Challenge #15 - Anything goes at Love 2 Create Challenges

Welcome back to another challenge! Wow, December already, where did that come from??

As always, the theme this month is  
Anything Creative Mixed Media Goes
You don't have to use Polkadoodles products to enter the challenge.
The challenge closes 31st December so there's loads of time to play along.

Our sponsor for 2018 is Polkadoodles and you can check out all the wonderful selection of Polkadoodles goodies in the shop below.

PRIZE: $10 gift voucher 
from Polkadoodles for our lucky winner, (chosen by random.org) - this voucher can be spent across the whole store, so you can use it on dies, stamps, papers, whatever you wish...
make sure you check out their store below, they have lots of fab products including stamps, dies, papers, digis and much more...

Now let's check out the inspiration from our talented design team...

Corry  I made a christmas card for your inspiration....

I used the beautiful stamp winterflurries from Polkadoodles.  I stamped the swirl with embossing ink and powder.   Then I stamped and masked the christmasballs.After that, I stamped the trees and added some accents here and there...

The stamp I used is winterflurries...

Jan ~ For my project today I have altered this cheapy frame, It started life out being white, I used black Gesso on it (at this stage my hubby asked why I did'nt just buy a black frame!!!) I used  a little Bronze Guilding wax over. On some black card stock I stamped using Distress inks. I finished off making some stars I used texture paste through a stencil , the used black gesso and again finishing off with guilding wax....

Polkadoodles Goodies used

Believe in Angels Stencil Collection

Flower Power 2 Stamp Set

Believe in Angels Clear Stamp Set

Black Gesso

Jane - I have made a card this time using paste, paint, watercolours and two adorable gnomes!!

Polkadoodles Essential Shopping

Gnome Men Ho Ho Ho Clear Polymer Stamp Set

Winter/Christmas Landscapes 6 x 6 Stencil

Accents 6 x 6 Stencil

Terry For this month's challenge I have worked with bright colors, I played with different colors for the background and stamped with Distress Inks. I wanted to create a flowerarrangement with different clearstampsets. One of them is the Stamp Soup Regal Peacock, this set is really wonderfull to create your own flowers. On top of the flowers I have played with Accents to give the flowers a bit of 3D effect. Last but not least I placed the Sending Special Wished sentiment. 

The products that I worked with are:

Honey Daisy Clear Stamp Set

Stamp Soup Regal Peacock Large A5 Stampset

Belle Papillon A5 Large Clear Stamp Set

Lou Sims: I have used a selection of Polkadoodles 'Believe in Angels' stamps & stencils -which is a huge collection - recently launched on Hochanda to create a stampbord photo frame. Stamps sets used: Flower Power 1 & Forever Special Angel alongside the 'Unicorn & Rainbows' stencils . A step by step tutorial can be found on my blog along with matching photos.

WINNERS FROM CHALLENGE 14
Thankyou everyone who entered this challenge - we really loved looking round your blogs, you all left us some awesome work to look at!

Our Random winner chosen by Random.org is:

31 Maria

Well done!

PRIZE: $10 gift voucher to the Polkadoodles Store.
  To claim your prize please email Polkadoodles, quoting 'Love 2 Create winner' in the subject bar. Please include this claim code L2Cwk13001 in your email and allow 14 working days for a reply please.

TOP DT FAVOURITES

We really could NOT only pick 3 this week there were some outstanding entries! SO here are a few favourites you all need to take a look at if you didnt already!

20 Meeta

31 Maria

52 Angela Felix the cat

8 Veana R

10 Repolainen

25 Harriet

A big thank you to everyone who entered last month's challenge and winners, plus Top 3, will be announced on the next challenge.  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.

Just add your entry below in Mr Linky below!

We would love you to join us as GDT on Love 2 Create Challenges, just add email us HERE if you'd like to join in the fun!. 
The Love 2 Create team can't wait to see what you have created this month and we'd just like to thank you for entering our challenges during 2018.  

This is the last challenge of the year - wow! But we will be back as normal on 6th January so have an amazing Xmas and New Year!

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Challenge #14, Anything Creative/Mixed Media goes at Love 2 Create Challenges

Welcome back to another challenge! 

As always, the theme this month is  
Anything Creative Mixed Media Goes
You don't have to use Polkadoodles products to enter the challenge.
The challenge closes 27th November so there's loads of time to play along.

Our sponsor for 2018 is Polkadoodles and you can check out all the wonderful selection of Polkadoodles goodies in the shop below.

