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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

February Guest Designer Nicole!

Today we would like to welcome the winner of our January challenge and our guest designer for February, Nicole Dorion.


My name is Nicole Doiron.  I am in my late 30's and I live in a small coastal town in Atlantic Canada with my soulmate Yves and our newly-adopted fur baby, Sugar.  I have been an avid scrapbooker since one of my good friends introduced me to it in 2004. Having always been very artistically-inclined, I was immediately fascinated and addicted.  I cannot say that I have a specific style, only that it is very versatile and adapts itself constantly to my moods and inspirations. One layout may be fun and colorful, while another may turn out chic and elegant. I tend to use a lot of embellishments - the more, the better! - and my favorite scrapbooking element is laser-cut chipboard.  I love to dabble in gesso, embossing paste and all sorts of inks and you will find handmade stitching on almost all my layouts. 

You can find more of my creations at http://scrap-utopia.blogspot.com

Thank you so much Berry71bleu for having me as a guest designer this month!

Nicole created this beautiful layout for Anupama's WhiteSpace Challenge:
   Here are some close up shots highlighting Nicole's beautiful details:





Thanks for joining us this month, Nicole!

Sunday, February 24, 2013

Guest Designer, Einat Kessler

Today we have a special guest designer, Einat Kessler.


My name is Einat Kessler and I'm a designer from Israel. I am a CHA designer member, workshop teacher, writer and designer. I design scrapbooks, mini albums, paper crafts, mixed media, canvases, cards, 3D and interactive designs. I have started scrapbooking about 6 years ago and I'm lovin' every minute. I have been featured in Israeli TV in a series of scrapbooking and paper crafts workshops, and I manage the leading Israeli scrapbook forum for the past year, it is a fast growing, creative community. I was published in several international magazines and e-books and been a guest designer in several blogs and blog hops.
I don't just like to create, I love to create! Creating doesn't only makes me happy, it keeps me calm and sane. Sitting in my studio, flying on the wings of imagination fills me with so much energy and vitality that I don't think I can live without it. In fact if a few days go by and I haven't created something for whatever reason, I become restless and my hands start yearning for some action. It's my Passion and my being. One of my passions is to "infect" others with the bug of creation, that's why I love sharing my work in my blog and my workshops.

  You can find my work at  http://scrapinit.blogspot.co.il/

Here is what Einat created using her Berry71Bleu tags:

 Here are a few closeups:








Thanks Einat for sharing your beautiful projects with us!

Friday, February 22, 2013

Small Joys by Debbie

Hi everyone!  Debbie here with my interpretation of this month's 'WhiteSpace' challenge.

This was a hard challenge for me as I normally like to cover my layout from top to bottom with paper and embellishments. 

I used some papers from 7 Dots Studio Domestic Goddess collection along with Marivic's handmade tag!

Here are a few closeups...

 Marivic's gorgeous handmade tag was the inspiration for my layout.  Isn't it lovely!!

I cut out the center of a paper doily and misted and inked it and used it to frame my picture.  This is me when I was a baby!

Here I've added some modeling paste, beads, stamping, charms and misting along with some flowers I cut from the 7 Dots Studio paper.


I took some thread and strung some little Prima flowers.  Love this!

Here is this month's challenge:

Now onto the prizes & rules...
Our Sponsor for this month's challenge is UHK Gallery

The winner of our February Challenge will win this My Dear Watson paper collection.
 

along with 2 other collections - Queen of Hearts & Love is in the Air
from
 
We are a team of creative women who cannot imagine their world without paper, glue and creative process. Scrapbooking is our passion. And we love to share our passion with other scrapbookers. For this reason, 7 Dots Studio exists.
Quality of our products is our priority. Each of our collections is made of highest quality materials - thick scrapbooking paper (250gsm), acid-free, lignin-free, archival and highest quality matt stickers. We use materials from leading manufacturers in the paper industry.
Queen of Hearts

 Love is in the Air
 The 2nd and 3rd place winners will receive the Dreamer Collection from 7 Dots Studio.
 

Rules of the Challenge:
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 at starhorse@onet.eu
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!

There is still plenty to enter this month's challenge!  

Thanks for stopping by!
. . . Debbie

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Winner of Berry71Bleu Love Blog Hop

We hope that everyone enjoyed our little blog hop.  
From the emails I received everyone enjoyed our theme and the pictures that our Design Team shared.  Our secret sentence is a quote by Mahatma Gandhi:

"Where there is love there is life."

 The winner of the Domestic Goddess Collection by 7 Dots Studio
 
is Buffy Esser!

Congrats Buffy!!  
Please email Debbie (mdjsburns@aol.com) with your mailing info so 
we can get your prize sent to you.  Please put Berry71Bleu Blog Hop Winner in your subject line.

