Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes at We Love 2 Create

Hi again, we've got a new challenge starting at We Love 2 Create and as usual we're keeping it nice and easy with a theme of Anything Creative/Mixed Media goes. Our lucky winner will receive a fab prize from our lovely sponsors Premium Craft brands and you don't have to use our products to enter so I hope you're going to join us! I've used Stampbord ATCs and a ginormous tag to create this project.

The tag was recycled as I'd started stencilling the bricks on it for another project but never finished it so I just applied Black Pearl PanPastel medium over the top and then highlighted the bricks with a little silver PanPastel.

To create the stampbord ATCs I applied more a layer of Phthalo Blue Shade and then a layer of Black Coarse Pearl Medium. Next I did lots of stamping with versmark using some of my favourite stamps from Premium Craft Brands, the versamark lifts some of the colour from the Stampbord creating a lighter image. Once I'd finished stamping I took my Stampbord tools and scratched lots of highlights to the stamped images.

Then it was back to the versamark but this time I stamped with versamark and embossed with a WOW Mercury Grey EP to create the sparkly stars, I also edged the ATCs with the same embossing powder. 

The words were made using some stickers that I've had for ages, I swiped them with versamark and coloured with Silver Pans and added a star that I'd embossed for some extra sparkle.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Altered Eclectics: Anything goes

As You Like It: Anything goes

Crafting with an attitude: Anything goes

Crafty Time: make it sparkle

Rhedd's Creative Spirit: Anything goes

Thanks for popping by today, hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

Stampbord ATCs	Stampbord Scraper Tools	Postcard A5 stampset	Premium Art Brands STOP stamp set	Phthalo Blue Shade
Black COARSE Pearl Medium for PanPastels	PanPastel - Sofft Tools Kit	Metallic PanPastel Set

Anything Mixed Media/Creative Goes at We Love 2 Create

Good morning my lovelies, its inspiration time over at We Love 2 Create and you've still got a whole week to be in with a chance of winning some gorgeous goodies from Premium Craft Brands. Its a nice easy theme, 'Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes' and as always my teamies have created some beautiful artwork to inspire you. I've altered an mdf birdhouse for my DT offering. I just love the blues in the PanPastel range, they are soooooo pretty!

I've used white gesso to prime the mdf and then got busy with lots of Ultramarine Blue Tint PanPastel and a little ultramarine blue and some White Coarse PanPastel medium which is lovely and shimmery in real life. I've used a background stamp from Chocolate Baroque, stamped with versamark and dusted with Ultramarine Blue PanPastel.  I've also added some stencilling for a little texture, using a flower stencil and texture paste coloured with more Ultramarine Blue PanPastel.

To decorate the birdhouse, I've stamped the butterfly, from the Premium Art Brands 'Postcard' stamp set and some Dreamees flowers with versamark and dusted with my PanPastels. I cut everything out and arranged it on the birdhouse, adding some glitter glue to the centre of the flowers. I've added some Pewter PanPastels around all the edges and decorated the roof with some lace, ribbon and a metal filigree butterfly.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Altered Eclectics: anything goes

Brown Sugar: anything but a card

Crafty Time: anything but a card

Petal Lu: anything goes

Rhedd's Creative Spirit: anything goes

Wags'n'Whiskers: glitter/sparkle

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

Claire xx

PanPastel Ultramarine Blue

Ultramarine Blue Tint

White COARSE Pearl Medium for PanPastels

Metallic Pan Pastel, Pewter

Premium Art Brands, Postcard stamp set

Silver linings with Premium Craft Brands

Good morning my lovelies, as its Sunday morning we've got a new challenge at Premium Craft Brands PanPastel challenge and this week our theme is Anything Goes but the DT were given the challenge of Silver Linings. As always there is a fab prize up for grabs from Your Creativity Store so pop over and find out all the deets and check out my teamies amazing projects too! 

The image is a digi stamp from Aurora Wings, isn't she gorgeous? 

I've used Paynes Grey  and Pewter PanPastels to create a background for this card. I mixed glitter with Maimeri Glassy gel and swooshed it here and there for an icy sparkle. Once it was dry I added the PanPastels. The image is coloured with PanPastels and Graph'It markers with  little of the Silver Glitter Shake pen too. Here's another pic to show the sparkle a bit better:

the background was made by stamping a star stamp from Stampotique with versamark and then applying pewter Panastel over the top. To finish off I added s sparkly bow and a star from my stash.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

4 Crafty Chicks: bows

Digistamps for Joy: glitter/sparkle

Inky impressions: something new (new image)

My heart pieces: Anything goes

Simon Says Stamp: inspired by ice

Simply Create too: anything goes

Totally Papercrafts: winter wonderland

Wags'n'Whiskers: anything goes

Hope you're having a good weekend, thanks for popping by

Claire xx

Acetate Angelberry card

Good morning folks, its my last day at work as i've got a long weekend off yippppppeeee. At last i'm getting into the Christmas spirit so tomorrow I'll be putting up the decorations and I suppose I really should get some Christmas shopping done too lol. Today's card is a little scene made using digis from the gorgeous PolkaDoodles CD Angelberry Christmas, I just love this cd!

