My scrappin' life

Crew Member Saturday With Andrea

Hello there and welcome to Crew Member Saturday! Can you believe it is already December and this is the last Crew member Saturday of the year already?!!

Today we have Andrea who created some lovely book marks in her usual amazing colors and layers. 

 

 

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Hi Andrea here!

I love quick and artistic gifts at this time of year and bookmarks are some of my favorites!

I started with Strathmore Mixed Media paper that I die-cut into two bookmark shapes.  Using lots of fabulous Birgit stamps, I heat embossed them with white powder onto the white paper.  I traced the balloon flowers from the mask and colored them in with a white embossing pen then heat embossed those as well.  When my embossing was done, I smeared some acrylic paint onto the tags.

Once I had my base established, I outlined the embossed balloon flower shapes with a black Sharpie and added Infusions color stain, then spritzed the bookmarks with water.  I also added some acrylic ink, which I also spritzed and let run down the bookmark.

Once I dried my background, I stamped onto the bookmarks with more stamps using Ranger Jet Black Archival ink.

 

I finished off my bookmarks by outlining the edges with a black Sharpie and adding a piece of yarn through the top.

 

To make sure they would hold up to whatever they were put through, I glued them to a chipboard base that was cut in the same shape as the bookmark.

 

Products used in this project:

  

 

Andrea

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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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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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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!

 

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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Crew Member Saturday With Andrea

Hello there and welcome to Crew Member Saturday! Can you believe it is already September, wow, time flies! First Saturday of the month so here's another guest designer post! 

Today we have Andrea who created some lovely colourful tags using lots of layers. And you know I love layers, right?! Also she did something that freaks out a lot of people but that I would totally do (and have done)! Check it out :)

 

 

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Hi Andrea here!

I made these two tags by doing something that is quite terrifying: cutting up a perfectly good stamp!  While it was a scary move, I do believe in making products match whatever purpose YOU have in mind and that’s what I did with this project.

I started with a piece of Strathmore Mixed Media paper that I glued pieces of an old book page onto.  I also had some great Washi tape that I stuck on.

Next I slathered on layers of acrylic paint with a palette knife.

 

To keep the colors from being too out of control, I covered most of the page with a layer of white acrylic paint.

 

I sprayed on some acrylic ink in bright pink and turquoise and let it dry.

 

I cut two tag shapes out of my background page using a die-cutting machine and tag dies.

 

Using embossing ink, I stamped the tags with the lovely Background with Circles stamp, then I sprinkled white embossing powder on them and heat-set them.

 

And now the crazy part!  I took the fabulous Stitched Mixed Media Background stamp and cut it into strips!  I did this because I adore the patterns and designs and thought they’d look great in individual strips, too.  And I figured I could always stick them back together for the whole stamp look.

 

 

I chose a few of my freshly-cut “stamp strips” and stamped them onto my tags then heat-embossed them with black powder to make them stand out.  I also used an image from the I Heart Washi Tape stamp set.

 

I added a little square of patterned paper to reinforce the hole at the top of the tag and topped it off with a Christmas ornament hook.

 

To finish off my tags, I glued on some poetry sentiments that I cut out of an old book.

Products used in this project:

Andrea

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Andrea

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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 beautiful art journal page in awesome colors. I love the effect of modelling paste and watercolours and also the way Revlie used a leaf mask to create a flower!

 

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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 have found this cute, easy & stunning technique while using a stencil, modeling paste & watercolors! YES watercolors! when you use your stencil when the watercolors are still wet, it gives a stunning color effect to the modeling paste! Watch my video to see how easy it is :)

 

 

Products used in this project:

 

other: watercolor by Jane Davenport, white cardstock Bazzill Basics, pencil, da vinci watercolor brush nr. 3 (to write the title), da vinci watercolor brush nr. 12, tacky glue, Art Journal Revlie, black pen, white posca pen

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!

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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 have found this cute, easy & stunning technique while using a stencil, modeling paste & watercolors! YES watercolors! when you use your stencil when the watercolors are still wet, it gives a stunning color effect to the modeling paste! Watch my video to see how easy it is :)

 

 

Products used in this project:

 

other: watercolor by Jane Davenport, white cardstock Bazzill Basics, pencil, da vinci watercolor brush nr. 3 (to write the title), da vinci watercolor brush nr. 12, tacky glue, Art Journal Revlie, black pen, white posca pen

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 have found this cute, easy & stunning technique while using a stencil, modeling paste & watercolors! YES watercolors! when you use your stencil when the watercolors are still wet, it gives a stunning color effect to the modeling paste! Watch my video to see how easy it is :)

 

 

Products used in this project:

 

other: watercolor by Jane Davenport, white cardstock Bazzill Basics, pencil, da vinci watercolor brush nr. 3 (to write the title), da vinci watercolor brush nr. 12, tacky glue, Art Journal Revlie, black pen, white posca pen

Revlie

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Thank you so much for stopping by!!

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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 Femke

Hello! It's Crew Member Saturday and Femke is sharing a beautiful mixed media layout with you today! As always Femke is showing that mixed media and scrapbooking are a match made in heaven!!

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Hello creatives,

It’s been a while since the last time I was on for a project, but here I am again. The last two times I made an Art journal Scrapbooking page. But this time I did an oldschool 12x12 Scrapbooking page. And this time I did a Scraplift. For people that are not familiar with this term, here’s a definition of the word scraplifting: “The act of taking someone else's scrapbook art and copying it or slightly modifying it into your own creation”. So that’s what I did. I took this Scrapbook page:

The original can be found here.

And this is what I made of it:

And some details of my project:

Here's a video of my process:

And if you like to make your own creation of this scraplift, please tag me on Instagram or facebook to show me what you’ve made!

