LOVE STORY by Bellaidea, new challenge and new position.

Hi, it`s Bellaidea today with my new project.
It`s all starts with The Tag. Also this time :).
So nice to see you  after all those weeks.
Thanks you again for lovely comments on my blog during our last Blog Hop. We all had so much fun,
I hope we will do it again soon.
Last time I could only show you my tag for this month.
Marivic made it in colors that I don`t scrap a lot of, so it was very nice change for me.
I use even more of this yellow and add more brown.

The story about this LO?  It`s all in the title, LOVE STORY, it`s about love for books, even if some book are about LOVE too.
So you know my girl loves to read. This photo was taken on the beach, our beach is a great place for reading. Like so many other places.

I would also like to remind you about our challenge, I hope you will play with us? It`s a great challenge for chipboards lovers.

As a new  Sponsor Coordinator for Berry 71 Bleu /what a fantastic job!:) / I would like you to contact me if you have any sugestions who should I invite for sponsorships. We are looking mostly for sponsors for 2013!

Talk to you soon, can not wait to see your new projects made for our challenge!

"Welcome my little princess" by Vicky

Hello lovely Berry 71 Bleu followers!

As promised, I have used the amazing tag that I showed you on the blog hop! The colors are soft but happy and I just had to use a baby photo!!! 

This is my youngest DD Ioli about one month old!!!

Here is a close up of the unique tag that only Marivic can make!!!!!!

Unfortunately, I don't own a sewing machine so I used a stamp all around the edges of my page to imitate stitching!

To see how to create these ruffles to give dimension to your circle, visit my blog for a tutorial --->HERE!

The background of my circle, was made using a Prima brick mask. I applied some glossy medium with a brush and then I used a sponge to apply distress ink because the medium acts as a resist! (I hope you understand,please excuse my English..LOL)

Don't forget about our chipboard challenge!! You have a few days left! And the prize from Wycinanka is soooo yummy!!!!

Have a nice day!!!

Hugs from Greece!!!!

xoxo

Victorian Paper Cone By Renea

The following is a Victorian Paper Cone that I created using my gorgeous Berry71Bleu Tag.

Here you can see the details of the back of the cone.

Marivic's Tags make creating something beautiful a breeze. They are wonderful all by themselves, and are so inspiring for creating those special projects!!

If you would like to create one of these Victorian Paper Cones of your own, here is a short tutorial on how to get the base shape. I actually made a template first, which allows me to create the cone without having to fold and leave a crease in my decorative paper. Once the template is created, you can save it and use it over and over again.

Step One:
Take a square piece of cardstock. (I used a 12 x 12, but you can make your cone any size you would like.

Step Two: 
Fold the square, diagonally to form a triangle.

Step Three:
Take a pencil and starting at the shortest corner draw a rounded top.

Step Four:
Cut off the top and you now have your template.

Step Five: 
Open up template, lay it onto your pattern paper. Using a pencil trace the shape onto your pattern paper.

Step Six:
Cut out your shape from the patterned paper.

Step Seven:
Curl your cone until one edge over laps the other, and using a hot glue gun, run a lined down the under side, and then press the top side down sealing the edge.

You now have a cone that is ready to decorate.

I hope that you get inspired along the hop to create something beautiful for yourself!!

Visit Renea's BLOG

"Cafe de Paris" - By Channa

Good morning Ladies, 

Remember this Beautiful tag:

This is what i thought when looking at the tag: 

I was imagining a girl shopping around in Paris, passing all the big fashion houses and trying on every single dress that she liked. Because she had a date at Cafe de Paris and she wanted to look Gorgeous !

So i made this frame page, if you look at it, i see a window display. 

After trying so many dresses she finally found the ONE.

The tag, dress doll and flowers are glued on the outside of the frame, as it was a thin frame. 

Close up of the paparazzi following her around ..........

This is my project for this month and my thought process with it. 

Good luck with the Mini Challenge and enjoy your day.

Thank you, 

Channa

PS: Sorry for the lightning on the pictures. 

The sun is shining here in Greece and i could not avoid it ;-)

Inspiration from DT members using chipboards and a couple of announcements

First of all..

I would like to officially announce Helen as our DT Coordinator for Berry71bleu along with her is our new Sponsor Coordinator, Agnieszka. Between the 2 of them and the rest of the DT, they had kept me organized and obtain amazing sponsors for our monthly challenges. I would like to thank all the DT members for all the hard work and dedication to our team. Thank you ladies!!!

Also here to remind you of our challenge this month. We only have 11 days to go until we reveal the July challenge.

 Here is what you can win..

Here are the rules to follow in joining the challenge:

NEW RULES AND INFORMATION

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

 1. You are allowed to make a card, layout or altered/off the page 

project as long as you follow the challenge specifications.

 2.   Projects must be linked up to our linky tool in the 

sidebar, using the URL of the ACTUAL POST not your entire blog.

 3.  You may submit as many entries as you like for each challenge

and combine your entry with up to 2 other challenges.

