A Place to Start - SEPTEMBER, 2025 - ANYTHING GOES w/OPTIONAL TWIST: LEAVES AND CIRCLES

 Time for another great challenge over at A Place to Start. The theme of the challenge is as always anything goes with an optional twist of leaves and circles. 

I love the colours of the autumn season.  This is the card I made for this challenge. 

To create my card I used car stock in moss green from my stash.  The circle designed stamp I used for the background is a Stamping Up Stamp I have had in my stash for a ver long time. The background letters are from a scrap designer paper from Tim Holtz. 

I cut the circles with a circle die cut and added leaves cutting dies by Time Holtz . I also used a Stamping Up textured stamp for the background of the circles. 

I also used Distressed walnut ink and a Posta Pen on the card. The Autumn sentiment is by Hero Arts. 

Hope you enjoyed my card and you will join us this month.  Pop over to our challenge blog to be inspired by our talented design team.  

August Challenge at A Place to Start - Anything Goes or Optional Twist

 Hello fellow crafters. Time for another great challenge at A Place to Start. As always the theme is Anything Goes. This month's optional twist is "Summer Things"

I chose a Whimsy Stamp called Beach Scene for my card. 

I chose this card fold for my card because I liked the way it framed the stamp.  The designer paper I used for the card is by Jessica Hogarth Designs called Sail Away. 

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

613 Avenue Create - AUGUST 2025 - ANYTHING GOES W/ OPTIONAL TWIST SUMMER FUN

 Hello fellow crafters. Time for another great challenge at 613 Avenue Create. As always the challenge is anything goes and this month's optional twist is to create something that is Summer Fun (Create somethin fun filled).

This is my card that I made for this challenge.  I have a used an image from my stash created by Pattie's Creation. I just love her images. The image is called Flamingo Happy Hour. 

The products I used for this card are papers from my stash, copic markers, Nuvo Crystal Glaze for the sunglasses and drinks to give them depths. I used a rubber stampcalled Stone Wear Texture 

for the beach sand along with my copic sand marker, The flowers were from my stash.

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week. Remember to stop by our challenge blog to be inspired by our talented design team. 

Creative Artiste August Challenge 2025 Mixed Media Anything Goes

 Welcome to another challenge at Creative Artiste. 

Our theme is always

"Anything Mixed Media Goes"

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.

This is my project for August, another couple of pages added to my art journal book.

More views of project

Background 

The start of my background for these pages I waws doing this week. 

Part of the pages I used for this art journal we from a chip book from Scrapbook.com

These are my 2 background pages I made with a couple of chipboard. I used several colours of acrylic paints, a stencil , designer papers. Copic Markers. The designer papers are from Stamperia and pages are from my scrapbooking art journal  book.

Background pages

the reverse pages from the project which I will use on another day. 

These were the two pages I used in this book.

Adding my 2 finished pages 

Original cover

Started this art journal book a few years ago and filling it with my pages has been very interesting. 

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative month. Remember to pop over to our challenge board to be inspired by our talented design team.