Special Guest Designer - Adriana Bolzon

Hello Everyone

 

Today I am Guest Artist, here at this fabulous monthly challenge site "Berry71Bleu".

Thank you to the lovely Denise Van Deventer for inviting me to join in this month.

 

This month for February the Mood Board Challenge is a really

gorgeous mood board. Take a look…..

But firstly a little about myself,

My name is Adriana Bolzon,

I have been a devoted Scrapbooker, card and paper crafter for over 15 years.  You will always find me in my craft room creating, experimenting with different techniques and products, and hopefully inspired others to give it a go. It is a hobby and creative outlet, which I am totally passionate about. I believe that preserving memories are important, and scrapbooking is a great way to create lasting treasures to keep or to give as gifts.  My style is very classic with a distressed, shabby chic and vintage twist. Another passion of mine is creating altered art pieces, turning everyday items into works of art.  My work has been published in many Paper-crafting magazines around the world, and also featured on online scrapbooking forums.

I live in beautiful South Australia with my husband & daughter. I am very fortunate to have been on many paper crafting Design Teams including Kaisercraft, Couture Creations (Artdeco Creations) and many more.

You can find my creations and more inspiration here on my blog:

 http://abinspirations.blogspot.com/

Here is my project for the challenge….
 

I took inspiration from the beautiful pinks, flowers and the small window frames of the old phone booth and created this framed Off the page project.

I covered the whole frame with white gesso and then
added some muslin cloth to soften around the edges. 
Using the new release papers and dies from 
Ultimate Crafts -
Artdeco Creations - Couture Creations

using these collections "Enchanted Tea Party" collection of papers, dies & stamps
"L"Aquarelle" papers, stamps & dies

I cut the dies and covered some of the dies with embossing powders 

Using the stamp set from the
 Ultimate Crafts L'aquarelle stamp set ULT157796
for the flowers of the vase.

Love this dragonfly die Ultimate Crafts L'Aquarelle Dragonfly Die set ULT157785 - I heat embossed the wings and body.

Here is the list of products I used to create this project.

Ultimate Crafts L'Aquarelle paper pad ULT157761
Ultimate crafts L'aquarelle Inspiration cards ULT157764
Ultimate Crafts L'aquarelle stampset ULT157796
Ultimate Crafts L'Aquarelle Dragonfly Die set ULT157785
Ultimate Crafts  L'Aquarelle Drifting Frond leaf ULT157782

Couture Creations Enchanted Tea Party die Bouquet C0725047Couture Creations Enchanted Tea Party Vase die C0725048

"Berry71Bleu"

You have until 28 Feb to upload your project HERE

Thanks for looking, 

Cheers and big hugs
Adriana XXXX

AND NOW FOR THE PRIZES

Scrap and Craft specializes in scrapbooking products made in Poland.

We stock many Polish, leading brands like Studio75, Scrapiniec, The Mini Art and others.

In our offer we have scrapbooking papers, hidden hinge albums, die cut chipboard, foamiran 

Our mission is provide worldwide scrapbookers with unique items and make you happy with crafting.

Keep calm and craft on !

Online store: www.scrapandcraft.co.uk 

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Love you by Päivi Jänkälä

Hi folks,

Päivi here today with my layout for the February challenge. 

This months moodboard is beautiful but a little bit of a challenge for me since pink is such a hard color for me to scrap. But here it is.

And som closeups.

 

And here is the beautiful moodboard

So come and join the fun :)

This months sponsor is:

Scrap and Craft specializes in scrapbooking products made in Poland.

We stock many Polish, leading brands like Studio75, Scrapiniec, The Mini Art and others.

In our offer we have scrapbooking papers, hidden hinge albums, die cut chipboard, foamiran 

Our mission is provide worldwide scrapbookers with unique items and make you happy with crafting.

Keep calm and craft on !

Online store: www.scrapandcraft.co.uk 

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Scrap & Craft kindly sponsor us with this prize!

Pride & Joy Tag by Marie Johansson

I´m here today with a romantic tag created with inspiration from the February Moodboard. I must admit that the colors was hard to me - soft pinks and neutrals is something I seldom us - but hey - I love a challenge.

I had these really beautiful papers from Green Cat Story that fitted perfect for this project. Together with flowers and a chipboard wordlet from Scrap FX they add the perfect romantic touch to the tag.

Some details:

This months sponsor is:

Scrap and Craft specializes in scrapbooking products made in Poland.

We stock many Polish, leading brands like Studio75, Scrapiniec, The Mini Art and others.

In our offer we have scrapbooking papers, hidden hinge albums, die cut chipboard, foamiran 

Our mission is provide worldwide scrapbookers with unique items and make you happy with crafting.

Keep calm and craft on !

Online store: www.scrapandcraft.co.uk 

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Scrap & Craft kindly sponsor us with this prize!

Please link up your project to the linkytool in the right sidebar!

♥

Marie

Alter bottle from Olga Ryazanova

Hello!
My name is Olga Ryazanova . I'll show you what I had created . The mood board inspired me to create an altered bottle . It is the golden palette as mood board .

This is unusual for me . I never went with a gold color before. I hope you enjoyed it. Please send your masterpieces and play along with us! ;-)

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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 Our shop can be found https:/www.atvlvstamps.com 

Viva Las Vegas Stamps give one winner a $30 Gift Certificate to use in their store!

