Farewell from our 2012 Design Team Members

Hi Everyone!!

This is Marivic and I hope you had a great Christmas with your loved ones. I haven't been around the past 6 months, I took a break from creating so I can spend time with my family. Through it all, our design team held it together without me and I couldn't be more proud and grateful for everything they've done for the blog and our monthly challenges.

I would like to personally thank +Helen Tilbury for all the hard work she had put into this team. Also A big thanks to Agnieszka for all her help getting our sponsors. And of course the rest of the team..

+Vicky Varvadouka , +Channa Suitella , and Keren Tamir for creating beautiful work every month for our blog.

The team has shared their favorite projects with us...

Thank you again ladies!!! You will be missed!

Agnieszka

It`s time to say Goodbye to my friends from DT. It was a pleasure to design for Berry 71 Bleu with you.

I had fun and will have great memories of this Team.

I know we will see each other on other teams and places.

I wish you all lots of success in 2013.

Marivic,thank you so much for this opportunity!

Channa Suitella

9 Months have flown by so fast, i can not believe my time is up. I personally can say that it was a delight to be part of this beautiful and creative team, or better say family. 

I have learned so much, new techniques and i made some craft friends for life.I would like to thank Marivic for giving me the opportunity to be part of this team and a chance 

to work with all her beautiful tags. Marivic has been so generous and good to all of us!!! So much talent is floating around on this earth and so many more to be discovered. 

Good luck to the new team of 2013.

Below is my favorite layout from my 9 month term and i think it showcases how much i have grown as a scrapbook artist.

I wish you all Happy Holidays and a Healthy, Loving & Crafty 2013 and feel free to pass by my blog: www.crafts-pieces.blogspot.com.

Thank you, 

Channa

Vicky Varvadouka

The time has come to say goodbye to this wonderful group of talented and sweet ladies! It has been a fantastic and creative ride! I have made precious friends and have learned so much! A big thank you to Marivic for having me and for all the gorgeous tags she has sent me! I appreciate it! I really enjoyed my time here and I will miss you all but we'll stay in touch anyway right???

I wish you all have a happy new year!

Keren Tamir

"I had so much fun being part of Berry71Bleu!! I loved designing along these amazing designers who I now call my friends. Thank you Marivic for having me on your team!! I wish the new team much success and to everyone a happy and healthy New Year"

Helen Tilbury

Please meet our December GD, Athanasia!

Hi!

Today we would like to present you beautiful work of our beautiful GD for December.

Please meet Athanasia!

Hello! My name is Athanasia. I was born in Larisa, Greece and for the past few years I live in Chalkida with my husband and my precious 3 years old daughter. I am teaching music in elementary school and in my spare time, when I am not playing the piano, I love making handicrafts, felting, altering things and scrapbooking.

My love for Arts and my cultural worries pushes me constantly into researching and producing new ways of expression and creativeness. For the last 8 months I regularly get involved with creating layouts and I think I have found the best way to express myself and exploit my spare time in the best way.

I love scrapbooking because it combines such a vast deposit of media types with memories of my life and my family. Insipration always derives from the photograph I use and the open choice of combination of mixed media techniques. My favourite style is influenced by Finnabair. I love to use gesso, mists and stamps and I love tearing papers! You can find more information in my blog at: http://athanasiameandmyself.blogspot.gr/

We loved her design and color combo for her Winter page!

Athanasia, thank you so much for your beautiful work!

DT Coordinator Call for Berry71bleu

Berry71Bleu is looking for a new DT Coordinator.

As a DT Coordinator you will be in charge of the administrative side of the blog. You will also be required to make 1 project a month. You will work side-by-side with myself (the owner) and the rest of the DT members.

You must have a blog and a Facebook Account. Be enthusiastic, reliable, and responsible.

We pride our team for having a "family" and friendly relationship. We are laid-back team and work in a drama-free environment.

You must have experience with posting to blogger and basic technical knowledge of posting on a blog. You also must be able to take good close-up photos of your projects.

As a compensation you will receive tags and large kits containing scrapbooking and paper crafting items for your projects and extra stuff as being DT Coordinator. Kits are at least a few hundred dollars worth. Plus products sent by sponsors.

