Guest Designer - Archana Sehgal

Hello Crafty Souls,

Today at Mixed Media Academy we have the talented Archana Sehgal as our Guest Designer. She has made super cute Fairy project for this month's challenge inspiration. 

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Hello, My name is Archana and I am super thrilled to be here on Mixed Media Academy blog to share my Guest designer post and thank you so very much MMA team for this wonderful opportunity…

This month's theme is super awesome and everyone of us like this theme that's for sure. Fairytale or fairy are a part of our growing up years and they always remain special for us. I wanted to create something special for this theme 

So, I have altered old CD using mixed media Techniques.

I also made a small step by step tutorial of the project. So let’s get started,

First to make background ready I have pasted white cardstock on CD, and then spread Immix Ground texture paste through stencil using palate knife.

Next I adhere chipboard embellishments but before adding them on to the CD I prime the chipboard using white gesso, and once it dries completely, I added them on the CD forming a composition.

Once the layer of gesso dries completely, I colored the project using green shade sprinkle mist.

To add more interest to the project I added fairy dust on to the fairy chipboard. I adhere flower soft at some places and also artificial grass, next to finish the project I added flat back pebble & one sentiment

 

Here are some more pictures of this project:

 

Hope you  have enjoyed this super simple Mixed media altered project, I do have making process video of this project so do check that out here

Thank you Archana for this gorgeous project with the tutorial. Love it totally...

Do participate in our challenge to win some awesome goodies from our generous sponsors this month and also be our next Guest Designer...

You can find this month's challenge on right side bar.

Thank You...

November Mid month Challenge Inspiration

Hello Crafty Souls,

Today we have our mid month challenge inspirations from our   DT Members 

This month we have "ONCE UPON A TIME" challenge for you all. You can find the link our main challenge announcement post with linky tool on the top right sidebar. 

All our DT Members have created their projects inspired from their favorite fairytale. You still have some time to enter... 

Here is our Moodboard...

And here are some mid month inspirations

I love all kinds of  Fairy Tales. As a kid, I loved to read about fairies and their special powers, beautiful princess and their dresses. For this month's inspiration I created Rapunzel's castle where she was isolated. I made this out of tissue rolls and wrapped it with old clothes and crackle paste. For the upper part of the castle I used a half coconut shell and cardboard.

For the base I used a MDF plate on which I created the stony effect using craft pallets and moss.

The important part of this story is the beautiful golden hairs that Rapunzel had, so I used some Sisal fibre and colored them and then made a hair plait and hanged it from the castle window...

Who doesn't know Peter pan and Tinkerbell from Neverland. Tinkerbell's pixie dust saved the boys from so many troubles, but that wasn't all. Faith and trust on your own self is the key to success. As this quote from this Fairy Tale rightly says..." All you need is Faith, trust and a little bit of Pixie Dust"

Here is my project based on this theme...

Join our new challenge! 

We love to see your beautiful creations!

You have time to play with us until November 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.

PRIZES

Our Design Team will choose the winner this month and it's author will win goodies worth INR 1000.

Our Second Winner will win goodies worth INR 500 from our sponsor Creative Minds . 

Winner and features will be announced  on December 8th.

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

   Have a great day!

November Special Guest Designer ~ Stephanie Garbett

Hello  Crafty Souls,

Today we have the Awesome Crafter Stephanie Garbett on Mixed Media Academy blog with her beautiful Guest Designer project.

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Hello MMA friends, I'm so honoured to be a Guest Designer for this month. The theme for this month is one of my Favorites and I want to share my fairytale layout with you .

 My inspiration behind my layout is all about my little girl, she is besotted with childrens fairytale books as are all little girls. I decided to turn my layout into a story book as I wanted to preserve this memory of my daughters dress up fairytale photoshoot that was taken two years ago. 

The fairytale I based my layout off of is the princess and the frog, a classic and well-known fairytale that we love to read together.

For this layout I used Mintay Papers, and they perfectly fit into this theme.

I also used some chipboards and metal embellishments to decorate my page. Here are some close up shots of my project. 

Thank you Stephanie for this gorgeous project.

Do participate in our challenge to win some awesome goodies from our generous sponsors this month and also be our next Guest Designer...

You can find this month's challenge on right side bar.

Thank You...

DESIGN TEAM CALL !!!

Mixed Media Academy is looking for You! 

We are looking for new Design Team members to help us expanding our wings in 2020.

CALL ENDS ON November 25

We are looking for 

•  All kinds of Mixed Media Artists creating Scrapbook pages,Art Journals,Off the page projects
• Willing to take up extra job like Facebook / Instagram /Pinterest coordinator
• Able to submit projects on time
• Active on Social Media
• Able to work in a team environment

Design Team members are required to:

• Create one project for our Challenge each month
• Stick to the designated Schedule
• Comment on entries
• Be actively involved in team discussions and decisions

If this sounds like you, please send an email with DT call 2020 in the subject to mmachallengeblog@gmail.com and 

- a few words about yourself
- Link to your blog
- Link to all your Social media 

The term is for 12 months, starting January 1st, 2020.

