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 A beautiful statement and quote about what can happen in the Spring month of May. Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. - Nathaniel Hawthorne- an American novelist and short story writer. His works often focus on history, norality and religion.  Welcome May and welcome my dear blog reader, for my first inspiration in the months of May, I designed for the new  13arts IG challenge a scrapbook layout in mixed media style. Our May mood board with lots of brown, rust and cream colors screams for a vintage project.   I started on a sheet of the Down Under paper collection.  Which has a red, rust colored background already. So that was perfect for what I had in mind. My stencils which I used are Tattered Diamonds and Lamps from the Industrial Zone collection. My decoration comes from different paper collections:  Industrial Zone, Magnolia Dreams and Mr: Handso...

 Hello and welcome to our new  13arts Instagram challenge, with beautiful soft pastel colours. I used for my background paper a sheet from the  Industrial Zone paper collection. For my embellishments I used the  Memory Lane paper collection. For texture behind my cluster I used the multipurpose gel medium and  pink glitter to a stencil. Here is the link to the 13arts Instagram account:  13arts IG If you will play along with our April challenge, here are some rules. 1. follow 13arts on Instagram. 2. add to your entry the mood board images. 3. use ad least one 13arts product. 4. add to your entry the #13artsapr23 My Queen... A closer look to my page: This is our April challenge board... I hope you feel a bit inspired to join us for our April challenge. Until then xoxo

 Happy New Year my dear followers, I hope you had a good start in 2023. We had a wonderful party with our neighbours, without fireworks.... Our city has decided to ban fireworks, because of all the injuries, the mess and the air pollution. I fully support this decision of the politicans from our city.  We must do more so does our children and grand children can also enjoy our beautiful earth. Every bit counts... But anyway. The first of each months means also there is a CHALLENGE from the company  13arts . The challenge mood board is below! I created for the challenge a scrapbook layout in mixed media style. I used therefore the beautiful Secret Garden paper . For more intrest on my background paper I painted the stripes with different Color Glows. The blue one with Larimar and Sodalite Color Glow  and the green one with Jadeit and Emerald Color Glow. For my stencil work with the stencils ( sunrise butterflies and brick and wall) I used a mixture of multipurpose gelm...

 Hello everyone, did you miss me? I am back after a long break. This is my first scrapbook page in mixed media style for the company 13arts. Here is the link to 13arts:  https://13arts.pl/ Yes, you read it right I am also back as a design team member by 13arts. Awesome right!!  My page is inspierd from the mood board which comes with soft pink colors. Perfect for the new paper collection "Magnolia dreams" Pink is my favorite color...is the title of my page. I used two paper sheets called postcard from Paris and magic door for my background. Lots of stitching on the paper for more texture and interest. Pink is my favorite color.... A closer look to my scrapbook layout.. I like to use as embellishments DIE cutting elements. Therefore I use usually the 6by6 inch paper pad from 13arts. I used for the the chipboards first Ruby Color Glow and  Acrylic Glitter Pink for the color layer. Here is the mood board for the IG challenge from 13arts. Please use for your entry the #1...

 Hello everyone, and welcome to the new May challenge (#102) from 13@rts. We have this time an amazing grunge style mood board with rust effect elements, wood elements, light and demin-jeans. So awesome to play with. The new Mr. Handsome paper collection from 13@rts is perfect for this challenge. A closer look to my page I used from 13@rts: http://13arts.pl/pl/p/Zestaw-papierow-MR.-HANDSOME-12x12/4829 http://13arts.pl/pl/p/Papier-Mens-jeans%2C-MR.-HANDSOME/4833 http://13arts.pl/pl/p/Papier-Gentleman%2C-MR.-HANDSOME/4835 http://13arts.pl/pl/p/Stempel-A7-MR.-HANDSOME/4840 http://13arts.pl/pl/p/Stickers-A4-MR.-HANDSOME/4838 http://13arts.pl/pl/p/Tekturka-Chipboard-set-MR.-HANDSOME-6x6/4848 http://13arts.pl/pl/p/Folia-Transparency-MR.-HANDSOME/4842 My favorite 13@rts products: http://13arts.pl/pl/c/ACRYLIC-MEDIUMS-13-arts/22 http://13arts.pl/pl/c/COLOR-GLOW-Watercolors/129                                 ...