Challenge #1 - Anything goes at Love 2 Create Mixed Media Challenge

Hello and Happy New Year! Welcome to 2019!

It's lovely to start the New Year with a brand new challenge for you all so here we go!

Firstly, if you are all mixed media and stamp fans make sure you check out 
Hochanda TV 
on Monday 7th January as Nikky will be on air with a brand new product launch of loveliness!
You can watch live or online during and after the shows HERE
or just go to the Polkadoodles website to find all the latest release - it's fabulous!

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 28th January so there's loads of time to play along.

Our sponsor for 2019 is Polkadoodles and you can check out all the wonderful selection of Polkadoodles goodies in the shop below.

-O-WINNERS OF OUR LAST CHALLENGE ARE AT THE END OF THIS POST -O-
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 have made this project for your inspiration.

I made the background with distress ink and sprinkled it with water. After that I used stencils and text stamps.  I colored and cut out the girl, and glued it on the background. Then I stamped the flowers, bird, and butterflies, and blended it with chlorine. I punched the flowers in the hair and finished with some glitter here and there.

The products that I worked with are:

Believe in angels clearstamp set

Believe in angels stencil set

Bella-fleur clearstamp set

Belle-papillon clearstamp set

Terry: I have made a colorfull card to send you Loads of Wishes for the new year....

I worked on the background with Distress Oxide, background stamps from different stampsets. When the background was dried up I stamped some flowers on the card. I colored them with Distress Inks. Than I stamped some butterflies from the clearstampset from Polkadoodles and colored those with Distress Inks. On top of the flowers and the butterflies I played with Nuvo drops, to give them a bit of a 3D look. Last but not least I stamped the sentiment on the card. 

The products that I worked with are:

Stamps to Inspire- Bee nice

Belle Papillon A5 Large Clear Stamp Set

Belle Fleur A5 Clear Stamp Set

Jane - Happy New Year everyone! I have decorated a MDF tag with papers, stencil paste and stamps. I then added die-cuts and download images and a stamped and embossed sentiments.

Polkadoodles goodies used:

Bella Fleur 6x6 Paper Pad

Belle Papillon Download Collection

Time to Bloom Clear Stamp Set

Tropical Foliage 6x6 Stencil

Cherry Blossom/Branch Die Set

Super Sprigs Die Set
Nikky...I love our Believe in Angels collection, really scrummy products for anything Mixed Media, I had a blast making these...

The products that I used are:

Believe in angels clearstamp set

Believe in angels stencil set

GORGEOUS PROJECTS FROM THE TEAM!

WINNERS FROM CHALLENGE 15
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:

51 ELENA

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 L2Cwk1001 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!

#1 CLARE

#59 CRAFTARTISTA

#82 2AMSCRAPPER

9 PRIYA MISHRA

#39 ZEYNA

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 #8 - 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

Our sponsor for 2018 is Polkadoodles and you can check out all the wonderful selection of Polkadoodles goodies in the shop. There are some amazing stamps and papers which are perfect for all your mixed media projects so make sure you check them all out, and you can tune in to Hochanda TV on 7th May for a lovely stamping show with Nikky at 12noon.

You don't have to use our Polkadoodles products to enter the challenge.
The challenge closes 30 May 2018 so there's loads of time to play along.
Our prize is a $10 gift voucher from Polkadoodles for our lucky winner, (chosen by random.org)...

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

This month we have a fabulous Guest Designer joining us! 
We love her creative work and are thrilled to have her with us, so here's a little insight into our fab Guest Designer:
Tina de Marche...
make sure you check out her blog HERE.....

Hi, I'm Tina and excited to be a Guest Designer this month .


I'm a mom to 4 boys, so there's never a dull moment in my house.  I've always been surrounded by crafty people in my family (it's a big family), so my hands love to stay busy.  If it's not crafting, it's cooking or gardening that I enjoy doing.  I've been making cards for 14 years now, started in a Calligraphy group, then later on, I got into stamps.  I love to learn and try new things out, so I'm hoping to inspire you to do the same.

For this card, I used colored pencils to color the image, sprinkled some Fran-tage embossing powder around it.  The heart is canvas that I stamped, sprayed some ink and then added little paint drops.  I also sprayed my corner pieces, distress the butterfly strip with ink and lastly dabbed silver paint around the edges . See more on my BLOG...

