February Challenge Winners!

February Challenge Winners!

Hello Artsy Souls! Sylwia here:)I hope you are looking forward to spring time:) Here in Ireland it's snowing these days...But hopefully sunny days are coming:) It is my pleasure to  announce the winners of the February Challenge! All entries were spectacular and our team had a really difficult task:) Thank you to all of you that joined our challenge. Before we share the winners, we want to thank our generous February sponsors: CAT File Store and Art Workshop Kit Club

Our Design Team voted and the winner of the 1st Prize, $15 Gift Voucher to the CAT File Store is Melenia!

Congrats Melenia! Please email Cathi at cathioneill@gmail.com to claim your prize. Please put Berry71Bleu February Winner in your subject line. You are also invited to Guest Design for our March Challenge. Please email Cathi to accept your invitation. Feel free to proudly display this badge on your blog! 

The Random Winner of  Art Workshop Kit Club - Pocket Life Kit is   Nataly Kulyk

Congrats Nataly! Please contact Cathi at cathioneill@gmail.com  to claim your prize. Please put Berry71Bleu February Winner in your subject line.

The Design Team would like to feature a few of our favourite entries:

Galina

Irina

Kath

Ewik

Ladies please grab this badge to display on your blog.

Caroleanne is hosting our March Challenge.

Please check out the details of the challenge HERE. 

My Two Boys Layout by Kay

When I think about what makes my day or puts a smile on my face--I can only think of one thing--getting some lovin' from my two boys. My eldest four legged boy goes above & beyond when it comes to sharing his unconditional love for me & it always warms my heart when my son hugs me or kisses me simply 'because'.

So here I am, getting some love from my two boys--even though my son doesn't look the happiest in this photo he had actually just finished giving me a very big hug!

Here's this month's mood board full of pictures that grabbed our host for this month; Dana's, attention & represented a form of love in some way or another for her.

I used several printables & images from this month's sponsor the CAT File Store on my page.  The bold black & white printables is what inspired me to do yet another layout with a black background. The solid black background allows for my photos, printables & embellishments to really 'pop' off the page.

In Photoshop I was able to add the digital design 'the cutest' right onto my photo.

Looking forward to seeing your interpretation of this month's challenge.

Now onto the prizes...

Check out the fabulous prizes donated by our generous sponsors:

First Prize: $15 Gift Voucher to the CAT File Store

Second Prize: Art Workshop Kit Club - Pocket Life Kit

Sponsors:

CAT File Store

Blog: http://catfilestore.blogspot.com/

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

CAT File was founded in May 2014 as a family business of two people: Pawel and Mira. We are a small online store providing fresh and colorful digital designs: cut files and printables dedicated mostly for scrapbooking purposes. We love documenting our life and CAT File is our way of sharing this passion with others. It's the platform where crafters from all over the world can gather together, find an inspiration and give it. It's also the space that we created for young designers to grow and develop their skills.

Art Workshop Kit Club

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

Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/artworkshoppl/art-workshop-kit-club

Instagram: http://instagram.com/artworkshopkitclub

Art Workshop Kit Club, located in Poland, is a joint effort of Agnieszka Arnold, a huge fan of handicraft and the owner of Art Workshop, and Tusia Lech, designer, coordinator of many scrapbooking ventures and owner of 7 Dots Studio. Our main mission, as a Kit Club, is to get your creative juices flowing. Each month we offer unique scrapbooking kits, with great products inside. We carefully choose the products for each kit, so they match each other and inspire you. Each month there are two main kits - Scrapbooking and Pocket Life. In these kits you will find patterned papers from various manufacturers, colored cardstock, 3x4'' and 4x6'' cards, stickers, alphas, stamps, chipboard, strings, ribbons, crystals and coming soon Art Workshop Kit Club exclusive products.

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.

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! 

Thank you and we hope to see your beautiful creations this month!

February 2015 - Denise van Deventer - Mixed Media Layout

Hello Everyone

It's Denise here today, to share my take on this month's mood board.

