My scrappin' life

Creative JumpStart 2019 Is Here!!! :)

I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be participating again as an artist in Creative JumpStart (CJS) 2019, run for the 8^th year by Nathalie Kalbach. If you're not familiar with CJS, it's a one-of-a-kind online event to kick your creativity into high gear in January 2019. 

Learn techniques, discover new materials, and connect with other artists and crafters. 

Throughout January participants get access to 31 downloadable videos from 31 featured artists. I'm proud to be one of those artists, called “JumpStarters.” See for yourself:

Head on over to Nathalie's site to sign up and for more details:

You get 31 videos - over 5 hours worth of video content -  for just $40 (USD) if you sign up by November 26 2018 11:59 pm EST. Afterwards it will be $45USD until November 30th 2018, and $50USD until December 31st 2018, before it goes to its normal sale price of $60USD on January 1st 2019. 

So what are you are waiting for? Sign up HERE for an amazingly inspiring month to kick of your creative year!!

I would love to see you there :D

Crew Member Wednesday With Hermien

Hello! It's Crew member Wednesday again!! 

Today it's Hermien's turn and I think her idea comes just in time to prepare for your Christmas gifts. Because, who would not love to receive a beautiful handmade card with their gifts?!

 

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Hi,

While the sun is making a real effort to let me believe summer is still here (yeah don't you love an autumn like this?) I am sitting at my kitchen table writing a short story about my two little cards for this month's BMMAC contribution..

It started with some left over paper and folding..what to make? Small ..hmm why not make a bigger little card to attatch to a gift or bouquet..you all know how small the 'normal' cards are and while writing a wish or thank you note you are forced to write very tiny or use less words than you wanted to? On this folded card you have much more space to say what you want to say!

I began with gesso and paint and the flower mask on one side, on the other side I used the circle mask and different colors (blue & yellow and purple & turquois) then embossed the stamps and added some text ..added some extra paint where I wanted to and at the inside of the cards I made gesso circles to write in..Used my black marker at the edges..now this post is ready I am thinking about making punch holes and ore some wire, but didn't do that... edit: I did☺ see pics!..have fun!

Products used in this project:

Hermien

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Thank you so much for stopping by!!

Make sure to drop by every Wednesday and every first Saturday of the month for ongoing inspiration by my fabulous Crew!

We would love to see your creations on Birgit's Mixed Media Art Crew Facebook page so if you created something inspired by one of the Crew Members or using any of my products then please share!

Also, if you don't want to miss a thing... follow our new Instagram feed: Birgit's Mixed Media Art Crew!

 

Crew Member Wednesday With Karin

Hello! It's crew member Wednesday and today we have Karin with a set of gorgeous tags! Love, love, love the colors!!

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I got inspired by the beautiful colors of nature and the falling leafs and therefore I decided to create something with one of Birgit's gorgeous leaf stamps!

I started with a gelprint out of my stash and cut it into two tags.

Then I stamped them with the "leaf" stamp.

The next thing I did was stamping the "leaf" on a sheet of paper and I colored them with ecoline markers.

I cut them out and glued them on the already stamped images on the tags.

And as a final touch I added some splashes of gold ecoline.

Product used in this project:

Karin

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Thank you so much for stopping by!!

Make sure to drop by every Wednesday and every first Saturday of the month for ongoing inspiration by my fabulous Crew!

We would love to see your creations on Birgit's Mixed Media Art Crew Facebook page so if you created something inspired by one of the Crew Members or using any of my products then please share!

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Crew Member Saturday With Revlie

Hi there! It's the first Saturday of the month again and that means that one of my Guest Crew Members is here to inspire you! Today it's Revlie with a happy pink art journal page. Do you love to doodle but can't always find the right pattern? Then Revlie has the perfect solution for you!

 

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Hi! Revlie from the Netherlands! I am honored to be part of Birgit’s Art Crew as a Guest Designer and I’ll make a new project every 3 months! 

I love to doodle but sometimes it’s just hard to come up with new doodle ideas, and maybe you are not sure where to start! But I’ve found a perfect little & very easy solution for that! You can doodle over a stamp! Yes. That easy! Simply trace over and make a beautiful art journal page!

Here you can watch my video. The trick is to use a bit of the same color ink while stamping, as the background is. That way, you can hardly see the stamp, but your beautiful pencil or pen lines will stand out. I have used a bit darker magenta color so my white ink will look gorgeous!

