December Guest Designer - Janja Fingušt

Hello Crafty Souls,

Today at Mixed Media Academy we have the talented Janja Fingušt as our Guest Designer. She has made this awesome project for this month's challenge inspiration. 

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Hello, I am Janja and this is the magical time of the year.

Today am I on Mixed Media Academy as guest designer for December challenge. They have beautiful moodboard for this month. With warm lights, winter blue and Christmas red colours.

For this project I decided to recycle light bulb and make an Christmas tree decoration. I  coloured my bulb with white gesso. Made some texture with gauze and 3D powder. Colored it again with gesso and added some color with Lindy's spray and Finnabair waxes. I fussy cut some images from the beautiful paper Mintay by Karola collection Home for Christmas.

I love making foamiran flowers and using them on my project.

Hope you guys like my work share and wish you all good luck who joins this month's challenge at MMA. 

Thank you Janja 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...

December Inspiation - DT Vidhi Jadeja

Hello  Crafty Souls,

Today we have our DT Vidhi Jadeja on Mixed Media Academy blog with her beautiful inspiration project with a detailed tutorial. Over to Vidhi now.

Hello Crafty friends,

How are you? Hope you are enjoying winter... Today I am here at Mixed Media Academy Challenge to share my pictorial post to inspire you for this month challenge. We have amazing mood board in December. Do join us for this month...

I love to alter old stuff in mixed media. Its fun to give them new life. Today I altered an old LED light. I love its ruff texture and round shape so thought to alter it. So lets start the procedure. 

Step 1: First I just stuck a jute thread around it and gave a coat of white Gesso. 

Step 2: I applied white Crackle paste through stencil and stick few laces here and there to create more interest. Add a little resin frame ,few flowers and clay molds with heavy gel and again gave a coat of white gesso.

Step 3: Added natural wood twigs and art stones with art gloss gel.

Step 4:Now its time to add colours after all beautiful textures. I used Lindy's Starburst Sprays to add colours. They gave perfect shine to my project. 

Step 5:After colouring, I did dry brushing with white gesso to give perfect wintry look!

Step 6: I added white crackle paste on chipboard and sprayed again Lindy's Spray on it to get perfect look and arranged in my project as a focal point to create more interest!

And Voila its ready........

It is a simple and yet fun project to start Mixed Media for anyone!!!

Thank you,

Vidhi Jadeja

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...

December Challenge Inspiration - DT Priyanka Srivastava

Hello Crafty Souls,

Today we have our DT Priyanka Srivastava with this month's inspiration for the challenge!

Over to Priyanka now....

Hello everyone,

I am Priyanka. Here is the month's moodboard for the December challenge.

This month, its all about Winter, snow and the lovely Christmas for all to be merry! So here is my project in which I have tried to encompass most of the essence of December. Have a look at it.

It is a very simple project and here are steps to make a similar one.

Step 1: I took a waste cardboard as a base and covered it's entire surface with black gesso.

Step 2:  I choose a decoupage papers having winter theme and tore the edges to give it a a little rustic look. I really liked the St. Clauses sleigh loaded with Christmas presents!!!! Anyone will be merry just by a look at that! I curled all the edges a little. I liked a picture of 3 little birds perched on snow clad branches of a tree and wanted to use that so I tore that from the other decoupage paper and set it a corner. I set both the papers on the base with mod podge. I gave another layer of mod podge on top of the papers too to seal them. 

Step 3: I decorated the edges and curled part of the paper with mini art stones as they gave look of snow.

Step 4: I then used felt flowers from our sponsor Creative Minds to decorate the entire piece. Look how lovely they look! I used some art stones here and there with flowers too.

Step 5: Finally I used blue and red chalk paints and smeared them a little at the edges with my finger. This gave an overall blended look with the entire piece. 

I hope you liked the project. Here are some close ups of it.

Hope you like my project and it will inspire you to make a beautiful one yourself. We love to see your beautiful creations! Please do enter our challenge to win amazing prize and goodies from our sponsors! Please read the guideline to make sure you entry is eligible.

