DT Intro: Irena Stefanova

Hi there!

We're excited to introduce our third new DT lady so please welcome the talented...

Irena Stefanova

Name: Irena Stefanova

Blog name: Irena's art and something else 

From: Bulgaria

Achievements: I am proudly designing for: Kartishok - challenges blog, Kartishok, Love To Scrap! Challenge Blog, Love To Craft Challenge Blog

Favourite colours: I love them all

Favourite media: acrylic paint, modelling paste

My absolute 'must have' when creating: White gesso and silence :)

About: I am a loving wife, a mother of 3 children and grandmother to a beautiful girl. I live with my family in a small town in North-East Bulgaria. I am a very happy woman, because I can do what I'm interested in, what I love and what fits my values and my lifestyle. I have a volunteer's soul.

What inspires me: The challenges to push me outside my comfort zone

My style: It is difficult for me to define my style, because I'm new into the mix media and the most things are new to me and I want to try everything.

Links to my social media & galleries:

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/irenastefanova3/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/handmade.art.and.something.else

YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP0V9OKaALXLUbNFvsQR8mw

What kind of projects I do? I love recycling, altered stuff, gelli printing and Art Journaling.

And a few samples of Irena's fab work...

Welcome to the MMW team, Irena! Great to have you on board!

All the best xxx

DT Intro: Ola Khomenok

Hello!

Thank you for stopping by! We have a pleasure of introducing our second new DT member...

Ola Khomenok

Name: Ola Khomenok

Blog name: LikeArt Studio

From: Israel

Achievements: Teaching at over 150 live workshops and recently became a DT for Mixed Media Place

Favourite colours: Actually, I love all colours. I believe that chosen colour must match to the chosen theme

Favourite media: Mixed Media in 3D style

My absolute 'must have' when creating: A jar with water and a few brushes

About: I'm Ola, almost 41 years old, married to my best friend, mom for 2 sweet angels J, live in Israel with my small family. In the past, I'm a professional graphic designer. After my son's birth, I'm a staying home mother and a full-time artist J. In addition, I am teaching workshops in my home studio. At the moment, I've taught more than 150 classes J

What inspires me: My dreams J. All ideas for my projects come to me from my night dreams J

My style: It's really a hard question. I think it's a mix of many things. Again, I believe that the style of the creation must match the theme and the mood. I mean when I create something romantic my style is tender and dreamy, when I create some masculine project my style is vintage or grunge J

Links to my social media & galleries:

Instagram
Pinterest
Facebook
YouTube channel

What kind of projects I do?

Layouts, canvases, cards, albums, notebooks, altered objects

A few samples of Ola's wonderful work... 

Welcome to the team, Ola! I'm excited to have you on board! 

All the best xxx

DT Intro: Inna Bronnikova

Hi everyone! 

I hope you are all well and enjoying your creative time. Thank you for joining the current challenge! We have some seriously amazing entries this month and I'm curious to see who will be picked by the team. 

The next 5 days will be very exciting, because I have the pleasure of introducing the lovely new DT ladies! All this ahead of our next challenge, which they will be a part of. 

We tend to list everyone alphabetically on our challenge blog so that's the order we will go with during the next 5 days. 

Today, we'd like to officially welcome and introduce... 

Inna Bronnikova

Name: Inna Bronnikova

Blog name: http://ujmikliuytre.blogspot.ru

From: Siberia. Russia

Achievements: DT for Mistress Owl http://sovaiscusnica.blogspot.ru, Evolution-Scrap http://evolution-scrap.blogspot.ru and now here in Mixed Media World. Numerous wins, tops and nominations http://ujmikliuytre.blogspot.ru/p/blog-page.html. I am teaching master classes in scrapbooking throughout Russia and I also teach master classes on the Internet. 

Favourite colours: I love all colours which ever inspires me when I make a new project. 

Favourite media: paste crackle, texture paste, acrylic primer, alcohol ink, foil gilding

My absolute 'must have' when creating: Pastes, sprays, paints, paper, cup of tea and chocolate

About: I am a wife and a mother. I love my family and my pets. I am very passionate about scrapbooking. It's there I like to put all of my positive energy and emotions into each project.

What inspires me: The nature inspires me from a grain of sand to a snow flake, from the frost making beautiful designs on a glass window to leaves changing colors on the trees.

My style: I do not work with any one style. The idea is the most important thing for me and Idea I have will push me to the style I will use on each creation

Links to my social media & galleries: 

Instagram: @innabronnikova 

Pinterest: https://ru.pinterest.com/ibronnikova/my-works-моих-рук-дело/ 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010748770325

Twitter: @bronnikova652

YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXhHFumD-sGcOas0kcJFoxg

What kind of projects I do?

Tags, АТС, art journal, cards, layout, albums, notebooks, altered scrap....I am interested in everything. Especially I love to do notebooks.

A few samples of Inna's wonderful work... 

Welcome to the team, Inna! It's great to have you on board! 

All the best xxx

MMW#22: Anything Mixed Media Goes!

Hello and welcome! 

We have a new challenge of the year for you here today and I' pretty sure you will find something to inspire you. Before I proceed to show you what we all created, I have the pleasure of announcing the winner and our FAB 3 of our Winter Wonderland challenge... 

The winner who is now entitled to a voucher purchased by myself either from That's Crafty or a shop of your choice is... 

#9: Glenda Drake from Boozybear

Your artwork is amazing! Please contact me to confirm if you wish to guest design for us next month and to claim your voucher - ingridscraftscorner (@) hotmail. co. uk (please adjust the email address, thanks)

...and our wonderful 3 runner ups are.... 

