Red, Pink & White

Yes, that does say PINK in the title!!!  Over at Stampotique this week, they have a colour challenge, red, pink and white.  As you can imagine, I don't have much pink but I decided to experiment with what I did have.  This postcard is a blend of magenta and permanent red pan pastels. I used a stencil and an eraser to rub out random circles to reveal the white.  I stamped Daniels hearts in white and then went over them again with a white posca pen.  I stamped Heart Throb onto a separate piece of card, coloured him in with a range of pinks and reds from the distress marker set.  Gave him a crown and some sparkly gems.

I sprayed a blob of dylusions fuschia ink onto the tag and let it drip.  Stamped the string of hearts in blaze red stazon down the left and a swirl bottom right.  The main image, newt with lunch box, was stamped separately and coloured with distress marker pens.

I used raspberry pickle distress stain on these two tags as I swiped it across one, spritzed it with water and placed the second one on top of it and squished them together.  I stamped Daniels hearts in blaze red stazon.  Heart boy was stamped separately and again coloured with distress markers.

And finally I stamped the bla, bla, bla and the splatters with red stazon.  Daniel's tree topper (scary Mary) was stamped on a separate piece of card and coloured with distress ink markers.  She didn't get a crown!!

Over at Simon Says Stamp they have a theme of 'have a heart' so been as though every one of these pieces has a heart, I'm entering over there too!!!

Happy Daze have a theme of 'love is all around' for this months challenge, so I'm entering over there as well!!

Fun with Faces

Wow, I can't believe that I've not seen this challenge site before, Fun with ATCs.  It was brought to my attention by Butterfly aka Alison - thanks Alison xxx

Their challenges run for 2 weeks and this week their theme is Faces, so I decided to join in.  The background is orange pan pastel (280.5) and I used a rubber to take some colour off her face, head dress and the flowers. Added a gem, ribbon and a charm.

Travelling Postcard

Over at Out of a hat creations this week they are asking for a travel postcard.  I couldn't decide where I wanted to travel to, but anywhere is better than this wet and humid UK weather we are experiencing at the moment.  So I went for a collage of places.  I stamped the main image in perfect medium and coloured it with burnt sienna shade (740.3) pan pastel.  I used an eraser to take out some of the colour.


For the background I used the Crafter's Workshop numbers collage stencil with red iron oxide (380.5), yellow ochre (270.5) and orange shade (280.3) pan pastels. I stamped the Kaisercraft timeless, postcards stamp in black stazon.


Finally I 3d foam mounted the collaged panel onto the background.

Card for a Friend

This week over at the PanPastel Uk challenge they have the theme of summertime.  I started by covering the background with orange (280.5) and bright yellow green (680.5).  I stamped the Stampendous rose plate twice and erased the colour from the flower heads.  I then gave it a quick spray of fixative.  I then took one of the tools and carefully coloured the roses in with permanent red (340.5) and the leaves with permanent green (640.5) and gave it another spray of fixative.  Finally I added the red buttons.


As I have used buttons again, I am also entering this card into Out of a hat creations challenge whose theme this week is buttons.


A friend of mine was knocked over by a hit and run driver last week, so I am sending this card on to her but haven't found the right sentiment yet.

Twins

The theme for the new Stampotique challenge is 'twins' ie you have to use the same stamp twice.  As you can see, I chose to use the tree.  The words are computer generated as you can only use Stampotique stamps in your creation.  All colours are pan pastels.

Time Tag

Another pan pastel tag, this time in colours in my comfort zone.  I stamped the Hero Arts tag stamp onto a larger tag.  Coloured the whole of the tag in various colours of pan pastels.  I took all the colour of the clock out with an eraser and randomly took some off the sides to reveal more of the map.  To create the swirls at the top and bottom, I stamped versa mark directly onto the Crafters Workshop swirls template and pressed it onto the tag.  I swept over it with Permanent Red Extra Dark (340.1) pan pastel.  To soften the edges I used an eraser all the way round, added an eyelet and fibres.

AJC #22

This months Art Journey Challenge is Summer as chosen by Anneke.*  I did buy a few AJ stamp plates a few weeks ago but none of them are relevant to summer so I had to revert back to my old faithfuls!!!  The background was created with pan pastels and various background stamps.  The main image is an AJ stamp from the Precious Moments plate.  I edged it with the summer word stamp from the Words plate.  I added eyelets and a piece of wool/fibre to hang.

This is a snippet of the main image as I used an eraser to remove the colour on their t-shirts.

*Edited - sorry it's not Anneke who chose the theme this month, it was Willy. It's Anneke's turn next month!!

Dad Card

I stamped the image in black stazon, coloured it with Ultramarine Blue Extra Dark (520.1) pan pastel and removed the colour from the car with an eraser.  Unfortunately, due to the rain and grey skies it's quite difficult to see.

So I did an auto correct and it shows up much better. 

Remember this card background from a previous post, well I've added the topper and the letters 'dad', for a card for fathers day.  Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge this week is 'one for the boys' so I am entering this card.

More Pan Pastels!!

Been having another little play this afternoon with black card, my stencils and pan pastels.  This is the Crafters Workshop harlequin template with Neutral Grey Tint (820.8) coloured through all the diamonds.  I then picked up some Turquoise Shade (580.3) and randomly coloured over the grey.  

This stencil is from Imagination Crafts and is called wild flowers.  The flowers are coloured with Orange Shade (280.3) and Yellow Ochre (270.5) and the stems Bright/Yellow Green Extra Dark (680.1) and Permanent Green (640.5).  the dragonflies are a mixture of Magenta (430.5), Turquoise Shade (580.3) and Neutral Grey Tint (820.8).

**The rubber / eraser works just the same on black card**

Pan Pastels, Stamping & Erasing

I blended the Permanent Red (340.5) and the Permanent Green (640.5) pan pastels to make the background.  Stamped my new Stampendous stamp 'Ranunculus Field' in black archival ink and took my rubber/eraser to the leaves and the flower heads.

Pan Pastels & Stencils

Well here are some of my pan pastel and stencil efforts using the stencils I got at the craft show last weekend.  This is the Crafters Workshop stencil, 'burst', used with pan pastels Neutral Grey Tint (820.8), Turquoise Shade (580.3) and Ultramarine Blue Extra Dark (520.1).

I used two stencils for this one, the background is 'cubist' using pan pastel Turquoise Shade (580.3).  The foreground stencil is made by Imagination Crafts and is called 'Butterfly & Daisy'.  For the flowers I used Permanent Red (340.5) and Permanent Green (640.5).  The butterfly colours are Violet Shade (470.3) and Magenta (430.5).

This is a Crafters Workshop Balzer Designs stencil, 'Mini Flower Frame'.  Before I used the stencil I covered the whole of the card with Yellow Ochre (270.5).  I used Permanent Red (340.5) for the petals and Orange Shade (280.3) for the centres.  I then took a rubber (eraser) and lifted off some of the pastel.  

**A tip, if you are going to use a rubber, make sure you clean it off every time you rub it into the pastel or the colour you take off will transfer**