Creative Artiste #127 June 2026

 ....Welcome to a new challenge at

Creative Artiste

Creative Artiste is a monthly challenge blog for everyone who likes to mix their media. So, as long as you like to use various mediums on your creations, we'd love to see you enter the challenge.

A big Thank You to everyone who entered the challenge last month. Your projects were all wonderful and our winners have been announced on the blog.

Our theme is always
"Anything Mixed Media Goes"
We have opportunities to be a Guest Designer for all our winners.

I have made a wooden birdhouse using a kit from the fabulous Samantha K Gifts & Crafts and I've decorated it with cogs and gears from Samantha K too.

1. I primed each section with a coat of white gesso.

2. I then glued the walls and base together with Prima's 3D Matt Gel. I used some washi tape to hold the pieces in place while they dried.

3. I gave the house a base coat of Marabu Chalk paint and painted the roof panels with Prima Art Alchemy metallic acrylic paint.

4. I gave the inside of the house and the underside of the roof panels a coat of black gesso.

5. I used a mix of turquoise coloured acrylics, applied by dabbing with a sponge, to create an ombre effect on the house walls. The sponge leaves a nice light textured finish.

While the house dried I prepped the decorations.

6. I sorted the cogs/gears, flowers and glass beads. according to where I wanted to place them.

7. The Cadence rust treatment products I used. 

8. It's a three step process to create the rust effect on the cogs. Rust Effect Paint first, then sprinkle the Rust Powder, and finally the Activator Spray before drying.

9. The fourth step, if you want to use it, is to apply the Antique Powder for the patina.

I glued all the cogs/gears, flowers and beads in place with Prima's 3D Matt Gel. 

10. Once set, I finished the house by tapping on some Pebeo Gold Gilding Wax.

You can find the birdhouse  and cogs/gears here in the Samantha K shop.

Now it's your turn to have fun and create your mixed media projects. You can enter our challenge as many times as you like. A full list of the rules is on the challenge blog. For more inspiration please visit the Creative Artiste Challenge Blog to see the fabulous mixed media projects created by our multi talented team.

Remember to have fun crafting and enter your "Anything Mixed Media Goes" creations in our 

June challenge. 

I have entered this project in the following challenges:

Crafts Galore Encore June 2026

It's June already and it's been another mixed bag of weather. I wish Mother Nature would make her mind up. One day it's scorching and the next has chilly winds and heavy rain. Still, we have managed a couple of fun outdoor activities in nice weather. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for more nice weather in a couple of weeks as there is an outdoor concert we're going to that was cancelled from last year due to bad weather.

Meanwhile, there's a new challenge at

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge Blog. 

Thank you to everyone who joined in with last month's challenge. The winners have been announced on the challenge blog. This is a month long challenge and you can enter up to three times. There is a full list of rules on the challenge blog.

Our theme every month is the popular

"Anything Goes"

and our sponsor this month is:

Fred She Said

who are offering a prize of $10 gift voucher to our lucky winner.

I've created an A5 card in landscape format.

I started by covering the base with a pink card from my stash. I added a paper from G45's Flights of Fancy and a vertical strip of another pretty paper from the collection. 
I matted both on white card. I also cut a band of pink card and matted that on white card and placed it across the front.

I chose to work with Hummingbird and Columbine digi set which comes with the bird and flower images either together, or singularly, in both JPEG and PNG format. I coloured one of the images with my Copics and mounted it on pink card.

I took one of the flower images from the digi set and flipped it before colouring it, cutting it out and mounting it on foam pads as an embellishment. I finished the card with a bow, a stamped sentiment and three pink gems.

Now please visit the  Crafts Galore Encore challenge blog where you can see the wonderful projects and cards created by our talented team using Fred She Said images.

Grab some inspiration while you're there and enter your "Anything Goes" creations in this month's challenge.

I have entered this in the following challenges:

Creative Artiste #126 May 2026

 This is the second blog post today, please scroll down to see my Crafts Galore Encore challenge post.

 ....Welcome to a new challenge at

Creative Artiste

Creative Artiste is a monthly challenge blog for everyone who likes to mix their media. So, as long as you like to use various mediums on your creations, we'd love to see you enter the challenge.

A big Thank You to everyone who entered the challenge last month. Your projects were all wonderful and our winners have been announced on the blog.

Our theme is always
"Anything Mixed Media Goes"
We have opportunities to be a Guest Designer for all our winners.

I have created a fantasy underwater canvas that measures 8" (20cms).

