Sunday, March 1, 2020

March Challenge

Hello Crafty Souls...

Welcome to March Challenge at Mixed Media Academy
This month we challenge you to express "SILENCE" through your projects. Let us know what you feel about Silence and how soothing it can be. Is it a conflict or an answer to all your questions???
Use a BLACK & WHITE picture in your project and colours from the Palette. Create an artwork that speaks volumes without uttering a single word. 
Here is our gorgeous moodboard.




This month our sponsor 


Our Design Team has come up with some amazing inspirations
It was very hard topic for me. Not because the color palette or requirement to use a white-black photo. It was difficult to find the right picture. I choose a photo of little girl at II world war (during or after). She is sitting on house ruins hugging the doll. I think that there is nothing to add. Art journal is the place where I'd like to tell some story, so for me this is perfect choice. In the background I added more cracked, damaged bricks and chains. The whole is kept in grays and purple, (emerges from under the photo - a symbol of hope).




Sometimes our dreams fly away in silence. I haven't thought about politics because I don't like it at all but Brexit is something so loudly spoken that I decided to make a political art for the first time in my life. And here it is Great Britain which flies away from UE.



This month at Mixed Media Academy we are creating an artwork which speaks volumes without uttering a single word. The moodboard is so interesting with amazing colors.
I have created a mixed media layout; a layout that's silent ......without any quotes or words. But the layout still speaks; calls out a message....showcasing the journey of a girl from the dark dull side of life to a bright cheerful side of life. Depicts breaking all bonds and flying towards love, freedom n happiness. The ultimate joy of being you!
It talks through the colors, textures, elements and the transition.That's what this lovely mood board is for me!
So break free, join us in this creative challenge and show us what does your silence say!
 

The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.” Silence do speak a thousand words, You have to guess what is told to you and move forward in life with a positive attitude. 



 The heroine looks out her window anxiously waiting for her beloved. She looks at the sky, it's dark except for the light from the moon just enough to shine at the flowers all bloomed by her window. My take on March Mood board.




Silence is my choice, no words only inspiration



We have such a proverb - happiness loves silence.
My project is about the transience of time, that every moment is valuable. Love and take care of your loved ones, call them more often.



This is my project for March Challenge
I was inspired by the stunning colors of March Challenge
and by the great quote.
There is a strange duality-in silence
on the one hand we yearn for it and look for it,
and on the other hand it can be awkward and create unpleasant situations.
but if we encourage silence has special power.Stopping for a moment and concentrating silence on your own can be an amazing experience.
It can be great to create for ourselves moments of fun silence, and experience the quiet with ourselves.

Do you feel Inspired???
Join our challenge

PRIZES
Our Design Team will choose the winner and it's author will win 
$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  Special 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
March Challenge
Link up your projects using our Link Tool below by March 31st 11:55 pm IST.


   Have a great day!

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Click here to enter

Sunday, February 16, 2020

February Special Guest Designer ~ Saadia Nawaz

Hello CRafty Souls

Today at Mixed Media Academy we have the very talented Saadia Nawaz as our Guest Designer and she has created a beautiful project for this month's BIRTHDAY / CELEBRATION theme


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Hello Everyone
My name is Saadia Nawaz and I am a Mixed Media artist. I love creating Art journals and Mixed media canvases using different techniques and products. I am very happy doing a Guest post on Mixed Media Academy's Birthday and I wish the whole team a great creative year ahead.

About My project, as this month the theme was related to Celebration and there was freedom to create anything you wish, I decided to go for my favourite style and created a Mixed Media Canvas.
For this I took an  8 x 8 inches canvas.
Applied gesso all over, followed by modeling paste through a stencil to prepare my background. 
Applied acrylic paints with a brush and arranged and glued the embellishments. 
Finished it by adding few paint splatters. 
Hope you like my project and do not forget to enter the challenge this month...






Thank you Saadia for this amazing project.
Normally we don't accept cards and tags but this month it's ANYTHING MIXED MEDIA GOES...
And we have THREE awesome prizes to giveaway from our amazing sponsors, so what are you waiting for...
You can find this month's challenge on the top right side bar..

Thank you


Monday, February 10, 2020

February Creative Team Inspirations

Hello Crafty Souls...

