Mixed Media Cards by Dutt Preety (Challenge Inspiration)

Hi friends :)

Good Morning !

Preeti Datta (aka Dutt Preety) here.

Today, I'd like to share Two Mixed Media Cards. 

These are my inspiration for the March Challenge.  

I was inspired by the colors in the moodboard & I've added feathers as well as die cut leaves on my cards.  

We hope you'll join the challenge as there are fabulous prizes on offer.

All the details about the challenge can be found HERE.

Let’s get started.

Mixed Media Cards

Card 1- Inspire

Card 2- Create

Process:

Step 1: Cut pattern papers from 7 Dots Studio's Paint Chips collection, applied clear gesso to them to prepare them for mixed media work. Then applied modelling paste through a 13 arts stencil on the card panels & while the paste was still wet, sprinkled on white embossing powder & heat embossed it. 

Step 2: Did background stamping with Aall & Create stamps using versamark watermark ink & then sprinkled on blue embossing powder & heat embossed the stamped images. 

Step 3: Added color to the background using Lindy's Gang Sprays & Squirts. 

Step 4: Stamped the butterfly & dragon fly images, watercolored them using Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers and fussy cut them

Step 5: Collected all the elements for layering including diecut leaves, fussy cut images, gauze & feathers. Adhered them using matte gel. 

Step 6: Adhered art stones, mini beads & glitter around the main composition using matte gel. Added Tim Holtz stickers as the sentiments & created white splatter using watered down white gesso.

Step 7: In the end, foam mounted the panels on black mats & then adhered these to white card bases. 

Products Used: 

7 Dots Studio Paint Chips Collection

AAll & Create Stamps

Prima Finnabair Heavy White Gesso

Prima Finnabair Clear Gesso

Prima Finnabair Art Basics- Modelling Paste

Prima Finnabair 3D Matte Gel

Lindy's Gang Spray- Pop Rock Purple

Lindy's Gang Spray- Urban Amethyst

Lindy's Gang Spray- Hi Maintenance Magenta

Lindy's Gang Spray- Bougainvillea Fuchsia

Lindy's Gang Spray- Ramblin’ Rose Pink

Lindy's Gang Embossing Powder- Purely White

Lindy's Gang Squirt- Polite People Purple 

Aleene's Tacky Glue

Versamark Watermark Mini Inkpad

Stencil

Ranger's Jet Black Archival Ink

Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers

Please don't forget to join Art & Soul Studio's March Challenge. There are awesome prizes on offer & we have a stunning mood board every month. For inspiration, please check out the gorgeous projects made by my talented team mates. All the details about the March Challenge can be found HERE.

March Challenge Moodboard

Lastly, please do share your beautiful work with us on our Facebook group- Soul Sisters, we would love to see what you create with supplies from the Art & Soul Studio Store. 

Thanks a lot for your precious time :) 

Stay Blessed! 

Preeti

Set of Nature Inspired Cards by Dutt Preety

Hi friends :)

Good Morning !

Preeti Datta (aka Dutt Preety) here.

Today, I'd like to share a Set of Nature Inspired Cards. 

These are fairly simple to make & great for giving to friends & relatives during happy occasions like birthdays and anniversaries. 

For these cards, I've distressed the edges of the papers and added flowers, pollens & sisal for texture. I hope you'll join the January Challenge where the theme is to "Use Texture". We have awesome prizes on offer. All the details about the challenge can be found HERE & you can add your textured creations on facebook, HERE. 

 Set of Nature Inspired Cards 

Card 1: Beautiful Day

Card 2: Make A Wish

Process:

I've used some pretty decoupage papers from my stash (by Bob n Betty), you can use which ever scrapbooking papers you like best, Art & Soul Studio has a huge collection of pretty papers (I will link some below in the products list), cut them to 4.25 inches by 6.25 inches in size and distress their edges using a paper distressor tool, this creates a subtle textured look. Then applied clear gesso on this paper. After that, I created 2 mats for the panel, each 0.25 inches bigger than the last one, distressed their edges as well. The card is 5 by 7 inches in size, I scored it using a Bone Folder. Then adhered the panel to the first mat using foam tape & all the other layers too using liquid glue. For the floral clusters, I used flowers, pollen & sisal adhered down with gel medium & in the end, I added sentiment stickers. 

Products Used from Art & Soul Studio:

Finnabair Art Basics Mixed Media Essentials- Clear Gesso

Aleene's Tacky Glue

Soft Gel Medium

Inkssentials Paper Creaser Folder & Burnishing Tool

 Flowers Marina

Flowers Blue

White Flowers

Blue, Green Flowers

Kaisercraft Smooth Cardstock- Pebble

Watercolor Paperpad 

Pretty nature inspired scrapbooking papers- Here, Here & Here. 

Tim Holtz Metallic Stickers

Tim Holtz paper distresser

Foam Tape

Please don't forget to join Art & Soul Studio's January Challenge. There are awesome prizes on offer & we have a stunning mood board every month. For inspiration, please check out the gorgeous projects made by my talented team mates. 

January Moodboard:

Lastly, please do share your beautiful work with us on our Facebook group- Soul Sisters, we would love to see what you create with supplies from the Art & Soul Studio Store.

Thanks a lot for your precious time :)

Stay Blessed! 

Preeti

An Altered Notebook Cover

Hi everyone,
Saadia here:
I want to share with you a notebook cover, that I altered using mixed media techniques.

This is how I made it :

This is my 5.5 x8. 5 inches notebook. It has hard cover.

I covered it with surgical gauze. Then I applied Texture sand paste through a stencil.
Glued the embellishments with 3d Gel medium.
Next, I covered everything with black and white gesso.

