Anything creative goes at We Love to Create

Good morning folks, its inspiration week from the PanPastel girls over at We Love 2 Create. You've still got a week to enter our Anything Creative Goes challenge and our lucky winner will receive some gorgeous goodies from our generous sponsors Premium Craft Brands!

I've made a Christmassy wallhanging for my DT project. I began with some corrugated cardboard which I distressed and dry brushed with white gesso.  I made a little stampbord scene using my PanPastels and Stampscapes stamps. I masked the stampbord squares with fine masking tape and then set to adding colour with my Pans. I stamped in the scene and added a little extra colour with distress markers. Next I used my Stampbord Scraper tools to add highlights to my scene. One of the tools is perfect for creating little circles - great for  snow or polkadots! I added a little Black Pearl PanPastel Medium around the edges.

I popped the scene on my corrugated card with cosmic shimmer glue and added some pompom trim. Some Dutch Doobadoo laser cut snowflakes (Igave them some shimmer with my White Pearl PanPastel Medium. I also added a couple of Tattered angels glimmer chips that were coloured with PanPastels. To finish off I added some ribbon, again coloured with my Pans and added some charms and beads from my stash.

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

Christmas Stampin all year long: spots and dots

Fab'n'Funky: Christmas 

Open Minded: Shabby Chic

Retro Rubber: anything goes with old stamps 

(I've had my stampscapes stamps for years)

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: anything goes

Stamps and Stencils: anything goes mixed media

Suzy Bee's Blooming Challenge: Anything goes no patterned paper

Thanks for popping by, hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

Phthalo Green Shade	Pan Pastels - Phthalo Blue Tint	Paynes Grey	Stampbord assorted squares	Soft Tools Combinaton set
Stampbord Scraper Tools	Black COARSE Pearl Medium for PanPastels	White Coarse Pearl Medium	white Gesso

Go Grungy inspiration at PanPastel UK

Good morning my lovelies, how's your weekend going? Awful weather here so I've been having a play in my craft room and trying to pretend I don't have to go back to work tomorrow lol. I've sooooo enjoyed my week off but at least we've got another long weekend coming up next week so I've got something to look forward to. My project today is for our 'Go Grungy' challenge at PanPastel UK, you've still got a week to enter and our lucky winner will receive a fab prize of goodies from Premium Craft Brands.

I've made an 8x8 card, distressing the edges with Raw Umber shade panpastel and stamping a fabric texture stamp from Indigo Blu here and there. I used a sheet of copier to create a heart shaped stencil and popped that over my card blank before applying Maimeri Light Modelling Paste through a Pronty Stencil.  The LMP is coloured with a touch of Magenta PanPastel. Once dry I went around the edges with Raw Umber PanPastel

The little lady is a stamp from Crafty Individual stamped with versamark and then I applied more Raw Umber PanPastel and layered it up with a tattered angels butterfly. The ginormous sentiment is from Indigo Blu, stamped with Potting Soil Archival Ink, and then distressed with PanPastel.

I've added faux pearls, a seam binding bow, a little rose made from Light Modelling Paste in a silicone mould, the clay heart was left over from another project.

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

Brown Sugar: anything goes

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Big stamps

Sister Act: anything goes

Sweet Stampin: No designer paper

Through the craftroom door: anything goes

Thanks so much for visiting today, have a great day and hope to see you again soon
Claire xx

Gecko Galz Guest Artist: Christmas House

Hello my lovelies, I'm sooooooo excited and so proud as a while ago I received an email from Leanne asking if I'd be a Guest Artist at Gecko Galz! Of course I said yes in a heartbeat and was lucky enough to be able to design with all the gorgeous new products available at Gecko Galz this month. As well as a gorgeous collection of vintage ladies called Beautiful Dreamer, there's a whole array of gorgeous Christmas Collage Sheets, digital stamps and papers! As soon as I received them, I got carried away printing and then couldn't decide which of the beautiful images to use lol. I decided to alter a little chipboard house so I could include lots of images, talk about spoiled for choice lol. 

The house was painted with acrylic paint and I added tissue stamped with music to the back of the little rooms. Then the fun started, I had a blast cutting all the images out and arranging them in the little house to see where they would look best. All the images got a coat of Maimeri Glossy Gel medium to give them a little shine and to protect them. While they were drying I had a lovely rummage through my stash for lots of bits and bobs to add to the little house. Here are some more pics:

As you can see, I used everything but the kitchen sink lol! The images are from 4 of the collage sheets released this month: Whimsical Christmas, Santa Claus Lane. Christmas Children and Altered Christmas.

I also added some Tattered Angels Glimmer chips coloured with distress inks, tiny Christmas Baubles, some little bells, stickers and some Sizzix die cuts that I'd triple embossed. To finish off I made my own 'snow' using a Mixture of Maimeri Glossy Gel, Maimeri White gesso and a little modelling paste, I applied this with a palette knife and added a sparkly mixture of glitter, mica flakes, Stampendous Shaved Ice, tiny stars and white flock! Phew :-)

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Crafts Too: Texture add something shiny and glittery

Drunken Stampers: die cuts

Totally Gorjuss: Traditional Christmas Colours

Thanks so much for stopping by today, I'd love it if you'd pop over to the Gecko Galz blog and visit there too, if you sign up to the newsletter you get a gorgeous freebie image sheet too so its well worth a visit!

Claire xx

Love and Romance at PanPastel UK

Good morning, brrrrrr its blinking freezing here again but hopefully this will warm the cockles of your heart (whatever they are lol) as its time for  a new challenge over at PanPastel UK and this week our theme is love and romance. 

I've used red iron oxide and black PanPastels for this tag. I coloured the tag with red and then used a mask to create the background with a little black PanPastel.  I stamped the sentiment and embossed with gold EP. I used the same colours for the hearts and  stamped and embossed the red PanPastel with black EP and the black PanPastel with sparkly red EP. The gorgeous heart stamps are from Chocolate Baroque.  I added some scraps of ribbon, a lovely fluffy black feather  that I've been hoarding for ages and some red wired gems to finish off.

I'm entering this tag in the following challenges:

Aud Sentiments: anything but a card with a sentiment

Crafting for all seasons: love is in the air

Creative Belli: hearts/valentine

Fab'n'Funky: love

Forever night : unlock my heart

Fussy and Fancy: love

My Mum's Craft Shop: love

Simply Create too: red hot

Top Tip Tuesday: Valentine

Tuesday Thowdown: be my Valentine

You don't need to use PanPastels to enter our challenge (although we love it if you do) and our lucky winner will receive a fabby trial set of PanPastels from our lovely Berni from Your Creativity Store

Thanks for popping by

Claire xx