiration for you today, but before we tell you the challenge let's first get the other business out of the way.....

Firstly, we had an amazing blog candy giveaway last month. We have chosen a random winner from everyone who is on the blog follow list and we are very excited to announce that 

Karen Pettit is our lucky winner! 

Well done Karen! 

Email us here to claim your prize, you've won £100 of stash from Premium Craft Brands, woohooo! 

Our Random Winner for Week 44 

is No 11 Rachel - well done Rachel, Email us here to claim your prize!

And our Top 3 favourites were: 4 - Doreen, 9 Carol and 16 Rosie

Well done everyone! Make sure you grab your blinkies from the sidebar and big thanks for entering the challenge.

We hope you all managed to see us on Create and Craft last Sunday - the show was a little crazy but those metallics flew out of the door so thanks to everyone who watched and we hope you all have your goodies now and are enjoying using them! If you need some ideas on how to use them check out Nikky's You Tube channel here, there are a couple of great tutorials you can use!

So, this week's challenge for the design team is

Embellishments

We have such great products to use and you can make all kinds of embellies with Pan Pastels and the Maimeri range together with other things too, so we challenged the team to show us what they could do.

As ever, YOUR challenge at home is Anything Goes, but we'd love you to show us your handmade Embellies too, we know loads of you make your own or alter them in some way so we're looking forward to seeing this week's makes!

Let's see what the DT have to show you...

Claire C I've used lots of Metallic PanPastels on my little canvas, The background was made with Magenta Shade and I've used Maimeri Light Modelling Paste and more metallic Pans through a gorgeous Pronty mask to create the background. I've used PanPAstels to colour lots of embellies: ribbon, lace, die cuts. I've also used light gold PanPastel to give a subtle shimmer to the main image too.

Zoe....

Terry The background of my MDF word HOME is worked on with Metall Foil which is embossed, on top worked on with the fabulous Metallic PanPastels and on top of that finished with Iridescent Paste, the little hearts and butterflies have a layer of Versa Mark ink and Metallic PanPastels. To finish the project I placed a piece of lace on the bottom.

Suzi I combined White and Kraft Card with Pastel tones of Pan Pastels, Light Modelling Paste, and a beautiful mask to create this pretty card.

Tracy - Hi everyone, this is my first time attempting this technique using Maimeri Mediums/Gels, Doily Mask Stencil, Metallic Pan Pastels and embellishments. More details can be found on my blog HERE.

Here is a closer look at my coloured embellishments -

So there is our inspiration from the fabulously talented Pan Pastel UK team this week!...

You have until Tuesday 26th November at noon GMT to enter below by adding your creation to Mr Linky below - don't forget you have the chance to win a fabulous prize!

The winner of this challenge will be announced on Sunday 1st December here on this blog.
Please check our rules for all entries:
1. All entries MUST follow the challenge theme. 2. Please link your blog post and not your blog address with the linky tool - this saves us from searching your blog for your entry. 3. No back-linking to previous posts - these will be disregarded from our voting.4. Please ensure you follow the challenge theme!

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Wk45 Pan Pastel UK Challenge - Altered Media

Hi everyone!

Welcome to another Pan Pastel challenge!

Before we get to this week's challenge, a quick reminder that you can catch Nikky on 

Create and Craft TV TODAY at 2pm GMT 

with Pan Pastels and much more! 

She even has some new goodies to show you so make sure you don't miss it! I've seen her demo's and they are lovely! You can watch on Sky 671, Freeview 36 or online at CreateandCraftTV.net

The random winner of our Week 43 Challenge is

No 4, Traci 

Congratulations Traci! Email us here to claim your fab prize!

Our Top 3 faves are: No 1 Yogi, No 7 Julie and No 11 Tammie

Congratulations to you all - pick your badges from the sidebar!

So onto this week's challenge...

We'd love you to join in the challenge but if you're struggling with the theme then we challenge you to make

Anything Goes and/or Something Altered!

Yep, you can enter any make in this challenge because we just love to see all your makes each week!

The team were challenged to make

Something Altered

and we think they've done a fantastic job!

