Special Love Mixed Media Layout by Denise van Deventer

Hello Everyone

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

I created this mixed media page of my Grandparents.

I used the gorgeous Barn Market vintage papers from Riddersholm Design.

I did some intricate gesso stencilling around the photo too.

The gorgeous chipboard piece is a Blue Fern Studios piece and was aged, using gesso and all purpose ink.

I also did a fair amount of stamping on the background too.

I really love how this vintage page turned out. Vintage certainly does not have to be dark and dreary,

So now it's your turn to show us your takes on the mood board.

Our wonderful Sponsor this month is:

Established in 2000, 7gypsies has enjoyed being a part of the craft and scrapbooking industries. 7gyspies has taken a few journeys along the way, with the caravan’s final destination with Canvas Corp. 

a bit of the 7gypsies story…

A young architect who wanted to be a painter met an Australian school teacher with a penchant for collecting things. They married and traveled the world together, having 7 kids on 3 different continents. As age mellowed them, they settled in the southwestern US and began designing for the scrapbooking industry, drawing upon a lifetime of traveling and experiences. 

  

The Canvas Corp family welcomes this amazing brand, with a penchant for preserving the original inspiration behind the brand.  This catalog brings together vintage and brand new 7gypsies products.

the gypsies today… 

With a focus on preserving the inspiration for the brands and the product line, the 7gypsies development team has designed a number of vintage inspired collections that have a look of the past but are relevant to the creative market today. We have converted a considerable amount of products to production in the USA, while continuing to source world-wide to find the most exciting products, designs and technologies.  We are excited to release our most exciting collection Architextures™ which is going to take the 7gypsies brand in many wonderful new directions. 

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7gypsies give the winner of the challenge one of their "Junk Packs" - a collection of vintage papers, handmade papers, fabric, tags and more with a writing and lettering theme. No two are alike. AND  as an there is a chance to win a additional prize - if you both submit an entry for the Berry71Bleu Challenge & the current Canvas Corp Brands Challenge you are eligable to win a second prize. You will find a link to the Canvas Corp Brands April Challenge under our Challenge board in the right sidebar. 

I hope you join in our challenge this month! 

Art Journal Page - Guest Designer - Olesya Nikitina

Hello Everyone

Today we have a super Guest Designer - Olesya Nikitina, who was a previous winner at Berry71Bleu! ;-)

So a warm welcome and hello to Olesya! ;-)

Here's a little bit about this creative and sweet lady! ;-)

Hi, my name is Olesya.

I am from Russia, live in a beautiful city Smolensk. I'm married and have a little son. I started scrapbooking 1.5 year ago. I love shabby, mixed media, freestyle. I'm very happy to be here as a Guest Designer!

Please pop over to Olesya's blog for more inspiration and creativity! ;-)

Olesya created this fantasy art journal page.

The colours are so beautiful and rich! ;-)

Just a gorgeous and fabulous page! ;-)

Thanks so much Olesya for creating this magical piece! ;-)

There's still a little bit of time for you to play along with our mood board.

Our Sponsor

"My name is Connie Riddersholm, I am the designer behind the brand Riddersholm Design.

It all started in 2010 with some digital designs i made that was giving away on a blog i had then.

Some scrapbooking girls where introduced to these designs and asked what they where thinking.

They sayd do it - print these. I did that - and quit a lot of Scrapbooking papers are designed since.

I sell my paper lines mainly to European paper craft stores. As well as i have customers in USA and Australia.

I run my small business from Randers in the middle of Jutland.I live on a farm with my husband Henning and a bunch of animals.For many years we have been breeding New Forest Ponies. My sparetime is used with my German Shepherds dogs.I compeed with my working dogs in IPO Schutshund and Tracking."

Online store: http://shop.riddersholmdesign.dk/

Blog: http://riddersholmdesign.blogspot.se/

Riddersholm Design give one winner papers from this collection:

You have until July 30 to submit your project!



