Mixed Media Place: June 2016

2016-06-28

Tracy Scott - June Guest Designer

Do you like colors? We love colors! Colors make us happier in rainy day. And who doesn't love butterflies?! Our June designer - talented Tracy Scott - made colorful butterflies a focal point of her stunning canvas. Are you ready to be flooded by colors?

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My name is Tracy Scott and when not at the day job as a Finance Officer in East London I love nothing more that to relax with a glass of the red stuff and create wonderful brightly coloured art !!! A self confessed colour-holic, I love to experiment with new mediums and colour combos, the brighter the better... no Browns and beiges for this girl I'm afraid !!! I've been fortunate enough to be able to start teaching mixed media and art journalling in the last 18 months in my spare time and love every single minute of it, it's incredibly satisfying to inspire others to create and reach for their creative dreams.

I was so excited receive my order from Mixed Media Place, my new Art Alchemy Acrylic Paints, Prima Watercolours, stamps and various other goodies had arrived and I just couldn't wait to get started !!

I knew I wanted to create a mixed media piece full of colour and texture and just knew that it had to have some of Finnabairs fabulous butterfly stamps. 9x11 canvas board was the perfect substrate.

For this piece I used a mix of the stunning Prima Watercolours and Art Alchemy Paints for my background over a base of texture created with modelling paste through my favourite bubble stencil and small pieces of torn resist canvas.

Various sized butterflies were stamped onto 300 gram card with black archival ink and I coloured with a mix of the Art Alchemy paints and also added some shading with my Prima Watersoluble Oil Pastels, the pastels are super creamy and the rich colours compliment the paints perfectly.

Prima's fabulous Art Stones and Mini Art Stones as well as Gold Glass Glitter were used around the canvas board to add some more texture and interest and of course I had to add some fine glitter to my butterflies and around the canvas.

I thoroughly enjoyed creating this project. Sometimes using new products and mediums can be hard work but the Prima paints were amazing, the colours stunning and the metallic finish give a truly luxurious finish.

Mmmmm now what to create next !!!!!!

List of Mixed Media Place supplies:

Art Alchemy Paints

Prima Watercolours Tropicals

Prima Watersoluble Oil Pastels

Prima Art Stones

Prima Mini Art Stones

3D Matt gel

Prima Resist Canvas

Prima Bubbles Stencil

Prima Modelling paste

Prima gold Glass Glitter

Prima fine glitter iridescent

Black and white dylusions paint

Butterfly mounted stamps small and large

2016-06-26

Winner of May challenge

Today we would like to announce winner and features of our May challenge:

You have set us on fire with all amazing creations of yours! Your creativity seems to be endless!! Thank you so much for joining our challenge and sharing with us your amazing gifts!! Although there could be only one winner, even if we would love to reward all of you.

So the winner of May challenge is Sandra Bernard:

Congratulations to Sandra! Be sure to visit her blog for more amazing projects!

Sandra - please, contact us at: store(at)mixedmediaplace.com to claim your prize.

We would like to feature some amazing projects:

Ludmila

Tetyana Pyshchyk

Sanderijn de Bruin

Kavi Tha

Ola (Ikemo)

Thank you everyone for playing with us.

Tusia

PS. And do not forget about our current challenge :)

2016-06-23

Summer layout by Tanya Palamarchuk

Hello everyone!
It is Tanya here.

I love summer very much! It is my favorite season! A lot of sun and hot weather - I love it!

And I have such a hot mood! So I decided to create mixed media LO with colors that are unusual for me!
I really enjoyed playing with bright warm shades.
Many paints, sprays, mediums - all of them on one page!

And many flowers! What would be the summer without flowers ? :)

Some close-ups:

Have a great summer!!! :)
Tanya

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2016-06-20

June challenge - Creative Gym #19

Do you know, that fear is something totally unreal? It is located in our minds and it comes from our ego. And we are something much bigger than our ego - in truth we are not an ego at all :) So why not to be courageous and to dream freely?

You get in life what you have the COURAGE to ask for.

You can create anything you want - a tag, a layout, a card, an off-the-page project, a card, an ATC, an art-journal spread, a canvas and many more - just be inspired by our quote and put our challenge banner in your blogpost showing your entry.

Here is an inspiration delivered by our fabulous team:

Hello Dear creative souls
Today I show you my Challenge May For Mixed Media Place.
I decided to interpret the challenge as Project Life.
Here is my creation. Remember to look below the photos, because I created a video for you.

And here is my video:

I wish you a very creative day

Cindy

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Hello Creative Souls!

This is my interpretation of June Creative Gym exercise:)

It's all about good crazy dreams:) My dream is to have a little house on the hill covered with colourful flowers;) I started my canvas with mixed media background using flashy colours and some doodling. Izinks have great pigment and they are just fabulous to play with. I also added some doodling. The next step was to create a little hill. I decided to go for art stones so they could imitate the rocks. I added colour with Ecolines, which just flow nicely in between the art stones. I also added some flowers, mechanicals, lace and pebbles to create textured landscape At the end I added my little dream house made of wire;)

I hope you enjoyed the project and that you feel inspired to paint your own dream and to enter our challenge:)

Love! Sylwia

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I prepared a mini canvas for this challenge!! I was inspired by the gradation of colors and by the sentence, but it's hidden for you!!! LOL!!!! I'm in love with my mini canvas!!!!!!

Here is a video, that I have prepared for you:

Mixed Media Place supplies:

I believe in power of our thoughts, but for a long time I didn't ask for what I wanted, because I always thought that I might interfere with other's free will or wishes... But this way of thinking is behind me - now I believe that I can live the life I wish and dream of. Be courageous - dream and ask for your dreams.

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For this month challenge I created a tag. I love this form! Usually I use some inspirational quotes and place them somewhere on the tag. I was inspired by colors of our challenge. Although the colors are vivid, my tag is light. I have used some paints, mists and a little bit of gesso. Papers, stickers and tags come from 7 Dots Studio.