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Crew member Wednesday With Karin

Hi and welcome to another episode of Crew Member Wednesday. Today is Karin's first post of 2018 and the is sharing a beautiful project with you! Wouldn't is be awesome to serve coffee or tea (or wine) to your visitors on a colourful tray like this? And when you're not using it you can just hang it on the wall! Love it!

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Hi, it's Karin here!

For my First post in 2018 I decided te make a multifunctional thingy. I can put it on the wall or serve drinks on it and use it as a serving tray.

As always I started with a piece of paper and some paint. After that I scraped some white gesso on the paper because I like the structure of it.

Then I used a couple of Birgit’s stamps and after that I made some details with Paint Markers and I finished it with some gold colored splashes.

Products used in this projects:

   

Karin

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

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Crew Member Wednesday With Karin

Hello!! It's Crew member Wednesday already again! Today Karin has a lovely colourful little harmonica book for you jam packed with a variety of my newest stamp sets. Wouldn't this make a beautiful Christmas card?

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I made a harmonica folded booklet using 2 colors of paint, a little bit gesso (because I ran out of white paint), and some acrylic paint markers. And I added some details with a white pen. It turned out a bit christmassy and I guess that’s because of the colors and the time of year.. :)

Products used in this project:

  

Karin

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Thank you so much for stopping by!!

Make sure to drop by every Wednesday 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!

BMMAC 2018, Proudly Announcing My New Art Crew!

Hello and welcome to my blog! Today is a happy day!

Because today I am proudly announcing my Art Crew for 2018!

Birgit's Mixed Media Art Crew is a team of wonderful artists who create beautiful art work using my product designs for Carabelle Studio. The team is providing inspiration for art journaling, mixed media, scrapbooking, card making and more on a weekly base here on the blog. The first team started in May of this year and now I am happy to introduce to you the new crew starting January 2018!

We are saying goodbye to Marsha. I'm sad to see her go, but new adventures and challenges are awaiting her for 2018 and I wish her good luck with everything. Marsha we will miss you and your gorgeous projects. Thank you so much for everything you did for the crew this year!

Karin, Linda, Hermien and Femke decided to stay on the weekly crew for another year and I am really, really happy about that as they all are very talented and I know they will continue to inspire you with their original and beautiful art every Wednesday!

I'm very excited about our new addition to the weekly crew, Karen Gaunt! Karen is very talented and I love her art, her unique style and her use of color and words. I am very happy to welcome her on board!

But wait... there is more!

Besides the weekly crew I'm introducing to you 3 wonderful guest designers. These ladies, Revlie Schuit, DeeDee Catron and Andrea Ockey, will provide blog posts every first Saturday of the month. Each of them has their own unique style and way of using products. Like the rest of the crew they are an ongoing source of inspiration and I am thrilled to have them on my team!

 

Please let me introduce to you my amazing Art Crew ***drum rolls*** !! 

Karen:

Hi There! I’m Karen and most days you can find me covered in paint and trying to keep the cat from knocking over my dirty paint water. I'm a full time artist and Mummy and I love nothing more than creating with my young daughter by my side.

I am mostly known for my dramatic victorians and of course my found poems.

When it comes to my artwork if it doesn't have a found poem on it, it didn't happen. If you're going to come create with me be sure to bring along your fluorescent colors and gelli plates too.

The things I am most passionate about in life are encouraging and teaching others to pick up their paint brushes and just get started in their mixed media and Art Journaling adventures. I’ve always loved Art and creating ever since I was a child, it’s my happy place. I just want to each crunchy peanut butter all day and help you create something amazing!

Find Karen's art here:

Website

Blog

Instagram

YouTube

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Hermien:

Hi everyone!
It is I...Hermien, also known as Sproet (Freckles)

Who am I? On my blog I introduce myself as:
Woman, married, humor, challenges, creative, practical, MS&MG (both 'neurological challenges' in my life) , and so much more..! Since last year Puck and Panter (two cats) joined our household, so now we are officially employees ;-) (Unfortunately Puck recently died).

I love to get my hands dirty (sometimes very ;-)) making cards, stamping, painting, gelliprinting , just go with the flow.. ! I am very honored to be a member of Birgit's Mixed Media Crew! Hope you enjoy!

