August Guest Designer Helen Hapsi

Today we would like to welcome the winner of our July Challenge 

and our guest designer for August, Helen Hapsi.

Hello everyone!

 My name is Helen Hapsi, I am from Greece and I live in my hometown Chalkida with my husband and my 2 year old son. At this little corner of earth I call home I have a small apartment with a desk overflowing with things that many would say is just garbage….but not to my eyes.

I like to create things out of nothing by using objects seemingly unrelated and what gets me inspired to do so are my memories, my emotions, interesting photographs and of course all of you people who are scrapbooking and sharing your work on the internet. None of this would have happened if we hadn’t “met” each other to share our passion for creativity, our need to preserve memories and the will to become better at what we are doing.

I would like to thank Marivic for this amazing blog that keeps us connected, the Designer Team that voted for my layout, Heartfelt Creations for their generous gift and all of you who were patient enough to read my post!

This is my blog, hope you pay a visit !

http://ahandfullofhandicrafts.blogspot.gr/
 

This is the layout I made for my Guest Designer spot, decorated with different kinds of fabrics. The whole idea was to create a composition inspired by one of my favourite black & white Greek movies, it was a fun project ….I hope you like it!

Here are a few closeups:

Thanks for joining us this month Helen and sharing your beautiful layout!

Flower Tutorial By Anita

Guest Designer Anita Scroggins has a wonderful flower tutorial to share today 

using Faber-Castell® Gelatos®

Begin by stamping and heat embossing your flowers and cutting
 them out. I used Heartfelt Creations Open Vintage Floret
 Precut Stamp set and Vintage Floret Die set. They have
an awesome tutorial on how to use their stamps and dies on their
 blog, so please check them out!

I used 4 colors of my Faber-Castell® Gelatos® to color my flowers,
 Teal Metal, Blue Metal, Aqua Dolce, and Spearmint. I applied the
Gelatos® directly to the flowers, blending them with a slightly
damp sponge.

I kept adding color in layers until I achieved
the depth that I wanted.

Next up is shaping the flowers - real flowers have curved petals
and do not lay flat - we want our flowers to look the same.
 I rolled the edges back using my paper piercer and cupped
the centers using a ball tool. 

The last step is to assemble the layers together, add a brad for
the center and place them on your project. I am using these on
a layout.

And here is my finished layout.

Canvas by Adriana

Hi there! 

I'm here to share with you Adriana's second project for this month

She used Faber-Castell Gelatos for her background 

Charm embellishment, doilies and trims from Zeus and Zoe Etsy Shop

Remember to join the challenge this month!

Thank you Adriana for guest designing this month!!

Our sponsor for this month's challenge is

Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft

Blog:  http://designmemorycraft.typepad.com/design-memory-craft/

Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft is a leading manufacturer specializing in high quality art supplies including pens, color pencils and watercolor pencils for art, crafts, scrapbooking and papercrafting.

Working with the MIX & MATCH products from Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft makes designing with COLOR simple. Simply choose a color set that inspires you, choose a medium and Mix & Match as you create. The color coordinated palettes give you the freedom to design your project knowing the colors will work beautifully together. Perfect for all your design, memory and craft projects!

Sign up for the Faber-Castell Newsletter to be the first to know about new products, giveaways and events!

  

Main Prize

 

Random Prize

 

 A special thanks to Scrapiniec Die-Cut Chipboard for sponsoring the Berry71Bleu Design Team, who will be sharing projects with their chipboard for the next several months.

 

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.

Our design team members received Inkido's Beautiful Memories Collection.

 

Papercraft Scandinavia designs high quality stamps, patterned paper, lace, flowers and much more in a romantic vintage style for scrapbooking, cardmaking and other crafts.

http://www.papercraftscandinavia.com/

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

Please read the Challenge Rules before linking up your project as they have recently changed!

Guest Designer, Aida Domisiewicz

 Today we have a special guest designer, Aida Domisiewicz aka Ayeeda, owner and designer of 13 Arts,

 

our January challenge sponsor.  Let's get to know Aida . . .

Hello everyone! My name is Aida Domisiewicz aka Ayeeda. I live in a beautiful city of Wroclaw, Poland. I am 39 years old. I am married and I have two wonderful sons - 8 and 3 years old.

I think I've always had an artistic soul, but I really discovered my craft skills taking ceramics classes in Perth, Australia, where I was living 13 years ago. My husband worked a lot and I felt a bit lonely, trying to find something interesting to do. Classes were wonderful, opened my creative mind. I loved it! Back in Poland I still enjoyed making ceramics, then I started to make home decorations, interior design, and finally I discovered scrapbooking and mixed media, and that is what I love the most.  Now I’m addicted to it, I create almost every day. But not only I enjoy creating process, closing memories on paper, but often I just let my emotions go on a paper – it helps for me each page is a separate, complete story to tell.

I’m not sure I can define my “style”, but my works are recognizable as a bit messy with lots of different media, layers and details, very rich background work and sometimes adding strange embellishments;) I don’t want to close myself in just one “style” though, as I love to experiment and search for original effects.

Thank You so much  Berry71Bleu for inviting me as Guest Designer – it’s an honor. I am also very happy and proud that you liked my papers “Frosted Life”, which I designed and produced under the brand 13 arts. Please visit our blog 13arts here for more inspirations and chances to win our products. New collection will be revealed very soon:)

 

I made two layout using “Frosted Life” papers and gorgeous tags from Marivic – they fit perfectly, even in my bit messy projects:)

Hope you’ll like it.

…………………..

Best regards, Ayeeda

"BELIEVE"

 

 

"DREAM BIG"

Thank you Aida for sharing your beautiful creations with us!

You still have time to enter our January Challenge - Celebrate Me,  for a chance to win Aida's Frosted Life Collection:

You can check out all of the challenge details here.