Ace Cards: May 2024

Friday 3 May 2024

Creative Artiste #104 May 2024

Welcome to a new challenge at

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 fabulous 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 an ever lasting Springtime bouquet on an 8" (20cm) canvas this month. It was a birthday present for a lovely family member.

I started the canvas by covering it with black gesso. Once dry, I added a layer of DecoArt Weathered Wood followed by a coat of DecoArt Dark Chocolate Acrylic paint topped with some DA Burnt Sienna acrylic paint. This gave me a nice wood effect background to work on.

I made an assortment of resin flowers from the collection of moulds I have. The butterflies are from Prima's Mecha Moth mould.

I painted the flowers and butterflies with Gansai Tambi Pearl watercolours. I blended the pink and blue to create the gorgeous purple.

I die cut some leaves from card and layered them up with Soft Matt Gel so I had two rigid leaves. I painted them with the Gansai Tambi watercolours too.

I started building the bouquet by fixing the two leaves to the canvas with Heavy Body Gel and building up the flower and butterfly arrangement from there with more 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

May challenge.

I have entered this project in the following challenges:

https://movingalongwiththetimes.blogspot.com/2024/05/may-challenge-166-flowers.html

https://craftrocketchallenges.blogspot.com/2024/05/challenge-114-flowers.html

https://beautifulblossomschallenge.blogspot.com/2024/04/beautiful-blossoms-challenge-anything.html

https://mixitupchallenge.blogspot.com/2024/05/miucb-71-anything-goes-optional-inlaid.html

https://lovetocraftchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2024/05/ltccb-80-anything-goes-ltccb-79-winner.html

Wednesday 1 May 2024

Crafts Galore Encore May 2024

We don't have a sponsor this month at Crafts Galore Encore so this is a 'Just For Fun' challenge. We were allowed to create our own 'Anything Goes' cards or projects for the May challenge.

There is a new challenge starting today at

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge Blog.

Thank you to everyone who joined in with last month's challenge. The winners will be announced on the challenge blog on May 12th. 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"

I have created a New Baby card this month. It stands 8" (20 cm) tall.

It's made from two pieces of card I printed out and cut using an old template from Trimcraft. After attaching the T-shirt and dungarees together I edged them with Broken China Distress Ink.

I die cut a couple of baby rattles and a dummy (pacifier) from textured card and attached them inside the pocket with thread. I added white faux stitching with a Posca pen, a little teddy and a couple of buttons.