Guest Designer - Annie Samson

Hello Everyone

We have a really special treat for you today! ;-)

A warm welcome to our special Guest Designer Annie Samson.

Annie has created a project for this months mood board.

Here's a little reminder.

Here's a little bit about Annie too! ;-)

Hi everyone, my name is Annie Samson and I am very happy to be a guest designer this month. I live in the French province of Quebec in Canada. I share my life with my beloved boyfriend for 13 years now and I have a beautiful girl of 18 years old who is my muse for almost all of my layout. My favorite kind of projects are mixed media layout. If I have to describe my style I would probably have to say Shabby-grunge ... I love to create textures on my layout.  You can see my work here on my blog:  http://lemondeselonpeper.blogspot.ca/ 

Thanks and have a nice day !

Here's the fabulous page Annie created.

Isn't this just so pretty and festive and bright! ;-)

We loved this page to bits! ;-) The details are just amazing! ;-)

Thanks so much Annie for Guest Designing for us this month.

Please pop over to Annie's blog for more inspiration and creativity.

You still have lots of time to play along with the mood board and we can't wait to see what you create! ;-)

Scrap Africa Mood Board Challenge no.77

Hello Everyone

It's a new month and it's a mood board month here at Scrap Africa! ;-)

This month we have a super mood board for you!

I am sure that you will love it as much as we have! ;-)

Here it is.

You can create a card, tag, layout, an altered project, journal pages or even a digital project!

You can create whatever you like! ;-)

We would just love to know what inspired you from the mood board and the sentiment behind your project!;-)

This month we have an amazing Special Guest Designer, she is a previous TOP HAT and also an amazing creator! ;-) A warm welcome to Valerie Ouellet.

Hi,

I'm Valerie Ouellet from Québec (Canada) and I've been scrapbooking for 6 years now. I'm a stay-at-home mom happy to be taking care of 3 little monsters which are often the main subject of my pages. While I'm creating, my style is quite lively and colorful and I tend to use watercolor often and medium.

I'm a designer for 2Crafty Chipboard for 2015-2016, Guest DT for Faber Castell Design memory craft for july to october 2015 and guest Dt for Cuts2luv for august 2015, a company of scrapbook flat flair sold on etsy.

I am so passionate that I own an online store that I administrate at home.

You can follow me here:

http://leblogdevall04.blogspot.ca/

https://www.instagram.com/valerie_ouellet_scrapbooking/

https://www.facebook.com/valerie.ouellet.710

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqSMJJvWtKlBzLSEHNvjY_A/videos

Valerie created this gorgeous and beautiful card! ;-)

Valerie also did a fabulous video tutorial too! ;-)

Pop over here to view it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OljzgIktJFw

Thanks sooo much Valerie for Guest Designing for us and creating this stunning project! ;-)

Please pop over to Valerie's blog to see more of her gorgeous and creative work! ;-)

I am sure that Valerie's project inspired you...but have a look at the Design Teams projects too...
I am sure you will find some seeds of creative inspiration! ;-)

Ada

Arantzazu

Asica

Asmah

Beatriz

Denise

Eirini

Ewelina

Heike

Jenny

Joanna

Kerstin 

Mary

Olga

Salla

Yana

Thanks so much to the Design Team for their beautiful inspiration! ;-)

So now we would love to see what you create.

But, before that...we also have 2 random giveaways up for grabs.

and

These are so super, right?

So please play along and you are automatically in the draw for either of these giveaways.

If you post your project on our FB page, then you will get a second draw! 

So please, we encourage you to share your projects on our FB page! ;-)

You have until 31 August to post your projects.

xx

An InLinkz Link-up

Special Guest Designer - Virag Reti / New Design Team Members - Mary Catt & Kerstin Filou

Hello Everyone

We have a Special Guest Designer today, Virag Reti...a really warm welcome Virag! ;-)

Virag was a previous TOP 3 and is with us today, to share her take on the current mood board.

Firstly, here's a little about Virag.

My name is Virág Réti and I live in Budapest, Hungary. Virág means flower in Hungarian. I work as a marketing manager on weekdays, but my passion is scrapbooking. This is not just a craft activity for me, it is my real holiday and time for relaxation. My scraproom is a calm island in this busy world. I started scrapbooking 5 years ago, but last year when I met with mixed media scrapbooking techniques in an American YouTube video I felt that I found my line, the technique what I was looking for. My style is a little vintage and grunge, sometimes romantic and shabby, but I cannot define exactly. I am able to reform day by day. My favourite products are chipboards, flakes, beautiful papers, paints, mists, nowdays flowers, tags. I am able to prepare layouts in different styles, it depends on my mood, the embellishments and the papers I use. I am a coffee lover. I love singing loudly, but my voice is horrible. And I know, I am a bit crazy, because normal is boring for me. :)

Here's the gorgeous canvas that Virag created.

