Berry71bleu : February 2016

Monday, February 29, 2016

LIFE IS WONDERFUL FEBRUARY MOOD BOARD

Hi everyone CAROLE here with you today with our February Mood Board.

This is a fabulous challenge, I hope you love it too and have a go.

So, the inspirations I chose from the board are;

The lock and key, gold, black, gold lace, the gems on the key and the crackle paint effect.

HERE IS HOW

First of all choose some gold and black background paper

Take some texture paste and a crackle stencil and stencil around the page, allow to dry

Matt photo in soft yellow card

Matt again in gold card

Using the gold card cut a layer 6 x 6.5 inches and adhere to the top right hand corner

Adhere some music paper 4.5 x 6 inches, ink edges

Add a matt that is crackle painted white and gold

Add matted photo

Add soft yellow card in the bottom left hand corner 6 x 6.5 inches

Add music paper 4.5 x 6 inches, ink edges

Now you have the main body of the layout, start to decorate

Cut a gold paper doily in half and adhere as per the layout

Attach a black swirly border down one side

Adhere gold flowers using hot glue

Die cut three swirly leaves and attach

Die cut or punch out two large butterflies, adhere

Add gold gems for the bodies

Add lock and key

Add some swirly stems

Die cut a frame and add the title

Add some journaling stickers.

And there you have it, a lovely golden layout.

SCRAPPY STASH

Pretty paper in gold and black

Soft yellow and gold cardstock

Brown, gold chalk ink

Gold paper doily

White texture paste

Gold acrylic paint

Gold Prima Flowers

Curly flower stems

Two large black butterflies

Gold gems

Lock made from paper clay

Die cut frame

Key and Hashtag ME - CREATIVE EMBELLISHMENTS

Swirly leaves

Stickers - 7 DOTS STUDIO THOUGHTS KEEPER COLLECTION

AND NOW FOR THE PRIZES

Our Sponsor this month is:

"Viva Las VegaStamps! is a US based manufacturer of deeply etched pink rubber stamps. Super high quality makes for beautifully stamped images. Our near 20,000 image inventory ranges from steampunk to vintage, realistic to sayings, people to animals and more. Our stamps are great for scrapbooking, mixed media, art journaling, cards, jewelry, food, wax and more!"

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Viva Las Vegas Stamps give one winner a $30 Gift Certificate to use in their store!

Please note: International winners may be responsible for shipping costs.
Please be sure to follow our CHALLENGE RULES.

We appreciate each and every challenge entry and share the designs that catch our eye on our Facebook page and Pinterest Boards.

Thank you and I am looking forward to meet with your great projects on our challenge!
XXX

I hope you followed along. Thank you so much for joining me today, do come back again soon to see more design team work.

BYE FOR NOW

xxx

Friday, February 26, 2016

Scrapbook Folio - Special Guest Designer - Gloria Stengel

Hello Everyone

We have an amazing and really special Guest Designer today, welcome Gloria Stengel! ;-)

Here's a little about Gloria.

My name is Gloria Stengel and I live in beautiful, southern California. I am a wife of 28 years, the mom of three kids, and the owner of two cats. We are a homeschooling family, having homeschooled two kids all the way to college with the last one now in homeschooled high school.

I have been hooked on paper crafts all of my life. I have always loved to color, play with paper dolls, and create "projects"! I love all aspects of paper crafting: card making, scrapbooking, mini albums, altered art, up-cycling, you name it! I am happiest when I am making a mess! It's the cleaning up part that I don't care for!

I have a blog, a Facebook Fan Page, and a YouTube channel in order to share my creative work. Please visit my blog, Scraps of Life (www.gloriascraps.blogspot.com) for more inspiration and for links to my other "hang outs."

As soon as I saw the spectacular mood board for February, I knew what I wanted to make! I love color, texture, prints, and metals, and when I saw the shoe in the mood board photo, all I could think of was: Cinderella!

I created an 8x8 card/scrapbook folio.

Isn't this just so gorgeous and beautiful!!

Thanks ever so much for creating this gorgeous and whimsical project Gloria! ;-)

Please pop over to Gloria's blog to see more amazing, scrappy eye candy and inspiration! ;-)

So have you created something yet for our Feb Mood Board?

You still have a few days left! ;-)

Our Sponsor this month is:

Viva Las Vegas Stamps give one winner a $30 Gift Certificate to use in their store!

Please note: International winners may be responsible for shipping costs.

Please be sure to follow our CHALLENGE RULES

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!

Thank you and we hope to see many beautiful creations in February!

Thursday, February 25, 2016

Best Day by Anna Solnyshkina

Hi ))

It's Anna Solnyshkina with you today

and want to share with you my new layout about Wedding Day))

Our mood board inspired me on a brown background with golden elements. Also I used deep blue flowers and purple litlle pebles.

a little closer...

and here is our challenge

Our Sponsor this month is:

Connect with us!
Visit us on FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/vlvstamps

View our BLOG http://vivalas.blogspot.ie/
We're on INSTAGRAM https://instagram.com/vivalasvegastamps/
PINTEREST https://www.pinterest.com/vlvstamps/
Our shop can be found https://www.atvlvstamps.com

Viva Las Vegas Stamps give one winner a $30 Gift Certificate to use in their store!

Please note: International winners may be responsible for shipping costs.

