Cold and Frosty Colours inspiration at PanPastel UK

Good morning my lovelies, its a very dull and dark morning here and life is still a bit too hectic but better late than never i'm here with my DT project for our Cold and Frosty Colours inspiration post at PanPastel UK. As always there is a fab prize up for grabs from those lovely peeps at Premium Craft Brands so I hope you're going to join us.

I've altered a picture frame from the pound shop by applying Maimeri White Gesso and then adding Silver and Antique Silver Maimeri Acrylic paints and brushing over some Black Coarse Pearl PanPastel Medium. I've added a hint of colour to the image with Pearlescent PanPastels and used Glassy Gel and Fine White Pearl Medium to give a frosty sparkle here and there. I've used a mix of water and Maimeri Gloss Gel Medium in a spritzer bottle to seal the PanPastels

The image is from Delicious Doodles. 

I'm entering this project in the following challenges

Allsorts: No designer papers

Altered Eclectics: anything altered

Delicious Doodles: Traditional Christmas

Divas by Design: Snow

Rhedd's Creative Spirit: altered art

Thanks for popping by today

Claire xx

white Gesso	Antique Silver Acrylic	Silver Acrylic	Glassy Gel	White COARSE Pearl Medium for PanPastels
Black fine Pearl	Pearlescent Pan Pastels	Maimeri Gloss Gel

Cold and Frosty Colours at PanPastel UK

Hi there folks, how's your weekend going? Its been really hectic here recently so I'm a very happy bunny to have a week of work, hopefully I'll be able to get ahead with some DT projects and catch up with my blog visiting too. I'm a bit late with this post which is for our new challenge at PanPastel UK as I'm really struggling to get a decent pic of this project, in the end I gave up so you'll have to use your imagination lol. Our challenge theme is 'Cold and Frosty Colours' so its a great excuse to get busy with your Christmas cards, as always you don't have to use PanPastels to enter and our lucky winner will receive some fab stash from Premium Craft Brands.

I began by creating some texture, applying some crumpled tissue paper with Maimeri Gloss Gel Medium. Once that was dry I added Blue pearl PanPastel to the top 2/3 of the jar and then Maimeri Platinum White Acrylic paint to the bottom, I applied the paint thickly with a spatula to create the effect of hills and then dusted on some of the coarse White Pearl Medium for some extra sparkle. Once that was all dry I added trees, little cottages and deer by stamping the images on tissue and applying them with more Glossy Gel Medium. The stamped images aren't showing up too well in the pic but they look really pretty in real life.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Allsorts: anything but a card

Crafting musketeers: anything but a card

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Extra: anything Christmas

Seemacrafts: Monochrome

Sisters of Craft: anything goes

Thanks for popping by today

Claire xx

Pearlescent Blue

White COARSE Pearl Medium for PanPastels

Maimeri Gloss Gel

Platinum white acrylic paint

Embossing at PanPastel UK

Good morning my lovelies, we've got a new challenge starting at PanPastel UK and our theme this time is 'Embossing' so dig out those embossing folders or dust off your heat gun and have a play to be in with a chance of winning some fab stash from our generous sponsors Premium Craft Brands!

You don't have to use PanPastels to play along but of course we love it when you do.

I've used PanPastels in Yellow Green Shade, Burnt Sienna, Raw Umber and Rich Gold to create this faux leather notebook using kraft cardstock. I've followed Sheena Douglass's technique using glycerine to create the faux leather and then embossed with the gorgeous A4 Leaves Stencil before applying my PanPastels. I used Maimeri Mat Gel Medium to seal and then lined the inside with fabric. The sentiment at the bottom is from Chocolate Baroque, stamped on tissue paper and applied with my Matte gel medium. I used a grungeboard shape at the top, embossed with gold EP. The inside was painted with Platinum White Maimeri Acrylic paint, stamped with a Heartfelt Creations sentiment and topped with crackle medium.

