Design Team Call

We are happy to announce that we would like to add a few talented crafters to our Design Team. So if you are passionate about creating, active on social media and fun to work with then this call is for you :)  
Please send your application to:

mmachallengeblog@gmail.com

Subject : DT Call 2019

Deadline is July 10th.

So please do not miss this opportunity ...

Please send:

- all your social media links

- 3 of your best mixed-media projects

- a few words about you.

If your application will be accepted, we offer you:

- working with very friendly and supportive team

- artistic freedom

- social media exposure

- possibility of being published

Waiting to hear from you :)

                                                                 

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Guest Designer - Jaishree Bansal

Hello Crafty Souls,

Today we present to you a beautiful project made by our May Challenge winner who is also our Guest Designer for the month - Jaishree Bansal

Over to Jaishree...

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Hello beautiful crafters,

Guest designer Jaishree this side. I am a crafter from Delhi, India. I am a mixed media artist and love to work on mini albums and other paper crafts as well from time to time. Digital marketer by profession, I left my job in 2017 to pursue crafting in full swing. I am currently a design team member of Dress my craft and Prika. I run my own crafty venture by the name of Joyful Kreations.

 I am glad to be invited by Priya Mishra and the MMA team to guest design this month.

Today, I have designed a mixed media layout for you all based on June’s mood board – Pastel Summer challenge.

And here's my take on the challenge... "LIVE YOUR DREAMS" - Layout

Step 1 – distress the edges of 12x12 pattern paper & ink using distress oxide ink. Add a coat of clear gesso on top.

 

Step 2 – Using crackle texture paste and stencil make a design here and there on the paper.

Step 3 – Smoosh some distress oxide inks in the shades of yellow and pink, on the craft mat. Spray some water on it and add the color using paint brush on the textured area.

Step 4 – Once dried, add some washi tape torn randomly.

Step 5 – Using a dark color distress oxide ink and another stencil make an impression over the washi tape. You may choose to stamp as well in this step.

 Step 6 – Lastly, embellish using paper flowers, some fussy cut out flowers, some die cut out foliage along with bows made with satin twine.

 Here are some close-ups –

       

I hope you liked this layout as much as I enjoyed making it. Don’t forget to participate in the June monthly challenge at MMA to stand a chance to win some exciting craft goodies.

Happy crafting

XOXO

Jaishree

Thank you Jaishree for the wonderful project...

For all our readers, do participate in our current challenge and grab a chance to be our next Guest Designer...!!! Link to the current Challenge on the Top Right Sidebar...

June Challenge Inspiration - DT Manasa Priya Yedla

Hello Crafty Souls,

This month our moodboard was suggested by our DT Manasa and she will be choosing the winner for the month as well ...

She created this beautiful moodboard "Pastel Summer" and today she is here with a tutorial to inspire you all with her amazing creativity...

This is our moodboard...

Now over to Manasa...

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Hello 

It's a Pastel Summer this month at the Mixed Media Academy with a beautiful mood board of hot pink, peach, yellows and greens

So, I have chosen the similar colors from Lindys magical shakers. These are highly pigmented beautiful powders with a subtle shimmer.

I took a scrapbook paper from Mintay's lovely day collection. I choose the color palette yellow as my base. It has a very distressed and textured print to it.

The layout u wanted to create was of my summer memories and of the day we spent at the farmhouse with family and friends that made it our favorite summer this time.

Summer in India is bright with tones of yellows and oranges, bright flowers of gulmahor and others.. So that's what was pictured here

I tried to potray Spring summer in India with butterflies and all the beautiful colors and textures

hope you enjoyed looking into this layout. Do let me know your thoughts in the comments below

Until next time..  

Thank You.

          Thank you Ani for such an interesting tutorial and inspiration.

Join our new challenge! 

We love to see your beautiful creations!

You have time to play with us until May 30.

Simply add a link to your work using the inlinkz tool at the end of this post. 

You can also enter our challenge on Facebook by posting the project photo in the comments of the challenge announcement post on our Facebook page.

On instagram tag us and add our challenge graphic on your post to participate.

DT Ani will choose the winner this month and it's author will win goodies worth INR1000.

The second winner will win goodies worth INR 500 . 

Winner and features will be announced  on June 8th.

And our winner will be also invited to be our Guest Designer !!

      Have a great day!

June Special Guest Designer ~ Tracey Sabella

Hello Crafty Souls...
Today we present a very beautiful Mixed Media Art made by the talented artist Tracey Sabella. She is our guest designer for today. So enjoy the blog...

Hello dear artists and followers of Mixed Media Academy! I am Tracey Sabella from the U.S. in the lovely state of Ohio. I live with my amazing husband in the countryside on a hilltop surrounded by forest and wildlife. We have four adult children and two sweet grandchildren. 