Don't forget you can enter some gorgeous Pan Pastel goodies as we choose a random winner and also the team picks our fave Top 3 each week

Lou
I've altered a box that used to once house nail varnishes. I have used Gesso to prime the box, Maimeri modelling pastewith my newest favourite mask from PAB, A4 flower (to create the raised pattern) and finally sealed everything with Glassy Gel. Everything has been coloured with pan pastels and metallic pan pastels. I have ecen coloured the metal letters with metallic pan pastels! Full details are on my blog.

   

Zoe 

I've altered some playing cards using Pan Pastels, various Maimeri mediums and Metallic Pan Pastels. Check out my blog for more info. http://zoeblingcards.blogspot.co.uk/.

Claire C
I've used lots of metallic PanPastels on this altered frame and little picture. I used gesso to prime the frame and gave it a coat of Bronze Maimeri Acrylic pant. I and then coloured the crackle medium with Rich Gold PanPasel. I stamped the image with versamark and applied Copper and Bronze PanPastel over the top, adding some glitter for a frosty sparkle. The little bird was also coloured with Maimeri Acrylic in Bronze, love love love this colour!!

Tracy 
Altered wooden Doorstop

I had so much fun altering this little wooden doorstop with a mixture of Pan Pastels, Metallic Pan Pastels, Maimeri Gels and Mediums, scraps of paper and words from book pages. You can see more over on my blog here.

Terry I had a blast with the fabulous Metallic PanPastels, love the colours and the shine they give. I altered a photoframe and used the Wendy Vecchi technique of stamping onto Modelling Paste and I can tell ya that works just wonderfulll. The borders of the frame are worked on with Gesso, Modelling Paste and the Roses/Butterfly stencil and a honeycomb stencil. The butterflies are covered with Iridescent Paste and on top Metallic PanPastels. To cover it all I painted with the Metallic Acrylic Paints.

Suzi I had lots of fun transforming an old ribbon reel into a pretty pin pot, using White Gesso, Glassy Gel Medium and Light Modelling Paste to create my embellishments.

So there is our inspiration from the fabulously talented Pan Pastel UK team this week!... 

You have until Tuesday 19th November at noon GMT to enter below by adding your creation to Mr Linky below - don't forget you have the chance to win a fabulous prize! 
  The winner of this challenge will be announced on Sunday 24th November here on this blog.  Please check our rules for all entries: 
1. All entries MUST follow the challenge theme. 2. Please link your blog post and not your blog address with the linky tool - this saves us from searching your blog for your entry. 3. No back-linking to previous posts - these will be disregarded from our voting.4. Please ensure you follow the challenge theme!

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Wk43 Pan Pastel UK Challenge - Shades of Grey

A grey Sunday!...

Now the weather is closing in again we thought this was a great theme for how we're all feeling right now! Hope the weather isn't too bad where you are! 

Before we get to our challenge inspiration and last week's winners, don't forget our October Blog Candy which is still up for grabs! 

Simply share our candy on your blog, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, Mars and the Moon and back with a link to this blog 

PLUS

YOU MUST SIGN UP TO FOLLOW THIS BLOG

and leave us a comment under this post and we will choose one random winner on 7th November to win this gorgeous prize which is worth over £120!! WOW - that is a LOT of stash!!

In the candy is a fantastic Pan Pastel set including a palette tray and Sofft Tools, 3 Maimeri Mediums and Gesso. 2 Stencils/Masks and 4 Stamp sets (A6) - all fantastic products you will love and use over and again! Don't forget to leave us a comment - we will check that the winner has shared AND FOLLOWED US to be eligible so don't try and bend the rules! ; )

HUGE thanks to everyone who has entered the current Week 42 challenge - don't forget you still have an extra couple of days to enter as it doesn't close until Tuesday! 

So let's announce our Random Winner for Week 41

...Big Congratulations goes to No 17 Yvonne!

The team also choose our favourite Top 3 entries too, which are:

No 1 Buttons, 17, Yvonne and No 19 Karen P

Congratulations to you all! 

Please email here to claim your prize and please grab your badges from the sidebar to wear on your blogs! Your names will go in our hat and you may be asked to guest design for us next month!

Remember to join our Facebook group too, Premium Craft Brands, where we have daily inspiration and share some of our favourite makes & hints and tips every day, it's a great place to be. 

So let's get to the challenge!.....

....Shades of Grey

(You can use ANY products to enter our challenge!) 

The team had great fun with this theme, so let's see their inspiration! 

