My scrappin' life

Exciting news from Prima!

April 1 was the official distribution start day of Prima's new Art-Zine ‘My Prima Place’.

I feel honored that one of my projects is in this first issue with step-by-step instructions !!

We’re ready to excite, inspire, motivate, and share …….the wonderful world of Prima!

We are very pleased to announce the imminent arrival of our premier issue of "My Prima Place”, a complimentary publication dedicated to all things 'Prima'.

This 28 page bi-monthly Art-Zine created by our in-house Editor, Sherry Mendoza, which showcases a variety of styles and projects including Scrapbooking, Card Making and Mixed Media.  

With beautiful photography and written tutorials prepared by our talented international design and education team, My Prima Place will be a great source of inspiration, information and influence. We will also be adding projects and features from acclaimed guest-artists and designers from all over the world to keep every issue fresh and informative.  

Prima's Art-Zine will be available from stores and distribution to stores will commence on April 1st, 2012. 

And here's a little sneak peek of the inside:

Magazine enquiries: sherry@primamarketinginc.com 

Sales enquiries: sales@primamarketinginc.com

 

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!

 

2012 Tattered Angels Design Team Announcement!

I am very thrilled and excited to annouce that I was invited to join the Tattered Angels Design Team for another year!!

And OMGosh, look at the other names on this list! What an amazing team! If you don't know all of these ladies go visit their blogs and be amazed and inspired by their talent!

Golden Ambassadors:

Nathalie Kalbach –Germany (Design Team Coordinator)

Vicki Chrisman –USA

Designers:

Alissa Fast – USA

Anna Björklund –Sweden

Anna Dabrowska –Poland

Birgit Koopsen –The Netherlands

Evgenia Petzer –South Africa

Holly Simoni –USA

Jana Korečič –Slovenia

Kaori Fujimoto –Japan

Karine Cazenave-Tapie –France

Lene Neby – Norway

Louise Nelson –Australia

Martha Richardson –USA

Zoe Nemburt - Canada

And here is a layout I created for the Scrapbook Adhesives^tm by 3L Crafty Power Blog, that also includes a lot of Glimmer Mist:

The background paper is actually the backing of a package of Prima canvas letters. Al the color on here, on the paper, the labels, the doily and the photo corner flower, even on the wooden flowers comes from Tattered Angels products.

I used the MyStik permanent dispenser to apply the picture, the paper parts and the wooden flowers. For the buttons in the middle of the wooden flowers I used small 3D foam squares.

For the butterflies I used the MyStik permanent dispenser also, adding just one tiny little strip of adhesive in the middle of the butterfly allowing me to bend the wings for more depth.

I used stamps, Glimmer Glaze and Glimmer Mist to create the paper where the butterflies were punched from.

The green flower shape on the doily on top of the page is made from spray painted Photocorners -Classic Style white.

That's it for now, thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful creative day!

 

Giveaway time!!!

In a little more than 2 weeks it will be my birthday and I thought that would be a great day to make someone happy with an awesome giveaway!!

 

This is what's in there:

Prima Marketing: 24 sheets of Prima patterned papers, 2 sheets of specialty papers, 1 6x6” paper stack, 3 sets of alphabet stickers, 2 sets of rubons, a variety of flowers (8 sets), trim and lace, 2x SIIC, glitter crystals and 2 resin treasures.

Tattered Angels: 1 glimmer mist, 1 glaze, 1 glam and 1 chalkboard, a variety of mistable tags

Scrapbbok Adhesives^TM by 3L: EZ-runner permanent, EZ-Runner repositionable, Keepsake envelopes, Adhesive sheets, Mounting squares, Crafty Power Tape and 2 sets of 3D foam squares.

Now what do you have to do to be able to win this huge box with goodies?

First of all (if you don't already) follow my blog either on Google Friend Connect, on Networkedblogs or through FB (see right sidebar, scroll down).

Then post about this giveaway either on your blog or on FB and leave a comment on this post to tell me that you did so I can find you!

On my birthday, November 27th, I will have Random.org pick a winner and post his/her name here on my blog. Would you like to celebrate with me on my birthday? Share the fun and play along, maybe you're the lucky one!!

I can upload again!!! :) New workshop announcements!

So I tried all morning to upload pictures and nothing worked, even send a help request to Typepad and then a scream for help on FB. Then I got the advice to change my browser so I changed from IE to Google Chrome and guess what??? It's quite obvious, right, that I know NOTHING of computers?! Luckily there are great people out there that do! :)

And here are my 2 newest workshops!

