Words & Paintery: March 2016

3/31/2016

March Creative Guest - Finnabair

We are SO excited to announce our Creative Guest this month! Well - se does not need that much of introduction - all of you know who she is!

Creative Guest Facts

My name is Anna Dabrowska, also known as Finnabair. I was born in Warsaw, Poland, now I live in Ireland with my husband, Andrzej and my pets.

I'm a woman of many interests: a mixed media artist, art journaler and designer who loves new challenges, experiments and developing new techniques and skills.
I've been creating since 2007, started scrapbooking in 2008-2009 and mixed-media in 2009 when I got totally addicted.

My projects are texture and art medium-based: I make paper and canvas layouts, collages and altered art, tags, journal pages – and many more. I believe in power of recycling and upcycling and just adore texture, paints of any kind and flea market supplies. Freedom, embracing creativity and being true to your inner voice is my main source of inspiration and creative energy.

I'm a full time designer and artist and as an experienced travelling teacher I offer a range of my own mixed media-based classes in collage, artistic scrapbooking, art journalling and more. I truly enjoy teaching and during my classes I focus not only on showing techniques, ideas and tricks but also I try to spread my love and enthusiasm for arts and crafts as I believe in therapeutic and liberating power of creativity.

The Project

Thank you SO much for the inspiration Anna!

3/23/2016

March Creative Winner - Anastasia

We where so excited when this talented lady accepted to be our Creative Guest this month. Her entry for the January Challenge was just breathtaking and well - now she has done it again! We only can say one thing - WOW!!!

Creative Winner Facts

My name is Anastasi. I live in Russia. Scrapbooking takes about 3 years. I love everything related to the beautiful paper, paint and photography. Not a day goes by without creativity. This is my life, my air, my work at last. I am a happy man, because I'm doing what I love! Madly glad to be in such an amazing team of masters. I am happy that in my life this year will be even more creative days!

My blog
Facebook
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Youtube

The Project

The page is about me. It has recently been changes in my life, that I have tried to reflect. I reflected the idea of new beginnings, of believe in the dream, about the work and life. And this week, I was 30 years old. And I'm sure that the best happens to me in this decade!

Thank you so much Anastasia for your wonderful layout!

Please enter your project for the March Challenge to have a chance to be our Creative Guest in May!

3/21/2016

Top Picks and Winner February 2016

As always picking the winners for was hard - you all make such beautiful things! But we can finally present the winners and top picks from the February 2016 Challenge. This is how the team voted:

Top Picks

Valerie Ouellet

Kareen Dion

Mandy Leveer

Sara K

And the winner of the prize pack from Scrap-Unlimited

is

Caroline Parent

And the winner of the prize pack from IndigoBlu

is

Anu-Riikka

The winners will be invited to join us as Creative Winners in April.

Please send us a mail at wordspaintery@gmail.com to claim your prize.

Do not forget to add your entries for the March Challenge!

3/15/2016

March 2016

We celebrate the word of Marilyn Monroe in our March Challenge. She spoke this out long ago - but the words are as accurate now as then! The colors are girly sweet and bold at the same time. We truly hope you enjoy using this challenge when you create!

The Challenge

The Rules

To participate you need to do your interpretation of our challenge and upload a direct link to your project with the help of our Linkytool. The interpretations are free in form (layout, card, art journal, album, canvas) but you need to follow the outlines of the challenge. Each month we will chose a couple of projects that will be highlighted in a special post.

Deadline to upload is April 15 (CET +1)

The Sponsor

Our Sponsor this month is

Marianne Design is a Dutch owned craft manufacturer and supplier to craft wholesale around the world. The company was established in 1994 by Marianne Perlot and is based in the Netherlands. For years now, we develop all our products with much care and quality. We have a practical understanding of the needs of crafters, we integrate product development, design and customer service to bring fresh ideas and beautiful products to the craft industry. All to enable the consumer to make beautiful cards, scrapbooks and other projects and enjoy this wonderful hobby. Our products are available in 18 countries around the world. We produce a wide range of products which represent a complete concept of paper crafts. There are different lines of stamps and dies with matching papers and materials to decorate your card or scrap. Products are chosen carefully for mixing and matching and stimulating creativity.

Marianne Design has kindly sponsored this prize pack