You have until Tuesday 5th November to enter and the chance to win a great Pan Pastel prize, plus our Top 3 favourites may be asked to Guest Design for us next month!

Zoe....Please checkout my blog for details of how I created this card....

Suzi

I created two different background papers for this card, one uses an embossing folder and black Pan Pastel, the other a mask, black Pan Pastel and some Gloss Gel Medium.  Check out my blog to find full details on how I created this card.

Claire C

I've used the fabby Premium Art Brands stamps to create this card. The image is coloured with Graph'It Markers and the background was made by stamping the Winter Spruce stamp with versamark and then applying some silver and Pewter PanPastels....

Tracy - Collector Of Memories....

Hi everyone, my inspiration this week came from old books . . . what can I say I love the smell and the textures!....

I altered a very plain chipboard notelet holder using a Mask Stencil and some Maimeri Modelling Paste - a first for me and oh my goodness I think I am hooked!

 I got to play with the Metallic Pan Pastels in Pewter and Silver, although you can't see it I also used a touch of Copper and Bronze along the way . . . they are a dream to work with.

I did add a touch of Magenta Extra Dark to give a little lift and some Tim Holtz IdeaOlogy rub ons.

Seriously, I ended up using quite a few Maimeri Mediums and Pan Pastels, if you would like to see more then please hop on by my blog here.

Lou: Firstly, forgive my photos as they really do not show the sheer shimmery effect the silver and pewter pan pastels give my card. I have used the Doily 1 mask as the main focus as when embossed on to the card, it looked like a snowflake (to me)!

I then cut a frame and embossed with the same mask and added my baubles stamped in versafine and then lightly brushed over with petwer pan pastel.

Terry  I was playing with 3 Tags and made a Tag Card with them. You can fold the 3 different tags in a way to make a card out of it.

The background was made with Metallic Pans, Stencils, Modelling Paste, the Grey Metally Pans in Silver. And I worked on those fabby butterflies with Utee and PanPastels. Added a piece of Ribbon on the top and the Tag Card was finished.

So there is our inspiration from the fabulously talented Pan Pastel UK team this week!...

You have until Tuesday 5th November at noon GMT to enter below by adding your creation to Mr Linky below - don't forget you have the chance to win a fabulous prize!

The winner of this challenge will be announced on Sunday 10th November here on this blog.
Please check our rules for all entries: 
1. All entries MUST follow the challenge theme. 2. Please link your blog post and not your blog address with the linky tool - this saves us from searching your blog for your entry. 3. No back-linking to previous posts - these will be disregarded from our voting.4. Please ensure you follow the challenge theme!

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WK40 6 OCT - Pan Pastel UK Challenge - Water

Hi everyone! Welcome to another Challenge from the Premium Craft Brands team!

Firstly, HUGE thanks to everyone who has entered the current Week 39 challenge - don't forget you still have an extra couple of days to enter as it doesn't close until Tuesday!  We're sooo pleased to see so many entries, it looks like our new rules have made it easier for you all, so the team are all really happy to see all the makes! If you're not sure of our rules you can see them all in the tab at the top of the page - we don't have many! 

So because the current challenge is still running, we don't have a winner to announce this week - the week 39 winner and Top 3 favourites will be announced next Sunday so make sure you follow our feed or sign up to get the emails when we post.  

Remember to join our Facebook group too, Premium Craft Brands, where we have daily inspiration and share some of our favourite makes & hints and tips every day, it's a great place to be. 

So let's get to the challenge!.....

Water effects...

(You can use ANY products to enter our challenge!)

The team had great fun with this theme, so let's see their inspiration! 

You have until Tuesday 15th October to enter and the chance to win a great Pan Pastel prize, plus our Top 3 favourites may be asked to Guest Design for us next month!

Claire

I've water coloured my little scene with PanPastels and added some raindrops with Maimeri Glassy Gel Medium. I added some shine to the fish with the glassy gel and created the background with shades of blue PanPastel and the A5 Delicate mask....

Terry....The background was made with a sentiment stamp and lots of Metallic PanPastels....

On top I worked with a leaf stencil and used lots of Maimeri Modelling Paste for it. And to make the waterdrops on the leaves I used Maimeri Glassy Gel, Metallic PanPastels and embossing powder. You can even color lace with the Metallic PanPastels guys, so what are ya waiting for, you just have to get those in your crafting room!

