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Lift This with Claudia

Perhaps you've seen her around in the gallery's: Zarischka (Zarah). She makes the most beautiful LO's with lots of fantastic embellishments and beautiful photo's.

Here's a little intervieuw with Zarah:

-Do you have a blog address?
My blog is located at http://zarischka2.blogspot.com and no - there's (as far as I know) no other zarischka out there. I also blog at http://zarischka.blogspot.com but in Swedish. Thus the 2 in the url. :)

-Tell us a little about how you started paper scrapping?
I have always been an artsy type. I've tried my hand at oil painting, drawing, writing (novels and poems - I've actually been published too), water colour and so on. My albums from my early teens are filled with shape cut photos, speech bubble-stickers, drawings, tickets... and they're still quite fun to look at! I never knew about acid free scrapbooking though - until I accidentally stumbled upon a seller at a Swedish auction site (like ebay) and grew interested. I thought I could ake some cards... Soon, that lady emailed me, teling me she'd opeped a scrapbook store and I just had to find out what THAT was. I was pretty much instantly hooked! That was in December 2005 and I made my first LO in January 2006.:)

-What colours do you usually work with?
White. Lots of white! I also love blues, creams and greens - and I've grown a fondness for pink and brown which is rather peculiar, since I used to HATE both those colours! Scrapbooking does strange things to you...!

-What are 3 of your favourite page designs/projects?
Oh... Wow! Tough Question! Of mine, i presume? I'd have to say (as I always tend to like my newer ones better)... Serenity:  

Deep Thoughts:

and Heartsong :)

-Who are your paper scrapping Idols?
I have TONS! Here are a few of my absolute faves:
http://irisbabaouy.typepad.com/creativecorner/
http://frynologia.blogspot.com/
http://hegeal.blogspot.com/
http://badankor.blogspot.com/
http://nabon.blogspot.com/
http://wendymckee.blogspot.com/
http://ingvild-bolme.blogspot.com/
http://www.scrappysusandupre.com/
http://maggieholmes.typepad.com/my_weblog/
...and MANY more!

-Have you ever tried your hand at digital? If so please show us a few of your works.
I have. I am seriously crappy at it though, and I never even finished that LO... *grins* I just seem to need the FELING of the paper to get it right. But I LOVE to play with my photos in Photoshop!

-If possible could you please supply a photo of your creative space?
No photos of my scrappy space right now. It's undergoing revamping and looks... Um... Like a dump, to be honest! *giggles*

I've chosen to lift Zarah's LO "Heartsong". I love all the different textures here, lifting them digitally is a real challenge!

 

By Nicole:

 

By Lisa:

  

By me:
 

There were no prizes for last weeks challenge, but the layout that stood out the most was, Aagies's, Sweetheart page
Congrats girl! Well done on your shadow work!

Winner & "Lift This" with Nicole

First, let me take the chance to thank you all for participating in our first official challenge. We were wowed by all of your designs and shadow work.  The winner for our first Lift Challenge was a difficult choice.  Congratultions to ~Karen~ for her layout, "Hangin with Uncle Zachary" as our first winner! Vinnie will be contacting you soon regarding your prize! 

Now it's time for this week's challenge. We hope you all play along with us this week.

I was honored to interview and lift an amazing layout this week by Susan Dupre. I hope you enjoy getting to know her as much as I did. Be sure to also visit Susan's gallery at Two Peas in a Bucket. She is so inspiring!

 by Nicole

by Claudia
 

by Vinnie
 

Interview with Susan Dupre:
Tell us a little about how you started paper scrapping.
After procrastinating for three years, I decided it was time to start scrapping my little boy's life. I was in San Francisco visiting a friend, and I stopped into a scrap store. I bought a few things planning to start soon. I remember checking on line, and I found scrapbook.com. I immediately got involved in challenges to help me learn. This was in March 2007. I have never looked back. Since then I have grown as an artist, and I have been so fortunate to have been published and to be on mfg. design teams. Not to mention, I have just made so many wonderful friends out there who are fellow artists.

What colours do you usually work with?
The correct response would be - what colors do I "not" work with, lol. I really can work with any color style of paper. I did interior design before my little guy was born, and I lover every style. This has just rolled over into scrapping. I really love and do every style.

What are 3 of your favourite page designs/projects?
One is of my nephew, "remember". It is very close to my heart because he died way too young in an automobile accident. The other two are from that first year I started scrapping and are special because one shows my more playful side of scrapping, and the other is just one I love - especially the photo I took of my little guy. 
 
 


Who are your paper scrapping idols?
I found this extremely hard to do! I have about 1000+ artists out there that inspire me constantly, but these girls I have admired for quite a while now.
Iris Babao-Uy"quirky and elegant"
Elizabeth Carney"fun and playful"
Jen Jockishch"just plain love her style"

Have you ever tried your hand at digital? If so, please show us a few of your works. Unfortunately, no. I am still trying to figure out the ins and outs of Photoshop. To say the least, I feel intimidated by it. I have done Hybrid and ATC's. I would like to learn though.

If possible, could you please supply a photo of your creative space?
You are so fortunate I just happen to have a photo of my scrap room after I decorated it! Needless to say,  I am "not" the neatest of scrappers. I have friends that have seen the state of my space, and they know their life would be in jeopardy if they even let it be known the disaster area it is now!

 

Lift This With Vinnie! & Win a 20$ GC!

CREDITS

Welcome to our first official challenge! What is the aim of this blog challenge? To help improve your shadow and composition skills! Remember with each lift to focus in on shadows and highlights. Refer to first post on shadow article.

So lets get to it! I am so pleased to feature the talented Marcy Penner. I love her style, its clean and fun with the right balance of whitespace.

INTERVIEW WITH THE CREATOR

Tell us a little about how you started paper scrapping? 
I always kept little things and memorabilia in notebooks.  When I was in high school and started taking my own pictures I put them in the 2-up little albums and decorated those.  Once I had my first kid I started using colored paper and my own hand-drawings on my pages.  After my second child I opened up my own scrapbook store to feed my addiction... and it's been 7 years now.

What colors do you usually work with? 
Lately my backgrounds have been shades of white.  Before that, kraft.  With patterned paper anything goes.  The only color you will not see me use is purple.  ;)

What are 3 of your favorite page designs/projects? 
My three favorite layouts right now are...

Queen Bee

2010

34 kisses

Who are your paper scrapping Idols?
Jennifer Johner, Jamie Waters, Jen Jockish...the J's.  ;)

Have you ever tried your hand at digital?
I haven't... other than the cards I design for my photography clients... but those are usually super simple.

Do you mind showing us a photo of your creative space?
You can view pics of my space here (although since those photos it's changed a bit... and hopefully in a year or so our additional will be finished and I'll be moving my space into the loft!)

By Me -

CREDITS

By Nicole -

By Claudia -
 

Post your pages at www.twopeasinabucket.com, link back here. The best page layout recieves a $20 Gift Certificate to 2Peas!

RULES: You can use whatever products you like, but to qualify for the prize you must use all 2Peas supplies.

Have fun!