#12 Masks

Welcome to our August Challenge

Before we get down to the theme I am delighted to introduce a new member to our team.
Jenn

Hi there! My name is Jenn and I am a lover of all forms of Art! I reside in Oregon with my fiancée and my daughter and grandson. I have loved creating things for most of my life and while studying Business took most of my elective courses at college in Art! I not only love paper crafts such as card making and scrapbooking, but also enjoy altering thrift store and garage sale finds, jewelry making, doodle art and my newest found passion is mixed media! I love all of the layers and products available to create beautiful things even from junk! I am honored and excited to be a part of a Design Team that has become an inspirational place for me in my creations!

Our theme for this month is Masks

We would love to see your projects made either with masks, such as the venetian/fancy dress type many of the team have used, or with traditional masking of stamps, or masks/stencils. Just remember please, no cards.

Susanne is our host for this challenge who will be choosing our Winner and Top 5

We are thrilled to be sponsored by

WOODWARE CRAFT COLLECTION

With a prize of £12.00 to spend at your favourite Woodware Stockist, either in store or on line.

 

Woodware are a Yorkshire based family owned business, as well as distributing Dreamweaver Stencils and Stampendous Stamps we have a wonderful range of stamps designed for us by Francoise Read and Jane Gill. We also scour the world for new and innovative products for the crafty card maker, and have a great range of punches and tools of the trade, to find stockists in your area or to see the range visit the website www.woodware.co.uk.

Our design team are playing along with the challenge so check out our blog, which is there for inspiration at www.woodware.co.uk/blog.

Over to the team for some inspiration

Susanne

I created a 6" x 6" flower canvas 

Elaine aka Ellapu

Angela @ Felix the Crafty Cat

 

I made this by cutting a paper mache mask into two pieces, adding texture using various stencils and colouring with sprays and gilding wax. If you would like more details of how I made this please visit my blog: Felix the Crafty Cat

Kerstin

I use the theme on canvas in two versions, once as gothic mask and as stamp technique (face and clocks) more details on my blog.

Ngaere

I used a plastic mask from the local $2.00 shop and added diecuts, chipboard, charms and metal embellishments which I then painted with black gesso and Lumiere paints.  Check over at my blog to see how it all came together,

Jan

I decided to use Mask Techniques for my piece. It is part of a Pocket Page I made for a Travel Folio. To see the mask technique hop over to my blog. I have used inks and embossing powders.

Lula

My take on the theme "Masks'' is an  A4 journal page made with lots of mixed media supplies. Starring: Prima's texture paste- platinum crackle.

Lin

I started off with a papier mache mask which I gessoed and then painted with 5 colours of Maya Gold paint and one of Luminarte Silks. I decorated with rainbow faux gems and prima pearl swirls.

Jolanda

I made this art journal page with different mixed media techniques!

Rita Marie

Hi Friends! 

Here is my painting for the Mask... I did this painting with water colors, acrylics, gel pens,stencils, and white gesso in a mixed media journal... I hope this inspires you to join in and create your version of the Masks... If you would like to see more of my artwork please visit my Blog. 

Thank you so much!

Esther

I used modroc - plaster fabric, to create a textured mask to which I added pieces of book and manuscript paper, covered with gesso and coloured with distress inks.  Swirls created with string and painted.

Jenn aka Yvonne Bijoux

I started with a cardboard mask that I cut in half, overlapped a bit and glued back together. It was then layered with several  mediums  including textures, sprays, embossing powders and stains to create each side. I was inspired by under sea exploration and the beautiful things they find under layers of corrosion. For more details on how I made this or to see my other artwork head over to my blog.

Carole

I have used a papier mache mask and canvas, and created a camouflage effect with acrylic paint to represent how we hide behind "masks". And then I used glitter card and a Tattered Lace Mask die to show how we use "masks" to present a "better" side of ourselves. I also used Frantage, gilding flakes and texture paste - with buttons and pearls!

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#11 Canvas, Winner and Top 5

Thank you all for your your beautiful canvas projects, so diverse and inspirational!