Zoe

I've used Pan Pastels and Maemeri Gesso to create this tag, pop along to my blog to read how I created it in more detail...

Tracy :

Oh my, I had such a messy, crafty time popping this set of journal pages together using a mixture of the new Metallic Pastels, PanPastels, Maimeri Gesso, Iridescent Paste, Gloss Gel Medium, Matt Gel Medium, stencils and Rub Ons...

  . . . fun, fun, fun!! This looks complicated but it's really easy to do - just work in layers, you can see more on my blog...

Here`s a closer look of my pretty stockinged lady splashing and dancing in the puddles . . .I used the Iredescent Paste { LOOOVE } to make the puddles and splashes, applying with my fingers and a Palette Knife, rubbing a few colors of Pan Pastels over the top in  - Phthalo Blue Shade, Neutral Grey Shade and Titanium White.  I have used so many colors and mediums for texture, so please pop on by my blog to see more HERE.   Happeeee Crafting!!

Suzi.....For my water inspired project I chose a beautiful mermaid digi from Polkadoodles which I coloured with Graph'it Markers. My background papers were created with embossing folders, Pan Pastels and some Glassy Gel Medium on some of the punched out bubbles....

I really wanted to show a project which shows that you can bring messy products into your basic cardmaking really easily. I love how the Glassy Gel acts the same as Glossy Accents but you get a massive tube so it works out so much more economical!

Lou ... for my project this week, I want to really stretch myself (as it were) and decided to have a play with all my goodies! I knew the quote I wanted to use but not how I wanted to display it. I have primed my canvas with gesso and then dry brushed a mixture of blue acyrlic paint mixed with the pewter metallic pan pastel. I used a mask to create a background using the same paint mixture but added a good dollop of the irredescent paint in to it as well! I even raided my garden for some lickle stones to add an underwater feel. Full details of how I made my canvas can be found on my blog ....

So there is the inspiration for our water theme - I'm sure you'll agree that the Design Team have pulled it out of the bag again this week!

You have until Tuesday 15th October to enter and the chance to win a great PanPastel prize, plus our Top 3 favourites may be asked to Guest Design for us next month so just add your creation to the Mr Linky below - please make sure your make fits the challenge! Thanks for joining us!

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Lots of News, a new Look and a Brand New Design Team!

Hi everyone! If you think you've landed on the wrong page and were looking for the Pan Pastel UK Challenge - we've had a makeover! We hope you love our new look, we have lots of new bits and pieces on the blog so make sure you have a nosey around and sign up to follow us for all our updates! 

In addition to our new look, which we think you'll agree is so colourful and cheery, we are really excited and proud to announce our

new Design Team! 

Thanks so much to everyone who entered, it was very difficult to choose from such great candidates but we finally can announce that the following fantastically talented people will be joining you each week with some AMAZING inspiration....make sure you go and sign up to all their blogs NOW, you will not want to miss any of their makes and posts!

We are extremely proud to welcome

Samantha Read

Louise Sims

Suzi McKenzie

Tracy Easson

to the team. These wonderfully talented ladies are joining 

Claire, Terry and Nikky Hall, our existing team members, to bring you lots of inspiring and creative projects you will love to make.

I'm sure you will agree that this is one talented bunch of individuals and we are UBER excited to see what they bring us for the forthcoming challenges, you can expect to see amazing makes like this to inspire you...

 Claire

 Lou

 Nikky

 Sam

 Suzi

 Terry

 Tracy

Zoe

WOW!! AMAZING!!!....

In addition, we are also really pleased to give a new look to our challenges which will make it so much easier for you to enter. We have relaxed the rules to make it easier so please check the short Rules at the top of the page on the tab....

We will still choose a random winner for each challenge, but the Design Team will also pick our Top 3 favourites each week too - and on top of that, each month we will be asking someone from the month's Top 3 to be our Guest Designer for a month! WOOHOO!!!! How exciting!!!

We have brand new Blog Badges for you all to wear so we hope you will all be collecting them soon! Grab your Follow Badge here (also in the sidebar for you)....

(just right click to save and please add a link to this blog when you add it to yours)

Well, we can't cope with any more excitement today so we will see you back here on Sunday at 8am with our latest challenge!