Mixed Media Monthly #25 - 2nd Year Celebration!!

Welcome to the Mixed Media Monthly Challenge #25

"2nd Anniversary"

(just pick one or more of our challenge themes from the past year)

 

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Our May Sponsor is the fabulous online store
The Funkie Junkie Boutique
~They are offering a $25 gift certificate to our lucky random winner!!~ 

The Funkie Junkie Boutique is a small boutique craft seller catering to the paper crafting and mixed media craft community. Our boutique offers name brand craft supplies such as Ranger/Tim Holtz, Wendy Vecchi, Prima and many other name brands at approximately 20% off MSRP. We also offer many many funkie findings, different and somewhat unique craft items. We spend a lot of time searching out fun and funkie out-of-the-mainstream crafting items to offer for sale.

The hallmark of our business is personal customer service. Each order is individually packaged by our staff with lots of care. We want to make shopping at The Funkie Junkie Boutique a fun event. We truly value each and every customer and aim to provide the highest level of quality and service.

 

The Funkie Junkie Boutique is having a sale!! Check it out!!

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This month we welcome back The Funkie Junkie Boutique Design Team Leader Jenny Marples as our Guest Designer. 

Jenny was inspirted to create this beautiful canvas by our April Theme "Dimension"

Jenny created this beautiful project using our

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 And now for some inspiration from our Design Team...

DONNA

"Butterflies & Blooms"

RACHEL
"Dimension"

MELANIE
"Silver & Gold"

KAREN
"Texture"

ASTRID
"Get Texty"

 LISA H.
"Time Flies"

Make sure you visit each designer's blog and leave some comment love for them... we LOVE hearing from you all!

Please follow these rules to be eligible for placements and prizes. Entries not following our rules will be deleted.

* You must use our challenge graphic in your challenge post.
* You must comment on at least 3 design team member's blogs. 

* Your post must link back to the Mixed Media Monthly Challenge post
* Add a link to your direct post, not your entire blog, a YouTube Video or a Pinterest Board
* You can combine with up to 4 other challenges. 
* No Backlinking allowed! Any back-linked entries will be deleted.
* You can enter up to 5 times, create whatever you want, and HAVE FUN!

You have until 11:55 pm EST on June 30th to enter!

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April "Dimension" Challenge Winners

*Click here for our May "Butterflies & Blooms" Challenge*

It's time to reveal the winners of our April "Dimension" Challenge! The entries this month were absolutely beautiful. Thank you all SO MUCH for continuing to join our monthly challenges. You can view the gallery of April entries here.

WINNER!

The winner of our April challenge is Angela Radford from Felix the Crafty Cat with her gorgeous Shrine that is loaded with Dimension! Please grab your winners badge below and display it proudly on your blog!

Angela

Now time for our Honorable Mentions for the March "Photo Inspiration" Challenge. Please grab your Honorable Mention badge below!

Sanna

Eirini

Alison

Maria

And the winners of our Wendy Vecchi Stamp & Stencil sets provided by Stampers Anonymous are Phyllis Olson and Autumn Clark! Please send an e-mail with your mailing address to mixedmediamonthly@gmail.com with subject line MMMC April Winner. Congrats!

Mixed Media Monthly Challenge #24 "Butterflies and Blooms"

Welcome to the Mixed Media Monthly Challenge #24

"Butterflies and Blooms"

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Our May Guest Designer & Sponsor is  
Ken Oliver!!

 

Throughout his education, Ken Oliver studied art and design, but ultimately followed a career path in sales and marketing that took him literally around the world working with clients and factories in Asia, Europe, Canada and the United States. His experience in sales, marketing and product development actually led him back to arts and crafts industry. Ken is an accomplished artist who specializes in watercolor, paper crafting, altered art, mixed media book binding and craft projects. Ken lives in Newburgh, Indiana on the banks of the Ohio River.

Check out this FAB project Ken made for our May "Butterflies and Blooms" Challenge. 

"For this project, I wanted to do a "coloring" project with a bold graphic illustrative style, like you'd find in the adult coloring books that are so popular right now. 

In this watercolor photo frame, I used one of my 8x10 Mixed Media Photo Mats, a stencil from The Crafter's Workshop and Color Burst.  The surface of my Mixed Media Photo Mat is covered with smooth watercolor paper, so it's the perfect surface for coloring with watercolors, markers, inks and colored pencils.

