MMW#5 : Stencils

Hello! 

We are back and we're back with a bang! I'm so excited right now! We have a new winner and runners up, we have some big news to share, a guest designer to welcome and a fabulous variety of GD makes for our new challenge! Make a cuppa, this is gonna be good!! :) 

I think I'll start with our new winner of the Masculine/Father's Day challenge... 

Winner: 

#7: March

Fab 3: 

#4: Sarascloset

#8: Kerstin

#33: Butterflies n Buttons

CONGRATULATIONS to you all! Please could the winner email me to ingridscraftscorner (@) hotmail.co. uk and please grab the relevant badges for your blog. Display them with pride, you soooo deserve them! We didn't have as many entries as masculine theme is never the easiest, but the quality of entries was amazing! It was sooo hard to choose! You guys rock! 

I had a few personal favourites... 

#5: Tracy Evans

#9 Scrumplescrunch

#18 Suzz's Stamping Spot

#20 Experiments in Paper

#24 Pawsitively Creative

I could seriously go on... I'll be pinning the lot to our Designers' Favourites board! Thank you all so much for playing along with us! We have a new challenge in store for you and an exciting one it is. The next challenge is all about 'Stencils' and is chosen by our lovely Georgie. She'd like to see you make a stencil a star of your project or you can use a few and layer them...is this easy and fun? 

Well, I am going to excite you a little more by telling you why our post is delayed by a day and what our prize is... 

Today is a very special day for our new fabulous sponsor That's Crafty! 

Today is a launch of their sweet mini stencils and we feel very fortunate that we could team up with That's Crafty! and celebrate this special day with them. Yay!! You see where this is going... ? Of course! The prize for our winner is going to be donated by That's Crafty and what else could the winner possibly get than... 10 of their newly released stencils!!! Whooohooo...! 

Winner's prize: 10 stencils by That's Crafty!

Thank you, That's Crafty!, we are so honoured and grateful for your sponsorship and are excited to be sharing this with all the crafty souls out there! 

Excited? Good! Now, keep reading, because I have a very special person joining us today and that is the lovely...

Paula Whittaker

I’ve never liked writing bio’s, as I really don’t feel like there’s much to say but the basics are; that I started cardmaking in February 2004 and was hooked in an instant. I love to work with stamps and inks to create clean and simple cards but now and again, I like to play with paints and do more mixed media pieces. I’ve been very fortunate, in the fact that I’ve been published in UK and US publications since 2006. And that’s it really.

Paula has kindly agreed to join us as a Guest Designer and is here to share her gorgeous make... 

How amazing is this altered book cover! I think you will agree with me when I say Paula is one very talented lady! Thank you for inspiring us, Paula, and for joining us here today! x

Now onto the fabulous MMW Design Team and their gorgeous inspirational makes... 

Amanda 

  

Debs

  

Donna 

Georgie C 

Ingrid  

...and Yulianna who is joining us as a Designer for MMW for the first time and, oh my, am I glad she has!!! Loooook... 

I have more pics of this beauty from Yulianna, but I won't share.. no, I won't! You will simply have to visit her blog.. you will be so impressed, if you do! She's amazing! 

What a gorgeous line up from the Design Team, right?! I can't stop looking at all these makes. I hope you will feel as inspired and come and link up your make for our new challenge 'Stencils' for your chance to win 10 fantastic stencils by That's Crafty! 

We shall look forward to your comments and seeing your stenciled masterpieces! Until then, have a wonderful time! 

Hugs, 

Ingrid & the team xxx 

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Welcome to new sponsor: THAT'S CRAFTY!

Hello crafty souls! 

I hope you're having a fab weekend! Welcome to all our new followers and sending hugs to all that follow our blog and interact. 

I have some news for you! Firstly, our next challenge is not going to start today, but is due TOMORROW! There is a good reason for it and if you hop over to our blog tomorrow at 2pm you will find out exactly why. 

Secondly and most importantly, I have an announcement to make! I have a great please to announce our new sponsor of our challenges....

That's Crafty! 

