Swirl card

Today I decided to make some cards for the challenge blog I never tried.

I used the colors from Color chef challenges- this one is new to me also- and I was lucky here to win too- thanks!!
Sketch for Limelight papercrafts- I won this one randomly- thanks!!
And as always there are more and more challen ges to fit with this one.
New- all teal items are Su new from the Rak I got and the stamp set to- for One stitch in time
New- all SU items I got as a RAK-for Scrapwhispers
No design paper for Cute card
Yellow for Just scraps
This balck and teal pendant inspiration for Etsy inspired
Swirls for Alice
Colors for Off the wall craftness
Punches for Creative inspiration

Girl dress card

This card made Top 5 at Stamp something blog- thanks!!
This card made Top 3 at Frosted designs challenge- thanks!!
This card made Top 3 on Shabby tea room challenge- thanks!!
This card made Top 3 on Crazy challenges challenge- thanks!!

This one was done with some web template- also I did some huge size and shape adjustments on it to fit my vision of this vintage girl dress. I used some really old papers, felt die cut I got as a rack. lace, pearl string, one brad, some paper flowers, bling and plastic rose.
The tag is for the Birthday- stamped, embossed and distressed. I did the hanger decoration tooto add some flowers and sparcle to it.
And as for the challenges:
Inspiration for Frosted designs
Colors- 3 of 5- for Paper makeup
Girly for Stamp with Sarah Kay
Buttons and blooms for Secret crafter
3 - flowers on the hanger and a charm for Sew many challenges
Bow and ribbon for Aly's
Vintage for ABC
Pimp your card for Sweet stamping
Recipe- 2 pp, 4 buttons, 3 colors for Dutch dare
New- never did dress cards and altered a hanger- for Scrapwhispers
Blooming charming for Creative cottage--
Favorite stamp for Crafty creations- the Happy birthday fro Hero is my fav
Buttons for Incy wincy- they are small- but where the buttons need to be!!
Inspiration for Shabby tea room
Girly for Paper garden
Girly for Crazy challenge
Birthday- for Little red wagon
Celebration for Spoon full of sugar
Ribbon- bow- tag- for Stamp challenges

Flowers card

This card was a May winner on Corrosive chalenge-thanks!!

I did this card as a self challenge to use cardstock only- more than 1 stamp- only 2 colors and minimum embellishments- a real challenge for " overdoing" crafter like me.
Also I need some cards for oncoming events- and this one is " all occasion" one.
I did it for some other web challenges
Round for Charisma
No design paper for Cute card
Rounds- for Pixie dust
Orange for Pink elephant
Cas for Corrosive
Punches- for Creative inspirations

Welcome card

This card made Top 3 On Challenge up your life blog- thanks!!
This time I did a card that is not my style- but a very simple one- for me is can be called CAS.
I used my SU goddies I won on Curtain call blog (thanks and thanks again) and did it for some web challenges and also to have one " Welcome" card in my stock.
Die cuts for Creative inspiration
Recycling for Challenge up your life- the string and all kraft paper (from the back of my office note pad)
Texture for Delightful sketches
Sketch for Stamp with us
Pearls and swirls for Stamptacular
Anything goes for Digi doodle shop best

