Easter Layout - Always Stay Forever Young at Heart

Hi there folks :)  Helen here with my monthly reveal, this time with an Easter theme.

Of course we all have Easter photos from just the other weekend & Berry 71 Bleu 

has just the perfect Spring-themed/Easter tags to compliment our pages.

This is the beautiful tag I was sent to work with, full of bright Spring colors.  

I was also sent the most amazing selection of supplies to use too -

 the very same  ones used in the custom kits at Berry 71 Bleu's

  sister-store on Etsy - Zeus & Zoe.  

Almost everything I used on my page is from what I was sent, except for the 

alpha stickers, Prima bling, brad, Jenni Bowlin Vintage buttons & the ribbon.

Working with B71B tags is so SIMPLE, especially when mixed

 with the wonderfully well co-ordinated kits at Zeus & Zoe.  

They take your page from DRAB to FAB in one easy step -

 just stick it down and your done!  

Of course there are also other things that you can do to showcase your Easter photos

 to perfection.  Here I created a SIX WORD LONG TITLE using 4 different 

types of alpha stickers together with the "FOREVER" word chipboard.

Journaling is also vital to remember all the details of the event so don't 

forget to include the date & whatever else springs to mind!  Use your 

own handwriting if you want something quick, easy & personalized.  

I took another sheet of detailed paper I was sent and fussy-cut it then laid it

over the corner of my page, using 3D tape to raise it up slightly for more dimension.  

Then I added a bow underneath the photograph, using a piece of grosgrain

 ribbon I had saved from a box of Easter chocolates.  I just inked the ribbon

 with a touch of lime,  to match my page, then "V" cut  each end to stop it fraying,

 and tied a knot through it for some interest!

I fussy-cut the sweet birdie & scroll from the same piece of patterned paper

that I used for the corner detail and adhered it without any dimension, as it

was behind the photograph but I did raise up the edges with some pop-dots.

I adhered some beautiful Pansy vellum paper underneath the photograph.

In the photo above you can see it peeking out the top - I punched a 

butterfly design across the top for a light, Summery feel...

Lastly I had fun embellishing with buttons, brads, flowers and small

sections of Prima "Say it in Crystals" swirls - cut into small twirls, 

to create a clear visual triangle of black rhinestones.  Can you see it?

You can have just as much fun as I did, playing with Berry 71 Bleu tags too!

Just take a look HERE and make your selection!  The stock in the store

is particularly DROOLWORTHY at the moment.  All tags are hand-made

so every piece is an INDIVIDUAL and when it's gone it's GONE!!

I do hope that I have INSPIRED you to create some luscious Easter pages!

If you would like to see more of my work please come and visit my blog HERE.

April Guest Designers

Please help me welcome our April Guest Designers:

Eila Sandberg

My name is Eila Sandberg and I live in Sweden's capital called Stockholm on the east coast by the Baltic Sea. My family is a small one; it's me and my very supportive and patient husband and our 3 cats - Max, Alice and Elsa. I have a grown-up stepdaughter. My roots are Finnish but I was born and raised in Sweden. I've been sort of dabbling with scrapping since 2009 but more seriously so since 2010. Scrapping is a wonderful way for me to gain balance and happiness in my otherwise very stressful office life, I scrap mainly 12 x 12 layouts.
I am a DT at the Australian challenge sites The Color Room and Meg’s Garden. I am also blessed to be a DT at the American challenge site CSI (Color .. Stories … Inspiration). Previously I have been GDT at the French site Les Papiers de Pandore and Malaysian Scrap-It-Lah.
As I am paper and flower girl, my favourite tools are my scissors and glue gun. My creative process is really higgedly piggedly. More often than not, my pages morph and end up looking totally different from what I started with. Hues of blue, brown and teal make my heart tick, so when I got my parcel from Marivic with the gorgeous tags I was really so excited. I am absolutely delighted and thrilled to be invited to be April GDT. Thank you so much for this fantastic opportunity!

NANA

An X-Ordinary DAY

And a quick Mini-tutorial from Eila following the April theme Challenge.


"First I always choose the papers I want to work with and fiddle around with the order of the layers.

