Animals at PanPastel Uk Challenge

Hi there, how's your weekend going? Mine is very lazy so far after another hectic week at work but its time to stop lazing around and tell you about this weeks challenge at PanPastel UK where our theme is Animals. 

I created the scene by applying white PanPastel over my card and then masking a sun. I added the sky with Ultramarine blue PanPastel and then used torn paper to mask the hills and added the background using Permanent green PanPastel. I added the sun  using Dairyalide yellow and Red iron oxide PanPastels. I used tree stamps from Chocolate Baroque, stamping them in Memento Rich Cocoa ink and then stamped the leaves using Bamboo leaves and New Sprout memento inks. Once i'd stamped in the trees I added a little more green PanPastel for some shade. PanPastels blend so beautifully it only takes a couple of minutes to create a background, I love em!! 

I don't have many animal stamps at all so I've used a digi stamp called 'Mother Deer and fawn'that I was lucky enough to win a few weeks ago. I've coloured the image with promarkers and cut it out before attaching it to my PanPastel scene with 3d foam pads. The sentiment is a stamp from Whimsy stamps. I didn't want to add lots of embellies so I just matted and layered the scene on white card and then dark green card.

It looks a bit like a spring morning, and hopefully spring isn't too far away now. I noticed that the tree outside my craftroom window is covered with little buds so hopefully we won't have long to wait for some better weather.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Alphabet Challenge: animal antics

CRAFT: No designer papers

Craftroom Challenge: Cute and cuddly

Digi Doodleshop's best: Anything goes

Fairy Tale: Spring

I love promarkers: Nature

One Stop Craft: Make your own background

Rogue Redhead Designs: Use a stamped background

Simply Create Too: add sunshine to your day

Truly Scrumptious: all creatures great and small

I hope you're going to join our challenge, you don't have to use PanPastels to enter and if you're our lucky winner you'll receive a fab prize from our sponsor Berni, from Your Creativity Store .... a PanPastel trial set! 

thanks for calling by today

Claire xx