I created this mixed media page.

I used the very cute and gorgeous digi pieces from The Cat File Store.

Along with these pieces, I used the "All About Me" collection from Prima and some pretty Prima blooms.

I also used the gorgeous "Captured Stamps" from BoBunny.

Below is a close-up of my journalling.

My "staple" these days for most of my pages is watercolouring and gesso! ;-)

We would love to see your take on the mood board this month, so why not play along and join in the fun.

There are also some super prizes for inspiration too! ;-)

First Prize: $15 Gift Voucher to the CAT File Store

Second Prize: Art Workshop Kit Club - Pocket Life Kit

Sponsors:

CAT File Store

Blog: http://catfilestore.blogspot.com/

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

CAT File was founded in May 2014 as a family business of two people: Pawel and Mira. We are a small online store providing fresh and colorful digital designs: cut files and printables dedicated mostly for scrapbooking purposes. We love documenting our life and CAT File is our way of sharing this passion with others. It's the platform where crafters from all over the world can gather together, find an inspiration and give it. It's also the space that we created for young designers to grow and develop their skills.

Art Workshop Kit Club

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

Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/artworkshoppl/art-workshop-kit-club

Instagram: http://instagram.com/artworkshopkitclub

Art Workshop Kit Club, located in Poland, is a joint effort of Agnieszka Arnold, a huge fan of handicraft and the owner of Art Workshop, and Tusia Lech, designer, coordinator of many scrapbooking ventures and owner of 7 Dots Studio. Our main mission, as a Kit Club, is to get your creative juices flowing. Each month we offer unique scrapbooking kits, with great products inside. We carefully choose the products for each kit, so they match each other and inspire you. Each month there are two main kits - Scrapbooking and Pocket Life. In these kits you will find patterned papers from various manufacturers, colored cardstock, 3x4'' and 4x6'' cards, stickers, alphas, stamps, chipboard, strings, ribbons, crystals and coming soon Art Workshop Kit Club exclusive products.

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

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! 

Thank you and we hope to see your beautiful creations this month!

Card - Guest Designer - Klaudia Szpunar

Hello Everyone

We have a super Guest Designer for this months challenge and she is a really talented and amazing creator. Klaudia Szpunar.

Hello, my name is Klaudia.

I'm from Poland, living in Switzerland with my family. I'm a housewife and mother of two little sons.

I discovered scrapbooking about 3 years ago. Crafting is my remedy for stress and a form of escape from the routine of housework.

I love creating and using flowers. I often also distress paper in my artwork.

I am very happy and excited to be here as guest designer :)

You can see some of my work on my blog: kszp.blogspot.com and on my facebook fanpage https://www.facebook.com/kszp.handmade

Klaudia created this stunning card for us.

Isn't this just divine and so very soft....

Klaudia makes most of the flowers that you see here and on her blog! She is such a talented and creative artist! ;-)

Thanks so much Klaudia for Guest Designing for us!

Please pop over to Klaudia's blog, you will be amazed and wowed by her beautiful work!

There is still plenty of time to play along with our Mood Board Challenge, so please play along and join in the fun! We also have some yummy prizes!

~February Mood Board Challenge~

Check out the fabulous prizes donated by our generous sponsors:

First Prize: $15 Gift Voucher to the CAT File Store

Second Prize: Art Workshop Kit Club - Pocket Life Kit

Sponsors:

CAT File Store

Blog: http://catfilestore.blogspot.com/

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

CAT File was founded in May 2014 as a family business of two people: Pawel and Mira. We are a small online store providing fresh and colorful digital designs: cut files and printables dedicated mostly for scrapbooking purposes. We love documenting our life and CAT File is our way of sharing this passion with others. It's the platform where crafters from all over the world can gather together, find an inspiration and give it. It's also the space that we created for young designers to grow and develop their skills.