Find Hermien's art here:

Blog

Instagram

Facebook

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Karin:

My name is Karin van den Broek and I live in the middle of the Netherlands with my partner and 19 year old daughter.

I started making cards about 6 years ago and one thing led to another and now I can't imagine a life without stained fingers.

I love to experiment with ink, paint, stamps and templates and I mostly use bright colors. I love Birgit’s work and I’m honored that she asked me as a crew member.

Find Karin's art here:

Blog

Facebook

Instagram

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Linda:

My name is Linda Brun, I am a mixed media artist with great passion for artjournaling and monoprinting. I live in Sandnes, Norway with my husband and dog. I’m a graphic designer, working full time as an artist through mixed media collages and paintings, working from my home based studio. Teach hands on mixed media classes and work as a creative inspirator when asked. I also try to fit my mixed media art in to bookbinding, scrapbooking and sewing.

I love diving in to art technique books and take art classes with other artists. I’m always on the look for new techniques and tools to try and I find myself working with various kind of mediums and colors. Today I’m in to stamps, acrylic, masks and gelliprinting. Tomorrow might be different and that is what I like with my creative journey. I’m so happy to be a member of this fantastic crew and look forward to another year with great fun and inspiration.

Find Linda's art here:

Blog

Instagram 

Facebook 

YouTube 

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Femke:

Hi there! Nice to meet you. My name is Femke Kokke and I am a mom of three kids (11, 4 and 4) and I am a freelancer in youth care and helping adults with psychic problems.

Besides being a provider, I also am a scrapaholic :) I love scrapbooking, I really do. I started Scrapbooking in 2003. First I did not use any paint at all. But since 2 years that changed dramatically into using Mixed Media like almost all the time.

Suddenly I love paint, stamps, gesso, stencils and doing all kind off techniques.

So I now love Mixed Media Scrapbooking and am very happy to be a part of Birgit’s team and creating nice stuff to show you!

Find Femke's art here:

Blog/website

Instagram

Facebook

YouTube

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Revlie:

Revlie Schuit -  1974 - Diabetic Type 1 Lada (since 2015) - blond gone pink - live with hub Arjan and our 2 muppets: Sanne (2003) and Ruben (2007) - Netherlands - company owner - stubborn but o so sweet - chocolate - Vichy handcream - imac - colors, lots of! - handmade - paint - art journal - mixed media - creative planning - scrapbook - sew - crochet - - blogging - i don't do well when i eat carbs - i should go to bed more early than i do now - and i'm clumbsy - besides feeling the need to be creative on a daily basis, I'm a choc-aholic, I talk too much and I laugh too loud, I bite my nails when I'm nervous (yes I know...), I'm stubborn if something is in my head, you will not get it out-- you can bribe me with wine & chocolate though ;)

Find Revlie's art here:

Website

Blog

Instagram

Facebook

Pinterest

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DeeDee:

DeeDee Catron is a mixed media artist, instructor & product designer residing in Las Vegas, NV.

She’s been submerged in aspects of the art industry her entire life… drawing, painting, digital graphics, ceramics, fiber arts, drafting, product design, wood working, metal smithing and more.

In college her best friend & roommate introduced her to card making and her artsy endeavors grew to include paper crafts.

Now her mixed media arts are a delightful mixing pot of all things color & texture. She loves gelli printing, stitching, collaging, stamps, chipboard & in reality the list would be ever ending.

Website

Facebook

Instagram

YouTube

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Andrea:

I’m Andrea Ockey Parr, a late-night crafter living in the great state of Utah in the United States. 

I come from a line of amazing women who did pottery, quilting, painting, costume-sewing and all sorts of intricate hand-work.  While I can’t follow a sewing pattern to save my life, I’m so grateful for their example and influence. 

I’m also grateful to be a wife and mother, a medical laboratorian, a former English teacher and an eternal librarian. 

No matter what I’m doing in life, art is what keeps me grounded and sane.  In my projects, I gravitate toward bright bold colors and whimsical themes with a touch of grungy-stringy-wonkiness.  My favorite mediums are paint and ink and I often incorporate fabric scraps and stitching into my projects. 

I’m lucky to have had my work featured in over 50 publications, including Cloth Paper Scissors, Somerset Studio, and Art Journaling.

