A Place to Start - April's Challenge - ANYTHING GOES w/OPTIONAL TWIST: BLACK WHITE AND RED

Time for another great challenge at A Place to Start this month. The theme as always is Anything Goes with an Optional twist of colours of red, black and white.

This is the card I made for this challenge.

 The rubber stamp I used for the challenge is an old stamp from my stash by Stamps Happen, Inc. 

The name of the stamp is "dolly mama's" by joey, inc.

The red love paper is from my stash and I do not know the designer of the paper. I used Copics, pencil crayons, and clear Nuvo to give the shopping bag some shine and depth. 

Thank you for stopping by. Hope you will join us this month. Create your project and enter it here. Remember to pop over to our challenge blog to be inspired by our creative design team.  Have a creative month and remember my favourite saying is by Maya Angelou. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” 

APRIL 2025 - 613 Avenue Create ANYTHING GOES W/ OPTIONAL TWIST SPLASH OF COLOR

 

Time for another great challenge over at 613 Avenue Create. 

The theme of this challenge is as always Anything Goes and the Optional Twist is a splash of colour.

This is my card I made for the challenge.  

I decided to do a vase and flowers for my splash of colour. The die cut I used for this card is by Spell Binders and is called Cactus Dahlia with foliage and Ornamental Garden Pottery.

I cut out my dies from white mixed media paper then added my colours Mungvo - Professional Water Colour. I did add a couple of more plant die pieces to fill in the vase. 

I also added some markings with a white gel pen and a thin black marker. To finish the card I added some  gems, and a butterfly for colour.

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative month. Hope you will join us this month.  

Creative Artiste Challenge Blog - April's Challenge - Anything Goes Mixed media.

Welcome to another challenge at Creative Artiste. 

Our theme is always

"Anything Mixed Media Goes"

This is my project for April an altered wood canaster box.

I hope you will join us this month. 

Please make sure you use multiple mediums on your projects. 

The term “mixed media art” is a broad definition that covers many forms of arts and crafts, including collage, assemblage, altered objects, handmade greeting cards, artist trading cards (ATCs) tags and art journaling  as long as you use different mediums.

The “mixed media” used includes paint, paper, pastes, sprays, powders, textural elements, clay, resins, fabrics, found objects, photos, metal, inks, pencils, markers and pastels to name just a few.

The best thing with Mixed Media is there is no right or wrong way of doing things. There are no boundaries or rules to follow, it is all about where your creativity takes you. Mixed media can be kept simple with minimal clean lines, or as fussy and manic as you like. It's a great way to use up your scraps too, we all are guilty of keeping those little bits and pieces thinking it's too nice to just through away, even those teeny tiny off cuts of ribbon and lace.

Mixed Media is also a great way to upcycle because anything goes. Empty packaging, glass jars or bottles can be transformed. Got a pack of cards that have a few missing - turn them into little mini pieces of art. The possibilities are endless.
Make mixed media work for you, don't doubt yourself thinking you can't do this that or the other because it's might not be your style etc, just add your own twist to things.

I created my box to hold my computer cords etc where I keep my charge

cord in my kitchen. I was trying to create the box to fit in with my  1940's pottery cookie jar.

 

I purchased a set of wooden canisters box at a thrift store a few years ago. I like them to alter because they are made of good solid wood and they have a lining of plastic that can be taken out if required. They are neat to alter and can store trinket, jewelry, cookies etc ......

Old Canister

I found at a thrift store, these metal leaves and flower that I altered.

The leaves were from a bathroom shower curtain. 

The metal flower was at a local garage sale and I think it came off a necklaces. 

Shower curtain leaves and metal flower from a necklaces.

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More view of the project.

I decoupaged a large bee from a napkin to the box and used a die cut honey bee - honey comb for the background.

Side of box

Top of the box

Back of the box

My counter with the antique cookie jar and altered Bee Happy Box. 

The box was painted with Acrylic paints, distress walnut ink, some crackle paint and waxes. 