I'm far to lazy to sew the notebook inside so I took the easy option and cut a little shopping list book down and glued it inside. Lastly I made a ribbon fastener using seam binding ribbon, a spellbinders die cut coloured with PanPastels and a few flowers topped off with a button and a twine bow.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Bearly Mine: autumn colours

Crafting for all seasons: colours of Autumn

Cute Card Thursday: Awesome Autumn

Divas by Design: anything but a card

Milk/Coffee challenge: colours of Autumn

Penny's Paper Crafty: embossing

Simon Says Monday Challenge: techniques

Simply Create Too: Fall/Autumn

Thanks for popping by, have a great day and hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

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

Something Masculine at We Do Doobadoo

Good morning my lovelies and a big warm welcome to my new followers, its a real pleasure to 'meet' you. Its Saturday so I'm hoping to have lots of time in my craft room but before I go and play here's my project for our new challenge at We Do Doobadoo and this time around our theme is 'Something Masculine'. As always you don't have to use Dutch Doobadoo products to join in and our lucky winner will receive some gorgeous Doobadoo goodies so I hope you're going to play along with us.

I've altered an MDF clock blank for my DT project. You may notice that it isn't a finished clock, that's because I can't find any clock mechanisms anywhere, I'm sure there is a black hole in my craft room lol. Anyway I began with a coat of Maimeri Gesso, then added lots of texture with Maimeri Light Modelling Paste and some of my favourite Dutch Doobadoo stencils (I used Metal 2 and Barbed Wire). Once that was dry I glued on some of the Kraft Art Stars and Arrows. and then gave the whole thing a coat of black acrylic paint. I used Maimeri Acrylic paints in Deep Gold, Light Gold and Bronze (the bronze is my favourite colour ever, its gorgeous. I also blended in a little green here and there and then once it was dry I dry brushed black here and there too.

For the inside i used a piece of greyboard and primed with Maimeri White Gesso and added some more texture with a Dutch Doobadoo burlap stencil and more Light Modelling Paste. Next I added a coat of Platinim White Maimeri Acrylic, and mixed in some PanPastels. The stamps are all from Chocolate Baroque, stamped with Potting Soil Archival onto tissue, coloured with distress markers and attached to the project with Maimeri Mat Gel medium. The letters were die cuts, again painted with Maimeri acrylics. To finish off I've added some highlights with some Treasure Gold.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Artistic Stamper: Autumn Colours

Aud Sentiments: for the men in our life

Crafty Creations: Vintage

Divas by Design: anything but a card

Rhedd's Creative Spirit: Anything Mixed Media

STAMPlorations: Stamps and markers

The Male Room: Metal

The Mirror Crack'd: anything goes mixed media

Have a lovely crafty day folks, thanks for visiting and hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

DD Barbed Wire

DD Metal 2

Arrows

Stars

Dutch Doobadoo Stencil

Birthday cards at Fashionable Stamping Challenges

Hello there folks, time for a new challenge at Fashionable Stamping Challenges and this time the theme is 'Birthday cards for someone special' as been chosen by the lovely Dot. There's a generous prize for our lucky winner from Flonzcraft, our regular sponsor so ink up those stamps and join in the inky fun! Don't forget we're a stamping challenge so no digis allowed!

I've made a masculine card as we've got a few male birthdays coming up in the family. I rummaged through my huge pile of gelli plate backgrounds for the base for my card, this one was made with a gorgeous mask from SplodgeAway using Maimeri Metallic Acrylic paints, I'd also painted over this one with some Pebeo two part resin which gives a lovely translucent effect. I stamped the reverse with one of the stamps from the Indigo Blu Voices stamp set and matted it on some black card.

The focal image is from Chocolate Baroque, stamped and embossed with gold WOW EP and painted with more Maimeri acrylics. Once the paint was dry I added a glass cabochon.

Next I used lots of die cut cogs, cut from black card painted with Maimeri Acrylics. I made the screws by painted card candi silver and using a spatula to create the lines on the centre.

