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Friday, October 31, 2014

Guest Designer Tatiana Yemelyanenko

Hi! We're thrilled to have our September Challenge Winner Tatiana Yemelyanenko as a Guest Designer today! Enjoy her take on the October Challenge!


My name is Tatiana Yemelyanenko. I'm from Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine. I fell in love with scrapbooking and mixed media in the end of 2011 and now I'm totally addicted. I love that scrapbooking helps me to capture the moments of my life and brings feeling of creativity in ordinary days. I like to experiment with different styles and techniques and use mists, paints, texture pastes and stencils in my projects.


I was inspired by the photo in the right corner of the October Mood Board and tried to recreate a fall mood with colors and embellishments.


The background was created with different mists, glitter and stamping.


I cut leaves, pumpkins and branches on a Silhouette, added wooden embellishments and chipboard which were covered with Jacquard and Luminarte paints.


The journalling I hid in the branches.

This time of year is about celebrating the breathtaking array of colors and textures and the sense of change and anticipation that is evident all around us. We want to see how you are falling for Autumn!



You have a couple of hours left to join us this month! There are some amazing prizes up for grabs!

First Prize: 2 Digital Images from the Jellypark Store

Second Prize: Creative Embellishments Gift Certificate 

Random Prize: Maja Design Walking in the Forest Collection


Sponsors:


Jellypark is a digital crafting website with lots of whimsical images drawn by children's illustrator Claire Keay. The images can be used on all your papercraft projects whether digital, hybrid or physical. 




Creative Embellishments is a new family owned company created by Michael and Nicolle Kramer. They are a husband and wife team who design and manufacture unique, high quality chipboard, rubber stamps, flair and wood veneer products. It is their mission to offer fun and inspiring products that can be creativity added to any project. In the near future, they will be expanding into other mediums such as stencils!


Maja Design Corp is based in Uddevalla, Sweden. We are dedicated to create unique and high quality vintage inspired patterned paper for scrapbooking and crafts. Maja Design was founded in November 2007, and since then, have grown to supply over 70 retailers in Sweden and 90 all over the world. Founder Marie Jansson says: "In the fall of 2004, a dear friend asked me to join her to a scrapbooking course. From that moment, I became totally amazed and thrilled by all the beautiful papers and decorations in the art of scrapbooking. After some time as a captivated scrapper, I got curious to create my own patterns. I have always had a devotion for color and form. I had access to great printing facility, as I worked at a printers office. Since 2007, I have been blessed to be able to work with my great passion - to design and create colored coordinated paper.

A special thanks to Jellypark for sponsoring our design team this month!

Please note that if the winner(s) of this challenge are international they will be responsible for shipping costs. Make sure you follow our CHALLENGE RULES.

Thank you and we hope to see your beautiful creations!

We appreciate each and every challenge entry and share the designs that catch our eye on our facebook page and Pinterest Boards. Look for your work there!

Monday, October 27, 2014

Believe in Magic by Mandy


 When I think of Autumn, I think of leaves blowing in the wind, cool crisp days and beautiful colors!  I decided to create an "Autumn Fairy" mixed media canvas  full of rich colors, leaves and the feeling that her hair and sash is blowing in the wind.....

October Challenge - Falling For Autumn Mood Board
hosted by Dana. 


 --Mood Board from Pocketful of Dreams--
 I envisioned this "Autumn Fairy"  to look exotic and beautiful.
I added some digi leaves to her head piece provided by


Jellypark Stamps click here! This month's Design Team sponsor.
Thank you!
I also added some scroll chipboard designs from:
click here
Thank you!
Here is the full photo of the completed project.
I added the little journaling to her flowing sash that reads "Believe in Magic" from 7 Dots Studio "Love is in the Air" Collection click here.
Below shows a better view of the scroll chipboard from Creative Embellishments.
I used colored pencils on the digital leaves and I heat embossed the chipboard.  I then added some paints.
Here is a collage showing how I started with the rough sketch on a 12x12 scrapbook paper.
and lastly I will be adding her to my Facebook cover page.  I did some photoshop on her using PicMonkey...

You still have time to join us this month! There are some amazing prizes up for grabs!
First Prize: 2 Digital Images from the Jellypark Store

Second Prize: Creative Embellishments Gift Certificate 

Random Prize: Maja Design Walking in the Forest Collection
 
 

Sponsors:
Jellypark Digital Craft Stamps
Website: http://www.jellypark.co.uk
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/digitalstamps
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Jellypark_Team
Blog: http://jellyparkchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/


Jellypark is a digital crafting website with lots of whimsical images drawn by children's illustrator Claire Keay. The images can be used on all your papercraft projects whether digital, hybrid or physical. 