My Happy Place - Guest Designer - Megan Gourlay

Hello Everyone

We have a super, duper Guest Designer lined up for you today....she really does create such beautiful projects! A HUGE welcome to Megan Gourlay! ;-)

My name is Megan and I live in a small town called Woodend, just outside of Christchurch, in the beautiful South Island of New Zealand, with my husband and our two dogs, Dougal and McKenzie.  I work part time as a Registered Nurse in a busy general surgical/colorectal ward, and in my spare time you find me either glued to a book, in the garden, or scrapping.

I started off making cards back in 2001 and then progressed to OTP - I was never going to go anywhere near scrapbooking lol.  I love altering items more than any other scrapbooking, but cards would be my next choice - layouts come last!  If you asked what my style was?  Im not quite sure, just whatever takes my fancy at the time I think.  But I am a neat freak ;)

At the moment I'm designing for Cardabilities, BoBunny, and a local store Artful Crafts, and I regularly teach each year at Scrap Away Retreat.

When I saw this months mood board it was a bit of a challenge - I have never done a mood board challenge before!  I decided to focus on the birds, home as my favourite place, lace and the colours. 

 My project is a used chipboard ribbon reel.  I've attached a little house - I had found this when looking for Christmas decorations and knew it would come in handy!

The chipboard fence, ladder and lamp post have all been painted with gesso, stamped and inked to give them a bit more character.

  I've fussy cut my birds and trailing flowers from BoBunny Madeleine papers

 and draped my flower vines around the base and through the birdhouse to give it that cottage look.

This was such a fun challenge!!  I hope you've enjoyed looking and thank you for inviting me along Denise! :)

Thanks so much Megan for creating this beautiful project for us! It really is a soft, blissful and gorgeous take on the January Mood Board! ;-)

Here's a reminder of the Mood Board Challenge and the prizes to be won! ;-)

~February Mood Board Challenge~

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!

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 pageand Pinterest Boards. Look for your work there! 

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

Special Guest Designer Tatyana Sidorenko

Today we welcome Special Guest Designer and January Challenge Winner Tatyana Sidorenko!

Hi! My name is Tatyana, I'm from Belarus. I am 35 years old, married, with two kids. Scrapbooking fascinated me about 2 years ago. I create work mainly about my family, sometimes for friends. I prefer to create layouts and collages, cards I rarely do. My style is mixed media freestyle. I Also like paint and stencils, brads, acrylic drops and flowers.

To see more of my work, please stop by my blog: http://montylek.blogspot.com/

I used paper of 7 Dots Studio, Gelatos, a capillary pen, various sprays, texture paste, stencil, stamps, acrylic paint drops and brads on this layout.

I enjoyed creating for this challenge so much that I have a second piece to share with you.

I hope I have inspired you!

There are still a couple of hours left for you to join our February Mixed Media Challenge! There are some amazing prize packages up for grabs! Here are the challenge details:

Mixed media, in visual art, refers to an artwork in the making of which more than one medium has been employed. For this challenge, create a "mixed media" page, canvas, card, etc. using more than one medium. Example: paints, mists, textured paste, gesso, chalks, inks, rubs, embossing powder, and more!

1st Prize:

Molossi Gift Pack (Chipboard, Bling and Flowers)

2nd Prize:
7 Dots Studio 6x6 Paper Pads

3rd Prize:

1 Lawn Fawn Clear Stamp Set

Sponsors:

Molossi

http://www.molossi.com.au/

Molossi is an Australian retail and wholesale supplier to the scrapbooking and papercraft industry. Molossi strives to bring you an online shopping experience where you can relish in a huge range of scrapbooking supplies to compliment your scrapbooking addiction. Molossi offers thousands of products including: albums, cardstock, flowers, bling, personal die-cutting machines, stickers, embellishments and plenty more! Become a part of our scrapping community and enter the stash giveaways and competitions on our Facebook page and Blog. For a large range of page layout ideas, sign up for our monthly newsletter to stay up-to-date with the scrapbooking world and monthly promotions.

7 Dots Studio

http://7dotsstudio.com/

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 collections are made from thick (250gsm), acid-free, lignin-free, archival scrapbooking paper. We also offer high quality cardstock stickers.

Lawn Fawn

http://www.lawnfawn.com/

We're a small company from Southern California that specializes in crafting products that are fun and lively. We began in March 2010 with the release of four stamp sets and are now proud to showcase our entire collection of over 95 sets in our little corner of the web. In 2012, we introduced paper, stickers and twine, and as of 2013 we are happy to feature new dies for some of our most popular stamp sets! At Lawn Fawn, we love crafting products that are truly one of a kind. All of our stamps and paper feature original designs that have been created just for you; even our fonts have been customized! Our products have been seen in the pages of Paper Crafts, CARDS, Take Ten, and Creating Keepsakes magazines with many more publications to come. Here at Lawn Fawn you will find crafting products that are cute, whimsical, and even a bit quirky, but one thing they all have in common is the ability to inspire creativity in everyone. Our products can’t wait to jump start your next craft project!

Visit us anytime to browse our latest products or simply find inspiration! And don't forget to check out our Flickr and Facebook pages, follow us on Twitter and read our blog. We love to feature our customers and give away free stuff!

A special thanks to Molossi for sponsoring our design team this month! Molossi is a permanent sponsor for 2014, so there will be more chances to win Molossi prize packages in the coming months.

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 this month!