Challenge 6 - Anything Goes Mixed Media Craft Challenge

Good morning crafty friends and a big thank you to everyone who entered our last challenge! 

It's time for our new challenge and as always we're keeping it nice and easy for you to play along so for the next two weeks our theme is

Anything Creative/ Mixed Media Goes

As always our lucky winner will receive some fab crafty goodies from Premium Craft Brands and our DT girlies will be choosing their favourite project for Top3 honours too!

Before we check out the beautiful artwork our DT have been creating to inspire you, and meet our very talented new Guest Designer it's time to announce the winner and Top 3 from Challenge 4!

Our lucky winner, chosen by Random.org is 

29. Lilian B

Congratulations Lilian!! Email us (details in sidebar) with your snail mail address and quoting yor winners code which is  PPWK00401 and your prize will be winging it's way to you ASAP!! We hope you enjoy your prize.

As always it wasn't an easy task for the DT to choose their Top 3 from so many beautiful projects but the votes are in and this time around Top 3 honours go to:

1. Branka

20. Kym

21. Maggie H

Well done ladies, your projects were stunning! Don't forget to pick up your Top 3 badge for your blogs.

Back to our new challenge and today we're really thrilled to welcome our latest Guest Designer Alysha - hope you'll all be checking out her blog and we're really looking forward to seeing what she creates for us over the coming weeks, we love her free style and take on mixed media.

Alysha - This is my first Design Team post and I am so honored to be a part of a fabulous team of wonderfully  talented and friendly girls....

Here I have created a pennant/banner, using a texture embossing folder, home made texture paste, gesso. Permanent Red and Hansa Yellow Pan Pastels, Dyan Raveley stamps, glossy accents and a black gelato crayon and a text script stamp that's subtly on the background.

Hope you like my project and I look forward to seeing your designs for this challenge.

Hugs Aly xxx 

Yvonne - Hi Alysha - great to have you along as guest Designer on our Challenge blog.

My project for this week is an aperture card with the main design being set behind the aperture - with a little PanPastel on the front which has been added through a stencil.  Hope you like this design - can't wait to see your entries into the Challenge.  

I've photographed my card amongst my Mother's Day flowers - I do have vases but apparently jam jars are trendy!!!!  (showing my age) xxxxx

  

Permanent Red

Blue Phthalo Tint

Chrom Oxide Green

Claire C I've used my PanPastels to create a midnight scene. I love PanPastels for this kind of card, they blend beautifully and are so much more forgiving than using a brayer.

I've used a stencil to create the starry sky, applying  a mix of Glassy Gel Medium and glitter with a spatula. It looks so pretty and sparkly once the gel has dried

PanPastel Ultramarine Blue	Phthalo Blue extra dark	Phthalo Blue Shade	Black fine Pearl	Black COARSE Pearl Medium for PanPastels
Neutral Grey Pan Pastel	Sofft Sponge Bar	Stars Stencil Dutch Doobadoo

Terry: I had fun altering a hat and made it into a Shabby Chic one...what I did was, the first layer on it is Gesso, on top of the Gesso I played with the Pearlescent Violet Pan Pastel, when my layer was dry I played with Crackle and placed another layer of Pearlescent Pan on it. 

On the top of the hat I used some Light Modelling Paste with a stencil of roses, you can hardly see it but trust me it is there. The Roses are colored with Pearlescent Violet and Magenta Extra Dark. Than I decided to use roses on the edge of the hat. I colored the roses with Iridescent Paste to give it an icy look. And offcourse I had to play with some lace and colored it with Iridescent Paste too. 

The products that I have worked with are: 

Gesso	Maimeri Light modelling paste	White COARSE Pearl Medium for PanPastels	Titanium White PanPastel	PanPastel Magenta Extra Dark
Pearlescent Violet Pan Pastel

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Gorgeous makes girls!! We can't wait to see your projects for this challenge. Just link them up below, 

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  26th March and the winner and top 3 will be announced on Sunday 10th April.

