Friday 7 February 2020

Welcome to Creative Artiste Challenge #57

Welcome to all our crafty friends, followers and visitors to
Creative Artiste's #57th Challenge!



Happy 2020 everyone!
We hope you are looking forward to another year of craftiness. Thank you to everyone who shared their wonderful projects with us for Challenge #56 in December. Choosing a winner and Top Three was very difficult. 
The winner's post is below this one. Have a look to see if you were successful.



Our theme is always,
"Anything Mixed Media Goes"

Please make sure you use multiple mediums on your  projects.


Before we have a look at our GDT and Design Team projects we have some fabulous news...
...We have a new DT member and would love you to welcome
JO to our team.

My name is Jo and I blog at Let’s Art Journal. I live by the sea in the North West of England with my hubby. I started Art Journaling in 2015 as a way of expressing my life through words and pictures and it has now become a passion of mine which I like to share with others. I’m captivated by the variety of techniques and materials that can be used to create so many different styles of art and love everything Mixed Media. I love nothing better than to experiment with different techniques and products, get creative, put my ideas into practice and have lots of fun doing so!
I am often inspired by things I see and do, and I'm also inspired by the quote “never lose your sense of wonder”.



Now let's have a look
at the wonderful projects our fabulous Design Team have created to inspire you ....
Our first GDT for February is:


Linda
Hi my name is Linda and I live here in the UK. I have been crafting for many years and my passion is mixed media. I love nothing better than getting all my paints, waxes, stencils etc to create a work of art. I hope you like my canvas as I had a lot of fun creating it.
Here are the links to my blog and my You Tube channel.

Linda

Our second GDT for February is:

Alison

Thanks so much for having me as a guest here at the Creative Artiste Challenge Blog.
My creativity never used to be on the visual side - I was more the words, music, books, theatre type. When I became a freelancer in Spring 2012 after eight years at the Royal Shakespeare Company as a Text and Voice Coach, it was supposed to give me more time for friends and family. I had no idea that within weeks I would be in thrall to a whole new creative passion - stamps/inks/paints/texture/stencils - you name it, I want to play with it! There's always so much to learn, discover and explore. Now I have to balance the two worlds - hence the name of my blog, Words and Pictures. So much for friends and family! I love mixed media work, with lots of layers and techniques, but sometimes some simple inking and stamping is enough to make me happy. For this project for Creative Artiste, I've used an old pendant watch I used to wear along with one of my quote stamps to create a little springtime Curio box, filled with my favourite wild flowers and grasses, as well as lots of mixed media textures on the box. I hope you like it! There are lots more pictures and details of how I made it over at Words and Pictures, so do come and pay me a visit.

Alison

To find out which products and techniques Linda and Alison used please visit their blogs by clicking on their names above.


Now, some inspiration from our regular design team members ...



Ina



Jo



Judy



Lynne



Lys



Suzette



That's it from our talented Design Team for this month. We hope we have inspired you. To see more photos of the fabulous projects and to find out which products and techniques were used please click
on the named links to the team member's individual blogs.

A big Thank You to Alison and Linda for being our fabulous GDTs this month.



Please check the rules and
become follower. Thank you everyone for 
your comments. We read and appreciate them all. 

Please add your project using the Linky tool below.



You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!
Click here to enter

13 comments:

  1. So excited to see Jo here as the newest DT member, and what a lovely first project! Great mixed media projects from the entire team and your two lovely and talented Guest Designers! Thank you for the inspiration!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thanks so much Sara Emily, that's so kind! Hugs, Jo x

      Delete
  2. I'm so pleased to join this talented Design Team, thanks for inviting me! All projects this month are amazing, I can't wait to visit your blogs for a closer look 😁. Thanks for the inspiration and Happy February! Hugs, Jo x

    ReplyDelete
  3. Thank you for asking me to take parts as GDT for this month. Amazing inspiration as always from the design team. Welcome to the new designer too.
    Hugs
    Linda xxx

    ReplyDelete
  4. Honoured to be one of your GDs for this month alongside this talented team - and a big cheer and congratulations for the lovely Jo joining the DT.
    Alison x

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thanks very much Alison 😊. Happy February! Hugs, Jo x

      Delete
  5. Congratulations Jo, wonderful to see you here lovely. A beautiful space to share and create with so many familiar faces.
    Stunning work from the team, thank you all for the inspiration, look forward to seeing them up close over the weekend.
    Creative wishes Tracey x

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thanks so much Tracey 😁. Creative hugs and wishes! Jo x

      Delete
  6. Fabulous projects from the DT . Congratulations! Jo . So happy for you :)
    x

    ReplyDelete
  7. Welcome Jo, and congratulations Linda and Alison for joining us this month: a great moment of inspiration!

    ReplyDelete
  8. Congrats to Jo, Linda and Alison! What an amazingly creative bunch! Thanks for the challenge.

    ReplyDelete