Tea bag apron holder

Weekend again and I have some time for crafting, so this time I decided to try an apron tea bag holder. I know there are some apron templates on web- but I did this with free hand- not big deal, really not.. So I did this one in my usual " modern vintage" style- monochromatic, antique pink and a bit of brown as distressing and some add ons. The pocket was made for some cute herbal tea bags and it smells divine!!
So here are the challenges this one was made for:
Sketch for Pals paper arts
Vintage for ABC
Inspiration for Shabby tea room
Pick 3 for Mission create- brown-distress- vintage charm
Bows and ribbon for ALI
Buttons for Incy wincy, for ECP
Distresing for KLstamping n' scrapping, for Creative inspiration
Girly for Paper garden, for Crazy challenge
3 kinds of embellishments and a charm for Sew many cards- I have buttons, ribbons and flowers and a charm on the tag. I also did 3 techniques- inking, pleating the ribbon, white pen stitching
Sentiment for Aud sentiments
Anything goes for Digi doodle shop best
Monochrom for Hanna and friends, for Wild flower patch, for Creative craft world, for Totally paper crafts
Silver and gold for Meljen's designs
Wings for Flutter by, and wings for Paper play- 2 dragonflies
Pick 3 for Stamping vacation- pearls, very big card ( about A4), nothing round
Blooming charming for Creative cottage
Recipe- wings(2 dragonflies), pink. petals for Cooking it with Katie
Colors for Pink gem
Birthday for Little red wagon
Colors for Stamping royalty, for Creative card crew
Celebration- for Spoon full of sugar
Pocket for Artful inkables
Out of the box-Doing apron and tea holder together- for me it is- for Pile it on
Recipe for Stamp something
Texture for Delightful sketches
Embossing for Quixotic
Flowers. lace, embossing, inking- for Inky impressions
As you like for Woopsy daisy

My junk box

This cute book wood box was made for my Gingersnap creations DT job- colors black- burgondy and cream

This box was in the closet for 2-3 years at least (1$ store junk)- so it is my Junk box - to put all these items left on the table before I do the selection and put them in the regular craft storages.

I used some velvet paper over the arcylic paint wash, embossed and sanded cardstock , black lace and beads, MM alphas, glittered chipboard butterfly, old reused tassel and hand made ribbon rose.

And now for other challenges too:
Texture for Delightful sketches

Embossing - the dots (distressed after) for Quixotic

Vintage for ABC

Sketch for CLP

Sparcles for Digi doodle shop best
Hand made flower for Fluorishes--

Pick 3 for Mission create- distressing, beads and a reused vintage tassel

Out of the box for Pile it on - it is a box and things are out of it literally

Distress it for Wild flower patch

Recipe for Inky impressions- flower, circles (abc), lace, embossing

Distressed- for KLstamping n' scrapping, for Craft your passion

Birthstone - ruby- not mine- but still birthstone for One stop craft

One day u gotta dance lo

This page was published in Feb 2011 issue of SNR magazine
This lo was done with my own very old photo

I was I very fat non dancing baby- and some decades later I am petite zero addicted to dancing (falk- ballroom- anything...) person. So this page was done with my own baby photo and this title.. And as it should be with old b/w photos I did it with this shabby " modern vintage" style-

grey paper, lazer die cut paper, recycling old Prima packaging, monochromatic lo.

I did it with Crop divas sketch and used some kind of hidden journaling on OA tag, one bingo card, Prima flowers on recycled book punched scallop, used laces, ribbons, pearls, blings, inking, distressing, 2 colors stamped and heat embossed butterfly, bare kraft chipboard, altered Prima canvas alphas, another MM alphas.. Did I forget something? Maybe.. Just enlarge by click and see it all..
I also won this sketch challenge- as I was the only one in the challenge- still..

And it was a fast one (again- the only thing that takes time was a butterfly- and this one was premade by me .. )

And a tip: when you scrap a vintage monochromatic page - decide on color (other than kraft- balck- white- cream base ) and take out whatever you have with this only color- like I did with this blue one. Than use some of the items- not all of them- and keep all others in one place for the next same color page. It works perfecly. Time is money we say.. So next time you save time..

And for other challenges - after the sketch and a title:

Antique- for Method playground
Recycling- the b/w dots are the packaging and the book paper under the flower too- for Challenge up your life

B/w and one more color for Magical crafts

Scrapbook page for Little paper shop

Antique- the photo is almost 50 years old f0r Method palyground

Buttons for ECP challenges

Distressing for KLstamps n' scraps

Flowers and pearls for Cinema saturday

Recipe- tag, 2 buttons, ribbon and a bow for Character cafe

Buttons, ribbon, lace for Paper cutz

Bon voyage 3 card

This card was a winner for Germany challenge on Sisterhood of crafters- thanks!!

