Meet our 2017 Design Team!

We recently held the call for our 2017 Design Team, and before I share who will be designing for us in the upcoming year, I'd just like to thank each and every one of you who applied!  We truly enjoyed seeing your work, and we appreciate the time you took to apply.  We only had a few positions available, and had a very hard time choosing - you all have so much talent!

In the end, we think we've chosen some wonderful ladies to join our team, and we think you'll be as wowed by their art as we were! 

Please take a moment to click on their names, it will take you to each of their blogs - we are sure you will want to follow each of them so you don't miss a single project they do...

We are thrilled to announce our 2017 Design Team:

We'll start with two ladies who have been on our team for several years now...

Lisa Novogrodski (USA) - our fearless and well-loved Design Team Coordinator

Laura Gilhuly (Canada) - who does beautiful projects with our Scraps of Darkness kits, and most of the social media posts you read from us - our Media Director 

And now, meet the ladies who will be designing with our Scraps of Elegance kits for the coming year:

Our SOE Educators:

Tracey Sabella (USA)

 Djamila Khiter (France)

And our SOE Designers:

Amy Voorthuis (The Netherlands)

 Anna Rogalska (Poland)

Annie Carignan (Canada)

 Lisa Griffith (USA)

Nicole Doiron (Canada)

 Sandi Clarkson (USA)

Our Scraps of Darkness Educator:

Tanya SonataJoy (Ukraine)

And the ladies who will inspire us all designing with our Scraps of Darkness Kits:

Dana Tatar (USA) 

Elena Lishchenko (Russia)

 Jessica McFall (USA)

Kathy Mosher (USA)

 Kerstin F. (Germany)

Monica Lowrance (USA)

 Tatiana Yemelyanenko (Ukraine)

So... Welcome Back to our returning designers, and Welcome to our new designers!

I'd also like to extend a heartfelt thank you to two ladies that have done beautiful work for us over the last year, but will be leaving us for 2017.  Denisa Gryczova and Daria Makarova, it's been a pleasure working with you, and I really appreciate the wonderful projects you did for us over the last year!

~Melinda 

DIY Shabby Chic Mixed Media Christmas Ornaments Tutorial

We have another wonderful Christmas decor tutorial today!  Yesterday it was Tanya's altered metal Christmas Star, and today it's Tatiana's beautiful pink, light blue, and lavender Christmas Balls:

Here's what Tatiana said about these beautiful ornaments:

Last time I created Christmas balls three years ago and this year I decided to create something for my kitchen decoration. I used plastic balls d 8 cm. For this project I used products from Scraps of Darkness November kit 'Snow Angels'.

 Believe me, all shines, especially in the evening light :), but it's so hard to capture all the details on photo.

Here you can see details with layer of craquelur paste:

 
For my dear readers I created video tutorial, you can find there step by step instructions on creating lilac ball. Process is not too hard but time consuming because you should wait until all the layers dry. So it's better to create several balls at the same time.

  I used:

From the Main kit
BoBunny Laser cut chipboard Snowflakes
Simply Creative 3mm Pink & Blue Self-Adhesive Gems
Uchida Snow Marker
white eyelash trim

From the Elements Add-On
Petaloo Blue Snowflake Picks
Petaloo DIY Tea-stained Butterflies
Prima Silver Cloud Glittered Leaves with Berries

We hope we've inspired you to craft your own holiday decor, and please be sure to stop back tomorrow, when we will announce who will be on our 2017 Design Team!

~Melinda 

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Weekend Inspiration: DIY Christmas Star Tutorial

The big day is getting close, but there's still time for Christmas crafting.  And if you added our Scraps of Darkness Nov. Creativity Add On to your kit, we've got a great tutorial today to inspire you to create with it!

Tanya's done a great Youtube video tutorial, showing how she made this beautiful mixed media metal star, using elements from the Nov. Snow Angels Main Kit, Floral Add On, and Creativity Add On:

 And here are a few detail photos of her star:

Have you already created a star with your kit?  We'd love to see what you did with it, so please stop by our Facebook Community and share a photo of it with us!  https://www.facebook.com/groups/scrapsofdarkness/

~Melinda

Blue Fern Studios... On Sale Now

That's right, our entire selection of Blue Fern Studios chipboard, paper, embossing powder, glitter, flowers, and stamps are 15% off until this Friday (Dec. 16th) at midnight.

The discount will be given when you are checking out, no coupon code is needed.  Here's a link to all of our Blue Fern products:  http://www.scrapsofdarkness.com/brands/Blue-Fern-Studios.html 

And here are just a few of the gorgeous Blue Fern items we have in stock right now:

And don't forget, if you are a Scraps of Darkness or Scraps of Elegance kit club member, you can have your store purchases shipped free with your next kit, so this is the perfect opportunity to stock up on some of that Blue Fern goodness at a discount!

~Melinda

More Tags!!!

Good morning!!!

I have more stunning tags to show from Denisa!

These are stunning mixed media tags using the Scraps Of Darkness 'Snow Angels' kit

These are so merry and bright and full of Christmas cheer!

Thanks for stopping by!

~Laura

Tageriffic Tuesday!

Good morning!

I love tags...they are little works of art!

 Today I have three clean and simple winter tags from Denisa, using our Scraps Of Darkness 'Snow Angels' kit

 

 Thanks for stopping by

~Laura