Please be sure to follow our CHALLENGE RULES

We appreciate each and every challnge entry and share the designs that catch our eye on

our facebook page and Pinterest Boards. Look for your work there!

Thank you and we hope to see many beautifull creations in February!

Greats,

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Prague by Anna Wiśniewska

Hello everyone!

It's Anna Wiśniewska with You again.
Today I'd like to present You my inspiration for our February challenge.
We have an amazing mood board this month! It's created by Virag Reti and it's really breathtaing! Just take a look at this gold Venice carnival!

I made the layout with a picture taken this year in Prague - another wonderful European city.

To create it I used elements from different collections from 7 Dots Studio and chipboards from Scrapiniec.

And here's our amazing mood board!

Some close-ups of my layout.

Thank You for stopping by!

Our Sponsor this month is:

Viva Las Vegas Stamps give one winner a $30 Gift Certificate to use in their store!

Please note: International winners may be responsible for shipping costs.

Please be sure to follow our CHALLENGE RULES

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!

Thank you and we hope to see many beautiful creations in February!

Monday, February 22, 2016

Special Guest Designer - Michelle Frisby

Hello Everyone

We have a super duper, fabulous and creative lady here on the blog today! ;-)

Welcome, lovely lady, Michelle Frisby! ;-)

Let me introduce myself.

My name is Michelle Frisby and in the online world you might also know me as Mrs Frizz.

I live in New Zealand and I tell people that I live close to the bottom of the world and it's true, I really do.

I love creating with paper, flowers, mists, paints. When I'm not at work, I'm quite happy being at home in my scrap room or my extended scrap room [ssssshhhhhhh!!! as in taking over the kitchen and dining room bench]. It's my happy place and space.

I have the privilege this month of Guest Designing for Berry71Bleu and playing, oops I really should say creating, with their gorgeous mood board.

Seriously look at that stunning mood board – inspirational. Truly.

I didn’t know where to start, I had so many ideas swirling around in my head.

The texture, the mask, the gondola's.

First off, the mask - I had to create something with a mask and so I did! ;-)

A close up...

and another one...

I really did have a blast.

Let's say that I had "dirty fingers" for days.

After I finished my mask I still kept thinking about the mood board.

My husband and I were lucky enough to visit Venice in September 2013 and boy-oh-boy
looking at this mood board really was like taking a walk down memory lane.

I would also like to share a canvas which I created for this challenge.

A close up.

Another close up showing a little more of that texture (distress crackle paint) on the mask.

A huge thank you to Denise and the team at Berry71Bleu for the opportunity to Guest Design this month!

Fun, fun fun!

Happy creating everyone! ;-)
CYA
Michelle (aka Mrs Frizz)

Now it's your turn and we would love to see what you create! ;-)

Our Sponsor this month is:

Viva Las Vegas Stamps give one winner a $30 Gift Certificate to use in their store!

Saturday, February 20, 2016

Beauty by Jessika Lundman

Hi everybody!

Jessika here and today I get to show you my take on our gorgeous February mood board! I really loved creating this layout.

Here is a reminder of the mood board:

I was inspired to do something striking with a lot of gold accents. I used this photo of my younger sister and "framed" it with black ink and black gesso.

Lots of gold stickles and gold glitter :)

Even the letters got gold of them in form of embossing powder.

Through a stencil I used black gesso gently mixed with gold acrylic colors.

Hope to see lots of glamorus entries in our challenge :D

Our Sponsor this month is:

Thursday, February 18, 2016

Find Yourself and Be That - Guest Designer - Eirini Tsaima

Hello Everyone

We have an amazing Guest Designer today - Eirini Tsaima, she really is, not only a lovely lady, but a fabulous creator! A warm welcome Eirini! ;-)

Hello dear Berry71Bleu Fans!!!

It's Eirini again, from Greece ,crafty mother, mixed media lover and scrapbooking maniac....

What a great honor for me to join this awesome team for the second time!!! Start to feel cozy, like it's my home here!!Anyway, today I'll show you a layout inspired by this fiesta mood board which I loved!!! It's carnival month and I'm in the mood already!!!Will you join us???

Thank you for the great honor again and the super wow prize!!!

You can find me here and feel free to ask anything....

http://renagym.blogspot.gr/

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Eirini created this gorgeous page...

Here's a closer look at some of those stunning details.

Just so wonderful and beautiful! ;-)

Thanks so much Eirini for creating this page for us! ;-)

Please pop over to Eirini's blog to see more of her gorgeous eye candy! ;-)

Now it's your turn....

Our Sponsor this month is:

Viva Las Vegas Stamps give one winner a $30 Gift Certificate to use in their store!

Please note: International winners may be responsible for shipping costs.
Please be sure to follow our CHALLENGE RULES.

We appreciate each and every challenge entry and share the designs that catch our eye on our Facebook page andPinterest Boards.

We look forward to seeing what you create!

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Monday, February 29, 2016

LIFE IS WONDERFUL FEBRUARY MOOD BOARD

Friday, February 26, 2016

Scrapbook Folio - Special Guest Designer - Gloria Stengel

Thursday, February 25, 2016

Best Day by Anna Solnyshkina

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Prague by Anna Wiśniewska

Monday, February 22, 2016

Special Guest Designer - Michelle Frisby

Saturday, February 20, 2016

Beauty by Jessika Lundman

Thursday, February 18, 2016

Find Yourself and Be That - Guest Designer - Eirini Tsaima

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