 

 products used in this project:

 

Revlie

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Thank you so much for stopping by!!

Make sure to drop by every Wednesday and every first Saturday of the month for ongoing inspiration by my fabulous Crew!

We would love to see your creations on Birgit's Mixed Media Art Crew Facebook page so if you created something inspired by one of the Crew Members or using any of my products then please share!

Also, if you don't want to miss a thing... follow our new Instagram feed: Birgit's Mixed Media Art Crew!

 

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Hi! Revlie from the Netherlands! I am honored to be part of Birgit’s Art Crew as a Guest Designer and I’ll make a new project every 3 months! 

I love to doodle but sometimes it’s just hard to come up with new doodle ideas, and maybe you are not sure where to start! But I’ve found a perfect little & very easy solution for that! You can doodle over a stamp! Yes. That easy! Simply trace over and make a beautiful art journal page!

Here you can watch my video. The trick is to use a bit of the same color ink while stamping, as the background is. That way, you can hardly see the stamp, but your beautiful pencil or pen lines will stand out. I have used a bit darker magenta color so my white ink will look gorgeous!

 

 products used in this project:

 

Revlie

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Thank you so much for stopping by!!

Make sure to drop by every Wednesday and every first Saturday of the month for ongoing inspiration by my fabulous Crew!

We would love to see your creations on Birgit's Mixed Media Art Crew Facebook page so if you created something inspired by one of the Crew Members or using any of my products then please share!

Also, if you don't want to miss a thing... follow our new Instagram feed: Birgit's Mixed Media Art Crew!

 

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Hi! Revlie from the Netherlands! I am honored to be part of Birgit’s Art Crew as a Guest Designer and I’ll make a new project every 3 months! 

I love to doodle but sometimes it’s just hard to come up with new doodle ideas, and maybe you are not sure where to start! But I’ve found a perfect little & very easy solution for that! You can doodle over a stamp! Yes. That easy! Simply trace over and make a beautiful art journal page!

Here you can watch my video. The trick is to use a bit of the same color ink while stamping, as the background is. That way, you can hardly see the stamp, but your beautiful pencil or pen lines will stand out. I have used a bit darker magenta color so my white ink will look gorgeous!

 

 products used in this project:

 

Revlie

*****

Thank you so much for stopping by!!

Make sure to drop by every Wednesday and every first Saturday of the month for ongoing inspiration by my fabulous Crew!

We would love to see your creations on Birgit's Mixed Media Art Crew Facebook page so if you created something inspired by one of the Crew Members or using any of my products then please share!

Also, if you don't want to miss a thing... follow our new Instagram feed: Birgit's Mixed Media Art Crew!

 

Crew Member Wednesday With Linda

Hi everyone! Welcome to another Crew Member Wednesday. Today we have Linda with an amazing, fun and colourful art journal spread. I think her creatures are really cool! Check out the video to see her process :)

 

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Hello !

Today I want to share a fun art journal project I’ve made. I was inspired by the big eye stamp Birgit have created and had to use it for a creature, some way or another. This is the result, fishes and other creatures in a fantasy water tank. Enjoy!

 

Products used to create these pages:

     
             

 

Linda

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Thank you so much for stopping by!!

Make sure to drop by every Wednesday and every first Saturday of the month for ongoing inspiration by my fabulous Crew!

We would love to see your creations on Birgit's Mixed Media Art Crew Facebook page so if you created something inspired by one of the Crew Members or using any of my products then please share!

Also, if you don't want to miss a thing... follow our new Instagram feed: Birgit's Mixed Media Art Crew!

Crew Member Wednesday With Hermien

Hello! It's Crew member Wednesday again!! 

Today Hermien is here with another set of beautiful cards! She made these while she was dealing with a broken hip, can you imagine?!

So leave her some love people :)

 

 

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Hi, its Hermien again with some flowery cards. I had plans to make a small book but unfortunately I broke my hip and was not able to climb stairs (my hobby/happy space is still upstairs, next month I hope to move down stairs!) so maybe next month!

Decided to stay in the circle mood, but this time a little bigger, I used my round gelli plate to color the background, embossed the flower stamps and added some extra color, my camera was not able (or its me?) to catch the fluor orange, so it's really much brighter than on the pics..! I distressed  the edges and used a white marker to scribble some text.

 

Products used for this project:

  

Hermien

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Thank you so much for stopping by!!

Make sure to drop by every Wednesday and every first Saturday of the month for ongoing inspiration by my fabulous Crew!

