Spring Colours or Easter at Eclectic Ellapu

Hello my lovelies, how's your week going? I can't believe it's already 1st March, it only seems like 2 minutes since Christmas but hopefully March means longer days and warmer weather. It also means a new challenge over at Eclectic Ellapu where our theme this month is 'Spring Colours or Easter'.

I've made a card featuring a Spring scene using lots of different stamps. I began by stamping the dog (from Sheena Douglass) and masking with masking tissue. Then I used  a Clarity Stencil and some glimmer mists to create the blue sky and green hills. The clouds were made using a sponge and acrylic paint/ I stamped in the trees (from Chocolate Baroque). The foliage and mushrooms were stamped using Lavinia stamps and Memento inks. I coloured the dog with Lyra pencils and added some grass to bring the scene together. I used Gathered Twigs distress ink around the edges.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps and More: Anything goes

Crafty Cardmakers: go green

Paper Minutes: Spring

Paper Shelter: Animal Magic

The Crazy Challenge: We love animals

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

Claire xx

Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes at We Love 2 Create

Good morning my lovelies, well it's been another hectic week but hopefully now I've got a week of work so I can catch up on some rest and hopefully some crafting too! We've got a new challenge starting over at We Love 2 Create and as always our theme is super easy ... Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes! We've got some lovely goodies up for grabs thanks to Premium Craft Brands and you don't even have to use our products to enter!

Time hasn't been on my side this week so I've made a very quick tag using PanPastels (links to the colours are at the end of the post). I simply blended the pans to create a background of autumn shades and then stamped the images (all from Lavinia Stamps) using Memento Rich Cocoa ink. I added some colour to the acorn house and some grass in the foreground using distress inks and some highlights with a Gold Graph'It Shake pen. To finish off I've added a fabric covered brad and some rainbow ribbon.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Artistic inspirations: anything goes

Dragonfly Journeys: Fall festival of colours

Ike's World: Tag you're it

Inky Chicks: Animals

Stamping Sensations: autumn

Tuesday Throwdown: leaves

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

Claire xx

Permanent Red Shade	Permanent Red	orange shade	Orange	Diarylide Yellow PanPastel
hansa yellow	Bright Yellow Green Shade	Bright Yellow Green Pan Pastel

Gifts at Eclectic Ellapu

Good morning folks, it's time for our new challenge at Eclectic Ellapu and this month the Pink Team's theme is 'Gifts' so you can make a gift, use an image with a gift or as I've done use a gift . I've used an empty bottle to create my project and had lots of messy fun altering it.

I began with a coat of matte medium and then applied lots of rock candy crackle paint and a sprinkle of glamour dust. Once that was dry I dripped on alcohol inks in shades of blue and green. I stamped the images using Lavinia stamps and blue versafine ink onto tissue paper and adhered it to the bottle using more matte medium. I glued some pearl string around the image.

I used ribbon to cover the top of the bottle and used hot glue to attach a sparkly door knob to the top of the bottle. To finish off I've added a beaded tassel, some more pearls and a pretty button.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Deep Ocean: things with wings

Fussy and Fancy: Let's fly away

My time to craft: something that flies

Simon Says Stamp: Anything goes

Sweet Stampin: no designer paper

That's Crafty: Get cracking

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

Claire xx

We love 2 Create

Good morning folks, its challenge time again over at We Love 2 Create and we're keeping it nice and easy for you with our theme of 'Anything Creative/Mixed Media' goes. You don't have to use our products to play along either and our lucky winner will receive some gorgeous crafty goodies from Premium Craft Brands!! I've made a quick little scene using my PanPastels, Memento Inks and Lavinia Stamps. I love this fairy and use her every year, she's perfect for Autumn themed cards.

I used my Pans to create the background, masking the moon and using torn paper to mask the hills. Pans blend so beautifully it only takes a few minutes, soooooo much easier than brayering. I've used lots of different Lavinia Stamps to create my little scene. They've all been stampe with Memento Inks in various bright Autumnal colous. Memento Inks work a treat over PanPastels and the colours are lovely and vibrant too. 

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Brown Sugar: anything goes

Creative Fingers: anything goes

Scrap and Crafts: autumn colours

Simply Papercrafts: anything goes

Sweet Stamps: anything goes

The Crafty Addicts: Anything goes/Autumn colour palette

Wags'n'Whiskers: Fall colours

Thanks for visiting today, hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

Neutral Grey Pan Pastel	Silver Metallic PanPastel	White PanPastel	Ultramarine Blue Tint	Bright Yellow Green Shade
Bright yellow green	Raw Umber PanPastel	Burnt Sienna

Inspiration time at We Love 2 Create

Good morning my lovelies, its inspiration time over at We Love 2 Create as you still have a week to enter our 'Anything Mixed Media/Creative Goes' to be in with a chance to win some lovely goodies from Premium Craft Brands. My teamies have created some gorgeous projects to inspire you too so do pop over and have a look!

I've used my Pearlescent PanPastels to create a misty autumn scene for my DT project this week. Its definitely been feeling a lot like Autumn in my little corner of the UK this week.

I used a torn paper mask to create my scene, using pearlescent red, purple and  yellow with a little Fine Black PanPastel Medium to create the sky and then Pearlescent green, yellow and Fine Black Medium for the hills.

