Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes at We Love 2 Create

Good morning my lovelies, my second post today and this one is my project for our Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes challenge at We Love 2 Create. Those lovely people at Premium Craft Brands have some lovely crafty goodies just waiting for our lucky winner and you don't even have to use our products to enter! 

I've made a journal page for my DT project this time around. I began by cleaning my very gungy brick stencil that I 'd used on another project onto my page with a baby wipe. Its amazing how much texture paste is left on a stencil when you've finished using it. Once this was dryI added some colour with shades of brown PanPastels. I coloured the centre area with Bright Yellow Green and Shade PanPastels. I added some foamiran lilies that I'd made using stamps and dies from Sheena Douglass. I stamped the pink memento ink and then added colour with my Magenta PanPastel once I'd die cut the lilies. I coloured the bird cage and little birdie die cuts with PanPastels and then glued everything in place. The sentiment is from Indigo Blu, stamped with a mix of pink and green ink.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

A Perfect time to craft: anything goes

Everybody Art: Summer/Tropical

Fussy and Fancy: Anything goes

Wonderful Wednesdays: Anything goes

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

Claire xx

Burnt Sienna PanPastel	Raw Umber PanPastel	Metallic Pan Pastel, Pewter	Pan Pastel - Magenta	Bright Yellow Green Pan Pastel
Bright Yellow Green Shade	PanPastel Ultramarine Blue	Hansa Yellow	PanPastel - Sofft Knives and Covers

Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes at We Love 2 Create

Good morning folks, I hope you're having a good weekend. It time for a new challenge at  We Love 2 Create and of course our theme is 'Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes', you don't have to use our products to enter and our lucky winner will receive some lovely crafty goodies from Premium Craft Brands!

I've made another tag for my tag journal and used some of my favourite techniques with PanPastels. I began by blending Hansa Yellow, Diarylide Yellow and Hansa Yellow Tint over my tag. I stenciled the honeycomb with texture paste and then stencilled the rose with PanPastels. Next I applied a layer of glassy gel medium over the rose and added a layer of clear microbeads. 

I added some drips of 'honey' with some yellow Viva gloss gel and while everything was drying set to making the other bits and bobs for my tag. The butterflies and bees are Chocolate Baroque stamps, I stamped them on acetate with Stazon ink and then glittered them on the reverse. The sentiment is also from Chocolate Baroque, stamped and then die cut with the smallest of the Polkadoodles Elegant Nest Dies. I coloured the centre of the diectu with more panpastel. I added some cheesecloth and  twine to finish my little tag.

I'm entering this tag in the following challenges:

Cards and More: anything but a card

Creates and Makes: anything goes/ yellow

Creative Artiste: anything mixed media goes

Little Miss Muffet: Anything goes

Ooh La La: Summertime

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

Claire xx

Hansa Yellow

Hansa Yellow Tint

Diarylide Yellow PanPastel

Bright Yellow Green Pan Pastel

Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes at We Love to Create

Good morning (again), my third post today and this time I'm sharing my project for our new challenge over at We Love 2 Create where our theme is 'Anything Mixed Media/Creative Goes' and of course we've got a fabulous crafty prize for our lucky winner from Premium Craft Brands. You don't have to use our products to enter  either so I hope you're going to play along.

I've used shades of Permanent Red PanPastel to create this project and added some Raw Umber to distress everything. I've used my pans to colour the background and added some stencilling using a Dutch Doobadoo chicken wire stencil. I've used my pans on the die cuts and embellies too. The heart and crown are grungeboard, I used versamark ink before my Pans on these as this intensifies the colour.. The butterflies are stamps from Polkadoodles 'Absolute Vintage' clear stamp set, stamped with Potting Soil archival ink onto a scrap of card coloured with Permanent Red Tint PanPastel.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Allsorts: anniversaries/special occasions 

Brown Sugar: anything goes

Crafts Galore Encore: anything goes

Craft Rocket: Anything goes

In the Pink: buttons/bows in pink

Sparkles Forum: anything goes

We Love Vintage: vintage romance

Thanks for visiting, hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

Permanent Red Tint Pan Pastel

Permanent Red Shade

Permanent Red Extra Dark

PanPastel Rich Gold Metallic

Raw Umber PanPastel

Song Thrush from Chocolate Baroque

Good morning, how's your week going? It's been quite nippy here but it's nice to get up in the morning and see some sunshine and hear the birds singing. I've used one of my favourite birdy stamps Song Thrush  from Chocolate Baroque to make this card, it's one of the Cling Singles Range and its such a lovely image.