Today at Mixed Media Academy we have some fabulous challenge inspirations from our wonderful Creative Team Members. This month we are celebrating our first Birthday and we are giving away some amazing prizes as well. This month the theme is CELEBRATION and you can create Anything Mixed media. 
Yes, this month we are open for Cards, Tags, Atcs also...
Here is our lovely Mood Board and you don't have to stick to the colour scheme, just make a project related to some celebration, gifting etc



 Presenting some gorgeous Inspirations from our Design Team...


February is my Birthday month too. I love my birthday ðŸŽ‚. I love to wear new dress, cut a cake and buy some gifts for myself. I feel it's a special day for everyone as we came to this beautiful world on this day. We all should be Happy and do something good to mark this day like I love to plant a seed or a tree and take care of it, every year this day.
And I decided to make a gift for myself and here is a shadowbox frame with a lot of fussy cut and handmade flowers to celebrate our birthdays ❤️❤️❤️






Here's my take on the mood board...
A colourful Bouquet of flowers for our February challenge.

I love flowers, and there's nothing more exciting and fun then getting a bouquet of flowers for a birthday. And February is a double Celebrations .
it's also my birthday 4.2
So i'm sending flowers to everyone.
Join our magnificent February challenge .





Birthday is the best day of the year. All problems disappear. More precisely, fly away)) happy birthday Mixed Media Academy!! ðŸŽ‰ðŸŽ‰ðŸŽ‰ðŸŽ‰ðŸŽ‰ðŸ¥³ðŸ¥³ðŸ¥³ðŸ¥³ðŸ¥³




 Celebrations add colour to our life and Birthday is one of them. What is birthday without cakes, chocolates, candles, birthday decors, banners, balloons, gifts, party etc...Here's my take on the moodboard... a colourful birthday banner for our february challenge.




 Hello my all crafty buddies..
First of all wishing a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Mixed Media Academy Challenge.
Birth is beginning. So every year birthday celebration is celebrate of your birth, your journey.
I make my project with picture of my furry baby to celebrate his birthday this month. I choose blue, pink and teal from moodboard. I have altered a small size mdf frame and add 2 shutters for turned the frame into open window. Make some foamiran flowers and how can I forgot to make a cake for him after all it's a birthday celebration.


I love flowers. I can't imagine that there would be flowers for the birthday. The colors from my tag matched the mood board colors.




Join our challenge! 
We love to see your beautiful creations!
You have time to play with us until February 29.
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

                                                                      GLOBAL WINNERS

        One winner this month will win goodies worth 15 Euro from our Wonderful Sponsor
             As Voted by the Design Team




SECOND GLOBAL WINNER
 will win goodies worth INR 1000 from us as voted by the Design Team

ONE INDIAN WINNER
will receive prizes worth INR 1000 from our Sponsor Crafters Emporio as voted by the 
Design Team


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  Special 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
February Challenge
Link up your projects using our LinkyTool below by February 29th 11:55 pm IST.

   Have a great day!


Saturday, February 8, 2020

January Challenge Winner

Hello Crafty Souls...

Today we are announcing Mixed Media Academy Winners for our January Challenge...
Thank you everyone who participated in our challenge last month and we received some very beautiful entries through Blog,Facebook and Instagram.
This Month we are accepting all kinds of Mixed Media projects as we are celebrating our first Birthday 
Here is our beautiful moodboard for our last challenge


The winner for our January challenge as voted by our Design Team is 
Tali Shaul with 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.

Our Design Team has chosen Neena Choudhry Arora as DT Favourite for this project


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

Our Top 3 as voted by our Design Team are








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 February 29.
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

                                                                      GLOBAL WINNERS

        One winner this month will win goodies worth 15 Euro from our Wonderful Sponsor
                                               As Voted by the Design Team





SECOND GLOBAL WINNER
 will win goodies worth INR 1000 from us as voted by the Design Team

ONE INDIAN WINNER
will receive prizes worth INR 1000 from our Sponsor Crafters Emporio as voted by the 
Design Team


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  Special 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
February Challenge
Link up your projects using our LinkyTool below by February 29th 11:55 pm IST.

   Have a great day!