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Friday 6 November 2020

Creative Artiste #66 November 2020

It's all change here in Britain again. As Wales comes out of it's firebreak lockdown England goes into one. New rules for everyone means our family still can not get together as we are not allowed to travel from one country to the other. I just hope that everyone follows the rules, stays safe and the virus rates come down so we can start to plan Christmas....

Meanwhile ....

.... there's a new challenge at
Creative Artiste is a 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 in October. Your projects were all wonderful and our winners have been announced on the blog.

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

I have made an 8"x 8" (20 x 20 cm) shadow box frame.

I made the box frame from stiff white card and covered it with tissue paper to strengthen it and give some light texture.
I used DecoArt acrylic paint in Raw Umber over the frame. Once dry I then used Tim Holtz mini stencil from set 10 with Archival black ink to give the wood effect. Lastly, I touched up the edges with Pebeo Gold Gilding wax.

I took a piece of watercolour card and coloured it using Lindy's Flat Magicals Caribbean Blue and Ocean Breeze Blue.  I cut a piece to fit inside the box frame and used the remainder to stamp the hot air balloon from IndigoBlu Mixed Media box set 2.

For the floral arrangement I coloured another large piece of card with Distress Oxides Broken China and Chipped Sapphire. Once dry I splashed it with a gold Posca pen. I then die cut and assembled some flowers. I also used some flowers from my stash. The tickets were stamped onto card coloured with Antique Linen and Broken China DOX using another stamp from the IndigoBlu set. 

The little balls were painted with gold acrylic and gold centres were added to the flowers. I touched up the edges of the flowers with Pebeo gold gilding wax. The bow was created with seam binding from Fantastic Ribbons that I dyed with Chipped Sapphire DOX

I finished the insert panel with words stamped from the same previous IndigoBlu set. Once the insert was fitted into the frame I built up the floral arrangement with Prima's Soft Matt Gel.

Now it's your turn to have fun and create your mixed media projects. You can enter our challenge up to three times. 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 November challenge. 

I have entered this project in the following challenges:


16 comments:

  1. A stunning creation Andree - yes we have entered lockdown part 2! Shabneez x

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  2. Absolutely gorgeous. The flowers are stunning. Hugs, Pam

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  3. Wow, what an amazing make! The wood effect that you created around the box edges is perfect and the pretty panel with the images and blue colours and the way they blended looks fabulous 😀. Those dark blue flowers and gold accents finish it so beautifully too - I love it! Thanks for the inspiration and wishing you a Happy November! Hugs, Jo x

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  4. Hi Andree this is a stunning project those flowers are just so pretty. Take care and stay safe. Hugs Jackie

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  5. This is fabulous Andree, love the image and gorgeous flowers.
    Hugs
    Linda xxx

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  6. Andree this is so beautiful, how you have built up the scene around the hot air balloon now if we could get all our family in one basket how great would that be.. The combination of blue and gold is a winner in my minds eye every time. I hope it now has pride of place somewhere special. Happy & Safe November Hugs Tracey xx

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  7. The arrangement of the flowers is lovely on the frame, and the flowers themselves are beautiful in shape and colours. The touches of gold finish perfectly your project.

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  8. Love the design of your project Andree. The whole project is stunningly beautiful. Have a creative week, stay safe. Judy

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  9. So so pretty Andree with all those beautiful blue tones. Love the hint of gold!

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  10. Such a fabulous creation! Thank you for sharing with us over at Morgan's ArtWorld. We hope to see you again.
    ~ Sherry CT/Admin/Coordinator xx

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  11. This is a smashing project!
    We do love to see all the entries at Classic.
    Stay safe and well.
    Thank you for sharing in our challenge at Classic Design Challenge we really appreciate you joining in.

    Jackie DT



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  12. Such a gorgeous make Andree! I love the flower cluster and the wooden frame looks so realistic!
    Thanks for playing with us at Country View Challenges!

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  13. Fabulous shadow box!!! You created an absolutely realistic wood frame!!! And the flowers are so gorgeous!!! Thank you for joining the November challenge of the Country View Challenges!

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  14. That is absolutely gorgeous. I love it. Nice work.
    Thank you for sharing with us over at Morgan's ArtWorld. We hope to see you again.
    ~ Annette CT -

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  15. Fabulous creation! Thank you for sharing with us over at Morgan's ArtWorld. We hope to see you again.
    ~ Judy CT

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