I coloured the image with Graph'It markers and layered it up on white card, distressing all the edges with a craft knife and running a black inkpad around the edges for a little definition.

To make the background I used shades of pink, blue and lilac distress ink misted with water and then splashed darker shades of ink over with a paint brush. Next  I added some texture with a stencil and glossy gel medium. I sprinkled glamour dust over the gel for  some sparkle.

To finish off I've added lace, ribbon, pearls and a little resin flower.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Brown Sugar: Anything goes

Card Mania: Spring

Come and Get It: things with wings

Country View Crafts: Spring

Craft your Passion: Anything goes

Little Claire's : Spring colours

Our Crafty Corner: anything goes

The Crazy Challenge: Spring is here

The Ribbon Girls: Anything goes with an image

Thanks so much for visiting today

Claire xx

Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes at We Love 2 Create

Good morning folks, we've got a new challenge starting at We Love 2 Create and our theme is 'Anything Mixed Media/Creative Goes' so there's lots of potential for crafty fun! As always our sponsors Premium Craft Brands have some lovely goodies up for grabs and you don't have to use our products to play along. My teamies have made some gorgeous projects so if you have a minute it's well worth a visit.

For my DT project I've altered an MDF blank using lots of my favourite products (you can find links at the end of this post). I began with a coat of white gesso and then once that was dry I applied some grey PanPastels. Next I added texture paste through a Dutch Doobadoo brick stencil and once that was dry added some colour with Raw Umber and Burnt Sienna PanPastels and fixed with with my homemade fix spray (made from matte medium and water)

To decorate my little project I made lots of paper flowers using some of the gorgeous new Stamp Soup stamps from Polkadoodles, stamped on dictionary paper and coloured using Pearl PanPastels. I cut the flowers out, scrunched them up and layered them to create my blooms. I also made some bunting using freebie stamps that I've had for ages, the cute little blue birds some from the same set. I created a little scene for behind the 'O' using stamps from Chocolate Baroque (Home Sweet Home) and coloured with PanPastels

I added some Dutch Doobadoo fencing, popped on my flowers adding little pearls and diamantes in the centres and punched some leaves from paper coloured with panpastels. I've added a littel brass key charm, a seam binding bow topped with a little fabric covered brad. To finish off I'added some moss, pretty little 'berries' and of course my stamped bunting and birdies.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Crafting for all seasons: Dies/punches

Creative Artiste: Anything goes (options chipboard/stencils/flowers)

Mod Squad: Show us your background

Simply Papercraft: anything goes

Stamps and Stencils: Trash to Treasure (my trash is dictionary pages)

That's Crafty: all things bright and beautiful

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

Claire xx

Dutch Doobadoo A5 brick stencil	Raw Umber PanPastel	Burnt Sienna	Neutral Grey Pan Pastel	Dutch Doobadoo Dutch Paper Art A5 Fences
Pearlescent Colours & Mediums Palette set of 10	Sofft sponge bars	PanPastel - Sofft Knives and Covers	PanPastel Ultramarine Blue	Permanent Red Tint Pan Pastel
Bright yellow green	Bright Yellow Green Shade

All things Spring at Vintage Stamping Challenges

Hello there, how's your Monday going? I've been running late all day (nothing new there lol) but better late than never here's my post for our new challenge over at Flonzcraft Vintage Stamping Challenges where the theme is 'All things Spring'. As always there's a Flonzcraft voucher up for grabs but remember we are a stamping challenge so no digistamps are allowed.

I've made a large tag which looks a bit dark in the pics so you'll have to use your imagination a bit lol. I began by stamping and masking the image, one of my all time favourites from Flonzcraft, you can find here here in the 'Countrylife Pastoral' set. Then I got to work stencilling around the image using texture poaste and a Dutch Doobadoo brick stencil and some leaves and flowers from Indigo Blu.  I added some colour with distress inks and PanPastels and then removed the masking fluid to colour the image using distress markers

I've also added some die cut branches, a little birdie and some paper flowers and berries.