 

Esther hosted for us this last month and she has chosen her winner and top 5 as follows:-

 

16. Butterflies N Buttons

The texture and colours of this canvas really caught my eye and I love the way the crackled background and twine set off the picture perfectly.

Please contact Lin at the email address in the side bar to  let me know if you want to Guest for us, so we can liaise and sort out suitable dates.

and Esther's Top 5 are:-

14 Chrissy

3. Jenn D

8. Claire Boelema

11. Cec

20.Irit Shalom

 

 

Congratulations to you all. Don't forget to collect your badges from the sidebar, and we look forward to seeing you back here at 12 Noon for our August challenge.

11 Canvas

Welcome to our July Challenge.

Our theme for the month is a Canvas

We have two new team members to introduce to you today, and two lovely guests.

Before I get to that I am deeply saddened to say that, due to personal issues, this will be Claudia's last challenge with us. We very much hope that Claudia will be back from time to time to guest with us, but in the meantime we wish her all the very best, and thank her for all the fabulous things she has created for us.

We have thrown one of our newest members, Esther, in at the deep end and she will be choosing her Winner and Top 5 from all your fabulous entries for this challenge.

 

Instead of a physical prize this month we would like to offer our Winner a Guest Designer spot for a future challenge.

 We hope our fabulous Design Team can inspire you. Please pop by their blogs and show them your appreciation 

So to our newest two members of the Design Team, first up is Esther.

Esther

Hi  I’m Esther and I’m really excited to join the team here at The Mirror Crack’d. I live in a little country town in Suffolk, UK with my very patient partner Pete.  I’ve been crafting since I was a child trying most things from cross stitch, candle making and jewellery making until I discovered scrapbooking in 1997 - this led on to rubber stamping and more recently to mixed media. I consider myself relatively new to MM and am enjoying learning all the fab techniques (though I will soon need a bigger house for all the extra stash that seems to be appearing) I have a stressful full time job so crafting is my therapy and love getting messy with inks and paints. I'm really looking forward to being part of the team and seeing all your art work.

Esther xx

Canvas Journal page - I used a sheet of sticky back canvas as a base for a journal page, on to which I added ModRoc, texture paste and old book pages then used gelatos and stamping.

 

Our next new team member is Ngaere, and here is a short bio

My name is Ngaere Bennetts and I live in Eltham which is a small town in the North Island of New Zealand. I have a son and daughter and four gorgeous grandsons.  I have been creating and crafting most of my life in one form or another.  I became fascinated with scrapbooking a number of years ago and after making scrapbooks for my kids and their children I began to experiment with mixed media. This has now become a passion.   I tend to have a unique perspective on things and usually end up making projects that are different in one way or another. I look at a project or material and think about how I can use it in a non traditional manner..  I love to recyle/upcycle items/ materials that would be normally thrown away into something unique and beautiful. I enjoy playing with new products and I believe in sharing what I learn with others.  I participate in several challenge blogs as I find it keeps my thinking fresh and It motivates me to stretch myself artisticly. I am looking forward to being part of the talented Design Team at The Mirror Crack'd. You can see more of work on my blog at nysbiz.blogspot,co,nz.

 

Ngaere

This project is made with a small canvas to raise the flower from the background and I also tore strips of canvas to add texture to the background.  Check out how I made in on my blog. 

 

We also have two very talented Guest Designers this month firstly Ingrid who was our March winner

Ingrid Kristina V = a cardmaker, an amateur yet enthusiastic arstist and an explorer of all artistic :) If you visit my blog you will find anything from cards, journaling, fun tutorials, results of my experiments and wild ideas, but mainly mixed media projects. I love creating abstract art and mixed media is my most go to when I create. There is nothing more satisfying that creating various textures and patterns and adding colour with a dash of grunge. I tend to create rather organic patterns and love using anything naturally aged. Fabric and other materials are so much fun too! If you share my passion I would like to invite you to join my blog Ingrid's Crafts Corner. I also run a mixed media challenge blog Mixed Media World where my dear talented friends and I share our creations organise fun challenges for you to join. If you prefer cardmaking then simply purchase an issue of the wonderful UK nationwide magazine Simply Cards and Papercraft where I share my projects as a Designer.