The sentiment is from Chocolate Baroque, layered up over some burlap.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

4 Crafty Chicks: go masculine

Alphabet Challenge: N for natural (burlap)

Moving along with the times: Feeling a little vintage

Its all about the vintage: Ancient History

Perfectly Rustics: masculine

Red Rubber Inspirationals: just wing it

Sweet Pea Stampers: Embossing

That's Crafty: its a man's world

WOW Embossing powder: Monochrome

hope you're going to join our new challenge
have a great day and thanks for popping by
Claire xx

Make us laugh at Fashionable Stamping challenges

Hi there, we've got a fab new challenge starting at Fashionable Stamping Challenges and this time around our theme is 'Make us laugh'

I've altered a little paper mache heart using Maimeri Gesso and Acrylic paints adding some texture with an Indigo Blu Stencil and Maimeri light Modelling Paste. The stamps are from Indigo Blu,stamped on tissue and applied with Matte Medium. I've added some softboard cogs painted with silver acrylic paint and added a computer generated sentiment.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Allsorts: all sentimental

Hambo Hoedown: humorous

Rhedd's Creative Spirit: Anything goes altered art

Treasured Times: anything goes

Thanks for popping by, if you've got a minute pop over and have a giggle at my teamies gorgeous projects

Claire xx

More inspiration at PanPastel UK

Good morning folks, how's your weekend going? We've had lots of lovely sunshine and now we're getting the thunder storms, I got totally drenched yesterday when I went out so today I'm playing safe and going no further than my craft room lol. Today's project is my inspiration piece for our Inspired by Tim challenge at PanPastel UK

I've taken inspiration from the talented Mr Holtz for my wall hanging and used lots of distressing and texture on this project which began life as a piece of MDF.

I began with a coat of Maimeri Gesso, and dried it with heat gun to bubble it a little here and there. Next I applied Maimieri Light Modelling Paste through a Dutch Doobadoo Chicken Wire stencil. Once that was dry I set to adding some colour with gesso and mixing in PanPastels in Magenta Tint, Diarylide Yellow Tint, Yellow Green, and Turquoise. I just scrape a little PanPastel out onto the gesso and mixed it on the project. Once all that was dry I applied a little Maimeri Acrylic Paint in platinum white for some shimmer and then dabbed a little brown PanPastel to distress here and there

The next layer was cut from corrugated card which I distressed and painted with watered down gesso.

Next I added the die cut letters which I coloured with Yellow Green PanPastel and then brushed on Maimeri Glassy Gel and sprinkled with glamour dust. I stamped the rest of the words with Bamboo Leaves Memento ink and cut them out.

Next came lots of die cut flowers made using the same  PanPastel tints, stamped with distress inks in coordinating shades and die cut. I adore these flower stamps and dies, I've been very good lately but my stash diet bit the dust and I gave in as I just couldn't resist these Arianna Blooms stamps and dies from Heartfelt Creations.

To finish off I added pearls, laser art Butterflies from Dutch Doobadoo and some die cut leaves. Hmmmm maybe I should have added some ribbon too.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Altered Eclectics: anything goes

A Vintage journey: dies and distress

Country View Crafts: stencil it

Fab'n'Funky: summer

Just Inspirational: Shabby Chic

Love to Create: Petals and pearls 

Penny's Paper Crafty: anything goes

Stamplorations: stamps and glitter

Well I'm away to play in my craft room, I'm escaping my usual Sunday ironing as its far too hot (that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it lol)

Thanks so much for visiting today

Claire xx

One for the boys inspiration at PanPastel UK

Good morning my lovelies, how is your weekend going? Its been tipping it down with rain all weekend so I've had a nice lazy weekend so far with plenty of messy fun in my craft room. Today's project is my inspiration project for our 'One for the boys' challenge at PanPastel UK You've still got a week to enter to be in with a chance of winning some gorgeous crafty goodies from Premium Craft Brands You don't have to use PanPastels to enter but of course we love it when you do

I've made a canvas, I began with a thick layer of Maimeri Light Modelling Paste, adding lots of texture with stencils, a texture tool and my fingers lol to create a kind of rough bark effect. Once it was dry I added colour with PanPastels - Raw umber plus shade, Burnt Sienna plus Shade and gave it all a coat of Maimeri glossy gel medium

