The Sewing Room - Anything Goes at PanPastel UK

Today we have an open challenge for you at PanPastel UK and anything goes.

I have used a size 10 tag this week and had in mind the challenge at Simon Says Stamp and Show which is the letter 'S'. It just had to be my favourite theme - Sewing, but I also included some Stamping and I used the Sewing machine.

I used my most favourite sewing stamps which come from PaperArtsy and PanPastels for the background. I sewed round the edge of the tag using white thread then rubbed it over with the pans to match the colour of the background. The dress form image was stamped with versamark and coloured with the pans.

The sewing room frame was stamped in coffee archival onto fabric.

Smaller images stamped in coffee archival onto card I had left over from another project that had the wrinkle free distress technique on it.

Some small embellishments and we are done.

I hope your Sunday is going well, enjoy the rest of the weekend.

hugs {brenda} x0x

Tag It at PanPastel UK and Reverse Masking

Its been an extremely busy weekend post wise with two yesterday and again two today, I would love you to take a look at the previous ones if you have time. My vintage cabinet card album and tutorial, shabby chic configuration style box and tag card.

So Welcome to my second post today which is for PanPastel UK and the theme for the challenge this week is ‘Tag It’. I have made two tags and a tutorial for you (I hope you enjoyed yesterday’s one) which demonstrates one way of using PanPastels to create a reverse image when using a mask.

My tags started off brilliantly for this theme, but half way through I was thwarted at every turn. Let me explain.

I made 2 tags to show how you can create the positive and negative images using a mask with PanPastels (See video tutorial below for the explanation to get to this point.) Because I had used pans through the dotty mask I needed to seal it so I could continue working on it. The only problem was I had also stamped with black archival ink and look what happened.

The ink bled. The tin doesn’t tell me what is in it (it is soooo old) but there must be some acetone or similar to do this. So the question was do I start again or do I try to retrieve the situation. Always a problem solver I set about making changes to the tags by first giving a light wash of gesso. But this wasn’t strong enough so I coated the text areas with white acrylic paint. The writing still showed through so I then decided to add picket fence crackle paint, Guess what?

Yep all the crackle flaked and fell off. Still not to be outdone, I gave those areas three coats of acrylic paint (learnt this in Andy’s class) and covered it again with the crackle paint.

Ah that’s better, most of it stayed on this time. So I set about adding the elements to finish them off and actually I am quite pleased with the outcomes. Not what I had expected, but then I never finish with what was in my head originally lol.

Here is the tutorial if you would like to try the reverse masking technique I have devised. Have fun.

I believe you learn from your mistakes as well as your successes, so I hope you have learnt something from my experiments. I certainly did.

Supplies -
PanPastels, Gesso and masks from Your Creativity Store who are our regular sponsor
Sizzix vintage mini telephone and typewriter dies.
Ideaology and tissue tape.
Tim Holtz crackle paint
Fixative

Well it's been a busy week getting four posts ready for this weekend but I hope you have enjoyed some of them. Thanks for taking the time to join me. I will be off in about an hour to the Craft Barn again and Lucy (True Colours) is coming with me. It was lovely to meet up with Julia (Julia's Stuff) and Alison (CraftyTrog) on Friday and I hopefully will see them again today. I also had a lady called Glennis introduce herself to me who is one of my followers who has come all the way over from New Zealand, that was an amazing experience, I might see her again today too. And then there was the lovely Gio all the way from Italy. She is demoing so I will definitely stop by her table.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend whatever you have planned.

hugs {brenda} x0x

Bling it at PanPastel UK

Good morning and happy Sunday, hope it's a good one for you. This is the first of two scheduled posts today as I am off to The Stamp Attic for an Andy Skinner workshop finishing off the techniques book we hadn't got made. Later pop back to see the first of my May tags for Tim's tags for 2013.

Today at PanPastel UK we have a new theme and want you to show us some bling.

I created the background very simply by running some white card through an embossing folder and blending PanPastels over the top, it picks out the design so easily. I used Burnt Sienna Tint and a little Raw Umber.

I gathered together some simple papers and embellishments to create the focal point.

The frame was covered with distress stickles dry glitter and then I rubbed raw umber PanPastel over the top. The sentiment is one of the Tim Holtz remnant rubs.

I will be back later with my second of Tim's tags of 2013 entries. See you then.

hugs {brenda} x0x

New Beginnings at PanPastel UK

Where are the weeks going?  We are more than half way through May and after a prolonged winter, we now have the plants flowering and some bedding in our pots and baskets, but still very little sunshine  It's one of my most favourite times of the year and as the new challenge at PanPastel UK  is 'New Beginnings' I have interpreted that as the time for planting out and beginning new perennials and crops in the garden.

These little seed packets were die-cut using an old spellbinders die and PPs used to colour them in.

The caddy box is a Sizzix die, cut in chipboard and coloured and stamped over Maimeri gesso with PPs.

Some die-cut letters and coloured flowers finish it off.

Your Creativity Store is our regular sponsor and will provide a PanPastel starter set as the winner's prize.

Have a wonderful Sunday and hopefully some creative time for yourself.

Take care.

hugs {brenda} x0x

In the Pink at PanPastel Uk

Time for a new challenge at PanPastel UK and this week's theme is 'In the Pink', and I have made a very simple pink birthday card for today.

I used a Stampin' Up stamp with EP and PP for the central panel, embossing the side panels with a spotty EF and again covering with PPs.

The little banner was made by cutting triangles from DP.

The trim of roses adds a feminine touch.

Your Creativity Store is our regular sponsor and will provide a PanPastel starter set as the winner's prize.

Have a wonderful Sunday and hopefully some creative time for yourself. I am still away on holiday at the moment.