There is still plenty of days left in the month to join in on Anupama's WhiteSpace Challenge.  We'd love to see your beautiful projects!

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

No Ordinary Love Layout



Hello again fellow scrappers!  Kay here with my interpretation of this month's 'WhiteSpace' challenge.

I decided to go with double the white space & left both the upper right hand corner & lower left hand corner as white space.

This would be me with my fur baby Toby.  I decided to scrap him because even though my first son has recently arrived to our home--I still see Toby as my eldest 'son'.  :-)  Yes, I know he's a dog--but to me he's simply a child trapped in a pup's body.  He taught me the meaning of unconditional love & he's still a very important member of the family.

He's pretty much adopted his less furry younger brother & protects him as if he were his own.  What I have with Toby is 'No Ordinary Love'--hence the title.  It's the kind of unique love that can only be shared between man & his best friend or in this case, between a girl & her little fur baby.

Now onto some closeups...


I've printed half of my title on a transparency--cut it out & adhered it to the 'love' tag in order to create my full title.


Here is a close up of one of Marivic's lovely tags.  These tags are instant embellishment heaven!  You don't need to search your stash for too many embellishments--when you have one of these tags, just adhere them to your page & you're pretty much done!  You can find more of Marivic's tags in her Etsy shop here.


Of what has become a kind of tradition for me lately--here is my journaling stored in the form of a scroll.  I've always stored large journaling with my pages & used to adhere them to the background of my layouts because they took up too much space when placed right on my page.  Some time ago, I decided to store my journaling in the form of a scroll & now it's become my number one way of storing my journaling.

You can find more details & close ups on my blog.

Here's this month's challenge...


Now onto the prizes & rules...

Our Sponsor for this month's challenge is UHK Gallery

The winner of our February Challenge will win this My Dear Watson paper collection.

along with 2 other collections - Queen of Hearts & Love is in the Air
from

We are a team of creative women who cannot imagine their world without paper, glue and creative process. Scrapbooking is our passion. And we love to share our passion with other scrapbookers. For this reason, 7 Dots Studio exists.
Quality of our products is our priority. Each of our collections is made of highest quality materials - thick scrapbooking paper (250gsm), acid-free, lignin-free, archival and highest quality matt stickers. We use materials from leading manufacturers in the paper industry.

Queen of Hearts

Love is in the Air

The 2nd and 3rd place winners will receive the Dreamer Collection from 7 Dots Studio.



Rules of the Challenge:

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 at starhorse@onet.eu
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!

Looking forward to seeing all of your projects!
Till my next post...
Kay

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Welcome to Berry71Bleu's Blog Hop!



Happy Valentines Day!  
Today is a day all about love . . .   
Each of our designers is going to share with you something or someplace they love where they live.  This should be interesting since we have ladies from the USA, Poland, India and Puerto Rico. 

The blog hop starts here at Berry71Bleu
and the rest of the order is as follows:

We have a fabulous prize for one lucky person who completes all of the rules of the blog hop,  a 7 Dots Studio collection, Domestic Goddess:

To qualify for this month's FABULOUS Prize you must complete the following:

* Visit each blog listed on the hop to see what each designer has to share with you and leave a comment.
* Each designer's blog hop post will feature a word to make up a secret sentence, 
collect these words along the way.
* You must become a FOLLOWER of each blog along the way
 and LIKE us on our Facebook Page!
* For your last stop on our Blog Hop return here to the Berry71Bleu Blog.
Leave a comment letting us know you have
completed the hop.
(Please do NOT include the secret sentence in your comments.)
Now comes the hard part, you must take the words you have collected along the blog hop and  unscramble them to create a sentence.

*Email the secret sentence to Debbie: mdjsburns@aol.com.  Please put "secret sentence" in your subject line.
The Blog Hop ends Sunday, February 17th at Midnight CST

The winner will be announced on Wednesday, February 20th.

Your word is there.


So lets get this blog hop going, your next stop is 

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

ESM for White Space Challenge by Bellaidea

Hi !
I wonder if you will belive me this is my project for Berry 71 Bleu?
You can easy find a beautiful tag from Marivic but what about Anupamas`s challenge? She is hosting her first ever challenge at Berry71Bleu. The theme for this month is 'White Space'.
Well, the the right high corner THERE IS some white space, this is the best I could do...:)
 My adventure  started with this tag and a challenge;
 
 Our Sponsor for this month's challenge is UHK Gallery

The winner of our February Challenge will win this My Dear Watson paper collection.
 
along with 2 other collections - Queen of Hearts & Love is in the Air
from
 
 
 The 2nd and 3rd place winners will receive the Dreamer Collection from 7 Dots Studio.
 
I can't wait to see what you create!

Rules of the Challenge:
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 at starhorse@onet.eu
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!

If you wish to see more of my work, please visit my blog -