 

I started by priming the canvas with a coat of white gesso. 

1. I used my own texture paste through part of AALL & Create stencil #87.

2. Once dry, I sprinkled on Lindy's Gang powder Guten Tag Teal and Lindy's Magical Caribbean Blue with water to add colour.

I then prepped the elements and left them to dry before adding to the canvas.

3. I die cut some foliage using Tim Holtz Holiday Greens dies and coloured them with Lindy's Gang shaker powder Lederhosen Laurel and water.

4. I die cut the Fantasy octopus and Spellbinder's anchor several times each. I layered and glued them together for strength before painting them with DecoArt acrylic paints (in photo) by dabbing the acrylics on with an old brush.

5. The bubbles are laser cut greyboard from Tando. I sprayed them with a DecoArt Mister in Primary Cyan.

6. I dabbed the shells with a watered down orange acrylic.

To assemble the canvas I fixed the Tando bubbles to the canvas then added the ferns and the octopus with Prima 3D Matt Gel.

I tucked the anchor in the corner and finished the canvas with a couple of strings of beads.

Now it's your turn to have fun and create your mixed media projects. You can enter our challenge as many times as you like. A full list of the rules is on the challenge blog. For more inspiration please visit the Creative Artiste Challenge Blog to see the fabulous mixed media projects created by our multi talented team.
Remember to have fun crafting and enter your "Anything Mixed Media Goes" creations in our 

May challenge. 

I have entered this project in the following challenges:

Crafts Galore Encore May 2026

This is the first of two blog posts today.  

April just seemed to fly by and now it's time for the May challenge on the 

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge Blog. 

Thank you to everyone who joined in with last month's challenge. The winners have been announced on the challenge blog. This is a month long challenge and you can enter up to three times. There is a full list of rules on the challenge blog.

Our theme every month is the popular

"Anything Goes"

and our sponsor this month is:

Gecko Galz

who are offering a prize of $25 to spend in the shop for our lucky winner.

I have made a pretty birthday card that measures 8"x 6" (20 x 15 cms)

I used one of the images from the C'est la Vie ATC sheet for the background paper and mounted it on blue pearlescent card. I then wrapped white seam binding ribbon the length of the card.

I printed one of the images from Butterfly Blues  collage sheet twice. I cut out just the butterfly from one of the prints and fixed it to the entire image with foam pads for a dimensional effect, then mounted it onto the blue pearlescent card.

I created the sentiment on the computer and finished the card with a bow and some gems.

Now please visit the  Crafts Galore Encore challenge blog where you can see the wonderful cards created by our talented team using Gecko Galz images.

Grab some inspiration while you're there and enter your "Anything Goes" creations in this month's challenge.

I have entered this in the following challenges:

Creative Artiste # 125 April 2026

Welcome to a new challenge at

Creative Artiste

Creative Artiste is a monthly challenge blog for everyone who likes to mix their media. So, as long as you like to use various mediums on your creations, we'd love to see you enter the challenge.

A big Thank You to everyone who entered the challenge last month. Your projects were all wonderful and our winners have been announced on the blog.

Our theme is always
"Anything Mixed Media Goes"
We have opportunities to be a Guest Designer for all our winners.

I have made an 8" (20cms) mixed media canvas this month. I have used Lindy's Magicals set Beauty School Dropout to colour all the elements.

1. I started by sprinkling Lindy's Kissing Kenickie Coral all over the canvas and adding water to activate it.

2. I sprinkled some wooden hearts and paper straws too.

3. I wanted a bit of a contrast for the paper flowers, so, I used Pink Ladies Pink.

4. Some die cut leaves were sprinkled with T-bird Turquoise.

5. Once the Magicals were dry, I splattered some diluted gold acrylic paint over the canvas, hearts and flowers.

I coloured a torn piece of watercolour card with Lindy's Pineapple Crush from Caribbean Cruise set and added that behind the hearts and straws arrangement.

The hearts were added to the straws using Prima's 3D Matt Gel.

I arranged the roses and tucked in the leaves  using the 3D Gel

Now it's your turn to have fun and create your mixed media projects. You can enter our challenge as many times as you like. A full list of the rules is on the challenge blog. For more inspiration please visit the Creative Artiste Challenge Blog to see the fabulous mixed media projects created by our multi talented team.
Remember to have fun crafting and enter your "Anything Mixed Media Goes" creations in our 

April challenge. 

Have a lovely Easter weekend everyone!

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