Wk6 - Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes Challenge

Happy Sunday everyone and welcome back!
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
Random winner prize: $10 gift voucher to the Polkadoodles Download Store.
Closing date for entries: 25th March, Noon. Max 2 entries per person, no backlinks.
You do not need to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges, use any products you wish...

Our challenge 5 winners are at the bottom of this post.
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 .....

Terry: I have made a gift envelope with a small card to go with it. This small envelope was made with the fabulous papers from Polkadoodles, Just love them because it has so many fabulous butterflies and colors on it. So I cut out an envelope from a template from DD. I then cut the papers and placed them on the envelope. The borders are worked on with Distress Ink and I placed some sentiments on the card and on the envelope to finish my project.

Gemma  You can never have too many birthday cards, can you?  Pop back to the blog on the 11th for my step by step tutorial.

xx Gemma xx

Belle Papillon Stamp

Lou Sims: I've decided to alter a phone box that I've had for eons using the following Polkadoodles products: Tropical Underworld clear stamp set, Stitched Circles dies, Scenic Landscape dies, oodles of mediums, distress inks and my pan pastels. More photos and details of products used can be found on my blog HERE ...

Julia McNeill....This is a litttle wooden birdhouse I picked up and I painted using Yellow and Pink Acrylic paints. I then used the new Polkadoodles Time to Bloom Stamp set. I stamped a little detail onto the house using white Gesso, and then stamped the little border onto the house. The bird and flowers and stamped them on watercolour card, coloured with my zig pens and decorated the house with them...

 Jan Marshall...using Polkadoodles stamps Great Days clear stamp set  , Distress Oxides for the base, I heat embossed the flowers and then used water colour paints, added some snips of ribbon and my tag was ready to go ...

Julia McNeill.... For this card I started with the A4 papers from the new Polkadoodles Posy Doodles collection and covered the card. I then cut out 3 circles from a coordinating paper. The circles were then inked using Distress Oxide Peacock Feathers. I stamped over using the Special Times stamp set. I mounted it onto the card, and then used an inktence pencil to create a shadow around the circles to make them stand out from the page. I then added a few strips of paper from the 6x6 Posy Doodles paper. I stamped up the flowers on watercolour card and coloured up with SN sparkle pens, shaped the flowers and then added them to the card. The whole card was edged with distress ink Black suit. To finish off, I grabbed the die, used it as a stencil to edge the circles with some doodling & finally a load of white paint splattery stuff...

 
WINNERS FROM CHALLENGE 5
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:
#74 Samara Navi - 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 L2Cwk5001 in your email. 

TOP 3 DT FAVOURITES (no particular order): 

#25 Kates Scrapyard

#54 Julie Lavalette

#58 Irena Stefanova
Thankyou all so much for your wonderful entries, very creative, we loved them!

Challenge #6 will run until 25th March 2018. 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 - Nikky Hall using a digi image to create a journal page

We are very lucky today and have the very talented Nikky Hall (from Polkadoodles) sharing one her of her projects with us on Love 2 Create using a digi image called Oddella Twig to create a journal page ...

Over to you Nikky ...


I coloured this Oddella image up a few weeks back and when I looked at it the following day I suddenly had an overwhelming urge to make her into a journal page which I have not done for absolutely eons...and I mean eternity eons! So I didnt lose the mojo for her I rushed upstairs as soon as I got in from work and decided I was only allowing the time it took for the pizza to cook and no more - I'm trying to set myself time goals so I just go with the flow and didn't procrastinate too much as it's killing my melon, man ... this was the coloured image before and after ...

 I just got all my fave colours out and random stamps which just happened to be the nearest to hand which were all my textures from Premium Art Brands and threw it all on. I did actually spritz and seal between layers but because I was rushing they did get very muddied and I used a lot of yellow ochre pan pastel, (which I don't normally do). Not what I was aiming for at all but this was pizza journaling after all ...!

I just ripped the image off the paper and glued it down with photo glue then applied all the Pan Pastel colours around it, using a Versamark inkpad to overstamp - love using Versamark ink as they just stick to the Pan Pastels like glue and make it so vibrant...

