Crafty Gals Corner - Challenge 245 - Christmas in July

Time for another great challenge at Crafty Gals Corner this month and the challenge is to create a project with the theme of Christmas in July. 

Our sponsor for this challenge is: 

Conie Fong

Prize ~ 3 Single Digis

Conie Fong is a self-taught artist residing in California, USA with her husband, daughter, pet hamster and fishes.  In her early childhood years, she was inspired by every kind of art and crafts.  She loved watching demonstrations by artists on the streets and at festivals and spent most of her free time perusing arts and crafts books in the library, drawing, crafting and experimenting with her art supplies at home.  Conie first started sharing her art with the world by selling ACEO reprints of her ACEO paintings of fairies, mermaids, and kitty art on Ebay in 2010.  She was a full time account manager for a University before becoming a full time mom and part time artist.  She currently enjoys spending time with her family traveling, exploring the outdoors, and designing beautiful, cute, and magical art for craft and coloring lovers. 

Conie offers our team and crafters who view the CGC blog 25% discount during our sponsored month - the code is JULYSPONSOR25.

This is my card I created for the challenge using 

Puurfect Kitties

using the bendy fold

 I just love this kitties image. It will makes such a cute Christmas card for one of my grandchildren. To make the card I followed one of the you tube videos and adjusted the size to accommodate my design. 

The images were coloured with Copics, pencil crayon, gel pen, and Wink of Stella.  I used scraps from my Christmas designer papers for the card also and a Christmas tree and stars die cut for the trees.

Hope you will join our Christmas in July challenge this month. check out our challenge blog to be inspired by our talented design team. Have a creative week.  Thank you for stopping by. 

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

A Perfect Time To Craft Open Challenge: July #7-2023 – Anything Goes
Classic Design Challenge: July #7 – Anything Goes
Jan’s Digi Stamps Challenges: July Anything Goes

Creative Artiste Challenge July, Anything Goes as long as it is Mixed Media.

Time for another great challenge over at Creative Artiste. 

Our theme is 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. Only correctly linked blog entries please. 

This is my project for this months challenge, an altered jug. 

The products I used to create my mixed media jug (vase) are

acrylic paints
gesso
metal findings from my search of local thrift stores
gesso

stencil

various Tim Holts distressed inks

gold wax

Other views

I do not have a picture of the bottle before I started the project, I forgot to take one. 

 Side Views

with my feather bouquet

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week.  Remember to pop over to our challenge blog to be inspired by our talented design team. My favourite quote is by Maya Angelou. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” I hope you join me in my search for my creative side. 

I am entering this project in the following challenges

Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes

A Place to Start - July 2023 - Anything Goes/Optional Twist - Lifes a Beach

Time for another great challenge over at A Place to Start.  The theme of the challenge is Anything Goes and the Optional twist is Life a Beach. 

I used a rubber stamp by Whimsy called Serenity for my card. I coloured my card with my copics and pencil crayons. I also added some sand pipers to my scene using a sandpiper stamp from my stash. Thank you for stopping by and have a creative month.  Hope you will join our challenge.  Remember to pop over to our challenge blog to be inspired by our talented design team.

I am entering this card in the following challenges

Crafty Addicts - Anything Goes

A Perfect Time To Craft Open Challenge: July #7-2023 – Anything Goes

Classic Design Challenge: July #7 – Anything Goes

Jan’s Digi Stamps Challenges: July Anything  Goes

613 Avenue Create -JULY 2023 - ANYTHING GOES w/Optional Twist: Nautical

 Time for another  great challenge at 613 Avenue Create. As always the theme of the challenge is anything goes and the optional twist is Nautical (boats, sand, water, beach houses, etc) Perfect challenge for this summer season.

I have used a stamp and die set by Stampenous called Sailboats to create my scene. I used a combination of water colours, copics, trees by Tim Holtz. The birds are part of an unmounted stamps that at this time I do not remember the companies name who made it. 

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week.  Hope you will join us  in this challenge.  Remember to pop  ove to  our challenge blog to be inspired by our talented design team.