The stamps used are all from Lavinia Stamps and I've used Memento Inks to stamp the images, I love the colours of the  Memento range and they stamp beautifully over PanPastels too. To finish off I've added some glitter and tiny gems to the 'fairydust' and popped some little pearls in the corners.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Artistic Stampers: things with wings

4 Crafty Chicks: Fall

Crafty Calendar: anything goes

Crazy 4 Challenges: goodbye to summer

Lisa B Designs: Lavinia Stamps

Our Creative Corner: Shades of Autumn

Stempelsonne: anything goes

Thanks so much for popping by today

Claire xx

Pearlescent Colours & Mediums Palette set of 10

PanPastel - Sofft Tools Kit

Spring colours at PanPastel UK

Good morning folks, its inspiration week at PanPastel UK as its the second week of our 'Spring Colours' challenge. As always there's a fab prize up for grabs from those lovely peeps at Premium Craft Brands and lots of inspiration from my lovely talented teamies too so I hope you're going to play along. For my project I've made a quick and easy Springtime scene  featuring Easter bunnies using my PanPastels.

I began by masking the sky and adding shades of yellow PanPastel to create the sun. Then i masked that and used blues and turquoises to create the sky. Next came the hills using shades of bright yellow green. 

All the stamps used are from Lavinia stamps, I love those bunnies sooooo cute! Istamped them using Memento inks.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

4 Crafty Chicks: Easter

Allsorts: Easter

Artistic Stamper: flora and Fauna

Crafters Cafe: Easter

Crafting for all Seasons: animal magic

Crafts Galore Encore: make a card

Crafty Catz: anything goes

Hiding in my craft room: think Spring

Lavinia Stamps Challenge: lemon and lime

Suzy Bee's Blooming Challenge: anything goes/use pastel colours

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

Claire xx

Bright yellow green	Bright Yellow Green Shade	Hansa Yellow	diarylide yellow	ultramarine blue
Ultramarine Blue Tint	Turquoise Pan Pastel

Halloween colours at PanPastel UK

Good morning folks, its time for a new challenge in PanPastel land and this time around our theme is Halloween colours. You don't have to use PanPastels to play along and our lucky winner will receive a fab prize of a mask and a PanPastel from our generous sponsors Premium Craft Brands

 I've made a quick and easy autumn scene using Halloween colours. This was a really quick card, I just applied the pearl PanPastel in bands across the white cardstock and then lightly applied the Black pearl medium around the edges for a misty effect. Then I stamped the images (all from Lavinia Stamps) with Memento inks in Black, Bamboo leaves, Elderberry and Tangelo and matted the scene on some black card. Easy peasy :-)

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Bunny Zoe's Crafts: Animals

Everybody Art: Leaves

Lavinia stamps: Autumn Colours

Penny's Paper Crafty: anything goes

Sister Act: anything goes

Stempelsonnen: Autumn/Halloween

Thanks for popping by today

Claire xx

Black fine Pearl

Green Pearl

Orange Pearl

Violet Pearl

Fall splendour at Craft a Scene

Good afternoon folks, time for a new challenge at Craft a Scene and this month our theme is 'Fall Splendour' . The weather is definitely starting to change in my little corner of the country and I can just see the first signs of the leaves starting to change colour. I just love the colours of autumn and really enjoyed making this card.

I began by creating a background with PanPastels, the sky was created with turquoise tint PanPastel and I added a sun with Hansa Yellow Tint, the foreground was coloured with a little Yellow Green Shade.

All the stamps used are from Lavinia stamps, I used lots of masking to create my little scene and stamped the images with Memento Rich Cocoa ink. I stamped the leaves and the foliage on the trees with Memento Ink in Bamboo Leaves, Rhubarb Stalk, Tangelo and Canteloupe

I added some colour to the images with Inktense pencils and used my Graph'It silver shake pen to give the wings some sparkle.. The sentiment is also from Lavinia Stamps, stamped with versamark and embossed with gold WOW Embossing powder.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges

A Little Bit Crafty: distress it

Artistic Stamper: autumn colours

Bearly Mine: autumnal colours

Delicious Doodles: colours of Autumn

Hiding in my Craft Room: think fall

Natalie and Amy's: things with wings

Red Rubber Inspirationals: Favourite stamping technique (masking)

Sweet Stampin: The great outdoors

Its well worth a visit to the challenge blog as my teamies have created some gorgeous scenes to inspire you. Thanks so much for visiting today

Claire xx

Summer fun Inspiration at PanPastel UK

Good morning folks, well yesterdays rain has gone and we've got lovely blue sky and sunshine so its perfect weather for some fun in the sun lol. You've still got a week to enter our Summer Fun challenge at PanPastel UK and if you pop over to the challenge blog, there is loads of inspiration from the DT and the winners announcement from our last challenge too! As always there is a fab prize from our generous sponsor Your Creativity Store too

My card was a very quick one this week, I inked up  the lovely Blackbird mask with versamark ink and embossed it through my Grand Calibur before adding colour with my PanPastels. I used Lavinia stamps and memento inks around the edges and added some glitter to the fairies wings. I don't think my little birdy knows what to make of those fairies playing lol.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

A Gem of a Challenge: embossing

Cards Galore Encore: anything goes

Crafty Little Fairies: summer fun

Lavinia Stamps: add glitter

Our Creative Corner: summertime

Thanks for popping by today, 

Claire xx

PanPastel Tints	bright yellow green	Raw Umber PanPastel	Blackbird maks	Hansa Yellow
Hansa Yellow Shade	Burnt sienna shade