Mixed Media Art!

It's time for our New Anything Goes Challenge at

 Creative Artiste Mixed Media

What I thought was going to be a simple little canvas

turned out not what I was planning and 

taking longer than I expected.

How often does that happen?

We have Jenn Borjeson and Chrissy 

as our Guests ths month.

Welcome Jenn and Chrissy!

My 4"by4" canvas started with gesso then coloured 

with a mix of Lindy's Magical's (of course) and Tim's Ox Inks.

Stencil work is a favourite form AALL&Create Mock Croc.

Stampng around edges with VersaFine Pinecone.

then went to work on the jar which was already

made and sitting on my desk and die cut the frame.

adding more colour and dimension

to the jar and die cut bark with crystal glaze.

attached some dry wall tape behind the frame

(wasn't sure which frame as they were differect colours)

I added a tiny leaf to the bottom right side of vase

but needed something extra with art stones

coloured with wax and glaze.

Die cut a circle, inked, stamped the

That's Crafty ART word and popped to the side

to complete my little MM canvas.

Head over and check out what our 

Talented Designers created using

multi medium products on their projects. 

Come join in the fun with yours in our Gallery.

Celebrating Just Us Girls #800 Challenge!

What a MILESTONE we have reached at

 Just Us Girls

It is my pleasure to be a part of this Amazing 

and Super Talented Design Team.

Hence the card I made below is to say

THANK YOU for inviting me to be a part of Your Team.

OOPS! I forgot to mention long time JUGS Designer Vicki

is Hosting this huge milestone and to celebrate with us

she has made it easy to do so with

ANYTHING GOES! 

Our November Guest Leslie Miller has the honour to

share her first card as GD for this memorable accomplishment.

Welcome Leslie.

I created this card with a pretty layered flower die

inked with Tim's Distress Inks

adding my die cut THANKS to the side,

placing the inked words inside

and some tiny splatters in both colour tones.

Finished with some pretty pink pearls.

Card stock is cream.

Head over to Our Blog and visit

our Guest Leslie and the Team chose to Celebrate

this Big Milestone and leave them some love!

Then head into your workspace and create

something special to share with us. 

Once again I am so proud to be part of this Amazing Blog.

THANK YOU!

A Simple Thank You.

Our New Cut It Up Theme for the end of the month is

Thankful, Grateful, Blessed.

We have had quite a few social functions at the Village

where I live and a lot of work has gone behind the scenes

so a Thank You card was more to what I needed and 

went in that direction.

Going with the lovely metallic paper I cut out

one tag and a small die punching a hole

to create another tag, inking the edges

and adding my Thanks so much sentiment.

Flowers were die cut three times inking the edges

and adding a pearl to the centre.

The background is randomly stamped in grey

to add interest.

Finished with tying variegated cotton to the tags

and attached to white card base.

Pop over and check out what my

Talented Team Mates created and 

join us with your card to our Gallery.

Just Hi!

It's our Case a DT Week at Just Us Girls

'cause there are Five Thursday's this month.

The Design Team love it when this comes around as we get to 

do our 'thing' and you get to CASE one of our creations.

Just don't forget to let us know who's card inspired yours

and add to our Gallery.

Let the Fun begin!

I saw This card on Pinterest and was drawn to

the die being used as a stencil and adding texture (my thing).

I found a scrap piece in my bits box which was coloured 

using the shaving cream technique

and die cut as my feature, 

adding the other two smaller dies in white.

Die cute the sentiments from MFT

inked with VersaFine Clare Verdant

adding splatters with TH crushed olive.

Adhered to matching card base.

Pop over and check out what my

Talented Team Mates created and

we all look forward to seeing who's card

caught your eye to CASE.

PS Photo was taken on my patio with the

Pony Club paddock in the background.

We added pool fencing so we could look out and

watch the horses, wallabies and birdlife

at our leasure.

Life is Good!

I'm Host this week at Just Us Girls

for our Stencil Challenge.

I had made this card weeks ago but was unhappy with the

main element I had added so it sat around and in two minds

whether to just throw it out or find something else

which I did. Still not completely happy

 I decided to go with it.

The stencilled background is 

 again that sand texture paste

using distress ink for colour once it was dry.

Added some roughly broken up bark

and tiny art stones.

I removed what I had adhered earlier,

 replaced with stamped die cuts popped

and some tied twine.

The big multi cut sentiment is inked with the same colour

as the stencil work from CUTplorations.

As this is Gerda's last week with us - 

a Big Thank You for sharing your talent with us.

Check out Gerda's last card and

the creative stencil work from my Team Mates.

This is always a popular challenge so 

I am looking forward to checking our Gallery out.

See you there.

Discards from Nature!

What's our Theme for our New  Cut It Up Challenge

ADD EMBELLISHMENTS.

Because I like to do a bit of Mixed Media

I tend to pick bits of 'stuff ' that has been

as the heading says - discarded by nature.

The bark is off a tree that is outside my patio

as is the twigs - blown down by wind.

I thought I would try and see if I could cut my bottle

from it and worked perfectly. Just had to be careful

it didn't fall apart. Sealed it with some old crackle glaze.

I backed it with cardboard.

My background is a cover plate die

from ARTplorations.

I then die cut a circle and added the other side

of the sealed bark behind it.

The hardest part was attaching the bits of bark 

and getting the bottle glued down.

Added some more bark to the bottle as a shelf.

Certainly different embellishments eh!

Die cut the Fig 3 from AALL&Create

and attached two frames.

Adhered to white card base.

Pop over and check out all the inspiration makes

from our fabulous Designer Team and

Add yours to our Gallery.

In the Mood for Coffee!

I am in the mood for coffee at Just Us Girls

after seeing the Fabulous Fun Mood Board that 

our Host - Carol M chose for us.

When I saw this Mood Board some time ago 

I knew what I was going to make

as I had recently bought some itty bitty beverage dies.

This was fun to make - just a little fiddly.

I die cut lots of 'coffee' items in a few different colours,

added a large MFT circle die and inked with Tim's stencil

then a couple of cut out circle dies.

Added my coffee embellishments with one 'frothy' topped cup

which really is sand texture paste.

I stencilled the card base lightly as it needed a little something.

Sentiment is from STAMPlorations.

There is an amazing variety of inspiration from

our Talented Guest Gerda and Team Mates

for you to check out and lots to choose from

that Fabulous Mood Board.

Head off and create yours to add to our Gallery.

See you there.