When the box was finished I sprayed it with a clear acrylic paint spray to protect the design. Thank you for stopping by and have a creative month. Hope you will join the fun this month. Remember to pop over to our challenge blog to see the projects of our design team.

Crafty Gals Corner Challenge #265 ~ Fill in the blank - Fairy Tale _____

We have another great challenge happening at Crafty Gals Corner this month. 

The theme for this challenge is: 

~ Fill in the blank - Fairy Tale _____ ~

(fairy, princess, mermaid, leprechaun, etc.)

 Our sponsors for this challenge are: 

(listed in alphabetical order)

Prize ~ 3 Digital Images

Sheepski Designs

Prize ~ 3 Digital Images

* * * * * * * * * *

This is my card for the challenge 

and I have filled in the blank with "Believe  in the magic of Fairytales". 

The beautiful image I used for my card is Luna Moon from 

Colour of Love

The produces I used to make my card along with the beautiful image of Colour of Love are:

Copics

Die Cut Flowers

Wink of Stella

Pencil Crayons

Pearl Gem

Nuvo 

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative month. Thank you to our sponsors for supporting us and generously supplying us with beautiful images. 

Join us this month. We would love to see your beautiful projects. 

Create your project and enter it here. 

Creative Artiste Challenge Blog - Anythin Mixed Media Mixed Media

  Time for another great challenge over at Creative Artiste. 

Our theme is as always 

"Anything Mixed Media Goes"

Please make sure you use multiple mediums on your projects. Please respect that we do not currently accept Instagram or Facebook entries. 

The term “mixed media art” is a broad definition that covers many forms of arts and crafts, including collage, assemblage, altered objects, handmade greeting cards, artist trading cards (ATCs) tags and art journaling  as long as you use different mediums.

The “mixed media” used includes paint, paper, pastes, sprays, powders, textural elements, clay, resins, fabrics, found objects, photos, metal, inks, pencils, markers and pastels to name just a few.

This is my March project for Creative Artiste. 

Creating my collage. 

I had started this mixed media board but did not care for it so I decided to re-think my plan and add some collage details. 

I used a combination of papers, acrylic paints, stencils, molding paste and a mixture of papers from my stash.  I love the sentiment Richelle Goodrich, it was the inspiration for the collage along with the butterflies I collected in my stash. To complete the collage I added orange cord to the sides of the frame. 

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week. Remember to pop over to our challenge blog to view the different projects of our creative design team. Hope you will join us this month.  Just create your project and enter it here. 

A Place to Start - MARCH, 2025 - ANYTHING GOES w/OPTIONAL TWIST: FAIRY TALES

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Time for another great challenge at A Place to Start.  As always the theme of the challenge is Anything Goes and the Optional this month is Fairy Tales.

This is my card I made for this challenge. 

Reach for the Stars

I purchased the last time I was at the craft store some of Tim Holtz's Distress Oxide products and used them on this project.

To create the card I used the following products:

Distress Oxide Ink pads

Distress Spritz

Distress Oxide Sprays

Prism Studio - white smooth media paper

Lavinia Fairy Stamps

Versa Fine Black Ink

Reach for the Stars rubber stamp by 

Art Impressions

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you will join our March challenge.

Remember to pop over to our challenge blog to be inspired by our talented design team.

613 AVENUE CREATE -MARCH 2025 - ANYTHING GOES W/ OPTIONAL TWIST ANY OCCASION

  

Welcome back to another great challenge at 613 Avenue Create. 

The theme of this challenge is as always anything goes and this month's twist theme is to create something with the optional twist of "any occasions". 

I chose to make a birthday card for my grandson who will be 16 this month. 

I decided to make him a card with a drum theme since he has been teaching himself to play the drums. I found this drum set on Esty and it went very well with my collage paper with a music theme I had in my stash.

Products I used in my card are:

Digital drum set by LucidDigitalDesign

Collage designer paper - designer unknown

Musical cutting dies

Wooden 16 from my stash

Cutting die - Musical Happy Birthday 

It was a fun card to make and I hope he enjoys it.

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week. Hope you will join our challenge this week.