Creative Artiste #111 December 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 a festive wreath to show you.

The base of the wreath is a 7.5" (19cm) wooden embroidery hoop. I made all the snowflakes using a Stamperia snowflake mould with Hearty Soft Paper clay.

I prepped all the pieces before assembling the wreath.

I first gave the hoop and the snowflakes a coat of white gesso. Once dry I diluted some DecoArt Prussian Blue Fluid Acrylic with plenty of water and painted the hoop and snowflakes. 

The next step was to cover the hoop with DecoArt Crackle Paste and let it dry.

I then wrapped a battery powered string of little lights around the hoop.

Finally, I painted the snowflakes with DecoArt Glamour Dust and sprinkled them with a fine white glitter while they were still wet so the glitter would stick. I added some silver Tim Holtz metallic droplets to the centres of the snowflakes.

I arranged the snowflakes around the hoop and glued them in place with Heavy Body Gel, overlapping them to cover the hoop and lights.

I arranged some plastic pine branches, some mini pine cones and a few little metal bells on one side of the hoop and fixed them with Heavy Body Gel. I tied a bow with wide white ribbon and added some more of the branches, bells and a cone to cover where the battery pack for the lights is attached.

I finished by tying a ribbon onto the hoop to be able to hang it up. 

The wreath looks so pretty when it's lit up from the back.

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 

December challenge. 

It remains for me to wish a fun festive season to you all, however you celebrate!

I have entered this project in the following challenges:

Crafts Galore Encore December 2024

 December at last! And Christmas is just around the corner. This has been another difficult year for our family as we have lost two wonderful, and treasured, family members. Although they were somewhat elderly, dementia took them sooner than they deserved. Christmas will be a time of reflection and enjoying fond memories as our shrinking family comes together to celebrate.

Plus, we have a lovely event to look forward to next spring!

But, my personal sadness doesn't mean that I can't enjoy some of the fun annual Christmas traditions, starting with making festive cards ....

.... Today sees the start of the December challenge at

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge Blog. 

Thank you to everyone who joined in with last month's challenge. The winner and DT favourites 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 generous $25 voucher for their online store for our lucky winner.

I used some of the Gecko Galz papers and collage images to create my first set of Christmas cards for this year.

The cards are all 6"x 6" (15 x 15cm). 

I used Christmas Haberdashery collage set for the focal point images on these cards. I isolated the individual images in a photo editing program and printed them on white card. I then cut out the images and matted them on green card from Limetree Craft. 

I used the lovely red papers from the Night Before Christmas ATC set and matted them on the green card and red card, also from Limetree Craft. I used papers from Merry Little Christmas ATC sheet to make the card top left.

I also used the green card for the die-cut sentiments and punched holly border.

I added festive bows, ribbon and cut doileys to complete my designs.

For these cards I used two gloriously vintage papers from Merry Little Christmas ATC Sheet with the  red patterned papers from Night Before Christmas ATC set. The papers have beautiful Victorian type baubles which I cut out and mounted on foam pads on the cards. I matted the papers on gold mirri card and finished the baubles with festive bows.

The gorgeous vintage sentiment is also from the Merry Little Christmas ATC sheet.

Although all the papers are from ATC sets, they do print out much larger with no loss of definition.

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

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

I have entered this set of cards in the following challenges: