DT Intro: Leslie Lineberry

Hi everyone!

I have the pleasure of introducing our 5th and last new DT member, the talented...

Leslie Lineberry

"My name is Leslie Lineberry from the state of Montana in the USA where I was born and raised. During the weekdays, I manage a busy dental office, but when the weekend arrives you can find me in my little corner of our basement: my 'art studio'. I am so blessed to have an amazing supportive husband who understands his quirky, artsy wife and a son and daughter who inspire me everyday! Over the years I have painted in oil, acrylic, watercolor; done batik, quilling, scratch board canvas work, polymer clay, beadwork and more. As you can see, I am a "Hobby Hoarder". Less than a year ago, I began combining many mediums at once in the form of Mixed Media art and I realized I had finally arrived where my artistic soul was trying to take me!"

Name: Leslie Lineberry

Blog: Art, It's What's For Dinner - http://www.artfordinner.gallery/blog

From: Montana, USA

Achievements: Published in Mixed Up Magazine, Guest Designer for The Vintage Journey, winner of monthly mixed media challenges throughout 2016

About: During the weekdays, I manage a busy dental office, but the weekends are reserved for my happy creative time. I am so blessed to have an amazing supportive husband who understands his quirky, artsy wife and a son and daughter who inspire me everyday! Over the years I have painted in oil, acrylic, watercolor; done batik, quilling, scratch board canvas work, polymer clay, beadwork and more. As you can see, I am a "Hobby Hoarder". When I began combining many mediums at once in the form of Mixed Media art, I realized I had finally arrived where my artistic soul was trying to take me!

Favourite Colors: Blue-Greens and Browns

Favourite Media: Modelling paste, acrylic paint and sprays

Must Have: Gesso - White, Black and Clear

What Inspires You: Everything! Nature, word images, texture, you name it! And, I have learned so much from watching tutorials of so many talented artists. The passion for art is a wonderful thing to share.

My Style: My style is textured assemblage art. I love to take bits of junk and trash and recycle it into an altered piece that becomes a 3-D Hidden Pictures. I have gradually taught everyone around me not to throw anything away before showing it to me first. There are so many treasures out there just waiting to be reborn!

Links to my social media & galleries:

Instagram: Lesliline
Facebook: Leslie Lineberry

What Kind of Projects I do?

Assemblage and Altered Art

And a few samples of Leslie's wonderful work... 

Welcome to the team, Leslie! I'm so glad you could join us here! 

All the best to you! We'll be back with a new challenge and heaps of inspiration on Sunday!!! Until then.... have fun and stay creative ;) xxx

DT Intro: Torsa Saha

Hello and thank you for stopping by today!

We have a fourth DT member to introduce and it is the very talented...

Torsa Saha

Name: Torsa Saha

Blog name: Torsa’s E{art}h

From: Lives in USA, born in India

Achievements: Design team member at Art Anthology, Mixed media warriors and here at Mixed Media World and I want to say “Miles to go before I sleep “ !!

Favourite colours: All shades of Teal and blue!!

Favourite media: Modelling paste, embossing powder and spray mists

My absolute 'must have' when creating: Spray Mist, and Heat tool ( I am very impatient person while creating )

About: I am a software engineer by profession, but Art is my passion, my dream and something I breathe for. I have studied fine arts (Oil painting, Acrylic and Charcoal) for almost 20 years!! I have started my Mixed Media Journey last year!! I love colours!! I need almost 10 different shades of every colour and always try to depict a story through my creation!!
I am addicted to Coffee!! I love to spend hours at my studio with my coffee. I collect different coffee mugs from different places. I love to listen music when I am crafting!!
If I am doing nothing, I am doing art journaling with my favourite quotes even in my mind!!
I love to travel and visit different places!! I love to live in the moments!!

What inspires me: I get inspired by nature, life, books, quotes, songs, current affairs , Facebook, YouTube !! I really want to take one name here - Marta Lapkowska - she is the reason behind my Mixed Media!! For me she is constant source of inspiration!!

My style: I don’t want to confined myself in one style!! I love to explore every different style!! Journaling on canvas is one of my favourite because I love to hang them at my studio!!

Links to my social media & galleries:

Instagram: torsa.saha
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/torsa.saha?qsefr=1

What kind of projects I do? 

That’s a very tricky question for me!! I love to use beautiful photos for my project, and I am very choosy about the photograph of my project. Sometimes I love to use different photographs. and blend them in my project. I used to do lot of fussy cut in my project!! But for any project, background and colour remains as my main theme!!

And a few samples of Torsa's wonderful work...

Welcome to the MMW team, Torsa! It's great to have you here with us! 

All the best xxx 

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