That's Crafty! offers masses of trendy craft supplies via their online shop with a free UK delivery over £20! They have a summer sale now! How cool is that! If you prefer to have a browse around the aisles you can visit their Essex store and load your basket there! 

Fancy a little more interaction? How about some classes and workshops that you can attend! 

That's Crafty! Challenges are also a fantastic way of winning some goodies and join the fun! 

Whatever your interest I'm confident that this fantastic store has a lot to offer and I'd like to invite you to pay them a visit to see for yourself. 

I'd like to say a BIG THANK YOU to Laura for her generous sponsorship! We look forward to our joint venture! 

Thank you for visiting. Don't forget to visit us again tomorrow for the announcement of the winner of our last challenge and for the big reveal of the theme for our next one! You'll love this one ;) 

Have a fab day! Big hugs to you all, 

Ingrid xxx 

Star Designer #4: Kasia Krzyminska

Dear All! 

Welcome to the Mixed Media World! If you decided to go ahead and read this post you've made a brilliant decision! We have a very special guest here today and judging by my excessive use of  exclamation marks I think it is quite clear that I am very excited about this too!:)  

I'd like to welcome Kasia Krzyminska to our arty crafty world where we share heaps of mixed media goodness and encourage you to join the fun. Hands up who doesn't know who Kasia is?!... no one?... Good! ...ok, maybe you newbie over there...so pay attention :) Kasia is one of the best out there. A very talented and a sweet soul who shares her love for anything mixed media and painty... she is a former design team member and an educator for Prima (which speak for itself, I think..), runs workshops, designs stencils, her art journaling is amazing and she now shares her wisdom and experience working for our lovely new sponsor the Artist Trading Post. I have been admiring Kasia's work for some time now and there is so much more you and I can learn so take notes ;) But enough from me, lets allow this talented lady do the talking via our special little interview and her art she made for our current challenge 'Masculine/Father's Day'...

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Hello everybody! My name is Kasia Krzyminska and I am a polish girl who moved to England following her heart. You can't pigeon hole me because of my explorative nature, but I'm enjoying my creative journey creating art journals and mixed-media collages, teaching classes all over the world, designing products and working at Artist Trading Post. I worked with Prima Marketing (as a design team member and later as an educator), Blue Fern Studios, Faber-Castell, 7 Dots Studio, The Scrapbook Diaries, Mixed Media Place and my works have been published many times in such magazines as Somerset Memories, Art Journaling, Somerset Life, Somerset Apprentice, Paper Haus, Die Scrapperin, Histoires De Pages. I’m searching for an inspiration everywhere and everyday – in music, nature, old books, bad weather, dreams … I love summer, meadows and beautiful notebooks. 

blog: http://czekoczyna.blogspot.com

facebook: https://www.facebook.com/katarzyna.krzyminska.92

instagram: https://instagram.com/kasiakrzyminska/

pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/czekoczyna/

flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/czeko/

What inspires you most to create? / Where does your inspiration come from?

Nature and the place where I currently live.

What is your favourite medium to work with?

Acrylic paints.

Do you have a tool which you couldn't live without?

What's your craft space like?

Do you have a favourite colour combo?

I would like to share with you two of my recent art journal pages made in A5 Monograph booklet. I really enjoy creating art journal spreads everyday, so mostly they are messy and you won't find there many advanced techniques, but at the same time they are very personal and help me to express myself. 

Thank you Ingrid and whole team for this beautiful opportunity to share my works in this fabulous place. I'm very happy to see how your Mixed Media World is growing and that Artist Trading Post can be a part of it. I will definitely follow your challenges as the works you are all sharing are simply beautiful. 

Kasia

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How wonderful is she? Now, brace yourself! Like I said... Kasia made a couple of journal page spreads and they are totally AMAZING!! I just want to take it out of the journal and plaster my walls with her art! Check it out... 

