tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35020767987057041112024-03-18T05:48:38.358-04:00Anything But CuteMixed Media Challenge Blog for experts and beginnersPamelliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02061174774558907509noreply@blogger.comBlogger80125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3502076798705704111.post-62798515909925918202017-01-02T08:05:00.001-05:002017-01-02T08:05:21.209-05:00Happy New Year & Farewell<div style="text-align: justify;">
It is a sad post I write today, as it will be the last one here at Anything But Cute. It was a very difficult decision for me to make, but life has taken some turns and it's time for me to focus my attention elsewhere.</div>
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I am so grateful to each and every one of you for all of your support over the last year and a half. This blog has been one of my favourite crafting experiences and I am honoured to have met so many wonderful and talented artists through those linky thumbnails!!</div>
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A special thank you to the ladies who made this challenge amazing, my design team! I have made such wonderful friends and I will always cherish our time together here. Please take a minute to visit all these ladies and follow them on their personal blogs.</div>
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<a href="http://vintagehandmade45.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Branka - Vintage Handmade</a></div>
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<a href="http://bollyanne.blogspot.ca/">Anne Redfern - Redanne</a></div>
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<a href="http://indymermaid.blogspot.ca/">Lisa - A Mermaid's Crafts</a></div>
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<a href="http://sewpaperpaint.blogspot.ca/">Autumn - Sew, Paper, Paint</a></div>
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<a href="http://mylittlecraftthings.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Pamellia - My Little Craft Things</a> (that's me)</div>
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From the entire team here at Anything But Cute, we wish you all a very Happy New Year. May this upcoming year bring you joy and happiness with all that you do!!</div>
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Pamelliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02061174774558907509noreply@blogger.com36tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3502076798705704111.post-23753350433092206172016-12-13T07:00:00.000-05:002016-12-13T07:00:03.218-05:00Winners - Challenge #17 - Rustic Glam<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hello and Happy Holidays! Niki here. We apologize for being a day late, we've had some technical issues behind the scenes. Thank you to every single person that was able to enter my Rustic Glam challenge. I knew it would be a challenge and am overjoyed to see that you all rose to the occasion and nailed it with such amazing designs! Huge round of applause to you all! After much thought and deliberation I was finally able to choose a winner.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>WINNER</b> - <a href="http://pushingtherightbuttons.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/see-possibility-everywhere.html" target="_blank">#2-Jenny Marples of Pushing the Right Buttons</a> </span><br />
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I was absolutely flabbergasted about the texture and bling on this amazing design. It has everything I would consider rustic and glam. I just want to reach out and touch all of the yummy texture and then had this on my wall! Outstanding and so very awesome sauce!</div>
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<b>Congratulations Jenny!</b> Pamellia will be in touch by email to send you a personalized winner's badge and to provide details about being our Feature Artist for the next challenge. </div>
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This altered jar has the bling and the burlap touches any rustic glam girl would love and that is why I enjoy it so very much. The flowers and the twine along with the lace are so chic and beautiful! I would totally put this in my bathroom and use it to fancify my q-tips. Wowzers and awesome sauce!</div>
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I found it so hard to choose a favourite this month, there were so many outstanding entries! Jennie stole my heart with her gorgeous handmade flowers, the beautiful crackle, the wonderful chicken wire and the dreamy stars.... Jennie's tag just epitomises 'rustic glam' in my eyes!</div>
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<b>Autumn's Favourite</b> - <a href="https://merrymartycards.wordpress.com/2016/11/18/funkie-junkie-12-tags-of-christmas-4/">#14 - Marty F</a><br />
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Marty melted my heart with the warm plaid and gorgeous dimensional poinsettias on her beautiful Christmas tag. The touches of pearls and luxurious texture were the perfect glamorous additon to this beautifully designed tag. What an inspiration!!! Thank you Marty for sharing this amazing project with us!</div>
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There were so many stunning entries and it was really hard for me to pick a favourite this month. I have chosen Elli's fabulous tag at the end. I am in love with her yummy textures, beautiful muted tones and a brilliant layering! So glittery, so frosty, so awesome!</div>
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It was so hard to pick a favorite this month...I loved all of the Rustic Glam projects!! But in the end, I chose this amazing project by Nicole Wright!! I absolutely adore her Vintage Tree Lot Trailer!! It's so creative!! I am a life-long camper so this project just makes me happy!! The details are spectacular!! I want this for my fireplace mantle :)</div>
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A huge congratulation everyone! Thank you so much to everyone who played along with us last month and don't forget to grab your badges! You earned them!!</div>
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While the design team is taking December off we still will be around and commenting on your wonderful designs for this Holiday season! We all want to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! See you back here in 2017! </div>
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Pamelliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02061174774558907509noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3502076798705704111.post-70755949695893868442016-12-05T07:00:00.000-05:002016-12-05T07:00:09.202-05:00Merry Christmas!Hello Everyone!<div>
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Well the holidays are almost upon us, and we have decided to take a wee break for Christmas this year. We will be back on December 12th to announce the winners of the Rustic Glam challenge, and don't worry, we will have a brand new challenge for you on January 5th!</div>
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Thank you to everyone for all of your support over the last year. There have been so many gorgeous projects and talented artists, we are grateful for each one!</div>
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Pamelliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02061174774558907509noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3502076798705704111.post-75811417583149051872016-11-19T07:00:00.000-05:002016-11-19T07:00:19.285-05:00Feature Artist - Rustic Glam - Welcome Joi!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Branka here and I am completely thrilled to introduce you to our Feature Artist for November, the lady who was the winner of my 'Friendship' challenge in September. Please welcome Joi from<b> <a href="http://joiattheranch.blogspot.hr/" target="_blank">Joi@RR</a></b>.</div>
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<span style="color: red;">Joi is an incredibly talented mixed media artist and a wonderful lady! Each piece of her fantastic artwork is full of passion, love and amazingly beautiful colors! I encourage you to visit her blog to see how brilliantly she combines rich textures, yummy colors and so many fabulous techniques! Joi loves to share her techniques on her blog and she is one super inspirational lady!</span></div>
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I am so excited about the project she created for our current challenge <a href="http://anythingbutcutechallenge.blogspot.hr/2016/11/challenge-19-rustic-glam.html" target="_blank"><b>Rustic Glam</b></a>. This spectacular piece of art is just perfect for Niki's challenge theme and it really showcases Joi's unique and marvelous style in art! Feast your eyes on this absolutely beautiful creation!</div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Today is a particularly happy day for me because I am a Featured Artist here on the <i><a href="http://anythingbutcutechallenge.blogspot.com/2016/11/challenge-19-rustic-glam.html">Anything But Cute Challenge Blog</a></i>. </span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Month after month, without fail, I entered the <i>ABC challenge</i> - hoping. Why? Because it's one of my favorite places to be. They are such a sweet group of folks, super DT artists with fun mixed media challenges. And then, finally it happened, last month... </span><br />
<span style="text-align: center;">I WON the challenge!!! Yippie Aye Ohhhh!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Ok...YES... admitting to a happy jig. :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I'm a mixed media artist. If you have an inkling to know more about me visit: joi-at-ranch-art.com!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">This month the <i><a href="http://anythingbutcutechallenge.blogspot.com/2016/11/challenge-19-rustic-glam.html">Anything But Cute Challenge</a> </i>is RUSTIC GLAM.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">At our ranch, rustic is undeniable! But glam? Well... a yellow flower on a cactus is glam! A new baby calf is glam! A deer resting in the pasture is glam! Heheheh - it's likely my definition of glam is much different than Niki, the hostess, had in mind for this challenge! However... if you have seen my artwork, you know that I love a bit of glitter, glitz and pizzazz . . . s</span><span style="font-size: medium;">o, without any further ado . . . welcome to my RUSTIC GLAM creation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">And began painting in all my little designs with <i>DecoArt Media</i> Black Gesso. My liner brush by <i>Dynasty</i> sure helped! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Here is the RUSTIC part before the GLAM arrived on the scene. Oh, my stars . . . those trees are crooked. Ok, Joi - just don't think about that . . . perfection not needed . . . proceed forth to the finish!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I found lovely music in the Victorian Romance Deco-Page paper set by <i>DecoArt Americana</i>. I tore the notes and placed them using <i>DecoArt Media </i>Matte Medium. After they were dry, I went back around the edges with some Titan Buff Fluid Acrylic to make it look a bit more unified with the line of the mountain ridge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Remember, a deer resting in the pasture is glam. How could I not include one??! Out came an old stencil that has no name any more and an <i>ARTplorations</i> Christmas Reindeer too. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">To bring my deer to life . . . . here is a fun concoction of <i>DecoArt Media</i> Texture Sand Paste and Carbon Black Fluid Acrylic paint - YUMMY! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Wishing each of you a calm and bright Thanksgiving and Christmas season . . . with hugs. j.</span></div>
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WOW, what an exquisite piece of art this is! How can you not be inspired by this stunner to join in with our <u style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://anythingbutcutechallenge.blogspot.hr/2016/11/challenge-19-rustic-glam.html" target="_blank">Rustic Glam</a></u> challenge! Thank you so much Joi for such a great inspiration! It has been an honor having you here with us today!</div>
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You have until the 4th of December to play - and you'll find all the challenge details as well as lots of inspiration from the brilliant Anything But Cute design team by clicking on the challenge link.</div>
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Happy Crafting<br />
Branka xx</div>
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We are so thankful for each and every entry in our An Autumn Day challenge. This is one of the most beautiful groupings of art, each worthy its own showcase. Thank you so much for your continued support of our challenges here at Anything But Cute. Without delay, we are pleased to announce our winners and design team favorites...</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>WINNER</b> - <b><a href="http://inkysplatters.me/anythingbutcute/an-autumn-view/">#67 Inkysplatters</a></b></span><br />