This is the 3 rd and not the last card from this "post cards" line.

I did it with Unscripted sketches #56 sketch for my DT job for this week and with the same concept as my France and USA cards- but for Germany..

Why Geramny? As there is a Germany challenge on the web this week and why not? I visited there for 3-4 times and loved the nature, the people and the beer (oh- not the food!!)

The most problem was to find something for this German things- I didn't find any stamps (I even have some for Australia- but no Germany at all)

So I did this hand drawn, hand cut , glittered and heat embossed beer glass and added some

" black forest " buttons and Berlin's wall (still there- but open..)

I also used Prima film tape , Ek castle metal pin and some ribbon here.

2-3 more postcards to go (I think England- Italy and China will do these line)

And as for the challenges:

Favorite drink- beer is the only alcohol I drink- so it's for Freshy brewed challenges

Germany for Sisterhood of crafters

Make your own embellishment for Kah- wink- e- dink

Bon voyage 2 card

This card was publushed in SNR August 2010 issue

This card made TOP5 at Get sketchy challenge- thanks

This card is the second in the " line" of Bon voyage" card I decided to make- and this one is for USA travellers.

I used these red- blue- white flag colors, added some stars (brads and buttons)

It was done with the same pattern as the Paris one- the distressed ink cardstock as the base and Unity stamped postcard as the middle base with some focal point image on the top.

This one is pure masculine one- the colors, no flowers and all this girly ribbons, sparcles etc.

And these was done with Get sketchy sketch for some more challenges too

Sketch for Sketch and stash- the stamp set from TPC studio is a year old

Stars for OWH stars and stamps

Stars and stripes for Crafty catz

Twins- love story lo

This lo was published in August 2010 issue of SNR magazine

I was a Cropping Diva of the week for this page on Scrap simple blog- thanks!!

I was really productive today- 3 postcards and a page- and it's still 9 p.m. only- I think I am going to scrap another one.. I just realised that we took thousands of photos I never even checked- and they are great. So I need to finish the full box of what I have and than to recheck that ones again..
So this page was a fast one: I used the sketch from Scrap simple " as is"- it's a great sketch with hidden journaling block I like very much- also I didn't do the journaling yet- this needs a time and a muse. Than I saw this " crazy" colors I never use on Studio 313 challenges- I think this is a card blog- but still- 2 yellow- red and something pieces were screaming " use your BG paper" for this lo and I won this one randomly- more digi to grab- thanks!!
So I used these BG paper and transparency I got as my first real RAK almost a year ago form Jasmin after I won on her SIC challenge (later I did a full term in this blog DT)- and it's so shiny summer colors. All the rest was easy- no stamping or misting on this one, just clusters of cute embellishments, some home die cuts, a handle for the OA journaling block and reuse of J. Bowlin bingo packaging. I even opened a new pack of Thickers as I wanted to do the title in one single font and fast.
And for other challenges too:
Colors- lots of bright ones- for Crafty Ann blog hop challenge- I finished a hop but need a creation to do for it too
Not my comfort zone for Start me up- YELLOW? ME? and taking a sketch " as is"?
Love story for Creative promps

Scrappage for Little paper shop- I won this challenge randomly- thanks!

Bon voyage card

This card was  published in SNR August 2010 issue

I am back with my vintage cards- just in time for some Bon voyage cards- as the summer is here and lots of my friends are going abroad for vacations.