Art Journal Page - Denise van Deventer

Hello Everyone

It's Denise here today, to share my take on this months mood board! ;-)

Here's a reminder of the board first.

This board certainly challenged me to try something different.

So I created an art journal page.

I used the Enchanted Garden collection from BoBunny, along with some stencils, stamps etc.

I created a little scene, with fairies, foliage, dragonflies, stars and the moon.

I wanted to use a "magical" sentiment and so found this gorgeous quote -

"She wanted to touch dragonflies and stars, 

Dance with fairies and talk to the Moon"

So this was the inspiration for the scene that I created.

I used a tree die-cut and some Distress ink to create the tree images and was rather pleased with how that turned out on the page! ;-)

So now it's your turn and we hope you will join the challenge!

Our Sponsor

"My name is Connie Riddersholm, I am the designer behind the brand Riddersholm Design.

It all started in 2010 with some digital designs i made that was giving away on a blog i had then.

Some scrapbooking girls where introduced to these designs and asked what they where thinking.

They sayd do it - print these. I did that - and quit a lot of Scrapbooking papers are designed since.

I sell my paper lines mainly to European paper craft stores. As well as i have customers in USA and Australia.

I run my small business from Randers in the middle of Jutland.I live on a farm with my husband Henning and a bunch of animals.For many years we have been breeding New Forest Ponies. My sparetime is used with my German Shepherds dogs.I compeed with my working dogs in IPO Schutshund and Tracking."

Online store: http://shop.riddersholmdesign.dk/

Blog: http://riddersholmdesign.blogspot.se/

Riddersholm Design give one winner papers from this collection:

You have until July 30 to submit your project!

Today Mixed Media Page by Denise van Deventer

Hello Everyone

Welcome to the last day of November.  Rather a scary thought!!

Anyways, it's Denise here, to share my November Vintage page and here's a reminder of the gorgeous mood board by Sylwia.

So here's my take.

I used some Teresa Collins papers from my stash and also a really pretty chipboard Creative Embelishments.

I embossed the chipboard with "Weather Worn" Distress Powder and this really gave it a super colour and texture.

I love this quote on that chipboard piece that says "When I look back on my life I want to know that I lived a full and meaningful life".

The photo is actually of an aunt of mine, when she was very young.  This page will be a gift to her at Christmas time. I hope she will like it! ;-)

Now it's time to see your take on this mood board.  Just a day left to squeeze in an entry! ;-)

1^st Prize 

Full set of 11 Christmas Cosy papers by Riddersholm Designs

Random Prize

Special Vintage kit prepared by our DT member Sylwia

Make sure you visit her blog http://www.tandiart.blogspot.ie 

Sponsor:

Riddersholm Design is a company created by Connie Riddersholm,  who has been designing & manufacturing unique, high quality scrapbooking papers since 2010. Her beautiful papers can be used for scrapbooking, card making and other art projects. The papers are selected especially to Connie's style and product. Paper is an environmentally correct produced quality mark. First collection has been launched in March 2010 and now they are being sold in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Poland, Australia, England, Finland, Germany, Holland, France and USA

Website: http://riddersholmdesign.dk/home

Blog:  http://riddersholmdesign.blogspot.ie/

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/riddersholmdesign/?fref=ts

Winter Memories Layout By Kay

Hello once again fellow Berry71Bleu fans & a special Happy Thanksgiving wish to all of you residing in the United States or Canada.   Kay here with my interpretation of this month's 'Vintage' themed challenge.

For my project I've used papers from our primary sponsor for this month--Riddersholm Design.  These papers have a Vintage-Christmas design which worked perfectly for this month's challenge.

The photos are of my son during his November photo shoot for his 3rd birthday.  I requested a few winter themed poses & here he is giving me his best 'big boy' pose. 

The design of my page is based on a sketch by The Nifty Pixel.  I used several types of embellishments & layered them with the use of pop dots in order to give my page a bit of dimension.