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<b>Congratulations Inkysplatters!</b> This beautiful work of art, with its many layers, is a perfect autumnal setting. What amazing ingenuity and creativity combined to achieve such realistic depth and color variation! Pamellia will be in touch by email to send you a personalized winner's badge and to provide details about being our Feature Artist for the next challenge.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>RUNNER-UP</b> - </span><a href="http://juldhandmade.blogspot.gr/2016/10/autumn-leaves.html"><span style="font-size: large;">#</span><b style="font-size: x-large;">42 julD handmade</b></a><br />
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JulD created the most charming collage from gorgeous real leaves. The amazing stencil detail adds so much depth and a fall-like feeling of dew drops and time worn elegance. What a gorgeous project! The handmade frame adds so much interest and warmth! Thank you so much for this inspiration!</div>
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<b>Anne's Favourite</b> - <a href="http://canadiannickelscrapn.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/halloweenies.html">#24 Nicole Wright Designs</a><br />
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Autumn really is the most beautiful season, I love the changing colours, and of course, Halloween. Nicole created the most wonderful little Autumn/Halloween diorama, a little scary but full of autumn colour inside and out, there are beautiful trees and leaves and I love the cosy little setting she created.</div>
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I love this weathered wood window with such an amazing stamping in the background! Those trees look so realistic and the autumnal foliage arrangement is just a perfect addition to this stunning creation!</div>
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<b>Lisa's Favourite</b> - <a href="http://joiattheranch.blogspot.com/2016/10/happy-harvest-abundance-mixed-media.html" target="_blank">#63 Joi@RR: USA</a><br />
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I had such a hard time choosing a favorite this month...all of the entries were amazing!! But I finally decided on Joi's stunning painting!! I was memorized reading how this beautiful work of art came together!! The colors, the design, the details...all add up to spectacular!!</div>
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<b>Niki's Favourite</b> -<a href="http://inkysplatters.me/anythingbutcute/an-autumn-view/" target="_blank">#67 Inky Splatters</a><br />
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I totally enjoy this little window and the way it was created! The distressed frame and the packaging window is genius and those leaves and pine cones shout Autumn! What a gorgeous creation and attention to detail. The added detail inside the window are beautiful! Awesome sauce!</div>
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This is the type of card I want to reach right into my computer and touch!! The texture here is just amazing and I love the amber tones and the incredible depth in her elements! Well done!</div>
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This card just screams Autumn to me. Those wonderful rich tones and amazing textures feel like they're straight out of nature! The touch of metal and twine create a wonderful contrast! Love it!</div>
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With so many fantastic Autumn projects entered this month, I found it almost impossible to choose a favorite! But in the end, I had to choose, and I selected Alison's lovely journal page. There are no fonder childhood memories of An Autumn Day for me than walking through our woods on our farm. The wood was thick with birch trees, and you could barely see that beautiful blue fall sky between the branches. This lovely page brought back that memory for me like it was yesterday. Thank you, Alison; this is beautiful!</div>
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Niki here and I am your hostess this for this month's challenge here at <b>Anything But Cute</b>. Thank you to everyone that was able to join us last month for Autumn's challenge. It seems that the theme was a big hit with you all and so many lovely entries!<i> </i>Don't forget to check back with us on November 12th, when Autumn and the team announce the winners of the "<a href="http://anythingbutcutechallenge.blogspot.ca/2016/10/challenge-18-autumn-day.html" target="_blank">Autumn Day" challenge</a>. Now on to this month's theme.</div>
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Can you believe that it is November already? I hope all of you had a spooktacular Halloween and got to see some amazing costumes! Now that we are into November and the weather is turning cold I find myself starting indoor projects. This challenge theme was inspired by my major overhaul of my master bedroom. I made a DIY rustic whitewashed wall and the entire room has a rustic glam vibe to it thanks to the wood accent wall and a chandelier. Isn't it fun to combine two hobbies?</div>
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Think of Southern charm meeting some Bling Bling. Create a mixed media design featuring rustic elements such as whitewashed wood, chicken wire, burlap, soft subtle tones and neutrals. Don't forget to add the GLAM part with some sparkle and BLING!<br />
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I decided to challenge myself and use everything that Niki asks for in her fabulous challenge and I had lots of fun making it!</div>
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I decided to create a framed mixed media home decor item for my bedroom. I've had this awesome deep frame for ages and decided to do a little collage featuring one of my favorite Verve stamps inside. I used neutral tones with touches of sequins, vintage glitter and pearls to complete my rustic glam framed art.</div>
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I used my mini burlap panel (reversed side), my DecoArt white crackle paint and my Chalky finish paints, a Stampendous Shabby Blue embossing enamel, some dies and some flat back pearls to create my rustic Christmas window for this wonderful Niki's challenge theme.</div>
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I love Niki's theme of Rustic Glam!! I upcycled an old bamboo box lamp by covering it in super-heavy gesso and then crackle medium. Once the cracks appeared, I added antiquing medium and replaced the bamboo with chicken wire mesh decorated with glitter. For added glam, I finished it off by stringing crystals that sparkle in the light :)</div>
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I went with a faux deer head (the only type that I would ever have in my house) and added some wood stain, acrylic paints, sanding techniques, stencils, modeling paste and of course I had to add the bling bling with some diamonds and faux snow. Yeppers, snow. Carpe Diem!</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Niki's theme is so much fun! Rustic and glam is such an interesting combination of elements! I used crackle and wood grain, burlap and chicken wire, gilding and bling to make my mixed media card. I have a brief tutorial on my blog for the easy peasy wood grain if you'd care to take a look.</span></div>
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Here at Anything But Cute we just love to see all the seasoned and expert mixed media artists, but we also want to encourage those who are just getting their feet wet. Our design team will always be on the lookout for these exceptional projects and artists. You just never know when we might be giving out something special to a lucky mixed media newcomer. We all have to start somewhere, right?</div>
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Lisa here, and I'm so excited to introduce you to our Feature Artist for October! She was the runner up for my <a href="http://anythingbutcutechallenge.blogspot.ca/2016/08/challenge-16-shabby-garden-mood-board_5.html" target="_blank"><b>Shabby Garden Mood Board</b></a> challenge in August! Please help me welcome Zubaida from <a href="http://colorpaperscissors.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><b>ColorPaperScissors</b></a>!</div>
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I've been a huge fan of Zub's for a long time! Whether she's creating a mixed media project like the incredibly gorgeous and textured tag she made for the August challenge, bringing an image to life in color, or simply creating a beautiful card, all of her projects are exquisitely designed with attention to detail and an eye for beauty! There really isn't anything she can't do!</div>
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My name is Zubaida and I blog over at <a href="http://colorpaperscissors.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">ColorPaperScissors.</a> I started with paper crafting since 2012 and its been a wonderful ride ever since.I am honored to be here with my guest post at 'Anything But Cute' mixed media challenges.</div>
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I love this month's chosen theme 'An Autumn Day'. The beautiful autumn colors are here to give us inspiration to create lovely projects. I have taken these colors as an inspiration for my Reverse Canvas project.</div>
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I started on the back of a plain white canvas, covering the edges of the canvas by cork ribbon for a wooden look. I then added texture paste through a Dina Wakley 'Jungle' stencil to create a forest background look.</div>
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Next, I measured the inside dimension of my canvas and trimmed a patterned paper to be pasted inside. I also applied a thin layer of gesso, added additional texture paste and glued ' Holiday Green' die cut from sizzix, inked with distress inks.</div>
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The bottom part is covered with heavyweight card stock, after stamping and inking and then applying crackle paste to it. Some more texture paste here and there and then glued my patterned paper inside.</div>
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As I wanted to create an autumn scene, I cut out silhouette of a couple with my cameo and painted it with black gesso.</div>
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Finally, I embellished my canvas by adding micro beads, pearls, jute ribbon, butterfly resin icon with heavy gel medium and placed the couple in the front.</div>
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I hope my autumn look day will be 'A memory that lasts forever'!!!</div>
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WOW, what a stunning canvas with incredible color and texture! It's the perfect representation of an Autumn day! Thank you so much for sharing your talent with us today, Zub! It's been a pleasure to have you here!</div>
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I hope you are as inspired as I am and will join in the fun for Autumn's challenge, <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://anythingbutcutechallenge.blogspot.ca/2016/10/challenge-18-autumn-day.html" target="_blank"><u>An Autumn Day</u></a>!</span></div>
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You have until the 4th of November to play - and you'll find all the challenge details as well as lots of inspiration from the brilliant Anything But Cute design team by clicking on the challenge link.</div>
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Happy Crafting<br />
Lisa :)</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Hello, everyone! Branka here and firstly I would like to say a huge thank you to those who entered our 'Friendship' challenge! I am totally amazed at how many beautiful and wonderfully creative entries we received! Choosing one winner and a runner-up was a huge dilemma for me but after much debate in my had, I have chosen the winner:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>WINNER</b> - <a href="http://joiattheranch.blogspot.hr/2016/10/patriotic-friendship-mixed-media-canvas.html" target="_blank">#17 - Joi@RR</a></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">This canvas completely stole my heart! Joi has created an unique piece of art full of passion, love and good thoughts. Her use of those DecoArt media products is amazing and I really enjoyed watching her video! I love her fabulous colors and awesome drawing! This spectacular canvas is one of those creations that I would love to hang on my wall! </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Glenda's use of colors, layers and textures has totally blown my mind! She has managed to achieve some dreamy and magical effects with a wonderful combination of dark and light tones. I love her brilliant way to incorporate so many awesome elements together into such a beautiful composition! </span></div>
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I was completely touched and moved by Mary Elizabeth's remarkable post which is about the most wonderful friendship. Elements of that friendship are beautifully displayed and celebrated in this wonderful creation.</div>
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<b>Autumn's Favourite</b> - <a href="http://maxolandia.blogspot.com/2016/09/dziecinstwo.html">#4 Max from MAXymalnie Papierowo</a><br />
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I am an absolute sucker for messy (particularly neutral) layers! This collage is so artistically combined and the focal image is the perfect resemblance of friendship. The beautiful watercolor background sets the perfect stage for every gorgeous detail. Max, I cannot wait to see more of your stunning work!</div>