 
Creative Embellishments
Website: http://creativeembellishments.com/
Blog: http://creativeembellishments.com/blog
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CreativeEmbellishment
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CEchipboard

Creative Embellishments is a new family owned company created by Michael and Nicolle Kramer. They are a husband and wife team who design and manufacture unique, high quality chipboard, rubber stamps, flair and wood veneer products. It is their mission to offer fun and inspiring products that can be creativity added to any project. In the near future, they will be expanding into other mediums such as stencils!
www.majadesign.nu 

Maja Design Corp is based in Uddevalla, Sweden. We are dedicated to create unique and high quality vintage inspired patterned paper for scrapbooking and crafts. Maja Design was founded in November 2007, and since then, have grown to supply over 70 retailers in Sweden and 90 all over the world. Founder Marie Jansson says: "In the fall of 2004, a dear friend asked me to join her to a scrapbooking course. From that moment, I became totally amazed and thrilled by all the beautiful papers and decorations in the art of scrapbooking. After some time as a captivated scrapper, I got curious to create my own patterns. I have always had a devotion for color and form. I had access to great printing facility, as I worked at a printers office. Since 2007, I have been blessed to be able to work with my great passion - to design and create colored coordinated paper.
A special thanks to Jellypark for sponsoring our design team this month!

Please note that if the winner(s) of this challenge are international they will be responsible for shipping costs. Make sure you follow our CHALLENGE RULES.

Thank you and we hope to see your beautiful creations!

We appreciate each and every challenge entry and share the designs that catch our eye on our facebook page and Pinterest Boards. Look for your work there!
Have a great day!

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Altered Autumn Frame By Kay


Hello Berry71Bleu fans!  Kay here with my take on this month's challenge hosted by fellow DT member Dana Tatar.  Autumn is my favorite season...it's full of change, crisp mornings, colorful foliage & pumpkin everything!!  Pumpkin coffee, pumpkin muffins, pumpkin pie...love it all!!  I'm particularly fond of Autumn since it's the season that I was married in & also when my son was born.

This month I decided to salvage a picture frame I found at my local Hobby Lobby that was on clearance.  I loved the colors & knew that I could add my own personal touch to it in order to turn it into an Autumn themed frame.  So when this challenge came along--it was the perfect opportunity to put my plan into action.


This is the colorful Autumn mood board for this month's challenge.  Just loved the colors on this one!


The frame is fairly large--measuring about 11" inches wide by 13" inches tall.  It holds a 5" x 7" photo.  I combined two photos to create a 5" x 7" collage.  Both photos were taken in the same place around the same time of year but 6 years apart.  My husband & I love to travel next door to Pocono Pines, PA to this little cozy bed & breakfast for our wedding anniversary.  It's a tradition we started when we celebrated our very first anniversary.  Whenever we go we take a photo in the same spot that is located by a lake with beautiful foliage in the background.  I thought it'd be wonderful to show a 'then & now' photo.  The first photo was taken in 2008 which was when we celebrated our 1st wedding anniversary.  The second photo was taken just last weekend.  This was the first year we traveled to this bed & breakfast with our son.


By adding a couple of Autumn themed embellishments--the frame was transformed into one that could compliment my photo perfectly.

I printed out several of the mini trees by Jellypark onto plain white card stock.  I then added several colors onto them by dabbing Distress Inks onto a non porous surface, spritzing water onto the ink & smearing the printed stamps directly onto the ink.  I dried the paper with my heat gun, cut the images out & then adhered them to my berry pick.


This Autumn themed butterfly is from my Etsy shop.  I have several Autumn themed butterflies in my shop since as previously mentioned--I'm a big fan of Fall!


I adhered two little acorns in the corner & highlighted the dots on the frame with clear Stickles.

Hope you enjoy my interpretation of this months challenge & that this small project inspires some of you to take a second look at those frames found in the clearance section!

Now onto this month's prizes...

Check out the fabulous prizes donated by our generous sponsors:

First Prize: 2 Digital Images from the Jellypark Store


Second Prize: Creative Embellishments Gift Certificate 

Random Prize: Maja Design Walking in the Forest Collection





Sponsors:




is a digital crafting website with lots of whimsical images drawn by 
children's illustrator Claire Keay. The images can be used on all your 
papercraft projects whether digital, hybrid or physical. 




