How to not make a scrapbook page :)

For the longest time I wondered how to create a bouquet of flowers on a page! So I decided to make flower and flourish cut files and cut them out on Canson watercolor paper with my Silhouette Cameo. I then painted them with acrylic paint all impasto style and viola. I love this page so much! :)

I have a little challenge for you to make some Acrylic flower embellishments and use them on a page or a card! Enter with the gallery below (Click here to watch a little video how this little gallery works and how to upload a page) Make sure your name is also in the description box. :)

I will pick a random winner that will win a little box filled with already cut out cut files. The challenge ends next wednesday June 11.



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Thank you for watching. In the end it's really just you who makes it worth it to me.

Wilna Furstenberg
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Garden Digest: November 2013!

Every month, the design team from 2peasinabucket does a blog hop (see some of the past ones here)! In this month's garden girl blog hop, we are doing something different! Every one participating did a little video chatting away and answering a few questions! I think it will be so cool to see these little videos!

here's the list of this blog hop!
Two peas blog
Paige
Lisa
Wilna (here)
Lilith
Corrie
Jen Kinkade
Jen Gallacher
Shimelle.

It's quite awkward to make a video while you are technically talking to yourself, so forgive me if I am too silly in this video. ha!

This coming month i will have a bunch of videos coming to two peas! I am currently working on a video that will be up this coming Tuesday for "in the mood to scrap". I also had my second ARTCLASS come out and I am so happy that everyone loves it! The first class is on sale right now (-25%). Here's a sneak peek at my new class. It was so much fun to put this class together and I can honestly say that the one who benefitted the most was me. I am truly energized to create pages right now and I hope the same will happen to you when you take it!

I am really inspired by the pages that's being created from my class. I love looking through the class gallery and I do get all warm and fuzzy when I see the beautiful creations. What makes me even more happy is when someone say that they have tried something that they have always wanted to try but was too scared to. I created a pinterest board to keep all those beautiful pages together! Thank you so much for every single person that bought the class!

I recently did a scrapbook room VIDEO tour and those of you who saw it will know that I really don't have that much stuff. This was not always the case... back in the day when I worked for Making memories, I had so much stuff it was overwhelming to say the least. I love buying my own products to scrapbook with! here's a few things that is making their way over to my house as we speak.

Today I doing a give away! leave me a comment (maybe answer one of the questions in the video - I would love to hear your take) and you can win a gift card from 2peas worth $20! This is always a great little gift... maybe you will buy a class or that stamp you've been looking for!
Thanks so much for visiting my blog. I love doing the garden digest and I am looking forward to sharing my videos with you over the coming month. Please make sure you are subscribed to my Youtube channel as I am planning on uploading some other layout tutorials there too!

smiles (and hop over to Lilith's blog now!)

Wilna Furstenberg
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ps... the winner of the artclass 2 give away is...Ruth Tacoma! Please email me your two peas name and I will give your name to the powers on there!

My scrapbook room: a tour.

see more pictures of my scrapbook room here.

I just finished working on a big project (Artclass 2 available on 2peas in a bucket) and I cleaned my scrapbook room form top to bottom. It was the purging of the decade for me and for the first time in 3 years, I can say that my scrapbook room is just perfect. I love an uncluttered space and I am always busy decluttering. To the point where my family calls me Mrs Declutter. I love it when everything has a place and a spot - it saves me time looking for things which I love becuase I am inherently lazy and HATE looking for things. This room also hosts my home office and I have a 30 second office - meaning I must be able to find anything I need in 30 seconds. Being organized comes not from being OCD (because I really am not) but from my minimalistic outlook and the lightness that's a part of not living in clutter. These are the same reasons why I seldom procrastinate.  Please note the seldom in this last sentence. (seldom except sometimes).

The video quality is not great. I used a handy cam to record it and it worked fine, but I am not a professional video person... still learning stuff like that. But the reason why I posted it anyway is becuase I love watching scrapbook room tours on youtube. I am fascinated by it. And I hope you are not disappointed by the lack of scrapbooking stash in my scrapbook room... I really don't have that much stuff. I think you will be shocked by my pile of scrapbook paper. Let me know what you think- hehe. The photos in the gallery is way better... thanks to my wonderful Nikon camera (I have a Nikon D7000 that I use for filming projects and a D800 that I use for my photography).  <3 I have an Apple iMac 27" (2009) and a second screen (acer) that I use for iTunes and watching videos/movies while I work. Having a second screen is awesome when you work in Photoshop or do a tutorial where you can watch the video on one screen and work on the other one. Just a note here... You just plug the second screen into the Mac and then you can drag windows across the screens almost like you had one BIG screen. So, I only use one mouse and one key board for both screens. I love technology more then jewelry. Seriously. I am the techie person in the house and I fix the network problems and the wireless devices. I also keep all my technology updated and current. 

My wide format printer is an Epson R1900 Stylus Photo printer.
My wireless home printer is a Brother MFC-J615w. It's a scanner, printer fax. Love it. 

I don't have a lot of tools that I use. I think the tool I use the most is my Silhouette Cameo. It has a special place in my room and I really use it a lot. Most of the furniture is from Ikea and it's a pity they don't make the desk I have any more. The grey and white stripe rug is from a local store (JYSK) and I love finding bargains to make my room pretty.

Here's the video: 




And you can see all the photos of my 2013 scrapbook room  in my twopeasinabucket gallery by clicking this link.


Here's a flash back for you!
My scrapbook room as I photographed it in 2011.
My scrapbook room as it was in 2009.

So, if you have any other questions about anything, leave me a comment  and I will answer you there as well.

click here and hop over to this post where I am giving away one spot to my new class (give away ends this Thursday!) So make sure you leave a comment (You can also win your spot back!)

Smiles...

Wilna Furstenberg
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