Mixed media Card Challenge - Family + Arrow

Hello creatives,

Its been a while since I posted, so I'm very thankful for your visit today. 

Its challenge reveal day at MMCC and this month, the theme is 

FAMILY + Arrows (optional)

Instead of my usual grungy look, Ive gone bang opposite with a modern feel with the gorgeous Crate Paper Open Book collection. 

This style is totally new to me, but definitely liking it and going to experiment more with these colours, collection and style.

The background has glitter stuck on embossing paste. Lots of layers and to finish off thread and sequins. My mixed media learning through this card was using different elements - chipboard, vellum while staying away from wet medium. Not bad eh?

See you all soon and Happy countdown to Christmas!

MMCC - August - Butterfly + Gold

Gmorn peeps,

 

Start of another month, MMCC has another prompt to kick start your creativity this month.

 

 

The focal point of my card is a butterfly stamp from Darkroom door. Heat embossed, coloured with mists and gold texture paste on top.

 

 

There are plenty more inspired butterflies on the MMCC Blog. Happy weekend and a heartfelt thank you for visiting me today.

Cheers,

Kripa

Mixed Media Card Challenge - Blue

A new month and a new theme to playalong with on the Mixed media card challenge blog. We've decided to paint the town BLUE with an optional Vase.

 

Here is what I made, tried making a video with my iphone, but went off screen so many times, will have to try again.

The background is a piece of watercolor paper with  decoupaged flowers, texture paste, embossing and mists.

Playing alongwith
SimonSays Wednesday Challenge - Anything goes

MMCC May Challenge : Wings + Foil(optional)

Time for another challenge at MMCC

 

WINGS + Foil (Optional)

 

For a change I made a CAS (for me) card. Three big brush strokes made with a flat brush, two small embellishments and a stamped sentiment. To give some thickness and texture, I've mixed white sand texture to acrylic paint.

 

 

 

There are many more beautiful cards on the MMCC blog created by the DT for this month's theme. Hope you play along too.

 

 

Hugs and see you soon,

Kripa

 

 

MMCC March Challenge #9 - Hints of Spring

Hello peeps,

 

'Hints of Spring' goes live on MMCC today.

Its the first day of Autumn in Australia, but I'm very happy dreaming of Spring.... Lol. Not a fan of winter.

My card this month uses lots of wet medium in the background. So, the base is watercolour paper. First some pieces of leftover tissue stuck with multi medium; then some paints. Once dry, on went texture paste through a stencil. Then drying time again followed by clear / white gesso followed by paints and stamping.

Its the drying time that tests my patience, one of the reasons I don't like winter, my pages will take forever to dry in between steps. Anyhow, here is the final card. The watercolour base is mounted onto a pearl card. I painted the edges of the card in bright pink, to match the colour of the ribbon.

 

Head over to the MMCC blog to see the beautiful spring cards that the rest of the Design Team have created.

 

 

 

Mixed Media Card Challenge - February Challenge

 

My second post for the day. You can check out my mini album and tutorial posted earlier today here.

 

This month, the theme at the Mixed Media Card Challenge is

 

 

Here is my card. I wanted a much softer look, but I guess the new paints I tried gave a much stronger contrast than expected.

 

The base is Prima Princess pattern paper with clear and white gesso, texture paste and paints then a layer of chipboard, also guessed and painted on with teal.

Final layer is just the flowers, resin frame and sentiment

 

 

Thank you for stopping by.

Love,

Kripa

 

Mixed Media Card Challenge : December: Home

This month the theme at The Mixed Media Card Challenge blog is

Here is my card, very different to my usual style and surprisingly quick too. Lots of free hand drawing. Not my favourite card, but tried a few new techniques so satisfying. Lol

 

Mixed Media Card Challenge - October

Are you ready for the  next challenge at The Mixed Media Card Challenge?

