Motherhood by Elena Lishchenko

Hy everyone! Elena here and today I want to show you my little fotoframe. I played with foto of me and my son.
Please take a look at gorgeous moodboard by Kay Fatula.

And here's my fotoframe:

I have used products from our sponsor - UmWowStudio - gorgeous Chevron Strips

We have some amazing prizes up for grabs! Our generous sponsors provided prizes with international shipping included this month!

1st Prize:

25 USD Gift Certificate from UmWowStudio

Random Prize:

Set of products from 7 Dots Studio

Sponsors:

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.

Website: http://umwowstudio.com/

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

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

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

Pinterest: https://pinterest.com/umwowstudio

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

7 Dots Studio

We are a team of creative women who cannot image their world without paper, glue and the creative process. Scrapbooking is our passion and we love to share our passion with other scrapbookers. For this reason, 7 Dots Studio exists. The quality of our products is our top priority. Our lines consist of papers, stickers, die-cut elements, clear stamps, stencils and chipboard pieces. You can find our products in scrapbooking stores around the world.

Blog: http://7dotsstudio.com/archives/category/blog

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/7DotsStudio

Twitter: https://twitter.com/7DotsStudio

Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/7dotsstudio

Retail store: http://retailstore.7dotsstudio.com/

Thank you and we hope to see your beautiful creations!

We appreciate each and every challenge entry and share the designs that catch our eye on our facebook pageand Pinterest Boards. Look for your work there!

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Altered Frame - Guest Designer - Maja Nowak

Hello Berry71Bleu Fans

Welcome to Saturday and welcome to a post where we say hello to a wonderful and fabulous Guest Designer - Maja Nowak.

Here's a little more about this amazing designer.

My name's Maja Nowak, I'm a wife to a wonderful supporting husband and a mom to two boys. We live in the South of Poland. I've always been crafty in one way or another, I've had episodes of knitting, cross-stitching, painting drawing and even a decoupage period - until in 2008 I came across the word "scrapbooking" in the Internet and was lost for good :) My style is a combination of the romantic vintage with a more modern, boyish look, i.e. you'd often  find metal charms, sprocket gears and screw brads mixed with roses and lace in my creations. Luckily for me, my boys don't mind flowers in their layouts, so I take advantage of that until I can :)

I'm happy to be joining Berry71Bleu for this inspiring moodboard - thank you Denise for inviting me!

Maja created this altered frame.

This is so soft, delicate and so full of detail.

Absolutely beautiful!

Thanks so much Maja for creating this gorgeous piece for us.

So now it's your turn.

We would love to see your inspiration from the mood board this month.

~ May challenge Mood Board ~

Our sponsors provided prizes with international shipping included! Yay!!

1st Prize:

25 USD Gift Certificate from UmWowStudio

Random Prize:

Set of products from 7 Dots Studio

Sponsors:

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/

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

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

Pinterest: https://pinterest.com/umwowstudio

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

7 Dots Studio

We are a team of creative women who cannot image their world without paper, glue and the creative process. Scrapbooking is our passion and we love to share our passion with other scrapbookers. For this reason, 7 Dots Studio exists. The quality of our products is our top priority. Our lines consist of papers, stickers, die-cut elements, clear stamps, stencils and chipboard pieces. You can find our products in scrapbooking stores around the world.

Blog: http://7dotsstudio.com/archives/category/blog

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/7DotsStudio

Twitter: https://twitter.com/7DotsStudio

Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/7dotsstudio

Retail store: http://retailstore.7dotsstudio.com/

Thank you and we hope to see your beautiful creations!

We appreciate each and every challenge entry and share the designs that catch our eye on our facebook pageand Pinterest Boards. Look for your work there!

Spring full of love- altered frame

Hello Artsy Souls:)

I hope you are well and taht you keep up your creative mojo. Hopefully sun is charging you batteries :)

Today I wanted to show you my altered frame, which was inspired by Springy Mood Board created by our DT Mandy

Most of the embelisments (flowers, metal butterfly and black stickers) are coming from my favourite Etsy shop Zeus and Zoe :)

Our prizes this month:

April Prize

Random Prize

$15 Gift Certificate 

Zeus and Zoe Etsy Shop

Links:

Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ZeusandZoe/

Instagram: https://instagram.com/zeusnzoe/

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

Altered Autumn Frame By Kay

Hello Berry71Bleu fans!  Kay here with my take on this month's challenge hosted by fellow DT member Dana Tatar.  Autumn is my favorite season...it's full of change, crisp mornings, colorful foliage & pumpkin everything!!  Pumpkin coffee, pumpkin muffins, pumpkin pie...love it all!!  I'm particularly fond of Autumn since it's the season that I was married in & also when my son was born.

This month I decided to salvage a picture frame I found at my local Hobby Lobby that was on clearance.  I loved the colors & knew that I could add my own personal touch to it in order to turn it into an Autumn themed frame.  So when this challenge came along--it was the perfect opportunity to put my plan into action.

--Mood Board from Pocketful of Dreams--

This is the colorful Autumn mood board for this month's challenge.  Just loved the colors on this one!

The frame is fairly large--measuring about 11" inches wide by 13" inches tall.  It holds a 5" x 7" photo.  I combined two photos to create a 5" x 7" collage.  Both photos were taken in the same place around the same time of year but 6 years apart.  My husband & I love to travel next door to Pocono Pines, PA to this little cozy bed & breakfast for our wedding anniversary.  It's a tradition we started when we celebrated our very first anniversary.  Whenever we go we take a photo in the same spot that is located by a lake with beautiful foliage in the background.  I thought it'd be wonderful to show a 'then & now' photo.  The first photo was taken in 2008 which was when we celebrated our 1st wedding anniversary.  The second photo was taken just last weekend.  This was the first year we traveled to this bed & breakfast with our son.