Now onto this months prizes...there's still a couple of days left in November--so come & play along for the chance to win one of these fabulous prizes...

Check out this month's prize collection! 1^st Prize 

Full set of 11 Christmas Cosy papers by Riddersholm Designs

Random Prize

Special Vintage kit prepared by our DT member Sylwia

Make sure you visit her blog http://www.tandiart.blogspot.ie 

Sponsor:

Riddersholm Design is a company created by Connie Riddersholm,  who has been designing & manufacturing unique, high quality scrapbooking papers since 2010. Her beautiful papers can be used for scrapbooking, card making and other art projects. The papers are selected especially to Connie's style and product. Paper is an environmentally correct produced quality mark. First collection has been launched in March 2010 and now they are being sold in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Poland, Australia, England, Finland, Germany, Holland, France and USA

Website: http://riddersholmdesign.dk/home

Blog:  http://riddersholmdesign.blogspot.ie/

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/riddersholmdesign/?fref=ts

Other Supplies:

Chipboard Pieces from:

Dusty Attic

Creative Embellishments

Blue Fern Studios

Paints/Mists

Tattered Angels

Lindy's Stamp Gang

Thank you for stopping by!

Beautiful by Elena Lishchenko

Hi everyone! It's Elena here, and today I want to share new my new layout about my friend. 

For my base layer I used a gorgeous page "Scribbles" from the new Riddersholm Design collection Newport. I added some embellishments, gaze and Primary Elements Arte Pigments by ColourArte.

Below is the beautiful inspirational mood board!

 

 We can't wait to see your projects!

 Check out this month's prize collection! 1^st Prize 

Full set of 11 Christmas Cosy papers by Riddersholm Designs

Random Prize

Special Vintage kit prepared by our DT member Sylwia

Make sure you visit her blog http://www.tandiart.blogspot.ie 

Sponsor:

Riddersholm Design is a company created by Connie Riddersholm,  who has been designing & manufacturing unique, high quality scrapbooking papers since 2010. Her beautiful papers can be used for scrapbooking, card making and other art projects. The papers are selected especially to Connie's style and product. Paper is an environmentally correct produced quality mark. First collection has been launched in March 2010 and now they are being sold in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Poland, Australia, England, Finland, Germany, Holland, France and USA

Website: http://riddersholmdesign.dk/home

Blog:  http://riddersholmdesign.blogspot.ie/

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/riddersholmdesign/?fref=ts

 

Other Supplies:

Chipboard Pieces from:

Dusty Attic

Creative Embellishments

Blue Fern Studios

 

Paints/Mists

Tattered Angels

Lindy's Stamp Gang

 

Thank you for stopping by!

dreams by Tusia Lech

Hello :)

Here it is - our gorgeous November moodboard :) So inspiring, isn't it?

Sponsor for this month is Riddersholm Designs and for my project I have used their beautiful papers.

I have used my Silhouette Cameo to cut some shapes and I also have used chipboard pieces from Scrapiniec and flowers from Prima.

Here are some detailed photos:

1^st Prize 

Full set of 11 Christmas Cosy papers by Riddersholm Designs

Random Prize

Special Vintage kit prepared by our DT member Sylwia

Make sure you visit her blog http://www.tandiart.blogspot.ie 

Sponsor:

Riddersholm Design is a company created by Connie Riddersholm,  who has been designing & manufacturing unique, high quality scrapbooking papers since 2010. Her beautiful papers can be used for scrapbooking, card making and other art projects. The papers are selected especially to Connie's style and product. Paper is an environmentally correct produced quality mark. First collection has been launched in March 2010 and now they are being sold in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Poland, Australia, England, Finland, Germany, Holland, France and USA

Website: http://riddersholmdesign.dk/home

Blog:  http://riddersholmdesign.blogspot.ie/

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/riddersholmdesign/?fref=ts