Creative Artiste #115 May 2025

 ....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 used some pieces of thick board to create a multi layered project with some products left over from a recent craft weekend.

I've used some thick laminated board for the base and layers. The base board measures 12"x 7.5" (30 x 19 cm).

1-3. I used Cadence gold Relief Paste through a sunflower stencil to cover the base and left it to dry. 

4. I then used a mix of DecoArt acrylics and water to add colour to the base.

1. I cut up more board for the layers.

2. I designed and printed a paper using images from Art House Whimsy. I took a  paper from Shabby Neutrals Collage Collection and overlaid some PNG flowers from the Muted Elegance Autumn Flowers collection.

3. I glued the images to the boards with soft matt gel. 

4. I dabbed some gold Cadence Relief Paste on the images with the side of my palette knife.

1. All the elements, apart from the wooden gears, string and the two large metal flowers, were leftover from the craft weekend in January with Finnabair.

2. I cut up the business card from Finnabair and added some of the smallest elements to the metal flower dish.

 3. is a badge with a fabulous sentiment.

4. I used Prima gold gilding wax as a highlighter on the metal pieces to finish.

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://mixitupchallenge.blogspot.com/2025/05/miucb-77-anything-goes-optional-paper.html

https://lovetocraftchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2025/05/ltccb-86-anything-goes-ltccb-85-winner.html

https://aperfecttimetocraft.blogspot.com/2025/05/a-perfect-time-to-craft-open-challenge.html

https://classicdesignchallenge.blogspot.com/2025/04/classic-design-challenge-04-2025-aprmay.html

Crafts Galore Encore May 2025

Welcome to May! It's starting off with some glorious weather. Of course, the children have just gone back to school after their Easter break. They will have to wait until the weekend to make the most of the sunshine.

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:

Conjurer of Dreams

who are offering 2 sets of images to our lucky winner.

I have made a card with a different fold so I could display as many of these beautiful papers as I could on one card. 

I started by putting a narrow fold in the front of an 8"x 8" (20 cm) card blank. The card can now be displayed as a sideways easel card.

I've used the Soft Beauty set of papers. There are four wonderful panel papers in the set. I matted the papers on blue card and arranged the panels to cover the card blank. I added blue gems to the edge of the right hand panel to act as a stopper for the easel.

One of the papers features the beautiful woman. I matted her, and the computer generated sentiment, on a lighter blue card.

I printed some of the flowers and cut them out so I could use them as embellishments. They are the flowers mounted on the bottom of this panel and above the focal point panel.

The card can fold flat for postage.

Now please visit the  Crafts Galore Encore challenge blog where you can see the wonderful projects and cards created by our talented team using Conjurer of Dreams 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/2025/05/a-perfect-time-to-craft-open-challenge.html

https://morgansartworld.blogspot.com/2025/05/morgans-artworld-challenge-88.html x

https://classicdesignchallenge.blogspot.com/2025/04/classic-design-challenge-04-2025-aprmay.html x

https://lovetocraftchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2025/05/ltccb-86-anything-goes-ltccb-85-winner.html