The theme this month is Christmas (optional: bells)

This month's challenge is extra special because we have a sponsor: STAMPlorations!

"California-based STAMPlorations is owned and managed by husband-and-wife team, David & Shery Russ. Shery is an avid paper crafter and loves graphic design so in June 2013, she and her husband opened shop and began selling stamps that Shery designed and/or illustrated.

 

 

 

STAMPlorations is offering two prizes:

* $15 gift certificate to use towards products in the STAMPlorations shop

The winner will be randomly drawn from entries with the optional element (bells)

*choice of 1 stamp set (3" by 5")

The winner will be randomly drawn from all entries

 

Here is my card for this month

 

My very first Christmas card. Mix glitter and sand texture with gesso and apply through a stencil in a few random places on a piece of watercolour paper. The rest is simple - watercolours in the background and also to colour the embossed bell stamp. Both the stamp and sentiment are part of one of the many Christmas Stamp Sets released this year by Stamplorations

 

Mixed Media Card Challenge - October

Time to reveal the next challenge at The Mixed Media Card Challenge Blog.

 

 

I kept tossing between vintage baby and vintage grunge for this challenge...... in the end baby won purely because I couldn't resist the vintage baby images from Graphic 45 Little Darlings collection..... absolutely adorable, don't you agree!

 



 

 

 I also took a brave decision to add flowers and keep out wet media and not alter the paper too much - just a little stamping, inks, paints and lots of layering and distressing with my finger nails.

 

 

Head over to the Mixed Media Card Challenge Blog to see the beautiful creations of the rest of the DT. Waiting to visit you from the linkup gallery

Also, linking along with Simon Says Wednesday - Anything Goes



Mixed Media Card Challenge - September

Autumn Colours + Leaves or metal (Optional)

While the rest of the world welcomes Autumn, we are in the middle of a really wet and rainy spell waiting for the arrival for spring. But I had no problem at all coming up with cards for this months Mixed Media Card Challenge theme. We had 62 gorgeous cards last month and each was a piece of art.

Instantly I thought of Canberra in Autumn - wide quiet roads lined with trees, each a beautiful bright shade of red, orange, yellow and brown.  For those you who want to have a glimpse of what I mean, here is a photo .

For my card the base is watercolour paper with grainy paste + gesso through a stencil. The edges have been done using a blue mist. For the centre panel I used the Andy Skinner: Water Splash Technique.

Finally to finish off the cards, the leaves are Silhouette cut from metal sheets. One of them has a little pale yellow paint pounced on it.
 

This month we also have a sponsor - Add a little Dazzle. They are giving away a $15 gift voucher. Head over to the MMCC blog to read about how you can be in the running for this prize and also the lovely pieces by the DT. Hope to see your card in the link up this time around too.

Scrapping4fun Challenge # 24 using A Beautiful Moodboard from OTRS

Its time for another challenge at Scrapping4funchallenges and this time its another super fun theme that I know all of you will enjoy - Use a technique; any technique - distressing, layering, watercolours, quilling the list is endless; use one or several, but make sure you mention what all you used. This is also my last DT post for them and I have immensely enjoyed creating for Rachelle.

I created a mixed card for this challenge using my favourite techniques : texture paste, gel medium, burlap, medical gauze for texture; watercolours, paints, gelatos ,mists to add colour; gesso and stamping to tie it all together.

 

The sketch and colours for my card came from this fabulous board from OfftheRails Scrapbooking. Its really beautiful isnt it..... Ive used these colours plus ofcourse white from gesso. 

I couldn't stick exactly to the sketch, so I retained the main focal elements in the top like in the sketch but centered it.

One last reminder, there is still time to join us at the Mixed Media Card Challenge #2 - Summer ; hop over to check out what the other DT have created, Im sure you'll enjoy it.

                                                         

Here are a few pics I took along the way making this card. There are soooooo many layers on this, I'm surprised the paper (Prima Princess) withstood everything I threw on it. LOL :)

 

The base was burlap with gauze on top of it, mists and embossing paste and texture paste through a stencil.

