Celebrating our #100th at Creative Artiste Mixed Media

We are celebrating our #100th Challenge at

 Creative Artiste Mixed Media

with this challenge a little different to our usual Anything Goes.

Christmas is just a few weeks away

 and have added the option of 

Anything Goes Mixed Media with a

Christmas Theme.

Our Talented Guest Betta

and the Team have gone with

a special Mixed Media Christmas make.

After coming home from a little holiday

I was full of ideas but Mo and Jo were overwhelmed

hence it took me a few days to narrow down what I wanted to create.

As it turned out what I started with is nothing like

what I had in mind and in the end it just wasn't me

so I started all over again and again!

When you want to do something special you 

overthink it and try too hard. 

In the end and running out of time I am

finally happy with my Christmas Creation.

Here is some progress photos

I wasn't happy with this background and it

did go in the bin only to come out the next day.

(Things weren't going to planat this stage)

adding kraft paper with splatters and rolled to top part

then added rolled paper from an old book.

Inked the edges with AA Rusty Brown Wax.

Then deciding what elements to add.

Art stones, crystal snow and cheescloth.

Tim's Holiday Greens, Deer with more snow,

Die cut envelope and note

Joy die is Kaisercraft inked and covered in Nuvo

Hollywood Red Sparkle Dust and adhered to

thick cardboard. Somewhere along the way

I lost the itty bitty i.

Finished with some sequins, gems and chipboard pieces I left natural.

Design Team Member Fiona has kindly donated 

this prize for one lucky Winner!

Be sure to add your Mixed Media to Our Blog for a chance to be chosen the Winner.

Looking forward to seeing all the lovely projects.

Hope yours will be there. 

PS - As we do each year we take January off to freshen up

our creativeness and get over Christmas/New Year festivities 😊

Thank you for all your kind comments during the year.

See you in Febraury!

Have a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year.

Be True to You!

 

 Hello and Welcome to today's post for the Beautiful Blossoms

AG Flowers Optional Colour Mood Board Challenge #11

This is my second card after recently finding this challenge.

The focus is always on flowers/florals.

I love the bright bold colours and this time

went all out as you can see. 

Background is a mix of Tim's Oxide inks - 

Peeled Paint, Blueprink Sketch,

Prize Ribbon, Fossilized Amber

and Spiced Marmalade.

Lindy's Grab a Guy Gold.

Flowers are Tim's Wildflower Stems #1

Added stamping from

AALL&Create One of a Kind/Scripts

and Broken Circles Stencil.

Sentiment is from Power of the Word.

Finished with white splatters and 

attached to white card base.

Till next time - 

Going CAS at Just Us Girls

It's our Last Challenge of the year at

 Just Us Girls and Bobby is Hosting our

CAS Challenge and chose the prompt - 

In a Circle.

I must admit this card was made long ago

when my girlfriend was visiting.

When I saw this challenge come up on our DT blog

I knew I wanted to keep it for this one.

It is using a technique I have wanted to play with

for a long time  and we finally did together.

You will all remember Eileen Godwin with her

masking of colours that we all loved.

I used Tim's Destress inks and the vellum

die cut flower was one my girlfriend bought

that we both used. 

Certainly CAS - finishing with a pearl

in the centre of the flower.

Our Guest Melissa and the Team have created such 

super fun wonderful inspiring cards and we would 

love to see yours in the Gallery for the last time this year.

A big Thank You to Melissa for sharing her talents

with us as our November Guest. 

Thanks for all the lovely comments this year.

I really appreciate them.

Merry Christmas 

See you in January to do it all again.

Something Beautiful!

 I recently came across the Beautiful Blossoms blog 

thanks to Design Team Member Darlene.

It's all about flowers/florals with an optional mood board.

The current challenge has a stunning colourful one with 

Details Here to check out.

and a close up showing the shimmer a little better.

Those that know me are aware of how I love a colour challenge

and this one above with those gorgeous blooms caught my eye.

I recently purchased the lotus leaf die set and

unwrapped it to create this CAS card.

A nice break from Christmas cards.

I used watercolour paper colouring my flower with

Lindy's Cowabunga Copper

Cattail Copper Brown and

Glory of the Sea Gold.

Memory Box Pinpoint Double Frame

popping the centre piece.

Flower was cut twice and offset for interest.

Added a black pearl, small leaf and 

strips on the side for more colour.

Finished with my sentiment inked in

Versafine Clair Nocturne heat embossed clear.

With such lovely mood board colours and

plenty of time left to play I am sure I will be 

back over at the Beautiful Blossoms Challenge again soon

after I add my card above to their Gallery.

Thanks for dropping in

Sweater Weather at the Sisterhood

 It's 'Sweater Weather' in the North

and that is our Theme at

The Sisterhood of Crafters

I went in a different direction with this card

as I  don't have any 'real sweater' stamps in my stash.

 Tim's Holiday Knits stencil came to the rescue.

