Challenge 7 - Craft, Card making & Scrapbooking mixed media challenge - Anything Goes

 Welcome back to our Craft, Card making & Scrapbooking mixed media challenge!

We have some wonderful inspiration with some of our favourite projects from the past month from the team....

As always, the theme this month is

Anything Mixed Media/paper crafting Goes

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Winners of our last challenge are at the bottom of this post...

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So let's see the inspiration from the team this week!

Ana - This starfish-shaped mixed media piece is a celebration of sea and sky! I started with plain white cardstock and layered on Distress Oxides in Tumbled Glass, Mermaid Lagoon, and Uncharted Mariner. I added texture with gesso and stenciled bubbles, then built it up with fussy cut elements from the Coral Mermaid printable papers, added ribbons and flowers for depth. Sequins, liquid pearls, and a beautiful sentiment from the same collection—Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, and drink the wild air—tie it all together. Instagram: @my.cat.and.crafts Facebook: My Cat and Crafts

Patricia - For the “Just Because” challenge. I created a Special Day Tag. Which I had so much fun creating by combining several techniques. The Your Love Lifts Me Up Balloon Digi Stamp “ I colored with my Copic markers, and it came out adorable. The sentiment “It’s your Special Day? Guit Outta Here!” from theGnome Men Greetings was the perfect touch, and I inked its edges with Vintage Photo Distress Ink. I used Distress Oxide inks in these three colors — Picked Raspberry, Fossilized Amber, and Tumbled Glass — to blend across the background on the Tag, then added water splashes to activate the inks and create those magical spots. Using Vintage Photo Distress Ink, I blended the edges of the tag to give it a vintage look… and I loved the result — the blending turned out beautifully! To finish it all off, I added a Tiny yellow ribbon and some golden rhinestones.

I just loved how cheerful, sweet, and colorful this tag turned out! Hope you like it. Happy Crafting!

Instagram: @miscreacionesbypc, Facebook: @miscreacionesbypc

Jenn B – Thinking Rebel Girl + Cactus Papers

Hello crafty people! The image I used this week is called Thinking Rebel Girl – I printed her out and coloured her with Copics, then die-cut her with a fancy-edge circle die, sponging the edges for a soft look. For the background, I used digital papers from the Happy Cactus Succulent Paper Pack. The sentiment comes from the Rebel Messages with Attitude. I finished it off with a giant button in the corner for some extra flair.

Leah - Hi! Today I'm sharing this cute Camera flip book which is from the Sweet Moments chipboard. I decorated this with the other ephemera in the chipboard set but I'll also be adding lots of digis to go with it and finish it off!

Renske – Bee Buzzy Gnome Shaker Card

Hello! This time we worked with the theme of flowers. I chose the adorable c – Bee Buzzy Gnome Digital Stamp and combined it with a floral pattern paper from the Freddy Fox Pattern Paper 2 Set. After colouring the digital stamp with my alcohol markers, I turned it into a fun shaker card. I die-cut a window in the front, placed the floral paper behind it, and filled it with transparent butterfly shakers. I added the gnome in front of the window and used a sentiment from the Spring Gnome Fun Quotes and Sentiments Set.  I hope this gives you some inspiration – happy crafting!

Wendy - Hello everyone - Do you make and sell at craft fairs ? I don't as it's not really a thing here where I live but when we visit new little villages I always love wandering round the artisan markets.

Our challenge this week was to make something we could sell at a craft fair so I decided to use the gorgeous new Honey Bee Dreams collection to Up-cycle some drinks coasters - I think they would be perfect in a garden room, porch or even outside if you have lovely sunny hot days. I simply printed a few pages from the kit and adhered to my old coasters before covering with Exterior Mod podge. I added some of the new Honeycomb papers from the adorable Buzzy Bee collection to the bottom of each coaster and a little gold gilding wax around the edges too. Have a fantastic Day. Crafty Hugs Wendy J x

Beautiful inspiration from the team - we hope you loved looking at our gallery of makes!

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WINNERS FROM CHALLENGE 6

Thank you everyone who entered this challenge - we really loved looking round your blogs, you all left us some awesome work to look at and there were so many great projects it was SO hard to choose our winners this week!

OUR RANDOM $10 WINNER IS...

71 Carla

Well done!

PRIZE: $10 gift voucher to the Polkadoodles Store to spend on anything you like including mixed media goodies, stamps, papers & anything else!....

To claim your prize please email us HERE, quoting 'L2C winner'.Please include this claim code L2CWK007 in your email and claim by 20 June 2025. 

Allow 28 working days for a reply please.

DESIGN TEAM TOP FAVOURITES: 

Sorry, there's no prize but we all loved your creations!

There were so many amazing entries this week to choose from, thankyou all!

77 Pauline C

7 Julie O

27 Zowie

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