My scrappin' life

Workshops and a layout for Tattered Angels

Back home from my weekend at Scrap4fun where I have been teaching my workshop "The whole Shebang" 2 days. I really had a great time and I hope my students did too. It was quite an intens workshops with lots of techniques and we had to work fast, no time to sit back and relax :) But I think in the end most was done or could be finished at home.

 

Vera and her team where fantastic, the hotel was wonderful and I sure would love to go back there and teach again. For now Vera and agreed on the weekend of september 15th and this time I will teach a couple of 3/3,5 hour workshops. More information about that as soon as we know more!!

Are you sorry you missed this, then I have good news for you! I will be teaching this workshop in my own studio on March 24, see my previous post for more information or e-mail me at scrappen@birgitkoopsen.nl 

And now on to the next. I will be leaving for CHA in only 11 days, eeekkkk!! And there is a LOT that has to be done before I can leave! Today I spent most of the time preparing kits for my workshops at Treasured Memories in Oak Park, near LA, where I will teach these 2 workshops on January 28th:

There are a few spaces left so if you would like to join in the fun go to the Treasured Memories website and sign up! I would love to meet you there!!

I will leave you today with a layout I made for the Tattered Angels blog.

I created the background paper with embossing powder, distress ink and glimmer mist.

First I stamped and embossed the circles with white embossing powder, which created a resist. Then I sprayed the background with Glimmer Mist Sun Sisters. Mel’s Diner and Harvest Orange. The Silk flowers are sprayed with Cadillac Pink and the roses with Marmalade.

For the diamonds I used a mask and distress ink that I applied with blending foam. I finished the backgound stamping with black Stazon. The crystals where colored in the right color with Letraset Aquamarkers. Flowers, crystals, fabric leaves are Prima Marketing Inc. The border was created using Prima packaging material.

That's it for now!

Hope to be back soon!

 

Layout for Mood Papercrafter blog

Yesterday I was guest designer on the Mood Papercrafter blog. I was asked to provide a layout with a the "Color me gorgeous"-kit that was send to me. This kit contained hardly anything with color and it was up to me what to do with it. Thank you Odetta and Jolanda for this fun challenge!

And this is what I created using Glimmer Mist, Chalkboard and Letraset Aqumarkers:

 

 

 

Hope this inspires you to color something happy too!

For the sake of playing.... love canvas!

So I finally had a little bit of "me-time" today :)

Hubby was away all day, kids had all their to-do-on-saturday-stuff (and I even didn't have to drive :)) and no deadline for at least 4 days!

I decided to do something fun just for me, create something without thinking whether the products are new enough or still available in stores, without thinking if one manufacturer goes along with another I wanted to use, just to use whatever I liked from my stash...

Creating just for the sake of playing.... ohhhh, what a great day!! :D Wish I could spent all my days like this! LOL!

So I took out a canvas (12x12"), book paper, gesso, a brayer, Tattered Angels chalkboard, canvas sheets, Letraset Aquamarkers, a water brush, bubble wrap, acrylic paint, a black pen, stamps, Stazon and some old rubons from 7Gypsies, Hambly and Fancy Pants and I played whole day long...

and ended up with this canvas:

 

 
 
I just love how these colors pop!

Chalkborad colors I used are Alaskan Salmon, Firefly, Inchworm, Polka Dot Pink (which looks actually a little more redish than you see below) and Peacock:

 

I used a variety of red, orange, yellow, blue and green Letraset Aquamarkers. You can find all colors here!

Wishing you a colorful and love filled weekend!

Prima Build-a-Page for June!

Here's the sketch for Prima's June BAP:

Check out the fancy background shape and amazing embellishment area! We even have room for a lovely title, journaling shape and a few stunning border strips.

Join us this month by submitting a Prima-based project based on this layout by June 30th, 2011 for a chance to win a fabulous Prima prize to:

sharon@primamarketinginc.com 

Please put JUNE BAP in the subject line so we file your entry correctly! Best of luck.