So this is the first in this Post cards seria's cards -will be more done today (Horray- after 2 days of vacation and one working day we have 2 days of weekend!! and my kids are still not home- now it's a bride shower for the girls)

So here it is : Unity postcard stamp ,

Tim Holtz Paris stamps , die cuts and metal charm, lace, twine, ribbon, some flowers and a bling

I did some masking technique on the shield chipboard die cut and lots of distressing , inking. ripping all around

And for the challenges:

Sketch- rotated 90 deg. to left- for Critter challenges

2 of something- 2 colors- for Stamp challenge

Chipboard for Fluorishes

Mostly brown for Sisterhood of scrap

Make it yourself- all the thing - die cuts, the flower mix, backgrounds- are self made- for

Fab and funky

Recipe- flowers, lace, circles, distressing, sparcles for Inky impressions

White cardstock only- for Shellie's images- I won this challenge randomly- thanks!!

Monochromatic for Mamidoodles

Colors for Sugar creek

Antique for Method palyground

Brown, distressing. vintage hinge for Mission create card challenge

To my friend card

This card was featured today 5/21 on Impression Obsession stamps blog
This card was done as an experiment: no patterned paper card, 3 colors only, using background stamps to make some pattern, doing heart punched flower- just experimenting(all who knows me knows that I am not a card maker but a scrapper- I need space and lots and lots of layers and a huge title and some journaling- so card are just to try some techniques and than to take it to the pages.. )

But as always I found some challenges before I started and the first one was to do a card for a friend with IO stamps. I only have their 6*6 background ones- so I used 2 of them- leaves on black cardstock and heat embossing the white ink and than for the flower- with retro background and heat embossing too (colorbox white ink never dries)

I also used dry embossing folder with white cardstock and added some pearls on it (it was boring), cut a frame out of self made corrugated red paper with Spellbinders die and popped it with 3d foam glue dot. Then I did this flower with punched old book page, metal old tag, punched hearts and a brad. For the finish I used 2 Prima laces, one dotted ribbon, some cute buttons and a punched from a glitter cardstock tag. I was pretty out of my mojo for stamping the sentiment so I did it with small MM stickers.

I like the final result- also it's most probably will go for my own recycling- using the flower and the bow on the page- can't promise anything..

So now for the challenges:

IO stamp and for the friend card- for IO stamps challenge

3d for Charisma

Glitter and blings- the tag is glittered paper and bling- anyone can see it- for Digi doodle best shop-I won this one randomly- thanks!!

Old stash- the stamps are old- one used once only, the punches- even more old- for ABC

Make it yourself- paper, tag, flower- for Fab and funky

Recipe for Inky impressions- I have everything from the list but W.

Make your oun embellishment for KAH- WINK- E - DINK

Flowers for Papertake weekly

Colors for Cowgirls

Black, white and one more color for Magical scraps

Sketch for Card patterns

Punches for Creative inspirations

Hypnotized lo

This page was published in June issue of SNR

This is the second lo I was asked to do for Trick or treat Syngapore web shop by the owner- Dorcas Yam as thier GD with the shop items .

I did it with Twisted sketches #50 sketch- the photo is old- 11 years old and the vintage angel charm too

I used Sassafrass lass pp mixing them with MM tag paper and also doing some round misting, rub on stitching, adding Prima flowers and centers, home cut crown with the flower center on it , some brown blings and mixing the title with AC thickers and some ATD alphas.The angel charm was from my old " anything in it" junk box and was perfect for this photo of my girl at the age of 12.

Challenges:

Use rubons- for Creative type- the stitching around the photo are very old K&CO ones and the charm is pure recycling from the old key chain

Vintage finding(charm), distressing, color brown, decorative edge paper(a strip I used here ) for Mission create

Scrapbook page for Little paper shop

Paper cone

This cone won a challenge on All that scraps make a cone challenge- thanks!!
This cone made Top 5 at Fussy and fancy challenge- thanks!!

My first ever cone- no template on this one- just 1/3 of the circle cut and rolled
WOJ stamp (my friend Einat's one- I don't have any of these cute ones) colored with copics- these I have and never use.