Take care.

hugs {brenda} x0x

Do you believe in fairies?

Another week has past by and I am in California, away on a break staying with friends near Los Angeles where we have been experiencing some high temperatures in the 90s.

So time for a new challenge at PanPastel UK and this week's theme is 'Fairyland', I have altered a frame using some PanPastel colours, gesso and Maimeri light modelling paste all available from Your Creativity Store who is our regular sponsor and will provide a PanPastel starter set as the winner's prize.

The dragonfly has been embossed using black EP and I have added some tiny beads and picket fence crackle paint over the modelling paste.

Have a wonderful Sunday and hopefully some creative time for yourself.

Take care.

hugs {brenda} x0x

Daydreaming

Time for a new challenge at PanPastel UK and this week's theme is 'Dreams' which I have converted to 'Daydreaming '. This is my card.

The image has been downloaded and coloured with the PPs and the cabinet card has a new PP technique I have come up with which I have called 'Cracked Glaze'.

I love the DP design which has come from a DCWV pack called The Tradewinds Stack.

Your Creativity Store is our regular sponsor and will provide a PanPastel starter set as the winner's prize.

Have a wonderful Sunday and hopefully some creative time for yourself.

Take care.

hugs {brenda} x0x

Quintessentially English

Time for a new challenge at PanPastel UK and this week's theme is 'Red, White and Blue', so I have gone for a London themed canvas board.

I started by cutting chipboard to size and covering it with artist canvas, painted it with Maimeri gesso and left it to dry thoroughly.

I stamped Indigo Blu images onto tissue paper and added, gave it a blast of heat and then covered with a thin coat of gesso. Using a variety of London themed stamps I coloured them up using PPs and adhered them to the board and then added some blue PP to Tim Holtz picket fence distress crackle paint and used a palette knife to add it to the edges.

Once dry I added more gesso using a credit card  and through some masks, finishing with some doodles.

I loved making this piece and I will certainly be experimenting with making more canvas boards to create mixed media projects.

Your Creativity Store is our regular sponsor and will provide a PanPastel starter set as the winner's prize.

Have a wonderful Sunday and hopefully some creative time for yourself.

Take care.

hugs {brenda} x0x

Brads, Buttons and Bows

Another week has flown past and we have challenge number 15 for this year at PanPastel UK, which is sponsored by Your Creativity Store.

With brads, buttons and bows I just knew I had to do a sewing themed card and I have used PaperArtsy stamps.

I have another fabulous way of making a background with the pans but am in the process of making the tutorial, I promise it will come soon (I hope).

All the colouring has been done with various PanPastels, I only used ink for the stamping and edging the cut-outs.

Sorry I won't be around today till later, off to Ally Pally to catch up with some friends, some of whom I met up with yesterday, and to see what's on show. You know I will come back with some bits though don't you?

Happy Sunday.

hugs {brenda} x0x

Use a stamped image at PanPastel UK

Another week flown by and a new challenge announced over at PanPastel UK. 

What stamps are you using this week? I have used Artistic Outpost stamps for my focal image and sentiment.

This is a large size 10 tag blended with PPs. I scraped some onto my craft mat and used them for the wrinkle free distress technique, stamping over with archival ink and sealing with fixative spray.

The mill was stamped onto card also blended with PPs and  'watercoloured' using PPs mixed with water, highlighting with black and white pens, When it was dry I used a palette knife to scrape rock candy crackle paint over it, mounting onto Tim Holtz kraft resist paper blended with DI.

Before I crackled the main image I scanned it and printed it cutting small portions to fill the picture wheel and covered these with glossy accents. Using a TH stamp and picket fence DS I stamped over the wheel and blended walnut stain DI round the edges.

The small tags were blended with DIs and the quote added then stapled together.

Supplies

Stamps - Artistic Outpost - Old Grist Mill and Think and Wonder

            - Ultimate Grunge - Stampers Anonymous

PanPastels - various browns, greens and yellows

Picture Wheel die

Size 10 tag

Kraft resist paper stash

Those who enter the challenge stand a chance of winning a trial set of PanPastels from Berni our fabulous sponsor at Your Creativity Store.

Happy Sunday and thank you for visiting today.

hugs {brenda} x0x

Challenges to have fun with -
Artistic Outpost Referral Programme - Anything Goes with AO stamps

Anything Goes at PanPastel UK

Happy Easter fellow bloggers, I hope you are having a wonderful weekend filled with family and chocolate lol.

At PanPastel UK today we have an anything goes theme so show us anything you are working on this week and you don't have to use PanPastels to enter.

My DT piece is an Easter greeting to you all wishing you peace and love at this special time of year.

The main image is from Craft Individuals stamped over blended PPs with a layer of rock candy crackle paint around the edges. When dry the crackles were blended over with brown PP to help them show up more. The focal image has been layered onto a piece of Tim Holtz paper which has been dipped into biscotti perfect pearls mist into which I added some clear embossing powder so that when it was heated between dips it added some gritty texture as well. (Too difficult to see on this piece).

The eggs embellishment was made by adding some suze wienburg utee dyes to utee on a heat mat and heating it until it is a liquid form. I had prepared some little containers with some panpastels scraped from around the edge of the container and sprinkled these over the molten utee and heated it all again then stamping into it with a Stampin Up stamp of eggs. When cool I smeared treasure gold over it and painted the back with white acrylic paint to make the eggs stand out more.

The wire represents the hen coop with sunny ribbon and red flowers to match the blend of colours in the image.

We have an Easter egg hunt in the garden today, the girls look forward to it every year, they think it's great fun.

Have a wonderful day yourselves.

hugs {brenda} x0x