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I am so very intrigued about anyone having friends for a year, let along 40 or 25 years! That is amazing! These ladies sure know what friendship is all about. The texture on the wood and the stenciling is gorgeous. That blue and black tone with the rusty awesomeness is superb! Wowzers and wowzers!</div>
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Not only this card gorgeous with tons of interesting bits and lots of texture that I would love to touch, but the tribute of Friendship toward an animal tugged at my heart strings! Veronique and Lily have a special friendship and she has showcased it beautifully with the lovely neutrals and that amazing photograph!! Well done!<br />
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I absolutely love everything about this page. The colours, the flowers and most of all that amazing poem about Friendship that rings so true. Dedicated to a recently lost friend, and inspired by all the things her friend loved, Brenda touched my heart with her creativity and her tribute.</div>
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Not only did Mary Elizabeth create this beautiful rustic frame for our challenge, she wrote the most touching post about what true friendship is. She didn't just write about it, she lived it! Wow! If you are having a bad day or not, you NEED to get over to her <a href="http://meandmywalkonthecreativeside.blogspot.com/2016/09/chiari-awareness-month-2016-gift-of-one.html" target="_blank">blog</a> and read this post word for word. While you are there, take a look at her incredible techniques for creating that amazing wood panel frame and rusted #1 token.</div>
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Hello Everyone! <span style="text-align: justify;">Autumn here and I am your hostess this for this month's challenge here at </span><b style="text-align: justify;">Anything But Cute</b><span style="text-align: justify;">. Thank you so much for entering our September challenge. We were floored by your stories of friendship and amazing creativity. Don't forget to check back with us next Wednesday when Branka and the team will announce the winners of our Friendship challenge. Now on to this month's theme...</span></div>
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I could not help but chose October as my month to hostess here at Anything But Cute. This month, we want to see your creations inspired by An Autumn Day. Anything goes mixed media with an fall color palette, or Autumnal elements. Be inspired by nature with the sights, smells, and sounds of this beautiful season. We cannot wait to see the amazing artwork you turn out!</div>
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And now for some inspiration from the talented Anything But Cute design team!<br />
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I love this time of year, the changing leaf colours, finding acorns and chestnuts, the crisp Autumn air.... all of it! I have tried to capture the colours of Autumn in my wall hanging, made with Tim Holtz products, including dies, burlap and Distress Spray Stains.</div>
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I was inspired by our fearless leader Pamellia and her love for nature, particularly squirrels. With today being Pamellia's birthday, I just had to do a canvas in her honor. I used the beautiful colors of fall along with natural elements and a sweet squirrel image. It is such a joy to share with her a love for mixed media and for nature. Happy birthday Pamellia! I hope you have an amazing autumn day! </div>
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I was inspired by Autumn's fabulous challenge theme to create an abstract mixed media canvas using my new favourite products from Pebeo mixed media line. I had so much fun playing with Fantasy Moon, Prisme and Vitrail paints. I also used my golden leaves and contour paints in creating my canvas.</div>
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<a href="http://indymermaid.blogspot.com/2016/10/anything-but-cute-inspired-by-autumn-day.html" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-size: large;">Lisa - A Mermaid's Crafts</span></u></a><br />
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I love Autumn's fitting theme of a project inspired by an Autumn day!! Fall colors are some of my favorite...vibrant reds and oranges and yellows!! I incorporated them into my project using a mixture of Dylusions inks to create the background, along with distress inks, texture paste and crackle medium.</div>
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<u><a href="http://pawsitivelycreativecrafts.blogspot.com/2016/10/explore-autumn.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Niki - Pawsitively Creative Crafts</span></a></u><br />
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When thinking of an Autumn Day, I think about harvesting season for all the farms and also about the changing of the leaves on all the trees. So many gorgeous colors! For this canvas I decided to use lots of Distress Inks, some stencils, chippies, and acorns that I gathered from my Grandmothers house last year. Carpe Diem!</div>
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Fall is my favorite time of the year, and I always have a blast crafting for the season. Most people who know me, know that I am a Halloween nut, so it took everything I had to resist putting something spooky on my wall hanging. Lots of mixed media techniques were used on this, but I also just did some plain old coloring of my stamped pumpkin and vines--what fun! Thank you to Autumn for choosing such an inspiring theme!</div>
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I am simply amazed with the beautiful work of my teamies! Their projects are simply stunning and most inspiring. Please hop over to each team member's blog to see more photos and get some details on how these projects were made. And don't forget to leave some bloggy love while you're there.</div>
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Here at Anything But Cute we just love to see all the seasoned and expert mixed media artists, but we also want to encourage those who are just getting their feet wet. Our design team will always be on the lookout for these exceptional projects and artists. You just never know when we might be giving out something special to a lucky mixed media newcomer. We all have to start somewhere, right?</div>
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Anne here, to introduce the winner of my Summertime Fun Challenge in July. I am completely thrilled to introduce you to the super talented Brenda Brown of <a href="http://www.bumblebeesandbutterflies.com/">Bumblebees and Butterflies</a>.</div>
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Brenda has a wonderful vintage/shabby style, her art is always stunning, beautifully crafted and always incredibly elegant! Not only that but Brenda loves to share her techniques on her blog. She is a published artist, a tutor and is part of an international design team. She is one very inspirational lady!<br />
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Brenda's project is perfect for Branka's <a href="http://anythingbutcutechallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/challenge-17-friendship.html">Friendship Challenge</a>, it celebrates Friendship so well. The project includes some wonderful techniques and celebrates Brenda's style perfectly. Brenda has included a quote about friendship at the end which is so very true too!<br />
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I love my 'work', I am able to get up every day and choose what I would like to do. I always seem to have a to-do list of projects that need making but I always seem to get them done even if it is by the skin of my teeth sometimes. This year has been amazing with so many doors opening for me and I feel blessed and honoured that people follow me on my blog and on Facebook and often leave me wonderfully supportive comments. </div>
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Thank you for being here today to see what I have designed. What makes it thrilling is that I don't get the chance to enter challenges very often these days and was so pleased to be able to take part part in the Summer Fun challenge and then found myself totally flabbergasted when Anne and the amazing team chose my frame as the winner. Thank you all so much.</div>
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I love the theme Branka has chosen for September, FRIENDS are such an important part of our lives and need to be loved and celebrated often, so here is my contribution to add to all the other wonderful makes from the super talented team and the entrants who have already taken part.</div>
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~ Add some colour to the clipboard, I used watery washes of quinacridone red, yellow green light, vermilion and titanium white. I also added some of the paint to the actual clip mechanism and attached it back on the board then rubbed in some iced espresso metallic lustre.</div>
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Thanks for letting me be a part of your 'Friendship' group this month 'Anything But Cute' I have so enjoyed it.</div>
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BEST FRIENDS</div>
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are people you don't need to talk to every day.</div>
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In fact you don't need to talk to each other for weeks,</div>
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but when you do, it's as if you'd never stopped talking.</div>
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I'm sure we all have some of these.</div>
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WOW, what a beautiful project! Isn't that a wonderful way to celebrate friendship? We would love to see you join in Branka's <a href="http://anythingbutcutechallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/challenge-17-friendship.html" style="font-size: x-large;">Friendship Challenge</a> and we hope that Brenda's project has inspired you to do so!<br />
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You have until the 4th of October to play - and you'll find all the challenge details as well as lots of inspiration from the brilliant Anything But Cute design team by clicking on the challenge link.<br />
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Happy Crafting<br />
Anne xx<br />
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Hello, everyone!! Lisa here and I want to sincerely thank each and every one of you who participated in our Shabby Garden Mood Board Challenge!! It made me so happy and inspired to see all of the creative and amazing projects you designed!! Wow, I had the hardest time narrowing it down to select winners!! I truly wish I could pick each of you...that's how fabulous all of your projects were!! But in the end, I decided on:</div>
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I fell in love with Samra's romantic, dreamy card full of gorgeous texture and shabby beauty!! It's exactly the kind of project I imagined when I chose pictures for the mood board!! The stenciled background provides the perfect base for the beautiful handmade flowers climbing up the garden trellis adorned with pearls!! The two-toned, hand-dyed ribbon is such a beautiful touch!! Stunning interpretation of the shabby garden challenge!!</div>
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<b>Anne's Favourite</b> - <a href="http://paperprofusion.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/summer-garden.html">#10 Paper Profusion</a><br />
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Nicola's card is delightful, there is so much to look at - the stencilling, the dies, the beautiful clay birdhouse and birds, the curled corners with wonderful little elements hidden under them, all pieced together to create the most wonderful garden scene!</div>
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I really loved looking at Joi's beautiful backdoor garden for it's beauty, but it also gave me such a sense of peacefulness, too! Don't you just want to step in and enjoy what lies within? Maybe some warm cookies fresh from the oven? I adore Joi's cracked wall, fence and cobbled path, the patina on the door, and her hand painted flowers are lovely, too!. She even shares her process on her blog, so be sure to stop over see her lovely artwork in detail.</div>
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Branka here and I am your hostess this for this month's challenge here at <b>Anything But Cute</b>. First, I would like to thank everyone who participated in Lisa's amazing 'Shabby Garden Mood Board' challenge last month with all their fabulous shabby garden projects! It was a pleasure to see all your gorgeous entries! Don't forget to check back with us next Monday when Lisa and the team announce the winners of the 'Shabby Garden Mood Board' challenge. Now on to this month's theme.<br />
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I believe that friendship is one of the most important things in our life and that everyone needs a good friend to count on. We all have at least one really good friend who we love and cherish. So, this challenge theme is dedicated to our lovely friends.<br />