This was primary done for All that scraps challenge- they wanted a paper cone- but during the crafting I added all these items and colors that fit lots and lots of other challenges and here it is:

Bg papers, punching, lace, ribbons, pearls, crystals, flowers, recycled tissue paper with tearing, die cuts, hand made charm, metal clip- you name it- this cone have it .
And for the challenges:

Cone for All that scraps
Something new for Crazy challenges- the techniques of paper cone are new for me - never did one

Angel and flowers for Flutter

For kids for Scrap creations (the pink dotted paper is BG)

Busket for Fussy and fancy

Inspiration for Scrap the art
Cut it out- for Your next stamp- the image is cut and glued again
As you like it for Woopsi daisy

Flowers for Clearly inspired

Cute and girly for Spoon full of sugar
Punch it for Basic grey
Spring for ECP
Petals and pearls for Crazy catz- pearls are on the image
For kids for Cuttlebug challenge
Unused stash- the paper, image. copics- for ABC
Flowers for Papertake weekly
Anything goes for Shelly's images
Blooming charming for Cupcake crafts- the strawberry charm on the handle
Punches for Creative inspirations
Tearing- the inside tissue- for Crafty angels

Family fun- NY 2008 LO

This page will be published on September 2010 issue of Scrapstreet magazine
This lo won a sketch challenge on Crafty little place - thanks

Today is our SHAVOUT holliday again- so I have 2 more days for doing nothing but crafting as in our family this one is not so important. One of my girls is working for these 2 days, the second one is out for 4 days vacation(even missed some college classes for it), one of my sons is back to Spain where he works and the second one has army duties. So no family meal or family gathering- but a family lo.

These photos are a about 2 years old , taken on our USA vacation (3 of 4 of my kids, my new DIL and myself. 2 of my men decided that NY is boring(??????!!!!)

I decided to use Claudia's sketch as I was very glad to find that old Die cut r us challenges are in the new Crafty little place and have this lo challenges- not only cute cards ones. Than I found this great color inspiration on Candy shoppe challenge blog .They have this cutest candy ever from Magpie club sponsoring this challenge- wow- I wish I win!!

And I used a great poem on Scrap the poetry blog I used for journaling.

The basic cardstock is from MME, than I used Teressa Collins transparency,

some SU stash I got as a great Rak for winning on Curtain call blog (thanks Staicey- I love it all!!), I added some Websters ribbon, 4 sets of Alphas were used here as no set was full (I also painted some huge letters to fit the colors of this page and glittered it) and I added one homemade and misted flower with old vintage button on.

As for techniques I stamped and hand cut images, painted , glittered and stamp on chipboard letters , pleated the ribbon, did handwriting journaling and stamped directly on the cardstock.

The last touch was this adorable metal flower pin I got as a part of my winning on Get sketchy challenge blog- thanks!!

And as for other challenges:

Mission create- vintage (button), distressing, decorative borders paper

For GDT on Always palying with paper

Scrap page- for Little paper shop

Round and round- for Getting creative with ANN

Not my comfort zone- doing the sketch " as is"- 3 photos etc- for Start me up

Scrap the poetry- I used the line " You are all that I can call my own..." for journaling

Using ABC sets for Scrap you crap (I used 4 sets, cut the "m" for " n", painred part of them to fit my title

Great outdoors for Crafty calendar

Use paint- for my letters- for Scrap outside the box

5 buttons- 4 regular, 1 silver blue vintage- for Craft your passion

Colors for Candy shoppe

Pick 3 for Butterfly crafts- yellow, glitter, buttons, inking too

Round and round for Totally gorjuss

Sweet stampers asked for family dedication as my page is

Hand made flower for Quixotic

Favorite color combo and glitter - these pink- blue one I love it and use a lot , the glitter was added on the NY letters- for Tuesday morning sketches

Patterened paper for Practical scrappers

Recycling - the flower is made of an old Hebrew book- for Character cafe

Cut it out for Pixie dust

First grader- " wow" hair cut lo

This lo was published in August 2010 issue of SNR magazine

This page made TOP 3 on My partner in crafting crime challenge blog- thanks!!

