Creative Artiste #108 September 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've made an 8"x 8" (20 x 20cm) canvas.

I started by gessoing the canvas in white. I used an old Tim Holtz flourish stencil from Set 10 for the canvas and the wooden hearts.

I made some some texture paste with a pink acrylic paint this time and passed it through the stencil onto the canvas. I left it to dry.

I then spattered some watered down Salvaged Patina DOX and Mermaid Lagoon Distress Ink refill across the canvas.

While that dried I painted two wooden hearts with Pebeo matt Fairy Pink acrylic paint, dried them and used Picked Raspberry DOX with the stencil over the hearts.

I glued some lengths of ribbon across the canvas before gluing the hearts in place with Prima Heavy Body Gel and adding the pretty paper roses from Prima.

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 

September challenge. 

I have entered this project in the following challenges:

https://mixitupchallenge.blogspot.com/2024/09/miucb-73-anything-goes-optional.html

https://movingalongwiththetimes.blogspot.com/2024/09/challenge-170-not-card.html

https://lovetocraftchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2024/09/ltccb-82-anything-goes-ltccb-81-winner.html

Crafts Galore Encore September 2024

After celebrating our little princess's birthday last week it is now only days until she heads out to "big" school. She is both excited and nervous. But, most of all, she's looking forward to catching up with all her friends and making new ones.

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:

The Paper Shelter

who are offering a prize of three digi images for our lucky winner.

I made an 8"x 8" (20 x 20cm) birthday card for my daughter's puppy who celebrated his first birthday last month.

The papers are from an 8" paper pad Paradise Crush by First Edition. The matting layers are white card with the edges coloured with an orange Copic pen.

This delightful image from our sponsor is called My Good Boy. The set comes with a coloured version of the image as well as the outline drawing, both in jpeg and png formats. It also has a digital backing paper and the coloured image mounted on the backing paper. Everything can be sized to suit in a computer program.

I used my Copics to colour the outline png image.

I cut out the tag shape from the digital paper and used it as a layer behind the image. 

The sentiment, bones and paw prints are all stamps from a set that was free in a magazine years ago.

Now please visit the  Crafts Galore Encore challenge blog where you can see the wonderful projects and cards created by our talented team using The Paper Shelter's 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://morgansartworld.blogspot.com/2024/09/morgans-artworld-challenge-80.html

https://craftyanimals.blogspot.com/2024/09/challenge-87.html

https://2craftycrittercrazies.blogspot.com/2024/09/challenge-90-anything-goes-with.html