Creative Artiste #132 November 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 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.

Today I can show you the large monolith, 11.5" x 8" (29 x 20 cms), that came as part of a set of three MDF monoliths from Samantha K.. I kept with the colour theme of the smaller panels I used last month but added some poppies to celebrate November's Remembrance Day.

Most of the techniques and mediums are the same as last month.

1. I prepped the main panel and extra elements from the Mixed Media Backing Pack, also from Samantha K, with white gesso and some random stamping. I covered the homemade greyboard tags with paper that I created with images and a flower from the Shabby Autumn Flowers set from 

 from Art House Whimsy.

2. Once the ink was dry I used texture paste and Aall and Create stencil #20.

3. I gessoed some small panels from Samantha K's Mixed Media Backing Pack and trimmed images from Art House Whimsy's Gear Head Wings and Things and Flutter Fusion 4.

4.  I added random stamping to the panels and fixed the images from Art House Whimsy. I used the texture paste and stencil on them too. 

5. I used an old poppy stamp from Bee Crafty on red card and cut the flowers out. I shaped and layered some of them up for dimension. I used the sentiment too.

6. I coloured some resin butterflies I'd made with DecoArt fluid acrylics Hansa Yellow Medium and Cadmium Red Hue.

I randomly sprayed Distress Stain Vintage Photo and Fossilized Amber over the large monolith. I then added a few splashes of watered down DecoArt Quinacridone Gold Fluid acrylic, then some of the random stamping and texture paste.

I assembled the elements on the monolith by layering them with Prima 3D Gloss Gel. 

I added the poppies and sentiment.

Lastly I added the butterflies and some short pieces of frayed string.

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" mixed media creations in our 

November challenge. 

I have entered this project in the following challenges: