Creative Artiste #106 July 2024

  ....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 tag.  It measures 7"x 4" (18 x 19 cm). The tag, cogs and clock are all made of thick greyboard and are from Tando Creative. 

I started by giving the tag a coat of white gesso and then adding texture paste though the Diamond Life stencil #70 from Aall and Create. 

I painted the cogs and frame with brown acrylics and finished them with touches of gold acrylic. I set them aside to dry.

I painted the tag with DecoArt Fluid Acrylics Prussian Blue Hue and Cobalt Turquoise Hue, also Golden Teal Fluid Acrylic. I used a lot of water to move the paints around and blend them.

I added touches of white acrylic and gold acrylic and sprayed them with water to blend them into the blues.

I used dabs of the Golden Teal acrylic and DecoArt Prussian Blue with white acrylic paint to colour the clock. I finished it with some gold acrylic. The padlock was painted with gold acrylic.

I assembled all the elements, using Heavy Body Gel, starting with the lovely gold lace ribbon. 

Then I add the cogs, clock, frame and padlock.

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 

July challenge. 

I have entered this project in the following challenges:

https://aperfecttimetocraft.blogspot.com/2024/07/a-perfect-time-to-craft-open-challenge.html

https://lovetocraftchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2024/07/ltccb-81-anything-goes-ltccb-80-winner.html x

https://mixitupchallenge.blogspot.com/2024/07/miucb-72-anything-goes-optional-veggie.html x

Crafts Galore Encore July 2024

 The final month of primary school has arrived!! None of us can quite believe how quickly the last six years have flown by. Now we are busy shopping for a prom outfit and a new school uniform.

Meanwhile .....

.... 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 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:

Polkadoodles Crafts

who are offering 3 digi images from their shop to our lucky winner.

I have made a 6"x 6" (15 x 15cm) Z-fold birthday card for a little princess.

I made the 6" card base into a Z-fold and used papers from Craft Consortium The Gift of Giving 12" paper pad to decorate the front panel, the Z banner and the inside of the card. I matted the papers and the image onto some textured purple card from my stash.

I chose to use Birthday Cake Flower Fairy Winnie Daisy image and coloured it with my Copics. Who doesn't dream of a cake so tall you need a stool to blow out the candle?

The little bird in the corner of the image is cut from the paper pad.

I cut out some of the present images from the paper and stuck them onto the Z banner. I stamped the birthday sentiment and added that to the card. I've left one inside panel white to sign the card. 

I finished the card with some of the cute little birds cut out from the paper and some 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 Polkadoodles 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:

https://aperfecttimetocraft.blogspot.com/2024/07/a-perfect-time-to-craft-open-challenge.html

https://morgansartworld.blogspot.com/2024/07/morgans-artworld-challenge-78.html

https://classicdesignchallenge.blogspot.com/2024/06/classic-design-challenge-06-2024-junjul.html