Escape

Escape

Abstract Satin Finish - Turquoise	Abstract Satin Finish - Yellow Ochre	CARAN d′ACHE Neocolor II Watersoluble Wax Pastels - 10	Distress Ink - Black Soot	Sakura Pigma Micron 01 .25mm Black Pen
Sharpie Water Based White Extra Fine Point	TCW370s Entrelac Template - 6 x 6"	Tim Holtz Water Brush - Broad Nib	Acrylic Brush Set - Flat	Daler Rowney 12 Sketching Pencils

 

...and her second page spread.... 

Monotype

Monotype

Fresco Finish Acrylic - Haystack	Fresco Finish Acrylic - Caramel	Fresco Finish Acrylic - Lake Wanaka	Fresco Finish Acrylic - Baltic Blue	Sharpie Water Based White Extra Fine Point
RGM Palette Knife 53	Sakura Pigma Micron 01 .25mm Black Pen

Kasia also kindly listed all the goodies she used to create her masterpieces. The good news is you can easily purchase them from the Artist Trading Post shop and you can have a go yourself! I will for sure... my list is forever growing so nothing is going to stop me! :) Heheee... 

I'd like to say a BIG THANK YOU to Kasia for all her dedication and hard work. It has been an absolute pleasure and hope you keep in touch! ;) 

Thank you to all of you out there who read our posts and leave comments! You are amazing! 

Have a great day! 

Ingrid xxx 

MMW#4: Masculine/Father's Day

Hi there! 

I must warn you right from the start,. there is way too much crafty goodness and excitement in this post and it is most likely going to disrupt your chilled out Sunday ;) Let's get to it... 

Firstly, a big welcome to our beautiful new followers! I'm so glad you decided to join us here and hope you will enjoy our posts and feel inspired for our fun challenges.

Talking about our challenges, it is time to announce a winner and our Fab 3 of our last challenge 'Vintage'. We had so many amazing entries, you guys make it sooooo hard to pick! But we've done our homework and visited your fab blogs to check out your gorgeous makes. I simply had to pin on our PINTEREST a few to show you the serious contenders and the ones that were considered as our choices. We can only have one winner though and the awesomely talented person is...........

#46: Paula Whittaker

HUGE CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please email me to ingridscraftscorner @ hotmail. co. uk (minus the spaces, of course) to claim your prize! Also, please let me know if you would like to be our Guestt Designer for our next challenge ;) 

We also have our Fab 3 and in no particular order these are.................

#31: Evelyn Walter


#27: JackiePNeal

#16: Butterfly

Equally HUGE CONGRATS!!! Please feel free to grab the relevant badges from our side bar, you so deserve them! 

I have a special announcement today. Our last winner Yulianna agreed to Guest Design for us this month. She made a fantastic mixed media creation, it's going to knock your socks off!




What more... you may have noticed that we have a really special team here at MMW. Not only that we are all friends brought together for the love of Mixed Media, but also each and one of us has a little bit different style. Our got very excited when I saw Yulianna's work and fell in love with her textured and unique style. I could no longer resist and asked her to become a permanent member of our team and she said YES!!! Yay! Welcome to our world, Yulianna! We're all excited that you are going to share your talent with us! I'm going to have a little surprise for you at the end of this post so read on...

This month's challenge theme is chosen by my dear Inky, I mean, Donna :) (Her blog is called Inky & Quirky so I nick named her 'Inky' after she renamed her blog and it reminded me of my name. Ingrid in short is Inka, as my Mum and close friends call me. So there is a little internal joke,.. Inka and Inky, hehee.. :)) aaanyway... the challenge perfect for this month is... 

Masculine/Father's Day

....and we look forward to seeing your gorgeous makes again! I can't wait to see what you come up with. My fabulous teamies did an amazing job once again lined up some gorgeous inspiration for you. Check them out...

Yulianna (GD)

Amanda

Debs

Donna

Georgie C

Ingrid  (Father's Day card)

Laine & Mo - a bit of a sad news here... our two lovely ladies have not been well lately so can't join us... we're sending them both big healing hugs and hope they are back in action soon! Lots of love! x

I hope you enjoyed our line up and your creative buds have been tickled. If you join our challenge and win you could win a whopping £20 voucher from our wonderful new sponsor...