 

and Ingrid's gorgeous canvas!

My art is mostly inspired by nature and natural changes. I love textures, colours and organic patterns. When I create I usually get inspiration from one or all of the above. To me there is nothing more beautiful than naturally aged and weathered objects. This canvas is very much inspired by fields and mid summer time. I am a big fan of abstract realism and tried to create just that for this month's theme 'Canvas'.

I picked a few dried grasses and weeds from my garden, used a white gesso to adhere them over some cheese cloth, added my beloved crackle paste & let it thoroughly dry... see, now I am getting excited... you can find out a bit more on my blog. Hope you like it :)

Thank you to Lin and her team for inviting me to share my arty crafty word with you. I hope you can join the challenge and be the artist that you are creating your very own masterpiece. i shall keep an eye out :) 

and secondly Joi who was May’s winner

 Hello to all my creative family.  Soooo hoping you had a happy and safe 4th of July holiday. 

Today is exciting because it's guest designer day for me at The Mirror Cracked.  And best of all, the theme included working with a canvas so this was SUPER FUN for me! 

All through my life I have done different types of crafting.  There was little money so I would decorate our home and give gifts from things that I made - usually redo's from garage sales!  However, it was only about 9 months ago that I began painting, doing mixed media, card making, stenciling and stamping.  I have spent endless hours watching videos and figuring out what to use when, where, how and why!!!  I now... I am so happy and blessed to be a part of this wonderful world of creating art.  I hope you enjoy the project

and Joi's amazing canvas

I created for you.  Just a piece of Americana from the heart. 

Please, visit my blog to see more pictures and info on how I created this mixed media on canvas. Truly it would mean a lot to me to see your comments and for you to become a follower too!!!

Thanks bunches and bunches to wonderful The Mirror Cracked team for this honor. Hugs. j.

Finally over to our regular team! 

Elaine aka Ellapu

Steampunk canvas

 

Jan

I had fun with this challenge, I used brayering paint techniques, a variety of stencils, texture paste and glass beads!

All will be revealed on my blog. 

Claudia

I created a set of three mini canvasses on which I built up layers from old book pages, scraped on Gesso and acrylic paint, stencilled texture and rubber stamping. 

Lula

I made my canvas with lots of stenciled texture paste, neon Gelatos and old paint tubes 

Kerstin

Summertime - Time for vacation, sun and dreams around the world

My canvas was made with spray inks, an old map, stamps and stencils.

Angela

Beyond Time Canvas - I made this canvas by applying Tissue Paper and then building up the texture with pastes and embellishments, covered these with inks and paints then finished with Treasure Gold. The hanger at the top is a small door handle. More details are available on my blog. would love you to pop over.

 

Lin

My canvas is so basic compared to the rest of my fabulous team, but was just as hard work as I don't have a drawing or painting bone in my body! Details on my blog 

Carole

 

I combined printable canvas (photos of flowers from my garden) with a large canvas painted with black gesso, Pebeo Pearl Paints and texture paste. All topped off with painted string and wooden butterflies!

Rita Marie

Hi everyone!  The canvas is just a little cheap canvas I had left over from a workshop I did... I covered it first with white gesso then the water colours I made very runny and sprayed the background with water so the colours would run... Then once dried I sketch my girl with her bird... I used white gesso mixed with water colour crayons for the rest. The stars are done with gold and black acrylics and markers... I hope this inspires!  If you would like to see more of my artwork please check out my Blog ...     Love & Hugs! Thank you... 

Susanne

Hi my dear crafty friends. This time I used my canvas not as usual. For that cute little birdie I turned it around and worked on the backside. For more information you are welcome to visit my blog. Have fun creating your own canvas!

Jolanda

I made this canvas for my husband (on the picture he's 8 years old:0)

I used napkins, mod podge, structure paste, stamps, distress paint & ink...

More details on my blog!

Phew that was some LONGGGG post!

We look forward to seeing all your fabulous canvasses.

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