Love 2 Create - Challenge #5 - Anything Creative/Mixed Media goes

It's the start of a new month which means another new challenge at Love 2 Create Challenges. A big thank you to everyone who entered last month's challenge and winners, plus Top 3, (for Challenge #4) will be announced on 18th February 2018.

Just in case you have missed any winners posts, previous winners, Top 3 and GDT's can be found on our 'Winners Page' at the top of the blog.

Now we all know that crafters don't really need an excuse to 'play' with their crafty stash but just in case you do, why not play along with this months challenge. Our theme is easy peasy ...

Anything Creative Mixed Media Goes

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Our sponsor for 2018 is Nikky Hall from Polkadoodles and you can check out all the wonderful selection of Polkadoodles goodies in the shop. Have you visited recently? If not pop over now as there are oodles and oodles of new goodies waiting to be re-homed 😇😏😁

You don't have to use our Polkadoodles products to enter but we do a happy dance when you do lol. The challenge will run until 25th February 2018 so there's loads of time to play along. Ooohhhh, we must mention that we've a fabulous prize from Polkadoodles for our lucky winner, (chosen by random.org)?

Prize: £5 gift voucher for the Polkadoodles store.

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Now let's check out the inspiration from our DT. As you can see our talented team have been busy working their mixed media magic for you .....

Gemma

I have a fun inky card to share with you all today, created using Distress Oxides and delightful stamps from Polkadoodles. More details can be found on my blog 

Products used from Polkadoodles

Bella Fleur

Belle Papillon




Terry: Hey there guys, for today's challenge I have made a Journal Page, with yep lots of butterflies that I made with clay, gave them a color with PanPastels and placed them onto my journal page. So the background of my Journal Page is colored with PanPastel the light colors, On top I have worked with a stencil and Light Modelling Paste. I have colored the plants with PanPastels and the dots on the background too. Last but not least I have placed a sentiment.

Some products that I worked with are: 

Light Modeling Paste	Ultra Marine Blue Tint PanPastel	Round Sponge	Permanent Green PanPastel	Orange Tint PanPastel
Orange Pan Pastel

Just add you entry below in Mr Linky . The Love 2 Create team can't wait to see what you have created this month ...

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Challenge 11 Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes

Good morning crafty friends. We're full of excitment today as not only have we got a new challenge lined up for you but we've got a lovely new teamie too! Please give the lovely Gemma a big warm welcome, she's such a talented artist and has got lots of inspiration for you!

As always our challenge theme is

Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes 

And of course we've got some awesome crafty stash just waiting for our lucky winner from those lovely people at Premium Craft Brands.



You don't want to miss out on a chance to win and you don't even have to use our products to play along so there's no excuse to miss out.

Before we have a look at this weeks beautiful artwork from the DT though it's time to announce the lucky winner and Top 3 from Challenge 9 so without any further ado, Random.org has worked his magic and our winner is

12. Julia 

Congratulations hun, email us (details in sidebar) quoting your snail mail details and your winners code which is PPWK09001 and we'll get your prize out to you asap!!

It's never an easy task to choose the Top 3 picks from so many stunning projects, we really do appreciate all your beautiful artwork but this time around Top 3 honours go to ....

14. Butterfly
49.Kasariowa
59. Marie

Back to our new challenge and if you're stuck for inspiration our DT have some fabulous project to inspire you ....

Gemma 

I am excited to say this is my first inspiration post for We Love to Create. and my first real use of PanPastels. I am loving both my new teamies and the product. I applied Magenta Shade and Blue through a stencil making sure to blend them into each other. Then I stamped the flowers and text onto book pages and coloured them in using Titanium White, Violet and Magenta Shade Pan Pastels. You can find out more on my blog and I am looking forward to seeing everyone's entries for this challenge

Violet Pan Pastel	Magenta pan pastel	Titanium White PanPastel	Pan Pastels - Phthalo Blue Tint	Oval Sponge
draw/paint sponge

Claire C

I've made a journal page using lots of the lovely metallic Pans for my project this time. You can find all the details on my blog