This is the third lo I did as a GD for Syngapore Trick or treat web shop and it's my twin Ortal first grade photo. Today my twins have this very long great hair- but that days I decided to cut it to avoid some "animal problems" we had that days in the school.. You know what I mean if you live in a very hot area..

So the hair was cut - but not to great- also she is still very cute .

I also added some punched butterflies and added her name on the photo

So I used the October afternoon pp hand cut for these big circles, AC thickers, J. Bowlin button chipboards and some premade OA tags wiht my hand write journaling -cute, smart, lovely, loving, doll, gift , mine, mine, mine....

Challenges:

RED- GREEN- TOMATO-GREEN TITLE FOR Screen to scrap

Funny- my DD uneven (my hand) haircut is funny- for Sistehood of crafters
Sketch for Twisted sketches (the colors twist)

Circles for Totally gorjuss

Patterned paper for Practical scrappers-
Yellow- red- buttons for Butterfly crafts

Best time ever lo

This page was published in June issue of SNR

This lo was made by me as a guest designer for Trick or treat web shop in Syngapore after the owner, Dorcas Yam asked me to do some GDT work with the shop goodies. So here it is- the first lo made with AC pp from TEENAGE COLLECTION , AC thickers and some techniques too..

I also used Twisted sketches sketch #48 - 90 deg. twisted to left and clean twist is a lot of a clean space on the basic paper- not so usual for me.

for this page- very unscripted for sure this time

I did some Tattered angels misting over a home cut butterfly, used MS edge punch,painted TH home cut wings with blue acrylic paint, added some Prima ribbon, flower, pleated some other ribbon and added some flower blings too.

And for other challenges:

Inspiration for Nerdy girls- the link to the badge is down as the side bar is just too full.

Rainbow for Frosted designs

Punches for Creative inspirations

Paper cake box

I never used templates- so this one was a trial and I loved it.. Really don't remember where I got this one- so credit to everyone and any one- I just found it once on the web ages ago.

My mom's birthday is in a week- the real present were bought during my trip to Morocco some days ago (the moroccan dress mom wanted and some other items too)- so this is a box for all these small items (key chain, necklace etc)

And as always it was done for lots of challenges (just an explanation how I manage to do so many challenges)- is very simple: I have a long list of challenge blogs in my own blog here- just scroll down to see it . So I scroll for all blogs before crafting and write down any single challenge I can possibly do- colors, theme, products, one sketch (you can't use more than 1). Sometimes I fix my ideas to fit some challenges, sometimes the craft piece fits the challenges without any efford- like " not a card", " gift" , altered item, recycling as it is what they ask for from the beginning.

Really easy- but takes some time- so I do it at night and never do the next day challenges- as the are changing before I finish the piece.Then I re-check all of these challenges as sometimes it changes after all a day before or closed for submission. That's it- anyone can do it as I do- also it really takes some of your crafting time.It's even very easy with lo-s as these challenges are mostly for 2 weeks or a month- so when I do a page I just check my lists and if anyone askes for lace I can always add some lace (not for boyish one.. ) or a button or some pearls as the challenge still runs ...

So here we are for this cake:

Sweet treat for Charisma

Sketch- ok- the main part of it- for Craft

Flower for Clearly inspired

Celebration for Sassy bling babes

For mom- for Scrappy frogs

Something special for Cute card

Flowers and blooms for Meljen's designs

Distressed for Crafty cardmakers

Brown and... pink for Paper play

Anything goes for Shelly's images

Unused stash- the template, Bg old paper, the stamp I have for ages- for ABC

Vintage/ distressing for Pixie cottage

Celebration and sparcle for AI factory

Pink and green for Totally gorguss

Celebrations for By cute and girly

Pink and green for Craft your passion- I won this one randomly- thanks!!

