As it’s the first Friday of the month, we are launching our October challenge over at Creative Artiste today. As always our challenge is Anything Mixed Media Goes.
My mixed media page was inspired by my hubby; it’s our wedding anniversary tomorrow (smile!).

I started by adding water to the page and then some Orange Kuretake watercolour paint gradually building up washes of colour to give a smooshed effect. Then I splattered the page using the same paint and some white acrylic paint. Next I fussy cut the flowers and foliage from some decoupage paper and stuck them in place using a glue stick. The wording was a Kaisercraft sticker and reads “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage”; it was edged with a black Faber-Castell marker. To finish, I splattered the page using black DecoArt acrylic paint.
For more inspiration please check out the amazing creations from our Guest Designer and my fellow Design Team members over at Creative Artiste too. All you need to do is to use three different mediums on your projects to join our mixed media challenge; I hope you are inspired to join us, it would be lovely to see join you there!

Here’s my hubby and me, I can’t believe that we’ve been married 34 years – time sure does fly when you’re having fun!
I hope that you’re all staying safe and well! x
Thanks for joining me today! If you have any questions or comments, I would love to hear from you.
Challenges
As well as Creative Artiste, I’m pleased to be joining the following challenges:
Paperbabe Stamps and their #178 – Anything Goes challenge with my anniversary page.
MIUCB #61 – Anything Goes + Optional Smooshing over at Mix It Up Challenge Blog with my smooshed background that I created using watercolour techniques.
Challenge #62 – Anything Goes over at Ally’s Angels with my Deeply Loved page.
Happy anniversary Jo. I hope you have a wonderful day and do something fun. That’s a beautiful page. It’s absolutely stunning. And the sentiment is perfect for your anniversary too. Enjoy your day. Hugs-Erika
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Absolutely beautiful page, Jo! And I love the photo of you two! 😉
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Happy Anniversary! Loved the photo of you both too. Your page is so beautiful hugs
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Your page is just beautiful as is the photo of you and your hubby. Happy Anniversary 💐🍾🥂
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Jo, stunning flowers. The colours are so beautiful. Happy anniversary.
Have a creative month. Judy
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This is a gorgeous page Jo. The beautifully bold flowers look amazing against the softer speckled background and the sentiment is lovely. Happy Anniversary! Have a wonderful celebration xx
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A gorgeous, romantic page Jo, and a lovely photo of you and Graham!
Hope you’re both having a wonderful anniversary weekend.
Alison x
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A beautiful page Jo, and that’s a lovely picture of you and hubby.
Avril xx
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Happy Anniversary and congrats to 34 years! A really great milestone! Your layout is so beautiful the way you’ve blended out the watercolor in the background! I love the flowers and the wonderful splattering. The quote is so awesome! Have a great weekend!
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Congratulations Jo and happy anniversary to both of you. A really full of love page, fabulous!
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What a beautiful page! Those words are inspiring and encouraging. Happy Anniversary!
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How beautifully you have put into art the gorgeous words in the sentiment! The painted background is perfect with the lovely flowers! Congrats on your anniversary; the happiness beams through your photo!
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Wonderful!!!
Words, artwork and the happy pic of you two!!!
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Happy Anniversay Jo and hubby. Love the photo. What a beautiful piece you created here with the smooched background and those flowers just light up the page. Such beautiful sentiments here and oh so true. Here’s to many more together for you both. Hugs.
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just beautiful!
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