December Challenge Winner and Highlights

Hey there, mixed media card artists! It's time to announce the winner and highlights for the December CELEBRATION challenge.

Here's the winning mixed media card as chosen by the design team:

#16 Pamellia

Congratulations! Please grab your winner badge below to display proudly on your blog.

And now here are the highlights. The girls in the design team picked an entry to highlight. It's the entry that uniquely impacted us in some way -- a specific technique that was used, the colors, the creativity, or something in it that touched or impacted us.

#14 Mona Pendleton

Yasmina says, "I always love Mona's cards! I really love this masculine card, the texture, the colors."

#29 Pon Malar

Sanna says, "I really liked the idea of this card as well as the landscape design! Gorgeous colors and texture/detail on the landscape circle! Sadly we can only pick one favorite, there were so many more fabulous cards on this round that also would deserve a honorable mention!"

#15 Tone K

Julia says, "What wonderful layering of metal, resin, pastes and inks on Tone's lovely creation!"

Lysa says, "I just love the color, texture and depth this card has. I love the white space, it makes the colors pop. Gorgeous!"

#7 Toni at FHC

Elina says, "Gorgeous vibrant colours and a beautiful design. That poinsettia really pops!"

Maria F. says, "Toni's use of color just grabbed my attention, again and again."

#13 Autumn

Jenny says, "I love the blue and white colour scheme and and the shabby chic feel to the card."

#28 Toni at FHC

Lee-Anne says, "Love how the beautiful green pines pop against the blue background. Simple and so beautiful!"

#21 Lilian YF

Melissa says, "Washi meets Winter Bunny is so sweet! Oh, how cute is this perfectly Copic colored little rabbit? Lillian's beautiful splattery, glittery, joyful washi background tickled my CAS and mixed media loving heart! :)"

Congratulations, ladies! Grab your badge below to display proudly on your blog.

Get your artsy supplies together and check back at 6 a.m. Pacific (GMT -8) tomorrow for the first challenge of the year!

Be artsy. Be messy. Be creative! :o)

The Inspiration Keeps on Coming.. [Challenge #18]

Hello! The December Challenge ends in a little under 3 days so here's one last dose of mixed media goodness to inspire. Check them out and then link up your mixed media cards here! We hope you all have a wonderful Christmas!

MELISSA

Stenciled red ink on doily, sponged silver, embossed sentiment, added ribbon and fussy cut holly print.

                                                                       MARIA F

Smooshed Distress Inks, stamping with white pigment ink, sequins, die cuts, vellum.

Mixed Media Challenge #18 [More Inspiration]

Hello again, mixed media cardmakers!  Just popping in with another gorgeous card from Melissa, to give you some inspiration.
This month's theme is 'CELEBRATION', so that covers a multitude - Christmas, Birthday, Hanukkah, New Year and the list goes on....  The optional element is 'Vellum'.

                                                                       Melissa
Copics, Water color paint, Stickles, embossing powder & white pigment ink added to my holly print.

You'll need to pop on over to Melissa's blog to see the full card and more - it's definitely worth the visit.

You still have time to join in the fun - the deadline is 25DEC - you can enter here.

Mixed Media Card Challenge #18 [More Inspiration]

Hey, mixed media cardmakers!  Are you playing along with our challenge this month? The theme is 'CELEBRATION', so that covers a multitude - Christmas, Birthday, Hanukkah, New Year and the list goes on....  The optional element is 'Vellum'.

Here are some more cards from our Design Team to get you inspired...

MELISSA

Scanned in and printed out an image of my holly water color painting onto vellum. I used an Artplorations stencil & metallic stencil color on metallic cs to make the frame, added Glossy Accents to the berries and heat embossed sentiment in white on black card stock. I have another card to share too! Come on over and check it out.

LYSA

Layered papers with faux stitching using paint pen. Background has gesso and acrylic paint splatters along with a heat embossed tree image. Quote is vellum.

YASMINA

Background with acrylic paint (Dylusions paint) on watercolor paper - Stamps from Prima and colored with paint. Highlight and doodling with a white Sharpie pen.

So now it's your turn. We'd love to see your creations. The challenge is open until 11:55 Pacific time on 25 December, and we'd love you to play along HERE!