Ribbon. sparcles, dimention for Wild flower patch

Mom's day lo

This lo is a winner on The Pink Elephant for mom challenge- thanks!!

This lo made Top 3 on Prairy fairy recycling challenge- thanks!!

This lo was published in Scrapbooking.com magazine

I am still scrapping my DP old photos and this one is the only photo I have from their wedding day- my mom only..

She was 21 then.

I used Prima pp with distressing all around and Prima flocked pp for the matting, some music paper from my Creatalicious winning Rak, Prima chipboard alphas, MM vintage collection pp for my journaling with AC brown marker and Creative imagonations lace paper.

As for the embels I used Prima small paper flowers, Heidi Swapp invisible chipboard heart inked with distress red ink, Prima lace,some home inked doily,

home cut from old lace flower, heart pin from my sewing box and also a zipper, old vintage button, vintage key charm and some vintage look sticker with no name on it.I really like the simplicity of the photo and innocence of this lo.

And for the challenges:

Dressing chipboards for Start me up

Sweet memories for Getting creative with Ann
For mom for Scrappy frogs

Celebration for By cute and girly- wedding

Shabby chick for Die cut dreams
Recycle for Prairy fairy- the zipper- old curtain (flower cut),button from old dress

Mom for Pink elephant

Mom and lace flower for Got mojo

He was my hero lo

This lo was published in August 2010 issue of SNR magazine

This lo was a GEM OF THE WEEK of 5/17 on Scrapbooking challenges blog- thanks!!

My DT challenge on GINGERSNAP CREATIONS was " read"- any kind, any way..

Also to use some letters stamp or some book page was an easy way- I decided to do a lo about a book.. And about " the book"- The Little prince by Antuane de Saint- Exepury was my ultimate choice and here it is- my He was my hero lo

My hero- both of them- the writer and a prince. I knew to quote every single page of this book - first the Russian translation, then the English and later the Hebrew one. I tried to read the French original- but my 3 years of highschool French was not enough- so I dropped the idea.

This is a pure non photo lo and here are the products:

AC light grey cardstock, Adornit pp(the sky), one stamp (" Draw me... ), paper rose, Pink paislee letters, some brads and lots of techniques.

I used some gesso and some recycled tissue paper for the " planet", pEper piecing of digi print for the prince,I printed the book cover on 5 languages,

used paints for the sea and the sky, distressed the alphas,

inked the covers, stamped the sheap and heat embossed it with dimentional white paint and did some journaling about the book I found on WIKIPEDIA

The digi cut of the plane is for the writer whose plane was missed over the sea in 1944.

And for the challenges:

Paints (the sky- sea- plane) for Scrap outside the box

Nothing new for Scrapfit

Not a card for My stampimg royalty

Sanding for Frosted designs- the letters are all sanded

Go and grow- lo

THIS LO WAS PUBLISHED IN JULY /AUGUST ISSUE 2010 OF SCRAP N' ART MAGAINE

This lo was made Unscripted sketches sketch #53 and as it is National scrapbooking day (ok- not my nation- but my scrapbooking for sure)- our DT was asked to design a lo and not a card(also I do half and half usually).
So for this one I challenges myself to scrap a huge photo of my kids lot of time ago and I am really pleased with the result .Don't afraid of these huge prints- it came very easy as there is no lot of space to scrap after.
So as for products- 1 AC cardstock, some sraps for home diecuts, MM and AC letters (mission impossible to use the same set!!), Pink paislee die cut , Bazzill die cut one mixed flower I did from 5 pieces of Prima and Petaloo, with crystal brad and some crystal leftovers.
As for techniques- misting over the mountains home diecuts, faux stitching,
painting the chipboard, misting the cardstock white border, die cutting and hand writing
And for other challenges too:
Nothing new for Scrapfit- old photo- old papers- old dies and flowers-

Stitching for Crafty cats

Different fonts and altering letters- (o is zero and I covered it with a tree die cut to make this less visible) for Scrap you crap