And here is my take on this months sketch:

 
Marerials used:

• 921576 Trim Orange
• 920760 Packaging of Canvas screen-printed tags
• 540845 SIIP
• 547486 Lovely fabric leaves
• 537753 Athena flowers powder puff
• 920951 Flowers sculpture
• 921002 Flowers sculpture
• 541934 Note card So cute
• Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist: Sunshine, Sunsisters, Trunk Bay | Chalkboard: Teal High Heel

Text was printed on Letraset Safmat self-adhesive printing film.

I used packaging of screen printed tags to create the background mat. Sprayed it with Tattered Angels Chalkboard and glimmer mist. Also did that with a piece of packaging I used at the top as a spot for the date.

Check out the Prima blog for more DT sketch examples and tons of inspiration!!

Thanks for stopping by! Wishing you all a wonderful week!

 

 

Workshop update.

Dream Imagine Love - workshop

 I will be teaching this wooden photo frame workshop at:

Scrapbook Werkstatt on May 21 | 9 - 11.30  | 45 euro  (go to Scrapbook Werkstatt to sign up)

In my own studio in Winsum

on June, 25| 13.00 -16:.00|  45 euro (send me an e-mail at scrappen@birgitkoopsen.nl to sign up)

on September, 17 | 13.00 -16:.00|  45 euro (send me an e-mail at scrappen@birgitkoopsen.nl to sign up)

Scraptastic Event 2011 in Belgium on September, 25 | 15.30-17.30 |  45 euro (go to Scraptastic 2011 to sign up)

 

Just create! - workshop

Using: 

 I will be teaching this layout workshop at:

Scrapbook Werkstatt on May 22 | 10 - 12.30  | 34 euro  (go to Scrapbook Werkstatt to sign up)

In my own studio in Winsum on May 17| 19.30 - 22.30 |  34 euro (send me an e-mail at scrappen@birgitkoopsen.nl to sign up)

In my own studio in Winsum on September 17| 9.30 - 12.30 |  34 euro (send me an e-mail at scrappen@birgitkoopsen.nl to sign up)

 

Journal it! - workshop

 

Art/Travel/Personal-journal using Canvas Corp , paper, canvas, tags etc., MyStamp BOX stamps, Letraset markers, Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L^tm adhesives and binding it with the Zutter Bind-it-all!

 

 I will be teaching this workshop at:

 

Scrapbook Werkstatt on May 21 | 15 - 17.30  | 45 euro  (go to Scrapbook Werkstatt to sign up)

In my own studio in Winsum on May 28 | 13 - 16.00  |  45 euro (send me an e-mail at scrappen@birgitkoopsen.nl to sign up)

 

Faux Metal Mini album - workshop

 

Scraptastic 2011! To sign up and find out everything about the other teachers and workshops visit the Scraptastic 2011 blog!!

Love is in the air - workshop

 

Scraptastic 2011! To sign up and find out everything about the other teachers and workshops visit the Scraptastic 2011 blog!!

If you want to follow one of these workshops but are not able too on the said dates, or if you want me to teach in you scrap/craft store, e-mail me at scrappen@birgitkoopsen.nl.

Maybe we can work something out!!

And we have a winner!!!

And the winner of the Letraset markers is:

Joke said...

Hi Birgit, I think you know I'm a big fan of your work and these layouts are exception. Love the markers, I have planty of white thickers, so I'm crossing my thumbs for them ;-)
See you on your blog!

Congratulations Joke! Please e-mail me your addy and I will send them to you!

Thank you all for playing along and keep an eye on my blog, there will be more give aways on my blog soon!

Infocrea sketch challenge

This month it was my turn to provide a sketch on the Infocrea blog.

Here are my sketch and the layout I made with it:

 

 

Materials used: all La Dolce Vita line,
including the stamp: DV01, DV03, DV06, DV-E03 and TN-0489.
To get the rext on the clouds I first printed it on regular printing paper.
Then I placed the clouds on top of the text using non-permanent adhesive
and run the paper through my printer a second time.