I used Prima Marketing's Impasto and Art alchemy paints and waxes. I applied them in layers till I was happy with the result.
Lastly I applied some microbeads and glass glitter.

That's it for now
I hope you liked my project.

Thank you for visiting.

Take care and keep crafting

 Saadia Nawaz

Products used:
3d Gloss gel medium
Art alchemy paint midnight
Art alchemy paint mermaid teal
Art alchemy paint black berry
Art alchemy impasto paint Jade
Art extravagance Sand paste
Art alchemy wax Rich copper, vintage gold and white gold
Prima marketing's Art basics Heavy Black gesso
Prima marketing's Art basics White gesso

Metal gears and metal embellishments from Art and Soul studio - sold out. 

The Girls by Suzanne Franin

Hey Everyone Suzanne here

This is my take on the RED Mood Board challenge 

This is my daughter and her girls on her wedding night by this stage they were very merry and had enjoyed the evening

This months Challenge is RED 
The mood board bellow is for inspiration and you can use that as a starting point but you MUST use RED
There are 3 x $50 vouchers to win
One for a card 
One for a layout
One for a journal page/mixed media project 
Check out the Art and Soul Mixed Media Blog for more Details

And make sure to share your project to the Soul Sisters Facebook Group for the chance to win

Some of the metal I was lucky enough to have leftover from doing Finnabair's classes in early November I flew up to Hervey Bay just to do the classes and meet Annette and Amanda and was lucky enough to meet lots of other lovely ladies too

And of course meet my Mixed Media Idol Finn what a beautiful soul so down to earth and she was so patient with everyone wanting photos and autographs (I didn't do either I felt bad to ask)

Thats how I found out about the embellishments under the glass counter and a few other bits that haven't made it to the website - there are SO many things in the store so if you're after something check with them and you never know they may have it that's why sometimes I may use something that's not on the site

so as you can see all my pieces are painted red I started off by painting them with clear gesso 

Then painted them with Finnabair's Acrylic Metallique Royal Red and it wasn't quite the colour I wanted so I added a coat of the Red Wine over the top it's so rich not that you can tell by the photos

I used the Dusty Attic Mandala Stencil with some Finnabair Heavy Body Gel when it dried I painted it the same as the embellishments 

The metal embellishments are a mix of Finnabair mechanicals, Art and Soul Studio (from under he glass counter make sure to take a look) and the large flower is a Little Birdie Sharon Cherry

Heres a close up of the little bird in the cage - the place the wedding was held is called the Budgie Smuggler so I had to put a bird there (they have a huge cage of budgies as you walk in it's so cool)

The Pearls underneath are from Frank Garcia Memory Hardware Pearls  

This is one of the embellishments that live under the glass counter (they are all silver to start with)

I used Finnabair's Art Alchemy Metallique Wax in Old Silver over the top of everything to show all the details some of it is just from how the paint strokes left their mark 

I love the Little Birdie Flowers they are textured so when I rubbed the wax it enhanced the texture

I used Finnabair's Art Pebbles on the page these are so versatile and make great space fillers

I used the was on these after painting them with the clear gesso first 

Products I used from Art and Soul Studio

Dusty Attic Mandala Stencil (sold out)

Little Birdie Sharon Cherry Flowers

Finnabair Art Alchemy Acrylic Paint Royal Red

Finnabair Art Alchemy Acrylic Paint Red Wine

Finnabair Art Basics Gesso Clear (sold out)

Finnabair Art Pebbles (sold out)

Finnabair Mechanicals (sold out)

Finnabair Art Alchemy Métallique Wax Old Silver (sold out)

Finnabair Art Basics Heavy Body Gel (could still have some in store)

Frank Garcia Memory Hardware Pearls (could still have some in store)

Frank Garcia Memory Hardware Resin Frame Oval (Sold Out)

Lace (from my stash)

Kaisercraft White Cardstock Coconut (Sold Out)

Thank you for visiting and I hope you come back again soon x

Moment in Time by Kristy Abela - September Mood Board Challenge

Welcome back to another mood board challenge. My personal favourite colours are coppers and teals when crafting... My collections dominates my shelves. 

This is the regular crew at my place, my sons and their best mates... can you pick who are mine and who's not???

Please forgive me for bending the rules... I used a Dragonfly! 

Check our some process shots below..

Some texture for the background

Some Lindy's sprays and a bit of dry brushing with White Gesso.

Highlighting the depth with a charcoal pencil. 

Lots of embossing with Lindy's of Scrap FX chipboards and a bit of a highlight with some Prima Waxes.

I used some rust pastes on some of the pieces as well to give it the rustic look. I finished off the patina with some blue waxes. 

Added some stones and some beads and a couple of metal charms from my stash.

My favourite part of the whole project is the way this dragonfly turned out... 

The way the wings took on the graduation of colour was perfection!

Thanks for looking Soul Sisters!

Abela Artistry

Mood Board Challenge Rules

Please use our mood board as inspiration to create an art journal page, a card or a scrapbook layout. Use the mood board however you want but you must add a butterfly on your project.

As these challenges are sponsored by Art and Soul Studio please make sure that you use at least one product that is available from the store.

There are 3 x $50 vouchers up for grabs!! One will be awarded for scrapbook layouts, one for cards and one for mixed media/art journaling.

You can enter an art journal page, a card and a layout but you cannot win all three.

You have until the 11:59pm on the 30th September to enter and then the design team will vote to determine the lucky winners.

Please note that the vouchers can only be won by residents of Australia but if you are from overseas and win the challenge you will be offered a guest design team spot.