 Thanks again. I hope I inspired you!

Want to see more of my work: http://instagram.com/femkekokke

Products used in this project:

 

Femke

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Crew Member Saturday With Andrea

It's Crew Member Saturday and I can't believe that we are already in June and having our 6th guest designer post of the year! 

Today we have Andrea who created some awesome notebooks in bright colors. I love the way she collaged these together!

 

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Hi Andrea here!

I am addicted to notebooks and decided to embellish these beauties with some fabulous images that I stamped, colored and cut into strips.

I started by cutting Strathmore Mixed Media paper to the same size as my store-bought notebooks.  I painted the paper with acrylic paint.

On separate pieces of paper, I stamped some images with Ranger Black Archival ink and colored them in with oil crayons and watercolors.

Once my stamped images were colored, I had a lot of fun cutting them into strips and pieces and gluing them onto my notebook covers.  I then sewed the covers onto my notebooks with a sewing machine.

I used a positive sentiment from the Leafs stamp Andset to add onto one of the covers for a nice final touch.

It was also very therapeutic to spend some time coloring!

All in all, you can never go wrong with these stamped images or a pair of nifty re-done notebooks!

Products used in this project:

   

Andrea

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Crew Member Saturday With Revlie

 Hi there! It's the first Saturday of the month and that means that one of my Guest Crew Members is here to inspire you! Today it's Revlie with a beautiful art journal page in some of my favourite colors. I think it is pretty smart how she combined my masks with watercolor. Watch her video for detailed instructions. Enjoy!

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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!

Using watercolors with a stencil can be very challenging, but it is going to be very easy, if you first outline your stencil with a pencil. This is a quick & easy but mostly fun way to use your stencil differently! Have fun creating!

 

 

  

Mask used in this project:

other:
watercolor by Winsor & Newton, watercolor by Jane Davenport, white cardstock Bazzill Basics, pencil, da vinci watercolor brush nr. 0, da vinci watercolor brush nr. 3 (to write the title), da vinci watercolor brush nr. 12 (for the drops), 4art artists watercolor brush nr. 1, green gelato (spearmint), mixed media Art Journal A4 Strathmore, tacky glue

Revlie

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Thank you so much for stopping by!!

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Revlie

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Thank you so much for stopping by!!

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Crew Member Wednesday With Hermien

Hello! It's Crew member Wednesday!! 

Here's Hermien with some lovely birthday cards. Now who would not love to get a pretty card like that in their mail box?! I sure would! :)

 

 

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In our family we celebrate a lot of birthdays in April/May, including my own ☺ so birthday cards?!?

Used some left overs, a small piece of paper I used to clean my brayer and stencils

I wanted to use I stamp set on each card, thought that I did so, but...I cheated a little (you will see)

the blue green card I made on valentine's day...just embossed the hearts and masked them while stamping the small circles, stamped the hearts again in green in the background and doodled a little border, finally I added the small hearty branches and used a a gel pen to color the small hearts red and distressed the borders

the yellow red card was simply stamped, no embossing, colored the circles with acrylic pens and the knitted circles with watercolor glued some washi and distressed the borders

I love the fact that you can turn scraps into cards..!

Products used for these cards:

Hermien

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Crew Member Saturday With DeeDee!

It's the first Saturday of the month, which means we have a guest crew member post today! 

DeeDee made this amazing little accordeon book. Look at all that gorgeous texture! Love it!!

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Hello again Birgit Fans ^_^ I'm just as excited if not MORE excited to share with you today as I was in January... I LOVE THIS PROJECT. First... here's a sneak peek ;) 

 

 

How delightful does that look??  I was already sold on the technique to make these amazing textures... but now I'm SUPER sold on how I USED them.

 

To start with I gathered some super sturdy water color paper and trimmed it down to a 3x4 inch size. I keep a stack of these babies close by for any sort of playing around or experimenting I might find myself wanting to do. I'm even doing my #the100dayproject challenge on them! They're small enough to work with quickly, while being big enough to DO things on. I used some Blick modeling paste and applied it in a VERY thick manner using my Catalyst tool. The layer was easily 1/8 inch thick. Then I heated the surface of the modeling paste thoroughly with a heat tool. I wanted the inside of the layer to remain pliable, while hardening the top layer. Once achieved, I took Birgit's Background with Circles XXL stamp and stamped it right into the paste. I did all 3 cards at once, because the stamp is SO BIG it easily stretched across all 3. Then I left the cards to dry. 

 

 

After the cards were completely cured I came in with some acrylic paint & had a play. I chose a gorgeous raspberry purple, a dark gray & a warm bone color. I applied the paint & heat dry. Then I brushed over the texture with some gesso. This technique highlights all of the raised surface of the rubber stamp... because I used the stamp in a relief type of application, the texture is actually the NEGATIVE space of the stamp. 

 

 

Then I stitched together some watercolor paper in an accordion style layout. I sewed 2 of the 3 modeling paste cards to the "covers" of the accordion... which yielded me a GORGEOUS little art journal! 

 

 

I realized the journal had a bit of "poof" to it, so I stitched a piece of muslin to the front & back. It ties on both sides to keep my little book perfectly closed. YAY! I can't wait to play inside this book... I also KNOW that the cover is not done enough for me... but it's such a fabulous starting off point.. I just can't even. I'm SO giddy!

 

 

Thanks for joining me today :) Visit my instagram page to see the journal operate! 

 

Stamp used in this project:

Other supplies:
Canson Watercolor Paper, Blick Artists Modeling Paste, Amsterdam Acrylics, Liquitex Gesso, Muslin (or similar 100% cotton fabric, natural)

 

DeeDee

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