Wk 6 - Craft, Card making & Scrapbooking mixed media challenge - Anything Goes

Welcome back to another challenge!

As always, the theme this month is 

Anything Mixed Media Goes

You do not need to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges, use any products you wish... 

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Winners of our last challenge are at the bottom of this post...

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Let's see what the team have made for you this month!... 

Natalia...The challenge for us as a DT is colour palette. Very simple and sweet - yellow, pink, and blue.My art journal page is based on various stamps available on Polkadoodle's website. The main role is playing a very cute dragonfly from Time to Bloom Stamps. I attached additional dragonfly wings to make a 3D effect. The background I created with watercolour paints, Distress, and StazOn inks. Wish you a creative weekend!

NATALIA - Hello crafters! The theme challenge for this week for our DT is Animals. For my inspiration I choose a sweet bird from Wonderful World 4 x 6" photopolymer stamp set. I've created a small art journal page 10x10 using also many other stamps from Friendship collections. I also added some doodles around. I wish you a creative weekend!

Nikky - I've been busy with lots of Livestreams this month so today I'm sharing the latest projects we've made - this card with lots of layers and textures was made using the Friendship Days stamps, Distress & Oxide reinkers & Glaze, texture paste and Frantage - check out our YouTube channel for lots of full cardmaking tutorials!

We created this great funky cat using Stamp Soup - check out the video here on YouTube, you'll be amazed how we created this!

Love this cute puppy? It's not what you think! We have a video here for you showing you how to create it with our incredible STAMP SOUP system!

Do you love Mixed Media? Find out how we made this using our Stamp Soup System!

Natalia - My DT project for this week's challenge is mini album. The cover I wrapped around with digi paper Winnie Starfish/Sandcastles - Papers 9 and stamped with photopolymer stamps. All of the stamps are from the Friendship Days Collection. Inside my album all pages I've played with watercolour paints and Distress using  Moroccan screen - stancil, but this time I decided to leave all clear stamp black and white adding only one colour - red. 

What such a different look of work, isn't it?

 Jane – Hello everyone! There is glitter, paint, texture paste and all sorts going on with my canvas today. There are even sticks from my garden.Polkadoodles products used: Clear Stamps: WONDERFUL WORLD Stencil: TREES/FOLIAGE

Wow! Amazing projects and creativity from the team this week!

WINNERS FROM CHALLENGE 5

Thank you everyone who entered this challenge - we really loved looking round your blogs, you all left us some awesome work to look at and there were so many great projects it was SO hard to choose our winners this week!

RANDOM $10 WINNER IS...

26 ROSI

Well done!

PRIZE: $10 gift voucher to the Polkadoodles Store to spend on anything you like including mixed media goodies, stamps, papers & anything else!....

To claim your prize please email Polkadoodles, quoting 'Love 2 Create winner'.

Please include this claim code L2CWK05001 in your email and claim by 8 May.

Allow 14 working days for a reply please.

DESIGN TEAM TOP 3 FAVOURITES - WINNING A DIGITAL STAMP, ARE:

4 Doreen

21 Carole J

3 Kathy

Congratulations - the team loved your work!

To claim your prize please email Polkadoodles, quoting 'Love 2 Create winner'.

Please include this claim code L2CWK05123 in your email and claim by 8 May.

Allow 14 working days for a reply please.

Don't Forget to enter our other blogs too...

All our challenges are Anything Goes!........Find us here:

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Awesome tutorial from Gemma!

Happy Sunday everyone and you are all in for a treat as we have a wonderful tutorial from gemma today. Before you whizz down to the tutorial, please remember that you have up to 31st December to enter this months challenge, (Challenge #3) - details HERE - and if you fancy being a GDT for Love 2 Create, add GDT after your name when entering your project.

Now over to Gemma ... 


I have a fun Christmas/winter canvas to share with you all today, I love making this kind of project, it is not too time-consuming and the process is fairly simple to recreate in lots of different sizes and on different bases.

 I printed out a few background sheets from the wonderful Polkadoodles Festive Christmas collection, Keeping in mind that I wanted papers for the sky and ground as well as different patterns on cardstock for the trees. 

