Monday, December 1, 2014

The Mixed Media Card Challenge #6 {Home}

We have a brand new challenge here at The Mixed Media Card Challenge! This month, our theme is "HOME". That's a pretty wide open theme. Our optional element: lace. Are you game?


HOW TO PLAY
1. Create a mixed media CARD based on the theme, with or without the optional element.
2. Display the challenge graphic on your blog post and link back to this challenge post.
3. You may enter as many times as you want, as long as each entry is different.
4. You may combine a maximum of 7 challenges (6 other challenges plus ours).
5. Submit your projects by December 25, 11:55 p.m. PST (GMT -800).
6. We'll announce the winner and highlights on December 31.

How did we interpret the theme? Take a look below. We hope our mixed media cards inspire you to play along with us! We look forward to seeing your beautiful cards!


Distress inks and pens, stamping and sponging. Color Shine spray, die cuts, wooden window coloured with paint, Wink of Stella for shimmer, twine, lace and wooden berries.
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Falling snow background made with sparkle texture effect over polka-dot stencil. Houses stamped, coloured with copics, fussy-cut and popped up for added dimension. Ripped card stock for snow bank with glitter glue along top to add more sparkle.
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Background made using a piece of lace as a stencil, then misted over it. Chipboard houses colored with markers, then added a layer of crackle accents. Wax crayon golden droplets, stamped sentiment and glitter glue covered chipboard hearts. Doodled faux stitching frame.
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Mirrored stars layered onto snowy stamped sky, snowflake tinsel embossed roof tops, sponged edges on moon and die cut townscape, dimension added using foam dots under house panel, moon and sentiment strip. (I used lace on the inside of my card!)
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Watercoloring a dry embossed panel with some die cut elements and cork embellishments makes for my mixed media card.
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Watercoloring, embossing paste with stencil, glitter
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Shaker box card, gold spray splatter base, clear "snow" glitter and red hearts inside the shaker, stamped in gold embossing powder with Countryside and stitched circle die-cut details.
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Background-flourish stamp in archival ink, colored wave stencil with distress stain and baby wipes, added texture paste to dotted circle stencil; Large Snowflake is a die cut acrylic skin (photo tutorial on blog); Snow Scene is stamped in archival ink; snow-white charcoal pencil, white acrylic paint and stardust pen accents. 
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Dry-embossed and inked cardbase. Watercolored and stencilled main panel. Die cut images edged with artificial snow.
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Clear gesso on pattern paper followed by stamping and free hand watercolour and India ink painting
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Background heavy aquarelle paper. Masked gel medium flowers, covered with several shades of green inks. Bottom part of card front decorated with small leaf stamps. Upper part inked with blue inks, splashed with water. Tree stems stamped on brown paper, cut out. Glued on green die-cut flowers. Little chipboard house colored with several layers of brown paint, parts of paint removed with a toothpick.
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Background created with a thin layer of gesso, Distress paints, stamps, Distress inks, whipped spackle with Gelatos applied over a stencil, and Japanese watercolor brush pen for the distressed border; collage house and stamped trees using patterned paper; sentiment stamped on scrap paper and swiped with Distress ink.

2 comments:

  1. Beautiful inspiration! Inky greetings, Gerrina

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  2. Thank you for the wonderful inspiration and for the fun challenge! Happy Holidays!

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