PRIZE: $10 gift voucher 
from Polkadoodles for our lucky winner, (chosen by random.org) - this voucher can be spent across the whole store, so you can use it on dies, stamps, papers, whatever you wish...
make sure you check out their store below, they have lots of fab products including stamps, dies, papers, digis and much more...

Now let's check out the inspiration from our talented design team...

GDT Katrina For me, all paths lead to the barn/manger animals for Christmas Eve!  This adorable angel is called Little Tree and she and her little lamb are so perfect traveling off to the barn with her lantern for the evening.  
These Angels are available in a Big Kahuna Full Winnie Angel Set, a Big Kahuna Colored Winnie Angel Set, and a Big Kahuna Digi Stamp Winnie Angel Set.  I chose to work with the digital stamp and color her with Copic markers and gel pens.  
The gorgeous paper is from Belle Papillon.  The path is made of letters from Sticks and Bones and the beautiful lyrics are from Winnie in Winterland.  
Barn paper is Painted Wood.  The barn is actually the church (with some modifications) from Love and Kisses!  
I added some stamping, laces, burlap, twine, star embellishments, splatter painting, button, crocheted flower, and inks from my stash.

  
Jan I have recently discovered my love for canvas's ~For this one I painted over with Ecoline's , then using rice paper and stamps , a script stamp , Stencil with Oxides ,some glass buttons, a few pearls. I made the hanger from flower wire , made a paper dress and attached a flower and some bling

Polkadoodles Goodies that I used

Believe in Angels Stamp Set

Believe in Angels Stencil

Posy Doodles ~Paper (for dress) 

Jane - I have used some of the stunning new Polkadoodles stamps and stencils to decorate a canvas panel. Lots of paints sprays and texture paste too.

Polkadoodles Loveliness

Forever Special Angel Clear Stamp Set

Tweet Branches 6 x 6 Stencil

Flower Power 2 Clear Stamp Set

Terry: I have made an Autumn card for your inspiration, The background was made with Distress Oxides and Distress Inks. I have chosen the autumn colors. I worked with lots of different stamps I build up my flowers and colored the flowers with Zig Markers, on top of the flowers I played with a white pen and some Glossy Accents. 

Last but not least I have placed the Sentiment onto my card.

The products that I have worked with are:

Delicate Doodles Clear Stamp set

Honey Daisy Clear Stamp set

Doodle Dragonfly

Special Times Clearstamp set

Great Days Clearstamp set

Corry   I made a card with little ghosth for your inspiration

At first I stamped the flowers at the bottom,

Then I stamped the same flowers on maskingtape and masked the flowers on the card.

i used distressink for the backgroud.

I colored the flowers with ziggmarkers and i made the stars with gold embossingpowder.

Finally I stamped and bleached the little ghost.

the products that I worked with are

Delicate Doodles Clearstamp set

https://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/little-monsters-stamp-set-freaky/

Nikky...We have a brand new collection called BELIEVE IN ANGELS over at Polkadoodles this week so it's the perfect timing for me to show you some of my makes, head over to the store and take a look at some of the lovely products...

All made using this fab new collection which is perfect for anything mixed media! You can rewatch the Hochanda shows here...

and of course you can find everything online at Hochanda.com or in the Polkadoodles.com store!

WINNERS FROM CHALLENGE 13
Thankyou everyone who entered this challenge - we really loved looking round your blogs, you all left us some awesome work to look at!

Our Random winner chosen by Random.org is:

#64 Priya

Well done!

PRIZE: $10 gift voucher to the Polkadoodles Store.
  To claim your prize please email Polkadoodles, quoting 'Love 2 Create winner' in the subject bar. Please include this claim code L2Cwk13001 in your email and allow 14 working days for a reply please.

TOP DT FAVOURITES

We really could NOT only pick 3 this week there were some outstanding entries! SO here are a few favourites you all need to take a look at if you didnt already!

#32 Paper Whims
#72 Paper Beauty (wow!)
#89 Asmah
#11 Veana
#74 Kate Yetter

A big thank you to everyone who entered last month's challenge and winners, plus Top 3, will be announced on the next challenge.
  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.

Just add your entry below in Mr Linky below!

We would love you to join us as GDT on Love 2 Create Challenges, just add email usHERE if you'd like to join in the fun!. 
The Love 2 Create team can't wait to see what you have created this month ...

