Challenge #12, Anything Creative/Mixed Media goes at Love 2 Create Challenges

Welcome back to another challenge! 

As always, the theme this month is  
Anything Creative Mixed Media Goes
You don't have to use Polkadoodles products to enter the challenge.
The challenge closes 26/9/18 so there's loads of time to play along.

Our sponsor for 2018 is Polkadoodles and you can check out all the wonderful selection of Polkadoodles goodies in the shop below.
PRIZE: $10 gift voucher 
from Polkadoodles for our lucky winner, (chosen by random.org) - this voucher can be spent across the whole store, so you can use it on dies, stamps, papers, whatever you wish...make sure you check out their store below, they have lots of fab products...

Now let's check out the inspiration from our DT...


Katrina GDT This is ULA ~ Don't Listen-Life Journal!  You can find her here. 
These images and sentiments are perfect for journaling.  I was inspired to use this in my faith journal with the twist of holding your tongue ~ something I sometimes have an issue doing!  I tend to open my mouth when it really should stay closed! 

ULA has eight other moods you can check out over at Polkadoodles ~ here. 

Julia Another Journal Page from me this month. I created the background just dragging some distress inks down the page. I added some details with stencils and stamping, I used some elements from the fabulous Posy Doodle collection to be a feature, finally I highlighted some of the elements on my page using the transparent Nuvo drops .. full details on my Blog:

Polkadoodles Image: ULA Don't Listen

Polkadoodles Paper:  Octavia

Posy Doodles Paper Kit 1

Posy doodles Splash of Summer 6x6

Doodle Dragonfly Stamp Set

Accents Stencil

Jan I have been playing with one of my mini Pink Pig books , and this is page 1. Hastings beach

The sun was most definatly shining the day we visited. I have used Distress inks on the background, and then used lots of Polkadoodles Stamps and Stencils, Lots more details and photos can be found on my blog

Polkadoodle Goodies

Accent Stencil

Great Outdoors Stencil

Special Times Stamp Set

Honey Daisy Stamp Set

Belle Papillon Stamp Set

Oceania Stamp Set
Starfish & Sancastles

Gemma I loved experimenting on this canvas board, I used Nikky's wonderful stamps to decorate and create my focal images, but I mixed them with tester pots of paint from my local DIY store because I really liked the colours next to each other on the wall. Pop over to my blog for more details on how I painted this canvas.

Jane - My MDF plaque is decorated with one of the amazing Polkadoodles stencils and clear stamp sets, with texture paste, metallic paints, waxes and mica flakes! Phew!! More detail and pictures on my blog.

Gorgeous Polkadoodles Products

Poinsettia/Holly Stencil

Gnome Clear Stamp Set

Cute as Christmas Clear Stamp Set

Holly & Spruce Die Set

Fancy Snowflake Die

Terry: I have worked on a card for you for this months challenge, I played with waterpaints in the background. This time I decided to go for blue's. I worked with the sentiments stamp and all sorts of tiny background stamps from Polkadoodles amazing clearstamp sets. The butterfly is colored with waterpaints also stamped on the background. Than I stamped another set of butterflies and glued it onto the stamped butterfly. Last but not least I stamped the sentiment onto my card.

Some of the products that I have played with are:

Delicate Doodles Clear Stamps

Time to Bloom Clearstamp set

Belle Papillon A5 large Clearstamp set

WINNERS FROM CHALLENGE 11
Thankyou everyone who entered this challenge - we really loved looking round your blogs, you all left us some awesome work to pore over!

Our Random winner chosen by Random.org is:
#45 Carol J - well done!
PRIZE: $10 gift voucher to the Polkadoodles Store.
  To claim your prize please email Polkadoodles, quoting 'Love 2 Create winner' in the subject bar. Please include this claim code L2Cwk11001 in your email and allow 14 working days for a reply please.

TOP DT FAVOURITES
no particular order, we couldnt choose just 3 this week there were some STUNNING entries, you need to check out all of these!...

82 Toni
49 Paper Whims
94 Sue Tarby - WOW!! EVERYONE really needs to see this piece of work, it's incredible, please take a look and leave Sue a little love ; )
36 Paperlotta (for making us smile)
39 Kate Yetter
22 Danielalart
81 Sara'scloset

A big thank you to everyone who entered last month's challenge and winners, plus Top 3, will be announced on the next challenge.
  Just in case you have missed any winners posts, previous winners, Top 3 and GDT's can be found on our 'Winners Page' at the top of the blog.