To finish off I added a little birds nest, some seam binding ribbon that I'd coloured with distress ink and some little pearls.

I'm entering this tag in the following challenges:

Artistic Stampers: all things distressed

Come and Get It: Tag you're it

Country View Crafts: Spring

Dragonfly Journeys: Tag you're it

Fantasy Stampers: in the Springtime

Fairy Tale: spring

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

Claire xx

Stamp Soup from Polkadoodles

Good morning folks, did you catch Nikky on C&C with the gorgeous Stamp Soup clear stamp sets and the fab new Lemonade Fizz and Lavender Tea CD collections? Wow they sold like hot cakes but if you pop over to the Polkadoodles shop you may find a few goodies left.

I've made a large tag using just the stamps. I began by creating a pva crackle background using emulsion paint tester pots. Next I stamped my design using Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and lots of post it masks, these stamps are all separate elements so you can have loads of fun creating your own flowers. You can also us them for lots of other things, the DT came up with lots of fun ideas including butterflies, dragonflies, birds, owls, hedgehog and a fairy. I got busy colouring with my Graph'It Markers. I wasn't sure how the colours would take on this kind of background but they are beautifully vibrant. I added some shadows with grey markers and some highlights with a white Graph'It Shake pen.

Next I stencilled the background using a Dutch Doobadoo Chicken Wire stencil and texture paste. I die cut the word 'bloom' using a Memory Box die and coloured the letters with Graph'it 8245 and wrote the rest of the words on scraps of paper. To finish off I've added some pretty irridescent sequins and some scraps of ribbon.

I'm entering this tag in the following challenges:

Colouring in Scrapland: Anything goes

Fussy and Fancy: things with wings

My time to craft: flowers

The Crazy Challenge: flowers

Really Reasonable Ribbon: Welcome Spring plus ribbon

Stamping Sensations: Flower Power

Thanks so much for visiting today

 Claire xx

Sunrise/Sunset at Fashionable Stamping Challenges

Hello there folks, its time for a new challenge over at Fashionable Stamping Challenges and this time around our theme is 'Sunrise/Sunset' as chosen by my lovely teamie Sandra. A great theme and I had loads of fun creating my DT project. Don't forget our lucky winner will receive a fab $20 voucher to spend at Flonzcraft but you have to ink up those stamps to play along (no digi stamps allowed!)

For my DT project I've used some of the gorgeous stamps from the Chocolate Baroque 'Summer  Fairies' collection. I stamped the fairies and masked them with Pebeo masking fluid, I'm totally addicted to this stuff as its so easy to use, doesn't clog your brushes up and rubs off really easily too. I'd seen it on TV and thought it looked too good to be true but it isn't!!

Once I'd masked the fairies I set to with my distress inks and a Clarity stencil brush and just brushed in the sunset sky starting with shades of yellow then adding pinks and purple. Then I toik an ink blending tool and brushed darker shades around the edges - chipped sapphire, dusty concord and finally black soot. I used some more black soot and a torn paper mask to ink in the foreground and also to stamp in some silhouette flowers and foliage. I watered down a little of the black in and painted in a few clouds and then left it to dry before rubbing off the masking fluid.

While it was drying I create the  background using a 12x12 canvas board. I gave it a good coat of black gesso and blasted it with my heat gun to dry it. Next came my Dutch Doobadoo Stars stencil and some Sparkle Medium (I used clear, black and purple) that I've had for ages. I'd used the clear but never used the colours and they are gorgeous so I'll definitely be using them again. I brushed the leftover mixture around the edges of the canvas and also around the edge of the scene I'd created and left it to dry. I'm so impatient I hate waiting for things to dry lol.

Next step was to colour the fairies, so I set to with my Lyra Polycolour pencils and coloured them up. I used some Self adhesive sparkly acetate for the wings, it looks so pretty in real life but is a bit camera shy lol.  I added some glittery dots to sparkle like stars in the night sky and added some highlights with a White Graph'It Shake pen.

To finish off I  added some black lace and purple ribbon topped with a pretty crystal flower button and a bead cap from my stash.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Creative Artiste Challenge: anything goes mixed media

Let's Colour Saturday Linky Party: Anything goes with something coloured

Jade's Sparkling Butterflies: Anything goes/fantasy

Morgans Art World: add flowers

Moving along with the times: things with wings

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

Claire xx