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Friendship is a relationship of mutual affection between two or more people. We want you to show us a mixed media creation that's inspired by friendship. You can create anything, from tags to art journal pages but make sure it's a mixed media piece. Let's celebrate friendship together!</div>
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Hmm, what has this got to do with friendship? My lovely friend Sandy and I have been blog friends for a few years now and we love to send cards/projects/gifts to each other. Sandy very kindly sent me the new Tim Holtz Village Manor die (how lucky am I!) and since we share a love of Halloween, I have made this little scene to send back to her, I hope she likes it!</div>
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Very few people can say they have had a best friend since before they can remember, but I am in that lucky minority. My friend Trish remembers our first meeting from kindergarten, when I can't remember that far back! We've been thick as thieves since. Good times and bad, she's stuck by my side and had my back. My DT photo here at Anything But Cute comes from this pic of me happy as can be, because that's how I feel when we are together (and how I feel about being on this fabulous team). <3</div>
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Dogs are man's best friend. They are simply awesome and do all of the little things that put smiles on our faces. They give you love, support, understanding and most of all they are loyal. I decided to create an art journal page about our pet friends. I used an old book as a journal, some texture paste, my Decoart media products, a stencil, an old photo from Tim Holtz collection and some frames to create my project.</div>
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I love Branka's theme of friendship! I created this textured reverse-canvas for one of my oldest friends, celebrating some of her favorite things: nature, flowers, owls and traveling! I included a clock to symbolize the duration of our friendship and incorporated her favorite colors of pink and blue!</div>
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While creating a new flower garden in the back yard, my friend and I discovered this hidden treasure. We decided to call it "Mortem Lectulo (latin for "death bed"). The outside is beautifully creepy but when we opened the coffin it revealed a delightful surprise. I believe this was made using chalky paint, distress paint, and some artisan powder la chapeliere and other things, but we are still investigating and researching this pixie coffin. Carpe Diem!</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">What a lovely and timely theme chosen by our dear Branka! Since my little girl has headed off to college, I wanted to make her a photo frame to hold photos of her besties to keep on her desk. Until she chooses which photos to put in it, I thought I'd offer her a little freshman advice in the meantime. I altered this tiny folding frame (it's just 4 inches tall) using gesso, Distress paints, inks and sprays, and texture paste as my wet media. And as always, there's always two sides to every story. Check out the rest on my blog.</span></div>
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Wow, what a truly inspirational and absolutely beautiful range of projects created by my super talented teamies! It's a feast for the eyes! Please hop over to the team blogs to see more photos and get some details on how these projects were made. And don't forget to leave some bloggy love while you're there.</div>
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Here at <b>Anything But Cute</b> we just love to see all the seasoned and expert mixed media artists, but we also want to encourage those who are just getting their feet wet. Our design team will always be on the lookout for these exceptional projects and artists. You just never know when we might be giving out something special to a lucky mixed media newcomer. We all have to start somewhere, right?</div>
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Niki here and I am super stoked to be sharing this post about our Featured Artist! This artist was the winner of my<a href="http://anythingbutcutechallenge.blogspot.ca/2016/06/challenge-14-birds-and-bees.html" target="_blank"> "The Birds and the Bee's"</a> challenge in June. I would love to introduce you to<a href="http://suzzstampingspot.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"> Suzz from Suzz's Stamping Spot</a>! Say hello and welcome to Suzz!</div>
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Suzz is a multifaceted artist that doesn't limit herself to one style. She shows so many wonderful ways to make mixed media designs, everything from geometric to grunge and shabby chic. I don't know how she does it but WOWZERS! Hats off to you darlin!</div>
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Suzz has created another stunner for our <a href="http://anythingbutcutechallenge.blogspot.ca/2016/08/challenge-16-shabby-garden-mood-board_5.html" target="_blank">Shabby Garden moodboard</a> designed by Lisa. Her attention to detail and texture has me gobsmacked! Get ready to drool and oogle over this tempting and splendid creation!</div>
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Hi Suzz here! I am thrilled to be a featured artist at Anything But Cute! The design team is creative and fabulously talented and inspires me every month with their art.</div>
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I am Suzanne Czosek (stampersuzz) of <a href="http://suzzstampingspot.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Suzz's Stamping Spot.</a> I am a mother to 3 wonderful children, 2 dogs and a wife to a wonderful husband. I live in the Midwest in the USA. </div>
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I have always been inspired by art and enjoyed trying new techniques, crafts and mediums. A good friend of mine at work started me on card making and I have been hooked ever since. </div>
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I am in love the Shabby Garden Mood Board provided by Lisa for this month's challenge. Who doesn't love a beautiful garden full of texture, beautiful colors and a shabby effect?</div>
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I started with the fence by creating a template for the pickets. I cut out enough for the front and back of my mini book.</div>
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Next up I created a few houses to put as the main covers to my mini book. These were just cut to scale with my fence.</div>
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I decided to create a roof line with tissue tape wrapped around the front. I then decided a heart cut out would be pretty and used a die to cut a heart shape in the roof. I place them on top of each other with the tissue tape facing out and centered the heart and cut them both at the same time.</div>
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I then sponged on the same shade of lavender inside and out of the house. I stamped a ledger stamp in soft gray to add a little siding to my house.</div>
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GOBSMACKED right? I know I sure am. The added flowers, clock and butterfly to the distressed fence is beautiful and shabbyliscious! How can you not be inspired to join in with this challenge after taking a gander at Suzz's creation. Get those shabby garden ideas out of your head and onto some canvas or paper and join in with Lisa's <a href="http://anythingbutcutechallenge.blogspot.ca/2016/08/challenge-16-shabby-garden-mood-board_5.html" target="_blank"><u style="font-size: x-large;">Shabby Garden Mood Board</u><span style="font-size: large;">!</span></a></div>
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You have until the 4th of September to play - and you'll find all the challenge details as well as lots of inspiration from the brilliant Anything But Cute design team by clicking on the challenge link.</div>
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Happy Crafting and Carpe Diem!<br />
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Hello and welcome, Anne here and firstly I would like to say a HUGE thank you to those who entered the Summertime Fun challenge. I was completely blown away to see so many wonderfully creative and truly inspiring entries. I could have chosen at least ten winners and thoroughly enjoyed pouring over all the gorgeous creations. In the end there can only be one winner though (or two in my case) and so the winner is:</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>WINNER</b> - <a href="http://www.bumblebeesandbutterflies.com/2016/07/under-sea-decoart-challenge.html">#43 Bumblebees and Butterflies</a></span><br />
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Brenda created the most gorgeous watery background, it made feel as if I could dive into the beautiful turquoise water and explore the sea floor... The bubbles look so realistic, the seahorse is delightful and the frame is so beautifully textured it just makes you want to reach out and touch it. The whole piece is just exquisite and Brenda has a fabulous tutorial on her blog too!</div>
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- <a href="http://mimi-shescrafty.blogspot.com/2016/07/watery-love.html">#42 Mimi of She's Crafty</a><br />
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What could represent summertime fun more than two best girlfriends planning a summer wedding together! Mimi's gorgeous shower decor stole my heart! The letters are absolutely lovely against this stunning layered and textured background. The lace up ties are so romantic and the beach vibe is perfect for a casual party. Well done Mimi!</div>
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Drea's lake collage reminds me of summers in South Carolina, with days spent at the lake, searching for that shade tree here and there. I just love her loose layering style and stitches, along with the gorgeous banner she created. The colors are perfectly balanced and draw you in to inspect this beauty! Love it Drea!</div>
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This utterly stunning under the sea project has stolen my heart! Brenda has managed to achieve such fantastic rich textures and to incorporate so many amazing elements together in such an awesome way! I love it to bits!</div>
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I was so impressed by this magical and dreamy canvas with those fantastic golden sea horses! This is so elegant and absolutely beautiful! I am completely in love with this project!</div>
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I feel like I'm swimming under the ocean, experiencing the amazing colors and textures of sea life when I look at this stunning project!! The details are just amazing and the elements blend together perfectly!!</div>
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I love this card!! One of the most beautiful seahorses I've ever seen!! Her canvas is spectacular, too, but I love how the seahorse takes center stage here, in all of it's sparkly, golden glory!! Wow!!</div>
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Catherine has created a fun and whimsical design with a free from thought process. She has enjoyed the moment of the creation and the memories evoked from her summer garden. Gorgeous colors and layers to this fantabulous piece of art!</div>
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It was incredibly hard to choose just one favorite this month, but in the end I chose Brenda's textural and realistic underwater reverse canvas. I fell in love with that little seahorse and her watery mixed media background! She has posted a fabulous tutorial which is the cherry on the top!</div>
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I was so happy Pamellia gave me the thumbs up to list another favorite, because I could not resist Anna's sea themed reverse canvas! I fell in love with the texture and colors on the frame and that lovely sea and beach. The simplicity of this scene is charming!</div>
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Hello Everyone! Lisa here and I am excited to be your hostess this for this month's challenge here at <b>Anything But Cute</b>. Thank all of you who joined us for our challenge last month! Wow! All of the entries are amazing and it's going to be so hard to choose our favorites! Don't forget to check back with us next Friday when Anne and the team announce the winners of the Summertime Fun challenge. Now on to this month's theme.</div>
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There is something so relaxing about strolling through a summer garden blooming with fragrant flowers. When I think of a shabby chic garden, so many images come to mind: coming across a timeworn bench that has been painted so many times over the years, the old paint shows through the worn areas; watching birds take a drink from a fountain that has cracked with age but still stands proudly with regal beauty; birds making a home inside a house that has withstood the elements and still provides a safe haven for the babies about to be born; a couple saying their vows beneath a crystal chandelier hanging from a trellis covered in flowering vines, petals lining the ground. Those images were my inspiration for this month's theme.</div>