#18: Scrap by Eszter

#23: Ikemo from Poland

#33: Beatriz

I also want to say that I personally would have picked plenty more. I noticed that a certain person also entered, but that was when she wasn't on our team yet :) I would have picked her creation for sure and so here's Ola's gorgeous make as well: 

Congratulations all! Please feel free to download your badge from the side bar and proudly display it on your blog! Thank you to all of you for sharing your creations with us. I hope you can join us again this month. 

This month is nice and simple... you can create any mixed media project you fancy! Here's some inspiration for you... 

Georgie

For the anything goes challenge, I decided to do an art journal page on canvas board. I chose to go for a more intuitive style than anything with purpose and structure. It is actually quite freeing and really recommend it, especially if you have never tried it before! It really is like letting your emotions out in paint - haha!!

I used lots of Finnabar's Art Alchemy Paints and Gesso, also, of course, one of her beautiful Vintage Mechanical Hearts! 

'Hidden'

Ingrid

I decided to create an ATC set. I didn't have any specific plan, but I knew I fancied playing with watercolours, stamps and paste. I was very relaxing indeed! 

Lena

I got this face idea when i heard about online magazine "Mixed Up magazine". January theme was all about faces. And i love old books.

Maria

This time I created a thick gothic spellbook. I´ve aged the paper sheets and binded them myself. I´ve made the cover of cardstock and textile, adding texture through stencil and colouring it all with ink sprays, waxes and alcohol inks. Gothic-style wooden chipboard, metal chains and embellishments, microbeads add the final touches. And voila - a book any witch would die for is ready! :)

Virag

I made this mixed media layout for our February challenge. I really love brown and turquoise color combination with a little vintage touch thanks to the papers that I choose. I tried to highlight the photo with the flower stamps and I tried to broke the oldish style with them. The base of the page is crackling paste and the bronze colour was made with mica powder that gives shiny and bright effect.

Well, what do you think? I think these are absolutely fabulous! This month is Lena's last month with us and she will be very missed! I love her amazing altered books! Thank you for all your hard work last year, Lena, you're a star! xxx 

The sponsor of this challenge is That's Crafty! and you could win £20 voucher to their online shop. 

Thank you all for stopping by! I hope to see your linked up creations below! 

Big crafty hugs, 

Ingrid & the Design Team xxx 

An InLinkz Link-up

Welcome to out New DT members & New Sponsor

Hello!

Thank you for stopping by today! I have a very exciting post for you!

I certainly am very excited to share some news with you today. Not only that we have a new sponsor for our monthly challenges, but I also have a real pleasure of announcing the new DT team!!!

Firstly, I would like to welcome the sweet and fabulous new sponsor... Wild Orchid Crafts!

Wild Orchid Crafts specialise in selling Mulberry Paper Flowers and many other embellishments for card making, scrapbooking and craft projects. We started selling our mulberry paper roses back in 2005. Since then we've added a large selection of different flowers and colour choices. 

All of our mulberry paper flowers are made using natural, renewable resources. The flowers are all handmade by experienced crafts people using high quality materials and great care is taken to ensure that they are made to the highest standard and beauty. You can see all of our flowers and embellishments on our website http://www.wildorchidcrafts.com

A big welcome to Wild Orchid Crafts and thank you for your support! I personally love shopping with you and will continue to do so! If you crafters out there are not familiar with the shop, please hit the image or the link above and have a browse! I'm sure you will find something that will catch your eye!

I also have a great pleasure of announcing our new DT members. Before I do though, I'd like to say a big thank you to Janka and Lena for all their hard work for the past year. They are now ready to move on and live their lives so please feel free to show them some love in the comments below. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, Janka & Lena! Lots of love xxx 

Now, I'd like to thank you to all that responded to the DT Call. You are all amazing, but I had to pick a few that I feel will bring something special in their own way to the challenge blog. So please welcome our few new Design Team members... 

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Inna Bronnikova from Russia

 

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Ola Khomenok from Israel 

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Irena Stefanova from Bulgaria 

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Torsa Saha from New Jersey, USA

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Leslie Lineberry from Montana, USA

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A huge welcome to all of you pretty ladies! I am so excited to have you joining us! 

Don't worry, dear friends, I will take time and ensure that we introduce each and one of these ladies properly and in a special post with links and all so you can find out more about them. In the meantime, I hope you are ready to play along with our first challenge of 2017. It start this Sunday so stay tuned! 

All the best, 

Ingrid xxx 

GD: Torsa Saha

Hi everyone!

Another post full of fabulous inspiration for you! This time it is brought to you by the lovely Torsa Saha. Please take a moment and check out her wonderful work below...

Torsa Saha 

I have started with Mixed Media just six months back. Though I have worked in fine arts (mainly with oil painting and acrylic) for almost 20 years .
By profession I am a software engineer but Art is something I always breathe for . I live in USA with my 7 years old daughter and Husband.

Today I have created a project on Journey !! I believe that "Life is a journey , not a destination " !! My project is inspired by this quote only !! In the starting of 2017 I want to enjoy each and every moment of my life !!

I have used music notes pages to cover the background then made some texture sand !! I have used my favorite Lindy's spray mist and Lindy's embossing powder !!
Hope you would like it !!

Supply list:
Gesso,Heavy gesso, Sand, straw , Lindy's spray and embossing powder , 2Crafty Chipboards.

love,

Torsa.

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How cool is this artwork! Everything used just works so well together... the colours, the guitar with the music sheet on the background... well thought through! Fabulous! 

Please leave a comment below for Torsa and don't forget to visit her blog. 

Thank you, Torsa, for sharing your wonderful art with us! 

All the best, 

Ingrid x