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Sunday 4 August 2013

Floral challenge at PanPastel UK

Good morning my lovelies, what are you up to today? Its another sunny morning here so I'm hoping to sneak a couple of hour in the garden with my book later but first here's my DT project for our new challenge at PanPastel UK where our theme is 'Floral/Flowers'. As always there is a fab prize for our lucky winner, for those in the UK the prize is a PanPastel starter set from the lovely Berni at Your Creativity Store


My project was a bit of a happy accident lol. I was watching the lovely lady from Sweet Poppy stencils demoing at Summer Crafting and fell for this gorgeous poppy stencil. She used a technique with distress inks, translucent stencil paste and microbeads so I bought the stencil, thinking I had the paste at home - of course when I got home I could find white, pearl, black etc etc but no translucent. I had a bit of a brainwave and decided to try Maimeri glossy gel instead and it worked a treat.

I created the background with PanPastels, and then used Pans through the stencil, applied the Glossy gel through the stencil and removed the stencil, before applying the microbeads. I dropped the whole thing face down on the carpet - not to be recommended as it squished the beads a bit but overall I'm quite happy with the effect, you can see it a bit better in this pic:


Once it was dry I popped the scene in a collage frame that I'd coloured with Panpastels and added texture with Maimeri light modelling paste and a harlequin stencil. I used a bit of treasure gold to add some highlights.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:
Alphabet Challenge: M is for micro/mini
(I've used microbeads on my project)
Creative Moments: anything but a card
Inkspirational : anything goes
Sparkle and Sprinkle: anything but a card
Victorine Originals: Summer colours

Well i'm about to take the dogs for a nice long walk so I can have an hours peace in my craft room, Enjoy your day whatever you're doing 
Thanks for popping by today,
Claire xx

13 comments:

  1. This is stunning Claire. The poppies are so beautiful and the colours are wonderful.
    Sue xx

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  2. Wow, looks amazing! Never even heard of clear stencil paste... very clever and the effect is stunning!

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  3. This is a lovely card Claire but then I do love poppies

    Jackie x

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  4. This is beautiful Claire the poppy is my very favourite flower and you have coloured it beautifully!Reminds me of Normandy!

    Crafty Hugs
    Heather xx

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  5. So pretty, love the beautiful poppy and the scene you have created is fab
    Lindsay xx

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  6. It's beautiful Claire. Love the poppy scene but most of all the fabulous frame.
    Beryl xx

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  7. Great technique, beautiful. Hugs xx

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  8. Now that was a great 'thinking outside the box' moment Claire and it looks so good. Hugs, Jenny x

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  9. What a lovely card Claire. So glad you posted a close up as it looks so different to the image in the full card. I like both of course but I never would have imagined the close up to look like that had you not shared it. Gorgeous. Thanks for playing along at Inkspirational this week.

    Nikki

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  10. Hi Claire! Congrats on your DT post at PanPastel and thank you for joining in at our challenge at Inkspirational! Your project is jaw dropping. I always wish I could do more with PP! You seemed to have mastered tem. Bravo! Hope all is well.

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  11. Fabulous card! Wow would have never believed this gorgeous card evwe hit the floor! Thanks for joining us at the Alphabet Challenge Blog!
    Roxx.T

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  12. Great card, fab design and lovely texture!

    Thank you for joining us at the Alphabet Challenge Blog!

    Sheena
    xxx

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  13. Wow! This is stunning, I have this stencil and love it, great technique by the way! Happy New year xx hugs, Zoe xx

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