We would love to see your creations on Birgit's Mixed Media Art Crew Facebook page so if you created something inspired by one of the Crew Members or using any of my products then please share!

Also, if you don't want to miss a thing... follow our new Instagram feed: Birgit's Mixed Media Art Crew!

 

 

Crew Member Wednesday With Karen

Hi everyone! It's Crew Member Wednesday and today we have Karen who made a lovely card using tissue paper. You all know how much I love tissue paper, right?! And aren't those embroidered marks the coolest?! Love this!

 

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Welcome everyone to another team Wednesday from me, Karen! I’m excited to share this tutorial today with you to give you some ideas to add some simple texture to your artwork. Adding in different paper weights and products can really help you to level up your creations. 

I’m using a small watercolor postcard to create on this time. I find that when I’m feeling a bit meh about my creativity it can really help to work on a piece that’s not inside my journal. It shakes up my creative brain a bit and I come up with new ideas.

I’m using the Scribble Feather stamp set and I’m going to be stamping onto this lovely purple tissue paper that I saved from some packing. I’ve also pulled out my Prima watercolors, this is the decadent pies set and some scraps of book text and gelli printed tissue paper.

I started off by stamping my feather using Staz On in black. I used my water brush to go around the edge on the tissue paper and that way I can control where the tear is going to happen.

I spread some water onto the postcard and then just dropped in some water color to it and let it mix. Honestly I could do this all day, it’s so soothing and magical.

I played around with the placement of my papers until I was happy with them. I wanted to see quite a bit of the watercolor texture and still have the feather was the focal point. I just added glue (with a glue stick) to the middle part of the feather. I wanted to make sure that I kept some of the texture if the tissue paper lose to mimic the feel of a real feather. 

For a final bit of interest I took some embroidery thread and added in some lines of stitches as the side. I think this just ties the whole piece together really nicely. 

I hope you enjoyed the tutorial and you’re inspired to add in some stitches and textured layers into your own work. See you again soon!

 

Product used in this project:

 

Karen

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Thank you so much for stopping by!!

Make sure to drop by every Wednesday and every first Saturday of the month for ongoing inspiration by my fabulous Crew!

We would love to see your creations on Birgit's Mixed Media Art Crew Facebook page so if you created something inspired by one of the Crew Members or using any of my products then please share!

Also, if you don't want to miss a thing... follow our new Instagram feed: Birgit's Mixed Media Art Crew!

 

 

Karen

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Thank you so much for stopping by!!

Make sure to drop by every Wednesday and every first Saturday of the month for ongoing inspiration by my fabulous Crew!

We would love to see your creations on Birgit's Mixed Media Art Crew Facebook page so if you created something inspired by one of the Crew Members or using any of my products then please share!

Also, if you don't want to miss a thing... follow our new Instagram feed: Birgit's Mixed Media Art Crew!

Crew Member Wednesday With Linda

Hi everyone! Welcome to another Crew Member Wednesday. Today Linda is sharing how she created beautiful stickers and used the left over sticker paper to create some lovely cards! Check out the video to see her process :)

 

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Hello !

Today I want to share a fun project. I got some label stickers from a dear friend of mine in various papers and shapes. The ones I’ve used in this project where glossy and circle shapes. After I did the sticker sheet I was so inspired that I had to use the leftover sticky paper and make some cards.

Here is a video showing how I created this project :)

Enjoy!

Products used in this project:

  

 

 

Linda

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Thank you so much for stopping by!!

Make sure to drop by every Wednesday and every first Saturday of the month for ongoing inspiration by my fabulous Crew!

We would love to see your creations on Birgit's Mixed Media Art Crew Facebook page so if you created something inspired by one of the Crew Members or using any of my products then please share!

Also, if you don't want to miss a thing... follow our new Instagram feed: Birgit's Mixed Media Art Crew!

Crew Member Saturday With Karin

Maybe you noticed that we missed a Crew Member Wednesday this week, in stead we have a Crew Member Saturday today.

Karin is sharing some lovely tags using a lot of color and a variety of stamps and art printing plates. Check out the short video to see how she build these up using gelli prints and cut out images. I love all the layers!

 

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Products used in this project:

    

Karin

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Thank you so much for stopping by!!

Make sure to drop by every Wednesday and every first Saturday of the month for ongoing inspiration by my fabulous Crew!