I added colour and texture with

Cosmic Shimmer Golden Olive Metallic Gilding Polish

My Paper Smooches Merry Christmas Die

was cut several times for depth and adhered to vellum.

Framed and adhered to white base.

The Sistah's have created fabulous sweater cards

for your inspiration and I am sure you will

want to add yours to the Gallery.

See you there!

Christmas Wishes

Carol Mc is Hosting our Photo/Mood Board Challenge

for Just Us Girls with a bunch of beautiful Christmas choices.

Here's a bigger detailed photo.

You can see what caught my eye - 

the greenery in the middle.

I inked the ARTplorations A2 panels

with Tim's Distress and Oxide inks

and layered them. The greenery is also

 Tim's Mini Holiday Greens coloured with

the above and Lindy's Magicals..

Added some splatters, cotton and beads.

Finishing with a simple Christmas Sentiment.

Head over and see what our Guest Melissa

and Talented Teamies chose from the

fabulous Mood Board and come join in by

adding yours to our Gallery.

 Thanks for dropping in

A Simple 'Thank You'

Today is Remembrance Day here in Australia 

and each year I make a 

Thank You card with poppies.

I was so happy to see our Host Carol M

chose Thanks/Thanksgiving as our Word Challenge at

Just Us Girls

My granddaughter recently gave me a box of tissue paper

and ribbons and that is where the idea for my

 CAS card came from.

My SB die cut flower is scrunched up red tissue paper.

Added a stamen in the middle with a hint of glitter.

Popped lightly onto the textured background 

and again onto card base.

Simple thank you sentiment is 49&Market

inked and heat embossed clear.

There is such a variety of wonderful cards

presented to you on our blog from

Melissa and the Team so head over and check them out

and join in with yours to the Gallery.

PS - When this goes live I will be spending time

in the tropics with family celebrating birthday's

for my son in law and Miss Harper Jane's 1st.

A Fall/Harvest Theme at the Sisterhood of Crafters

It's time for out New Challenge at The Sisterhood of Crafters

with the Theme Fall/Harvest.

My card is fairly CAS, die cutting three

rectangles, inking with distress colours

and adding some grunge stamping to the edges.

My leaf is one I picked up with a bunch of others

walking back from the mailbox.

(I have a loooong driveway)

I popped the leaf, added some splatters,

simple sentiment and framed.

Finished by adhering to white card base.

Check out how the Sistah's chose to

create their Fall/Harvest cards and join in

with yours in our Gallery.

Thanks for visiting

A Jolly Gnome's Christmas

It's time for our New Challenge at

 Christmas Craft Creations

and we are looking for 

I got out one of my cute Gnome stamps from Poppy Crafts,

 did a 'little' colouring and

fussy cut his hat from scrap DP

I popped him on top of a white SB die

and added a red frame behind it.

Thought a sparkly heart would be a nice touch.

Added a shaped DP piece as backing on white card stock

and adhered to red card base.

Sentiment is from STAMPlorations.

Head over and see how the Team used our Hat Theme

on their projects and come join in with yours

in our Gallery.

Thanks for visiting

Just for You

 Happy Little Stampers Stencil Challenge

is now LIVE!

Some simple stencilling here using

a home made stencil with Tim's Hickory Smoke.

Inked the side using a credit card.

Blingy sparkly butterfly is Spellbinders.

Sentiment - Couture Creations.

Inked the edges and added to white card base.

Check out what the other Stencil Designers

have created and hope you can add

a card to our Gallery this month.

Wishing you a Merry Christmas!

 Christmas is just around the corner (yep) and 

hosting our Colour Week at  Just Us Girls is Carol M

choosing a very Christmasy Colour Combination.

Our New Month brings us a New Guest Designer

A Big Welcome to Melissa Craig from

stampit scrapit shareit

You Guessed it!  GREEN & RED

Going CAS with this one. Die cut the Merry

from an old CB alphabet set in red and green tones.

Sentiment is from Hero Arts

Tied silver trim to the e, attached a heart

and bow. Flicked some silver splats

(a little hard to see)

Attached to green card base. Easy peasy!

Hope to see you over in the Gallery

after you checked out the makes from

our Guest Melissa and the Team.

Creative Trading Coins

It's that time of the month for our 

New Anything Goes Mixed Media Challenge at

Creative Artiste Mixed Media

I went with something a little different for me - 

I love the concept of Artist Trading Cards

 but went with coins.

They are a whole lot of fun to make..

Here is how they came together

Die cut circles, added strips of washi tape

 coloured with Lindy's Magical's

with random stamping 

Added splatters with my posca pen

Die cut my insects from coloured Lindy's Magical's

but didn't use the beetle

I chose a variety of products for the backgrounds

and Tim's Small Talk sentiments but in black

The bee has gold thread

Dragonfly has dyed cheesecloth

and butterfly has sisal

Head over and check out what fabulous pieces

have been created for your pleasure and hope you

get to have a bit of mixed media time

to add to our Gallery.

 Thanks for visiting