I made the scene in publisher, printed it off and coloured with Graph'It markers adding some glitter and gems although they don't show up too well on the pic. I matted the image on the back of the card and added an acetate panel to the front, you need to use strong acetate for this or it goes all wobbly -not good! I added the die cut border at the bottom to strengthen it and I'm quite pleased with the result. To finish off I added a seam binding bow, a sparkly button and some bakers twine.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Craft your Passion: Let it snow

Glitter 'n' sparkle: show us some blue

Incy Wincy: Let it snow

Joanna Sheen: make it sparkle

Lexi's Creations: Snow

Paper Playtime: winter fun

Ribbon Girl: ho ho ho Christmas

Sweet Pea Stampers: its cold outside

Thanks so much for visiting today, 

Claire xx

Shades of grey at Premium Craft Brands PanPastel UK

Good morning folks and a big warm welcome to my new followers, its lovely to 'meet' you. We've got a fab new challenge starting over at Premium Craft Brands, with a fab prize from the lovely Berni at Your Creativity Store for our lucky winner too so pop on over to the challenge blog and find out all the deets. While you're there make sure you check out the gorgeous projects from my teamies too, you've still got time to enter our blog candy too (loads of scrummy goodies up for grabs so don't miss out!!)

For this weeks card I began by stamping the gorgeous little house from the Premium Art Brands clear stamp set 'Snowy Cottage', the image is coloured with Graph'It markers and glittered with lots of glamour dust. 

The background was made using the large tree from Winter Spruce, stamped with versamark and then I applied lots of silver and pewter PanPastels, the snowflakes were created using the same technique. It looks loads better in real life as the metallic pans really shimmer beautifully.

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

4 Crafty Girlz: anything goes

Kitty Bee Designs: black, white and one other colour

My Heart Pieces: anything Christmas

Papertake Weekly: Oh Christmas tree

Sister Act: anything goes

Southern Girls: shine on

Well as usual Sunday morning means cooking lunch and ironing before I can play so I'd better make a move and geet thos jobs out of the way. Enjoy your day and thanks for visiting 

Claire xx

Gecko Galz Guest Artist: Christmas decorations

Good morning folks, my last day at work before 5 days off yippppeeeeee! Today I'm sharing a project made as part of my Guest Artist spot at Gecko Galz, I fell in love with these gorgeous images from the scrummy new Holiday Jewel Its  and thought they would make wonderful Christmas decorations.

I love to make altered microscope slides and the images from the Holiday Jewel Its really captured my imagination. I used Maimeri Glassy gel to adhere the images to the slide, the images were slightly smaller than the slides so I backed them with some white card stamped with tiny snowflakes from the Winter Spruce stamp set by Premium Art Brands. I swiped the edges of the slides with versamark and added silver embossing powder to seal them. I added little crow charms at the top with some narrow red ribbon to hang the decorations. At the bottom, I attached some metal filigree corners and then added some charms, silver bells and beads from my stash

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:
ABC Christmas: transparent
Christmas at Sweet Stampin: Santa Claus
4 Crafty Girlz: anything goes
Crafty Ribbons: anything goes with ribbon
Crimbo Crackers: embossing

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

Angelberry Gift Easel Card

Good morning, its a lovely sunny Saturday morning here but don't forget that Christmas is sneaking up on us, can you believe its only 80  days to go?? If you're planning on making some Chrissy cards, make sure you check out the gorgeous clear stamps from Premium Art Brands, designed by the lovely Nikky Hall and on special offer at Polka Doodles at the minute. For this little easel card I've used Angelberry Gift, you can find here and the other new stamps here

I've coloured the little cutie with Graph'It Markers, I've always struggled to colour red but the Graph'It reds are fab, so easy to shade with. I've die cut the image with nesties and made a little shaped easel card. I've added a sentiment from the Winter Spruce stamp set:

and to finish off some little paper flowers, tiny berries, a seambinding bow topped with a button and some twine. 

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Chocolate Coffee and Cards: flowers

Crafty Ribbons: anything goes with ribbon

Delicious Doodles: shaped cards

Holly Jolly Christmas: No designer paper

Nutcrafters: colouring

Winter Wonderland: buttons and bows

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

Claire xx

Make it Blue at PanPastel UK

Good morning folks, hope you're having a good weekend so far. After a totally crappy week at work I haven't done much at all but hopefully I'll motivate myself to make the most of my day off today. Anyway we've got a new challenge at PanPastel UK and this week our theme is 'Make it Blue', as always there's a fab prize up for grabs from Premium Art Brands and we've got a DT call at the minute so pop over to the challenge blog to find out all about it.

