The Mixed Media Card Challenge #23 {Reflections}

Welcome to a brand new challenge here at The Mixed Media Card Challenge! For our challenge this month, the theme is REFLECTIONS, and optional element: WATER. Lots of ways you can go with the theme -- you can create mirror images, incorporate images (mirror, camera, water), or even use the word itself. So have a go at creating a mixed media card that follows the theme with or without water. The team can't wait to see what beauties you'll be linking up!

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 May 25, 11:55 p.m. Pacific  time.

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SANNA

Brusho with watercolor paper, reflections created with yellow and white ink, Distress Ink toned sky with stenciling, sun inked and then stenciled with metallic paste, clouds created with water, birds hand drawn, fussy cut mountain landscape from patterned paper, sentiment rub-ons.

JENNY

Sponging, stamping and stencilling with Distress Ink. Foil Sentiment and embellishments. Hero Arts Shadow Ink and Wink of Stellar for butterflies. Machine stitched border.

MELISSA

Zig Clean Color Real Brush Water Color Pens, ink, stamps, clear embossing powder, stencil.

MARIA F.
Watercolors over acrylic paint resist, Glossy Accents, embossing paste through a stencil, random stamping and heat embossing.

Becca
Colored with Distress Crayons, Gelatos, Chalk Marker. Sentiment strip made from vellum & embossing.

SHIRLEY

Distress Inks, Fran-Tage embossing powder, Sakura Stardust pen, water bleaching.

YASMINA
Watercolor paper. Stamplorations Stamp with Black Archival Ink coloured with watercolors pencils from Prima Marketing. Sentiment from Clearly Besotted.

TENIA

Faber-Castell Gelatos, Heat Embossing, Die Cutting, Dye Ink, Watermark Ink, Washi Tape, Sticker Stitches, Sequins, Water

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An InLinkz Link-up

A friendly reminder: We are a CARD challenge, therefore please only submit card projects (no layouts, altered projects, ATCs, etc.).

April Challenge Winner and Highlights

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

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

#3 vicki dutcher

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 vicki dutcher

Maria F. says, "Vicki's card just screams sunshine to me and I love the touch of the watercolored blue clouds as contrast."

#10 Deepti

Jenny says, "I can't stop looking at Dee's card - I love the sunshine contrasted against the amazing stormy background!"

#8 LauraVi

Sanna says, "I really like the contrast of the white paper against the crackled sunray paper piece and the sweet flowers on top! Such a pretty card!"

#18 Mac Mable

Julia says, "What wonderful texture and design on Mac Mable's card - love the brick chimney rising into the clouds and beautiful cone flowers."

Lee-Anne says, "Love the textures and the flowers reaching up to the brilliant sun."

Shirley says, "A perfect example of using textures appropriate to the image: fluffy clouds, rough bricks, shiny sun - and I love those pretty flowers!"

#9 Pooja

Becca says, "Wowzas! I was so impressed with the juxtaposition of dark and light. And the way she got those lines to match up in the foreground and the background? Color me impressed!"

Yasmina says, "I love love Pooja's card. I love how she combine the bright and the dark colors. The yellow really pop up  her card!"

#5 SewPaperPaint

Melissa says, "I love, love, love, Autumn's beautifully layered sunshiny Springy smile-inducing creation! If you have not been over to see the other cards in the trio, please take a Spring vacation and visit Autumn's blog."

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 (an hour from now) for the May Challenge!

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