I also like to get an idea of where to place my photo and the main larger embellies. If I am using stamps, I like to place out them too to get a visual feeling. Then I mark where the corners of my photos are before stamping.

As a step 2, I ink the edges. My fave ink is Tim Holtz distress ink in Vintage Photo but I also have quite a few Cat's Eye fluid chalks that come handy when I want to define smaller areas. Here I have used TH Black Soot and Vintage Photo, as well as Color Box fluid chalk in Olive and Moss Green.

Before assemling my page, I prepared the chippies. Both the lamp post and the fence were primed with Claudine Hellmuth Studio acrylic paint in Blank Canvas. The lamp post was then misted in Tattered Angels glimmermist in Coffee Shop and Black Magic. The fence was dabbed with Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Old Paper alternating with smears of brown acrylic paint. I then dabbed Blank Canvas and Old Paper in layers till I was happy with the result.

I always leave my pages until the next day before photographing them as I like to look at them with fresh eyes. Very often I move an embellishment, add a little something or replace it with something else. I also put my journalling at the back as I don't have much white space on my pages."

Sabrina Sulaiman

Hi I’m Sabrina from Malaysia. Paper crafting has always been my main pastime and I always feel that paper crafting is the cheapest therapy. I started to become active in card making and creating layouts after blogging about scrapbooking. But I like to let you know that I enjoy making cards and mini albums the most. I am not exactly into complicated techniques but I do love creating layers as well as incorporating flowers and chipboards in my projects. I also love white and bright colors. I think by now, I am certain that I will design and play with papers forever and would love to turn my favorite pastime into a business =) Lastly, thank you so much Marivic for inviting me to be your Guest Designer!

Here is Sabrina's take on April's Challenge:

Thank you to Eila and Sabrina for your beautiful projects.

Please visit their blogs here:

EILA

SABRINA

Design Team Reveal for April 10th

Keren here with my first reveal for Berry71Bleu.

I made a little wooden purse for my daughter and put some silk flowers as decoration for her room. I used an off the page Kaisercraft product along with some beautiful Miss. Nelly papers from Kaisercraft, some blue Webster's pages bloomers and of course this beautiful tag made by Marivic.

Materials used
Tag: Berry71Bleu
Kaisercraft: off the page wooden bag, Miss. Nelly papers, stickers and chipboard flowers
Webster's Pages bloomers.
blue chalk ink

If you want to play along and win some awesome prizes, link your project on the sidebar by April 30th for a chance to win.

For more awesome projects please visit my blog at:

http://kerentamir.blogspot.ca/

So Much Joy

Good morning everybody! With Spring in the air and Easter just around the corner, I wanted to use one of my beautiful Berry71Bleu Easter themed tags to create a layout. As soon as I saw the tag, I knew what photo I wanted to scrap with it. It is a photo of my son Draven asleep in his little car seat when he was just a few weeks old. I love the moment my husband, David caught when he snapped this photo. It just brings so much joy to a mother's heart.

 I used layers of My Mind's Eye papers that I distressed, inked, punched, set eyelets in and folded.

 Behind the photo, I inked and layered in a Doilie, some chipboard pieces and some hand made texture roses. I also inked the edges of my photo, just to get a nice contrast.

 At the top and bottom of the photo, I used some Pink Paislee Ornate pieces that I inked and set pearl brads in.

Here you can see that I folded my paper back and used a pearl brad with some wire and a crystal wrapped around it, to hold it back. The fold back allowed me to showcase my Berry71Bleu tag in a little corner of it's own. The only addition that I made was a few more of those texture roses.

Creating a beautiful memory is made easy when you use one of Marivic's beautiful tags. It adds instant pizazz to any page! Thanks for letting me share one of my sweet memories with you! ~Renea

Design Team Project Reveal!

Hello everyone, Amanda here revealing my first DT project for Berry71bleu! I am so excited to show you Welcome Spring:

I just love the beautiful tag that I got to work with and instantly knew of this image that I wanted to use for it!

