Mixed Media Art is turning 2!

To celebrate we would like you to share a card with us. It can be one you have made using a technique you have learnt here, at Mixed Media Art, or your own favourite technique.

It can be ANY type of card; birthday card, Christmas card, Thank-you card or even a “You’re great!” card!

 greeting cards with credit-card technique backgrounds

Leave a comment with a link to your card on your blog. Alternatively, if you don’t have a blog, send a picture of your card to CreateMixedMediaArt@gmail.com and we’ll post your cards for you at Birthday Celebration Cards.

Those participating have a chance to win a set of three cards to boost your festive season card making. A total of three presents will be sent out. The Mixed Media Art team will choose their three favourite cards to receive a present and contact you by email after the deadline.

Deadline: 30 November 2012.

Happy creating!

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Surprise!

You have found the Mixed Media Art surprise test page – nothing to see here.

You would be better reading more about Mixed Media Collages or Art Journals.

Happy creating!

Mixed Media Art Survey Results

The Mixed Media Art survey was sent out in February and we were blown away with the response! Here are the results.

It is great to see the range of interests and skills across our artists, from just getting started with mixed media art to wanting to expand skills.  I am pleased to see you enjoying the monthly summaries and technique sheets. Hopefully more of you will also come across to see us on Facebook at Create Mixed Media Art. The favourite colour question results were fairly even but the warm reds, pinks and purples came out in front.

A good number of you are interested in learning about some of the more complex mixed media techniques and in a range of different ways; via videos and online courses, as well as with ephemera and project kits.

To get you started in expanding your mixed media skills while the MMA team continues to work on these projects, we can recommend the Green Paper Packages course Vintage Collage, showing that collage composition can be learnt!

So thank you for sharing your mixed media insights with us! For those who love graphs and numbers, the graph results from each question are below (you may need to click on each image to make the writing easier to read!)

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Top 5 Mixed Media Art Christmas Inspiration Sites

I love all of the Christmas projects that are around this time of year. And even if I don’t have time right now, I will file the ideas away, to modify for another project or to get an early start for next year!

The Top 5 Mixed Media Art Christmas Inspiration Sites are:

1. Tim Holtz is at it again with his 12 Tags of Christmas
Day 1 can be found here….
right through to Day 12

Mixed Media art tage

2. Lisa Vollrath and Ten Two Studios with their Christmas countdown – this is offered as “shareware” and requires you to send a link via your blog or Facebook page.

Mixed Media Christmas images

3. 2 Gypsy Girls, on the One Lucky Day blog did this great vintage village. While theirs started as a Thanksgiving decoration, I can see it becoming a Christmas village as well.

Mixed Media village

4. Garlands are all about the place at the moment and easily modified to make Christmas ones. Great for using up all of your bits and pieces and get those punches out again.
Here are some great instructions for a Valentines garland (LOVE the baking paper idea – I was wondering how it was done!)
or bird ones
and another with circles.

Mixed Media decorations

5. I have been seeing these paper drops  or paper strip ornaments all over this year – here are some simple instructions
or here for a slightly different design (scroll down to #5)

Mixed Media Decorations

I hope you can find some creative time over the busy holiday season. These sites will get you well on your way!

Happy creating.

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