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Sunday 29 January 2012

Glitter and Glitz with PanPastels

Good morning folks, here I am bright an early with my DT card for our new challenge over at PanPastel UK Challenge where our theme is 'Glitter and Glitz'. You don't have to use PanPastels to enter the challenge but of course we'd be happy if you did. :-). Apologies in advance for the awful pic, we don't seem to have had any light to get a decent photo for weeks now. 

Now for a change there isn't a lot of stamping on this project. I was playing around with PanPastel colours and loved the combination of  Diarylide Yellow, Ultramarine Blue and Permanent green. My truly horrible photography skills have bleached out a lot of the colour in the pic but in real life these 3 colours are totally scrumptious together, adding the yellow creates a fab lime shade. Anyway the backgrounds were created in a matter of minutes by simply applying the panpastels with a sofft sponge and blending them together.
The focal image was made using a beautiful dreamweaver stencil from my not-so-secret Santa Annie :-).  I  applied creative expressions black glue to the stencil carefully removed it and sprinkled on  Beadazzles in Macarena. I wasn't sure if the black glue would work or not so it was a bit of an experiment lol. The colours haven't shown up to well in the pic but they have a lot of copper in which contrasts beautifully with the greens.  You can't beat Beadazzles for a some serious glitter and sparkle lol. 

I left the tree overnight to dry and to complete my card I added stickles in midnight blue and more beadazzzles (this time attached using red line tape. The butterfly is a stamp from Chocolate Baroque, stamped on acetate and embossed with black and glittered on the reverse. The sentiment stamp is also from Chocolate Baroque.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:
Drunken Stampers: something new (my new tree stencil)
For your inspiration: Photo inspiration
Gingersnap Creations GC136: Glorious Greens


I do hope you can join us at PanPastel UK this week, our lucky winner will receive a fab prize from our generous sponsor Berni, from Your Creativity Store who is offering a PanPastel Trial Set!


Before I go i'd like to give a big warm welcome to my new followers, its really lovely to 'meet' you all :-) 
Thanks for popping by today
Claire xx


34 comments:

  1. A fantastic card, love the butterfly and the colors.

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  2. Oh these are my favourite colours!!! They really do make this card fabulous. It is beautiful Claire.
    Dot x

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  3. Another stunning card Claire
    Beryl x

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  4. Fabulous colours together Claire and I love all your glitzy bits.
    Have a great Sunday.
    luv and hugs {brenda} xoxox

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  5. This is stunning Claire. I love the colours and the effect that you get with the pan pastels, I will really have to get some of these.

    Sue x

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  6. This card is fantastic! Wonderful colors together!
    Hugs Nicolet

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  7. What a stunning creation Claire. Really eye catching and love all the textures.
    Didn't realise you could get black glue either but it looks very effective.
    Hugs, Fliss xx

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  8. Beautiful colours Clare, stunning effect!!!

    hugs
    Joanna xx

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  9. This is stunning Claire.
    Jen x

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  10. This is great Claire I love those colours

    Jackie x

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  11. Just love it Clare and the colours and the colours are Devine.

    B x

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  12. The colours are so gorgeous together, so vivid and the focal tree image is stunning and love the addition of the butterfly. I struggle with taking photos in poor light too and end up photographing out side with my phone. I have ordered a new camera today yay. Have a great Sunday. XX

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  13. These colours certainly give a wonderful result which I can imagine is brilliant in real life

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  14. Claire, this is so dreamy! Love the colors and the glizy bits! Happy Sunday!

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  15. Claire the background is wonderful such fab colours and so perfect with the image and glitz!!! Chanelle xxx

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  16. what a stunner Claire hope you have had a good weekend
    linda x

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  17. Wow, what a beauty Claire, gorgeous background and love those glitters! Fun challenge.....must get some glitters out.....greetz Mirandax

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  18. Love the colour combination - and I've never though of using glue through the stencils!! Great use of the beadazzles. Thanks for joining us at Crafty Cardmakers. Cxxx

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  19. Love the dreamy colours Claire, perfect design for this weeks theme. x

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  20. Love the dreamy colours Claire, perfect design for this weeks theme. x

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  21. This is so pretty, love the colours and the tree and the butterfly is beautiful
    Lindsay xx

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  22. I love this card, I really like the colour combination and the tree as a focal point is stunning. A great use of beadazzles too.

    Thanks for sharing with us at Crafty Cardmakers.

    Feebsy
    xx

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  23. Such a beautiful card, Claire. I do love that combination of colors. Gorgeous. Thanks for your encouraging comments on my Rainbow Lady's entry. Unfortunately, in trying to clean up my yahoo mailbox, I accidentally deleted your comment after I had approved it, so it won't be showing up on my blog. ☹

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  24. The glitter & glitz is certainly striking in this one & the colours you created with the pastels are remarkable. Stunning tree & I didn't know you could get hold of black glue.
    Paula (PEP)

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  25. Beautifully done! Love the butterfly. Thanks for joining us at Drunken Stampers!

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  26. Wow Claire, fab work. I have been checking out Pan Pastels but sadly they are too expensive for me. Lucky you. Hugs Suzanne x

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  27. Waw, claire what a beautifull card and what are the colours bright, I really love this card, the contrast with the dark colours is so beautifull, really nice!!!

    greetings

    Maria

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  28. OOOOh Fabby. I bought stencils ages ago to have a play with but haven't used them yet. Love this. Thanks for joining my challenge at Crafty Cardmakers. xx

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  29. This is just gorgeous!! That tree is AMAZING!!! Thanks for joining us at CCM! :)

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  30. Beautiful! Thanks for playing this week at FYI!

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  31. This is fabulous! Thanks for taking the Gingersnap Creations challenge :)

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