Anything Creative/Mixed Media goes at We Love 2 Create

Good morning my lovelies, how's your weekend going? I'm getting a bit fed up of cold weather and dull days so hopefully Spring won't be too long before it arrives. I bought a few daffodils yesterday and they always cheer me up with their lovely sunny little faces :-)
Anyway today's project is my make for our new challenge over at We Love 2 Create where our theme is 'Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes' so it's a nice, easy one to join in. Our lucky winner will receive some gorgeous crafty goodies from our sponsors Premium Craft Brands too!

I've made a card using an old favourite stamp from Prima. I coloured the background with pearlescent blue and green panpastels and then stencilled with Maimeri Light Modelling Paste. Once that was dry I highlighted it with pewter PanPastel and splattered over a little black ink here and there. I coloured the image using my PanPastels and Sofft tools and added some details with Lyra Pencils. 

I didn't want to add lots of embellies so I just added some black/white layers and stamped the sentiment in the corners. 

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Brown Sugar: Anything goes

Creates and Makes: anything goes

Creative Fingers: Anything goes

Creative Moments: anything goes

Little Miss Muffet: anything goes

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

Claire xx

Metallic PanPastel Set	PanPastel - Sofft Knives and Covers	Pan Pastel pearlescent green	Pearlescent Blue	Pan Pastel, White (fine) Pearlescent
Pan Pastel Colourless Blender	Burnt Sienna Tint	Burnt Sienna	Permanent Red Shade	Permanent Red Tint Pan Pastel
Pan Pastel pearlescent orange	Orange Pan Pastel	Pan Pastel pearlescent yellow

Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes at We love 2 create!

Good morning folks, how's your weekend going? It's a bit grey and miserable so that's all the excuse I need to play in my craft room. We've got a new challenge starting at We Love 2 Create and as always our theme is 'Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes' so there's no excuse not to join in, especially as our lucky winner will receive some fabulous crafty stash from Premium Craft Brands.

I've used a 12x12 canvas to create this project. I used the  beautiful Gardenia stencil from Prima and PanPastels for the lovely lady. PanPastels are perfect for this kind of project as they are so forgiving and blend beautifully.

I used PanPastels in shades of turquoise to create the background and then stencilled over the top with another Prima stencil and white gesso to create a subtle floral effect.

Next I added some more stencilling using a harlequin stencil and black gesso. Once that was dry I applied Fine Black Pearl PanPastel medium around the edges, blending it over the background to highlight the stencilling.

To preserve her modesty I gave her a dress made from white polkadot tulle with some resin flowers that I'd coloured with acrylic paint. The roses were a real bargain from the pound shop! I love a bargain lol.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Alphabet Challenge: hand coloured image

Craft your Passion: Anything goes

Creative Artiste Challenge: Anything goes

Paper Minutes: Roses

Simply Papercraft: Anything goes

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

Claire xx

PanPastel Turquoise Shade	Turquoise Pan Pastel	Black fine Pearl	Black Pan Pastel	Natural Grey shade pan pastel
Neutral Grey Pan Pastel	White PanPastel	White Fine Pearl Medium for Pan Pastels	Burnt Sienna Tint	Burnt sienna shade
Permanent Red Tint Pan Pastel	Permanent Red Shade	Bright Yellow Green Shade	Bright Yellow Green Pan Pastel

Blots and Splashes at Fashionable Stamping Challenges

Hello crafty friends, it's time for a new challenge over at Fashionable Stamping Challenges and this month our theme is 'Blots and Splashes' so it's a great excuse to have some messy fun. As always our lucky winner will receive a generous prize from our lovely sponsor Flonzcraft so I hope you're going to play along. Don't forget though we do need to see stamping as the focal point of your project, no digis are allowed!

I've made a wall hanging for my DT project using lots of recycled elements. I used some old corrugated card for the first layer, stripped the top layer off and then applied white gesso. Once that was dry I diluted some acrylic paints (gold, teal and green) with water and splashed them on with an old toothbrush. I added some bigger splashes along the top and tilted the card to let the paint run. 

I repeated this on the next layer which was made with an offcut of white card, scraps of designer paper (Prima Believe) and old dictionary pages.

I stamped 'Kate' one of Julie Nuttings fabulous Prima Doll stamps on white card and on some dictionary pages which I coloured with Graph'It Markers. I paper pieced her dress using another scrap of Prima paper, adding some shading with my GI markers. I layered Kate up on 3d foam pads and added some faux moss around her feet.

I made the flowers from die cut paper flowers, adding seed beads to the centres. 

To finish off I've added lace, ribbon, raffia, buttons, twine,  a teeny weeny peg and a pretty brad. The sentiment is from Chocolate Baroque, stamped on kraft card.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps and more: make your mark

CRAFT: paper piecing

Crafty Catz: Girls only

Creative Corner: ladies night

Creative Knockouts: tic tac toe

 (my line is stamp, sentiment, ribbon)

Hannah and Friends: flowers

Simply Create Too: Ladies only

Thanks so much for visiting today

Claire xx

GDT at Crafting by Designs

Good morning folks, I was lucky enough to be chosen as a Spotlight Winner over at Crafting by Designs in January and so I'm lucky enough to be doing a Guest Design spot for the new challenge which is 'She's so Beautiful'. Pop over to the challenge blog to check out the DT's beautiful projects to inspire you and find out all the details.