Artist Trading Post

How cool is that?! So go ahead and have fun, check our rules and don't forget to link up your make below. 

I promised you a little treat so here it comes... a special Youtube video prepared by Yulianna showing you how she made her fantastic notepad...

That's it for today. I hope you can visit and join my teamie's blogs too. They love to hear from you, including me, so feel free to share your thoughts or say hi! Big hugs to you all, 

Ingrid & DT xxx

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Star Designer #3: Marta Lapkowska

Hi there!

Another week's passed and we're getting close to the finishing line with our challenge 'Vintage'. 3 more days to play so join in! I'm here to welcome another fabulous Star Designer though and I know how excited you get so lets get to it ;)

We had Seth Apter and Marjie Kemper last month. I very much enjoyed Seth's gorgeous vintage art and Marjie's colourful journaling. As you know, mixed media art comes in many forms and styles and today I'd like to introduce....

Marta Lapkowska

...who designs for Finnabair, Lindy's Stamp Gang, My Creative Scrapbook, is currently a Video Educator for Blue Fern Studios and in my opinion is perfect for the job, because her shabby chic style is out of this world and the way this girl creates texture and combines them with colour is awesome! So if you like this style Marta has a lot to offer and you can learn a lot from her. I have been Marta's YouTube follower for some time now and absolutely adore watching her work and create her masterpieces. I don't scrapbook, but every time I watch Marta creating one of her layouts I feel like getting my supplies out and play! 

Today's post is packed with creative goodness so read on....!

We have a little treat for you! Georgie worked hard and put together a few questions (Thank you, Sweetness!) and Marta kindly answered them specially for you! That's right! An exclusive interview just for you so you can find out a little bit more about Marta. Here it goes....

What inspires you most to create? / Where does your inspiration come from?- will it sound boring if I say EVERYTHING? Well... but this is true. I find inspiration in everyday life, in the music that I hear, in the art of my fellow crafters...

Pinterest... new craft products...colour combos... in challenging myself by creating out of my comfort zone... even my 7 years old daughter inspires me with her ideas!... inspiration is everywhere... I often use my phone to catch my inspiration on the photograph

Do you pre plan your pieces, or are they often the result of just 'going with the flow'?- somehow I always have a vision. There is this picture in my head just for split second...and then it's gone... a picture of finished make. It looks like I know where I am going while creating but that necessary does't mean my finished work will remind of my vision.

What is your favourite medium to work with?- sprays for sure... variety of Lindy's Stamp Gang sprays is allowing me to make some spectacular colour combos... working with liquid can create unexpected results and this is what I love the most

Do you have a tool which you couldn't live without?- I don't have a craft tool like that but... I see my phone as my most important tool, does it count? :)

- I treat it as my visual diary

What's your craft space like?- white everywhere, with huge table... lots storage... great big window... it's my heaven, my hideout! ... And it's always messy, but it's controlled mess. I feel that my craft space must be calm and relaxing... being in opposition to my very busy head full of colours and ideas!

Do you have a favourite colour combo?- probably rusted teal or anything with black ;)

What is your favourite creation to date?- ooooh so hard to pick only one! Let’s say a series of my mini mixed media canvases

​If you wish to see how I created some of those canvases please be sure to check out my YouTube channel here :) You will find many mixed media video tutorials.

But... those who know me can tell that my biggest love is art journaling.​ Freedom of creating in journals... oooohh this is what I like, no limits, no restrictions, no rules... page after page.

For this occasion, to say thank you for having me here I made a journal page. You can see my mixed media background using sprays.

I also created a full VIDEO tutorial for you guys.

I hope you will enjoy it!

Love, Marta xx

Did I say this post was awesome?! :) I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. 

I'd like to thank Marta for being a star joining us here today and for creating a special piece for our blog! I do hope you can keep in touch ;) THANK YOU! x

I'd also like to thank you, dear crafty soul out there! I hope you are feeling inspired and can join us for our next challenge which start next Sunday!! Whooohoooo! Can't wait! 

Have a great day! Hugs, 

Ingrid xxx