My shining star

My shining star

Sunday 8 December 2013

Pan pastels Challenge: Paper

Good Morning Lovelies! How are you? Well I hope! If not hope you feel better soon! We're all good. We managed to see santa yesterday - not quite the magical experience I was hoping for - but the girls were happy and thats all that matters. The girls are excited today- they're at a jujitsu grading this morning - Lucy is going for green belt and Penny for orange belt. Fingers crossed it all goes well.

I'm here to show you what I did for the pan pastel (premium brands) challenge this week.  This week is all about paper/card - you need to ONLY use paper/card substrate in your project. This means EVERYTHING must be paper/card, ie even embellies! Now when I looked at this I thought immediately that a card would be the easiest route to take - but I didn't want to do that - I fancied trying my hand at one of those paper trees I'd seen around blogland so here's the result of my labours:




This was made using three sheets of A3 white card. I coloured two with pan pastels - (purple and green), set with crafters companion sparkle and shine silver - then cut into strips and stamped with a snowflake stamp in versamark - and heat set with sparkling silver WOW powders. The third sheet of card I rolled into a cone. Then I set about assembling my tree by cutting each paper strip into three and folding loosely and attaching to the cone with brads. Finally I cut a star in silver mirri and attached to the top of the tree.

I'd like to enter this tree into the following challenges:

Crafty Calender Challengescraftycalendarchallenge: Cold and frosty
AGOACpinkgemchallengeblog: AG
Alicraftali-craft: Christmas
TPCtotallypapercrafts: Anything Christmassy but a card
Winter wonderlandchristmasblogchallenge: Embossing
C.R.A.F.Ttrimmiescraftchallenge : Christmas
PCJpaper-craftingjourney: Christmas

I'll be back again later with a another trishutter card for Craft a scene - thanks for dropping in now and hope to see you again soon!

Big Hugs

Rachel x

20 comments:

  1. This is gorgeous Rachel, such a fabulous design and beautiful colours.
    Good luck to Lucy and Penny for their jujitsu grading.
    I hope you have a good day.
    hugs Sue xx

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  2. Fabulous tree Rachel I bet it looks real sparkly in real life! Good luck to your girls today! Susan x

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  3. Brilliant Rachel, looks a lot of work gone into it. See you later

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  4. Fab tree Rachel and love the shimmery look to it. Lou x

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  5. I love your tree Rachel, as you say it would have ben easier to go down the card route.

    Sue x

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  6. Gosh Rachel, so much work but what a fantastic result. I love your sparkly tree! Best of luck to the girls, I bet they do really well. Hugs, Anne x

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  7. Beautiful tree, love the color you used!

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  8. What a great project, very clever but very time consuming I bet! Good luck to Penny and Lucy, I'm sure they will do well. Hugs Jennifer xx

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  9. WOW!!! I've not seen one of these before Rachel - it; fabulous - well done huni xx

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  10. Brilliant tree worth the effort
    carol x

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  11. Fabulous make Rachel, love the wow powder on it. hugs kate x

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  12. Wow Rache, this is gorgeous. I love it. It must have took some patience. xxx

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  13. Hi Rachel, what a fab project. Such a creative idea and the finished result is stunning. Great interpretation of this weeks challenge
    Claire xx

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  14. Wow what a great little tree! Thanks for taking part in our 'Christmas' challenge this month over at Ali-Craft, hugs Heidi x

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  15. A great project Rachel. Love the colours.
    Mags
    x

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  16. wow gorgeous embossing and a great entry to our Winter Wonderland Challenge
    Hugs Kate xx
    PS I have new candy if you are interested :)

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  17. Loving this tree it's fabulous xx

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  18. Wow wow wow absolutely gorgeous amazing paper tree. I have bought some pan pastels so hopefully going to start playing in the new year. :-) Kezzy xxx

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  19. Hi racheel this is fab and thanks for sharing at craft hope your nearly ready for christmas now

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  20. Fabulous tree. Thank you for joining us at Winter Wonderland this week. x

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