October Winners...!!!

Hello Crafty Souls...

Today we are announcing our Mixed Media Academy Winners for OCTOBER "Wedding Bells Challenge"...

Thank you everyone who participated in our last challenge and we received some very beautiful entries through Blog,Facebook and Instagram.

Once again a reminder - NO CARDS/TAGS/ATCS are accepted 

Last month the challenge was hosted by our DT Sonika and she suggested this beautiful moodboard 

The WINNER for our October Challenge is Ignatova Martina for this project

Please write to us with your complete mailing address at mmachallengeblog@gmail.com to claim your prize. Also let us know if you would like to be our next Guest Designer.

Our DT favorite is Apoorva Agarwal for this project

Please write to us with your complete mailing address at mmachallengeblog@gmail.com to claim your prize.

Our TOP THREE for this month in no particular order are

Jaremishka

Kirti Gupta

Silvia Nunez

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

Do play along our September 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.

Join our new challenge! 

We love to see your beautiful creations!

You have time to play with us until November 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.

Our DT will choose the winner and it's author will win goodies worth INR 1000 from us.

Our DT FAVORITE winner will win goodies worth INR 500 from our sponsor 

Creative Minds . 

Winner and features will be announced  on December 8th.

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

   Have a great day!

November Challenge

                                                                  

                                                       Hello Crafty Souls

Welcome to November Challenge at Mixed Media Academy...

Fairytales...There is much we can learn by reflecting on the stories heard in childhood. Magical characters,the adventures these stories describe often reflect challenges we face in our journeys. The tales hide a wealth of insights just below the surface. They are clearly more than mere entertainment...

What's your favourite Fairytale??? Or do you have a favourite character ??? Or You just love the Fairies...???

Let us know in your own unique creative way...

Here is what our Design Team has created to inspire you all...

What's my favourite Fairytale? Please, don't ask me this question. I love almost all Fairytales, this old one like Andersen or Grim Brothers stories, and those created by Disney. But for this challenge, I chose a fairy tale that made me cry a lot - Frozen. So I created a castle that is cover by ice and snow. Winter is created by Elsa, which is why the trees are still green. You can also see a carriage - like in all "old" princesses stories (a symbol that I don't have one favorite fairy tale).

A fascinating challenge awaits us this month. These are fairy tales! What is my favorite fairy tale? I never thought about it, because every fairy tale has its own story and morality. But in my childhood I had a book. It was a rather old shabby book, but it contained wonderful very beautiful pictures and an interesting story. It was a fairy tale about a sleeping princess who was awakened by a magic kiss. Now time is moving forward, old tales get a new interpretation and new heroes. Now this fairy tale is filmed by the Disney studio and was named Maleficent.

I made my page inspired by this new side of an old fairy tale. I used Finnabair black gesso, Opal Magic paints and waxes to create the background. Beautiful wings and metal decor are also from Finnabair. Paper and word stickers from 7 Dots Studio. Cutting dies from Fantasy.

Join us in this magical challenge! We are very interested to know what is your favorite fairy tale!

Bue-bue!

What's my fairytale???? Alice in wonderland of course!!!! Alice is perfectly as me 😊 with the head in the clouds, dreamer, curious and that doesn't take advice easily!
It's a fairy tale full of crazy figures I love so much!!!!
It's like my life!!! 😁😁😁

I am Inspired by the story Snow White and seven Dwarves here. I created a mixed media Art journal page with a jungle background and used picture of this fairytale...

I love snow white fairy tale its inspired me that time when i was child and these days too when i recite this to my little girls 👧👧
Fairy tales not always dreamy world but these also give lessons of life
According to me i learned from this story
"REMEMBER YOU ARE THE ONE WHO CAN FILL THE WORLD WITH SUNSHINE "
waiting for your fairy tale perspiration
Here my journal page for it

What is my favorite fairy tale? hmm ... there are several of them. But I love the ones with fairies and magic the most. Nothing stimulates the imagination like magic. To meet a real fairy - this is something. But find yourself in the real land of the fairies of Fairies. Priceless experience and every girl's dream come true!

My little fairy house !!! I love Fairies and wanted to make something based on them, something girly, cute and whimsical ! I wish i can live their in woods in fairy land among them and have those beautiful fairy wings and starry wand with which I can create some magic

Join our new challenge! 

We love to see your beautiful creations!

You have time to play with us until November 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.

PRIZES

Our Design Team will choose the winner this month and it's author will win goodies worth INR 1000.

Our Second Winner will win goodies worth INR 500 from our sponsor Creative Minds . 

Winner and features will be announced  on December 8th.

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

   Have a great day!

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