Art Workshop Kit Club

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

Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/artworkshoppl/art-workshop-kit-club

Instagram: http://instagram.com/artworkshopkitclub

Art Workshop Kit Club, located in Poland, is a joint effort of Agnieszka Arnold, a huge fan of handicraft and the owner of Art Workshop, and Tusia Lech, designer, coordinator of many scrapbooking ventures and owner of 7 Dots Studio. Our main mission, as a Kit Club, is to get your creative juices flowing. Each month we offer unique scrapbooking kits, with great products inside. We carefully choose the products for each kit, so they match each other and inspire you. Each month there are two main kits - Scrapbooking and Pocket Life. In these kits you will find patterned papers from various manufacturers, colored cardstock, 3x4'' and 4x6'' cards, stickers, alphas, stamps, chipboard, strings, ribbons, crystals and coming soon Art Workshop Kit Club exclusive products.

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

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! 

Thank you and we hope to see your beautiful creations this month!

Hug Layout by Cathi

Hi Cathi here to show you my layout for this month's Moodboard challenge with a theme: Things You Love!!!

Join our February Challenge and share some of the things you love! Our challenge host Dana created this mood board using images that caught her eye on Pinterest. Whether you like birds or butterflies, flowers or feathers, postcards or old books, or something else entirely, just have fun creating a project showcasing the things or people you love. Feel free to incorporate photos, patterns and colors from the mood board in your project, but please do not feel required to use these images. This challenge is specifically about the things you love - no restrictions!

Here is my take on the challenge, featuring many things I love: my daughters, our 15 year baby kitten lol who still runs around and plays with toys like she was a young kitty, and lots of favorite scrapbooking goodies: flowers, chipboard, stamps, stencils, molding paste, mists.... I had a lot of fun putting this together!!

The paper images I used are digital images from the CATfile store. I used paper from the 7 Dots Studio (Soulmates Collection ) and flowers and metal piece from Zeus and Zoe Etsy Shop.

Here you can see lots of layers of stamps, stenciling, flowers and the fun files from CATfile store.  I was able to change the colors of some of the digital files in Photoshop to match my theme.

On the photo I was able to take one of the digital word files and turn it into a "brush" on Photoshop. This allows you to add the text, change the color of it, its opacity, and its size...you can have a lot of fun with digital files that way!

I love the handmade flowers I got from  Zeus and Zoe Etsy Shop as well as the great metal piece that says love, perfect!!

I really enjoyed making  this layout and I hope you like it!!
I also hope you come play along with us this month!!

Check out the fabulous prizes donated by our generous sponsors:

First Prize: $15 Gift Voucher to the CAT File Store

Second Prize: Art Workshop Kit Club - Pocket Life Kit

Sponsors:

CAT File Store

Blog: http://catfilestore.blogspot.com/

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

CAT File was founded in May 2014 as a family business of two people: Pawel and Mira. We are a small online store providing fresh and colorful digital designs: cut files and printables dedicated mostly for scrapbooking purposes. We love documenting our life and CAT File is our way of sharing this passion with others. It's the platform where crafters from all over the world can gather together, find an inspiration and give it. It's also the space that we created for young designers to grow and develop their skills.

Art Workshop Kit Club

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

Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/artworkshoppl/art-workshop-kit-club

Instagram: http://instagram.com/artworkshopkitclub

Art Workshop Kit Club, located in Poland, is a joint effort of Agnieszka Arnold, a huge fan of handicraft and the owner of Art Workshop, and Tusia Lech, designer, coordinator of many scrapbooking ventures and owner of 7 Dots Studio. Our main mission, as a Kit Club, is to get your creative juices flowing. Each month we offer unique scrapbooking kits, with great products inside. We carefully choose the products for each kit, so they match each other and inspire you. Each month there are two main kits - Scrapbooking and Pocket Life. In these kits you will find patterned papers from various manufacturers, colored cardstock, 3x4'' and 4x6'' cards, stickers, alphas, stamps, chipboard, strings, ribbons, crystals and coming soon Art Workshop Kit Club exclusive products.

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.

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! 

Thank you and we hope to see your beautiful creations this month!