Sunday 22 January 2017

Challenge 2 Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes

Good morning crafters and welcome to a brand new challenge!! We had some awesome entries for our last challenge so a big thank you to everyone who entered, the winner and Top 3 from challenge 1 will be announced on 5th February once the DT have cast their votes and that won't be an easy task!!

Our new challenge is, of course .....
Anything Mixed Media/Creative Goes

so you can let your creativity run wild! You don't have to use our products to enter but we love it when you do! Our lucky winner (chosen by random.org) will receive some fabulous crafty stash from the lovely people at Premium Craft Brands but you've got to be in it to win it!


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We're sad to say that the lovely Tracy Scott is leaving us and moving on to some exciting new crafty adventures so we'd like to say a huge thank you to Tracy and I'm sure you'll join us in wishing her all the very best. Thank you Tracy :-)


So let's see what our DT girls have been busy with this week, as always they've been creating some beautiful artwork to inspire you .....

Alysha - Hi there and for my second installment this month I have canvas with Polkadoodles image Icky Ink on a lush Violet and Dark Pink Pan background. hugs Aly xx




Lou: It's been a while since I played along with my teamies but this year I am more determined to join in as I have missed my messy, altering, card making, stampbord, pan pastel fun! I have upcycled a rather grim looking plastic frame bought from a £ shop ...


I have added layers of gesso and then pan pastels, sealing everything with Maimeri matt gel. The floral elements were stamped on to different mediums, coloured with pan pastels and then added to the frame.


Products used:

Claire C Hi I love to colour with my PanPastels and I've made a card using an old favourite stamp from Prima. Because PanPastels can be removed with a pencil eraser you don't have to worry about being to precise and they work beautifully with markers and pencils too so once I'd coloured the image I added some fine details with my pencils. The background was made using pearlescent Pans and stencilling with Maimeri Light Modelling Paste, once that was dry I highlighted it with Pewter PanPastel and splattered some black ink here and there.


Here's another view of the focal image





Terry; I had some fun making these Flowerlabels, The background was colored with Metallic Pans, on top of that I used a stencil with Modelling Paste and let it dry.....when it was dry I stamped a butterfly and colored it with the Light Gold Metallic Pan and some crackle and to top it off I played with Gel Medium. The second Flowerlabel was the made the same way. You can put it into a pot for decorations.




The products that I worked with are:





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We don't really do loads of rules here but we do have a couple so please take note:
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2. Only 2 entries to make it fair for everyone
3. The main prize can only be posted to a UK address - if the prize is not claimed within 14 days it will be offered to someone on the Top 3 from the same week.
4. You MUST be a follower of this blog to enter

The challenge will run until 4th February and the winner and top 3 will be announced 
on Sunday 12th February 2017!!



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Sunday 8 January 2017

Challenge 1 Anything Creative /Mixed Media Goes


Good morning crafty friends and welcome to our first challenge of 2017! The theme for the next two weeks is nice and easy ....

Anything Creative/Mixed Media goes

You don't have to use our products to play along but of course we love it when you do. The challenge will run until 21st Jan so you've got lots of time to get creative and join in the fun. Our generous sponsors Premium Craft Brands have some fabulous crafty goodies for our lucky winner and Top 3 honours are up for grabs too!

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The winners from our last challenge were announced last week so let's have a look at the inspiration from our lovely DT girls .......

Alysha - Hi Happy New Year and to start off a lovely card made using Polkadoodles NEW Papillon Stamps with a soft Pink Pan Pastel Background. Looking forward to seeing your creations.
hugs Aly xxx




Terry: Hiya guys Happy New Year to all of you.....I wanted to show you a few of the projects that I made for the Christmas Fair at work....I got the idea from a friend she made a few of these pots that she worked on with Fur and stars.....so I thought this would be just great to make for the Christmas Fair. I had these glass pots and dressed them up with Fur......than I used two pieces of rope, the first one went on top of the pot right underneith the moss and the second pieces of rope in the middle of the pot. I worked on the stars with Gesso and Crackle....when they were dry I placed a layer of White Coarse and to cover it all up I painted the stars with Maimeri Mat Gel. To finish my projects I placed moss in the pot and around the top of the pot. Last but not Least I placed a Hyacint in the middle.


Some of the products that I have worked with:






Claire C I've had a little time off work so decided to play in my art journal and followed the free Life Book lesson kindly offered by Tam Laporte from last years Life Book. I've used lots of different products on this project and of course my lovely PanPastels. You can find all the details over on my blog




Tracy Scott - morning lovelies and a very happy new year to you all. We can't wait to see what you come up with for the final challenge of the year...


I've been playing with limited supplies at the moment. I sketched an coloured my girl using only my beloved PanPastels and coloured pencils. 


Beautiful makes girls!! We can't wait to see you entries for our challenge 


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1. No back links
2. Only 2 entries to make it fair for everyone
3. The main prize can only be posted to a UK address - if the prize is not claimed within 14 days it will be offered to someone on the Top 3 from the same week.
4. You MUST be a follower of this blog to enter

The challenge will run until 21st January and the winner and top 3 will be announced 
on Sunday 5th February 2017!!



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Sunday 1 January 2017

Happy New Year and Challenge 25 Winners

Happy New Year Crafters!! We're all enjoying a break from DT duties to enjoy the festivities but we wanted to wish you all the very best for the New Year. Here's hoping that 2017 bring you health, happiness and lots of creativity!

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We'll be back next week with our first challenge of the new year but it's time to announce the winner and Top 3 from Challenge 25. The lucky winner, chosen by Random.org is .....


Congratulations Bev, please email us (details in sidebar) and quote your snail mail details and your winners code which is PPWK25001 and we'll get your prize winging it's way to you.

It's never an easy task to choose the Top 3 and this time you'd all excelled yourselves but Top 3 honours go to .....

9. Branka

Congratulations, beautiful artwork. Help yourselves to a Top 3 badge for your blog and we hope to see more of your gorgeous projects very soon.

I hope you're going to join us next week for our new challenge, until then
Happy New Year 
from 
all the DT And everyone at Premium Craft Brands
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