November Challenge Winners

Hey there, mixed media card artists!  It's time to announce the winner and highlights for the November 'FAMILY' challenge. 

Here's the winning mixed media card as chosen by the design team:

                                                                    
                                                                  #9 Mona Pendleton
       Congratulations! Please grab your winner badge below to display proudly on your blog.

And now here are the highlights. The girls in the design team picked an entry to highlight. It's the entry that uniquely impacted us in some way -- a specific technique that was used, the colors, the creativity, or something in it that touched or impacted us.

#3 Jerrie 

Becca said 

"I love the grungy eclectic feel of this! And the sentiment is really cool - such a perfect tribute to her special fella."

   

#6 The Paper Baker (Nicole)

Maria F said

"Nicole's campfire shaker card brings back wonderful memories and makes me smile ear to ear. Her marshmallow is the topping on the card."

Julia said 

"I love her camping theme - with the fun and colorful shaker component as well as her creative toasted marshmallow! "

#12 Maria Slavkovska

Sanna said
"  Absolutely gorgeous set of Christmas cards! Beautiful details and layers! "
Shirley said

"wonderful mix of colours, textures and layers!"

#7 Naki

Melissa said

"Bright and fun, with a super mix of techniques and textures. Such a happy family tree card!!"

#9 Mona Pendleton

Elina said

"Love the use of non-traditional color palette for this beautiful Christmas card. Lovely textures and layers. True eye candy!"

Jenny said

"Mona's background is a masterpiece of mixed media - I love the depth, texture and yumminess! The glittery pink deer looks perfect on this wintery background."

        Congratulations, ladies! Grab your badge below to display proudly on your blog.

There's still plenty of time to enter this month's challenge! 

Be artsy. Be messy. Be creative! :o)             

The Mixed Media Card Challenge #18 {Celebration}

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. Pacific (GMT-8).
6. We'll announce the winner and highlights on December 31.

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So how did the design team interpret the theme? Take a look at the cards below. We hope they inspire you to play along with us! We look forward to seeing your beautiful cards!

LEE-ANNE

Stamped background with archival ink, heat embossed tree with splatters of acrylic paint mixed with water and alcohol ink on the star

JULIA

I used opaque acrylics to paint the skirt over the stamped silhouette woman, I used the same paints for brush strokes on the background, adding black streaks with a Stabilo pencil blurred with a wet finger. I added a die cut sentiment and sequins and sponged the edges of the panel.

MELISSA

Sketched the holly with pencil on watercolor paper. Water colored the sketch. Traced the leaves and stem with a silver gel pen. Added Glossy Accents to berries. Applied VersaMark ink to edges of leaves with a marker. Heat embossed leaves with white EP.

SHIRLEY

Designer paper, Distress Paint (brushed and stencilled), Distress Inks, vellum, ribbon, brads, net flower, stamens, die-cut leaf sprig, clear Gelli pen.

BECCA

Vellum die cut leaves - died with Distress Spray Stain, Distress Inks, gold texture paste, metal embellishments, plastic beads, gold embossing powder, gold ribbon.

SANNA

Light blue vellum stamped with a Hero Arts Snowflake stamp, then embossed with white embossing powder, a chipboard frame embossed with white pearl embossing powder, then stamp kissed with the Hero Arts snowflake stamp. Matted with glitter paper. Decorational elements: blue rhinestones and white texture spray.

ELINA

Background painted with several Distress Paint colors; white acrylic paint added with a brayer. Decorated with a texture stamp. Petals of the die-cut flower inked before rolling, glued down on a vellum circle. Leaves die-cut from white cardstock, glued on background.

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TENIA

Watercolor markers, Pigment Ink, Clear Embossing Powder, Journaling Card, Twine, Vellum, Washi Tape, Sticker Stitches, Stencil

JENNY
Layered stamping on green card stock, gesso  and silver embossing on chipboard tag, glitter paper on card base and silver metal stars for bling.

MARIA

Used dies to make a stencil for embossing paste, cut stars from glitter CS and cut vellum balloons for shaker element. Stitched balloon.

YASMINA
Collage paper from 7 Dots Studios with gel medium, added yellow primary element and red brusho with water, gesso clear on the emellishments before adding color.

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