Mixed Media Birdhouse Magnets

Hello Crafty Friends,

This is my  project I created that I made with month challenge over at Splashy Mix Challenges using the colours of our fantastic February moodboard. 

Here is my Mixed Media Birdhouses. 

Here are some closed views. 

I used a variety of products for my birdhouses including

Gesso

Acrylic paint

Copics

Nuvo Crystal driops

Diane Wakleys Bird Dies

Several Rubber stamps

Texture stamps

Inks

Stencils

Here are our Rules for the challenge:

- Create a project by the colors, elements etc. Of course, we also allow neutral colors (white, black, silver & gold);

- the project should be new, created for our challenge; may also be linked with other challenges;

- post a link back along with our moodboard in your blog. 

- remember to write about our challenge in your post or photo description on the Facebook page and place a link to this post ;

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Prizes

- we will award two people: 

1. One topmost Winner - Will be chosen by our DTs.

2.  Random prize - we will draw from among all the works.

3. Top 5 projects will be chosen by DTs

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Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week .  Hope you will join in this challenge.    Check out our challenge blog and/or our facebook page.  

I am entering my project in the following challenges:

Brown Sugar - Anything Goes

Creative Figures - Anything Goes

Crafty Creations - Anything Goes

Art Divas - Anything Goes

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Altered Tea Canister

 Welcome  to our second Splashy Mix Challenge.  

If you want to express your love for someone or something, then it's time to participate in our new challenge!

This is  our Mood board.




Here is my project, an altered wooden canister that I made for my husband's Valentine 's chocolates. 

This is what my box looked like before I altered it.

I sanded my box then removed the handle and painted the box with gesso. 

I then stamped the box with an French love poem. 

To complete my project I stenciled my box with hanging hearts and stars and  coloured it using acrylic paint, glitter glue and ink sprays, added my gems, several hearts, an Eiffel Tower to two sides. To the top of the canister I added a flower and a glass knob.

Remember our challenge rules.

- Your work must be new, not previously published anywhere
- You can create any mixed media project corresponding to the mood board and the colors presented in the mood board are also accepted.
- You can enter up to 3 entries.
- The post should contain a banner, a link to our challenge and the name of the blog.
- Last date to submit your works 25th February until 23:55 !

Prizes

INTERNATIONAL CHALLENGE WINNER

(as voted by our DT)

$30 USD value prize from CREATIVE EMBELLISHMENTS

NATIONAL CHALLENGE WINNER

(as voted by our DT)

Rs. 1000 Value prize from Die Cuts and More

3 DT Favourites

(as voted by our DT, in no particular order)

One DT favourite will receive Goodie bag from Letzcraft Store and will be our Guest Designer the following month 

1 Random Winner
(chosen by Random.org)

One Random winner from Indian Participants will get a goodie bag from Creative Minds

Remember my favorite quote by Maya Angelou "You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have." Hope you will join in the fun here at Splashy Mix Challenges. 

Have a creative week. 

I am entering my project in the following challenges. 

Craft Rocket Challenges - Valentine 

Crafting with Attitude - Anything Goes

Southern Girls Challenge - Love is in the Air

Crafty Creations - Anything Goes

Crafty Addicts - Anything Goes

Digi Choosaday Crafting Challenges - Anything Goes

Creative Artiste - Altered Box

Your first challenge of 2019 at Creative Artiste.  Creative Artiste is a Mixed Media challenge blog and your project can be an ATC, tag, card, altered art, or an off-the-page project as long as you follow the challenge specifications. You must use more than 3 different mediums in the project. 

This is my project for this month.

Altered box

This is the box I started with.

To create my altered box I used the following products

stencil
gesso
heavy gel medium
texture paste
acrylic paint
spray inks
parts of a metal belt
metal flower from a napkin holder
metal coaster (used to elevate the flower)

I had fun creating my altered project.  Hope you will join us this month .  Create your project and enter it here. Remember to check out our challenge blog to be inspired by our talented design team 

Have a creative month. 

I am entering this project in the following challenges

Altered Eclectics - Mixed Media/Altered Art

SAnDee & amelie's Steampunk - Anything Goes/Steam Punk/Industrials

Gem of a Challenge - Anything Goes

Crafting with Attitude- Anything Goes

Krafty Chicks - Anything goes

Addicted to Stamps and More - Anything Goes

Rhedd's Creative Spirit - Altered Bottle

Time for another Mixed Media - Altered Art challenge at Rhedd's Creative Spirit.  I decided alter a beautiful bottle I found at a thrift store. 

This is the bottle I altered.

To altered my bottle I used chalk paint and gesso on my first layers then added my pearls, gems butterflies, and findings.  I rubbed my bottle with several different colours of Inka Gold for shine. 

This is the back view of the Project

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. 

I am entering this project in the following challenges

Altered Eclectics - Mixed Media/Altered Art

SAnDee & amelie's Steampunk - Anything Goes/Steam Punk/Industrials

Gem of a Challenge - Anything Goes

Crafting with Attitude- Anything Goes

Krafty Chicks - Anything goes

Addicted to Stamps and More - Anything Goes

Anything but a Card Challenge at Crafty Cardmakers

It is an Anything but a Card Challenge this week at Craft Cardmakers. 