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Inspiration and winners announcement

Good morning crafty friends we're back with lots of inspiration for you again this week. If you're here to add your entry to the current 'Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes' challenge just click here to go to the linky. We've got some fab goodies lined up for our lucky winner thanks to our generous sponsors

 As always our DT have been working their magic and have created some awesome projects but before we check them out its time to announce the winner and Top 3 from challenge 2. A massive thank you to everyone who played along, we had some stunning entries!!

The lucky winner, as chosen by Random.org is

18. Linda Simpson

Congratulations!! Email us (details in sidebar) quoting your snail mail details and your winners code (which is PPRW2001) and we'll have your prize winging its way to you ASAP.

Now this time around top 3 honours go to:

1. Gail Lett

21. Autumn

36. Emma

Congratulations ladies, your projects were fab-u-lous!! Don't forget to pick up your Top 3 badges for your blogs.

Time to have a peek at the DT's inspiration for you, they've been busy bees again this week...

Tracy Scott - Hi there everyone, great to be here today with you all....like lots of you out there I'm looooving to while away my time colouring in, it's just so relaxing and satisfying....

So this week I decided to make a card and coloured my image with a mix of PanPastels and coloured pencils....

The pans worked fabulously on the white card that I stamped my bird onto but also look amazing added directly to the Kraft card...

I coloured everything with the PanPastels first, I used a small applicator tool for the bird and also a fine dry paintbrush for detail and then used a larger sponge applicator to add my colours to the card itself. I went in afterwords with some coloured pencils in corresponding colours and added some finer detail...

To finish off I added my quote in black gel pen which writes perfectly over the PanPastels. Hope you love as much as I do, give it a try xxx


Yvonne - I had a real need to use Stampbord this week along with my PanPastels.  I decided to make a necklace but this piece could be used as a keyring, bag charm etc. This stamp is a much larger collage style and I do have to admit that when I stamped a small section on my Stampbord it was a sheer happy accident that "Destination" appeared perfectly at the bottom.  You can bet your bottom dollar that if I've planned that it wouldn't have worked first time!!!  I added a little charm and pearl to add a bit of luxury.  It would be lovely if you could pop along to my blog and let me know what you think. xxx

hansa yellow

Phthalo Blue Shade

Magenta shade

Claire C I've used my PanPastels to alter this box which came filled with lovely perfume and goodies for Christmas. It seemed a shame to throw it away so I've transformed it to create a memory box.

I've added lots of stencilling and distressing to my memory box, I love Pans for distressing as they're so much more forgiving than inks.

I love the rich metallic Pans, I've used Rich gold and Copper on my project, applying them over versamark really gives them loads of richness and depth

Permanent Red Tint Pan Pastel	Permanent Red	Bright Yellow Green Shade	Burnt sienna shade	PanPastel Rich Gold Metallic
Copper Panpastel

Terry: I have had fun making a Bottle Label ...First I made a Bottle Label out of the Template Polyester Bottle Label. I was simply drawing around the template and made my own Wine Label out of it. Don't worry if your pencil hits the template because it is very durable and can be whiped clean in a few seconds. Than I colored the background with the Red Iron Oxide PanPastel. When it was all dried up, I played with the Light Modelling Paste on the stencil that gave me a background of roses. On top I used the Chicken Wire.

Than I played with another layer of White Coarse PanPastel to give it a shine....and to top that off a few brushes of Iridescent Paste to seal the background. I decorated the Bottle Label with a Vintage Image of a adorable little girl. It is allmost like she is saying Cherish your Happiness....so luckily I had the sentiment and did not hessitate to use it. Around the Cute girl I placed some lace with pearls and also on the top and bottom. Underneith the image I placed some Roses that were worked on with Iridescent Paste and Crackle Accents, this way it looks like the roses are made out of Glass.....at least I think so...lol....and last but not least I used some butterflies from DD and placed them on some roses and on top of my Project.

Some of the products that I used are:

Gesso	Iridescent Paste	Maimeri Light modelling paste	White COARSE Pearl Medium for PanPastels	Metallic PanPastel Set
Raw Umber PanPastel	Red Iron Oxide PanPastel	Titanium White PanPastel	Bottle Label

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Thanks for visiting, hopefully we've inspired you to enter our 

Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes challenge, just click here to go to the link.

We'll be back next week with another fun challenge