"Navy Is My Neutral" November 2016 Challenge

Hi My Crafty Friends!

Christmas is coming so I decided to create a mood board for you that plays with the colours of winter without any festive feeling. 

The new challenge is a little monochromatic but it can be exciting for those who like dark colours such as navy and grey.

And here comes the new challenge:

I create an ispirational layout for my mood board. 

The story behind:

I really like nautical style so I wear that kind of clothes all summer long. This way I could choose a photo easily that can fit to my composition.
To be honest my own mood board was difficult for me, but when I found the perfect paper from the Writer's Block collection I felt calm and I started to decorate the layout with paints, mica flakes, microbeads and glitters. I used some tags behind the photo and sizal to make it more dinamic.

Here is the result:

And now some close ups:

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OUR PRIZE

Our prize this month is sponsored by Jones Crafts UK

It is the BRAND NEW SAFARI COLLECTION FROM FABSCRAPS

FABSCRAPS

"FabScraps was established in 2005 and is South Africa’s largest scrapbooking manufacturer.

We’ve been spreading creativity to the rest of the world for the past 10 years!

FabScraps has over 3000 product lines which include papers, canvases, die-cuts, stickers, stencils, card kits, journals, embellishments and so much more.

We are excited about adding stunning fabric collections to our diverse range of products.

We are now truly Africa’s largest craft manufacturer, producing over 60 new products a month!"

Thank you for stopping by and I am looking forward to meet with your great projects on our challenge!
Good luck Ladies!

Art journaling fever by Virág

Hi Crafty Friends!

I am so happy to see you here month by month.
I really love the colour choice or our May moodboard. I decided to prepare a layout for this challenge, but I can't stop filling my art journal pages with creations so I show you the result.

Do you remember our great ind inspiring moodboard?

Here are some close ups of my art journal:

I have painted the geometrical patterned background with mists. The flowers are cut outs from a scrapbook paper.

The purple web is came from flower decorating stuffs that I cut triangle shapes and glued tham into the background. I used some stenciling as well.

The word stickers are fro 7 Dots Studio Cold Country collection.


Our sponsor this month is

Mixed Media Place

Mixed Media Place offers a gift certificate to the winner of the May Challenge.

Blog: http://mixedmediaplace.blogspot.se/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mixedmediaplace

Pinterest: https://se.pinterest.com/mixedmediaplace/

Please note: International winners may be responsible for shipping costs.

Please be sure to follow our CHALLENGE RULES.

 We appreciate each and every challenge entry and share the designs that catch our eye on our Facebook page and Pinterest Boards.

I hope you will joint to our challenge. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Make This Moment Count - art journal by Virag Reti

Hi Everyone!

March is about spring, flowers and blossom. And of course happiness. 

Let's take another look of the inspirational mood board.

When I saw this mood board I felt I need to grab my art journal to create a romantic flourish layout with a little touch of glitter, butterflies, cooing pigeons and positive words.

Here is the result:  

And some close ups:

Some metal elements, with a tiny ribbon and yarn. 

I used different stamps, embossing powder, mists, stencils, structure paste.

And finally and inspirational sentence. Don't forget:
MAKE THIS MOMENT COUNT

Sponsor:

UmWowStudio

UmWowStudio is a US based manufacturer of chipboard, stencils/masks, and flair for the general artsy community. Our products make great additions to cards and scrapbooking as well as mixed media pieces, altered art, tags, canvases, art journaling and more. Our chipboard is extra heavy duty to stand up to any mediums you can manage to throw at it. Our stencils and masks come in a super thick durable plastic to give your pieces extra dimension, and our flair is flat backed for easy use.

Connect with us! Visit us on FACEBOOK, view our BLOG, we're on INSTAGRAM, PINTEREST and our shop can be found at UmWowStudio.com

Website: http://umwowstudio.com/

Blog: http://umwowstudio.blogspot.com/

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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/UmWowStudio

Pinterest: https://pinterest.com/umwowstudio

Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/UmWowStudio

Um Wow Studio has give the winner a 30 USD Gift Certificate!

Please note: International winners may be responsible for shipping costs.

Please be sure to follow our CHALLENGE RULES.

We appreciate each and every challenge entry and share the designs that catch our eye on our Facebook page and Pinterest Boards.

Thank you for your attention and I am waiting for your application on our March Challenge!

"Venice Carnival" February 2016 Challenge

February is the month of Carnival fill up with masks and confetti, lights and colors that create a unique and festive atmosphere.

The mood board combines brillance and luxury, ancient and modern with a little touch of Venice. 

I really loved to prepare this challenge for you, I hope it inspires you and we can meet with your entry this month!

The story behind my layout:

This summer we spent a great holiday in Alsace, France. During our stay we visited a charming village, Rosheim where were a special event that time. We could feel the festive atmosphere and felt like we were in Venice during the carnival season. Hundreds of people were walking down the small street and they were wearing breathtaking costumes. I took many great pictures.