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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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Challenge 7 - Anything Goes Mixed Media craft challenge

Good morning crafty friends and a very Happy Easter to one and all! Hopefully you'll all have a lovely weekend with lots of chocolate and of course some crafting too! A big thank you to everyone who entered our last challenge, we had so many awesome entries and we'll be announcing the winners in a couple of weeks. We've got a new challenge starting and as usual it's a nice easy theme for you

Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes

You don't have to use our products to enter but we love it when you do. Our lovely sponsors, Premium Craft Brands have got some crafty goodies lined up for our lucky challenge winner so what are you waiting for??



As always our DT have been creating their mixed media magic to inspire you but before we check out their artwork this week it's time to announce the winner and Top 3 from Challenge 5!

Our lucky wiiner, as chosen by Random.org is .........

4. Linda Simpson

Congratulations Linda!! Email us (details in sidebar) quoting your winners code which is PPWK05001 and your snail mail address and we'll get your prize on it's way to you.

As always it wasn't an easy task for the DT to choose their top 3 but the votes are in and the Top 3 entries for Challenge 5 are@

26 Niki
34 Teresa
37 Aisha

Well done ladies, your projects were stunning! Don't forget to grab your Top 3 badge for your blogs!!

Now let's see what the DT have been up to this week, as always they've got lots of inspiration for you!

Alysha   Happy Easter everyone! Its that time again, so get out your Pan Pastels and join in with us and share your crafty projects.This week I'm sharing a Spring themed mixed media postcard. I have used Turquoise PP Ultramarine Blue PP and highlights of Permanent Red Tint. I've then highlighted areas through a stencil, added some collage and gessoed some circles then finally finished with a spritz of PP Fixative.Really looking forward to seeing your creations this week, hugs Aly xxx

Claire C   I've used my PanPastels with the lovely new Stamp Soup stamps from Polkadoodles to make this project. If you stamp with versamark it really makes your PanPastel colours pop and it gives a lovely effect on vellum too. You can find all the details on my blog

Pearlescent Pan Pastels

Pan Pastel, White (fine) Pearlescent

White Blending Mop Brush

Raw Umber PanPastel

Sofft sponge bars

Terry; I had loads of fun making this Spring colored Frame. I have started with the background with one layer of Gesso, than I colored it with the Pearlescent Green and Orange, another layer of Light Modelling Paste and honeycomb stencil and another layer with Pearlescent Pans, for the next layer I played with White Coarse and Iridescent Paste, to give it a bit of a shine.

Than for the centre of the frame I colored the background yep again with the Pearlescent Pans and stamped a sentiment on top. Than finished it with the Gel medium. Also in the center of my frame I played with a few fabby butterflies and gave them the pearlescent green and orange colour. I worked on them with crackle accents and some 3D solution to give it a bit of diversity.  And to finish I painted the word with white paint Beautifull with the Graph It Shake Marker Glitter Gold and did the same with the tiny Dutch Doobadoo butterflies.

The products from Premium Art Brands that I worked with are:

Gesso	Pan Pastel pearlescent green	Pan Pastel pearlescent orange	Pearlescent Pan Pastels	Pearlescent Colours & Mediums Palette set of 10
Pan Pastel, White (fine) Pearlescent	White COARSE Pearl Medium for PanPastels	Dutch Doobadoo laser art, butterflies	Iridescent Paste	Graph It Shake marker Glitter Gold

Lou: Yippee ... I'm so glad to back after my long, protracted internet woes. I decided to alter a large thick cardboard tag with pastes, pan pastels and the new Soup Stamps from Polka Doodles.

Started with my stenciled background, added my pan pastels and then stamped out all the images colouring them with my pan pastels. To add vibrancy to the stamped images, I add a layer of ultra thick embossing powder.

Magenta pan pastel	Yellow Ochre Pan Pastel	Perm Green Pan Pastel	Pan Pastel bright yellow green shade	Pan Pastel Colourless Blender
White COARSE Pearl Medium for PanPastels	Pan Pastels	PanPastel - Sofft Tools Kit	Premium Art Brands, Characters stencil	Dutch Doobadoo A5 brick stencil
Maimeri Iridescent Paste/Gesso 200ML	Maimeri acrylic paint	Lemonade Fizz Stamp Soup, Polka Doodles	DaliART Butterfly Swirl Stamp The Moment

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Gorgeous makes girls!! We can't wait to see your projects for this challenge. Just link them up below, 

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  9th April and the winner and top 3 will be announced on Sunday 24th April.

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