Creative Artiste #131 October 2026

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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 recently purchased an MDF Monolith Pack from Samantha K. The pack has three different monoliths, an 8" x 4" (20 x 10 cms), an 8.5" x 5.5" (22 x 14 cms), and a large one at 11.5" x 8" (29 x 20 cms). I have used the two smaller ones here to create an Autumnal display.

I also used some of the elements from the Mixed Media Backing Pack, also from Samantha K.

1. I started by prepping the boards and bases with white gesso and then randomly stamping a small text stamp over the boards and bases.

2. and 3. I used AALL and Create stencil #20 with texture paste to create texture on the boards.

4. I printed out some images of flowers from the Shabby Autumn Flowers set from Art House Whimsy and glued them onto homemade greyboard tags.

The other Art House Whimsy images I used are from Gear Head Wings and Things, Flutter Fusion 4 and Grit and Grace.  I also had some butterfly images from the Butterfly Effect Tags set by 7 Dots Studio. I trimmed the images and glued them to some of the MDF panels from the Samantha K Backing Pack and used the text stamp lightly on them.

5. I sparingly used Distress Sprays Vintage Photo, Fossilized Amber and DecoArt's Quinacridone Gold Fluid Acrylic to add touches of colour to the image elements.

6. I also coloured some paper flowers and mini paper clay butterflies.

7. I used the Distress sprays and lots of water to add colour to the Monoliths and bases.

8. I fixed all the elements in place with Prima's 3D Gloss Gel.

Once the glue was dry, I added more of the sprays and paint for definition.

I finished by adding some tufts of string to both Monoliths and blacking the edges with ink.

*I will used the large Monolith for another project*

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 

October challenge. 

I have entered this Monolith pair in the following challenges:

https://craftrocketchallenges.blogspot.com/2026/10/challenge-141-autumn-andor-halloween.html

https://mixitupchallenge.blogspot.com/2026/09/miucb-85-anything-goes-optional.html

https://lovetoscrapchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2026/09/ltscb-181-anything-goes-ltscb-180.html

https://aperfecttimetocraft.blogspot.com/2026/10/a-perfect-time-to-craft-open-challenge.html