Creative Artiste #109 ~ October Anything Mixed Media Goes

 Hello Creative Friends 

New month means a new challenge @ Creative Artiste 

our theme is always *Anything Mixed Media goes* 

My DT project is a layered mix of stenciled texture 

and paint where a natural rich ruby Autumnal leaf lies 

preserved with varnish, embellished with beads and a 

salvaged wax seal to complete my art journal page...

Autumn always treats us to a beautiful display of colour as

nature prepares for less sunlight and cooler temperatures.. 

Gives me a warm fuzzy feeling just looking at it 😊

We hope you can join us @ Creative Artiste and 

share your very own Mixed Media creations HERE 

Stay cosy & creative 

Hugs Tracey xx 

Sharing this months creativity with: 

Try it on Tuesday ~ Autumn Magic 

Art Journal Journey ~ 

Alison's Theme Autumn colours and inspiration 

Four Seasons ~ October Anything Goes Fall Challenge

Creative Artiste #108 ~ September Anything Mixed Media Goes

 Hello Creative Friends 

First Friday of the month means a new arty challenge

@ Creative Artiste ~ #108 September Challenge 

our theme is always Anything Mixed Media Goes 

My Design Team Project is another homage to the beauty of nature

Inspired by the Brown Hawker Dragonflies that dart at speed from 

my local canal to the nature reserve this time of year, I made 

use of a winged brooch in need of a body transforming it with 

extra gem stones, wire and paint to a dragonfly. 

Resting peacefully on scrap fabric framed by a wooden medallion.

The journal background is created from torn collaged papers, 

stamped and stencilled with the addition of washi tape, gems 

and lace with of course some stitchery detail...

Always fun to create using a mix of media.. 

Please come and share your creative mixed media makes 

with the team @ Creative Artiste #108 September Challenge 

our challenge is always *Anything Mixed Media Goes* 

Stay safe & Creative 

Hugs Tracey xx

Creative Artiste #103 Challenge ~ Anything Mixed Media Goes

Hello Creatives 

Welcome to Creative Artiste's Monthly Challenge 

our theme is always Anything Mixed Media Goes... 

My April mixed media journal page is created around a focal 

stamped image surrounded by textured glitter paste scraped 

through a stencil. Tracing around the hexagonal honeycomb 

using a 3D Gold glue pen I also enamel embossed those 

background ovals to add extra interest.

Stamping the image out multiple times colouring with pencil 

and alcohol markers this enabled me to cut and layer up extra 

leaves and flowers along with giving me the ability to recreate

 a fluffy Bumblebee by cutting and sticking a bright yellow 

pom pom and eyelash wool, a fun Spring time project... 

We hope you will share your own Mixed Media Makes 

this month with the Design Team HERE  

We look forward to seeing you this April @

Creative Artiste #103 Anything Mixed Media Goes Challenge

Stay safe & creative 

Hugs Tracey xx 

Sharing with: 

Art Journal Journey ~ Valerie's Theme Geometric Forms  

Four Seasons ~ April Anything Goes Spring Challenge 

Seize The Day...!!

 Best wishes to all creatives this January

The rains have stopped for now as Winter shows it's face &

 temperatures plummet, we've even had a sprinkling of snow 

giving beautiful bright blue skies alongside frosty mornings. 

My first share of 2024 is a journal spread of collage, remnants and 

poignant words. Those who visit my blog know I no longer have 

time to create as I once did 😢 Care duties take up almost all 

of my time both day and night and over the past year 

those duties have escalated. 

The calendar is key to my world, it authorizes me to function for those 

that can not, be their daily guide or reminder and at times it allows me 

to seize any gap in the day to do the things I love to do like create..

Creativity is a healer and makes me stronger..

makes me think and appreciate time I have for myself..

gives me strength whilst patiently waiting..

and makes me hopeful everyday.. 

Seize the day and make the best of every moment...

Take care & stay safe everyone

Creative Hugs 

Tracey xx

Sharing with: 

Try it on Tuesday ~ Winter Blues 

Four Seasons ~ Winter Season January Challenge

Art Journal Journey ~ Erika's Theme It's on the Calendar

Creative Artiste Anything Mixed Media Goes ~ Challenge #97

Best wishes this September to you all 

and the start of a new Creative Artiste Monthly Challenge

 *Anything Mixed Media Goes Challenge #97*

This month my journal page is created with a collage and 

stencil paste painted background, stamped Fuchsia Flowers, 

coloured with ink and pencil, cut and layered for a 3-D effect, 

surrounded by an abundance of luscious green leaves.

