BGC#66- Mixed media with PJ

Hello eveyone ! 

Are you enjoying our challenges so far ?? 

We are certainly loving all the entries :) 

We have very clear and simple rules this month:

- Make a mixed media project using more than one medium (gesso, mist, ink, gel medium, texture paste, pain). It has to be visible in your work.

- Mention what kind of medium you used in your post .

- Your project must be new and must have been done after our challenge announcement.

- Deadline to enter: 31th March 2015 until 11:55 PM IST.

Please welcome our sponsors -

Prize 1  

  

Kraft zone  is generously sponsoring a lovely prize package for the winner.

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The pack has some amazing papers that would go well with any mixed media project ! 

Ranger-petal-pink-liquid-pearls-pearlescent-paint-12-oz-bottle 

Another must have for mixed media ! :)

Prize 2

Sponsored by

The Craft shop is generously donating a GV

for our winner ! :)

 

 

Now isnt that cool !!! 

 

So for the Mixed media theme this month i have made a canvas ! 

 

I sort of went with my usual style floral and colorful ! 

 

 I have done a lot of layering with doilies and diecuts

 

 

 All the flowers you see are handmade. 

Also there is use of texture paste and Lindy's stamp gang mists ! :) 

Enjoyed doing this one :) 

I hope you like it 

Please Link your challenges here

 

 

 

 

BGC#65: Mood board + Stamping with Bipasha !

Hello everyone !!

So here I meet you again wonderful crafty people :) and looking forward to another fun-filled year of BGC enjoying each of your unique and new creations.

 And I hope you like the fresh new modifications we have made to our challenge formats this year!!

Let me walk you all again through the challenge gudelines:

Our moodboard for this Feb challenge 

Here is my take on the challenge. I was inspired by the stunning colours of the moodboard, the heart shape of the doughnuts, and the flower bunch in the vase!! And ended up creating a shadowbox photo frame from scratch :)

For the stamping, I used the picket fence distress stain and bo bunny coffee stain stamp design to make the white ink marks behind the photo in the background and stamped some scripts on the pp scrap too !

 Hope you love my creation!!

Can't wait to see what you all will be creation...

Much love ...xoxo

Bips

BGC#60 -Human character stamping !

 Hello my friends !!! 

Welcome back to another new challenge here at BGC !

We are loving your participation in the sept challenges and monthly celebration candy ! 

What a massive participation. we are floored ! 

So its OCT already ? and its our 60th challenge ! Wow ! thats a big number .

I dont know how we reached here but i assume thats some hardwork well done ! 

So ready for the new challenge ?

Challenge Guidelines : 

• In this challenge we want to see you play with you Human character stamps ! which means take out your Tilda's and Edwins , Prima dolls  or bloom girls , saturated canary girls etc. and color them to your hearts content , you get the drill !

• NOTE : You can also use digital stamps as long as they are human characters .

• In this challenge we want to see the Stamped image as the focal point of your project.

• It can be a card , or a 3d project , boxes or albums. NO LAYOUTS please and If you are making an album we will only judge the COVER not the inside.

Please welcome our returning sponsors !

 The winner will get a lovely prize package from Lulupu.com

I decided to do a card and here it is !

 It had to be a magnolia image for me :D I loveeeee them! 

This was a new buy from my dear friend Jovi !

 The challenge is pretty simple ! all you have to do is use a human type character stamp as your focal image. 

I loved this image the moment i stamped it ! its fantastic ! has a lot of scope with coloring . 

I have used promarkers for coloring. I sort of went for the Red head look for tilda and edwin. 

 Here is my floral spray. All the folwers are readymade.

I have used some butterflies and some seam binding in green to tie everything together. 

I am using cartabella papers here. Some circle spellbinders and sizzix dies. 

With the sentiment being Oh Happy Day! 

Tha card can go for any occasion !

Thanks for tuning in today !

Please link your projects below. 

BGC # 59 -Use wood or chipboard + colour palette with PJ

Hello my lovely friends !

Have a very happy monday !!! I hope you all are enjoying the inspiration posts shared by the design team so far. We really are glad that you all love our challenges so much :) 

So lets check out The rules of the challenge:

1. You can make either a card , a layout or embellish a MDF /Wooden Item (eg: Printers trey, MDF well , drawers ,Boxes etc) Please note that no other altered items will be allowed this time. 

