Thursday, April 30, 2015

April Challenge Winner and Highlights

Hey, mixed media card artists! The April gallery had 94 super gorgeous floral-inspired mixed media cards. Can you say wow? :o) Time to announce the winner and highlights.

Here's the mixed media card that the design team voted as the winner:



Congratulations, Filharmonica! Please grab your winner badge below to display proudly on your blog.




And now here are the highlights. The girls in the design team picked an entry to highlight. It's the entry that uniquely impacted us in some way -- a specific technique that was used, the colors, the creativity, or something in it that touched or impacted us.

Deepti's highlight: #90 Greta H 
Deepti says, "The big bold flower in Greta's card stole my heart. Congrats!"

Elina's highlight: #74 Karen
Elina says, "Love the beautiful earth tones and the gorgeous stamping. This great design proves that you don't necessarily need to use vibrant and bold colours for creating a card that really stands out!"

Jan's highlight: #51 Julie Gearinger
Jan says, "The fuzzy-cut flowers are stunning on this background created with several layers of mixed media goodness."

Jenny's highlight: #91 Suchi
Jenny says, "I love the vibrant colours, the distressing, the stamping and texture."

Julia's highlight: #30 Filharmonica
Julia says, "Beautiful color tones of cream, green, brown - wonderful texture with paper layers and paint, gorgeous spray of flowers."

Lyndal's highlight: #16 Suzz
Lyndal says, "Just LOVE the white rabbit darting through the flowers & cool window with the sentiment peeping through!"

Loll's highlight: #53 Donna of Inky & Quirky
Loll says, "The gorgeous bright green brusho background pairs perfectly with the beautiful stamped and popped up purple flower.  Cheerful and fun colour combination and fabulous design."

Maria F.'s highlight: #45 Pamellia
Maria says, "Absolutely gorgeous BG with wonderful white crayon highlights and clever to use a calendar page to mark baby's arrival."

Shirley's highlight: #54 Susan B
Shirley says, "I love the colour and texture of Susan's background panel, and it contrasts beautifully with the diecut flowers."

Congratulations, ladies! Grab your badge below to display proudly on your blog.





Get your artsy supplies together and check back tomorrow at 6 a.m. PDT (GMT-7) for the May challenge. Plus we'll have a Design Team Call included in the post. Our first birthday is coming up soon and we're looking for a few new mixed media card artists to join us for our second year!

Be artsy. Be messy. Be creative! :o)

7 comments:

  1. Congrats to the winner and the highlighted projects! Thanks for highlighting my card!

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  2. Wow,thank you soooo much for highlighting my card,a lovely surprise!
    Congrats to the winner and all other highlighted entries,the standard was as wonderful as ever :)
    Big hugs
    Donna xxx

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  3. Wow, what an amazing way to start the month! Thank you so much for choosing my card as one of your highlights! I am honoured and thrilled and will display your badge proudly! Congrats to the winner and other highlights as well, gorgeous makes by all! Looking forward to the next challenge. Hugs :)

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  4. Shirley, thank you so very much for choosing my card as your highlight. I'm thrilled as I'm quite new to mixed media and still trying to learn how to do it, so this is very encouraging. Congratulations to the winner and the other highlights - all are fabulous cards and so inspiring!

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  5. Hey Jenny, Thank you so much for choosing my card as your highlight! I am so excited and happy!! It is really very encouraging! Thank u so much all! :)
    Congrats to all the winners ! <3
    Hugs,
    Suchi xx

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  6. Congrats to everyone--gorgeous work! I'm so honored you picked my card, Deepti--thank you!

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  7. Jan, thank you for choosing my card as one of the highlights (so sorry I had not responded sooner, it has been a crazy tme in my life) :-) Congrats to Filharmonica and the rest of the highlight winners- all of your cards are amazing!!

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