They remind me of childhood Summers and my Grandfathers cottage 

garden full of Huge Roses, Hydrangea and Fuchsia bushes filled with 

flowers like tiny ballerina's dancing and twirling in the breeze...

My own Fuchsia's are but a shadow compared to those of my 

late Grandfather but through the troubled weather this year 

they have still managed to bloom and produce fruit..

As Natures season of bounty is now upon us I will leave these edible 

Fuchsia berries to the birds and foragers that frequent my tiny garden..

Pop along HERE to see what the DT have created to inspire you.. 

we invite creatives to mix up your media and share your Creations 

@ Creative Artiste Anything Mixed Media Goes ~ Challenge #97

Stay safe and Creative 

Hugs Tracey xx

 

Sharing today's creativity with: 

Try it on Tuesday ~ Lets go Outside

Simon Says Stamp WEDNESDAY Challenge ~ Anything Goes

Here comes Summer..!?

 Hello Everyone 

We've certainly been seeing signs of Summer in the UK with 

beautiful blue skies and sunny days, I hope you have too..?? 

Here's a journal page celebrating the delights of the season 

and a welcome to Creative Artiste's Mixed Media Challenge #94 

Colourful paint scraped onto journal pages displays rice paper 

butterflies upon a background of stamped and embossed flowers 

with two die cut flower heads looking up towards the skies.  

A stenciled paste sun ray frames fashioned Lavender stems created 

from scrunched up and glued waste paper, buttons and paint...

Creative time is a rare thing for me right now due to family 

circumstances but I certainly enjoyed the time I had creating 

this mixed media project to share with you this month.. 

I hope you find time for creativity, 

it's a wonderful thing..

Please do come and share with us at

Creative Artiste Anything Goes Mixed Media Challenge #94 

Take care everyone, stay safe 

and forever creative 

Hugs Tracey xx

Mixed Media April Challenge ~ Creative Artiste #92

Hello creative friends 

Time again to welcome you ALL to 

Creative Artiste April Challenge #92 

our theme is ALWAYS *Anything Mixed Media Goes* 

My April project is a mix of left over paint and paste scrapings, 

stamps and doodles, recycled packaging, fibers and plant waste. 

The glitter paste mosaic circle holds a rainbow of watercolour as 

washes of colour seep into the unprimed areas of my journal page. 

Acrylic leaves and flowers painted on cereal box waste are fussy 

cut all given a doodled edge then glued down to frame the pages.

Finished with a stamped and coloured funky fossil bunny 

peeping out from the long grasses created using leftover die cuts, 

fibres and cuttings from salvaged and pressed house plant leaves. 

If you love mixing your media why not share your own creations 

and join in with Creative Artiste's April #92 Challenge 

remember *ANYTHING Mixed Media Goes*

Whatever you are all up to this weekend

I wish you all a Happy HAPPY Easter 

Stay Safe and Keep Creative 

Hugs Tracey xx 

Sharing today with: 

Try it on Tuesday ~ Hello Spring 

Art Journal Journey ~ Recycle, Reuses, Repurpose 

Creative Artiste #84 JULY Mixed Media Challenge

 A warm welcome to JULY Creative Friends 

and Creative Artiste's JULY Challenge #84

our theme is always Anything Mixed Media Goes 

Sharing a random double page selection from my junk diary.

Used envelopes scraped with gesso, bubble wrap stamped and 

texture paste stencilling. Embellished with a large Brown 

water coloured Butterfly (White Admiral) & washi tape strips  

with gouache painted Hydrangea encircled with scribble script. 

 

That's my random mixed media junk diary selection.

The Creative Artiste Design Team hope you can 

join us during the month of JULY and share your 

*Anything Goes Mixed Media Creations HERE*

Creative Hugs 

Tracey xx

It's a funny old world..

 Happy Halloween everyone.. 

I know Halloween is not everyone's cup of tea so 

here's a couple of pumpkin funnies for Michele's

TAG TUESDAY's *All Hallow's Eve* theme 

as we wind down October.. 

and just a handful of ATC cards..