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For this challenge, we are asking you to take a stroll through a romantic shabby garden. Create any mixed media project strongly inspired by the mood board. Think flowers and plants in cracked pots, peeling paint bird feeders, distressed timeworn furniture, crumbling statues, soft pastels and feminine accessories. Don't forget to tell us how the mood board inspired your project and have fun!</div>
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I was so inspired by Lisa's gorgeous mood board that I tried to incorporate a little bit of each photo into my card design. I used loads of bits from my stash and also a gift from a lovely friend....</div>
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I was inspired by beautiful colors of this amazing mood board to alter the clock. I used some of my Decoart supplies, some Prima embellishments and some natural elements to create this.</div>
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I love everything shabby and I love watching the birds in my yard, so I combined the two to create this mixed media birdhouse!! Covered with mega crackle and dripping a carpet of flowers and vines, I wanted to create a shabby oasis for our feathered friends!!</div>
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Lisa's shabby moodboard inspired me to create a peeled/chipped paint design featuring "barn doors" that open to reveal elements of my shabby garden. The shutters inspired the shadow box design. </div>
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I used 3 different kinds of chalky paint creating 7 layers of paint, some sandpaper and some CHAPSTICK! Yeppers, chapstick. This was a challenge and I think I have finally figured out how to do shabby chic in my own way. Yippee! Carpe Diem!</div>
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I was inspired by the colors and peeling paint in Lisa's beautiful mood board, as well as the windows and hearts, and of course the sense of romance. I used Distress and DecoArt products to get my peeled paint look and lots of stuff from my stash to make this shabby wedding card.</div>
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Truly inspirational projects by the design team, wouldn't you say! Please hop over to the team blogs to see more photos and get some details on how these projects were made. And don't forget to leave some bloggy love while you're there.</div>
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I hope that we have inspired you to get out your vibrant colours and create some wonderful projects for our challenge!</div>
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The winner will receive the honour of being our Feature Artist for an upcoming challenge!</div>
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Here at Anything But Cute we just love to see all the seasoned and expert mixed media artists, but we also want to encourage those who are just getting their feet wet. Our design team will always be on the lookout for these exceptional projects and artists. You just never know when we might be giving out something special to a lucky mixed media newcomer. We all have to start somewhere, right?</div>
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Challenge runs until <span style="text-align: justify;">September </span>4th - we can't wait to see what you come up with! Happy Crafting from the entire team and thanks for visiting Anything But Cute!</div>
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Sara Emily here, and I'm pleased and so excited to introduce to you our Featured Artist for July. She was the winner of our <a href="http://anythingbutcutechallenge.blogspot.com/2016/05/challenge-13-celebrate-your-style.html" target="_blank">Celebrate Your Style</a> challenge in May. Please welcome Coco of <a href="http://scrapcocofolies.canalblog.com/" target="_blank">Les folies de Coco</a>!!</div>
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Coco is a fabulous, inventive mixed media artist who has a deep love for creating. Each piece of her beautiful artwork expresses her passion, and she loves to try new techniques and play with varied styles and mediums.</div>
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Coco has created this awesome, detailed 3 dimensional scene for Anne's <a href="http://anythingbutcutechallenge.blogspot.ca/2016/07/challenge-15-summertime-fun.html" target="_blank">Summertime Fun</a> challenge. Feast your eyes on this amazing little treasure!<br />
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<span style="line-height: 18.4px;">Hello all! I was absolutely delighted to be invited to guest here at Anything But Cute. I think it's a brilliant challenge, the team includes so many fantastic crafters and artist ladies, and the inspiration projects are always incredible.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"><span lang="en-US" style="line-height: 115%;">I'm Corinne, </span><span lang="en-US" style="line-height: 115%;">from <a href="http://scrapcocofolies.canalblog.com/">Les
folies de Coco</a>... m</span><span lang="en-US" style="line-height: 115%;">ore known as
Cocofolies or simply Coco – my nickname - on Craftyblogland. I'm a
French self-made wanna be artist at heart, and a free-lance teacher
and demonstrator in Mixed Media art since early October, 2015. A
dream come true. Working full-time with craft papers, my beloved
rubber stamps & art supplies in my messy space, with my - always
on my table, truly! - cup of coffee make me just so
happy!!! All that is just a fundamental need for me.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">I
have a confession to make. Unlike many of us, though I have always be an admirer of Art and felt I had an
artistic temperament, my love for getting messy with paint, ink and
stamps is not a great passion from my early childhood years</span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">Instead, since I was good at school I followed advanced studies, and I've become a research engineer in telecommunications
systems and security for many years... But in early 2009, sadly, I
lost a wonderful little girl of almost 5. My passion for creative things goes back to
the months following that terrible loss, where crafting helped me continue to go ahead.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">Today I'm thrilled to bits to be able to create every day and share my
techniques and my love for Mixed Media in my area too, and not only
on my </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">blog</span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">. I
have no particular style, I just love what is beautiful, detailed,
colorful, and sometimes a bit quirky or whimsical which is my world
basically maybe. I always pay a lot of attention to the details. I
could spend hours on tiny details… Even if I’d love to be more
C&S sometimes, I’m sure I’m not! :-)</span></span></div>
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live in beautiful France, in a small Breton village. I am just 50,
but some days feeling much younger (I’m the mum of two lovely twin girls being only 8), and some other days much older… like if I
was almost 100 haha!!! (This is because of my dynamic twins, but also because I
have two grown children, the eldest one will be soon 26… Being a
mum of a large family takes so much energy!). But I have a wonderful
hubby, I’m so thankful to him. Without his support, I would not have been able to fulfill my dream.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">I’m
proud to be designer member for Crafty Individuals, also very proud
to have designed in the past for Tando Creative and Katzelkraft. The only reason why I stopped was the lack of time to manage several
DT commitments at the same time....</span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">I create every day even if I have
not the time to share all my artworks day after day, being so busy,
with my workshops to prepare, DT job, and my big family to take care
for the rest! I have not a minute free for myself for other things
than my consuming passion. But I love my new way of life… I try
publications now to be more known, I’m already in Craft Stamper and
French magazines. But what I prefer and continue to do, is playing
along with my worldwide friends and entering challenges that I love
as much as possible. They are so inspiring, and I have learned so
much myself on some fantastic challenges blogs like this one! - I’m
very grateful for that; I mean for the generous share – generous
because it represents a tremendous work. I still love myself to share
tips, techniques and ideas wherever possible on my blog, Pinterest,
FB and IG social networks.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">Thank
you so much again Pamellia and the team for choosing my Art journal
pages as a winner! This is really an honor for me to be the feature
Artist today on ‘Anything But Cute’ challenge blog and share with
you a small 3D project that I have loved creating for the occasion.
It was really so much FUN, thank you Anne too for choosing the theme
of ‘<b><u><a href="http://anythingbutcutechallenge.blogspot.ca/2016/07/challenge-15-summertime-fun.html" target="_blank">Summertime Fun</a></u></b>’!!!</span></span></div>
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Knowing the theme for this month I remembered that I had in my stash a little wooden cabin offered by a very good crafty friend of mine... We had planned for the fun to create our own version individually and share them on our blogs at the same time when finished. Thought it was the perfect occasion for me to achieve this project!</div>
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And to add to the fun as this is the theme, I have created a full seaside scene in 3D. Hope you will appreciate it. If it could be inspiring for you that would be lovely. <span style="line-height: 115%;">Here’s
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I chose for the support a polystyrene food tray. After a good coat of Gesso (I also gessoed at the same time my little cabin and sanded it too), I glued a sheet of Crafty Individuals Background Paper Book from the Seaside collection. It has the right size to cover the flat surface of such tray, so it was perfect.</div>
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I painted all around in Titan Buff and slightly the edges and the back too; Then I mixed a bit of white and pale yellow paints with extra heavy gel and applied the mixture with a palette knife roughly, to imitate coarse to medium grained sands. I had fun to embed in it small beads and natural seaweed and tiny shells coming from the beach of St Malo, a famous city of privateers!</div>
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Now for the cabin: I wanted some texture on the roof… I chose a lovely Dinky stencil, and applied DecoArt crackle paste over each side. Taping my painting knife also randomly on the walls. Once dry, my roof and cabin were painted with many layers of Decoart fluid Acrylic Paints, I chose bright and gorgeous colours. You can have an idea of the process by looking at the four photos above.</div>
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At this stage, I changed slightly my mind… Decided that my blue was really too dark for a beach hut!!!</div>
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adhere well to the base and in a way I was satisfied, I let the whole
tray dry all the night.</span></div>
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another fun part. I stamped on heavy watercolor paper a lady with a
parasol and two beach chairs, also a kite and its reverse side (by
stamping on an acrylic block first and then transferring the image
onto paper). Clear embossing and cut out everything (leaving a little
border all around) and next colored all the elements with distress
inks and Derwent inktense pencils. </span></div>
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(previously stamped using the same image but fussy cut out for the
purpose of staying invisible behind the lady) and adhered the whole
to the ground with a bit of heavy gel mixed with paints… Like if
the woman was sinking in soft sand and in a little puddle of water. </span></div>
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this stage, I started to be pleased with how things turned! So I
decided to create also a tiny folded book, as a cute addition, with a
true leather cover and lovely stamped pages inside. This book opens
the door to seaside dreams..</span></span></div>
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images speak themselves on the way I created my small book. I played
with some small CI stamps that I love to create the scene, on both
sides of the folded paper. I had a lovely playtime to do it,
highlighting some areas with my pencils, paints and fingers… and
dreaming of summer, beach and sea of course!</span></div>
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back to the tray again, as I love working on details. Thought it
needed some addition! Here you can see how I have embedded some waves
on the back edges. I stamped several wavy borders from a new CI stamp
on tissue paper (quickly painted a bit first with some remaining blue
paints, but I should not do that, because the tissue paper is no more
easy to tear into pieces easily using a small brush after that!!!)