To create the background, I simply traced images from the stencil over the entire front of the Mixed Media Mat. Then, colored with a brush, water and Color Burst. I love the bold graphic look...it's very fresh, and it's a project that is perfectly suited for artists of all ages and skill levels. 

And, coloring with Color Burst is mesmorizing!  The colors blend so well." 

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Ken is now selling some awesome products he created including: Color Bursts, Stick It, Best Ever Craft Mat, and Cut & Color Dies and Coordinating Stamp sets.

Ken is offering our random winner a set of Caribbean Brights Color Burst and a Best Ever Craft Mat!!

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 And now for some inspiration from our Design Team...

DONNA

RACHEL

MELANIE

KAREN

ASTRID

 LISA H.

MONA

Make sure you visit each designer's blog and leave some comment love for them... we LOVE hearing from you all!

Please follow these rules to be eligible for placements and prizes. Entries not following our rules will be deleted.

* You must use our challenge graphic in your challenge post.
* You must comment on at least 3 design team member's blogs. 

* Your post must link back to the Mixed Media Monthly Challenge post
* Add a link to your direct post, not your entire blog, a YouTube Video or a Pinterest Board
* You can combine with up to 4 other challenges. 
* No Backlinking allowed! Any back-linked entries will be deleted.
* You can enter up to 5 times, create whatever you want, and HAVE FUN!

You have until 11:55 pm EST on May 31st to enter!

An InLinkz Link-up

March "Photo Inspiration" Challenge Winners

* Click here for our April "Dimension" Challenge *

It's time to reveal the winners of our March "Photo Inspiration" Challenge! The entries this month were so gorgeous and creative. Thank you all SO MUCH for continuing to join our monthly challenges. You can view the gallery of March entries here.

WINNER!

The winner of our March challenge is Scrapwordsmom with her gorgeous Art Journal Pages! Please grab your winners badge below and display it proudly on your blog!

Now time for our Honorable Mentions for the March "Photo Inspiration" Challenge. Please grab your Honorable Mention badge below!

Ellie

Sandee

Kris

Deb

And the winner of the $25 gift certificate to Waffle Flower Crafts is Helen Liu! Please send an e-mail to mixedmediamonthly@gmail.com with subject line MMMC Winner. Congrats!

Helen Liu

Mixed Media Monthly Challenge #23 - Dimension

Welcome to the Mixed Media Monthly Challenge #23

"Dimension"

(Make a project with dimension!)

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Our sponsor for this challenge is Stampers Anonymous - a great online crafty retailer of original stamps and dies.

This month we will have TWO lucky random winners!! 

Each winner will receive a fabulous Wendy Vecchi stamp set and stencil!!

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Our April Guest Designer is Wendy Vecchi - Ranger & Stampers Anonymous Signature Designer!!

Wendy Vecchi is a full time artist/designer/educator and owner of studio 490.

She is a signature designer for Ranger, and Stampers Anonymous and a past member the Tim Holtz and Maya Road design teams. In addition to designing rubber stamps, stencils, embossing pastes, archival inks and embossing powders, she loves discovering new techniques & she loves to use those techniques to make art. Wendy travels to demo and teach at stores and events across the country. She has been published in numerous publications and was the guest instructor for the Artful Voyage in Mexico with Tim Holtz, in October of 2009. 

Her style is unique and eclectic with an exceptional attention to detail and a fresh approach to the creative spirit. She shares her love of techniques on her blog and reminds you that whatever you do each day just – "Make Art!".

You can find more inspiration on her blog at www.studio490art.blogspot.com , on the Ranger website at www.rangerink.com and  at www.stampersanonymous.com

Wendy created this beautiful mixed media project 
using her products for our April "Dimension" Challenge. 

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 And now for some inspiration from our Design Team...

DONNA

RACHEL

MELANIE

KAREN

ASTRID

 LISA H.

MONA

LYNN

Make sure you visit each designer's blog and leave some comment love for them... we LOVE hearing from you all!

Please follow these rules to be eligible for placements and prizes. Entries not following our rules will be deleted.

* You must use our challenge graphic in your challenge post.
* You must comment on at least 3 design team member's blogs. 

* Your post must link back to the Mixed Media Monthly Challenge post
* Add a link to your direct post, not your entire blog, a YouTube Video or a Pinterest Board
* You can combine with up to 4 other challenges. 
* No Backlinking allowed! Any back-linked entries will be deleted.
* You can enter up to 5 times, create whatever you want, and HAVE FUN!

You have until 11:55 pm EST on April 30th to enter!

An InLinkz Link-up