I used a tutorial form GabrielleP over at scrapbook.com to make these blooms. I think I will be hanging this in my entry to welcome all my visitors! Thanks for stopping by and taking a peek!

xx ~ Amanda

April Challenge hosted by new DT member

Hello everyone!

It is April 1st and to start the new month, our new DT member, Agnieszka of Bellaidea is hosting this challenge this month.

"My real name is Agnieszka. I remember that I used to be a lawyer but now I’m bothering my head about more important things. Together with my husband – I’m still dating him – we’re taking care of our two treasures – a Girl and a Boy. Probably, you’ve already discovered that I’m rather a secretive person. I’ll disclose you that I love travelling, taking photos, orange and African bush aroma, cheesecake with real vanilla, Pavlova dessert, old books, pictures, houses, doilies, trips with friends to Italy, evenings by the fireplace, only one kind of milk chocolate, mystery perfumes, nut ice-creams, reading children books (no matter they can read by themselves), audiobooks during long distance drives, opening new stamps, praising people for their talent and creativity and meeting with other nice ladies for a cup of coffee.

This list could be much longer, especially, in the course of time there’re less and less things that I don’t like. Not because I become more tolerant but I don’t care about less important Things.

But I should write about scrapbooking, shouldn’t I? Well, about two years ago I was making Christmas cards with my kids. I needed new Angel-shape punchers. I clicked on scrapbooking section in one of the online shops and then it all started… I like pastels and intense colors as well. I admire monochromatic projects too! Usually, after making a dark LO I turn myself to delicate LO and then again I use black paper in the next work… I design my favourite 12×12 Lo’s for several websites. It satisfies me strongly. I love challenges and I often take part in them. Sometimes the effects are really surprising. I don’t stick to one particular style. I collect laces and small doilies and recently also wooden frames and boxes. There’re lots of ideas how to use them in my head.

I`m very happy several of my layouts will be publish soon in different scrapboking magazines.

I cordially invite you to my blog, where you can find out what I’m doing at late night when my family members are sleeping.

Here are a couple of my favorite LO to share with you:

I`m very excited to host my new challenge this month.
 Last time you saw me at Berry 71 as a guest designer, now I will play with beautiful tags from Marivic every single month. Lucky me, you have a chance too.

For April I decided to make a challenge based on inspirational photo.

Since for some of us it`s a Spring time and Easter coming and some of us are already thinking about Autumn - flowers, yummy cake and nice palette can inspire you to work with us this month.

We are proud to say this month our sponsor for the challenge winner -The Scrap Cake - will provide beautiful new collection . Thank you Karola!
Perfect collection for any season!

Mini Prize for the winner:

Tag from BERRY71BLEU and other embellishments from ZEUS and ZOE Etsy Shops.

And a random draw from our new sister shop at etsy Zeus and Zoe.

One winner will get a set of buttons similar to this:

Everything started with a beautiful tag. It`s how it`s work at Berry71 ;)

I added  Prima papers and fussy cutting , chipboards from Wycinanka, some mists and acrylic paint , embossing powder and it`s what I achieved.

I aslo would like to show you couple easy ways  to treat chipboards.

First I put some gesso on all of them with a sponge.

Then I stamped two birdhouses with Archival ink /Sepia.

 I painted this branch with Ranger Distress crackle paint / tea dye.

With biger branches - after painting with gesso I just added green embossing powder and used hit over.
Smaller ones are treated only with acrylic paint.

This cute egg from Wycinanka was only painted with arcylic paint, two shades of pink.

 Later on egg and two bird houses were covered with transparent embossing powder.

I hope our photo will inspire you this month and you will share with us your beautiful creations soon.
Please consider turning off your word verifications, we would love to visit you all and leave some love.
Have fun and visit us soon again , all DT members will show you every  couple of days what thay created.
If you wish to visit me you are also very welcome - Bellaideascrapology

RULES:

You are allowed to make any project as long as you follow the theme or challenge of the month.

This challenge is open to anyone. International members are also encouraged to join the challenge as well. Pls post your ACTUAL project post using the link tool on the sidebar and not the link to your blog. If you can, please, turn off your word verification.

You can submit as many projects as you would like. All entries must be received by April 30th Central Standard Time.