AUGUST SPECIAL GUEST DESIGNER ~ VTK RANI

 Hello MMA Fans...
Our Special Guest Designer VTK Rani is on our blog today with a beautifully designed project for August Challenge Inspiration. This month we have a Dark and grungy mood board with a lovely theme. Do check out our challenge announcement post by clicking on the right side top tab. You can find our full rules and prize details with link to enter the challenge.

Here's our lovely moodboard

Our Challenge is based on THEME & COMPULOSRY ELEMENT 

MOOD BOARD THEME : MIND ILLUSION

COMPULSORY ELEMENT : KEY

Now over to VTK Rani

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Hello dears!!!!!

Hope you are fine. My GDT project with a magical theme is called"Make -a-wish". It is an art journal cover page theme and the style is a mix of steam punk and vintage fusion.

Step by step picture tutorial is as follows:

Step1: Paint the base of the art journal cover with bright blue chalk or acrylic paint  after adding cheesecloth on the base of the art journal cover page.

Step2: Create an abstract geometric  stencil pattern in the three corners of the art journal cover with an abstract geometric design  stencil and modelling paste.

        

Step3: Paint the main focal elements and other matching elements with black gesso.

Step4a: Paint the supporting elements with bright red chalk paint as the moodboard colours are bright blue  and bright red .

        

Step 4b: Apply metallic bronze wax to all the project  elements to give a 3d effect.

Step 5a: Arrange the elements into a single  composition after sticking the jigsaw puzzle pieces on the base  (these represent the fragments of the mind while it sees an illusion).Glue them with a heavy gel medium  onto the art journal page cover. 

(The tiny heart in the right hand corner of the page represents the  heart of the person which holds the key to open the lock of the mind. The large heart shaped lock represents the mind with a key hole).

        

Step 5b: Add mixed media mini decostones like a swirl shape (magic show symbol).

Step six: Add a quote"Make a wish" on the left hand corner on the circuit chipboard.

Step7: Add fine glitter of blue and red mix in different corners of the project to give a  sparkly magical effect.

Step8: Add blue and red sequins to give that extra effect .

Your art journal cover page is ready!!!

Hope it inspires you to create your masterpiece and participate in our magical August challenge!!!!

Thank you VTK Rani for this wonderful tutorial. We absolutely love your project.

Do participate in our challenge this month.

Thank you for visiting.

August Guest Designer ~ Zvia Bachar

 Hello Mixed Media Academy Fans!

Today we have our June Challenge winner Zvia Bachar as our Guest Designer

She created a stunning project inspired by our moodboard this month.

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She createdan art journal book based on our moodboard this month and here's the project:

Also check out her YouTube channel to see how she made this project!

 Thank you Zvia for such an inspiring project.

Join our Challenge this month

Our Design Team will choose the winner and it's author will win 

$25 worth prize from our Sponsor 

One Indian Winner, as voted by our DT Members will receive 

Gifts worth INR 1000 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

AUGUST Challenge

Link up your projects using our Link Tool here by AUGUST 31st 11:55 pm IST.

   Have a great day!

August Guest Designer ~ Heikes AugenBlick

 Hello MIxed Media Academy Fans!

Today we have Heikes AugenBlick as our Guest Designer

She created an amazing project inspired by our moodboard this month.

Now over to Heike...

Hello everyone, 

Welcome to my guest design project on the blog from Mixed Media Academy. I created for the August challenge a scrapbook layout 30cm x 30cm in mixed media style. 

I started on a grey cardstock design paper from 13arts with two layers of clear gesso also from 13arts.

After my gesso was dry I added color glow to my page. Color glow is a metallic shine powder and I used two different color shades in blue. The next step was adding silver glitter, white acrylic color and bordeaux acrylic color with my palette-knife. After that I added my stencil design with Archival Ink and stencils from Hobby shop Sandra, a store here in The Netherlands. Now it was time for  my stamp images with stamps from ScrapFx Australia, LaBlanche and LostCoast Design and black  ink. Some parts of my black stamp images are covered in black embossing powder from WOW. For more texture on my layout I added blue hot wax to my page. Then I painted randomly with black acrylic paint. After everything was dry I glued my photo of my youngest daughter Mia and I added a photo transfer from a polar bear to my background. Final touch markmaking with a posca pen and some tiny stickers from Tim Holtz. 

I think I created a perfect scrapbook layout for this awesome mood board with the title

"Be messy and complicated and show up anyways".

Actually for me a mixed media project must always be wonderful messy... that's just part of it, at least for me!! It doesn't have to be complicated.

I hope I was able to inspire you a little bit to join in with this challenge. I in my case would like to say thank you to MMA for the invitation to be guest designer, it was fun for me and I feel very honoured.

Here are some close-up pics of the project:

Thank you Heikes for this stunning project.

Do u feel inspired??

Join our Challenge this month

Our Design Team will choose the winner and it's author will win 

$25 worth prize from our Sponsor 

One Indian Winner, as voted by our DT Members will receive 

Gifts worth INR 1000 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

AUGUST Challenge

Link up your projects using our Link Tool here by AUGUST 31st 11:55 pm IST.

   Have a great day!

August Special Guest Designer ~ Aditi Mahajan

Hello Crafty Souls...

Welcome to Mixed Media Academy Challenge

Today we have an awesome crafter  Aditi Mahajan as our Guest Designer

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My name is Aditi and I live in Bangalore, India. Along with my Mother, I started Dots to Lines and we have been mixed media artists and scrapbookers professionally for about 5 years. We are into paper-crafting, layouts, journaling, album making, altered art and scrapbooking. Our style of art and craft is a fusion of techniques and use of vibrant colours. We aim to spread joy. Every creation of ours, speaks a story and we enjoy sharing this with people. 

Apart from this, I'm a practising Psychologist/Life Coach. I also incorporate art into my therapeutic process. 

About The Project

The colour palette works for me very well because these are my go-to colours. I’ve used a crescent moon idea and created my interpretation of the universe. I believe my purpose is to heal, inspire and spread light. The Virgo Symbol is of a maiden carrying s shaft of wheat. In my interpretation, I’ve used it as a fairy carrying this light to illuminate the world. I’ve also depicted the universe from the Moon’s perspective, which means space seems white and the moon and stars have the colour:)! This to me is a metaphorical representation of how others perspective and point of view is so important for me. The phrases I’ve used are lines from a poem that I’ve written and talked about this idea. 

I also made a video tutorial  for the same where you can find the step by step process 

Some more close ups of my project...

 Thank you Aditi for this wonderful project with so many details...

Do participate in our challenge to win some awesome goodies and also be our next Guest Designer...

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

Thank You...