2. Follow the given colour palette in your project. Use at least 3 colours.

3. Your project must have a wooden or chipboard embelishment on it

OR it can be a stand alone MDF or wooden item that you embelish using the colour palette. 

Dates to enter :  16th Sept - 30th Sept until 11:55 PM IST

So now that is all laid out for you here is my take on the challenge - 

Well i am preparing for christmas early and i thought what an unusual palette for christmas this will be !! 

We often see those red and green cards for christmas but i really loved using this color palette. 

I really wanted to go for a simple looking but mixed media card. 

Lately i have been hooked to the technique and this seemed the perfect opportunity to explore more. 

I have misted a itsy bitsy chipboard border with gold mist to make it sparkle ! 

And i also have some wood veneer stars on the card :) which kinda support the christmas spirit ! 

The flowers are handmade to fit the palette. 

with berry like beads in the center . I also have a jingle bell for fun ! 

The BG has a watercolor paper on which i have created color drips with my lindy's mists and watercolors. 

There is also some random splatter on the sides. over which i have used some Prima texture paste - white sand. 

 Hope you all enjoyed my card ! 

See u guys soon ! 

Hugs 

PJ 

Enter the challenge HERE. 

BGC#53 - Stamping (On fabric) and misting with PJ

Hello my dear friends !

I just got back from my 3 week vacation and i'm feeling refreshed !

Meanwhile the girls here at BGC were busy creating some really good projects for you 

according to the challenge theme thats been running all JUNE ! 

BGC#53-stamping-misting-challenge

So now u know the rules but let me just repeat theme again 

challenge guidelines: 

Challenge duration- 1st june to 30th june (Full Month)

• Make any project that fits into the 3 categories below

1. Cards ONLY

2. Layouts ONLY

3. Everything else - 3D crafts, Popup boxes , Altered art , mixed media , Canvas , Hangings etc. Anything paper crafts.

• You must have visible Misting on the face of your project - Any kind of misting will do for example - Using mists like Lindy's stamp gang or color bloom by prima etc,  Making a splatter with a paint brush , Using a tooth brush with water colors to create a nice misting on your project. 
• Your project must show Stamping on Fabric !  Its time to pick and experiment with any type of fabric and see how your stamps work on them. !

Simple enough !

Please note that we reserve rights to disqualify any entry that doesn't follow the rules .

Thank you. 

Ok with all that understood ! Lets move on to my project. 

I went for 3. Everything else category 

And altered a medicine box.  

This is how the box looked before.  

And this is how it turned out ! 

•  I started by pasting some text scripted paper on the sides of the box. 

Which you can see perfectly in the above picture. 

• I then made a mixture of 1 part white glue with 1/2 part water and mixed it well .
• I used this mixture for sticking tissue on the top of my box. This gave me some real good texture to play with. 
• After all the tissue sticking i let it dry for about 2hrs . 
• Once dry i misted my textured surface with mists . (Lindy's stamp gang and cosmic shimmer.) That gave me my background to work on.

•  I then used this nice and slightly shimmery fabric piece in rectangle to stamp my sentiment. Here is a TIP- when working with loosely woven fabrics like what i used ,keep a crisp piece of paper underneath before you stamp. This should give you a good image. 
• The fabric piece looks a little lifted due to the texture beneath it. It is stuck in place with Glue dots as foam dots would have showed from underneath. 

•  I then embellished my box with flowers , die cuts , distressed mesh cloth ,and some metal embellishments.

Here is a closer look at the flowers !

I made all of them myself except the peach and the baby pink rose . 

Hope that you enjoyed my post and you are inspired to join us in this challenge . 

If so then just pick a category and jump in !! 

you can link your challenge entry HERE

BGC#53 Stamping & Misting challenge !

Hello my fabulous crafters...

 This time its Bipasha with you hosting the super-duper fun celebration with fabulous prizes to be won !

A time for new celebration with a new month...Yess ! This year we are celebrating each month with a new positive vibe and alacrity . 

So for a twist we thought of having fun playing with you guys
 "for a whole month" with an unusual combo....

  "Stamping & Misting"

and share some yummy goodies with you.

Sounds interesting and innovative right !