A bit of doodling to finish off using a black Graph'It marker which will go over virtually anything and the must have Graph'It White Shake marker and voila ...

WOWsers, I'm sure you will all agree that that is one fabulous journal page and unless you were told, wouldn't believe that it was a digi image and not a stamped one.

We'd love it if you became a follower of our challenge blog, not just to join in with the challenges ... which would be way cool by the way ... but to check out all the fabulous projects shared.

Happy crafting everyone and don't forget to pop over next week as the winners, plus top 3 will be announced for last months challenge. REMEMBER you still have time to enter this months challenge and all the details can be found HERE.

Before we go, what have you been making recently? Why not pop over to our Facebook page and share your projects with us - https://www.facebook.com/groups/love2create - we look forward to seeing you.

Challenge 3 - Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes

Good morning everyone and yep, December is here already so it's time for a new challenge!! A big thank you to everyone who entered last month's challenge. We'll be announcing the winner plus Top 3 for Challenge #2 on 24th December. - Christmas Eve!

In case you missed the post, winners for Challenge #1 can be found HERE on in the tabs above.

The long winter evenings are a great excuse to craft so I hope you're going to join us. Our theme is easy peasy ...

Anything Creative Mixed Media Goes

You don't have to use our products to enter (but we do a happy dance when you do lol) and the challenge will run until 31st December so there's loads of time to play long. Did I mention we've got a fabulous prize from Polkadoodles for our lucky winner too?

Prize: £5 gift voucher for the Polkadoodles store.

We were wondering whether any of the crafters who join in with us would like to be a GDT for one of our challenges in 2018? When you link up to this challenge, just add GDT after your name and we will contact you.

So check out the inspiration from our DT and get crafting to be in with a chance of winning! As you can see our talented teamies have been busy working their mixed media magic for you .....

Terry  Hey there crafters outthere, I have made a card with the Lush stampset from Nikky, I just love butterflies and thought I would make a card with them, colored the background with waterpaint and the background stampset from Nikky, Colored the butterflies with waterpaint too and placed some sentiments from a stampset from Polkadoodles.

Lou: I've decided to play with the Belle Papillion big kahuna kit to create an album from scratch using lots of the papers, embellishments and stamps. I've aged the papers further with my inks and pan pastels. More details can be found on my blog HERE.

Gemma is sharing a little sneak peak of her project because next week she will be showing us all her finished project plus sharing a superb tutorial with everyone.

REMEMBER: We were wondering whether any of the crafters who join in with us would like to be a GDT for one of our challenges in 2018? When you link up to this challenge, just add GDT after your name and we will contact you.

We're all waiting eagerly here at Love 2 Create to see your wonderful projects 

and all you need to do, is link up below:

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Challenge 2 - Anything Mixed Media/Creative Goes

Good morning, November is here already so it's time for a new challenge!! A big thank you to everyone who entered last month's challenge, the DT will be voting for their top 3 picks and we'll be announcing the winner and Top 3 on  November 26th. The long winter evenings are a great excuse to craft so I hope you're going to join us. Our theme is easy peasy ...

Anything Creative Mixed Media Goes

You don't have to use our products to enter (but we do a happy dance when you do lol) and the challenge will run until 30th November so there's loads of time to play long. Did I mention we've got a fabulous prize from Polkadoodles for our lucky winner too?


Prize: £5 gift voucher for the Polkadoodles store.


So check out the inspiration from our DT and get crafting to be in with a chance of winning! As you can see our talented teamies have been busy working their mixed media magic for you .....

Claire C I've made a mixed media wallhanging using the beautiful new image called Nature Lover - January which you can find in the Polkadoodles store here. I've printed her onto kraft card and coloured her with pencils. The background was made with PanPastels. Next I stencilled some leaves with iridescent paste and once it was dry added some colour with alcohol markers. You can find all the details on my blog

PanPastel Set Donna Downey

Nature Lover -January

Gemma I have a poster to share with you all today made using printouts from the wonderful Belle Papillon collection from Polkadoodles. I ripped and glued printable background papers onto mixed media strength card with Gesso. Once dry I layered up acrylic and water sprays, before adding some stencilling with Pan Pastels. Then I glued these wonderful large butterflies from another printable into place with a feel-good quote, once dry I added some colour with more Pan Pastel and colouring pencils to blend them in before going around the edges with a black pen.

