You Still Have Time to Play in our December TicTacToe Challenge

You Still Have Time to Play in our December TicTacToe Challenge

We would like to thank all our players for your support of our 7th Challenge. Our gallery is filled with beautiful and inspiring mixed media creations that follow our TicTacToe themes. 

We just wanted to remind you that you have until midnight EST on Wednesday, December 31 to play in our December TicTacToe Challenge. That's 5 Days away!!

Our random winner will receive a $25 gift card from Inspiration Emporium. Our design team will pick a winner and several honorable mentions who will be able to proudly display our graphic on their blogs. Winners will be announced on Monday, January 5.

Our new challenge will start on Thursday, January 1 and run through January 31.  Be sure to check back then to find out what our new theme is, who our new sponsor and guest designer are. AND we have an exciting announcement to make January 1. It's going to be a FUN month!!

Also, did you know that we are on social media?? Here are all the places you can follow us for mixed media inspiration, techniques and challenge reminders. And, be sure to follow our blog!!

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/mixedmediamc
Twitter - https://twitter.com/mixedmediamc
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbaaS2uV_xR-MR98X0N1upA
Instagram - mixedmediamc

We look forward to seeing your amazing TicTacToe creations and having you join us for our eighth challenge starting January 1!

November Winners!

Please click here for our December Tic Tac Toe Challenge

It's time to reveal our winners of our November Stamp It challenge! We had such an amazing round up of stamped projects last month, it was really hard for us to pick these winners! Thank you as always for joining in our challenge. Check out all of the November entries in our gallery here.

The winner of our November challenge is #34 - Ingrid with her stunning vintage holiday tag! Ingrid, please grab you winners badge below!

Ingrid

Here are our November Honorable Mentions (in no particular order). Pick up your badge below!

Lisa H

Svetlana Austin

Inky and Quirky

Our random winner of the $50 Unity Stamp Company gift certificate is Debbie Reed! Please email Rachel at rwkrafts(at)gmail(dot)com to claim your fabulous prize!

Debbie

Thank you to everyone who joined in our challenge! We look forward to seeing all of your gorgeous projects in our December Tic Tac Toe Challenge!

Mixed Media Monthly Challenge #7 - Tic Tac Toe

Welcome to the December 2014 Mixed Media Monthly Challenge - 
Tic Tac Toe!! 

We are thrilled to have you with us for our December challenge!! We are so lucky that the amazing online store Inspiration Emporium is sponsoring our challenge this month. They are generously offering a $25 gift card for our Random Winner and a discount code for anyone reading this right now!! Just use the code MMMC for 10% off your entire order!!

We are also excited to introduce our December 2014 Guest Designer - Joy Kennedy!! Joy is an amazing mixed media artist who owns the Inspiration Emporium. Later in this post you can read more about Joy and see the fabulous project she made for our Tic Tac Toe Challenge.

 

DESIGN TEAM HOST - DONNA

I'm Donna and I'll be hosting the challenge this month. The theme for this month's challenge is Tic Tac Toe. Just pick 3 in a row and use those products to create any type of mixed media project. My 3 in a row are Star, Glitter, Die/Punch - that's how I made the glittery smaller star. I'm going to show you my project for this challenge along with a tutorial. Keep going and you will see the projects from our Guest Designer Joy Kennedy and the other MMMC Designers. I know you will be inspired to make something amazing!

Here's my finished 8x10 canvas. 

Here's how I made it. 

First, I gathered some pink patterned papers and adhered them to the canvas using Decoupage. I was inspired to make the patchwork background after watching a video by Christy Tomlinson where she made a patchwork background for her canvas. I colored the pieces with different colors of pink using Faber Castell Stampers Big Brush Pens. I also colored all the seams to make them stand out. 

After I started coloring I played with it a lot and added some darker pinks to get more contrast.

Next, I cut a large triangle from patterned paper and adhered it to the canvas. For the collage tree, I collected all the embellishments I could find that I could cover with Gesso. 

Here's what they looked like.