Some more layers of paints and gesso

Then accidently spilt some very bright pink paint which was almost like a neon pink... and it ruined the whole thing :( so on it went heaps of gesso and then very carefully restored the colour on the card by adding a little paint at a time.

 

Also playing alongwith - Simon Says Monday Challenge - Anything goes

Mixed Media Card Challenge #2

August already! This year is flying quicker than any year I can remember, maybe it's because I'm learning new artsy things and sharing with all of you wonderful friends.

Did you hear, we had 89 wonderful entries last month at the Mixed Media Card Challenge Blog.  What a whooper! A very special thank you to all my readers who also joined. It was very enjoyable going through all the entries, visiting each participants blog and knowing them a wee bit more through their creations. So, here is the theme for this month - Summer + burlap (optional)

                                                    

What pops to mind when you think 'summer' - beach, sand, holidays, the sun... whatever your interpretation of summer, we would like to see it. 

Well, I'm still dreaming of summer here, so I combined the warm sunrise colours with a precious summer memory. One summer early morning, I walked out of my house and found hundreds of butterflies just sitting on the driveway..... literally hundreds. They had filled every inch of the driveway and some of the garage walls and some of the nearby plants. Bright blue and grey, fluttering their wings slowly, warm sunbeams streaming through the nearby trees, it was a spectacular sight. I learnt later that day about butterfly migration and was lucky to witness this a couple more times. I do miss my Bangalore very much. With this is mind, my card was born -

I started with Prima Princess paper. Stuck on a burlap panel with multi medium. The remaining burlap strings were stuck in the bottom right of the card. Then on this went pieces of lace, studio 490 embossing paste (translucent), stamps, mists and watercolours interspersed with gesso to blend and tone the colour. I wish I had mica flakes - have searched in so many stores with no luck, so had to settle for sequins.

I loved effect of the embossing paste and mists. Also managed to get my new silhouette started and cut the chipboard and butterfly with it. yaaaaay. But, I just haven't figured out how to cut fine designs with my silhouette. All I wanted was to cut the word believe on Prima pattern paper and every setting tried frayed the paper and tore it :( tips pl. the title was to be placed in the bottom right, but the card doesn't look bad without it, I guess.

Linking this to Simon Says Wednesday - Anything Goes

Mixed media card challenge #1 - touch of nature

I'm very happy to have been chosen as a DT for Mixed Media Card Challenges run by Shrey Russ (yes, the same talented lady who also owns Stamplorations). She has rounded up some very talented crafters on the DT roll and I'm so looking forward to learn and push myself to experiment with new mediums and techniques. 

Here is the theme for the first challenge

1. Create a mixed media CARD based on the theme, with or without the optional element. 

2. For this challenge only, you may create a mixed media TAG based on the theme.

3. Display the challenge graphic on your blog post and link back to this challenge post.

4. You may enter as many times as you want, as long as each entry is different.

5. You may combine a maximum of 7 challenges (6 other challenges plus ours).

6. Submit your projects by July 25, 11:55 p.m. PDT (GMT -700).

7. We'll announce the winner and favorites on July 31.

And here is what I made using Prima Princess papers, Studio 490 embossing paste, a range of archival and chalk inks, lace and stamps.

There are 13 more gorgeous projects to inspire you on the MMCC blog. We would love for you to play with us. Here is a badge to display on your blog if you are like me and like getting messy with paints, gesso, inks and other media.

Also playing alongwith,

Theshabbytearoom - Challenge #225 - sketch - Ive rotated the sketch by 90 degrees. replaced the thin horizontal line by embellishments - wood bird and bouquet of flowers

Kraft Zone Challenge #7 - Pattern Paper, Stamped Image (Script, flourish), embellishments (flowers, wood veneer, ribbon)

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything goes