I adore creating mixed media cards, home decor pieces, and occasional scrapbook pages. I have been paper crafting since 2007 and currently am blessed to design for two fantastic companies: Little Birdie Crafts in India and the Polish company Studio75. I had the amazing opportunity to travel to India this past December to teach Master Classes for Little Birdie Crafts. You can find my work here:

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Thank you Vidhi and the MMA team for inviting me to guest design this month. I am so honored and thrilled to design alongside such a talented group of artists. 

I have created a shabby mixed media heart to share with you inspired by the fantastic June Challenge "Pastel Summer" Mood Board. This board fits my style perfectly. I adore texture and these colors have been a dream to work with. I hope you'll be inspired to create a project and join this month's challenge. 

My Project

I simply adore altering found objects. Here in the U.S. we have yard sales, where you can find cast off items for a very reasonable price. Earlier this year, I went to a sale with one of our daughters and found this old metal heart. 

As soon as I saw this heart I knew it would be perfect to alter with mixed media textures, beautiful flowers, and lovely chipboard. You can see all the steps taken to transform this into a lovely decor piece in my tutorial below: 

Tutorial

Step 1

Start by brushing the heart with white gesso front and back drying between coats. It took 3 layers of gesso to get good coverage. I painted the back first, and then turned it over and brushed the front. 

Step 2

Even though the metal heart had a textured surface, I wanted even more texture. So once the gesso was dry, I used a palette knife to randomly cover the heart with crackle medium. I varied the thickness of the crackle medium, laying it on heavier in some areas and lighter in others and even left some of the surface with no crackle medium. A thick layer results in larger crackle while a thin layer will produce smaller crackle.

Step 3

Cut a piece of cheese cloth a little larger than the heart. Pull, stretch, and roll the cloth to pull the fibers into a disarray, then scrunch the cloth and adhere to the surface with soft gel medium. Set aside to dry.

Step 4

Once dry, mist the surface with water, then spritz with lime and forest green color sprays, allowing the color to seep into the cloth and crackled surface. Set aside to dry.

Step 5

Once the color spray is dry, dry brush the fabric and crackled surfaces with white gesso to highlight the textures. 

Step 6

I cut apart a vine chipboard piece and brushed them and the Faith sentiment chipboard with white gesso. Once the gesso was dry, I heat embossed with green embossing powder. 

Step 7

I selected beautiful Little Birdie Crafts flowers in the gorgeous challenge color palette, arranged them in the center of the heart, then adhered them with silicone glue. Around the edges, I adhered the chipboard vine pieces and a sweet butterfly at the top. 

Step 8

To fill in around the cluster, I used soft gel medium to adhere Prills and microbeads.

Step 9

I adhered the Faith chipboard sentiment across the flower cluster with more silicone glue. 

Step 10

Finally I tied pink, white, and yellow ribbons onto the loop at the top of the heart. 

More Close-ups

Thank you Tracey for the wonderful project...

For all our readers, do participate in our current challenge and grab a chance to be our next Guest Designer...!!!

May Challenge Winner

Good Morning Crafty Souls...!!!

We are so excited today to announce the winners of our May challenge. This challenge was hosted by our DT Ani Blumenthal and she also chose the main challenge winner.

We had a Moodboard Challenge last month and we had some fabulous entries too.
Thank you for playing

The winner for our May Challenge is Chaitali with this project:

Congratulations Chaitali !!! Please write an email to us at mmachallengeblog@gmail.com with your mailing address with Mixed Media Academy Challenge winner in the subject to claim your prize. Also we would like to invite you to be our Guest Designer.

DT Favourite is Margarita Shkludova with this project

Congratulations Margarita Shkludova ... Please write an email to us at mmmchallengeblog@gmail.com with your mailing address with Mixed Media Academy Challenge winner in the subject to claim your prize. Also we would like to invite you to be our Guest Designer. 

We have some beautiful entries to feature this month...

They are...

Cathy

Preksha

Cathy

All winners please take your badges from the Badges page that you can find on the top tab

Do play along our May Challenge and don't forget to follow our blog to be eligible to win a prize. You can find our current challenge on right side bar.

Thank you for visiting.

June Challenge

Hello Crafty Souls...
Thank you for participating in our challenge last month. It was such a fantastic month here in India, a month of long vacation, travel and tasty mangoes ...
This month our DT Manasa is hosting the challenge with this wonderful mood board and that means she'll be choosing the winner for the month.

June Mood board

Now over to our Design Team for their wonderful inspirations...

Join our new challenge! 

We love to see your beautiful creations!

You have time to play with us until June 30.

Simply add a link to your work using the inlinkz tool at the end of this post. 

You can also enter our challenge on Facebook by posting the project photo in the comments of the challenge announcement post on our Facebook page.

On instagram tag us and add our challenge graphic on your post to participate.

DT Manasa will choose the winner this month and it's author will win goodies worth INR1000.

The second winner will win goodies worth INR 500 . 

Winner and features will be announced  on July 8th.

And our winner will be also invited to be our Guest Designer !!

                                                    Have a great day!

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