Mixed Media Place: May 2017

2017-05-31

Design Team change

We would like to announce the change in our Design Team. Anna Rogalska decided to step down the team (due to personal reasons). We all send good vibrations to Anna and we wish her all the best and only positive outcome!! <3

Because of stepping down the team by Anna, we started to look for a new designer. The result is, that there are two new, talented designers, that we welcome in our team - Nadya Drozdowa and Arantzazu Sangrador. We are very happy, that both ladies agreed to join us - they will inspire you beginning from June. And now they will tell you a little bit about themselves :)

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Hello everyone! My name is Nadya Drozdova, I am 29 years old. I live in Tallinn, Estonia with my 7 years old daughter, my husband and black maine-coon cat. I am so excited to be a part of such a great team! I started to work with paints and mediums one year ago and since that time I just adore mixed-media. My own style I call "Light and romantic“ because I love using flowers in my creations. But sometimes I like to do something on the black background with bright colors and metal elements. I hope that my creations will be interesting and inspiring for You. Hugs, Nadya

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Hi everyone! My name is Arantzazu, I live in Bilbao(Spain). I'm a mixed media lover! I love creating backgrounds, giving them texture and above all color! I would have said before that layouts were my favorite project but right now I prefer to experiment! I do not care about the support if I have a great background!

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If you have some time, maybe you would like to leave a warm comment for both ladies, to encourage them and send them some good vibes...

Have a great day!

Tusia Lech

Winner of April challenge

Hello everyone today :) I hope you have a really good day. Have you planned any pleasures for today? Maybe a walk in the park, or going to the cinema, or reading a book, or creating something? If not, please treat yourself today. Life is so much better with even smallest pleasures <3

For me it is always a great pleasure to visit your blogs and to look at all these beautiful projects, you have created. They are always so inspiring! Thank you!

I am here today to announce the winner, random winner and to invite our winner to be our Guest Designer for June challenge :) Below you can see the moodboard from April.

The winner of our April 2017 challenge is Anastasia Elena with this project:

Congratulations to Anastasia! Be sure to visit her blog to watch detailed photos! Anastasia - please, contact us at: store(at)mixedmediaplace.com to claim your prize. Also please write an e-mail to me - dt@mixedmediaplace.com because we would like to invite you to be our Guest Designer :)

We are happy that we can feature (in no particular order) some amazing projects, you created for our challenge:

Anat Weksler

Beatriz Sanchez

Yana Belenkova

Elena Martynova

Yulianna

Torsa Saha

Svetlana Lipnickaya

Maja Stokk

Lula

Suzna

Alesanalovesky

Olya Kravets

Hina

Thank you for visiting us today and please do not miss our current challenge xxx

Tusia Lech

2017-05-28

Galina Stepanova - May Guest Designer

Our May moodboard inspires many scrapbookers to create flowery projects. So did Galina Stepanova - our May Guest Designer. Please take a look at her colorful project - true feast for the eyes!

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My name is Galina Stepanova, I live in Russia, in a small town. I have scrapbooked for more than 4.5 years and it seems I will not stop :). The main inspiration for me is always my daughter, and also beautiful papers and all kind of paints :). I create different objects and in different styles, but my favourite two are mixed media and shabby.

Thank you very much for the invitation, I'm very happy to show my work on your wonderful blog! It's just a dream! :))

I was inspired by a beautiful bright moodboard palette and flowers. And the result is canvas with flower fairy :).

Products I have used available in Mixed Media Place:

If we are talking about paints, I used mostly Magical from Lindy's Stamp Gang.

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Galina was inspired by our current challenge Moodboard, you can see below. If you would like to play with our challenge - here is the link :) The winner will be our next month Guest Designer.

2017-05-26

The keeper of the earth by Juliya

Hello dears! It's Juliya here. I would like to share with you my fairy layout.

I really like to do such work. There was an idea to make "the keeper of the earth". The photo was found on pinterest, to her came a sheet from the collection of Fortune Teller. And the fairy tale began ...

My stories always begin with the Gesso Clear. I put it only where I'm going to play with the texture and sprays. Then there is a layer with a stencil and paste. I select them depending on the photos and ideas. Here I have a Modeling Paste and two stencils. Light and fine painted on the right side to maintain airiness. Heavy and large on the right, he is the basis.

Dark colors, rusty elements, plant elements ... all this supports my idea and photography.

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2017-05-23

Embrace The Journey by Denisa Gryczova

It´s been ages since I´ve done an album. So here I am today with my latest one. A bit different than usual. Not much mixed media because I wanted the awesome paper pattern to be visible. Actually, there´s no gesso on it. Just a little of Art Alchemy Acrylics.

For the base I used gorgeous Domestic Goddess Collection by 7 Dots Studio. I made a simple album sized 12,5 cm x 12,5 cm with pockets (inside double pages aren´t glued on the top).

When working on the cover I started off with a random circle drawn with a palette knife. When the acrylic was dry I added a purple spray here and there. Next I applied another Art Alchemy Acrylics. Then I started to embellish the page.

I went for an unusual fabric and wire cluster. I did some random stamping on it and sprayed it with sprays. The metal elements were painted with acrylics. I also used a twig, a vintage pic, washi bits, some pearls and a chain to add some interest.