 

Then I put all the pieces in the triangle to make sure I had enough to cover the tree. 

Then I covered all the pieces with spray Gesso.

Finally, I sprayed all the pieces green using a Heidi Swapp Color Shine Spray in Citron and adhered them to the canvas using a hot glue gun. For the star I cut a piece of canvas into the shape of a star and painted it with gold paint. Then I cut a star shape and added paint and gold glitter to create the smaller star. To finish off the project I outlined the tree with a Stampers Big Brush pen and added stamps and rub-ons to the background.

Thanks for visiting us and I can't wait to see what you create and how many ways you can make Tic Tac Toe!!

DECEMBER GUEST DESIGNER - JOY KENNEDY

Hello!  I'm Joy Kennedy and I am thrilled to be this month's guest designer for The Mixed Media Monthly Challenge.  I have been paper crafting for 10 years now and my family owns an online store called Inspiration Emporium.  I live in beautiful Southern California, just a few minutes away from Disneyland, which is a frequent hang out for the family.  I love sports and New Kids on the Block.  :)  I'm a computer geek by day, but love to spend the evenings in my craft room just getting "lost" in a project.

Joy made a beautiful Christmas card using the Tim Holtz Snowman Blueprint Stamp. She made Tic Tac Toe by using a die (snowman), ribbon and stamps.

Die Cut, Stamp, Ribbon

 

Now more inspiration from our Design Team...

RACHEL
Die Cuts, Stars, Glitter

LYNN A

Glitter, Bow, Ribbon

LALO

Glitter, Bow, Ribbon, Tape, Star, 

Patterned Paper, Stencil, Die, Stamps, Glitter

LYNN K
Stencil, Glitter, Patterned Paper

 
Melanie
Star, Patterned Paper, Ribbon

Please visit each designer's blog post to see details on how the project was created... also make sure to leave them some love while you're there!

We don't have many rules, but ask that you do follow the ones we have! 

* Mention in your post how you made a TIC TAC TOE in your project

* Your post must link back to the Mixed Media Monthly Challenge post

* Add a link to your direct post, not your entire blog

* You can combine with as many other challenges as you want.

* You can enter up to 5 times, create whatever you want, and HAVE FUN!

You have until December 31st at 11:59 pm EST to enter! Remember... a random lucky winner will get a $25 Inspiration Emporium gift certificate!

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You Still Have Time to Play in our November STAMPS Challenge

We would like to thank all our players for your support of our 6th Challenge. Our gallery is filled with beautiful and inspiring mixed media creations that incorporate STAMPS.

We just wanted to remind you that you have until midnight EST on Sunday, November 30 to play in our November STAMPS Challenge. That's 5 Days away!!

Our random winner will receive a $50 gift card from Unity Stamps. Our design team will pick a winner and several honorable mentions who will be able to proudly display our graphic on their blogs. Winners will be announced on Friday, November 5.

Our new challenge will start on Monday, December 1 and run through December 31.  Be sure to check back then to find out what our new theme is, who our new sponsor and guest designer are. It's going to be a FUN month!!

Also, did you know that we are on social media?? Here are all the places you can follow us for mixed media inspiration, techniques and challenge reminders. And, be sure to follow our blog!!

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/mixedmediamc
Twitter - https://twitter.com/mixedmediamc
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbaaS2uV_xR-MR98X0N1upA
Instagram - mixedmediamc

We look forward to seeing your amazing creations incorporating ribbons, twine and/or fiber and having you join us for our sixth challenge starting November 1!

Welcome Baby!!!

Click here for our November STAMPS Challenge.

Today, we want to say Congratulations to our FAB Design Team Member Lalo Ik on the birth of her 5th child one month ago today on October 22, 2014. Isn't he a cutie?

In honor of this sweet occasion, we decided to make some Baby themed mixed media projects to welcome Lalo's latest creation into the world and send her our very best wishes.  Help us in congratulating Lalo by leaving a comment on this post for her.

