Mixed Media Place: January 2022 challenge

2022-01-20

January 2022 challenge

Hello friends,

It's January and a new year, so the new beginnings and new, fresh ideas. Our moodboard is also fresh, a bit cold, but also delicate and airy, although colours are mostly bold. It's a symbol, that we can be both courageous and gentle.

Our fabulous design team created projects inspired by our moodboard:

This month's challenge is a stunning mix of Teal with just a splash of Orange. I was really inspired by the colours and the photo of raindrops. So I decided to pull out my Liquid Acrylics and went to work.

I am pretty happy with the way this turned out, I hope that you like it too.

Mixed Media Place supplies:

Hello! Inspired moodboard I created a vintage art journal page playing with Finnabair Art Daily stickers, stamps and embellishments. I used Finnabair Liquid Acrylics. I love mixing colours.

Finally, I glued the metals from Finnabair and pampered it with wax.

Mixed Media Place supplies:

The delicacy of the colours and items on the moodboard encouraged me to go beyond my comfort zone. The first object that caught my eye was the acorn. Unfortunately, I did not have it, so I chose cones. I covered them with metallic paints from the Opal series. I had covered them with clear gesso before, so I knew that the colour would stay nicely on the surface.

As a background I used paper from the 7 dots studio collection, which I also covered with clear gesso. I took the woman out of the Ladys World (journaling mini) set and glued it to the paper with Soft Gel. In order to unify the background and the woman, I used crackle paste and snow paste. In the background, I also used opal paints and liquid acrylics.

Mixed Media Place supplies:

Hello creative friends! I just love the colours in this month's moodboard! Taking inspiration from the image of the little acorn like-elements, I used that as my starting point and decided to create a winter spirit with some frosty foliage and icy sparkle!

Once I'd created my focal point using moulds and mechanicals, I used metallique acrylic paints to provide the background colours. I then added silver gilding flakes, glitter and mica flakes to create an icy sparkle over the highlights.

Mixed Media Place supplies:

Hello friends! Margarita Shkludova is here.

I created this canvas inspired by our beautiful moodboard.

I used White Crackle paste and Liquid Acrylic Ultramarine for the background. I also added a Gothic stencil and Texture Fantasy Northern Lights pastes in some places. Then I chose these charming girls from the Art Daily Words You Need set as a focal point. And I added moulds and other elements to the composition.