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Welcome to my crafting blog. After retirement, my husband and I moved to a beautiful location in the Okanagan area of British Columbia. I love all paper crafts including mixed media, journaling and cards. I also dabble in papermaking, photography, fibre art, and altered books. I am an active member of several card and mixed media groups and on the design team of several challenge blog. I love the world of blogging, it has opened many doors for me. 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. Thanks for stopping by!

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Friday, August 4, 2023

Creative Artiste - Anything Mixed Media

 We have another great challenge happening over at Creative Artiste, as always the Challenge is anything goes mixed media. 

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 August, a page for my art journal book.


To create my page I used a sheet from a package of designer paper by LTB  
The owl is part of a napkin that I purchased over at Ninny's Napkins, the napkin is called barn owl. I think he is very cute.


1. added a wash to my designer paper from the LTD Collection with a light coat of gesso
2. added more colour to the page with Pan Pastels
3. added the owl using a gloss medium and high lighted the parts of the owl with acrylic paint to make it stand out
4. the moths and butterflies were from some Tim Holts tissue paper which I also coloured with Pan Pastels
5. the moon is a cut out of the designer paper and Pan Pastels were used to give it a yellow glow
the sentiment was created on the computer and added to the project

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


4 comments:

  1. Oh what a sweet journal page Judy, I too adore that barn owl fabulous soulful eyes. A wonderful mix of collage and mark making, I'm so glad you introduced the pan pastels too... such a forgotten medium. A very pretty spread with a very quirky quote.
    Happy August crafting Hugs Tracey xx

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  2. That barn owl is seriously cute, Judy! Love your thoughtful use of colors, especially on the owl. Beautiful journal page.

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  3. What a lovely page - that owl is a real find and a great way to save him in a journal page.

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  4. What a beautiful page you have here Judy. That owl really is a hoot! Love how you have pieced everything together so perfectly.

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