I used rose patterned stencil on the background and than I colored the flowers with pink pastel mist. Green and yellow colours are made with rainbow powder. For the second step I stamped grunge patterns with grey ink and I used triangle stencil with white modelling paste to brighten the background a little. My photo was taken in Alsace, France last summer in a charming little village. 

And I put a word sticker onto the photo: Take time to smell the roses. 

Virag created a gorgeous and beautiful canvas.  The stencilled roses and soft colouring, along with the beautiful photo and sentiment are just perfect for the mood board.

Thanks so much Virag for creating this stunning piece.  Please pop along to Virag's blog and you will find amazing inspiration and creativity! ;-)

Today we also welcome to 2 Design Team Members to the team...

Mary Catt has been with us for a little while now, but I had not formally introduced her.
So welcome Mary and we are delighted to have you on the team.

Hello! I'm Mary and I live in Greece. I'm married to a wonderfully supportive husband and we have three children. I met scrapbooking two years ago and I can honestly say it was love at first sight. I love mixed media style but I also like to experiment with other styles too. The only thing I can tell for sure is that I can't create without flowers and embellishments. I use them, in all my projects, a lot. I find lots of my inspiration in everyday life and when I scrap I feel so happy that I totally forget everything around me. 

I'm very happy to be here as a Team Member and I want to thank Scrap Africa for that honor!

Here is a gorgeous page of Mary's, just as a little "taster" of her work and we hope you will pop along to her blog to see more of her beautiful work! ;-)

Secondly, a warm welcome to the team too, is Kerstin Filou! ;-)

My name is Kerstin-Inga Peters, aka Kerstin F. and I come from Germany.

I have been creating for many years now, always in search of new techniques and yet unexplored territory in craft  land. I'm a modern girl with a big vintage heart and love the things that are old and nobody wants anymore, because they have a history.

My big passion are colours and textures. With Scrapbooking, Mixed Media Style and Art Journaling I have found 'my' perfect favourite genres - as it combines words and pictures, thoughts and feelings, and the application of various innovative techniques and the idea of telling stories.

I love to work with stencils and chipboards on Layouts or other mixed media projects, because this a perfect addition and there are so many opportunities to create.

I'm a DT in Scrap FX, SanDee & Amelies Steampunk Challenge and a

member of DecoArt Outreach Blogger program

 my blog http://scrapdesigns77.blogspot.com/

I have a gallery on scrapbook. com, Pinterest and Facebook.

https://de.pinterest.com/Vintagelady777/

http://www.scrapbook.com/places/Vintagelady

Here is a stunning page of Kerstin's and hope you will also pop over to her blog, to see more of her creativity and inspiration! ;-)

Welcome Kerstin and we really look forward to seeing all that you create! ;-)

Lastly, don't forget about our gorgeous mood board.

You have until 30 June to upload your projects!

xx

Guest Designer - Ola / Ikemo

Hello Everyone

We have a super duper Guest Designer today, who was a TOP HAT in our previous challenges - Ola / Ikemo  -  Welcome Ola! ;-)

Ola created some more inspiration for our current sketch challenge! ;-)

Here's a reminder of the sketch.

Here's a little about Ola.

Welcome, my name is Ola, known as Ikemo in virtual world. Something special connects me with scrapbooking even time trial, work and marriage, with “hard” partner, cannot separate us. I love to create ! More and more often I reach inside myself and pull out to the daylight hidden feelings and dreams. Scrapbooking is a paper version of my imagination and emotions that accompany me in the (sometimes several hours ) time of creation. Do you feel the same?.

Ola created this stunning page.

Here's a close up.

Isn't that background and the layering just amazing?

Thanks so much Ola for creating this divine inspiration for us.

Please pop over to Ola's blog for some more inspiration and eye candy.

There's some BoBunny goodness up for grabs.

This entire BoBunny paper collection will be won by a random entrant! ;-)

Now it's your turn! ;-)

We would love to see what you create!

You have until 14 Feb to upload your projects.

Special Guest Designer - Scrap Africa Sketch no.62

Hello Everyone

We have a super amazing Guest Designer today, to share her beautiful work for our new sketch Challenge no.62.  Welcome Jessika Lundman! ;-)

Here's a little about Jessika.

"Hi!

My name is Jessika and I live in the very north of Sweden. I live here with my boyfriend and our two sons. 

I have been scrapping since 2006 and have had a wonderful scrapping journey so far! I started out doing cards and small baby albums for peoples birthdays and such and has since then grown immensely. I now mostly do mixed media layouts. Putting paints and color on a white background is pure joy for me :D I just love to get messy! I also love contrasts. That is usually why I work on white and black backgrounds.

You can see more of my work on my blog

http://mrssandman.blogspot.se/

Thank you Scrap Africa for having me as a guest designer!"

Jessika created this stunning and fabulous page! ;-)

Isn't this page just amazing!!!

The textures and super details just make for a wonderful page! ;-)

Thanks so much Jessika for creating this fabulous and spokky page! ;-)

A reminder as to the sketch...

We'd love to see your take.

You have until 14 November.

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