OCollab Shop-O-Holic

This months Ocollab, Shop-O-Holic  has shopping, the favorite pass time of many women. Not mine anymore but I found an awesome quote in the kit, made a Google search on "cat walk"  and found this awesome photo from the Aw10 show from  Vilsbøl de Arce

The preview:

Collaboration Designers: Kitty Designs, Charlize Creations, Studio Romy, ninigoesdigi, Jopke Designs, Sue Cummings, TaylorMade Designs, and Laitha's Designs

I made sevral layers, Used the cutout filter and The watercolor filter, used hard light on a untreated layer. Then I made a group and made a black mask (fill the white mask with black or alt click on the mask icon on the layers palette) and painted it back with a watercolor brush on a low density

The collab is available Here

A challenge with a freebie!

Val c Has a new Be Inspired Challenge!  This is the challenge:
1-Mix 2 kits on your Layout (no less, no more) - here I call "kit" everything which is sold independently. Ie: an alpha sold as a pack fulfill the "kit idea" required. So feel free to use MiniO for ex. or elements pack... all the Creative Box product are entitled for this definition. If you have doubt... please ask!

2-The LO MUST have only 1 photo AND The photo may not be blended.

3-The LO must have at least 3 arrows (you can do your own, doodle, cut out of paper, ... from element/paper of the kit of your choice in 1.

4-The LO must have a few line of journaling.


She also gives a freebie away. This It all started add on is only free during the challenge;

I made this lay out

Combination Of Art Book My star  and

Art Book Dream and Do 

Val c has a new kit!

It all Started,/h2.

That's the name of Val C's latest kit. A cool color palette with an emphasis on new Year. It's available at Oscraps here. A preview: 

I made this lay out with it. It was well received, a GSO at Oscraps and DST

The next one I already showed in my previous post:

Featured on "Oh my stars"

I was very satisfied with my lay out for Jopkes designs Fa-ll-bulous. Others loved it too. I got a gso on digiscrap.nl and today I saw that that lay out is featured on the Oblog!


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The kit is part of a value pack 40% off and available at Oscraps and DigiscrapNl

Art Book dream And do

Val C had a new release last week. Art book Dream And DO with 20% off

                             

I made theses 2 aly outs with it. This young fellow is our new addition Mimi's latest accident

. He is a sweet, cute and enterprising youngster (6 weeks old and allowed by Mimi to visit my garden). Later on his new servant will be my mom.

You can get the bundle here. The collection/ bundle part are also separate available

Fa-ll-bulous

Jopke latest release is the awesome collection Fa-ll-bulous. I especially love the rich colors and the awesome masks. Very fitting for your fall lay outs or when you're in the mood for beautiful autumn colors. The collection contains a kit, a mask collection, word art (.abr file included), jute stitches and a set of cut out leaves

Available at Oscraps and Digiscrap , linked to the value pack

I made this lay out with it. 

Double exposurege based on a tutorial of  Chris Spooners blog ,foto from Victor Stoyanov op Stockvault

MY first lay outs for Jopke desigs

Around two weeks ago Jopke from Jopke Designs asked me to participate in her Creative Team. I was thrilled because I love her designs!

She has 2 new products in store:

Oscraps Store

Digiscrappuntnl

Oscraps

Digiscrap

I made these 2 lay outs with them

Art Books Under The rain en Freedom

2 some what older kits of val are Art book Freedom (the one I got my first GSO ever :) ) and Art book Under the Rain. two (as always) versatile kits which made me artsy.

Art Book Freedom  

Is available on Oscraps 

 I made 2 lay outs with it

This selfie was edited by a layer with Glowing edges filter  and a layer with Posterizing filter. I grouped the layers and made a black layer mask. With a watercolor brush I got my selfie back

Art Book Under The Rain

Is here available

I made this two lay outs with it

I thought that I was very original and creative with this one. Until I visited Flickr to search for a photo for my next lay out..

I live in a coastal place with much wind. So after every rain splash you see broken umbrella's in ash trays..

Photo by Angelique Kerkhofs

You can find more about Megs spotlight here. The challenge was to use two or more templates for your lay out. I used 3 templates of the Living out loud collab (Crafty Button Design, Courtney's Design and Our Misadventures) Unfortunately taken from the store.

I  started with one, make the Circle cluster smaller (in the yellow circle), deleted all the clutter and made use of the .png files from the other 2 templates. if you drag and drop, the files are on the right place.

I used the plum photo mask en put it behind the Circles cluster

I loved the ink spot but i cut it in 3 pieces to place it slightly differently and be able to play with the blend modes

I had no plan nor photo and wanted to play with Courtneys designs Young at Heart. I filled the template parts with the awesome artsy papers, then I placed the funny lady, the elements and the wa

Courtney Designs Young at Heart and She

Val C birthday party

This moth Val c is celebrating her birthday with a designer spotlight challenge with 4 challenges and many gifts! You can find everything about it here The great prize is a guest spot at her CT! 

You can find the challenge here  anxd you get the this add on for free!

I made the following Lay out:

you can see the challenge here. you get the following add on for free

I made trhis lay out with it

You can find it here and get the following gifts

and awesome word art from beszteri

I made no lay out yet but i 'll coming soon!

Just LOvely

This month the Oscraps designers made a tribute to all our mothers with the collab Just Lovely
This is the preview:

You can find it here. I made this lay out with it