Blog

Instagram

Pinterest

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Don't you think this crew is just amazing?! If you want to keep updated on what the crew creates and also share your own work using my products for Carabelle Studio then please join our BMMAC Facebook group! We would LOVE to see what you create!

Thank you for stopping by and have a wonderful day!!

Crew Member Wednesday With Karin

Hello there! It's Crew Member Wednesday and today we have Karin who created a beautiful page with the theme "Image a world where..."  And what would be better than to combine that quote with John Lennon and my "All you need is love" stamp set? 

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Imagine a world where...

The first word of the prompt -> Imagine -> made me think about John Lennon. And John Lennon sang a lot about peace and love. That's why I decided to use the "All You Need is Love" stamp set. I looked on the internet for a picture of him and I found this picture of John Lennon and his love (the picture is not of a good quality, but I used it anyway).

 

1. First I brayered 2 colors of fluid ink on a journal page
2. Then I cut out a picture
3. After that I made a background using the flower template and some black ink
4. The fourth step was adding the next layer with the triangle template and white paint
5. Then I moved the cut out image about the page to figure out the right spot to glue it down
6. The last step was making marks and stamping some flowers at the bottum and wrote a bit around the pictures

 

 

Products used in this project:

   

Karin

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Thank you so much for stopping by!!

Make sure to drop by every Wednesday 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!

25 Crew Member Posts! Let's Celebrate - Challenge With Prizes To Win!

Hi everyone and welcome to this very special edition of Crew Member Wednesday!

 

 

Today is the 25ft post of my fabulous Art Crew (can't believe how fast that went) and that together with the fact that I just recently had some new products released with Carabelle Studio I thought would be a pretty good reason to celebrate!

Therefor I decided to do a fun little challenge for our lovely group members on the BMMAC Facebook page and give them the possibility to win some lovely prizes. Not a member yet? No worries, just go to the page and join the fun!

For this special blog post I have asked my Crew Members to create something in a size or shape that they would normally not use. We challenge you to do the same! How can you play along and have a chance of winning some great prizes?

• Create something in an for you unusual shape or size using any of my products with Carabelle Studio. If you are not sure which products are mine then check them out here! Other than that you can use whatever you like as long as you don't use any stamps, stencils, embossing folders or dies from another brand.
• Create a photo album with your name on the BMMAC Facebook page here (click on the "+ create album" button at the top right corner) and add your pictures.
• Add a comment to your picture(s) telling us why this is different than usual for you.
• You have until November 1, midnight CEST (Amsterdam time) to upload your pictures.
• My crew and I will vote and pick 3 winners who can each choose one of my new stamp sets and 1 of my new stencils shown below.

 

    

 

Now have a look at what my amazing Art Crew created for this challenge:

 

Linda created a fun little bookmark. Linda works on all sizes but she not often uses different shapes to work on, she mostly works on square or rectangle backgrounds, so this shape was out of the box for her.

 

Hermien usually makes cards and decided to create a scrapbooking page with is quite a big bigger than the size she normally uses and she really had to step ut of her comfort zone here.

 

Marsha decided to go beyond the page and made an oval wall hanging which is definitely not an everyday shape to create on.

 

Karin also decided to go off the page and created on all sides of a wooden block.

 

Femke, who is a scrapbooker and usually creates on 12x12" or in a traveler note book went for a little square shaped mini album.

 

 

I just recently started to create smaller. And with smaller I mean tiny. I created a tiny little finger painted journal.

 

We hope you got inspired by our creations to do something out of the box yourself and play along!

It would be wonderful if you share and invite your friends to come and play with us too!

We are all very much looking forward to seeing what you create!

Thank you for stopping by and hopefully we will see you soon on BMMAC - Play Along With The Crew Members!!

Happy crafting!

 

Crew Member Wednesday With Karin

It's Crew member Wednesday again and it's Karin's turn. This month she created some beautiful cards. I love the colors and how the combine with the lovely shiny gold!

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For the love of layers..

Hi, It's Karin here!

 I didn’t know what I was going to make, but I just started and I ended with a bunch of cards!

A few days earlier I tore two pieces of paper out of an advertising brochure, because I liked the colors and today I used them in my background.

I started with applying the torn pieces of paper from the advertising on a piece of cardstock. Then I used a mask with white gesso and another mask with black gesso.

Then I added some more color to it, using turquoise ink. I decided to make some marks with gold paint and I also splattered some white ink on top.