 

 

You can still join in the fun! Go to the Infocrea blog to read all about it and see what the other girls did with this sketch! If you don't read French you can use the translator at the top of the right sidebar.

If you haven't seen my previous post, check it out! You can win a set of Letraset markers just by leaving a message at the Letraset blog and here on my blog!

Letraset spotlight girl and give away!!

Today I have to honor of being the spotlight girl over at the Letraset blog!

I discovered Letraset markers at CHA and was enthusiastic about them from the first minute. When I was back home Letraset generously send me a range of their markers to play with and they are awesome!

I love that you can use them on any surface and the range of colors is enormous! Loads of bright colors, which I love!

I feel very honored to be in their spotlight today. I mean, if you go over to the Letraset website you can see the work of sooo many very, very talented artists. Real artists, that make the most beautiful artwork, yet they asked me to be their first spotlight girl. Me, just a simple scrapbooker, using the markers in a rather simple way... But, as Kirsty (who was so sweet of asking me for this) said " Sometimes the simplest things are the most inspiring" .

Maybe you've seen my post a little while ago where I used them on a layout I made for the Prima DT. Here I used Aqua markers on canvas an paper and blended the colors with a water brush. The colors stay bright and blend beautiful!

 

I also used them on a layout I made for Infocrea. On this layout I used them to add color to transparencies and to brighten up my title. Also I added a pattern to the buttons. I used both Promarkers and Aquamarkers and they both hold on plastic!

 
 

 

 

 

I love these markers so much that I decided to use them in a workshop I will be teaching in Germany and in my own studio in May:

 

For more information about this workshop you can click here!

Go over to the Letraset blog and the website for much more inspiration!

To get you just as excited as I am I will give away a set of 6 markers worth $ 20,50!! Go over to the  Letraset blog , leave a comment there, and then come back here to leave a comment on this post so I know you've checked out the blog. I will draw a winner by wednesday, april 13th!

Wishing you all a fabulous, sunny weekend!

Journal it! - workshop

 

Art/Travel/Personal-journal using Canvas Corp , paper, canvas, tags etc., MyStamp BOX stamps, Letraset markers, Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L^tm adhesives and binding it with the Zutter Bind-it-all!

 

 I will be teaching this workshop at:

 

Scrapbook Werkstatt on May 21 | 15 - 17.30  | 45 euro  (go to Scrapbook Werkstatt to sign up)

In my own studio in Winsum on May 28 | 13 - 16.00  |  45 euro (send me an e-mail at scrappen@birgitkoopsen.nl to sign up)

 

Prima's Product Pick and Palette and Letraset markers

Hello!! I see it's been already 8 days again since I updated my blog. And I sooo planned on blogging more regularly!

Ahhh well, at least I've been creating :) This layout I made for Prima's March Product Pick and Palette with mostly green colors:

 

Materials used: 920494 DD foam stamp | 548698 Dechire Flower- Nanette | 920999 & 920968 Sculpture flowers | 537753 Athena flowers- Powder Puff | 541781 & 537418 Alphabet stickers | 547165 Birdsong Paper Bird- script | 517717 Journal frames clear stamps | 843083  Sweet Fairy Paper - Rosebud | 842291  Reflections Paper - Goldsboro | 921415 Cabachon Collection Flowers | Lace ribbon

I used this stamp920494 and turned it a quarter to the left to create the back ground of my layout. I stamped with brown Stazon ink.

To color the bird and give the letters the exact matching colors I used Letraset markers. These permanent and aqua markers are just wonderful for scrapbooking. You can use them on any surface and alter your products to fitt your layout!!

 

To color the title letters and the bird I used aqua markers and a water brush to blend the colors.

For the smaller title letters I used pro markers to get a solid opaque look:

Check out many more ways to use the markers on the Letraset website!

Promis you my next post will be soon! :)

Happy scrapping!