I would like to show you one of these:

I used black cardstock as a background and I covered it with crackle medium and gold acrylic paint. Then I add more texture with structure paste and crackled style stencil. The next step was the random stamping with different patterns (dots, texts). 

Here are some close ups:

Thanks to the chipboard that I painted with blue mist I could highlight and framed the photo. I am a real fan of leftovers so I glued some stipes behind the photo. I embellished the layout with paper flowers, butterflies, metal elements, golden washi tape, lace cuts and text stickers.

The last step was giving a little shine to the layout so I put some glitter ono the flowers.
 

Our Sponsor this month is:

"Viva Las VegaStamps! is a US based manufacturer of deeply etched pink rubber stamps. Super high quality makes for beautifully stamped images. Our near 20,000 image inventory ranges from steampunk to vintage, realistic to sayings, people to animals and more. Our stamps are great for scrapbooking, mixed media, art journaling, cards, jewelry, food, wax and more!" 

Connect with us!
 Visit us on FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/vlvstamps
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Viva Las Vegas Stamps give one winner a $30 Gift Certificate to use in their store!

Please note: International winners may be responsible for shipping costs.
Please be sure to follow our CHALLENGE RULES.

We appreciate each and every challenge entry and share the designs that catch our eye on our Facebook page and Pinterest Boards.

Thank you and I am looking forward to meet with your great projects on our challenge!

Pumpkin Patch - Sept Challenge

Hello, hello, Norma here to share my project for this month's mixed media challenge!!  Debbie is hosting this month and she provided a beautiful sketch to work with so this is my spin:

I love mixed media so I was really excited about Debbie's challenge.  Mixed media is a wonderful way to add depth and customize your projects with paint and inks.  It's kind of like an anything goes pass because you can mixed in anything you want.  For my layout, I started out with the beautiful papers from Maja Designs' Walking in the Forest collection.  The gorgeous background paper I used is called Autumn Poem.

I wanted to bring in some greens without covering too much of the beautiful Maja Designs paper so I did it by stenciling.  I used a Prima stencil with Golden Molding paste and fluid acrylic mixed with a Faber-Castell Gelato to get the color I wanted.  Once it was dry, I dusted the top with Vintage Photo distress ink.  I accented my layout with a couple Scrapiniec pieces that I sprayed with Lindy's Stamp Gang inks.

I created several layers using more of the Maja Designs Walking in the Forest papers and a torn piece of cardboard.  I love the texture that cardboard adds to a project, the corrugated ridges pick up paint really well.

For this little cluster, I cut rosettes from a sheet of Maya's Knitted Sweater.  It has a great chevron pattern on it.  I topped each rosette with some of my flea market jewelry findings.  I also added jute twine and an artificial rose.

Finally, I inked all of the edges with orange Liquitex soft body acrylic paint. 

 Here is a look at Debbie's original sketch, I flipped it and worked on the right side of the page.  I hope I've inspired you to play along with this month's challenge because we have some really great prizes up for grabs!! 

Our main sponsor this month is Maja Design. 

Maja Design Corp is based in Uddevalla, Sweden. We are dedicated to create unique and high quality vintage inspired patterned paper for scrapbooking and crafts. Maja Design was founded in November 2007, and since then, have grown to supply over 70 retailers in Sweden and 90 all over the world. Founder Marie Jansson says: "In the fall of 2004, a dear friend asked me to join her to a scrapbooking course. From that moment, I became totally amazed and thrilled by all the beautiful papers and decorations in the art of scrapbooking. After some time as a captivated scrapper, I got curious to create my own patterns. I have always had a devotion for colour and form. I had access to great printing facility, as I worked at a printers office. Since 2007, I have been blessed to be able to work with my great passion - to design and create coloured coordinated paper."

Please visit us at www.majadesign.nu

Maja Design provided each member of our DT with their Walking In The Forest Collection to work with this month.  We also have one extra collection for the winner of our September Challenge.

MAIN PRIZE:

RANDOM PRIZE:

The Porkchop Show

A fine Etsy emporium selling unique laser cut wooden craft pieces.

Your crafting dreams can come true with these wood art parts!

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**Please note that if the winner(s) of this challenge are international they will be responsible for shipping costs.  Please check out our Challenge Rules page here.**

We'd like to give a special thanks to Scrapiniec Die-Cut Chipboard for sponsoring the Berry71Bleu Design Team this month with their chipboard.

Scrapiniec Die-Cut Chipboard

Blog: http://scrapiniec-inspiracje.blogspot.com/

Scrapiniec is the first Polish manufacturer of laser die-cut chipboard products for use in scrapbooking. They satisfy even the most unusual individual orders and are characterized by reliability, high quality and friendly customer service.

                                      Thanks so much for stopping, have a wonderful weekend!!!