You have time to play with us until December 31.

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.

Have a great day!

Cheers!!

December Special Guest Designer ~ Hema VelCraft

Hello Crafty Souls,

Today at Mixed Media Academy we have the talented Hema VelCraft as our Guest Designer. She has made this awesome project for this month's challenge inspiration. 

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I'm Hema here from Bangalore and thank you for the opportunity given. I'm a self taught mixed media artist and still exploring this art and a scrapbooker like many other ladies in the industry and happy to be Guest Designing here for Mixed Media Academy blog. Here is what I made

     

Here's my Small bio and the rest of the details:  

I love all kinds of mediums in my work. My best hobby is playing around with beautiful papers, chippies (love them), paints, textures.......shine and glitters....I love the process of creation and have been creating things since childhood - handmade, paintings, colours always attract me.  I love making my own flowers for my projects. I initially started making cards and slowly moved on making many paper craft creations like albums, tags, diy, and slowly it was mixed media which caught my attention and as a self taught mixed media person I love to play with colours, textures, mediums and create lovely creations. Its here you get more freedom to use even the smallest thing in your stash which is just lying in your box......so I love to put in all the stuff and create a magic. I love the colours on my messy hands....LOL!!  I draw inspiration from anything anywhere and would just sit and create.....that's all is shown in my work. I'm happy to be invited as Guest Designer for the month in this team with such talented ladies around!!

Project details:

1. Primed the canvas, layered it with crackle paste and later played with colors - Lindys magicals and sprays, balanced the blending of colors on the base panel.
2. Heat set all the chippies with Lindys EP.
3. Fussycut paper embelishements for layering.
4. Added diecuts for the LO with some pattern papers and also few were distressed as well.
5. Layered all these elements with topping of some real branches, spinecone, frosting snow, stayfoam balls, frosting powder, shrink plastic for snowy effect, pompom balls and few flowers and leaves were adhered to beautify the project.

Hope you guys like my work share and wish you all good luck who joins this month's challenge at MMA. 

Thank you Hema 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 Winners

Hello Crafty Souls...

Today we are announcing our Mixed Media Academy Winners for November...

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 

Here is our beautiful moodboard of last challenge

The winner for our November challenge as voted by our Design Team is Mogi Art for this project

Congratulations...!!! Please write to mmachallengeblog@gmail.com with your complete mailing address to claim your prize. Also write if you would like to be our Guest Designer.

DT Favourite is Apoorva Agarwal for this project

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

Featured  projects as voted by our Design Team in no particular Order

Gibonik

Natasha Rudneva 

Charret Staring 

Congratulation. Please take your Featured Badge from the Badges Tab.

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 December 31.

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 Priyanka will choose the winner this month and it's author will win goodies worth INR 1000 from us.

One Indian winner will win goodies worth INR 500 from our sponsor Creative Minds . 

Winner and features will be announced  on January 8th.

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

   Have a great day!

 

2020 New Design Team

Hello Crafty Souls...

We are so happy to announce our New Design Team...

Before that we would like to thank you each and everyone who applied for our DT call. It was an extremely difficult job to pick the team out of so many fabulous applications. Thank you so much for applying and don't be disheartened if you are not selected, there is always a next time. And yes, we will wait for you...

 AND we would like to wish good luck to our two Design Team Members who stepped down 

Payal Bhalani and 

Dr. Moinika Tripathy Shulka

We will miss you here at Mixed Media Academy and wish them good luck. We thank you for being with us in this journey and brightening up this space with your amazing creativity.

Now, We would like to welcome our 2020 Design Team. 

Returning Creative And Admin Members

Priya Mishra

Priyanka Srivastava

Sonika Agarwal

Vidhi Jadeja

Olga Trzcinska

Joanna Szczurowska

Margarita Shkludova

Sabrina Perna

New Creative Members

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My name is Chaitali Dekhtawala. I am a self-taught Mixed-Media Artist from Buffalo, NY. Started as a hobby...today it's a passion!