The stamps are all from Artistic Outpost (Huck Finn set), stamped on kraft card with Potting Soil Archival Ink I tore the edges and distressed with PanPastel in Raw Umber I've layered the images up over some burlap, corrugated card,die cut cogs (painted with Maimeri metallic acrylics) I've also added a pen nib and some twine

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Crafts 4 Eternity: For the boys

Creative Card Crew: nautical

Creative Corner: use an old stamp

(I love this stamp set but haven't used it for ages)

Creative moments: Monochromatic

Its all about the vintage: use dies

Left of Centre: at the movies (The adventures of Huckleberry Finn)
Scrapbooker Phd: die cuts
Simon Says Stamp: Fathers day/masculine
Thats Crafty: use texture paste

Have a lovely Sunday, thanks for popping by and hope to see you again soon
Claire xx

Words are all you need

Good morning my lovelies, well its been a very quiet weekend here with our poorly fur baby Benji resting his leg. He's a real Mum's boy and follows me everywhere so I couldn't go in my craft room as I didn't want him fall on the stairs. I wasn't going to give up crafting though so I just ended up bringing loads of stuff downstairs and taking over the dining room lol. I managed to get a couple of DT projects finished and decided to finish this project that I'd started making for the Indigo Blu Challenge where the theme is 'Words are all you need'

I knew I wanted to use this large sentiment, you can't see it very well as the photo is awful but it says "Courage, strength and determination that's what little girls are made of'. I'd given this old MDF shape a coat of gesso to cover the old design Next I set to and added some texture with Maimeri Light Modelling Paste  and a harlequin stenciland then set too with acrylic paints in pink and brown. I stamped the images which are also from Indigo Blu (Boadicea A5 set) onto tissue paper with black archival ink and painted them with Twinkling H2os, the sentiment was stamped with versamark and embossed with gold EP before applying them with Slap it on. To finish off I've added some Treasure Gold to highlight the texture and some flowers that I'd made using silicone moulds

I'm also entering this project in the following challenges:

Craft Room Challenge: Recycle

Frilly and Funkie: Words

Hiding in my craft room: embossing

Natalie and Amy's: Rubber stamping

Rhedd and Rosie's: Texture

Sunflower Fields: vintage/shabby/rustic

The Squirrel and the fox: Girls

Go Grungy at PanPastel UK

Good morning and a very happy Easter to you all. We haven't got anything exciting planned, just a scrummy lunch and then eating lots of chocolate - sounds like a good plan to me lol. Anyway back to business and we've got a new challenge starting over at PanPastel UK and this time our theme is 'Go Grungy'. You don't have to use our products to enter and our lucky winner will receive a fab prize of goodies from Premium Craft Brands!

I've altered a littel canvas using Maimeri Gesso, Light Modelling Paste with a Dutch Doobadoo stencil. I've added some colour with PanPastels in shades of brown with a little copper and gold here and there. The stamps are from Indigo Blu, coloured and distressed with PanPastels and then layered up and attached with a memo pin.

I've made a flower using a stamp from Chocolate Baroque, stamped on to card painted with Maimeri Bronze acrylic paint (my absolute favourite colours, its gorgeous). I've popped a glass cabochon in the centre. I've added paper flowers, a seam binding bow, some die cuts, pearls and a pen nib to finish off.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Addicted to stamps and more: anything goes

Artistic Stamper: embossing and texture

Craftitude: anything goes or Spring

Crafty Cardmakers: floral profusion

Everybody Art: anything goes

Little Miss Muffet: distressed

Love to Create: Vintage romance

Stamplorations: Stamps plus your favourite technique 

Tuesday Throwdown: vintage/shabby chic

(I think using stencils for texture is one of my all time favourite techniques)

Thanks so much for visiting today, hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

A new challenge at Premium Craft Brands PanPastel Challenge

Good morning folks, we've got a really fun challenge over at Premium Craft Brands PanPastel Challenge this week,, pop on over and find out about the fabby prize and check out the gorgeous projects from my lovely teamies. The DT were challenged to make an embellishment with a stencil, now I really struggled with this for a start but then I decided to have a play with Maimeri Light modelling paste and my favourite Birds and Leaves stencil (you can find them here)