Just add your entry below in Mr Linky below!
We would love you to join us as GDT on Love 2 Create Challenges, just add email us HERE if you'd like to join in the fun!. 
The Love 2 Create team can't wait to see what you have created this month ...

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Guest Designer for February - Introducing Kym Upshaw

 Happy Sunday everyone and welcome back!

Again at Love 2 Create Challenges we are extremely proud when other crafters agree to be featured as a GDT on our blog and today we are sharing a project from Guest Designer Kym Upshaw. You can check out Kym's fabulous work over on her blog - Kym's Crafty Cards

Here's a short bio about Kym ...

My name is Kym and my blog is Kym’s Crafty Cards. I have been married to my husband for 26 years. I am a mother to two boys aged 25 and 21. I started cardmaking about 10 years ago and the cards that I make I sell solely to raise funds for different charities.  I love to use decoupage, toppers, rubber stamps but my first love has to be using digital stamps as you can print them any size that you want. I love to work with many different styles of rubber stamps/digital stamps eg cute, vintage, fantasy, Christmas etc and will have a try with any image to make some wonderful cards/creations so that I can sell to raise funds for charities.

Here is the fabulous card Kym created for us using Polkadoodles 'Ula - Be a Mermaid' ...

After being offered my GDT slot, I was lucky to be allowed to create with a Polkadoodles image and I chose to use "Ula be a Mermaid". I have coloured the image in with Promarkers and fussy cut around the image. I also printed off a sentiment that I got with the image, die-cut and edged with my Turquoise Pan Pastel.

For the background I used a Turquoise, Diarylide Yellow, Hansa Yellow and Pearlescent Yellow Pan Pastels to colour the background. I then used various seaside orientated stamps (greenery, driftwood, bubbles and fish) and stamped these onto the background.

I then used a Marianne designs die to make the mount for Ula the mermaid. I have finished the card off with some die-cut greenery and a die-cut shell border and individual die-cut shells highlighted with the the Pan Pastels used for the background and two large pearls.

Here is a list of the products I have used to create my card :-

Promarkers used: Face/skin - Saffron, Spice and Oatmeal
                             Hair - Yellow, Canary and Lemon
                             Mermaid/shells etc- Duck Egg, Turquoise, Putty, Tan, Burnt Orange & Dusky Pink.

Pan Pastels used: Rich Gold
                            Diarylide Yellow
                            Turquoise
                            Copper Metallic
                            Hansa Yellow
                            Pearlescent Yellow.

It's a honour to be a Guest Designer as I have followed the Love to Create for quite a few years now and participated in lots of the challenges..

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Thank you Kym for your fabulous project and we look forward to seeing more of your projects in the future both here at Love 2 Create challenges and also on your blog.


Just a quick reminder to everyone that Challenge #5 ends tonight at midnight which means you still have a little time to add your project. All details for Challenge #5 can be found HERE.

Join us next week for another new challenge but until then ... happy crafting to you all ...,

Welcome our Guest Designer Angie!

Good morning crafty friends!! We're so excited as today's the day we meet the first of our lovely Guest Designers and today we're welcoming the lovely Angie Jones!! Before we check out Angie's beautiful project, just a little reminder that you still have plenty of time to enter our challenge and be in with a chance of winning these gorgeous goodies from Polkadoodles ...

 
It's sooooooo easy to enter, you can use any products to play along and the theme is

Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes

Just click here  and scroll down to add your entry to the linky!!!

Now let's have a peek at Angie's awesome project:

Anjie has created a canvas and used Ula's Life Don't Listen black & white and the sentiment from Ula's Life Be Strong. 

Isn't it gorgeous, love love love that background Angie!! Check out Angie's blog here for all the details

Let's meet the lovely lady herself ....

Angie Jones - I live in Queensland, Australia. 
I have always loved colouring in since I can remember....my stamping / card making started around 30 years ago.....I bought some copic markers at a craft show about 3 years ago and sort of yes. no for a year. Around 18 months ago, I did a few online classes and bam.....whole collection of markers now and I colour everyday! I have added paints / stencils and stamps to create gorgeous backgrounds. So my Mixed Media is just developing but I am loving the journey.

Thanks so much for sharing your beautiful artwork with us Angie!

If you'd like to see more of Ula's Life, the collection Angie has used you can find it here. It's full of beautiful papers, sentiments, digistamps (black and white plus precoloured), and a selection of cutting files to make your own stencils too!!



We'll be back next week with another fabulous guest designer so make sure you pop back then and don't forget to add your entry to this month's challenge ....

Just click here  and scroll down to add your entry to the linky!!!

Ula′s Life