Craft Your Favourite Memory - Trip to France

 A Place to Start has another great challenge this month.  The theme of the challenge is Craft your favourite memory. 

This is my card I made for the challenge. One of my most favourite memories is when my husband took me to France and I celebrated my 60th birthday at the Paris Flea Market. We had a wonderful time.

I decided to make a collage to remember that special day.

To make the card  I used:

Designer paper

Rubber Stamps from my stash : Sentiment , Fleur, 

Eiffel Tower, hearts, plane, number stamps

Letters from the dollar store

Wink of Stella

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I am entering this card in the following challenges

Penny's Paper Challenge - AG 

Creative Knockouts - AG 

A Bit More Time to Craft - AG

A Perfect Time to Craft - AG 

Love to Craft - AG

Polkadoodles - AG

Creative Fingers - AG 

Crazy catz - AG 

Classic Design - AG 

Crafts Galore Encore - AG

Magical Batty Possum - Happy Halloween.

Time for another great challenge over at Crafty Gals Corner, the theme this challenge is :

Halloween Colours

Our sponsors for this challenge are: 

(in alphabetical order)

                    

 Colour of Love

Prize ~ 3 Digital Images 

Crafty Sentiments Designs

Prize ~ 3 Digital Images

Stamper's Delights

Prize ~ 3 Single Digital Images

This is my card I made for the challenge  using a digi from Colour of Love called Magical Batty Possum. 

To create my card I used some designer paper from my stash in Halloween colours along with an assortments of Halloween findings. The image was coloured with copic markers, pencil crayons and several different  Nuvo Products.

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Purely Handmade Challenge over at A Place to Start

This weeks challenge over at A Place to Start is called Purely Hand Made. 

The Twist for this challenge is:

No electronic die-cuts(i.e. Silhouette, Cricut, etc). Fussy cutting and manual cutting only! (i.e., Sizzix Big Shot, etc.)

At least one stamped image.

No pre-colored digitals and no digital papers.

Embellishments are okay, but they cannot be the main focus of the design.  Twine, buttons, sequins, etc., are all okay

This is my project for this challenge.

I have a lot of paint pour canvas from when I was practicing paint pouring and thought I would be fun to use one for my project this week. Paint pouring is fun but I am very slow on mastering the process. 

Here are some closer looks to the canvas. 

I added a Tim Holtz sentiment to the canvas.

then I added some splashes of black Ink and some hanging hearts that I hand drew on the canvas with a  Sharpie.  The hearts were coloured with a Posta Pen.

I also added some floating stars coloured also with a Posta Pen. My Last step was to add some doodling. 

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Ahoy, Matey! Anything Goes Challenge - Challenge # 10

 Anything Goes is the theme of this month's challenge over at 613 Avenue  Create.  I decided to make a card this month without using my Copic Markers. 

My pencil crayon and PanPastels had not been out of my cupboard for quite awhile.

The image I am using is one by Fabrika Fantasy called Pirate Parrot #1 .  The background I created with PanPastels and an old  rubber stamp called Stoneware Texture.  The image was coloured with Prima Color Pencil Crayons and mineral oil.

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Creative Artiste October Challenge - Mermaid Mannequin

 Time for another great challenge over at Creative Artiste this month. 

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 accept Instagram 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 project for October, an altered Mannequin. 

I found this mannequin at our local thrift store, Restore.  What a bargain for $10.00!

 

The Mannequin  is very solid and my hubby is going to make a lamp out of it for me. It weighs about 15 pounds (7 kilo) and the metal post supporting, runs through the bust it is hollow so we could run electrical wire through it. The platform is on also is hollow.  

Here are some more view of the project.

I used a combination of real shells, plaster shells and starfish, findings,  faux pearls.  The collage is painted with Pentart's Paints to give an antique effect.

Closer look at the front. of the dress. 

  The top design is a old necklace that I took apart and attached upside down.

I liked the faux large pearl on the necklace.

This is the back of the mannequin, 

I added crackling paste to the skin portion of the bust then added a purple colour and then a layer of portrait  paint over top.

I added a seahorse that I antiqued to the back of the bust.  I used a Tim Holtz chunky embossing powder and  stain to antique the seahorse. 

Altered dry star fish. 

The star fish I purchased at a tourist place in New Brunswick on a holiday years ago.  I added paint to them and attached them to the base.  

Altered Porpoise

I found this little porpoise in my stash.  I antiques it and added it to the mermaid's shoulder. 

Products I used for the project are:

White Gesso

Shells

Ceramic Shells

Pieces of Jewelry

Faux Jewels and Pearls 

Stampendous Chunky Metal Embossing Powder

Buzz light Portrait Pink Acrylic Paint

Amsterdam Violet  Acrylic Paint

Kroma Crackle Paint

Pentart Gold Metallic Wax

Pentart Rust Effect

Pentart Patina  Effect

Tim Holtz Dark Brown Stain. 

This was a fun project.  Hope you will join us this month.  Pop over to our challenge blog and be inspired by our talented design team. 

I am entering my project in the follwing challenges:

More Mixed Media Challenge - Anything Mixed Media Goes

We Love to Create - Anything goes Mixed media

Love to Craft - Anything Goes

Mix It Up - Anything Goes Mixed Media