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Monday, November 23, 2020

November Guest Designer ~ Madhurima Dutta

 Hello Crafty Souls,
Welcome to Mixed Media Acacdemy Challenge blog once again. Today we have our challenge Winner Madhurima Dutta as our Guest Designer today. She created a wonderful project inspired by our moodboard this month. You can find our challenge on the top right hand side bar of the blog. Create a project, follow all rules and link it to our blog. You can win amazing sponsor prizes.

Now over to Madhurima


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Hello!!! Hello!!! My lovely crafters… this is Madhurima Dutta here from India and I am thrilled to be able to inspire you all with my guest DT project for this month at mixed media academy. This month’s moodboard is really gorgeous with all the different tones of purple and lilacs. Since these colors are known to have a very romantic and royal feel to it so I decided to create a crescent moon shaped layout. This layout really depicts my mood right now which is to be in touch with the lovely weather outside as well as to be in love with myself. To add a romantic touch to the layout I have added some fabrics and feathers and altered it to create a dream-catcher which in a sense shows how I love to dream about all the positive things in my life. Hope I am able to inspire you all with my project for this month.


Now lets start with the creation process!!!

# Step 1:

First of all I cut out a crescent moon shape from a piece of cardboard and stick a watercolor paper over it with the help of matte medium.

To it, for added textures I added natural sand ground texture paste and deco art stones ( both from expressions craft).Next up, I applied a coat of crackle paste here and there and then covered everything with black gesso.











Finally I added some metallic sprays- Amethyst (from expressions craft) and Witch’s potion purple and sassy sapphire (from Lindys stamp gang) to bring in the colors of the moodboard on the background base.

# Step 2:

Once done with base I will prepare some embellishments. For that I have used some chipboard cutout (from craftyattire by tuhina) and applied a coat of crackle paste and then used different shades of purples and teals to color them. To add some highlights I have added silver glitz wax from little birdie and electric violet wax crea from finnabair over the purple embellishments and antique gold and aqua sheen waxes from little birdie over the teal embellishments.

# Step 3:

This step is all about layering different embellishments. To start off, I adhered the bigger elements over the base. For more added texture I went in with a piece of cotton fabric dyed with witch’s potion purple. Also, to break the monotone of the colors I added a piece of white net fabric. Next up, I glued a piece of cardboard so that it becomes easier to create the next layers. On the cardboard piece I created subtle texture with tim holtz stencil and texture paste, covered it up with black gesso and went in and colored it with the previously used waxes.

Over the cardboard I added my focal point and around the focal point I added some die cut foliages and also some handmade flowers from expressions craft.

To further accentuate the focal image I added a chipboard frame; embossed it with Immix embossing powder in the shade true blue and hot pink. Next I painted some glass cabochons with electric violet and aqua sheen wax to go well with the existing colors of the moodboard.

Finally to finish off I used different type of laces and fabrics to hang some artificial white feathers, some die cut leaves and a central chipboard element in the shape of feather (from little birdie). I went in and colored the chipboard piece with sassy sapphire starburst spray along the inner areas and with amethyst metallic spray and electric violet wax on the outer corners and on the edges. To top it all I added some glitters (why not!!! Everybody loves glitters) and also some cute little butterflies because nature is incomplete without butterflies!!!

So I am finally done with my project. It was so fun to create according to this amazing moodboard. Thank you all once again to stop by to see my guest DT project. Hope that you guys enjoyed the brief process description as much as I enjoyed creating it. Have fun and happy crafting. Here are a few close up of the project for your kind reference.








Thank you Madhurima for this wonderful tutorial.
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Monday, November 16, 2020

November Guest Designer ~ Sneha Apte

Hello MMA Fans...

This month we have our August Challenge winner Sneha Apte and she created a gorgeous project inspired by our November moodboard. You can check out our current challenge on the Top right side bar of the blog and participate to win some fabulous prizes.

Now over to Sneha


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Thank you Sneha....

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Wednesday, November 11, 2020

October Mythical Creature Hop Winners

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                           We have our October YouTube Hop winners...                                      Though we received a lot of entries, some of them did not follow the rules and most of them didn't subscribe or comment on videos. So, we had to exclude them from voting. The Challenge was to create a project on Mythical Creatures ...

Here are our winners and you can check their projects on our blog/Facebook/Instagram


                                         Congratulations...!!!                                         Write to us at mmachallengeblog@gmail.com with " Mythical Creature Hop Winner" in Subject by 15 November to claim your prize.

Thank you so much everyone who participated and a big Thank you to all our Sponsors.

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Tuesday, November 10, 2020

November 2nd DT Reveal

                                                   Hello Mixed Media Academy Fans...

Today we are back with some more inspirations from our Design Team for November challenge. This is our Mood board



Make a project around our mood board and 
 follow all rules mentioned below and win some fabulous sponsor prizes.


Teal, blue and kind of purple with peacock catched my eyes. I have created art journal page for November month.Peacocks are never fly high like other birds. But it dance beautiful. Everyone is special as their own.Like everyone has dreams,but hesitate to try it.
The inspiration-
"Your wings already exists.All you have to do is flying". Flying to achieve our goals.may be improving something that already exists within us or May be achieving happiness. Or achieve inner peace.