Metallic Pan Pastels	PanPastel Phthalo Green	Bright Yellow Green Pan Pastel	PanPastel Permanent Green	Raw Umber PanPastel
PanPastel Turquoise Shade	Sofft sponge bars	Glassy Gel Medium

Terry: I was having fun making a notebook...this time I worked on the background with first Gesso and a bit darker colours.....a bit of blue, reddish, green, blues and white....When all the colours dried up I played with a flower stencil and used Crackle. A few dots of blue and red and a couple of sentiments and my notebook was ready. One last layer of Matte Gel Medium and my inspiration notebook for you guys is done. Wanna see more pictures? than I suggest you click on my name and check out my blog....

Gesso	Maimeri Light modelling paste	White COARSE Pearl Medium for PanPastels	Red Iron Oxide PanPastel	Permanent Red Extra Dark
PanPastel Ultramarine Blue	Panpastel Permanent Green Tint	Panpastel Diarylide Yellow Tint	PanPastel Permanent Green	Panpastel Bright Yellow Green Tint
PanPastel Rich Gold Metallic	PanPastel Turquoise Tint	Sofft Angle Slice - Round Sponge

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We don't really do loads of rules here but we do have a couple so please take note:

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  10th June and the winner and top 3 will be announced 

on Sunday 25th June 2017!!

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Challenge 10 Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes

Good morning crafty friends! A big thank you to everyone who played along with Challenge 9 and a warm welcome to our brand new challenge. Our theme as always is 

Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes

You don't have to use our products to enter  and our lucky winner (chosen by Random.org) will receive some awesome crafty stash from Premium Craft Brands!!

Before we see the beautiful artwork our DT have created to inspire you this week, it's time to announce the winner and Top 3 from Challenge 8! Random.org has worked it's magic and this time around our lucky winner is .....

6. Karen P

Congratulations Karen!! Email us (details in sidebar) quoting your winners code which is PPWK08001 and your snail mail details and we'll get your prize out to you!! Enjoy

Now as always it was sooooooo hard to choose our top 3 but the honours go to

3. Elaine
7. Jeanie Ellis
12. Hema

Now back to our new challenge and our DT have got some beautiful projects to inspire you ...

Terry: I had fun making a Tag, The first layer on the background is Gesso, I played with a couple of PanPastels with purple and blue colours to create the background. I mixed the PanPastels with water to let the colour spread all over the Tag. I worked with a stencil of flowers and crackle and right after that I was finished with that,  I colored a butterfly with the same colours PanPasels. Last but not least I stamped some sentiments and placed them on the Tag.

Gesso	Titanium White PanPastel	PanPastel Turquoise Tint	Magenta pan pastel	Magenta Tint Pastel
Soft Tools	Soft Tools	Pearlescent Blue

Claire I've made a little tag this week using some of my favourite PanPastels and gorgeous stamps from Polkadoodles too

PanPastel Ultramarine Blue	Ultramarine Blue Tint	Metallic PanPastel Set	Pan Pastel Colourless Blender	Absolute Vintage Stamp Set
Polka Doodles "Wish you were here" clear stamp set

Lou: I've been playing with mount board scraps to create a drawer unit decorated with gesso, pan pastels, gilding flakes, stamping and die cuts ... phew! Full details and more photos can be found on my blog ...

Products used:

Red Iron Oxide PanPastel	Raw Umber PanPastel	White COARSE Pearl Medium for PanPastels	PanPastel - Sofft Knives and Covers	Polka Doodles Belle Papillon A5 stamp set
Bella Fleur Large stamp set	Polkadoodles Birdcage & Bird doublet die set	PolkaDoodles Flower Bunch ′Doublet′ die	PolkaDoodles Butterfly 1 ′Doublet′ die	Maimeri White Gesso

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We don't really do loads of rules here but we do have a couple so please take note:

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  27th May and the winner and top 3 will be announced 

on Sunday 11th June 2017!!

Add your link below to be in with a chance of being our lucky winner or Top 3 honours!!

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