Then I tore my sky papers into little squares and glued them to the canvas with a mat gel medium, I covered about two-thirds of the canvas, not worrying about the edges as I had already decided I was adding a painted frame. 

I tore the ground papers into stripes, giving then a curved shape and I glues them to the canvas in the same way.

Before cutting my printed card into triangles and some scrap card into rectangles for my trees, I went around all the edges of the papers that were glued down with my Pitt brush pens and blended the ink with my fingers. This helps to bring everything together and make it feel like one piece. 

After my trees were glued into place, I edged them with the same pens. At this point, I also stamped out and glued my chosen text onto the canvas and edged them as well.

I then took a lovely wintery themed stencil from my stash that reminds me of snow falling and applied texture paste through it onto the canvas. before the paste could dry I sprinkled glitter over the top.

Then I just needed to frame it and I did this by adding brown paint to texture paste, I applied it to the canvas with a palette knife, which gave me the effect of a very rustic bumpy imperfect frame.

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial, there is still plenty of time to join in this months challenge. We love seeing what everyone is making.

Gemma

Products from Polkadoodles
Festive Christmas Collection

Inspiration and winners announcement

Good morning crafty friends we're back with lots of inspiration for you again this week. If you're here to add your entry to the current 'Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes' challenge just click here to go to the linky. We've got some fab goodies lined up for our lucky winner thanks to our generous sponsors

 As always our DT have been working their magic and have created some awesome projects but before we check them out its time to announce the winner and Top 3 from challenge 2. A massive thank you to everyone who played along, we had some stunning entries!!

The lucky winner, as chosen by Random.org is

18. Linda Simpson

Congratulations!! Email us (details in sidebar) quoting your snail mail details and your winners code (which is PPRW2001) and we'll have your prize winging its way to you ASAP.

Now this time around top 3 honours go to:

1. Gail Lett

21. Autumn

36. Emma

Congratulations ladies, your projects were fab-u-lous!! Don't forget to pick up your Top 3 badges for your blogs.

Time to have a peek at the DT's inspiration for you, they've been busy bees again this week...

Tracy Scott - Hi there everyone, great to be here today with you all....like lots of you out there I'm looooving to while away my time colouring in, it's just so relaxing and satisfying....

So this week I decided to make a card and coloured my image with a mix of PanPastels and coloured pencils....

The pans worked fabulously on the white card that I stamped my bird onto but also look amazing added directly to the Kraft card...

I coloured everything with the PanPastels first, I used a small applicator tool for the bird and also a fine dry paintbrush for detail and then used a larger sponge applicator to add my colours to the card itself. I went in afterwords with some coloured pencils in corresponding colours and added some finer detail...

To finish off I added my quote in black gel pen which writes perfectly over the PanPastels. Hope you love as much as I do, give it a try xxx


Yvonne - I had a real need to use Stampbord this week along with my PanPastels.  I decided to make a necklace but this piece could be used as a keyring, bag charm etc. This stamp is a much larger collage style and I do have to admit that when I stamped a small section on my Stampbord it was a sheer happy accident that "Destination" appeared perfectly at the bottom.  You can bet your bottom dollar that if I've planned that it wouldn't have worked first time!!!  I added a little charm and pearl to add a bit of luxury.  It would be lovely if you could pop along to my blog and let me know what you think. xxx

hansa yellow

Phthalo Blue Shade

Magenta shade

Claire C I've used my PanPastels to alter this box which came filled with lovely perfume and goodies for Christmas. It seemed a shame to throw it away so I've transformed it to create a memory box.

I've added lots of stencilling and distressing to my memory box, I love Pans for distressing as they're so much more forgiving than inks.

I love the rich metallic Pans, I've used Rich gold and Copper on my project, applying them over versamark really gives them loads of richness and depth

Permanent Red Tint Pan Pastel	Permanent Red	Bright Yellow Green Shade	Burnt sienna shade	PanPastel Rich Gold Metallic
Copper Panpastel

Terry: I have had fun making a Bottle Label ...First I made a Bottle Label out of the Template Polyester Bottle Label. I was simply drawing around the template and made my own Wine Label out of it. Don't worry if your pencil hits the template because it is very durable and can be whiped clean in a few seconds. Than I colored the background with the Red Iron Oxide PanPastel. When it was all dried up, I played with the Light Modelling Paste on the stencil that gave me a background of roses. On top I used the Chicken Wire.