I believe art is an inspiration for everyone. It fills the mind with imagination and the heart with wonder. Being born with a love for creativity as a child, I always had a desire to put my creative ideas into beautiful art. 

Eventually, I found a way to express my creativity using mixed mediums like paper, canvas, wood, fabrics, and metal trinkets with various types of paints. I fabricate different textures, adore stamping and inking, collaging and assembling to create my artworks. I love creating mixed media layouts and altering n redesigning.

Currently, I am a member of 4 Art Associations in Buffalo. I have taken part in many Art Exhibitions and Art Show in the past two years and have won awards and recognitions.

I love challenging myself; keep experimenting and learning new techniques and style with each project. I like telling a story each time through my artwork. Love sending a message across by adding quotes. I simply adore adding details to my work. 

I would love to be part of your lovely team. I think it would be a great opportunity to grow, to learn and to get inspired! And, in turn inspire others to take part in MMA challenges and know more about the team and its goals. 

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My name is Ira. I'm from Ukraine, 35 years old and fascinated with scrapbooking for about three years.Scrapbooking brought me into the world of Mixed Media. At first, I liked only Paper crafts, but after several MK on Mixed Media, I got into a network of paints, stencils and stamps. I hope to inspire more people through my creativity. I am happy to join Mixed Media Academy and work along with such amazing ladies.

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Hello! My name is Ksenia and I am from Russia (born in Saint-Petersbourg, now live in Moscow).

I'm a professional pianist and piano teacher. I started play piano since I was 5, music is my passion. 1,5 years ago I saw mixed media works on Internet, I decided to try to create something similar and now I can't stop! Mixed media became my second passion (after music of course:)) I like bright colors, oriental style, art nouveau, steampunk. Mixed media is the best opportunity to express yourself and I 

am so happy to inspire you all through Mixed Media Academy.

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Hello ! MY name is Magdalena- Megi Crafts. I live in Poland. I started with Scrapbooking and card making and I never thought about Mixed Media. But when I started the whole fun began. Now I cannot imagine my life without it. I am so happy to be in MIxed Media Academy Team and I believe, we will have a wonderful year ahead.

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Hello... My Name is Pati. I am from Poland from a town near Czech border. I love Mixed Media, Scrapbooking and I'm a POwertex trainer in Poland. I am very happy that I can create with some extremely talented ladies here at Mixed Media Academy.

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Hello. I am Priya Satish from Bangalore, India. I am a classical dancer allured to the alchemy of arts. I like all Indian traditional art forms and an educator of fine art and one stroke painting. Whatever art I do, I put my heart and soul into it and you can always see positivity in all my art works. I believe, life isn't finding yourself, it is about creating yourself. I am happy to be a part of Mixed Media Academy in this journey of creativity.

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My name is Roopashree and I live in India.

I am lucky enough to practice both my profession & passion to gather, A freelance Architect & a crafter by heart, who likes to explore & experiment all types of art from that's how I can say am expertise in 50+ art form & never hesitate to try any new art in town. I am so happy to be here at Mixed Media Academy with so many lovely ladies from across the globe.

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I’m from Howrah, Kolkata, West-Bengal. Although I born and grew up in a small historical town name Serampore. I’ve completed my graduation and diploma in multimedia. Since childhood I was love to doing artwork make various type of handwork for decorate home. Last 6 years I’m passionate about crafting and my hobby turned into my career. I love decoupage and Mixed Media a lot. I am so happy to join Mixed Media Academy and hope to have a lovely year ahead.

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 My name is Shalhev Gan and I live in Israel.

I'm scrap booking & Mixed media and art journal artist, crazy lover for art.

2years ago I was exposed to Mix Media and Art journal ,and since then I have been completely in love with this art.I'm a woman of many interests:  a mixed media artist, art journalcrapbook  designer who loves new challenges, experiments and developing new techniques and skills.

My projects are texture and art medium-based: I make paper and canvas, layouts, collages and altered art, tags, journal pages, stamps – and many more. I am honoured to join Mixed Media Academy and hope to have a great creative year ahead.

Welcome ladies to the team.

Hope to have a great year ahead.

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