Without further ado let me go through the challenge guidelines: 

Challenge duration- 1st june to 30th june (Full Month)

• Make any project that fits into the 3 categories below

1. Cards ONLY

2. Layouts ONLY

3. Everything else - 3D crafts, Popup boxes , Altered art , mixed media , Canvas , Hangings etc. Anything paper crafts.

• You must have visible Misting on the face of your project - Any kind of misting will do for example - Using mists like Lindy's stamp gang or color bloom by prima etc,  Making a splatter with a paint brush , Using a tooth brush with water colors to create a nice misting on your project. 
• Your project must show Stamping on Fabric !  Its time to pick and experiment with any type of fabric and see how your stamps work on them. !

Simple enough !

We will have 3 following prizes to be won for the 3 catagories :

Prize one - CARDS only 

The winner for this will receive the Lala Land Cowgirl Marci Stamp as a Prize from our generous sponsor Kraftzone

Prize Two - Layouts only 

Prima Hearts Neutral- Say it in Crystal ! Adhesive stones

Docrafts Papermania: Cling Urban Stamp

The winner for this will receive the above yummy goodies as Prize from our generous sponsor Lulupu

Prize three - Everything else

Crafter's Workshop Stencil 12x12-Damask

The winner for this will receive the above glamourous damask as Prize from our generous sponsor Creativita

I so very wish that I could participate in this wonderful challenge and try my luck in winning these yummy goodies !!!!! :D

So coming onto my take on the challenge,

3D being my forte, I went with the Category 3 : Everything else .I made a name board hanger for a craft room using the embroidery hoop !

3D being my forte, I went with the Category 3 : Everything else .I made a name board hanger for a craft room using the embroidery hoop !

#For stamping:  I have stamped on the fabric leaves, after I coated them thoroughly with gesso. Also I used stamping on the satin laces.

#For misting: I have splattered gesso with a toothbrush on the flowers and embroidery span, and a slight splash of (cotton candy) lyndy's spray on the crochet lace.

Materials used:

Embroidery hoop

Satin Cloth

Satin ribbon

Shell,Metal charms

junkard finding bulb packaging

fabric flower and leaves

gesso

PPs

crochet lace

Lyndy's spray (Cotton candy)

Sparkled balls and golden bead

Random stamping with momento black ink

Stay tuned as our talented DTs amaze you with their enchanting projects in the other categories in the following weeks !! Hope my creation inspired you to some extent ;)

Happy Crafting and do join us in the fun !

With love,

Bipasha.

Bgc#51 - Laugh Layout with PJ

Hello my beautiful friends !

Welcome to another post for the 

BGC#-51-sketch-challenge 

Karen our scrapbook expert , has given us this lovely sketch to make a LO !

I know most of us Indian crafters are still more into card making , which is why 

we have taken upon us to give u a challenge that will test your creativity yet again !

Honestly even i am not very good at Layouts , coz i get stuck at how to use the embellishments and how to use what i have ! But karen pushed us all to try it and here we are !!!

Im pretty excited about my LO , I really love it !

and the Sketch helps alot !

So here is the sketch 

And here is my LO 

I will be showing you a tutorial on how i made this, so lets get started . 

 Ok so the first step would be to take a 12 *12  cardstock. I used white its a little smaller , 10*10 .

Take a stencil and a mister of your choice , I m using Heidi Swapp-stencils and Lindy's stamp gang mist.

 Place the stencil on a scrap paper , and mist it with color. 

Alternatively if you do not have mists , use watercolors with a toothbrush .

 Now lift up your stencil and you should see that it has a fine layer of misting on it.

 Turn it upside down and start sort of stamping with the stencil ! 

it should leave some cool impressions on your paper ! 

Be random about it , doesnt have to be perfect .

 I then placed my stencil on the cardstock again and added a scrap piece of paper to cover the lower end . 

And now again i sprayed my mist. 

 Now this is how it looks .

Add some more colors , I picked yellow and orange to create some lovely color !

 As per the sketch i lined a white cardstock with My mind's eye papers , 

and my photo on top. I flipped the sketch !

 I stamped the sentiment "Laugh " on a scrap cardstock and inked it with tattered rose distress ink. 

 Now take some mesh cloth and rub it randomly on the distress ink pad , Tattered rose first ,

 And shabby shutters next !

 This should randomly color your mesh cloth giving it a lovely effect ! 

 Time to stick the pieces together ! I added the mesh cloth under photo layer.

Dont forget to stamp ! 

 Just scrunch the mesh cloth a little . We are going to add our embelishments on it now.

 Here are the embellishments i used ! 

So once done this is how my LO looks ! 

So hope u like my project . 

Do join us in our current challenge HERE

Thanks for tuning in !