The first one I will be teaching at:

Treasured Memories, Oak Park CA, january 28, 2012

REVolution Event, Utrecht, march 10-11, 2012

Intohimona Skräppäys (”Passionate about Scrapbooking”) Event, Jyväskylä, Finland, april 21-22, 2012

The second one I will be teaching at Treasured Memories, Oak Park CA, january 28, 2012:

 

Something else.... in 2 weeks it's my birthday and I want to celebrate this by doing a HUGE blog candy giveaway! This giveaway will include products from Prima Marketing, Tattered Angels and Scrapbook Adhesives^TM by 3L! Check back tomorrow to see what you have to do to be able to win!

Thank you for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Join me at Live with Prima tonight! and WOW! words-on-wednesday

8 pm CET / GMT +1 / 11:00am PT/ 12:00pm MT/ 1:00pm CT/ 2:00pm ET!

Find all the details here: http://prima.typepad.com/prima/2011/10/whinsical-wall-decor-beautiful-layout-and-festive-frame-on-lwp-this-week.html

Would love to see you there!

And the words for today are:

Wishing you all a bright and shining Wednesday!

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!

My Tattered Angels/Prima blog hop layout

Last thursday there was a fun blog hop over at the Tattered Angels and Prima blogs. I hope you enjoyed it! I showed a little sneakie and you could see the completed project on the Tattered Angels blog. Today I'm sharing the layout I created for this blog hop here.

I used a Prima mistable canvas sheet which I colored with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist Key Lime Pie, Olive Vine, Trunk Bay and Jack Frost. I covered the three little flowers with TA Glam Chandelier to give them a shiny look. Flowers, chipboard alpha, SIIC, trinkets, notecard and the cut out little butterflies are all Prima. The crocheted ring on the journaling spot was handmade by myself :)

And here is the layout with a picture of me and my sweet daughter having a good time at the Lake of Annecy last vacation. I so enjoyed having her and her boyfriend visiting us for a couple of days!! (and yes, the water was really that blue!)

 
 
And a few close-ups:

 
 
 Hope you're all enjoying your weekend!

Workshops bij De Scrapheap, 2 oktober 2011

For my dutch readers:

Op zondag 2 oktober a.s. zal ik 2 workshops geven bij De Scrapheap in Sprang-Capelle ter ere van het vijf-jarig bestaan van de winkel:

 
 
Voor meer informatie over tijden, prijzen e.d. en om je aan te melden ga je naar de website van De Scrapheap.

Graag tot ziens op 2 oktober! :)

Tattered Angels and Prima blog hop - great give-aways!!!

Hi there!!

Today the Tattered Angels DT and the Prima DT are partnering in a fun blog hop in which you can win some great give-aways.

This is Tattered Angels lovely give-away:

 

And here is a sneakie of the project I created for this blog hop. Go to the Tattered Angels blog , find the completed project and find out what you need to do to win this prize! It's that easy!

 

And here is the lovely Prima give-away:

 

To be able to win this give-away go to the Prima blog and find out what you need to do!

Make sure to check out all the amazing projects the DT-members of both companies created using Tattered Angels and Prima products!! Have fun!

 

• Anna Dabrowska
• Benedicte Raphalen
• Birgit Koopsen (you are right here!)
• Christyn Holmes
• Emeline Seet
• Erica Taylor 
• Gaelle Fauglas
• Holly Simoni
• Jamie Dougherty
• JJ Sobey
• Mandy Collins
• Martha Richardson
• Nat Kalbach (DT coordinator)
• Nicole Martel
• Patricia Komara
• Peg Hewitt
• Sherry Mendoza
• Susan Lui
• Trisha Ladoceur
• Vicki Chrisman 
• Zoe Nemburt

 

• Sherry Mendoza, coordinator
• Birgit Koopsen, you are right here :)
• Cari Fennell
• Ingvild Bolme
• Jamie Dougherty
• Janine Koczwara
• Louise Williams
• Marion Smith
• Nathalie Kalbach
• Sharon Laakkonen
• Stephanie Ackerman

Anna Dabrowski

Karola Witczak

Stacy Cohen

Trina McClune

Leslie Ashe

Maiko Kosugi

Trudi Harrison

Heidi Kelley

Anna-Marie Wolniak

Stacey Young

Hege Lundquist

Anne Jo Lexander

Emeline Seet

Marie-Nicolas Alliot

Steph Devlin

AnnaMarie Mondro 

Sharon Laakkonen (DT coordinator)