I've been playing with some fab new products to make this card. Premium Art Brands have some fab new goodies on the way. I've used the lovely Winter Spruce stamps for the background, I began with Ultramarine Blue tint PanPastel and stamped the spruce tree with Versamark before applying burnt sienna PanPastel  over the top. The owl is a stamp from Chocolate Baroque, coloured with Graph'It markers. I used my Gelli plate with one of the new masks to create the cute owl background. I'm pretty new to the gelli plate and so far I love it, great fun! For this print I used some Ultramarine Blue PanPastel on the card and then some scrumy new Maimeri acrylic paint. I've used kraft card for matting and layering and just added some brown seambinding ribbon to finish off

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Bloggers: backgrounds

Cards and More: anything goes

Craftin Boutique: anything with an owl

Crafty Creations: kraft

Thanks so much for popping by today

Claire xx

Glitz and Glam at PanPastel UK

Good morning folks, its starting to feel a bit chilly here and now Strictly and X factor are back on TV it can't be long to Christmas. Premium Art Brands have some gorgeous new goodies to help inspire you and I've used a combination of all the new goodies for my card for this weeks challenge at PanPastel UK where the theme is 'Glitz and Glam'. As always there's a fab prize and the coveted winners badge up for grabs too.

When my last package of DT goodies arrived it felt like Christmas morning lol, I've used some of the gorgeous new metallic PanPastels for this card. I love the Pewter and Silver with the cool shades of turquoise PanPastels so I set to and created a background using my PanPastels. I added some texture to the edges of the background using the Perfect Poinsettia stamps, I applied Maimieri Light Modelling paste to the stamp and stamped all around the edges. Once it was dry I applied Silver and Pewter Pans. I created the flowers using the same colours of PanPastels and layered them up with silicone glue, adding dewdrops in the centres. The sentiment is from the same stamp set, stamped with Teal Memenot ink and die cut with a spellbinders die.I just added some sparkly wired gems to finish off

I'm entering this card in the folllowing challenges:

4 Crafty girlz: anything goes

Addicted to Stamps and More: anything goes

Aud Sentiments: any sentiments

Christmas Stampin all year round: layers

Lady Anne's: anything goes

thanks for popping by today, its always lovely to see you and to read your kind comments

Claire xx

Don't forget to check out my blog candy if you've got a minute, lots of Polkadoodles goodies up for grabs!

Winter Spruce from Premium Art Brands

Good mornning folks,hope you're having a good week.  My feet don't seem to have touched ground since I went back to work, so I'm hoping the weekend will be be here soon. Have you seen the gorgeous new stamps from Premium Art Brands? There are 4 new sets, designed by the lovely and very talented Nikky Hall so of course they are fabulous. I've used 'Winter Spruce' for today's card, its a lovely big stamp so great for a focal image but you can also use it to make lovely wintery backgrounds too.

The papers are all from the Polkadoodles CD Angelberry Christmas and the stamped image has been coloured with Graph'It markers, I've added some stamped baubles highlighted with glossy accents and some glitter for tinsel.

To finish off I've added some pompom trim (love this stuff) and some red seambinding ribbon. The little candy cane is also from Angelberry Christmas.

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

A gem of a challenge: Two backing papers

Glitter and sparkle: anything goes

LEJ Designs: something shiny

The Glory of Christmas : anything goes

 if you fancy some candy click here as I'm celebrating and I'd love you to join in.

thanks for popping by today

Claire xx

Perfect Poinsettia from Premium Art Brands

Hello there, a quick post to share one of the cards I made for the recent Premium Art Brands show on Create and Craft. As well as my favourite PanPastels and Graph'It Markers they have brought us some gorgeous new clear stamps designed by the lovely Nikky Hall! Check out my new watermark too, its from Polkadoodles, isn't it cute??

For this card I've used my favourite bp from Angelberry Christmas cd. I've added a pretty doily and a sentiment from the same cd, die cut with nesties and framed with another die cut. I''ve used the Perfect Poinsettia stamps, coloured with Graph'It markers and decoupaged with dew drops in the centres. I've added some die cut gold glittery swirls for a bit of bling, a pearly flourish. To finish off I've added a seam binding bow topped with a button and some bakers twine.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Artistic Inspirations: swirls

Card Mania: ribbon

Crafty Sentiments: make it girly

Holly Jolly Christmas: Monochromatic

Little Red Wagon: polka dots

Paper Playtime: Use pearls

Simon Says Stamp: anything goes

Well thanks for popping by today, hope to see you again soon

Claire xx