Happy Mother's Day Card

Keren here with my reveal for May. I made a beautiful Mother's Day card with my Tag.
I printed a beautiful poem and stuck it inside the card so I can give it away on Mother's day.

The challenge this month in Berry71Bleu is in honor of Mother’s Day you must center the challenge around your favorite quote/poem/song about Mothers.

Here is my card:

So why don't you join us and participate in the challenge.


As always there are a few basic rules to follow:RULES:

 1. You are allowed to make a card, layout or altered/off the page project as long as you follow the theme or challenge of the month.

 2. This challenge is open to anyone anywhere in the world.

 3. Pls post your ACTUAL project post using the link tool on the sidebar and DO NOT link to your ENTIRE blog.

 4. Please SERIOUSLY CONSIDER turning off your word verification if comments are important to you:)

 5. You can submit as many projects as you would like and combine your entry with other challenges.

 6. Please mention in your blog post that you are playing along at Berry 71 Bleu TOGETHER with a link back to our blog. Thank you!

 7. All entries must be received by MIDNIGHT May 31st Central Standard Time. Winner of the challenge will receive a prize collection kit from our sponsor this month.

Les Papiers de Pandore. Scrapbooking papers from France has provided us beautiful prize from their new collection called "The scent of Camelias"

Visit their website HERE.

Another winner will receive this prize pack from Zeus and Zoe and Berry71bleu Etsy Shops:

If you have any questions about the challenge, pls don't hesitate to email us at berry71bleu@gmail.com. Thanks for stopping by and we hope to see your projects this month.

Keren
http://kerentamir.blogspot.ca/

April Challenge Winners

Hello everyone!

As voted by the DT members..Our Main Prize winner for April's Challenge is....

Elina with this project:

The second place winner goes to:

Jona with this project:

The random button lot winner is Juraci from Brazil..


Congrats Ladies!!!..Please email me your addresses to berry71bleu@gmail.com. And a HUGE Thank you to all that participated in our challenge last April. We love seeing your work and we hope to see you again this month.

Berry71Bleu Friday Reveal-A Mother's Love Altered Box

Happy Friday to everyone! Today I would like to share with you a Vintage look altered memory box/ gift box that I designed.  I love taking ordinary things and making them extra ordinary with my own 2 hands. Something about watching something transform right before my eyes, gives me great joy.  I created this box using one of  the gorgeous Berry71Bleu tags that Marivic carries in her Etsy Shop. These tags make creating something unique easy and fun!

 I started with a paper mache 12 x 4 box. Painted it with Gesso, and then layered on the distressed edge paper pieces with Mod Podge.

I ran Prima, crochet lace down the sides, and then added the oh, so, gorgeous tag onto the front side.

 

I stamped some leaves onto cream card stock with a Heartfelt Creations Rose Leaf Stamp, and then cut it out using the matching Spellbinder's Die. I did trim some of the flourishes off so that the swirls were not hanging to far off the sides. I then took a pre-made flower, and two of my Shabby Mauve Texture Roses, and adhered them to the top of the foliage.

 I repeated the flower piece on the front side of the lid.

 I punched and set eyelets into the sides of the box and attached a piece of hand dyed seam binding for a handle. I then took multiple pieces of  ribbon in different shades of pink and tied them onto the handle and then placed  two of my Paper Wishes Butterflies onto the ribbons on both sides of the box.

 For the other 3 sides of the lid and the top, I distress stamped an Ephemera look onto them to complete that Vintage look that I love so much.

I hope you enjoyed a look at the process I use to make everyday items take on a whole new function.

Have a great weekend!! ~Renea

May Challenge by Amanda

Happy May! My name is Amanda Aveiro (aka Qweenofthecrop in the virtual world). I am beyond excited to be on the Berry71bleu design team! I am 38 years old and have been married for almost 19 years. My dear husband, John, puts up with my scrapbook addiction very well! We have two teenagers, Cody who is 18 and Chloe who is 14. Besides scrapbooking I enjoy hiking, target shooting, gardening, reading and I love movies. I also love to travel, when I have the time and money! I just ended a 15 year career in banking, and have been enjoying a change of pace by working at Cabela’s. For those who don’t know Cabela’s, it is a hunting/fishing/outdoor megastore based in the United States.
It is a really fun place to work. Hey enough about me, lets get on to this months challenge on Berry71bleu....

In honor of Mother’s Day I am centering the challenge around your favorite quote/poem/song about Mother’s. Here are some examples, feel free to use them if you like!

 “All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother” ~ Abraham Lincoln

Mother, the ribbons of your love are woven around my heart.

“ A little girl, asked where her home was, replied, ‘where mother is’. “ ~ Keith Brooks

A mothers heart is a patch work of love.

 “ A mothers happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.” ~ Honore de Balzac

 “ What are Raphael’s Madonna’s but the shadow of a mothers love, fixed in permanent outline forever?” ~ Thomas Wentworth Higginson

 Or if you prefer songs:

 Coat of Many Colors – Dolly Parton

 Somebody’s Hero – Jamie O’Neal

 I Hope You Dance – Lee Ann Womack

 Dear Mama – 2Pac

 A song for Mama – Boyz II Men

 I have made up a short tutorial on the Dusty Attic chipboard piece in my layout here is a link:

 Here is my layout, featuring another song about Mom’s from Disney’s Tarzan: You’ll be in my heart and of course, a BEAUTIFUL tag from Berry71bleu!!!