Now this is an A4 stencil so it was a real challenge to try and use it on this little mdf heart so I used it to make the little birds and leaves. I just used a palette knife to spread the light modelling paste through the stencil on to my craft sheet and left it to try. Once they were dry (I left them over night to be sure) they peeled off the craft sheet so I could use them as embellies on my project. I coloured them with PanPastels but you could also use markers

I gave the heart (from Indigo Blu) a base coat of gesso and then used acrylic paints spplied with a baby wipe. The stamps were a magazine freebie, stamped with Memento Inks, apart from the sentiment which is from Chocolate Baroque.  Once the ink was dry I gave it a coat of Maimeri Matte Medium and popped the stencil embellies on and gave them all another coat of Matte Medium. I used maimeri gold acrylic paint to edge the heart and added some blingy flowers to finish off.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

A creative romance: lets get sentimental

All crafts: anything but a card

Bunny Zoe's: hearts/ love

Oooh La La: use a heart

Papertake Weekly: with a heart

Whoospi Daisy: sentiment

Thanks so much for visiting today, have a good day and hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

Fabric and Canvas at Premium Craft Brands

Good morning my lovelies, oh my goodness its been blowing a gale here all night. I hope you're keeping dry and warm in this awful weather, its perfect weather for crafting though so I guess its not all bad. We've got a new challenge over at Premium Craft Brands PanPastel challenge and its an anything goes theme this week although the DT were challenged to use fabric or canvas so I decided to use both for my project.

I've used an 8x8 canvas that I'd actually started but it looked totally awful so I gave it a coat of Maimeri Gesso, adding texture with a palette knife. Next came a layer of Platinum White Acrylic paint, sprinkled with some Permanent Red Tint and Gold PanPastels. Once that was dry I blended the pans and then set to with Maimeri Light Modelling Paste and the gorgeous flower curl stencil and added a tiny bit more gold PanPastel. I painted the edges of the canvas with Maimeri Gold acrylic paint and then left it to dry 

I used Maimeri Matte Medium to attach the doily and gave it another coat to seal it. The flower was made with layers of fabric and netting coloured with Permanent Red Tint PanPastel, edged with a little Matte Medium and sprinkled with glamour dust. The little rose in the centre was made with Light Modelling Paste in a silicone mould.

I added some pearl swirls to and a die cut butterfly to finish off.

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

Country View Crafts: painty pleasures

Craftitude: anything goes/love/Valentines

Crafts and Me: photo inspiration

Fussy and Fancy: be my valentine

Natalie and Amy's: love is all around

Rhedd's Creative Spirit: anything goes

Wag's'n'Whiskers: bingo (pink, pearls, doily)

Winter Wonderland: no stamping allowed

I'm not venturing far today as I've got loads of projects started so I'm planning a day in my craft room to finish some off (well if I can find anything in there lol)
have a good day and thanks for popping by
Claire xx

Its a man thing at Vintage Stamping Challenges

Good morning my lovelies, I seem to have blinked and missed the weekend as Monday morning  has sneaked up on me and I'm rushing off to work again. Before I go though, here's my project for our new challenge at Flonzcraft Vintage Stamping Challenges where our theme is 'Its a man thing'

I've used a shaped card from Craftwork cards, I just love these cards. The background was made with distress inks in Tumbled Glass, Broken China, and Tea Due with a wee bit of frayed burlap/ I stamped the boat (from Flonzcraft can you believe you get all these gorgeous stamps for less than £7?? You can find them here)

I stamped the main image on a scrap of card that I'd used to mop up the last of my background inks and then made a frame by die cutting some grey board and sticking some card candi to it and then I set to with lots of Maimeri acrylic paints and then WOW embossing powders to create a rusty porthole and layered it up over a scrap of cheesecloth that I'd dyed with more distress ink

To finish off I added some little shells, some string tied in a nautical knot and a tiny anchor charm.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

A little bit crafty: Man up

Artistic Stamper: use distress

Crafting Musketeers: grunge
Dream Valley: no designer paper

Eclectic Ellapu: texture

Well i'm off to work now so have  great day and thanks for popping by

Claire xx