Challenge Info

Welcome to Anything But Cute!

We are a monthly mixed media challenge blog with a new challenge the 5th day of every month at 7:00 am EST.

Here at Anything But Cute we 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 artists, and you just never know when we might be giving out something special to a talented mixed media newcomer.

We welcome all types of crafts - cards, journal pages, scrapbook pages, 3D crafts, canvas art, altered items and any other handmade paper or mixed media arts. We encourage crafters of all skill levels and styles. shabby chic, grunge, CAS, vintage, elegant, stylish, retro, you name it (unless the challenge requests a specific style). As our name indicates, the only style we are not showcasing - are all things cute and adorable.

Feel free to use digital images and sentiments on your art, but final projects must be tangible works. All digital images and stamps must be fashionable, realistic, decorative or vintage in nature. Cute cartoon animals, colouring book style doodles, and juvenile images are NOT what we are looking for. Real photographs of your children are fine (the only exception to the cute rule) lol.

There must be at least one WET mixed media product on your project somewhere, be that paint, ink, stain, spray, texture paste, molding clay, crackle glaze...whatever you have on hand (colouring markers do NOT count as mixed media products and ink pads only count if you use it to alter an item, NOT if you have just stamped an image). 'Straight from the package' projects will not be eligible for badges or prizes and may be deleted without notification.

Just a few examples of wet media : ink pads, ink sprays, ink stains, liquid inks, paints, paint sprays, texture paste, crackle paste, gel medium, bead gel, whipped spackle, gesso, decou-page, glitter gels, glitter pastes, puff paints, powder colour bursts, alcohol inks...etc, etc, etc.

Challenge Rules:
1. Unlike most challenges, we allow backlinking - your post may have a publish date as early as the first of the month!!!
2. Please link back to us, and we would love you to display our challenge badge so others can find us
3. Please link directly to your project post and NOT the entire blog
4. You may submit as many creations as you like - as long as each one links to a different post
5. Feel free to combine with as many other challenges as you like
6. We would love for you to become a follower.
7. Don't forget to leave some love on the DT's blogs, they worked hard on their projects!

8. You must follow the theme of the challenge and the style of the blog (as set out in the above guidelines) to be eligible for any winning spots or prizes.

Don't be afraid to get messy and don't forget...this is supposed to be fun!

PLEASE NOTE: You are free to enter a project that is linked to Flickr, Instagram, or any other account, but unfortunately, the design team will not be commenting on entries that are not linked directly to a blog. Thank you for your understanding.

Schedule:
5th - New challenge starts and runs until the 4th of the following month
12th - Winners and DT Favourites Post
19th - Feature Artist Post and a challenge reminder
26th - Spotlight Post and a challenge reminder


Winners and DT Favourites

The Winner and Runner Up will be chosen by the challenge Hostess. The Winner receives a spot as our Feature Artist in an upcoming challenge. Every DT member will choose one Favourite to feature on the winners post. When a physical or on-line prize is available, the winner of the prize will be chosen by Mr Random. There is no badge available for prize winners.

Thank you so much for visiting us here at Anything But Cute!