Donna

Rachel

Lynn Kopas

Melanie

October Winners!

Click here for our November Challenge Post

It's time to announce the winners from our October Ribbons, Twine & Fibers challenge! It wasn't easy to pick from all our awesome entries. The entries in our October Gallery were fabulous! Please take some time to peruse our October Gallery for tons of mixed media inspiration.

Now, onto the winners of our October Challenge.  

The winner of our October Challenge is #46 Asia King with her totally spooky Halloween Altered Lantern with a bonus tutorial 

Please grab your winners badge.

Asia King

Our Honorable Mentions (in no particular order). Please pick up our badge for your blog. 

Marina

Ingrid

Nicola

Our Random Winner and winner of the May Arts Ribbon prize is 

Jess M. Congrats Jen! 

Please send your address to mixedmediamonthly@gmail.com 

and we'll get your prize to you soon.

Jess M.

A HUGE thanks to everyone who supported us and played in our October Challenge. We hope you will join us again for our November STAMPS Challenge!

Mixed Media Monthly Challenge #6 - Stamps

Welcome back to The Mixed Media Monthly Challenge #6  - STAMPS!

We are thrilled to have UNITY STAMP COMPANY as our fantastic sponsor this month! They are offering up a $50 gift certificate to a random lucky entrant! Woohoo!

NOVEMBER GUEST DESIGNER - ANGIE BLOM

Hi my name is Angie Blom and I am a stamp illustrator for Unity Stamp Company, and I am also on their Design Team. I have been creating stamps for Unity for three years. I call myself lucky to be working along side some great designers.  I am a young 50 year old, married for 27+ years with two growing children 19 and 8, I am blessed that they keep me young at heart.  I am also working with the Scrapbook and Cards Today magazine touring with their Crop and Create events, where I get a chance to teach with Unity Stamps. But if you do attend the events I am usually front and center taking your registration and helping out where needed. You can find my blog at Angie Blom Design Two! 

Angie made a stunning canvas for our challenge! She used brand new Suzi Blu Unity stamps to create this 6x6 piece. Visit her blog for a detailed look at how she created it!

DESIGN TEAM HOST - MELANIE

Hi! I’m Melanie and I’m the host for this month’s challenge. I use stamps so much in my mixed media that I don't even think about it. If you haven’t tried it yet, dig through your stash and think of unique ways to incorporate various stamps into your projects.

For this project I started with my surface, which is some lumbar cut into a 5.5” square. I primed it first then painted the sides.

I pulled papers, paper scraps, and various embellishments from my stash and put them together to see what colors worked and what type of image I wanted to create. I loved the cardstock sticker houses, so I decided to go with a “home” theme. I assembled the papers and created a scene.

I remembered a fun tree stamp that was in my stash (from Unity Stamp Co). I pulled a paper with some fall-ish colors and stamped the image using Staz-On black ink. I always use Staz-On because it’s water proof. I want my project to withstand even accidental moisture. 

After I stamped the patterned paper, I stamped the image onto the project itself.

Then I cut the circles from the patterned paper and adhered them onto the tree.

I repeated this process and made another tree. I used some botanical flourish stamps to create a border around the entire project, and added some random stamping on the project itself to create texture. 

There are so many creative ways to use stamps in mixed media. I can’t wait to be inspired by your creations this month!

Now more inspiration from our Design Team...

DONNA

RACHEL

LALO

LYNN A

LYNN K

All of our designers used fabulous Unity stamps in their projects! Please visit each designer's blog post to see details on how the project was created... also make sure to leave them some love while you're there!

We don't have many rules, but ask that you do follow the ones we have! 

* Mention in your post how you used Stamps in your project

* Your post must link back to the Mixed Media Monthly Challenge post

* Add a link to your direct post, not your entire blog

*You can combine with as many other challenges as you want.

* You can enter up to 5 times, create whatever you want, and HAVE FUN!

You have until November 30th at 11:59pm EST to enter! Remember... a random lucky winner will get a $50 Unity gift certificate! 

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