          Here are some of my favorite layouts, of my kids when they were little and my husband.

Hope everyone enjoys this months challenge, I can’t wait to see what you all come up with! Happy scrapping! ~ Amanda

As always there are a few basic rules to follow:


RULES:

 1. You are allowed to make a card, layout or altered/off the page project as long as you follow the theme or challenge of the month.

 2. This challenge is open to anyone anywhere in the world.

 3. Pls post your ACTUAL project post using the link tool on the sidebar and DO NOT link to your ENTIRE blog.

 4. Please SERIOUSLY CONSIDER turning off your word verification if comments are important to you:)

 5. You can submit as many projects as you would like and combine your entry with other challenges.

 6. Please mention in your blog post that you are playing along at Berry 71 Bleu TOGETHER with a link back to our blog. Thank you!

 7. All entries must be received by MIDNIGHT May 31st Central Standard Time. Winner of the challenge will receive a prize collection kit from our sponsor this month.

Les Papiers de Pandore. Scrapbooking papers from France has provided us beautiful prize from their new collection called "The scent of Camelias"

Visit their website HERE.

Another winner will receive this prize pack from Zeus and Zoe and Berry71bleu Etsy Shops:

If you have any questions about the challenge, pls don't hesitate to email us at berry71bleu@gmail.com. Thanks for stopping by and we hope to see your projects this month.

DT reveal - 27 April Flower Garden

Hello everybody, 

My first post for Berry71blue blog dt team for the month of April. 

Inspired by the beautiful tag of marivic, our sponsor for this month  

  "the scrapcake" and the inspirational picture of Agniezska i made this layout. 

Pictures are taken one of the first beautiful days here in Greece, 

my husband and i went for a bike ride in the national gardens in Athens. 

Spring is here and all the gardens will be filled with beautiful flowers. 

That's why this tag of marivic was perfect for this page. 

I did some fussy cutting with the new line of the scrapcake "my private happiness". 

A gorgeous new line with beautiful papers, bright colors and nice quotes. 

Remember you still have a few days to enter for our challenge at Berry71blue blog. 

And have the chance to win this wonderful new paper line of The scrapcake.

Thank you for stopping by and have a great day, 

Channa

DT reveal - 24 April, "My name...Ioli"

Hello everyone!

This is Vicky and I am sharing with you today the first layout I've made as a designer for the sweetest and talented person Marivic Clifton! Her tags are really unique! She has an excellent taste in gathering yummy little vintage embellies and she combines them to make the most chic tags and kits ever! You can find her tags at her "Berry71bleu" Etsy shop and the kits at "Zeus and Zoe" Etsy shop!

 You must keep an eye though because they sell out fast!

I made a layout with a photo from my DD's baptism,

The background paper was all creme and I used a cut out paper as a mask and I misted with Tattered Angels Suede and Olive vine.

Here are a few close ups..

Don't forget to participate in our challenge this month based on this inspirational photo...

and our sponsor this month The Scrap Cake!

You have until the end of April to upload your project on the sidebar!

We would love to see your creations and get inspired!!!

Have a nice day!

xoxo

DT Reveal 20 April - Sugar and Spice

Hi Girls,

Here is my 1st post for Berry71Blue.  I am so excited to be part of such a fabulously talented International Design Team and on top of that I get to create with Marivic's gorgeous tags every month.

Sugar and Spice
I decided to take some inspiration from this month's challenge bought to you by Agnieszka Bellaidea for my LO.  The flowers from Agnieszka's inspiration pic are all pretty pink tones which went perfectly with Marivic's gorgeous pink cake tag and as The Scrapcake are sponsoring us with a fabulous prize this month I chose some delicious Scrapcake pp with pink roses.  The pretty white cake stand in the pic inspired me to use some lovely lacy paper doilies, and the yummy cake in the pic also goes perfectly with the cake theme on Marivic's tag. 

April Challenge - Inspiration Pic

List of Materials:  Berry71Blue tag, Scrapcake and Prima pps, Pink Paislee 6x6 papers, Scrapmatts heart chipboard, Prima flowers, Craft Queen paper roses, Cheery Lynn leaf die, Glitz Design , MME sticker label, Martha Stewart butterfly punch, paper doilies, Glimmermist, Paint, Tim Holtz crackle paint

The Scrap Cake Projects from DT Members

In honor of our sponsor this month, our DT members would like to share with you projects using
The Scrap Cake products...

THANK YOU TCR and Karola!!

Agnieszka

Cathy

Helen

Keren

Marivic

Channa

Don't forget our challenge this month. Follow the inspiration photo and you can win "My Private Happiness" collection from The Scrap Cake.

Here is the photo again..

As always there are a few basic rules to follow:-

RULES:

1. You are allowed to make a card, layout or altered/off the page project
as long as you follow the theme or challenge of the month.

2. This challenge is open to anyone anywhere in the world.

3. Pls post your ACTUAL project post using the link tool on the sidebar
and DO NOT link to your ENTIRE blog

4. Please SERIOUSLY CONSIDER turning off your word verification
if comments are important to you :)

5. You can submit as many projects as you would like
and combine your entry with other challenges.

6. Please mention in your blog post that you are playing along at
Berry 71 Bleu TOGETHER with a link back to our blog. Thank you!

7. All entries must be received by MIDNIGHT April 30th Central Standard Time.