Creative 

Embellishments is a new family owned company created by Michael and 
Nicolle Kramer. They are a husband and wife team who design and 
manufacture unique, high quality chipboard, rubber stamps, flair and 
wood veneer products. It is their mission to offer fun and inspiring 
products that can be creativity added to any project. In the near 
future, they will be expanding into other mediums such as stencils!




Maja Design Corp is based in Uddevalla, Sweden. We are dedicated to create unique and high quality vintage inspired patterned paper for scrapbooking and crafts. Maja Design was founded in November 2007, and since then, have grown to supply over 70 retailers in Sweden and 90 all over the world. Founder Marie Jansson says: "In the fall of 2004, a dear friend asked me to join her to a scrapbooking course. From that moment, I became totally amazed and thrilled by all the beautiful papers and decorations in the art of scrapbooking. After some time as a captivated scrapper, I got curious to create my own patterns. I have always had a devotion for color and form. I had access to great printing facility, as I worked at a printers office. Since 2007, I have been blessed to be able to work with my great passion - to design and create colored coordinated paper.

A special thanks to Jellypark for sponsoring our design team this month!

Please
note that if the winner(s) of this challenge are international they
will be responsible for shipping costs. Make sure you follow our CHALLENGE RULES.

Thank you and we hope to see your beautiful creations!

We appreciate each and every challenge entry and share the designs that catch our eye on our facebook page and Pinterest Boards. Look for your work there!

Monday, October 20, 2014

May Your Days be Golden by Cathi O'Neill


This month there is a delicious mood board created by Dana Tatar. This time of year is about celebrating the breathtaking array of colors and textures and the sense of change and anticipation that is evident all around us. We want to see how you are falling for Autumn!


Hi Cathi here!! I based my layout on the gorgeous colors and flowers in the moodboard. The photos are of my daughter last year posing amongst the fallen leaves here locally in Ireland. I added tons of flowers from my stash in gorgeous autumnal tones and even some Petaloo blackberries, which are always plentiful in Autumn here!


Here you can see some of the flowers and branches I added to my cluster and some gorgeous chipboard pieces from the Molossi Brick Wall Panel. I inked them in a beautiful red gold.


Here are some more gorgeous flowers in my cluster, more Molossi Brick Wall Panel pieces, and you can see where I printed the  Jellypark Four Trees Digital Stamp onto some of my BoBunny Autumn Song pattern papers and tucked them into my cluster like beautiful autumn leaves.


I added a bit of masking using white molding paste to add a little background character and added some stickers from the BoBunny collection.

I really loved putting together this gorgeous autumn colored layout and
I hope you can find the time to join us this month! There are some amazing prizes up for grabs!


First Prize: 2 Digital Images from the Jellypark Store




Second Prize: Creative Embellishments Gift Certificate 


Random Prize: Maja Design Walking in the Forest Collection





Sponsors:




Jellypark is a digital crafting website with lots of whimsical images drawn by children's illustrator Claire Keay. The images can be used on all your papercraft projects whether digital, hybrid or physical. 




Creative Embellishments 


Creative Embellishments is a new family owned company created by Michael and Nicolle Kramer. They are a husband and wife team who design and manufacture unique, high quality chipboard, rubber stamps, flair and wood veneer products. It is their mission to offer fun and inspiring products that can be creativity added to any project. In the near future, they will be expanding into other mediums such as stencils!



Maja Design Corp is based in Uddevalla, Sweden. We are dedicated to create unique and high quality vintage inspired patterned paper for scrapbooking and crafts. Maja Design was founded in November 2007, and since then, have grown to supply over 70 retailers in Sweden and 90 all over the world. Founder Marie Jansson says: "In the fall of 2004, a dear friend asked me to join her to a scrapbooking course. From that moment, I became totally amazed and thrilled by all the beautiful papers and decorations in the art of scrapbooking. After some time as a captivated scrapper, I got curious to create my own patterns. I have always had a devotion for color and form. I had access to great printing facility, as I worked at a printers office. Since 2007, I have been blessed to be able to work with my great passion - to design and create colored coordinated paper.


A special thanks to Jellypark for sponsoring our design team this month!


Please note that if the winner(s) of this challenge are international they will be responsible for shipping costs. Make sure you follow our CHALLENGE RULES.


Thank you and we hope to see your beautiful creations!

We appreciate each and every challenge entry and share the designs that catch our eye on our Facebook page and Pinterest Boards. Look for your work there!