For my GDT project I've made a wallhanging using one of my favourite stamps 'Jing' from Prima. I stamped her on Ultimate Graphic paper from Polkadoodles and coloured her up with Graph'It Markers, adding some glitter to the flowers in her hair.

I created some layers for the background, starting with corrugated cardboard given a coat of black gesso and then highlighted with some gilding flakes.  The net layer was a blend of shades of Violet and Magenta PanPastels, I attached the image and overstamped with layers of various Indigo Blu stamps using Memento Inks in Elderberry and Lilac Posies. Next I added some stencilling using white texture past using stencils from Crafters Workshop and Indigo Blu, I left the stencilling white as it was looking a bit dark and added some highlights with gilding flakes.

I used some cosmic shimmer UTEE in the corners, its really shimmery in real life but doesn't show up too well in the pic. 

Last but not least I finished off with ribbon and some embellishments from my March and January CraftBox, I gilded the leaves and the twirly bits of the flowers with gilding flakes and coloured the fabric flower with distress inks and added some of the pretty iridescent pearls here and there.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Creative Craft Cottage: anything goes

Dream Valley: Girlie

Lemon Shortbread: Anything goes

Incy Wincy: Use your favourite colouring medium (Graph'It markers and PanPastels)

Mixed Media World Challenge: vintage

Recycle repurpose, reinvent: anything goes (recycled packaging card)

Retro Rubber: Anything goes

Sparkles Forum: Make it girly

Stamping Sensations: one for the girls

Thanks so much for visiting today

Claire xx

Lots of Layers at Vintage Stamping Challenges

Good morning my lovelies, it's the first Monday in March so its time for a new challenge over at Flonzcraft Vintage Stamping Challenges! Our theme this month is 'Lots of Layers' so we want to see at least 3 layers plus some stamping. We're a stamping challenge so no digistamps are allowed. There's a fab prize for our lucky winner (a $20 voucher) from Flonzcraft and Top 3 honours are up for grabs too. It's well worth a visit to the blog as my teamies have created some gorgeous projects to inspire you.

For my card I've used a beautiful floral stamp from Flonzcraft, it's called 'Flower' and you can find it here. I've stamped it on one of the plainer papers from the Prima Madeleine collection (an old favourite) and coloured it with distress inks.

Next I cut lots of layers from scraps of the paper pad, cut out some of the embellies distressed everything with a little Gathered Twigs distress ink before layering up on distressed kraft card. I've added lace, ribbon a pretty pearl button and lots of Prima flowers.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Artistic Stampers: springtime

Crafting with dragonflies: girly cards

Crafty Friends: Floral

Creative Knockouts: Flower Power

Creative Moments: anything goes/ add a sentiment

Frilly and Funkie: Layer it up

Simply Papercraft: Anything goes

Suzy Bee's Blooming Challenge: anything goes with a twist - Spring

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

Claire xx

Anything Mixed Media/Creative Goes at We love 2 Create

Good morning, brrrrrrr Winter has arrived all of a sudden, we've had high winds and its been bitterly cold so I'm spending the weekend bunkered up crafting and eating chocolate so I'm not complaining too much about the weather lol. Anyway its challenge time over at We Love 2 Create and as always' we're being very gentle on you as our theme is 'Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes'. We've got some lovely crafty goodies lined up for our lucky winner too, thanks to those lovely folks at Premium Craft Brands.

 I've been colouring with my PanPastels this week, they blend so easily especially if you add the amazing colourless blender into the mix that they are perfect for colouring stamped images.

The stamp I've used is from Prima, she's called Jing and I really enjoyed colouring her.

I find that Burnt Sienna Tint is a fab base skin colour and use Burnt Sienna and Raw Umber to add depth and shadows. Although these colours seem really dark I just use a little colour and then dip my Sofft tool in the colourless Blender and then they blend in easily. I coloured the image using Sofft tools, the teeny ones like eyeshadow applicators for the skin and one of the sponge bars for her hair. 

The bar applicators are fab as they can add a broad sweep of colour or if you use the edge you can add very fine lines. Don't forget you can use a pencil eraser with your PanPastels. I used an eraser to lift colour to create the highlights in her hair, removing the brown PanPastel and then applied Hansa Yellow Tint over the top

 The background was created with Turquoise and Bright yellow Green, blended and then overstamped with some background stamps from my stash. I masked Jing with copier paper and then stamped the text with Black Versafine ink and then stamped the stars with Versamark. I embossed the stars with blue and green WOW Embossing powders and added some stickles to the centre of the flowers to finish off.

I framed her with a plastic frame from the poundshop that I painted with acrylic paints and then swiped with versamark and applied Light Gold PanPastel here and there before sealing with some matte medium.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps and More: anything goes

Brown Sugar: anything goes

Crafting with an attitude: Anything goes

Daring Cardmakers: anything but a card

Inspiration Destination: anything goes

Star Stampz: all about girls

Wags'n'Whiskers: Embossing

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

Claire xx

Burnt Sienna Tint	Burnt Sienna	Raw Umber PanPastel	Permanent Red Tint	Permanent Red
PanPastel Ultramarine Blue	Turquoise Pan Pastel	Bright yellow green	Neutral Grey Pan Pastel	Hansa Yellow Tint
PanPastel Light Gold Metallic	PanPastel - Sofft Tools Kit	Pan Pastel Colourless Blender