2/28/2015

February´s Creative Guest - Riikka

Today we are proud to present a person that inspires a lot! Our February Creative Guest is Riikka Kovasin!

We are certain that she will inspire you, and that if you not yet have submitted your December project will find inspration to do so now. You find the linkytool to use in in the bottom of this orginal reveal post. Take the chance to win gorgeous prizes!!!




Creative Guest Facts



My name is Riikka Kovasin. I live in Helsinki, the capital of Finland with my supporting, awesome husband and our two sweet daughters. Crafts are my passion, but since autumn 2013 I've also been working full time.

I've been doing all sorts of crafts my whole life. I think I started with cards and general crafts, then got into painting and printmaking, then to sewing and knits. I'm a clothes designer by education but haven't done exactly that job for a moment in my life. I got really got into papercrafts after I found scrapbooking. I started doing pages back in 2009 when my older daughter was about 6 months old. Since then my style has evolved to more mixed media direction and nowadays I usually grab gesso or other paint media when I start creating. I've also experimented with different sizes, but nowadays I feel most comfortable with the 12x12" paper. It has space for me to do some background work and layering and still leaves enough white space.

My passion is to do layouts. My number one topic is my family, usually my daughters, but I constantly try to remind myself about making pages about myself, too. Although I'm pretty sure that the girls enjoy looking at their own pages when they grow up, I imagine they find the pages about their mom or dad even a bit more fascinating. Besides the layouts, I also love to create mixed media canvases, cards and occasionally challenge myself with minialbums, too. Lately I've grown an interest on ATCs and have done a few sets. Please feel free to ask a swap! 

I absolutely adore getting my hands into paints and mists! To me the process of creating is equally important than the finished page. To me it's a great pleasure to combine my love for beautiful products with the possibility to get messy and create a piece of memory keeping at the same time! A win-win situation! Scrapbooking is a form of self-expression to me and I'm creating pages because I want to document our lives to my children. It's sort of series of illustrated dairy pages.

I have been fortunate enough to get chosen to different design teams and get published. You can find my current and past design teams as well as my publications in my resume. You can also check the current design teams from my sidebar and go exploring to the sites! I also love to make videos and tutorials and I enjoy tremendously to teach in-person workshops. You can see some examples of the workshops here, in the workshops page.

The project




Thanks Riikka for joining us this month!

2/20/2015

Winners & Top Picks for January

As usual this was a hard desition! You guys rocked this challenge and we hope you will be back for the current challenge as well!!! You find it here!

Our top picks from January!





And the winner of the prize from


Please send us a mail at wordspaintery@gmail.com so we can sort out your prize!



2/15/2015

FEBRUARY 2015


It´s time for the February Challenge. Here in the Northern part of the world that means that the sun is returning and we can look forward to days filled with white crisp snow and warming sunshine. After a dark period we look forward to COLOR again. Windows fills up with fresh green plants and funky crockery. This month our mood board was inspired by a picture that our team member Anna Ekman brought us!


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 March 15 (CET +1)


The Sponsors
We are proud to present two sponsors this month! 


http://7dotsstudio.com/


7 Dot´s Studio offers a €20 Gift certificate for their store.



http://www.yourcreativewings.com/

Your Creative Wings offers a $25 prize pack to one of the winners.

Inspiration from the Creative Team

Marelle Jackman

Lena Holmström

Karine Gagnon

Terhi Koskinen


Sylvia Ekman Mellander

Anna Wiśniewska

Marta Piekarczyk

Ebony van der Starre

Kim Price

Anna Ekman

Marie Johansson

Lisa Griffith