If interested, pls. email me at least 4 photos of your best projects, link to your blog, and galleries. Current and past DT positions.

Email your application with subject "DT Coordinator Call" to DTCall@berry71bleu.com

Applications must be received by January 5, 2013 or sooner.

Also check out our DT COORDINATOR CALL for ZEUS and ZOE

Follow this link:

http://zeusandzoe.blogspot.com/2012/12/zeus-and-zoe-dt-coordinator-call.html

NO TWO ALIKE BY Bellaidea

Hi!
I'm sure you saw it already our December Challenge but just in case I will remaind you today about it :)

This month's challenge is...

White Christmas!!!

 (or white winter for those that don't celebrate Christmas)

Create whatever you want as long as it has a white background as a base and is related to Christmas/winter

My first idea was to scrapp one of older Christmas photos but I decided to create with one photo from  The Ski Trip in  Italy .My kids had so much fun there and we can not wait to ski again!

  Owners from Wycinanka were kind and generous enough to sponsor our Design team with their beautiful products!!!

The prize

Our sponsor from Poland -  13 @rts were very generous and offered a paper collection for our winner this month!!! We are also offering our Merit Winner an opportunity to

Guest Design on our blog too!

There will also be a  random winner who will win a gorgeous Christmas tag made by Marivic Clifton!!!!

RULES

1. You are allowed to make a an 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 want 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 Berry71Bleu TOGETHER with a link back to our blog.

5. All entries must be received by MIDNIGHT EST on the 31st 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.

Hope you will play with us!

Have a nice creative weekend!!

'Winter Birthday' Layout by Helen Tilbury

Hello there everyone!  HELEN here with my take on Vicky's 'White Christmas/ Winter' Challenge.  I went with the Winter theme as I have been wanting to 

scrap these photos of my youngest daughter Cami and her best friend for ages.

She has a June birthday, which, in South Africa (where we live) is right in the middle of Winter.  She is a Summer girl and would love a pool party but this 

year we took her out to her favorite restaurant for a delicious steak instead!

I used this awesome frame from Wycinanka, our December sponsor, and cut off the kitties with my craft knife, as I really wanted to use it on this layout that didn't fit the feline theme :)  I simply inked it up with Burnt Sienna & Dark Brown Color Box inks, lightly & randomly, to transform the frame to this grungy, mottled look.

We have NO snow where I live EVER as I live by the sea in a tropical climate!

  In fact I have NEVER even SEEN snow in my LIVE except in photographs!!  

I hope you like my 'Winter' page!  That's as cold as it gets in these parts :)

I went for lots of texture by using gesso, modeling paste with a stencil, 

some netting & crochet lace & an awesome Manor House Creations

flower that is available in our Zeus and Zoe store HERE.

I know it's a busy time of the year for everyone but I do hope that you will play along with our December challenge "White Christmas/Winter".  Before I go I just want to wish everyone a blessed holiday season &, to those who celebrate it, a very merry Christmas!  And to everyone - a happy & prosperous new year for 2013!!

Fun in the snow, by Channa

Good morning all, 

Today it's time for Berry71blue. 

The host for this month is Vicky Varvadouka and her challenge for this month is

White Christmas!!!

 (or white winter for those that don't celebrate Christmas)

Create whatever you want as long as it has a white background as a base and is related to Christmas/winter

This is my take on the challenge:

I decided to do a monochromatic layout with white, cream & beige colors. 

My first time to ever do this, so it was an experiment to find all these colors. 

As it was a challenge almost all embellishments used are hand made. 

Both circles are identical on each size, the big white flowers and big circles are

 handmade as well as all the resin snowflakes.

All the chipboard used are from :

You wont be able to see it on the picture, but i sprayed the white back ground 

with sparkles to give it a holiday effect. 

The prize

Our sponsor from Poland -  13 @rts were very generous and offered a paper collection for our winner this month!!! We are also offering our Merit Winner an opportunity to

Guest Design on our blog too!

There will also be a  random winner who will win a gorgeous Christmas tag made by Marivic Clifton!!!!

RULES

1. You are allowed to make a an 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 want 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 Berry71Bleu TOGETHER with a link back to our blog.

