The Great Outdoors over at PanPastel, and a SALE!

Hiya gang, today sees the start of a new challenge over at the PanPastel Challenge blog, the theme is The Great Outdoors-plenty of scope there!

The prize is a starter set of PanPastel with tools, what a great way to try them out for yourself. 

Also there is some special offers on PanPastels at Your Creativity Store, and if thats not enough, there is also FREE P & P!

Anyway, here is my card for the challenge

I have used some of my Claritystamps, including the mega-useful Silhuette Trees from todays Create & Craft shows.

I used PanPastels on a couple of my other tv cards too, they are so easy to use, I think im nearly ready to review them properly, so watch this space...

Have a great Sunday, dont forget to join Barbara and Martyn for more Clarity shows this afternoon.

Frosty & Bright with Clarity and PanPastel.

Good morning, I must confess its actually Saturday night as I write, but when this goes live guess where I will be- yes exactly, In bed hopefully still asleep!

My card today is for a guest slot on the PanPastel Challenge blog.

You dont need to use PanPastels to enter the challenges so head on over and have a look.

The theme this week is Frosty & Bright.

I used 3 shades of PanPastel to blend the background/sky. 

Then using Black Adirondack ink I stamped my Spruce trees, Sentiment and mini Santa sleigh, all from Claritystamp.

Thats the 'bright' sorted, for the 'frosty' I used a white pen to add some frost/snow to the trees.

Thanks for stopping by, see you soon!

A forgotten Maggy

Hello folks, happy Tuesday and all that jazz. 

I am still trying to finish my 'sort out' its a massive job that doesnt seem to end. It does have its compensations though, I found a couple more images I coloured in ages ago, so I thought they should be used up.

This is one of my fave Magnolia images. I just needed to die-cut her and edge with Violet PanPastel.

The paper is from Papermania. The sentiment stamp is Lili of the Valley. Cutting die is a Spellbinder.

I coloured with PM's. Can you see how soft the PanPastel effect is, I use these a lot now instead of inkpads for edging, so easy.

Thats it for today, see you soon.

Coloured with PanPastels

As promised here is the card I made yesterday using PanPastels to colour the image.

I decided I wanted to try these wet with a brush to see if you can colour a stamped image, I was looking for my Sansador but it was downstairs, so laziness kicked in and I decided to use baby oil, went to the bathroom cabinet and there was none,so still being lazy I decided to try Avon SSS bath oil- I was only gonna play to see if it worked so stop laughing, I can hear you!

Anyway, this is the result of my first attempt, not too bad me thinks.

I used turquiose, burnt sienna, black, yellow to mix the colours.

I shaded the edges with turquois and a sponge while still in the cutting die, much easier to blend than ink.

For more ideas on how to use PanPastels have a look at Kerry's blog and there is also a new challenge blog.

Thanks for looking, see you soon.