adding a bit of neutral shimmer EP to simulate shining reflections on
water and heat set slightly.. I then glued parts of them in place
using gel medium, giving also a good coat of this on the whole tray
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of the tray, like if sand had been carried by the wind.. I also
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Or the little nautical knot at the back… and ooo, here are my two deckchairs glued side by side! I was inspired by my teammate Florence Langley at Crafty Individuals to add a lovely dot paper to cover the hessian…</div>
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in progress to enrich the decor… I created a large ocean background
paper with some leftovers, - very quickly done, paper piecing and a
bit of black and yellow paints and glue and all done - and fussy cut
one quirky bird stamped on it… Couldn’t resist to adhere it at
the back of my tray looking at the scene : -)</span></div>
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WOW! what a fabulous beach scene with so many great details! Thank you so much, Coco, for inspiring us with your artwork! It has been such an honor having you here with us today and great to learn more about you.<br />
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Hello all of you lovelies! Niki here. I sure hope you all are having a wonderful summer full of family time, good food and crafty time. As the summer months get into full swing it is easy to forget to put aside some time for yourself, I know that is the case for me. I want to thank every one that was able to find some time to get into their art rooms and enter our last challenge. The scope of entries was vast and it made it difficult to choose a winner. After much deliberation and thought my winner of <span style="text-align: center;">The Birds and The Bee's challenge is:</span></div>
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I chose this fantabulous and quirky design because it is full of wonderful mixed media techniques and leftovers. Suzz used scraps from previous projects and ended up with this stunning creation. The use of inks and textures, not to mention the awesome sauce face, left me smiling. Bravo!</div>
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I am in love with this brilliantly created layout! So many amazing elements and fantastic layering! Beautiful stencilling work, great stamping and a super cool messy design which I love!</div>
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I absolutely love the amazing texture Kim has created on her canvas!! The colors are so soft and beautiful!! The paperclay flowers look amazing!! The bird's nest pops so beautifully!! Stunning!!</div>
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Anne here and I am your hostess this for this month's challenge here at Anything But Cute. Thanks to all those who joined us last month, we truly did have some fabulous entries! Don't forget to check back with us next Tuesday when Niki and the team announce the winners of the Birds and the Bees challenge. Now on to this month's theme.</div>
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Here in the UK we don't usually get great summers, but we love to flock to the seaside, come rain or shine. Many of us head off to beautiful foreign places to soak up the sun and local culture, while others prefer a stay-cation, enjoying the garden or exploring our own beautiful countries. I love hearing about and seeing photos of holidays that family and friends have taken and that is what inspired me to choose the theme this month. So, bring on the ...</div>
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Those who know me, know how much I love the seaside and anything to do with the sea. My dream has always been to own a beach hut by the sea and since part of every holiday includes visiting and photographing beach huts, it seemed natural to create my ideal beach scene....</div>
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I enjoy riding my bicycle during the Summertime and it makes me feel so free. I created this messy and bright jumbo tag using my fluo acrylic paints to express how much fun I have during my Summertime.</div>
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My most favorite thing about the summer is time spent at the beach (must be the mermaid in me ;) I used just about every medium in my craft room to create this ocean-side canvas: texture paste, crackle glaze, grunge paste, texture sand, glass beads, heavy gesso, sprays, paint and even real sand. The sentiment says it all for me...life is better at the beach!!</div>
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<u><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://mylittlecraftthings.blogspot.com/2016/07/anything-but-cute-summertime-fun-with.html" target="_blank">Pamellia - My Little Craft Things</a></span></u><br />
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I think my favourite thing about summertime is how beautiful the world is. All the blue skies and water with colourful flowers and fresh green foliage. I love it! And you can forget the beautiful creatures too! For my tutorial part of this summery card, I have put together a video. Enjoy!</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">I made an art journal page to depict my Summertime Fun. I used gesso, sprays, paint, crackle mediums, and few other mixed media products to bring to life a warm summer day at my favorite summer vacation destination. It's more than a place--it's an experience! I hope you'll enjoy a walk through a West Virginia meadow and then sit a spell on porch with me at my blog.</span></div>
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My teammates have certainly risen to the challenge with their stunning Summertime projects, don't you think? Please hop over to the team blogs to see more photos and get some details on how these projects were made. And don't forget to leave some bloggy love while you're there.</div>
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Hello, everyone!! I hope you are having a wonderful week!! I'm going to share some techniques with you today using Brushos, a highly pigmented, incredibly versatile water color powder. Brushos can be used on paper, canvas and even wood and are completely non-toxic and non-hazardous. The results are never the same and can be vibrantly unpredictable...in a good way :)</div>
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To start, I punched holes in the bottles so I can easily sprinkle the powder without opening the jars each time. I used a Tim Holtz pick tool to punch the holes.</div>
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<b>Technique #1) Brushos on Wet Paper</b><br />
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To get started, spritz paper with water. I used Strathmore Watercolor paper for all of these techniques.<br />
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Sprinkle as many colors of Brushos as you desire onto the paper. They react instantly with the water. <br />
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You can keep adding water and Brushos until your happy with the result.<br />
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<b>Technique #2) Brushos on Dry Paper </b><br />
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Sprinkle Brushos directly onto paper.<br />
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Spritz with water and watch the colors blend!! You can either let it dry like this or...<br />
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...dab with a paper towel or baby wipe for softer, muted colors.<br />
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<b>Technique #3) Fireworks Effect</b><br />
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This one I discovered completely by accident :) Spritz paper with water. Open the lid of one of the jars and pinch a small amount of Brushos with your fingers.</div>
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Drop onto the wet paper. I love how the edges fan out, giving a beautiful exploding fireworks effect.<br />
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For the next couple of techniques, we're going to use starch. I chose this brand with a lovely scent of mountain lavender...pretty colors, pretty smell :)</div>
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Sprinkle Brushos on dry paper and then spritz with starch.<br />
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Continue to add more Brushos and more starch to intensify the color.<br />
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Move the starch around to blend the colors.<br />
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You can pat some of the color with a paper towel or baby wipe for a nice ombre look.<br />
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<b>Technique #5) Starch With Cling Wrap</b><br />
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Sprinkle Brushos on paper and the spritz with starch.<br />
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Keep adding Brushos and starch and move the starch around until you get a nice blend.<br />
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Crumple a piece of cling wrap larger than your paper and then unfold it. Pat it onto the wet starch. Let dry completely before you remove the wrap.</div>
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Once it dries, you get a nice depth of colors.<br />
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Here's another example of this technique with different colors.<br />
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And the finished result.<br />
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<b>Technique #6) Sea Salt</b><br />
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You can get beautiful color and texture using sea salt.<br />
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I love this one...it looks like blue marble.<br />
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You never know what you're going to get...I love the color and texture of this one.<br />
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And one more using rainbow colors.<br />
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<b>Technique #7) Embossing</b><br />
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For this one, I inked a Wendy Vecchi stamp with Versamark, then heat embossed it. I used clear embossing powder since I wanted the white paper to show through.<br />
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After embossing, sprinkle Brushos onto paper and spritz with water. You can see the circle pattern showing through. You can see it better in the next picture...<br />
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<b>Technique #8) Bleach</b><br />
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To add more depth, stamp an image onto the paper (please ignore the face on my acrylic block...that happened the first time I used the Stampendous Beauty Face stamp :)</div>
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Fill a waterbrush with bleach. Paint inside the petals...the bleach will remove the color.<br />
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Here's another example using a flower stamp. <br />
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The bleach works on both lighter and darker colors.<br />
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And one more using a checkered floor stamp.<br />
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<b>Technique #9) Using Stencils</b><br />
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There are several ways to use Brushos with stencils. For this one, I sprinkled Brushos onto my craft mat and then spritzed with water. Dip paintbrush into mixture (you don't want it too wet or it will bleed beneath the mask) and brush over stencil.</div>
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A pretty blue butterfly :)<br />
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<b>Technique #10) Brushos, Stencils and Texture Paste</b><br />
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Cover stencil with texture past and then sprinkle Brushos over the top while the stencil is still in place.</div>
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Spritz with water and then remove stencil. I didn't show this step, but you can then turn the stencil over on another piece of watercolor paper for a beautiful background.</div>
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Combine Brushos with texture paste and stir with pallet knife until completely blended.<br />
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Spread blended mix over stencil. The color options are unlimited...you can make your own custom color of texture or crackle paste.</div>
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Don't forget to join in our current challenge hosted by Niki, <a href="http://anythingbutcutechallenge.blogspot.ca/2016/06/challenge-14-birds-and-bees.html" target="_blank"><b>The Birds and The Bees</b></a>. You have until July 4th to link up. Thanks so much for stopping by!!</div>
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Pamellia here and I am so excited to introduce you to our Feature Artist for June. She was the winner of Samra's Earth Day challenge in April. Welcome Miranda Burhenne of <u><a href="http://mirandaburhenne.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Miranda's Art Journey</a></u>!! </div>
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Miranda is a fantastic mixed media artist! She has so many styles and excels at every one of them! She is incredible with hand drawn art but she also does journal pages, ATCs, canvas art, steampunk, fantasy... you name it and Miranda does it with style! </div>
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Miranda has put together this wonderful project for Niki's current challenge <u><a href="http://anythingbutcutechallenge.blogspot.ca/2016/06/challenge-14-birds-and-bees.html" target="_blank">THE BIRDS AND THE BEES</a></u>. Feast your eyes on this beauty!!<br />
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Hi there! I hope you are having a great time with this months theme The Birds and the bees. I am so proud to be the eature Artist at Anything But Cute.</div>
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My name is Miranda Burhenne,I live in the Netherlands and I'm 35. My name is also the url to go to my blog. But along the way I changed the tittle into Miranda's Art Journey,because it is still a journey through Art for me at this point.</div>
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I have always loved crafting ,making cards for birthdays , scrapbook the baby albums for my three daughters until i discovered Art Journaling and Mixed Media just at the right time for me. Because i totally lost my craft mojo. Wauw this Mixed Media world is so exciting and I am trying new things every time and enjoying all the lovely work and tutorials I come across.</div>
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For this Journal page I was already dreaming of a vacation with Tropical birds, the sun on our skin and of course a mojito!!</div>