A friend gave me this blue bottle. I loved the design on the bottle and I decided to do an altered bottle for my project. 

 This is the bottle I started with. 

Closer look

I painted my bottle with Gesso and chalk paint, next I used Distressed Ink on the painted areas to add some depth.  I wrapped the bottle with some gold twine and lace and then added this gorgeous vintage bird, nest and eggs image from Graphic Fairy 

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. 

Heart Full of love

I had fun this week creating this simple wooden heart mixed media wall hanging for Creative Artiste.  For the base of  my heart I used a combinations of crackling paste, a selection of acrylic paints and a stencils. 

Our sponsor this week is Tando Creative. 

The pearl frame around the heart was done with white Nuvo Crystal drops.  I just broke down and bought several colours and they  are all fun to use. 

The glitter "Love" is a Tim Holtz die cut letters.  To complete the wall hanging I added a lace white butterfly which I added some colour to. 

Closer Look

I hope you will join us this month at Creative Artiste. Your project must be Mixed Media and can be an ATC, tag, card, layout, altered art or an off the the page project as long as you follow the challenge rules specifications,. You must use three different medias on your project to qualify for qualify for our mixed media rules. 

Remember to pop over to Creative Artiste Challenge Blog to be inspired by our creative design team,

Thank you for stopping by. 

I am entering this project in the following challenges:

Crafting with Attitude - Anything Goes

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes

The Corrosive Challenge - Anything Goes

Not Just Cards - AnythingGoes

Love to Craft Challenge - Anything Goes

Mix It Up Challenge Blog - Anything Goes

Encaustic Collage - Flowers for Pretty Lady

Time for another mixed media/altered art challenge at Rhedd's Creative Spirit and I decided to use this month one of my favourite mediums, encaustic wax.

To create my collage I used a combination of bees wax, Panpastels, fiber paper, decitionary paper, lace, and some antique prescription paper from my collection. 

 To create my collage I added 5 layers of wax to my wooden board then layered my background papers, vintage photo and added colour with Panpastels.  The background papers included some early 1800 prescriptions that I found in a antique store on holidays one year. 

Closer Look

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week. Remember to pop over to Rhedd's Creative Spirit to be inspired by the creative work of the design team. Hope you'll join us this month. 

I am entering this project in the following challenges:

Crafting with Attitude - Anything Goes

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes

The Corrosive Challenge - Anything Goes

Not Just Cards - AnythingGoes

Love to Craft Challenge - Anything Goes

Mix It Up Challenge Blog - Anything Goes

Their Story

Time for another great challenge at Rhedd's Creative Spirit this month. The theme is as always Altered Art/ Mixed Media.   I found this old picture of my dad (the tall handsome young man on the right) with his brother and sister.  I think it was taken about 1940.  I decided to make an altered clipboard using the picture. 

I used a collection of  different findings, paints, inks stamps etc for my collage.   It was a lot of fun building the project. 

Some of the products I used were acrylic paints, an old tape measure, drywall tape, stamps , metal keys and lock, metal rose. stencil by Andy Skinner, assortment of papers, crackle paint, gears and clogs. 

Closer Look

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week. Please join in this creative 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 challenge

SanDee & amelie's Steampunk Challenge

Altered Puzzle Piece

I made this altered puzzle piece for this month's Altered Eclectics mixed media/altered art challenge.

I used several different rubber stamps for my project.  They were all old unmounted stamps from my collection of stamps and I no longer remember the makers of these stamps.  I coloured the images with Acrylic paint, posca pens, inks, and diamond glaze. 

To complete the altered piece I used some gold micro beads, and a few metal findings.

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week. Hope you will join us this month,

Canvas Collage

Time for another great mixed media challenge at Creative Artiste.  I decided this month to do a canvas collage.  Our Sponsor this month is DecoArt. Check out their prize this month then join us in our challenge. 

To make my canvas I used several DecoArt products including a Andy Skinner stencil called Made to Measure, acrylic gesso and acrylic paints.  Other products used on my canvas were a rubber stamp by Stampington, clock and gear cutting die, designer paper, some metal findings and a Tim Holtz ruler.

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week.  Remember to pop over to Creative Artiste's blog to be inspired by our talented design team. 

I am entering ths project in the following challenges:
A Bit More Time to Craft - Anything Goes
A Prefect Time to Craft - Anything Goes
SanDee  & amelie's Steampunk Challenge - Anything Goes/Steampunk Industrial
Eclectic Ellapu - Anything Goes
Not Just Cards - Anything Goes

Stempelsonnenchallenge -  Anything goes/Hand Stamped and Coloured

Altered TV Remote Stand

 Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New year. 

This is my first project for 2018 for Altered Eclectics, an altered TV remote box.  I used finding from my stash that included gems, brooches, lace and beads.  I also used several different inks and paints to give my project some colour.

Here are some closer looks.

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative month.  Remember to stop by the Altered Eclectic blog to see the inspiring projects of our talented design team.