By adding a couple of Autumn themed embellishments--the frame was transformed into one that could compliment my photo perfectly.

I printed out several of the mini trees by Jellypark onto plain white card stock.  I then added several colors onto them by dabbing Distress Inks onto a non porous surface, spritzing water onto the ink & smearing the printed stamps directly onto the ink.  I dried the paper with my heat gun, cut the images out & then adhered them to my berry pick.

This Autumn themed butterfly is from my Etsy shop.  I have several Autumn themed butterflies in my shop since as previously mentioned--I'm a big fan of Fall!

I adhered two little acorns in the corner & highlighted the dots on the frame with clear Stickles.

Hope you enjoy my interpretation of this months challenge & that this small project inspires some of you to take a second look at those frames found in the clearance section!

Now onto this month's prizes...

Check out the fabulous prizes donated by our generous sponsors:

First Prize: 2 Digital Images from the Jellypark Store

Second Prize: Creative Embellishments Gift Certificate 

Random Prize: Maja Design Walking in the Forest Collection

Sponsors:

Jellypark Digital Craft Stamps

Website: http://www.jellypark.co.uk

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

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Jellypark_Team

Blog: http://jellyparkchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/

Jellypark

is a digital crafting website with lots of whimsical images drawn by 

children's illustrator Claire Keay. The images can be used on all your 

papercraft projects whether digital, hybrid or physical. 

Creative Embellishments

Website: http://creativeembellishments.com/

Blog: http://creativeembellishments.com/blog

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

Twitter: https://twitter.com/CEchipboard

Creative 

Embellishments is a new family owned company created by Michael and 

Nicolle Kramer. They are a husband and wife team who design and 

manufacture unique, high quality chipboard, rubber stamps, flair and 

wood veneer products. It is their mission to offer fun and inspiring 

products that can be creativity added to any project. In the near 

future, they will be expanding into other mediums such as stencils!

www.majadesign.nu 

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 color 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 colored coordinated paper.

A special thanks to Jellypark for sponsoring our design team this month!

Please
note that if the winner(s) of this challenge are international they
will be responsible for shipping costs. Make sure you follow our CHALLENGE RULES.

Thank you and we hope to see your beautiful creations!

We appreciate each and every challenge entry and share the designs that catch our eye on our facebook page and Pinterest Boards. Look for your work there!

Daddy & Me Altered Picture Frame

Hello once again fellow crafters! Kay here with my take on Debbie's flower challenge for the month of April.

I decided to alter a wooden picture frame that I've had in my stash for a good number of months now.  I bought a few of these wooden frames at my local craft store Michaels for $1.50.  These wooden picture frames are a crafters dream.  They're plain wood so you can paint them, use crackle medium on them, stain them or just adhere designer paper to them which is what I decided to do for this particular frame.

I've used one of Inkido's designer papers from their 'Beautiful Memories' collection to decorate the background of my frame.  Inkido also happens to be one of our sponsors for this month!

This would be my husband & my son on a lazy Sunday afternoon.  I captured my son's vibrant smile in this one & felt it was quite frame-worthy.  :-)

 Here's a view of my frame from the side standing up.  I'm trying to figure out if I want this displayed at my house or in my office cube at work...hmmm.  I'll just have to give it some thought...

 The butterflies seen on my frame were hand cut from one of Inkido's designer paper.  This collection has several images of lovely butterflies, flowers & birds that can be fussy cut & used as embellishments for your projects.  I further dressed up the butterflies by applying a bit of Black Diamond Stickles to the bodies.

This peacock I've had in my stash for a few years now.  It just so happened that it came handy for this particular project.  This is why us scrappers never throw anything out!  I'm sure many of you know what I mean by this **wink wink**

Here's my cluster of flowers which is for Debbie's flower challenge.  If you're not sure as to what exactly is this month's challenge--read all about it here.  I used a combination of felt, mulberry paper & organza ribbon flowers to decorate my frame.

Now onto the prizes...

Our sponsor for the month of April is Inkido.

Papercraft Scandinavia is a manufacturer that design and make unique material for scrapbooking, cardmaking and other craftings.

We design stamps, patterned paper, lace, flowers and much more
in romantic vintage style. Our products are of high standard, inspiring
and amazing to create with. 

Welcome to us!

http://www.papercraftscandinavia.com/

http://www.inkido.blogspot.com/

Our design team members each received Inkido's collection Beautiful Memories to design with.

If your project for our April Challenge includes products by our sponsor, Inkido, please  also link up your projects here:  https://www.facebook.com/papercraftscandinavia

The winner of our April challenge will win the Beautiful Memories collection from Inkido:

The second place winner will receive a prize package from Um Wow Studio:

We're a US based company who has recently changed directions and moved
to chipboard embellishments! Our designs are fresh, new and on trend. We
pride ourselves in the quality of our chip and our dedication to the
trade. With our passion for paper crafts and our knowledge of industry
we can safely say you'll love our goods and their high quality! Our
website: http://umwowstudio.com - our facebook: http://facebook.com/umwowstudio - our blog: http://umwowstudio.blogspot.com. We'll be having a Guest Creative Team call soon! So keep your eyes peeled :)

Here is what the winner will receive:

 

One Random winner from our April Challenge will win their choice of 3 Pearly Mists from 13 Arts.

You can find the colors here in their store.

 

For the rules and information about our challenges please visit our Challenge Rules here.

Looking forward to seeing all of your creations!