Challenge #9, 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

Our sponsor for 2018 is Polkadoodles and you can check out all the wonderful selection of Polkadoodles goodies in the shop. There are some amazing stamps and papers which are perfect for all your mixed media projects so make sure you check them all out, and you can tune in to Hochanda TV on 7th May for a lovely stamping show with Nikky at 12noon.

You don't have to use our Polkadoodles products to enter the challenge.
The challenge closes 30 May 2018 so there's loads of time to play along.
Our prize is a $10 gift voucher from Polkadoodles for our lucky winner, (chosen by random.org)...

Now let's check out the inspiration from our DT. 
As you can see our talented team have been busy working their creative/mixed media magic for you .....

This month we have had a fabulous Guest Designer joining us! 
We love her creative work and are thrilled to have her with us, so here's a little insight into our fab Guest Designer:
Tina de Marche...
make sure you check out her blog HERE..... Thanks so much for all your amazing work in the past few weeks Tina, we've loved seeing your amazing inspiration!

Tina...This is my last Guest project for WeLove2Create, I have really enjoyed it.  This image was colored with colored pencils.  I sprayed the canvas with some inks and added a little bit of texture with some molding paste and stencils.  Metal, chipboard, gems, leather, twine, embossing powders, paints and inks were use in this creation.

Terry: Hey there guys, this time I made a Butterfly card for your inspiration, I have worked on the background with Distress Oxides, the butterflies from Nikky's Stampset Belle Papillon are colored with the Distress Oxides too. The sentiments in the background are from the Stampset Papillon and the little detaills in the background are from the Reagal Peacock stampset. Everything Polkadoodles, love it The tiny detailled stamps are so versatile and easy to use for your Mixed Medium Project, you should really try it out.

Julia I have used the gorgeous new Posy Doodles, Honey Daisy stamp set I stamped onto rice paper and then adhered to a plastic jar. I then used some twine to wrap around the top of the jar. I stamped out loads of the flowers and coloured them using my Ecoline pens, and fussy cut them & used them to embellish the jar. Full details on my blog.

Gemma

Something new for me this month, I had never made something using these techniques before and if I am very honest I am not sure it was a success but it is always good to try something new to push your self in whatever you are doing so I thought I would share it with you all anyway.  I stamped the lovely butterflies from the Belle Papillon stamp set onto Belle Papillon paper and coloured them in before gluing it to an acrylic frame, which I then filled with layers of melted embossing powder and glitter.

WINNERS FROM CHALLENGE 8 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: 
#56 Denyse - 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 L2Cwk8001 in your email and allow 14 working days for a reply please.
It was so hard to choose this week, we seriously wanted to have a Top 10, there were some amazing entries, thankyou! TOP 3 DT FAVOURITES (no particular order):  #46 Repolainen
#45 Karen
#36 Tanvi 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 you entry below in Mr Linky and if you would like to appear as a GDT on Love 2 Create Challenges, just add GDT after your name.
The Love 2 Create team can't wait to see what you have created this month ...

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Add some Embossing!

Good morning crafty friends and welcome to a brand new challenge! This time around our theme is

'Embossing'

so dig out those embossing folder or dust off your heat gun and play along to be in with a chance of winning some gorgeous goodies from Premium Craft Brands! Our lucky winner will win a fabby stencil and a PanPastel too (colours may vary)

  

As always you've got two weeks to enter so there's lots of time and if you're stuck for ideas we'll be back next week with lots more inspiration and of course to announce the lucky winner and Top 3 from our last challenge too!

Now lets see what the DT have been up to this week, if you look closely you'll see that there are some sneaky peeks of the gorgeous new Pearlescent PanPastels and some awesome new mediums that will be available soon!! 

Doreen I have used the new Pearlescent colours for this tag today.six new yummy colours have been released...I started by putting my tag through my bigshot using  my heart dies, instead of cutting I embossed it.I  coloured the outside  a different colour from the inside of the heart.I then cut a smaller heart and put that through the dotty embossing folder and coloured that....Next I stamped my sentiment with black Archival over some card that I coloured with my Pans. I inked all the edges with Black Soot Distress ink and last of all doodled around the edges.xxx

Yvonne -  my interpretation of this theme was heat embossing.  You can find all the details on my blog.  I appreciate your visits and comments.