We would love to see your creations on Birgit's Mixed Media Art Crew Facebook page so if you created something inspired by one of the Crew Members or using any of my products then please share!

Also, if you don't want to miss a thing... follow our new Instagram feed: Birgit's Mixed Media Art Crew!

Crew Member Wednesday With Karen

Hi there! It's Crew Member Wednesday again and today we have Karen who is sharing an awesome way of creating your own collage papers. Whenever you want to keep it easy but want to do something creative this is the perfect thing to do!!

 

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Hi again everyone! It’s Karen here again for another Crew Member Wednesday post for Birgit!

I don’t know about you but there are so many times when I want to sit down and create but I just don’t know what to make. This could be because I am simply out of ideas or my brain is just too tired! When this happens I love to sit down and make some collage background sheets for myself, they’re a lot of fun.

I simply pull out scraps of printed papers, tissue papers and whatever debris is lying around on my desk and get gluing. You don’t need to pay too much attention to what goes where because you will be cutting the whole thing up to use in pieces and backgrounds anyway!

I just copy the finished result on my color printer and then get ripping and sticking into my journal. The pages make great starting points for your journals. I’ve made a video which is a pretty easy one to follow so grab your scraps and a glass of something nice and make along with me.

 

Product used in the project:

 

Karen

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Thank you so much for stopping by!!

Make sure to drop by every Wednesday and every first Saturday of the month for ongoing inspiration by my fabulous Crew!

We would love to see your creations on Birgit's Mixed Media Art Crew Facebook page so if you created something inspired by one of the Crew Members or using any of my products then please share!

Also, if you don't want to miss a thing... follow our new Instagram feed: Birgit's Mixed Media Art Crew!

 

Hi there! It's Crew Member Wednesday again and today we have Karen who is sharing an awesome way of creating your own collage papers. Whenever you want to keep it easy but want to do something creative this is the perfect thing to do!!

 

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Hi again everyone! It’s Karen here again for another Crew Member Wednesday post for Birgit!

I don’t know about you but there are so many times when I want to sit down and create but I just don’t know what to make. This could be because I am simply out of ideas or my brain is just too tired! When this happens I love to sit down and make some collage background sheets for myself, they’re a lot of fun.

I simply pull out scraps of printed papers, tissue papers and whatever debris is lying around on my desk and get gluing. You don’t need to pay too much attention to what goes where because you will be cutting the whole thing up to use in pieces and backgrounds anyway!

I just copy the finished result on my color printer and then get ripping and sticking into my journal. The pages make great starting points for your journals. I’ve made a video which is a pretty easy one to follow so grab your scraps and a glass of something nice and make along with me.

 

Product used in the project:

 

Karen

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Thank you so much for stopping by!!

Make sure to drop by every Wednesday and every first Saturday of the month for ongoing inspiration by my fabulous Crew!

We would love to see your creations on Birgit's Mixed Media Art Crew Facebook page so if you created something inspired by one of the Crew Members or using any of my products then please share!

Also, if you don't want to miss a thing... follow our new Instagram feed: Birgit's Mixed Media Art Crew!

 

Hi there! It's Crew Member Wednesday again and today we have Karen who is sharing an awesome way of creating your own collage papers. Whenever you want to keep it easy but want to do something creative this is the perfect thing to do!!

 

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Hi again everyone! It’s Karen here again for another Crew Member Wednesday post for Birgit!

I don’t know about you but there are so many times when I want to sit down and create but I just don’t know what to make. This could be because I am simply out of ideas or my brain is just too tired! When this happens I love to sit down and make some collage background sheets for myself, they’re a lot of fun.

I simply pull out scraps of printed papers, tissue papers and whatever debris is lying around on my desk and get gluing. You don’t need to pay too much attention to what goes where because you will be cutting the whole thing up to use in pieces and backgrounds anyway!

I just copy the finished result on my color printer and then get ripping and sticking into my journal. The pages make great starting points for your journals. I’ve made a video which is a pretty easy one to follow so grab your scraps and a glass of something nice and make along with me.

 

Product used in the project:

 

Karen

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Thank you so much for stopping by!!

Make sure to drop by every Wednesday and every first Saturday of the month for ongoing inspiration by my fabulous Crew!

We would love to see your creations on Birgit's Mixed Media Art Crew Facebook page so if you created something inspired by one of the Crew Members or using any of my products then please share!

Also, if you don't want to miss a thing... follow our new Instagram feed: Birgit's Mixed Media Art Crew!