Lou: Last week I shared a 'top tip' about different media to print on to create your mixed media projects - see HERE - and this week I am sharing with you the project I made using my printed toilet roll and kitchen towel. I have used the Belle Papillion Big Kahuna collection to make a notebook cover. I even dusted off my Bind It All to make the notebook! You can find lots more details and photos over on my blog.

A Sneeky Peeky this time from me (Terry) on the 19th of November I will be sharing a Tutorial on how I made my project....hope to see you there....xxxx

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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 must be claimed within 10 days or it will be offered to a random winner from the Top 3 from the same week.

4. You MUST be a follower of this blog to enter.

The challenge will run until 30th November and the winner and top 3 will be announced on Sunday 24th December 2017!!

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

Good luck everyone!!

Do you fancy a GDT spot at Love 2 Create? 

If so, please put GDT after your name and we'll contact you.

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Challenge 13 Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes

Good morning crafters, and a big warm welcome to our new challenge! Of course we're keeping it nice and easy for you to play along, the theme is.. ..

Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes

We've got some lovely crafty stash lined up waiting for our lucky winner thanks to

 Premium Craft Brands!! And you don't even have to use our products to enter.

Before we check out the inspiration from our DT, it's time to announce the winner and Top 3 from Challenge 11. A huge thank you to everyone who played along, there were some stunning projects!! Random.org has worked his magic and this time around the lucky winner from Challenge 11 is ...

14. Kelly Leese

Congratulations Kelly!! Please email us (details in sidebar) quoting your snail mail details and winners code which is PPWK01101 and we'll get your prize out to you as soon as we can!

This time around, Top 3 honours go to ...

4. Karen Dunbrook

12. Harriet

23. Elaine

Well done ladies, beautiful artwork! Please help yourselves to a badge for your blog and we hope you'll join us again soon!

Now on to our new challenge and as usual our DT have been working their magic to create some stunning projects to inspire you ....

Gemma 

For this challenge, I have created a journal page. I did a base layer using Orange Tint, Permanent Red Tint and Phthalo Blue Tint. I then mixed some of the Red and Blue Tints to gesso, this made me a paint that I could then stamp onto the background with bold background stamps.  I used Magenta Shade and Violet to lay colour onto my flowers and blended them together with a water brush, more details and photos can be found on my blog. 

Violet Pan Pastel	Magenta pan pastel	Orange Tint PanPastel	Sofft sponge bars	Titanium White PanPastel
Phthalo Blue Tint	Permanent Red Tint Pan Pastel

Claire C 

I've made another tag for my tag journal using my PanPastels, 

Hansa Yellow

Hansa Yellow Tint

Diarylide Yellow PanPastel

Bright Yellow Green Pan Pastel

Lou: This is part one of my project! You see I can't show the full project - only a sneak peek of the final piece - as it's being used for a new stamp launch on C&C (29th June 2017) for Nikky Hall of Polkadoodles. I've used stampbord and my pan pastels, (plus the new stamps) to create a mirror ...

More photos and details of how the mirror frame is made can be found on my blog.

Products:

Pan Pastel - Magenta	PanPastel Magenta Extra Dark	Phtalo Blue Pan Pastel	Turquoise Pan Pastel	Pan Pastel Colourless Blender
Metallic PanPastel Set	Pan Pastels	Panpastel Tool Angle Slice Sponges	PanPastel - Sofft Knives and Covers

Terry: I have made a few canvasses, the background was made with Gesso, Light Modelling Paste and a flowerstencil, I worked with a bunch of fabulous PanPastel colours such as Metallic PanPastels, White Coarse and crackle. The Butterflies were worked on with Crackle and Metallic PanPastels. the finishing touch was made with Gel Medium.

I have worked with the following products:

Metallic PanPastel Set	Metallic Pan Pastel - Copper Metallic	PanPastel Light Gold Metallic	White COARSE Pearl Medium for PanPastels	Gesso
Maimeri Light modelling paste

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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 8th July and the winner and top 3 will be announced 

on Sunday 16th July 2017!!

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