Music Man

Creative Artiste has a new Anything Goes Mixed Media challenge this month. Please make sure you use multiple mediums on your  projects. 

This music man box is my project that I made to inspire you this month.

My Inspiration 

I have this pretty musical pitcher on my kitchen that I just love.

This is what I  started with

I found this miniature banjo in a thrift store.

I coloured my wooden reverse canvas red and added some textures to the back ground. I took the back off of the banjo so it would fit in my project box.

Other Views

I changed the colour of the banjo to black and red and added some metal musical symbols. Next I added some guitar die cuts, lettering, panaio die cuts. 

Thank you for stopping by,  I hope you will join us this month.  Remember to pop over to our challenge blog to be inspired by or creative design team. 

I am entering this canvas in the following challenges

Love to Craft Challenge - Anything Goes

Bit more time to Craft - Anything Goes

Crafters  Castle - Anything Goes

A Perfect Time to Craft - Anything Goes

Crafters Cafe - Anything Goes

Dies R Us - Anything Goes 

Creative fingers - Anything Goes

Welcome Spring

My time to host the challenge this week over at Crafty Cardmakers and the theme of this week's challenge is  "Spring". 

With any luck Spring is springing where you are, so we would love to see your Spring creations. Spring Colours will also be acceptable.

As usual anything you care to enter is fine, a card, scrap layout, mixed media piece or home decor, as long as it meets the theme.

For this challenge I made a card using a stamp fro Elizabeth Craft Designs called Birds and Branches.  To colour my card I used Copic markers, white Gel pen  and pencil crayons then added Pentart rainbow glitter and white Nuvo Crystal.   Drops. The sentiment is an old stamp from my collection by Studio G.

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week. 

Remember to pop over to Crafty Cardmakers to be inspired by our talented design team.  Hope you will join our challenge. 

Flowers, Flowers, Flowers

We have another great challenge this month at Crafty Gals Corner, the theme is "uses flowers" in your design. 

Our wonderful sponsor this month is Digi Doodle Studios.

The prize the challenge is 3 digis  from Digi Doodles Studios.

I used Digi Doodle Studios image called Briar Berry Spry Fairy. 

This is my card I made with the image.

I used several different products on my card including

Copics

Gel Pen die cuts

Gems

Pentart Gold Glitter Pen

Pentart 3D Decor Pen - Ice

Nuvo Drops - Crystal

Pentart Glitter Pen - Rainbow

Wink of Stella

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week.  Remember to pop over to our challenge blog, Crafty Gals Corner to be inspired by our talented design team.

Digi Doodles Facebook Group - March Challenge
digi Doodles Challenge Blog - Anything Goes
Creative Moments - Anything Goes
Crafty Creations- Anything Goes
Through the Craftroom door - Anything Goes

Altered Mixed Media Vintage House

Time for another great challenge at Bleeding Art this month.  We're not only all mix media all of the time but anything goes all of the time!

Here are some more views of my altered house.

  I used a metal belt that I took apart to create my roof .  

I used a combination of paints, stamps, inks, die cuts, wooden findings  and a photo I purchased at a flea market. 

Time for you to show off your art creations.  Pop over to our challenge blog to be inspired by our talented design team.  Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week.  

Life is Art. Paint Your Dreams ....

Welcome everyone to our March Moodboard Challenge over at Splashy Mix Challenges.  

Here is this month's inspiring moodboard.  I just love the colour scheme. 

I have created this mixed media canvas  inspired by the moodboard. 

Steps I used to create my project.

I painted my canvas with gesso and then used Distressed Oxide Sprays in the colours of  Picked Raspberries and Wilted Violet to colour the canvas.

My next step was to cover the canvas with a Tim Holtz  idea-ology tissue wrap which I used a Gloss medium to affix the tissue to my canvas.

My face was stenciled with this fantastic stencil by Stencil Girl called Pretty as a Peacock and purple  acrylic paint. The background paint for the stencil was made using both the Picked Raspberries and Wilted Violet Distress Ink Oxide sprays. 

 I then added some white markings to the canvas with white acrylic paint and a stencil by the Crafter's Workshop. 

The sentiment that I added to the canvas is a old  rubber stamp from my stash by Stampendous called Life is Art.  

I hope my canvas inspires you and that you will join us this month.  Just create your project and enter it here.   If you want to know more about my project and the steps and products I used please see my blog In Search of My Creative Side.

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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You can submit several works for the challenge, but please - no more than three.

The challenge lasts until 31/03/2020. Winners will be announced on 3rd April 2020.

Stay tuned to month-long inspiration from our team.  

I am entering my project in the following challenges:

ScrapMir:Challenge - Pink

Secret Inspirations - Spring Inspirations 

Cherrylana Designs - Tenderness

Charmedscrap - Moodboard (inspired by colours)

Creative Fingers - Anything Goes

Through the Purple Haze - Anything Goes

Time For Tea

Time for another challenge at Crafty CardMakers this month and the theme is of the challenge is green.  Your card must be predominantly green in colour. 

 I decided to use an old rubber stamp by Viva Las Vegas called Lady Lunching for this birthday card.   To created my card I coloured my image with copics in different shapes of green and added Pentart glitter pen and Nuvo Crystal Drops to give the card some shine. 

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you will join us this week in this green themed challenged. Remember to visit our challenge blog to be inspired by our talented design team. 

Advice for Someone Who is 60

Time for another challenge this month at Creative Artiste. I made a birthday book for a friend that just turned 60.  The book is made from 3 CD Literature folders put together.  I used some pretty designer paper for the book along Tim Holtz's Birds, Dina Wakleys birds, acrylic paints, posta pens, stencils, inks,  Pentart pens, ribbons, die cuts, clasps, tags, envelopes, pieces of my Gel prints,   a selection of tags and saying  of findings and mediums. 

There are some of the pages from the book.

Here are a few of the tags

Some os my bird's hats  were from the die Times collection but many were from parts of other stamps and digital images I have.

I had a ton of fun making this birthday book. 

You can find the instructions for the basic folds etc of this book on  You Tube.  The video is called Pop Pop Fizz Fizz by Trish Morris.  I have varied the instructions to suit my book along with adding my own ideas. 

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week. 

Creative Fingers - Anything Goes

Through the Purple Haze - Anything Goes

Crafty Creations- Anything Goes

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes

We Love to Create - Anything Goes

Art Divas - Anything Goes