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The Flamingo gives me that Tropical feeling I need but I wanted it to be in my favourite steampunk style. So I draw the flamingo from a picture I saw on Pinterest and gave it a little steampunk make over</div>
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I wanted to use my Gelli Plate and decided not to use the first print but the ghost print so you can see my beautiful scrappaper from kaisercraft through it. I tryed to print the birds onto the background with the gelli Plate but it didn't work for me. Stamped the birds again onto my page with Archival ink</div>
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Americana/Deco Art:</div>
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Then painted some gears pink,Crazy color for gears, but I just love it and embossed with Tim Holtz- Distress powder- Black soot. You can see a little bit of Pink shining through.<br />
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Mixed Americana Yellow green with liquitex and put it trough a stencil this gives a lovely texture and gloss or maybe this colour represents the mojito i was thinking about.</div>
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I coloured the flamingo with copics and polychromos, put a eyelet through his eye and some brads. Finally i wrote my quote on the page from where it all started.</div>
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WOW ...what a gorgeous creation!! Thank you so much Miranda for inspiring us with your wonderful art! It's been an honour to have you here with us today!</div>
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I hope you all are just as inspired as I am, and will join in with us for Niki's challenge</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u><a href="http://anythingbutcutechallenge.blogspot.ca/2016/06/challenge-14-birds-and-bees.html" target="_blank">The Birds and the Bees</a></u>!</span></div>
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You have until the 4th of July to play - and you'll find all the challenge details as well as lots of inspiration from the brilliant Anything But Cute design team by clicking on the challenge link.</div>
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Happy Crafting</div>
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Pamellia :)</div>
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Pamellia and the entire design team here and we are back to announce the Winners and Runner-Ups from our first anniversary challenge "Celebrate Your Style". We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who entered our birthday challenge last month and supported us for our one year mark! It was so amazing to see all those gorgeous projects that were posted! You all put a lot of love into your fabulous creations and we are completely blown away by the variety of projects and creative ideas! </div>
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As we tallied up the votes, it turned out that we had a three way tie for the winning spot and a two way tie for the runner-up. So without further ado (in no particular order)</div>
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<a href="http://scrapcocofolies.canalblog.com/archives/2016/05/09/33673742.html" style="text-align: start;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Coco #18</span></a><br />
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<u><a href="http://magicatticdesign.blogspot.ca/2016/05/celebrate.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Maria #68</span></a></u></div>
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<u><a href="http://suzzstampingspot.blogspot.ca/2016/05/scraps-and-challenges.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Suzz #79</span></a></u></div>
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Congratulations to <b>Coco, Mari </b>and <b>Suzz</b>, you really impressed us with your projects! Please contact Pamellia (pamellia1162@gmail.com) with your full name and mailing address to receive your Gift Vouchers. Deadline is June 25.<br />
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<span style="text-align: justify;">Store - </span><u><a href="http://www.thefunkiejunkie.com/" target="_blank">The Funkie Junkie Boutique</a></u></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">Blog - <u><a href="http://frillyandfunkie.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Frilly and Funkie Challenge Blog</a></u></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">Facebook - </span><u><a href="https://www.facebook.com/The-Funkie-Junkie-Boutique-259435177526481/" target="_blank">The Funkie Junkie Boutique</a></u></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">Store - </span><u><a href="http://www.emeraldcreek.ca/" target="_blank">Emerald Creek Craft Supplies</a></u></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">Blog - <u><a href="http://blog.emeraldcreek.ca/" target="_blank">Emerald Creek Dares</a></u></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">Facebook - <u><a href="https://www.facebook.com/EmeraldCreekCraft" target="_blank">Emerald Creek Craft</a></u></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: justify;">Store - </span><u style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.alleystamp.com/" target="_blank">Alleystamp</a></u></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">Etsy Store - </span><u style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/alleystamp" target="_blank">Alleystamp</a></u><br />
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<a href="http://pushingtherightbuttons.blogspot.ca/2016/05/the-traveller-for-frilly-and-funkie.html" style="text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Jenny #83</span></a></div>
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54. Melissa SunshineHoneyBee<br />
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We would like to thank Linda at the Funkie Junkie Boutique for donating a box of products for our random draw. I have divided it up into three packages, please contact me (pamellia1162@gmail.com) with your full name and mailing address to receive your prize. Deadline is June 25.</div>
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<b>Anne's Favourite</b> - <a href="http://argeum.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/floral-frenzy-at-stamps-and-stencils.html">Ruth </a>- No. 119<br />
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Ruth created the most beautiful textured background and the flowers are cleverly made with more beautiful mixed media backgrounds. A stunning creation.</div>
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<b>Autumn's Favourite</b> - <u><a href="http://mirandaburhenne.blogspot.ca/2016/06/come-fly-away-with-me.html" target="_blank">#116 Miranda</a></u><br />
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Miranda's genius mix of drawing and mixed media stole my heart! This fabulous stylized owl is unbelievably cool and inspiring. I am totally blown away with Miranda's drawing skills and use of color!</div>
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<b>Branka's Favourite</b> - <a href="http://argeum.blogspot.hr/2016/06/floral-frenzy-at-stamps-and-stencils.html" target="_blank">#119 Ruth</a><br />
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I am really impressed by this fabulous canvas with amazing rich textures and breathtaÄ·ingly beautiful handmade flowers! It's a fantastic vintage looking make!</div>
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I am mesmerized by the gorgeous colors in Nikki's canvas!! I love how they go from bold stripes to a subtle, muted blend!! The butterfly is a perfect touch!! It's absolutely stunning!!</div>
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I was drawn to this gorgeous design by Lys because of the dark and gorgeous background and the texture! Bling, bling! I just wanted to reach out and touch this! Can you believe that the texture was created from potpourri!?! Talk about an upcycle and genius was to use a household item. Wowzers Lys!</div>
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Jane's tag hypnotized me with the amazing colours, and the black and white accents create such a whirlwind of contrast and interest, I LOVE the entire look! So dreamy!</div>
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This layout is just incredible. One of those projects I wish I could reach into my computer screen and touch! So many wonderful products and they all work together in harmony!</div>
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I've never seen so many wonderful colours used together before! I would expect a jumbled mess, but instead, this gorgeous piece of art just shines! Well done!</div>
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The background on this canvas is mesmerizing--I wish I could reach out and touch the texture! To top it off, Ruth finished it in the most beautiful colors and topped it with handmade flowers cut from handmade mixed media papers. This is a must see up close, so be sure to pop by Ruth's blog!</div>
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Niki here and I am your hostess for this month's challenge here at <b>Anything But Cute</b>. I have to give you all a HUGE round of applause for joining our Blogiversary celebration! Can you believe it has been a year! Whoot whoot! Thank you to everyone that joins us each month, it is because of YOU that this challenge blog is such a fun place! Yours projects are always delightful to look at! We so enjoy reading your comments and learning more about you through your art! Don't forget to check back with us on June 12th when we, the entire team, announce the winners of the "Celebrate Your Style" challenge. Now on to this month's theme.</div>
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Thankfully the warm weather is finally here and I can sit outside and enjoy hearing the sounds of Spring although I don't care for getting stung by wasps. Seems like those critters set up a nice hive in my outdoor umbrella and my dog and I were both stung. Ouch! We are better now and got rid of the hive so everything is good but this helped inspire my theme for this month.</div>
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<span style="text-align: start;"> With the lovely warm weather in my neck of the woods, I am seeing so many wonderful <b>birds</b> and <b>bee's</b>, so I would love to see those in your mixed media makes! Pull out those bird stamps, think of feathers and maybe some honeycomb. Or you could even go for a non-traditional interpretation like a family crest that has a bird emblem on it. The sky is the limit!!</span><br />
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I was thrilled when I saw Niki's wonderful theme as I love birds and bees. I have had this Tim Holtz bee in my stash for ages so it was time to put it to good use. It is also good to remind ourselves, too, of the plight of our bees around the world .....</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">I couldn't help but make a tag this month in my favorite palette of aqua and brown and feature a beautiful vintage bird image, at home in a nest of book pages. What a great theme! I can't wait to see your entries. </span></div>
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I was inspired by Niki's wonderful theme to create a vibrant card using the Tim Holtz's Birds Crazy stamp set and some of my Dylusions stamps. I also used my Tombow Dual Tip markers, Tombow Irojiten colored pencils and some hand dyed cotton fabrics.</div>
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I love Niki's theme of Birds and Bees for this month's challenge!! I sat down to work thinking I was going to create a project featuring our feathered friends...but to my surprise, it turned into one with our winged friends instead!! I used two different honeycomb stencils with texture pastes and covered the bees with crackle glaze for a bit of texture.</div>
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Not your traditional thought when thinking about the birds and the bee's but this is how my mind works. Lol! I altered an old book using paper leather, crackle glaze, stenciling, a brayer and lots of lovely chipboard pieces. This is a book about family, their crest and how the bird changed their lives for the better. </div>
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I absolutely love Niki's challenge theme and it took me directly to a warm spring morning with the birds singing and fluttering outside my window. I have put together this shabby chic card with that morning in mind. For my tutorial portion of the project, I have put together this video. Enjoy!</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">It was hard NOT to be inspired by Niki's theme this month, and of course, my mind turned directly to the Love Shack! I designed and constructed the birdhouse, and threw everything at it I could find--paint, ink, crayons, stain, mediums, glazes, etc.-- you'll just have to visit my blog for the messy details! I haven't had so much fun, well, since our last challenge!</span></div>
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I am always amazed about how diverse our team is and this month is no exception! Everything from bright and bold, to 3D with some shabby chic in-between. Ya'll rocked this challenge ladies! Please hop over to the team blogs to see more photos and get some details on how these projects were made. And don't forget to leave some bloggy love while you're there.</div>
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Here at Anything But Cute we just love to see all the seasoned and expert mixed media artists, but we also want to encourage those who are just getting their feet wet. Our design team will always be on the lookout for these exceptional projects and artists. You just never know when we might be giving out something special to a lucky mixed media newcomer. We all have to start somewhere, right?</div>
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Hello lovelies! I do hope that today finds you all well and good. As some of you may know, I like to experiment with different products and learn new ways to use said products. Today I would like to share some different ways to use polymer clay with your mixed media designs. There are so many ways to incorporate oven bake clay or air dry clay into your designs. I am sharing polymer clay techniques that I find the most fun!</div>
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I don't really have a specific clay I use, basically any oven bake clay that is on sale is good enough for me but not all clay is created equal. The only clay that I have found I don't particularly like is DAS air dry clay. When shaping clay I like clay that will stick together, even when you have to add some extra clay, the DAS clay did not do that. It crumpled and the pieces did not stick together.</div>
