Challenge 16 Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes

Good morning crafty friends! I hope you're having a wonderful creative weekend full of crafty fun. Our DT have been having a blast using their PanPastels to create some inspiration for our new challenge and the theme is ...

Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes

As always those lovely folk at Premium Craft Brands have some gorgeous crafty goodies just waiting for our lucky winner and you don't even have to use our products to play along. 

Before we have a peek at this week's inspiration, it's time to announce the winner and Top 3 from Challenge 14. Good old Random.org has worked his magic and the lucky winner this time around is ..

14. Carol Gill

Congratulations Carol!! Please email us (details in sidebar) quoting your winners code (PPWK14001) and your snail mail details and we'll get your prize winging it's way to you asap!

A big thank you to everyone who entered, as always the standard was very high with a gorgeous array of artwork but this time around Top 3 honours go to ...

5. Liesbeth S
20 Julia
27. Veana R

Congratulations! What beautiful projects! please help yourselves to a badge for your blog .

Now on to this week's inspiration from the DT .....

Lou: For my project this challenge, I have made a tag shaped card, using my pan pastels, mixed with water to create my background and also colour all the images. Background created by swooshing tag through and also using pans in a spritzer bottle. More details and photos are on my blog.

 

Products & links:

Pan Pastel - Magenta	Perm Red Pan Pastel	Silver Metallic PanPastel	White COARSE Pearl Medium for PanPastels	Pan Pastel Colourless Blender
Panpastel Tool Angle Slice Sponges	Polkadoodles Regal Peacock A5 stamp set	Nuvo Hybrid ink pad - Black Shadow	elegant nest set of 3 dies	Polkadoodles Elegant Flourish die

Claire C I was having play with my PanPastels and thought my background looked a little like an old shed door so I added some hinges, a key and a little shink plastic door sign lol

Raw Umber PanPastel	Bright Yellow Green Shade	Phthalo Blue extra dark	Burnt Sienna PanPastel	PanPastel Phthalo Green
Bright Yellow Green Pan Pastel

Gemma

Naughty me! I missed a birthday again and needed a super quick last minute card. It was so easy to layer and mix Pan Pastel over and through stencils and masks to make this cute little card.

Titanium White PanPastel	Yellow Ochre	Orange Tint PanPastel	Turquoise	Magenta shade
Sofft Art Sponge	Sofft Oval Tool

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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 19th August and the winner and top 3 will be announced 

on Sunday 3rd September 2017!!

Add your link below to be in with a chance of being our lucky winner or Top 3 honours. 

Good luck everyone

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Challenge 15 One for the boys

Good morning, and welcome to a brand new challenge.

Thanks so much to everyone who entered our last challenge, we were blown away by the standard of the entries! Make sure you pop back next week to check out the winner and Top 3

This time, our theme is

One for the boys

so you can get ahead with those Fathers Day cards or perhaps you've got a male birthday coming up. You don't have to use PanPastels to play along with us and our lucky winner will receive a fabby prize of goodies from Premium Craft Brands

You've got two whole weeks to enter and as always the DT have created some gorgeous projects to inspire you

Claire C I've made a card for a new baby boy using Maimeri Light Modelling Paste, a Dutch Doobadoo Stencil and PanPastels in Ultramarine Blue Tint and Diarylide Yellow and Tint The image has been coloured with Graph'It markers and I've distressed the edges with Raw Umber PanPastel

 

Terry I have made a Vintage Babycard for a boy, I have worked with scappaper, colored the die underneith the baby with blue PanPastel, the hearts and all around the card and even the roses are colored with Pans. And to finish I placed some lace and hearts.

Lou: I decided to show how versatile Pan Pastels are with your die cuts to make a "Dad" themed card. The majority of my die cuts (at least 90%) were cut from cream, linen card and I have coloured them with my pan pastels. Full details of how I coloured my die cuts can be found on my blog.

     

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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. We'd love you to TRY and play along with the challenge if you can although it's not a hard and fast rule but extra brownie points are awarded to those who do. 

4. 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.

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

And remember - our Top 3 is eligible for the running to be offered a place as a forthcoming Guest designer too!

Make sure you pop back next week when we will announce the winner of our last challenge and our talented DT will have more inspiration for you too!

The challenge will run until Saturday  14th June and the winner and top 3 will be announced on Sunday 22nd June

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Getting busy with Metallic Pan Pastels!

Hi everyone!
Hope you're loving the new look blog - we're having a couple of issues with the blog feeds and Google+ so to make sure you still get all our posts and makes please make sure you refollow and sign up for the feeds - we have some amazing blog candy coming up so you don't want to miss that!

I just thought I'd share a project with you today featuring Metallic Pan Pastels - this is my absolute FAVOURITE product ever right now, the results you can achieve with card, the 6 colours and a Versamark inkpad are just stunning. If you haven't seen these yet or tried them they are really really high on my recommended list! Well worth the money and VERY versatile - you will think they are a cream like all other metallics or a wax, but they're not, they genuinely ARE the same texture and consistency as your other Pan Pastels! This means that they can be used in exactly the same way and with all the same great techniques you use normally - but with the added bonus that when mixed with the original colours they then become metallic too! AWESOME!

This really simple make was done by embossing black card with a Sizzix embossing folder then covering it with Versamark ink. Dab on a mixture of all 6 metallic colours then smooth them together with your Sofft sponge (If you use a normal sponge you really must switch to the Sofft sponges and applicators, we guarantee you will get better results!)...So smooth out the colours until you have a great coverage, then take a soft cloth or tissue and gently buff off the excess powder - this really will bring up an amazing shine! My top tip for using the metallics to give you a really great brushed metal effect... once you've finished, take one specific lighter colour and then sweep it slightly over any raised embossed areas and around all the edges. And voila! Completely looks like metal.

On this card I Also used a few die-cuts, again pressing them into Versamark first to make the Pan Pastel adhere better - if you do this you get a much more intense laydown and richer finish.

Look at the shine on the Butterfly, this blows me away every time I see it! The flowers are actually coloured with normal Pan Pastels (is there such a thing as 'normal'?) but because I used the autumnal browns and greens the metallic has completely changed the look of them and made thos look metallic too! Don't forget you can also use a cheap hairspray as you apply the colours - this will seal each layer so that you can then work on top and keep gaining a more intense and layered effect to your work.

So that's it from me today - please come back and join us on Sunday for our newly revamped Challenge!

Nikky x