August Challenge at A Place to Start - Anything Goes or Optional Twist

 Hello fellow crafters. Time for another great challenge at A Place to Start. As always the theme is Anything Goes. This month's optional twist is "Summer Things"

I chose a Whimsy Stamp called Beach Scene for my card. 

I chose this card fold for my card because I liked the way it framed the stamp.  The designer paper I used for the card is by Jessica Hogarth Designs called Sail Away. 

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week. Remember to pop by our challenge blog to be inspired by our talented design team. Hope you will; come and join us this month. 

613 Avenue Create - AUGUST 2025 - ANYTHING GOES W/ OPTIONAL TWIST SUMMER FUN

 Hello fellow crafters. Time for another great challenge at 613 Avenue Create. As always the challenge is anything goes and this month's optional twist is to create something that is Summer Fun (Create somethin fun filled).

This is my card that I made for this challenge.  I have a used an image from my stash created by Pattie's Creation. I just love her images. The image is called Flamingo Happy Hour. 

The products I used for this card are papers from my stash, copic markers, Nuvo Crystal Glaze for the sunglasses and drinks to give them depths. I used a rubber stampcalled Stone Wear Texture 

for the beach sand along with my copic sand marker, The flowers were from my stash.

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week. Remember to stop by our challenge blog to be inspired by our talented design team. 

Creative Artiste August Challenge 2025 Mixed Media Anything Goes

 Welcome to another challenge at Creative Artiste. 

Our theme is always

"Anything Mixed Media Goes"

Please make sure you use multiple mediums on your projects. 

The term “mixed media art” is a broad definition that covers many forms of arts and crafts, including collage, assemblage, altered objects, handmade greeting cards, artist trading cards (ATCs) tags and art journaling  as long as you use different mediums.

The “mixed media” used includes paint, paper, pastes, sprays, powders, textural elements, clay, resins, fabrics, found objects, photos, metal, inks, pencils, markers and pastels to name just a few.

The best thing with Mixed Media is there is no right or wrong way of doing things. There are no boundaries or rules to follow, it is all about where your creativity takes you. Mixed media can be kept simple with minimal clean lines, or as fussy and manic as you like. It's a great way to use up your scraps too, we all are guilty of keeping those little bits and pieces thinking it's too nice to just through away, even those teeny tiny off cuts of ribbon and lace.

Mixed Media is also a great way to upcycle because anything goes. Empty packaging, glass jars or bottles can be transformed. Got a pack of cards that have a few missing - turn them into little mini pieces of art. The possibilities are endless.
Make mixed media work for you, don't doubt yourself thinking you can't do this that or the other because it's might not be your style etc., just add your own twist

 to things.

This is my project for August, another couple of pages added to my art journal book.

More views of project

Background 

The start of my background for these pages I waws doing this week. 

Part of the pages I used for this art journal we from a chip book from Scrapbook.com

These are my 2 background pages I made with a couple of chipboard. I used several colours of acrylic paints, a stencil , designer papers. Copic Markers. The designer papers are from Stamperia and pages are from my scrapbooking art journal  book.

Background pages

the reverse pages from the project which I will use on another day. 

These were the two pages I used in this book.

Adding my 2 finished pages 

Original cover

Started this art journal book a few years ago and filling it with my pages has been very interesting. 

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative month. Remember to pop over to our challenge board to be inspired by our talented design team. 

Crafty Gals Corner - July Challenge - Challenge # 269 - Fill in the Blank - .....

The theme for this challenge is: 

~ Fill in the blank -  _____ July ~

(4th, Christmas, vacation, gardening, picnic, etc.)

  Our sponsors for this challenge are: 

(listed in alphabetical order)

Pattie's Creations

Prize ~ 3 Digital Images

* * * * * * * * * *

Ram Stamps

Prize ~ $10 Gift Certificate

A note from Rachelle Anne Miller:

I am an artist & designer living in the beautiful Adelaide Hills in South Australia with my husband and three amazing children! I love to create and am especially drawn to all things cute. I've worked on children's books, greeting cards, craft supplies, children's room décor, tech accessories, and more. I love to bring out joy and imagination in my art and create something a little different to inspire and make you smile.