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One of the more easy ways to create with polymer clay is to just roll it out and make a flat piece then use your handy dandy stamps and stamp into it. Easy peasy and this adds wonderful depth and texture to a design. This technique is shown in the altered paper mache book photo below. The entire background panel is made from polymer clay that I stamped into. When you add your colors (in this case I used LSG sprays) it pools into the recesses of the stamped clay and adds nice contrast. I used oven bake clay for this design.</div>
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The blue "tiles" under the torn paper above the butterfly are air dry clay that I stamped into. I used these leftovers on this design because the tiles cracked as they were air drying and I couldn't use it for my intended project. That is how I learned about the difference between air dry and oven bake clay. </div>
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Another way to use polymer clay is to sculpt little accessories for your design. For this idea I usually use white clay that I can paint any color I would like. I use acrylic paints on the clay. You can also paint parts of the sculpt you are doing, then bake it, and continue to add to your design after baking. The paint will stay where it should on your sculpt. The picture below shows some small little elements I added to my skeletons. The little top hat and the bow tie on the gentleman is made from clay. The necklace and bracelet on the lady skeleton is made from clay. There are also two pumpkins that are clay and the tombstones are made from clay.</div>
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Or you can go a bit bigger and create an entire model sculpt from clay. The wonderful thing about clay is you can keep changing your sculpt if you don't like the result that is happening. For my Jack Skellington (my first attempt at a full sculpt) I wasn't liking his head so I re-designed it about 3 times. Make a wire armature if you are going to do a full sculpt, it helps with the overall shape and provide nice support. I used oven bake clay for Jack and Zero. Another technique that you can achieve with clay is to use it in molds. I have 3 different molds on the Jack Skellington design. The clock is a mold, the frame around the tombstone and the pillars by the pumpkins are molds. For the molds I used air dry clay and would have to say that I was not happy with the results. In the future I will be using oven bake clay for my molds.</div>
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One of my absolute favorite designs included the paw print of my beloved German Shepherd, Raj. I created the design around her paw print that I had made when she was about 7 years old (I lost her to cancer in 2014). The vet clinic I worked at was wanting to give clients a memento of their furry loved one and I got to experiment with different companies paw print kits. I wasn't too keen on most and bought some polymer clay and had my girl step onto it thus creating her print and viola! I used that print from years ago and pushed polymer clay into it (very gently) and created a <b>reverse paw print</b>. The reverse print let me feel the texture from her paw pad and it was like I was holding her paw again. The picture below is right after baking the clay.</div>
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Don't forget to check out our current challenge <a href="http://anythingbutcutechallenge.blogspot.ca/2016/05/challenge-13-celebrate-your-style.html" target="_blank">"Celebrate Your Style"</a> that runs until June 4th! And remember we have some fabulous prizes from amazing sponsors like <u><a href="http://www.thefunkiejunkie.com/" target="_blank">The Funkie Junkie Boutique</a></u>, <u><a href="http://www.emeraldcreek.ca/" target="_blank">Emerald Creek Craft Supplies</a></u> and <u><a href="https://www.alleystamp.com/" target="_blank">Alleystamp</a></u>! </div>
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Branka here and I am so thrilled to introduce you to our Feature Artist for May, the lady who was the winner of my 'Crazy For Colour' challenge in March. Please welcome Kris from <u><a href="http://artsbitsnbobs.blogspot.hr/" target="_blank">My Beloved Arts & Crafts</a></u>!</div>
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Kris is a fabulous mixed media artist and if you visit her blog you'll see how wonderfully she combines textures and colors using so many amazing techniques. Her art work is so inspirational and so impressive whether she used dark or bright tones in her projects.</div>
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I am so excited about the project she put together for our current challenge '<u><a href="http://anythingbutcutechallenge.blogspot.hr/2016/05/challenge-13-celebrate-your-style.html" target="_blank">Celebrate Your Style</a></u>' and it really showcases her unique and amazing style.</div>
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Hi, how are you, I am Kris (which is my nickname!) from <a href="http://artsbitsnbobs.blogspot.ie/">My Beloved Arts & Crafts</a>. My real name is Kristiina, I am originally from a country called Estonia but my home is in Dublin, Ireland for almost 16 years. I am in my early thirties, married, have 3 kids who keep me on my toes and I absolutely am in love with all sorts of creativity. Long story short!</div>
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Art is a great passion of mine already from my early childhood years. I found mixed media only a few years ago but my deep affection for it is growing stronger day by day. It is just amazing what you can come up with with using many different media on one project. I have always found pleasure in traditional art though - pencil drawing and oil painting, acrylic painting but I enjoy anything artsy and crafty basically, like altered art, jewellery making, card making, home decor, sculpting, art journalling and of course watercolouring and may I even say lino cutting sometimes and the list would go on.</div>
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I love retro, vintage, distressed, and aged style mostly but can try many things, it depends of the mood, liking and the ability I have, really. Abstract art is the one I truly enjoy too, maybe even the most in recent years and I try to incorporate mixed media with it. I am keen on creating textures, using mostly vibrant colours and adding details.</div>
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May I take this opportunity here and say my thank you words again for choosing my canvas as a winner and therefore the opportunity for being here as a Feature Artist. It truly is a great honour! As the theme is 'Celebrate Your Style' for the May, it inspired me to create a mixed media abstract art 'texture celebration' on a wooden panel (12x12")! </div>
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And I just had to use some of Powertex products again (and I promised to myself that I won't touch those this time but ...). I chose a wooden panel because it is stronger than a stretched canvas as I intended to use heavy texture, and it is ready to hang on the wall too which is a great bonus. I do hope I can inspire you with my work!</div>
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At first you would always want to cover the work area with thin plastic when working with Powertex as it doesn't stick to thin plastics so I just use the bin bags and tape them down on the sides. Kitchen floor is my working area! After finishing you can just pop the dirty bags in the bin and like no mess ever happened! Don't wear your fancy clothes obviously and I always wear nitrile gloves too when using a wet media, it's great to do art but the condition of my skin is also important to me.</div>
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Next step for me was to pour the Powertex (here I used the Transparent colour) in a plastic bowl and cover a piece of stockinette with it, and attach it to the panel. By doing this, it just made a starting point for me. I painted the panel here and there with Powertex, some areas thicker, some thinner. I rubbed on Stone Art too (not seen here). It's a cellulose powder and it should be used combination with Powertex and with it you can create a mixture too that resembles a clay. I just rolled up some random pieces for some texture, like below.</div>
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A mixture of Daler Rowney Acrylic Ink and Golden Tar Gel with a help of a wooden skewer gave me gorgeous 3D splashes. After drying I used a splatter brush with Sennelier Abstract Paint. A few more splatters with acrylic ink, more mixture of Tar Gel, and more ink splatters!</div>
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It needed that something more so I thought that a zip would do, I cut the fabric part off and got an interesting embellishments to glue on. And I was left to paint the edges, a day and more to dry and cure and with Liquitex High Gloss Varnish I got the colours to pop and the protection. And I was finally finished.</div>
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WOW, what a fantastic project with a brilliant combination of rich textures and vibrant colors! A real mixed media gem full of awesome elements! Thank you Kris, from the entire team for joining us here at Anything But Cute with your fabulous project!</div>
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I hope that you are inspired as much as I am with this absolutely amazing project and I encourage you to join in our anniversary challenge '<b><u><a href="http://anythingbutcutechallenge.blogspot.hr/2016/05/challenge-13-celebrate-your-style.html" target="_blank">Celebrate Your Style</a></u></b>'.<br />
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You have until the 4th of June to play - and you'll find all the challenge details as well as lots of inspiration from the brilliant Anything But Cute design team by clicking on the challenge link.</div>
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Happy Crafting<br />
Branka xx</div>
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Samra here to announce the winner of our Earth Day challenge from last month. Thank you all who entered with us your marvelous work! Choosing a winner was not an easy task with so many wonderful entries! But without further ado I present to you...</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>WINNER</b> -<a href="http://mirandaburhenne.blogspot.nl/2016/04/earth-day.html" target="_blank">#33 Miranda</a></span><br />
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Miranda created this Earth Day inspired Journal Page, draw the hands holding the globes so beautifully and picked such a perfect sentiment to top it all off. In my eyes, this is a perfect interpretation of the challenge. Thank you Miranda for creating such an inspiring piece!</div>
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<b>Congratulations Miranda!</b> Pamellia will be in touch by email to send you a personalized winner's badge and to provide details about being our Feature Artist for the next challenge. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>RUNNER-UP</b> -<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CI2k8X0e8Qg/Vx8w1JXH3yI/AAAAAAAAMNU/KphbbXSnj5oFyA6jWBM6XcBHIIwEnx1iwCLcB/s400/IMG_9862.JPG" target="_blank">#46 Kerstin</a></span><br />
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Truly and magically gorgeous piece. Love the magic of the sea feel of this piece and all the greens and blues that mix so well in this work of art.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">RUNNER-UP - <a href="http://indymermaid.blogspot.com/2016/05/dlart-may-linky.html" target="_blank">#51 Lisa</a></span></b><br />
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Shabby Chic gorgeousness at it's best!!! I love the blue flowers, shabby bow and the delicate butterfly just like our strong and mighty earth, yet so very delicate and fragile.</div>
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<b>Anne's Favourite</b> - <a href="http://wiecznajesien.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/album-morskie-opowiesci-stories-from.html">#30 Karina</a><br />
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Karina transformed a plain album into a beautiful sea themed one, inside and out. Each page has been altered, capturing the wonderful colours of Samra's gorgeous mood board.</div>
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<b>Branka's Favourite</b> - <a href="http://createwithjulia.blogspot.hr/2016/04/wanderlust-class-inspiration-art-journal.html" target="_blank">#4 Julia Aston</a></div>
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This beautiful project has stolen my heart! A brilliant design with so many yummy elements, fabulous color choice and a perfect use of fabric! This altered book is truly a work of art!</div>
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<b>Cec's Favourite</b> - <a href="http://yellowhousestudio.blogspot.ca/2016/04/earthy-colors-and-big-thoughts.html" target="_blank">#23 Yellow House Studio</a></div>
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I loved this array of ATCs because they were chock full of stamping, stenciling and wonderful colour. All the fun vintage images paired so nicely with birds and insects to tie into Earth Day. Each one stands on its own but together they make a cohesive grouping.</div>
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<b>Niki's Favourite</b> -<a href="http://twocraftingsisters.blogspot.com/2016/04/butterfly-slipstream.html" target="_blank">#1 Maura</a></div>
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I love the story of the butterflies having an internal compass and being able to fly thousands of miles by instinct. Maura has told their story amazingly well with this lovely tag and has captured a truly magical element of Earth Day. Maura used the greens from the mood board smashingly well and the gears with the pops of gold are stunning! Fantabulous design and details!</div>
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I just loved the technique Jacquie used to colour all these amazing leaves, but there's no denying that my favourite part of this fabulous creation is RUSTY the Squirrel!! Jacquie has captured my heart and the essence of what I enjoy about the outdoors the most...foliage and furry beings! LOVE IT!</div>
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Not only do I love all the amazing blues that Jane used here, but I love her earthy elements and amazing textures!! I also really enjoyed where Jane found her inspiration, please check out her post and be as inspired as I was!</div>
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<b>Sara Emily's Favourite</b> - <a href="http://joiattheranch.blogspot.com/2016/04/decoart-americana-canvas-painting.html" target="_blank">#32 Joi@RR</a></div>
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I was totally blown away by the colors and the texture on this painting! You really need to visit Joi's blog to fully appreciate this work of art. Her step by steps are fascinating! Joi took the colors from Samra's mood board and ran with them! And even her inspiration is organic!</div>
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