A Place to Start - Anything Goes Challenge - Optional Twist Sentiments of Thanks

 Time for another great challenge over at A Place to Start. The of November's challenge as always is Anything Goes and the optional twist is to used a Thankful sentiment

inside of card

This is the thankful card I made for this challenge. The face of the card is made using a die cut for the flower from my stash, along with a background made with alcohol ink on Yupo paper. I added a fence and a stamped thank you sentiment to finish the front of the card. 

For the inside of the card I used a digital Thank You sentiment from my stash along with a few die cut flowers that I  used on the front of the card. 

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative month. I hope you will join us this month, just create your project and enter it here.

613 Avenue Create - November Challenge - Anything Goes with an optional Twist Challenge " Give Thanks"

Time for another exciting challenge over at 613 Avenue Create. This challenge is as always anything goes with an optional twist of Give Thanks. 

I decided to use the optional twist for this simple thank you card.

I used some designer paper from my stash for the background of the card along with a rainbow digital stamp that I coloured with my copics and a Wink of Stella. I added some some hearts and a couple of clouds at the end of my rainbow. 

When I wrote the sentiment I was thinking about a very special friend I have that is always there for me when ever I ask for advice or need a friend to talk to. We have had many laughs and tears together over our long years of friendship. 

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative month. Hope you will join the challenge this month, just create your project and enter it here. 

Creative Artiste - November Challenge - Anything Goes 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 month I created a wall hanging using pictures of my 6 weeks summer holiday  trip to the north. My husband and I travelled with our trailer and our old dog to Northern British Columbia, the Yukon and the Northwest territories. We went north  to Tuktoyaktuk, the most village in North America.   I took about 600 pictures but had problems with my camera and getting the pictures off the phone. 

This is my Project

I used 3 books for the project which I added my mixed media paints, crackle paint, inks, my photographs from the trip, tourist maps and brochures from different tourism places.

The smallest book contains my notes for the trip, places we went, dates, the price of camping, where we camped and food and gas prices. I made this first book a few months before the trip and it was one of my summer blog projects. 

I made the next two books in the wall hanging when we returned from our trip, one book contains photographs of some of our favourite places we visited and the other book are collages of the tourist pamphlets we gathered along the way. In both books I added notes of stories on our trip along the way. I used a belt from the thrift store to hang the books from and E6000 to attach the books to the belt. 

Some pictures from the Road Trip book (collages made from the tourist info we collected)

Some pictures from our trip ( we took over 500 pictures)

When we arrived at the Arctic Circle

When Glen, I and Lacey arriving at the Arctic Ocean

This was the picture that my inspired me to try and make an the off the wall hanging. The artist was Beryl Taylor.

I found the idea in the Winter 2006 addition of Cloth Paper Scissors. 

This is still a work in progress wall hanging. Every time I thing I am finished another idea pops into my head.

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