I am filling in the blank with celebrating July 4th, Canada Day.

The image  I used for this challenge is from the collection of digis' of Pattie's  Creations. The image is called 

 Cheers to you Ladies

The image of the ladies is from called  Cheers to you Ladies from the collection of digi's from 

Pattie's Creations

The sentiment stamp "Well behaved women seldom make history." 

Thank you for stopping by and remember to pop over to our challenge blog to be inspired to by our talented design team. 

Hugs Judy

A PLACE TO START JULY CHALLENGE - ANYTHING GOES w/OPTIONAL TWIST: VELLUM

Time for another great challenge at A Place to Start this month.

The Challenge this month as always is Anything Goes with an optional Twist. This month's twist is to use vellum in your design. 

The vellum I used for this card has gold flex's in the design.  The embossing folder I used was an old one from my stash. I used blue background paper, Copic markers for colouring , vellum butterflies from some left over vellum from my staff. I also added some gems to give the card some sparkle.  I used a thin black sharpie to add a border on the card. 

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative month. Hope you will join us this month at A Place to Start. 

613 Avenue Create - JULY 2025 - ANYTHING GOES W/ OPTIONAL TWIST ANY HOLIDAY

Hello fellow crafters. Time for another great challenge at 613 Avenue create. As always the challenge is anything goes and this months optional twist is to create something for and holidays.

Challenge Twist:  Any holiday (create something for any holiday)

My holiday that I chose for this challenge is a Christmas theme card. 

I have had this cat theme knocking down the Christmas tree stamp for many years,  The stamp is from Technique Junkies one of my favourite companies from when I first started crafting. They also has a wonderful

technique news letter  that I reference still today.

The products I used for this card were:

Christmas tree die cut

Christmas designer paper from my stash

Christmas decoration (stars) - die cuts out of foil from my stash

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week. I hope you will join us this week, never to early to start your Christmas cards . 

Hugs Judy

Creative Artiste - July 2025 - Mixed Media "Anything Goes"

Welcome to another challenge at Creative Artiste. 

Our theme is always

"Anything Mixed Media Goes"

Please make sure you use multiple mediums on your projects. 

The term “mixed media art” is a broad definition that covers many forms of arts and crafts, including collage, assemblage, altered objects, handmade greeting cards, artist trading cards (ATCs) tags and art journaling  as long as you use different mediums.

The “mixed media” used includes paint, paper, pastes, sprays, powders, textural elements, clay, resins, fabrics, found objects, photos, metal, inks, pencils, markers and pastels to name just a few.

The best thing with Mixed Media is there is no right or wrong way of doing things. There are no boundaries or rules to follow, it is all about where your creativity takes you. Mixed media can be kept simple with minimal clean lines, or as fussy and manic as you like. It's a great way to use up your scraps too, we all are guilty of keeping those little bits and pieces thinking it's too nice to just through away, even those teeny tiny off cuts of ribbon and lace.

Mixed Media is also a great way to upcycle because anything goes. Empty packaging, glass jars or bottles can be transformed. Got a pack of cards that have a few missing - turn them into little mini pieces of art. The possibilities are endless.
Make mixed media work for you, don't doubt yourself thinking you can't do this that or the other because it's might not be your style etc., just add your own twist

 to things.

This is my project for July, a collage of old movies posts, faces etc. 

This was my inspiration for the collage that I found at a thrift store, movie reels.

To create my Mixed Media Collage of Old Movies I used the following products:

Old wooden frames used in reverse

decorative film reels

assortment of acrylic paints

wooden lettering and stars

stencil and distress inks

Gold 

Dimensional

Pearls and Stickles

pictures of movie stars from my stash, 

magazines, and from eBay

Copic Markers for colouring a couple of hand drawn film making tools

do you recognize a few of the movies and the stars.

The bowl of popcorn is from an Orville Redenbacher's package. For the bowl, I added acrylic modelling paste for texture and acrylic paint. 

This is the back ground I created for my project. 

Close up of a few sections on the collage.

 Thank you for stopping by and have a creative month. Hope you will join us this month.  Remember to pop over to our challenge blog to see the projects of our design team.