Have a happy safe Halloween, 

see you all in November. 

Creative wishes 

Tracey xx

Creative Artiste AUGUST Mixed Media Challenge ~ #74 Anything Mixed Media Goes

Hello Creative Friends 

It's time again to welcome you all to 

Creative Artiste's August Challenge #74   

our theme is ALWAYS Anything Mixed Media Goes.. 

This month i'm sharing a journal page that's very close to my heart..

Created for my Daughters Birthday based around an old postcard 

the words say so much as travel restrictions have 

kept us apart for almost a year now...

What you see are not just any old oddment glued and pasted to a page as every single scrap holds a memory. A collection of ephemera saved from throughout her life till now.. Baby leaflets, ribbons from gifts and buttons from handknitted school cardigans, even the tartan washi tape represents her Primary school uniform kilt.. I just couldn't bring myself to cut a strip from it's fabric..

Layers of old wallpaper we stripped from the walls she calls home, 

a penny minted with her birth year lays upon lace taken from a dress 

she once wore on her first foreign holiday at the young age of one.. 

Using her favourite brand of Coffee there's stencil stained print strips 

amongst saved napkins from past family get togethers we've all shared. 

Even the beads that embellish were purchased together on a crafty day out.

all finished with a border of machine stitch using the sewing machine 

we brought for her 13th Birthday.. Like us all it eagerly awaits her return. 

Every single piece holds a treasured memory..

I'm looking forward to framing this and seeing her little face 

light up when she see's it for the very first time.

Please pop on over and see what the Creative Artiste DT 

and Guest Designer have created for you this month.. 

and come share YOUR mixed media creations with us

@ Creative Artiste Anything Goes Mixed Media #74 Challenge

Stay safe & Creative everyone 

Hugs Tracey xx

Sharing todays creativity with: 

LTSCB #148 Old School

LTCCB #61 August Anything Goes

MIUCB #52 Anything Goes + Mixed Media

*Art Journal Journey* ~ Host Neets Challenge TYPE

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge ~ Birthday Celebration

Guest Designer @ Try it on Tuesday ~ Feminine

 Hello Creative Friends, 

Always an honour to be invited to be Guest Designer 

@ Try it on Tuesday and a real pleasure to accept. 

With their new fortnightly Theme of *Feminine*, 

there's many ways to interpret that one single word.

For me something Feminine is soft and gentle..

This studio light stamp is so graceful with layered flowers, 

and a little lace. It's busy background was replaced using 

texture paste through a Stamperia Cosmos astronomy and 

numbers stencil. Painted in delicate pastels ties 

everything together so peacefully . 

 The Try it on Tuesday Team will love seeing your take 

on their Feminine theme right HERE, they give the 

warmest of welcomes and inspiration galore 

from the super talented TioT design team. 

BIG Thank you's from me...

Creative Hugs 

Tracey xx 

**Sadly due to unforeseen circumstances I am AFK but 

as soon as able i'll be sure to catch up with you all** 

 Take good care everyone

Creative Artiste's *May Mixed Media* Challenge #71

Hello Creative Friends, 

First Friday of the month so time to welcome 

you all to Creative Artiste's May Challenge #71 

our theme is always *Anything Mixed Media Goes* 

Today i'm bringing past things into the present... 

This ATC is the last of a bunch made for gifts in 2020. 

Created by stamping the Lily onto MDF the image was traced 

using liner pen, painted with distress paint then covered with 

UTEE and heat embossed several times to create a tile effect.

Making use of a broken picture frame onto it's backboard texture paste 

is pushed through a stencil then painted in colours similar to the ATC. 

Distress ink is painted through the same stencil onto the inner mount 

with it's aperture painted and edged with tarnished brass. 

The outer frame is painted in petrol blue with corner fastenings 

attached to help strengthen the frame with it's missing glass.

Reassembled the ATC becomes the main focal with offcuts of lace 

glued into every corner to compliment the finished redesign. 

I love the vibrant colours of this mixed media frame.. 

Such a cheerful creation.

If you like to mix up your media, do share your creations 

with the Creative Design Team and join in with our 

Creative Artiste's May Mixed Media Challenge #71

Stay Safe and Creative 

Hugs Tracey xx