Jan I have made a little mixed media tag album using lots of the lovely Stampin' Unicorn Stamps I have used Distress Oxides, watercolour Pencils and paints, inks. I really had great fun putting my album together...

Gemma  I have a few cards to share with you today. I created an A3 masterboard with Gelatos, stencils, and stamps, which I cut down to 4x4 squares. Before gluing the squares to card blanks I stamped focal images made up from the small stamps on the Regal Peacock stamp set and doodled around the edges with a black pen.

Regal Peacock stamp set

Julia I have made a tag, using lots of gorgeous Polkadoodles products, I started by adding some torn pieces of paper from the Posy Doodles paper pack I then layered some distress oxides over it & some of my mop up rice paper. I covered a little frame with black Gesso, and created a paper ribbon from some more of the paper pack. I have stamped onto fabric using Dotty about Flowers I then added some stitching detail. I then painted the back of the fabric using a mixture of 50% PVA & 50% water, once it was dry I cut round the flowers & finally I added a sentiment using Treasured Blooms stamp set.

Terry: I made a Tag this time, colored the background with 2 colors Distress Oxide Inks, sprayed water on it and dried it. Than I worked with the sentiment stamp from Nikky's stampset Belle Pappilon, which I love....I used some leaves from the mixed medium stampset STOP and worked on the edges with a brown ink to make it extra vintagy. I wanted something more on the backgound and used a stencil from plants, worked on it with Light Modelling Paste and played with some crackle. On top of the plants I placed some Nuvo drops liquid. The butterflies are colored with Polychromos pencils and waterpaint. And to finish I placed small sentiments.

     

WINNERS FROM CHALLENGE 7
Thankyou everyone who entered this challenge - we really loved looking round your blogs, you all left us some awesome work to pore over!

Our Random winner chosen by Random.org is: 
#10 Paperplottalotta - 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 L2Cwk7001 in your email and allow 14 working days for a reply please.

It was so hard to choose this week, we seriously wanted to have a Top 10, there were some amazing entries, thankyou! TOP 3 DT FAVOURITES (no particular order): 
#34 PaperBeauty
#24 Kates Scrap yard 

#8 Judy McKay 

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 you entry below in Mr Linky and if you would like to appear as a GDT on Love 2 Create Challenges, just add GDT after your name.

The Love 2 Create team can't wait to see what you have created this month ...

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Love 2 Create Challenge #4 - Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes

Good morning everyone and HAPPY NEW YEAR! We hope you all had great fun bringing in 2018, whether that was partying or even creating. As it's the start of a new year, it means another new challenge at Love 2 Create. A big thank you to everyone who entered last month's challenge and winners, plus Top 3, will be announced on 14th January 2018.

There was a little confusion (from our end), over the winners for challenges #1 & #2 and we thank you for your messages bringing this to our attention. Winners for both challenges have been announced, double checked and can be found HERE or on our 'Winners Page'.

The long winter evenings will slowly be getting lighter but they are still a great excuse to craft, so we hope you're going to join us for challenge #4. Our theme is easy peasy ...

Anything Creative Mixed Media Goes

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Our sponsor for 2018 will still be 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 28th January so there's loads of time to play long. 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 .....

 Terry:this time for your inspiration I made a Birthday Card. Clean and simple. I worked on the background with Distress Oxides and splashed water all over it this way the colors mix all together. Usually I work with brighter colors so this was a bit out of my comfortzone. After I dried the background with my heattool I Stamped with red ink. I used the butterflies from Nikky's stampset Bella Fleur A5 large Clear Stampset.  I just love butterflies. I colored them with Panpastels and the toplayer I used is crackle accents. Last but not least I placed a happy birthday sentiment and colored them with distress inks. 

I worked with these products:

Bella Fleur Large stamp set

Crackle Accents

Red Iron Oxide PanPastel

White PanPastel

Gemma: I made this beautiful box and notebook for a friend, the box is an MDF blank and the notebook was made form scratch. All the stunning papers used to decorate both are from the Polkadoodles Beau Paperie 6x6 craft paper pack.

Lou: I've decided to play with Odella Twig digi image from Polkadoodles to create a tag. Odella has been coloured with pencils but then I have triple embossed here adding additional coloured embossing powder to each layer. I was trying to go for a more aged look ...

We're all waiting here eagerly at Love 2 Create to see what you have created, so please link up below ...

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