 4.  It is required that you mention in your blog post that you are playing 

along at Berry 71 Bleu TOGETHER with a link back to our blog. 

 5. All entries must be received by MIDNIGHT EST on the

 last day of the month the challenge was posted.

6.  Entries to be submitted via the linky tool at the top of the

sidebar ONLY, not by e mail and not by linking up in the 

comments section please.

Information about our Challenges:-

1.  Berry71Bleu Challenges are open to anyone, 

anywhere in the world.

2.  Our Design Team do their best to comment 

on all entries, you can make their job easier by turning OFF 

your word verification.  Try it and if spam is a problem 

you can always enable comment moderation.

3,  Challenges are held monthly and each month TWO winners are

chosen.  One winner is chosen by our design team, who all vote for

the project they consider to be the best, while another winner is

chosen by random draw.

4.  Challenge winners will always be announced within a week

of the challenge closing and winners are then required to

contact our Sponsor Co-ordinator, Agnieszka.

5.  Prizes not claimed within 2 weeks of the challenge closing 

will be forfeited.

6.  The Merit winner will have an image of their project featured in 

the winners post, together with a link back to the homepage

of their blog.

7.  Merit winners will be awarded a Winner's Badge to post

on their blog - full bragging rights included!

This challenge ends midnight of 7/1/12....

So now for inspiration...

Agnieszka

Cathy

Channa

Keren

Helen

Renea

Vicky

We hope that you will get inspired from all these beautiful samples from our DT and join our challenge this month.

June Guest Designers

I would like to introduce you to our Guest Designers this month. We also would like to thank them for joining us on our blog hop and most of all thank you for projects well done..

Karola Witczak

My name is Karola Witczak. I am an absolutely addicted scrapbooking Mommy to Rose and wife to Marcin. We live in Poland/Europe, near the border with Germany. I'm a pretty crazy woman, who is dedicated to my scrapbooking passion almost every day, for a few years now.  I am constantly trying to develop my passion - in different ways and stepping on different paths - from digital scrapbooking 6 years ago, to an intensive exploration of the intricacies of traditional scrapbooking, constant learning and teaching others as a scrapbooking instructor. Currently I am working as a freelance designer for a large group of scrapbooking companies, shops, projects, challenge blogs and I'm proud ambassador of many top brands and initiatives in my country of Poland and abroad like a Pink Paislee, Melissa Frances, Glitz Design and others... Sometimes I design products for scrapbooking - it gives me lots of joy and satisfaction. I am proud and honored to being Creative Director and Product Designer in The ScrapCake company, so it's my full time job which I make at home. In everyday life I create a LO's, cards, albums, and other things not directly related to scrapbooking - such as notebooks, home decors. 

It is hard to define my style, mostly my friends call it "Karola's style," and often hear that this is a soft, romantic, feminine, eclectic. I love shabby chic but with something modern. In most of my work you can usually see portraits of my daughter - I am absolutely in love with her face, and such pictures usually go to my Lo's and albums. Definitely I like all feminine, romantic themes, delicate, soft colors, I'm also dependent on the sewing machine, especially when I make cards. I love to add new things to my projects, but usually I have a big inspirations from patterned papers, flowers and interesting color palettes - I believe when I have a piece of paper I can create anything! Besides scrapbooking I love to cook, read (for the books I definitely spent much more money than for scrapbooking!), I'm a geek about thrillers and horrors in the books and films. I'm also a rock girl, but I love jazz and bossanova too, I love live music, coffee, and I am dependent on buying jeans and sneakers.

Jennifer Snyder

My name is Jennifer Snyder.  I live in Rochester, NY with my husband and my two sons. I've been scrapping for several years but really started working on technique and detail within the last two years. I am a gal who loves the whole tangible aspect of our beloved craft, from the pretty papers to hoarding ribbons and trims. My Husband , of only a few short, sweet years has been a great support for my scrapping passion. He never says anything when the boxes arrive in the mail, or when I come through the door with a shopping bag. He does roll his eyes though. I have found scrapping to be a hobby that can keep your mind active, youthful and refreshed.

Notice I did not use the word sane in that last sentence?  That’s because my family believes I have a split personality as I also scrap under my cat’s name, Escape Kitty.  Escape Kitty is a scrapping Diva in her own right as she often hip checks me out of the way for the scrapping supplies and design spotlight. She believes our house is NOT big enough for the both of us so she volunteers to leave (escape) at every available opportunity.  Her antics  are documented via scrap projects. Through the magic of photoshop, I find Kitty can and does show up almost anywhere.

I am also “all about the story”.  I love to write about the “why” of a page.  I love to explain  my photo choice, my emotional tie to the situation conveyed in the page, or simply just to blather on…like I am doing just now.    

Thanks Bery71Bleu for this honor.  I am touched.

Thank you to Karola and Jennifer for such beautiful projects..Remember you can special order your tags from me. 

Contact me berry71bleu@gmail.com.