Hi everyone. Happy end of the week to you. It's already almost been a full week of December. Where is the month going to? 😏
I am thrilled and honored to tell you that I am a guest designer this month over at Creative Artiste Mixed Media Challenge Blog for their challenge # 111. As always, the challenge is Anything Goes. Thank you ladies for having me as your guest designer this month. ❤
My page is a wintery one since here in the Northern Hemisphere, it is December and for many of us, it could be snowy.
My page started with a scrap of deli paper that I used to work on. I like to recycle bits and pieces into the background of pages because it often has such a cool look. Plus it saves me from making more trash. I then used this pearly blue paint and a stencil to make the circles you see. I then took some scraps of tulle fabric mesh and added them with lots of matte medium to hold them in place.
The snow is made with some white stencil paste and some white glitter. I added the handsome chipboard wolf. The big snowflake is chipboard that is painted, and the smaller snowflakes are felt. I also used some silver half pearls. I used 2 stanzas from an old poetry stamp. I left off the spring one because it didn't fit the page. I also decided to stamp this older TH raven/crow stamp and then fussy cut it. He's not sitting on a fence, but I like how he's sitting on the quote.
Since there's a couple of faces on my page, I'm also joining Nicole at her Friday Face Off challenge. Besides that I am joining 2 other challenges: Gillena's Friday Lunch Break and because my page is very snowy, I'm also joining Sharon's Snow challenge over at Art Journal Journey.
Thank you again ladies for having me as a guest designer and giving me the chance to join you for the month.
Have a great weekend everyone.
29 comments:
I have seen a wolf twice in the wild, once really well, loping across a frozen lake in the north. Such magnificence is not soon forgotten. All the best - David
Congratulations on being chosen guest designer! How fun!
This piece is fabulous! I've just spent several minutes gazing at all the different elements and textures. It's beautifully chilly. Taken as a whole, it brought back memories of my decade in Fairbanks and the wonderful long winters.
This is really beautiful, Erika. I love the snow flakes...
...winter can be a beautiful season.
What a stunning winter page! I love how you used all the different mixed media to create your snowy scene with all the lovely texture and your crow sitting on the wording is perfect too 😊. Thanks so much for joining us as Guest Designer at Creative Artiste and for the beautiful inspiration. I hope you have a Happy December and Christmastime, all the very best to you and yours for 2025 ❤️. Big hugs, Jo x
Wow! magnificent collage art for the season ~ hugs,
Wishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
clm ~ A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
Luv your journal page.
Erika, thanks for linking toArt Fir Fun Friday#135
Much love
Luv your journal page.
Erika, thanks for linking toArt Fir Fun Friday#135
Much love
You can keep the snow. There's more than enough in my yard. Hopefully, it will melt soon. Very cool wolf.
OMGosh!!! this is stunning. The stance of the of the wolf is brilliant. Very beautiful. Thank you for sharing with FFO and have a nice weekend.
Lovely page
Winter can be hard, I need sunshine, but if you don't learn to find joy in the snow, you'll have less joy in your life and precisely the same amount of snow. I don't think I've ever seen a wolf in the wild!
What an amazing piece! The different textures are really cool. I work as a kitchen cabinet refinisher and that is my art form, but I always love to see what others create in different mediums. I really love what you are doing! Thanks for sharing!!!
You do such marvelous mixed media collage work!
It is really beautiful, Erika. Congrats, my friend.
Always lovely to see you @ Creative Artiste but even more so as Guest Designer, you have created a stunning wintery snow scene for our December mixed media challenge. So many textures, that glitter paste really does sparkle like snow. Beautiful creation.
Wishing you a happy creative December Hugs Tracey xx
Beautiful wintry page Erika, love that wolf too! Congrats on being GD this month. Well deserved. Have a great weekend!
Great page! Wolves are in East Germany now. A bit scary? Have a great weekend, hugs
Erika, it's wonderful to have you as our guest designer at Creative Artiste this month! What a lovely winter scene you've created for us. I admire your recycling of the little bits and pieces into your projects. So much texture, and your snow is just so beautiful... Wish you a great December! Anita xx
This is a beautiful and peaceful piece, Erika, love the white fox, too, and the glittery snow. Congrats on being Guest Designer! I used some glitter on a project recently and sneezed, not good wsith a pot of glitter in my hand.... Have a great weekend, hugs, Valerie
Wow, this one is so beautiful! Really love the monochrome blues with the different snowflakes and animals!
Such a lovely winter page.
Enjoy your weekend.
All the best Jan
I saw your journal page at Creative Artiste. It is stunning. I really love the beauty of it, as well as the blue background. It also goes brilliantly with Sharon's theme at AJJ! Thanks for sharing and congrats on being the GD this month at Creative Artiste.
Wow Erika!! Big congrts on being chosen as a guest designer for Creative Artiste! That's wonderful. Your page is absolutely gorgeous. I love the soft blue colors and your amazing winter/snow theme. Thank you for joining me and all of AJJ this month for the snow theme! Hugs, Sharon
The blues are so pretty and all of your details add so much yummy texture, fab page and congrats on being guest designer! XOX
Stunning scene you have created. Beautiful details, colours and design. Thank you for joining us as a guest designer at Creative Artist. I always enjoy your creations. hugs Judy DT
Wow you have so much going on here with this colourful MM piece Erika. Love all the elements you used here. Lovely to have you as Guest this month at Creative Artiste.
Isn't it strange how blue looks more cold than white. This is a very cold (and Kewl) looking page Erika. You have mixed the perfect shade of blue to depict the icy cold weather and the wolf looks magnificent stalking his world. Love the added touches to make this lovely wintry scene and the raven sitting there is definitely making a point to the wolf. Catch me if you can maybe.
A striking page.
Hugs, Neet xx
Congratulations on being our Guest Designer Erika - apologies for the late commenting I've been ill for three weeks. Your page is wonderful - it captures that crisp wintery feel of the season.
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