I like violet colors and feathers, so when I saw this mood board I thought - this is create for me and it'll be easy project. This fairy represent talent. She is beautiful and free. She is almost shining. Behind her back I hid a bird in a cage. Remember when you have bad days, bad mood,
you feel trapped, you can sit down and relax during crafting. Everything is better when your soul shine.
This canvas was a birthday present for my crafty friend 




Even when the weather is a little bit dark and it's getting colder and colder outside it is still great to have fun. Now we have longer nights to create. So my mood is excited and I took inspiration from our moodboard colours to create this piece.





Hello creative souls!
This month we are in a lilac-blue mood! Our moodboard with these bright feathers made me associate with a bright carnival. I have created my canvas "Carnival Night" for your inspiration. Lush bright dresses, feathers, funny music, masks, laughter and fun! Let this mood whirl you in the cheerful dance of my carnival night!
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Today my mood is very festive as it's my Birthday. The month of November is very special to me, my little munchkin is also November month born and my brother too. One more reason to be joyful is Diwali festival. All we know that many are miles apart from their loved ones this year just like me because of Covid_19. I wanted to send my lovely wishes to everyone, so I made these colourful mixed media tea light candle holders. I have recycled plastic lids into these gorgeous festive decorations.
"May this auspicious occasion light up your life with happiness, joy and peace"
HAPPY DIWALI.... 



Do you feel inspired!
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PRIZE

Our Design Team will choose winners and it's author will win 

$25 worth prize with from our Sponsor 


$25 worth prize from our Sponsor 


TOP 3

Our Design Team will select Top 3 Projects and they will receive Top 3 Badges 

GUEST DESIGNER

Our challenge winner, with highest number of votes as voted by our Design team, 
will be invited to be our Guest Designer.

We are very grateful to all our generous sponsors for these fabulous prizes.
To learn more about any of them, click on the SPONSORS tab above. 
We are looking forward to seeing your entries into our
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Sunday, November 1, 2020

November Challenge

   Hello and welcome to the November challenge at Mixed Media Academy. 

This has been a tough year and as we are approaching the end of 2020, we wish normalcy to return. As we have already suffered a lot, let's now spend sometime thinking about ourselves. So here's our challenge "MY MOOD" 

Share with us, what's your Mood lately... do you think or pay attention to yourself... Use at least 3 colors from the palette and participate in our challenge 


Create a project around our mood board and follow all rules mentioned below to win 
any of the sponsored prizes.



                                          Here's some inspirations from our Design Team

Take control of your life. Your future is in your hands. Don't allow others to control the direction of your life. You have to get to a point where your mood doesn't shift based on the insignificant actions of someone else. Don't allow your emotions to overpower your intelligence. It knows what to do. So master calmness in every situation and take control of your life. A recent lesson learnt from another episode in my life





My Mood this month is Princessy as I'm spending some time with my parents after a long long time and like every girl I'm the princess of my loving parents.Also this is the Festive season in India which unfortunately we have to celebrate at home... But we will have loads of fun as we are together and that's most important



Feathers and mood brings these words in my mind...Drama Queen!!!  My mood keeps on changing and, since, face is the most expressive part of our body, it mirrors my mood.  But either I am feeling festive or I am feeing broken and down, I always keep the crown on my head, it may be crooked sometimes but it always stays there! 
 I made a Venetian mask for the Carnival mood this festive season. It shows my many moods, festive, happy, positive, broken, sad, down or cracked. We can't go out and celebrate like last year this festive season but to enjoy you do not need to go out, you can celebrate at home with family and boost your mood!





Go with flow.feathers are so light weighted that they go with any flow. So as krishna's flute. When krishna flute begins all go with its flows. So we are going right know with flow of covid. Sometimes we cant do anything and just have to go with flow. My take on this moodboard



Hello, friends! Today I'd like to shaw my project, inspired by November moodboard. I was thinking about mystery and beauty of violet palette, tried to create an elegant and graceful project.



Hello folks,
November moodboard is so amazing. Full of my favourite colours. These days i love teal and purple colours. I have created a canvas with Prima's stamp image and coloured it with watercolour colours.
Just want to spread postive thought to all the women who are surrounding me, " Shine Wherever You Go! "


Do you feel inspired!
Join our challenge!!!

PRIZE

Our Design Team will choose winners and it's author will win 

$25 worth prize with from our Sponsor 


$25 worth prize from our Sponsor 


TOP 3

Our Design Team will select Top 3 Projects and they will receive Top 3 Badges 

GUEST DESIGNER

Our challenge winner, with highest number of votes as voted by our Design team, 
will be invited to be our Guest Designer.

We are very grateful to all our generous sponsors for these fabulous prizes.
To learn more about any of them, click on the SPONSORS tab above. 
We are looking forward to seeing your entries into our
NOVEMBER Challenge

Link up your projects using our Link Tool below by November 30th 11:55 pm IST.

   Have a great day!











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