At this point I decided to cut the paper in squares and make cards out of them.

As a finishing touch I added the little hearts.

Products used in this project:

 

Karin

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Thank you so much for stopping by!!

Make sure to drop by every Wednesday 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!

Crew Member Wednesday With Karin

It's Crew member Wednesday again and it's Karin's turn. She beautifully decorated a plastic cup with a lid to hold pens and markers that would normally ly around on her desk. What a clever and fun idea!

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Hello it's Karin here. This week I'm sharing with you a fun pen box to hide all the stuff that always lies on my desk.

The first thing I did was cut a piece of paper to fit both the cup and the lid.

I chose some nice colors and used an old credit card to spread them. Then I cut the paper in the right size.

I stamped all over the paper and filled the stamped image in with white and coloured acrylic pens.

I glued the paper around the cup and on the lid and finished off my Hide & Seek box with some washi tape around the lid.

Stamps used in this project:

 

I hope you enjoyed my project and thank you for stopping by!

Karin

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Thank you so much for stopping by!!

Make sure to drop by every Wednesday 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!

Crew Member Wednesday With Karin

Hello there! It's Crew member Wednesday already again and today Karin is back with one of her beautiful colourful art journal pages. Oh my, look at all the little details here! Follow along with Karin as explains how she created this spread.

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Hello, Karin here! 

 I love to create colorful pages in my Art Journal and I want to share with you how I created this one:

First I stamped the flowers on a piece of paper and cut them out.

Then I colored them with ink.

 I scraped some pink paint over the pages in my journal using a (bank)card.

I made some colored background paper using my Gelli Arts® gel printing plate and silk paper.

Because I love some texture on my pages I wrinkled the silk paper.

I tore the paper in pieces and I glued it on the white parts in my journal.

Then I gave it a white wash with some paint and made some marks with a background stamp.

After that I apllied some black texture paste through a stencil.

I also stamped some branches over the pages and colored them with a white pen.

I glued the cut out flowers on my background, used a white pen to add details and finally I sprinkled some gold ecoline over the pages and added the quote.

Products used for this project:

       

Karin

Thank you so much for stopping by!!

Make sure to drop by every Wednesday 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!

Crew Member Wednesday With Karin

Hello and welcome to Crew Member Wednesday! Today it's Karin's turn with a bright and colourful art journal page. I totally love the cheerful, happy feel of this!

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Hi, Karin here! I had a lot of fun creating this art journal page. I totally lost track of time when I was creating this piece, because I kept on adding details.

 

I stamped the flower a few times on a piece of watercolorpaper.

I added acrylic ink with a pipette and then added water to make the colours mix and blend.

When the ink was dry I cut out the centers of the flowers.

Then I made a beginning of a background by dry brushing acrylic paint all over the pages in my art journal.

I added a lot of details using stamps and stencils

Because the title of this blogpost is alphabet soup I journaled all over both pages with a white pen.

When I was satisfied with the background I glued the cut out flower centers on the pages and scribbeld a bit around them and stamped some last details.

Products used:

    

  

Karin

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Thank you so much for stopping by!!

Make sure to drop by every Wednesday 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!

Crew Member Wednesday With Karin

Hello! It's Crew Member Wednesday again and today we have Karin with a beautiful art journal page using my A5 Dutch Tulips stamp, Dancing in the rain set and Triangle Mesh stencil. I love how Karin used the stencil to create an interesting background and the bold contrast of the red tulips on the blue/green background!

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Hi, it's Karin here!

I had fun creating this ArtJournal page with stamps, a stencil and some insk and I hope to inspire you too.

                                                 

Step 1: I started with some Izink splashes on a journal page

Step 2: After that I scraped the ink  over the page with a card

Step 3: I used the Triangle Mesh stencil and a babywipe to remove some of the ink.

                                                               

Step 4: I added a bit of blue stamping ink around the edges of the page.

                                                           

Step 5: Then I toned the colors a bit down by adding a layer of white paint. 

Step 6:  I stamped the Dutch Tulips on top of the page.

Step 7: Finally I stamped the tulips and the clouds (from the Dancing in the rain set) on a piece of colored paper, cut them out and adhered them on the stamped image.

Materials used for this project:

   

Karin

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Thank you so much for stopping by!!

Make sure to drop by every Wednesday 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!