  



Orange Pearl

Yellow Pearl

Green Pearl

Violet Pearl

Violet Shade

Nikky...This week I saw a fabulous blog where someone had coloured in a stamped image with Pan Pastels and it was fantastic - I thought it was Distress Inks at first but no, she is a real Pan Pastel fan and when I shared it with the rest of the team we all instantly wanted to have a go! I thought it was going to be so much more difficult than it was. I know the challenge is embossing - and I did, honestly!! I've used an embossing folder for the background of my card but I really wanted to share this with you....I did faff about a long time but that was purely because I was experimenting a bit...

 They key to this is the paper and the brush I think. I used my Ultimate Graphic paper which is mega smooth and purpose built for alcohol markers and a Daler Rowney soft brush. I did the face first which was so easy - just Burnt sienna and permanent red for the cheeks! At this point I kinda swooned and went for the hair. Bit trickier but after mixing it around a bit it was a mix of dry brushing and adding tiny bits of water to get more definition in the darkest areas. I just used violet and Dark Grey for this (sadly I didnt have black). Mix it with some of the Pearlescent black medium to make it stand out even more, the mediums are fabulous.

Once I got the hair the rest was pretty simple and VERY fast to do - just nice big sweeps of violet and adding shadows with dark grey. For the greens I used a mix of Chromium di-wotsit and Yellow to brighten it a little. I was a little messy around the edges because I wasn't too bothered about keeping my work area clean so I then just mixed up a suitable background to hide it all. But to be honest - even the cleanest crafter could use Pan Pastels this way and not get the background too smudgey. 

You can get all the colours I used from Your Creativity Store HERE - they have an amazing special offer on right now! 

Claire C I've had loads of fun using my PanPastels and Maimeri Mat Gel Medium to create this faux leather notebook, all the details are on my blog

Matt Gel	Rich Gold - Metallic Pan Pastel	Burnt Sienna	Raw Umber	Bright Yellow Green Shade
Platinum white acrylic paint	A4 Leaves Stencil

Tracy - Such fun I had, stamping and heat embossing on this little chunk of wood for today's challenge. 

Painting has never been so much fun, I used the brand new Pearlescent Pan Pastels { oh my you are going to love them } along with a few Metallic Pans, Pan Pastels and Maimeri Gesso. 

I wish my photograph picked up the shimmer on the background for you to see, it`s all beautiful and sparkly in between a scattering of more Embossing powder.

White COARSE Pearl Medium for PanPastels	Black fine Pearl	Blue Pearl	Green Pearl	Red Pearl
Black	Phthalo Blue Shade	Copper Metallic	Light Gold PanPastel	Burnt Sienna
Gesso

Terry, I had fun making a wall hanger with allmost all the colours from the NEW Pearlescent PanPastels, I worked on the background with Gesso, Light Modelling Paste and the Spiderweb Dutch Doobadoo Stencil. I colored the background with Green Pearl, Red Pearl, Blue Pearl, Violet Pearl and White COARSE and Black Fine Pearl PanPastels. Offcourse I could not resist playing with some butterflies, they say I am the butterfly queen, lol....The butterflies are embossed with a dot embossingstencil and colored with the Red and Violet Pearl PanPastels. And to cover it all up I used the Iridescent Paste as the final layer.  And last but not least I placed some sentiments to finish my project for this weeks challenge.

Green Pearl	Orange Pearl	Violet Pearl	Blue Pearl	Red Pearl
White COARSE Pearl Medium for PanPastels	Black COARSE Pearl Medium for PanPastels	Maimeri Iridescent Paste/Gesso 200ML	Gesso	Maimeri Light modelling paste

Lou: I created my embossed background using my pan pastels, light modeling paste and some glitter (I'm normally a glitter-phobe). I then die cut some Christmas elements and have aged them a little with my parlescent pink and white pan pastels. The stamped bauble images have also had the pan pastel treatment.

          

Anjie - As you can see I have used some of the fab Masks as embossing folders and then used some Pan Pastels to distress them. The image is Piper with bunches from Polkadoodles and is coloured with Graph'It Markers.

The PCB products I have used are:

Butterfly mask

Leaves mask

Leaf mask

Orange Extra Dark Pan Pastel

Orange Pan Pastel

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We'll be back next week with more inspiration and we'll be announcing the winner and Top 3 from our last challenge too so don't forget to pop back!

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

The challenge will run until Saturday  4th Octoberr  and the winner and top 3 will be announced on Sunday 12th October

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