5. All entries must be received by MIDNIGHT EST on the 31st 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.

 Good luck with the challenge, i hope you will join us!

Thanks for stopping by and have a good day, 

Channa

Wish: Keren's December Challenge Layout and Goodbye

This is my last post here at Berry71Bleu!! 

 

I've had such an amazing time being on this team and befriending some truly amazing Artists who I now call my friends.

 

Thank you so much Marivic for taking me on your team and thank you to all my wonderful teammates who are so amazing!!

 

 

 

I loved Vicky's Challenge this month and I decided to make a Winter Scene layout.

 

This month's challenge is...

White Christmas!!!

 (or white winter for those that don't celebrate Christmas)

Create whatever you want as long as it has a white background as a base and is related to Christmas/winter

 

And this is what I have come up with using beautiful chipboard pieces from:

Who were kind and generous enough to sponsor our Design team with their beautiful products!!!

I used the chipboard snowflakes and flourishes for this layout. I covered them in white Gesso and then dabbed them with Glass Bead Gel with my finger. I love this effect as it looks shiny and translucent.  You can see the actual beads and I love it!! its the perfect effect for the chipboard.

I used a large acrylic snowflake as a frame over the picture. I covered the edges with the same glass bead gel.

 The prize

Our sponsor from Poland -  13 @rts were very generous and offered a paper collection for our winner this month!!! We are also offering our Merit Winner an opportunity to

Guest Design on our blog too!

There will also be a  random winner who will win a gorgeous Christmas tag made by Marivic Clifton!!!!

RULES

1. You are allowed to make a an 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 want 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 Berry71Bleu TOGETHER with a link back to our blog.

5. All entries must be received by MIDNIGHT EST on the 31st 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.

 

I hope you enjoyed my post today!! 

 

I'd love for you to visit my blog too.

http://kerentamir.blogspot.ca/

Have a fantastic day!!!

 

 

Keren 

 

 

November Winners & Features!

Hi everyone!  HELEN flying in here with the news you've all been waiting for!

The winners & featured layouts for the November "Go Crazy" Challenge!!

Thank you to everyone who entered - we had 25 entries & some real stand-out

pages!  Of course the judging is always tough but the whole Design Team

votes for their top projects so it's a completely fair procedure!!  We do look

for projects that have really taken the challenge into account & done their best

to work within the spec - so here we were looking for entries that really 

embraced "going crazy" - in other words, some pretty "avante-garde" creations!

1st place goes to Athanasia from Greece with this truly awesome canvas!

You are also invited to Guest Design for us for our new

 WHITE CHRISTMAS/WINTER WHITE challenge if you would like!

If you take us up on the offer please send your creation in,

 together with at least 3 close-ups and text (any special instructions 

on how you created your piece, etc) to Bellaidea at starhorse@onet.eu
(our sponsor & Guest Designer co-ordinator) by 20th December 
 who will create a special SPOTLIGHT POST just for you
 later this month!  {don't forget your bio and headshot too}.

2nd place goes to Aida from Poland with this seriously beautiful creation!

3rd Place goes to Gayle Price from Australia with this WOW! page

Athanasia please help yourself to your winner's badge from our sidebar 

& Aida & Gayle please help yourselves to the Featured badge from our sidebar!

Athanasia & Aida you have BOTH one a pack of paper from 7 Dots Studio as we

had TWO prizes on offer from our generous sponsors this month!

Athanasia as the winner you get to choose which collection you would like

so please state that when you e mail Marivic at berry71bleu@gmail.com.

Our random winner is Daria, who created this lovely page & another

gorgeous creation for the challenge too!  You have ALSO won a

prize pack of 7 Dots Studio papers - congrats!

All prize-winners to please contact Marivic at berry71bleu@gmail.com ASAP

with your postal details so we can get those yummy paper packs out to you!

We have a couple of  Honorable Mentions that caught our eye this month too!

This sweet & funky tag from Yvonne in Poland.

This amazing layout from Kay in the US.

Congratulations ladies!  Winners, Features & Honorable Mentions!!
You are all AWESOME! Please take part in our latest challenge,

WHITE CHRISTMAS/WINTER WHITE (see previous post) if you

have time over the silly season & Happy Holidays to you all!