Than I played with another layer of White Coarse PanPastel to give it a shine....and to top that off a few brushes of Iridescent Paste to seal the background. I decorated the Bottle Label with a Vintage Image of a adorable little girl. It is allmost like she is saying Cherish your Happiness....so luckily I had the sentiment and did not hessitate to use it. Around the Cute girl I placed some lace with pearls and also on the top and bottom. Underneith the image I placed some Roses that were worked on with Iridescent Paste and Crackle Accents, this way it looks like the roses are made out of Glass.....at least I think so...lol....and last but not least I used some butterflies from DD and placed them on some roses and on top of my Project.

Some of the products that I used are:

Gesso	Iridescent Paste	Maimeri Light modelling paste	White COARSE Pearl Medium for PanPastels	Metallic PanPastel Set
Raw Umber PanPastel	Red Iron Oxide PanPastel	Titanium White PanPastel	Bottle Label

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Thanks for visiting, hopefully we've inspired you to enter our 

Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes challenge, just click here to go to the link.

We'll be back next week with another fun challenge

We Love 2 Create Craft Challenge #13 - Anything Mixed Media/Creative -(Inspiration and winners post)

Happy Sunday everyone, time for more inspiration for our current challenge...

We're keeping it nice and easy for you and our theme is 

Anything Mixed Media/Creative/Inky Goes

You don't have to use our products to play along but of course we love it when you do! As always we've got some lovely crafty goodies up for grabs for our lucky winner thanks to our generous sponsors Premium Craft Brands so don't miss out on your chance to win!! Our random winner will receive some Pan Pastel/Stampbord goodies to play with so it's well worth adding your entry to be in with  chance of winning.

Now please bear with us as we have quite a few winners to announce from Challenge #12 ...

Random.org winner is ...

Mona Pendleton

Congratulations Mona! Just email us quoting your winners code ( PPWK12001), your snail mail details and watch for postman. Email details can be found in the side bar.

DT Top 3 is ... in no particular order

Pamellia
Niki
Mayoori

Postcard RAK winners are as follows:

Tracy E:Deb Paxton
Tracy S: Maxine Boot

Terry: Positively Creative
Claire: Lucy Edmondson
Lou: Linda Simpson
Yvonne: Nannapat

All the DT have announced their winners on their personal blogs with the necessary
details you need to contact them.

As always our DT have been creating some mixed media magic, let's check out what
they've been up to this week and don't forget you still have time
to link up your project HERE ...

Tracy Evans - I decided to create a card with a real mixed media feel this week, with many layers added to the background.

PanPastel Turquoise Tint

PanPastel Turquoise Shade

PanPastel Turquoise Extra Dark

Permanent Red

PanPastel - Sofft Tools Kit

Yvonne - Stampboard!!  I love it and all the details are on my blog.

Orange Extra Dark Pan Pastel

orange shade

Hansa Yellow

Magenta Shade Pan Pastel

Lou: I have also been playing with stampbord and created a box compete with a hinged lid. I have also used PCB Postcard stamps to add further interest and of course my pan pastels.

Stampbord Assorted sizes	Stampbord Scraper Tools	Premium Art Brands, Postcard stamp set	White PanPastel	Raw Umber PanPastel
Pan Pastel - Magenta	Copper Panpastel	Light Gold PanPastel

Terry: I had fun altering a wooden label....for a special friend.....I worked with Gesso, Light Modelling Paste and Pearlescent Pans, White Coarse and made some flowers for decoration on my wooden label.....and placed some hearts that I made out of Light Modelling Paste. A sweet vintagy image of two girls were a perfect fit for this Special Friends Label. And offcourse a sentiment saying that it is for my friend for life.....

The products that I have used are:

Mask Stencil A4 Butterfly	Gesso	Maimeri Light modelling paste	Pearlescent red	Pan Pastel, White (fine) Pearlescent
Pearlescent Colours & Mediums Palette set of 10	Pearlescent Pan Pastels	Dutch Doobadoo Card Board Hearts Art

Remember you still have another week to enter this weeks challenge and you can 

link up your projects here.

See you next week with another new challenge.