2010:one year, one family, 4 continents lo

This lo was published in Scrapbooking.com July 2011 issue
One of my most recent self challenges is to scrap in Clean and Simple style, doing multiphoto double spreads.. Ok, so here is one I did as a whole 2010 reflection

The title says it all:one year, one family and trips to 4 continents (ok- Asia is there we live, but still this is a huge continent.)

So here we are- Shalom's family:N. and Middle America trip - the photos are from the cruise and from Key West;One of my daughter's in Thailand and one of my son's in Laos- ASIA;then me and my hubby at home, in near Jerusalem woods and then in N.Italy(Europe) and Morocco(Africa)

I just hope next year anyone form this family will be in Australia , the only neglected continent on this lo.

And as this is CAS page-only 3 AC cardstocks, 2 pp from Echo park, used from both sides,a piece of Jellibean  pp- the arrows,3 AC thickers fonts, the white is slightly inked with distress ink, Jouranling envelope from Maya Road- the real juornalling in Hebrew is there,3 Studio Calico flash cards and some Echo Park banner stickers..

The last, and sure not a least- my awfull photogrphy skills.. This is the challenge for the 2011..

Us :adore our dad lo

This page was published in SNR May 2011 issue
This page made TOP 5 on Scrap it with a song Us challenge- thanks
My new page - with mix of Bo Bunny lines- paper, chipboards, stickers, using some border punches, distressing, fan folding , multi photo, paper cutting, embellishing chipboards and this huge Us title from Tando Creative UK inked and covered with crackled 3d glue.
Entered to Us song challenge for Scrap it with a song
 3 photos for Harmony

Lost lo

This page is published in SNR magazine  March issue

This is my new page made with Best Creations sketch and using Safary Boy line for my daughters Thailand vacation photos.

I just love those photos in a jungles, she looks so happy and so like in a movie. So I gave it a title from my very favorite TV  show- LOST, and she was not...

I also decided to use my forgotten rub ons and this  set was so perfect for the colors and to add some interest to this page,I also added some rub ons over a photos and used them for my journaling

Just take those rub- ons from your stash and use them.. Somtimes they give this so neede extra touch, and remember that you can rub them over your photos too.

Our bride lo

My very new page
I used a lot of techniques here:  first of all the huge hand drawn heart was cut our of the base , then I crumpled it and inked and added  over this paper backside tthat was layered over another pp piece.

Then I stamped script and notes all over the page. The frame was cut from another paper and essembled as a frame. Then a lot of flowers and stickers were added and I curled some pearl chain around the  frame too.The sephia photo was a single photo with mirrow image- so I did 2 photos of one and then added a piece of another color photo in between them.So finally I have 5 hearts here- 2 on a paper, a sticker and 2 pearls and I don't like hearts at all...LOL..
 And some more challenges:
Girls for Stamps r us
3 photos  for Harmony

Song is your name lo

This page will be published in SNR April 2011 issue

 Another new page made with a photo of a pretty little girls named Shira- and Shira is a SONG in 

Hebrew and that's waht the title is for

The photo was givven to me to scrap and thanks a lot to Shira's mom Iris for this one

I used GCD studios papers- quite a few of them, mixed and matched to make this shabby and yet playful page, the birds from the paper were perfect for a song

The bird cage was covered with white crackled paint, all the basic shaped cardstock was rub- oned around,the whit Prima flowers were misted, I also used border punches, threaded buttons, transparent

frame,hand writing and mixed fonts

I entered this to Paper Issues linking

My Butterfly girl

My new lo made with gorgeous GCD studios paper and my DD butterfly photo from Thailand

The photo was just so perfect for those papers and I also added this mesh homemade flower - the butterflies are free, not is the web, so at least a flower reminds us about catching them.Don't!! Leave them free, please! They need to be free, just as my own girls

And as for some challenges

Butterflies for Flutter

Nature for All sorts

Paper issues asked for Butterflies

Color your life mini tag album

For the next couple of weeks we are going to show you the great use of Cheery Lynn Designs embossing plates.. Don't worry- you will see our fantastic cutting dies too, but we want you to try these plates, as some of them are XL size and most of them are double sided and this is a best bargain ever!
So for this week I decided to move out of my comfort zone and to make this Mixed Media altered

homemade tag book using not less then 6 CLD embossing plates and 4 more cutting dies.

As it was intended to be a Mixed Media piece- I even did 3 inchies items for the cover with

.stamping, embossing and lot of inking

Then every single tag was embossed with one of those 6 embossing plates , inked and embellished
.according to the place shown on the photo strips
The last one- with this grunge color- I have no idea where this photo was taken, so I just added

this ? sign here.

And here are the plates I used:

For my Morocco tag: Leaves  embossing plate

For my Jerusalem tag:  Bricks and Stones embossing plate

For Italy tag:Leaves XL embossing plate

For my Brazil tag: She sells sea shells XL embossing plate

For my Tel Aviv tag: Bricks and Stones  embossing plate

For my " no place" tag: Do it yourself embossing XL plate

:Then I used some cutting dies too
The Little oval stackers for the cover and 3 kinds of Expression Bubbles for the titles and clouds

The clouds were made with this die

Expression Bubble #2

The titles were made with those 2 dies

Expression Bubble #3 and Expression Bubble #4

Just try those great bubbles- they are 2 layers dies and you can combine 2 cuts from some different

papers as I did for this great look and they are fantastic for the mini album titles

And as always- use our outstanding Embossing pads and Adaptor plate

 Now don't wait! Just go to CLD shop and shop all those plates and dies to use for your own creative mini albums

Key to my heart book frame

I am not sure where or when I 've seen this easy book box folding- so thanks to whoever you are for the idea. I think the result is pretty, also it was a really hard job.. And again:Tim Holtz and Graphic 45 should be the best friends ever, they just fit..
The innovating thing here was to use TH keys inner clear packaging for the middle page inside..
Then again- the crackled paint in blue color was dry.. Damn.. It happens all the time.. So I went to red and added some brown ink over it to make it a bit mute..In between I waited for 4-5 hours for the paint to be dry.. I hate waiting, and this is the main reason I do too little Mixed media items, also I know all techniques and have lot of products.. You need to be patient with paints and molds and everything messy.. I can't.. I want my item done instantly- so MM is only here and there and not too much products in one item.. So we have here paints, misting the " book" sides with copper mist, some inking and zero stamping.I wanted to use my stamps- didn't find a " white space" for it as this item is not so big..
Ok.. I hope you like it, it was a fun to do this " book" amd I am sure I will do a lot more of them..
 And some challenges:
Male project for Craft your passion
 Oldfashioned for ABC
 Not a card for Lets craft and create and for Craft
 One for men for Crafty catz
Love for Stamp and create
 Mono chrom(ok- one red piece taht can be out.. LOL) for Challenge up your life
 Distressing and love for Elephantastic

Home acrylic mini album

This album was featured on Passionatly artistic blog- thanks!
My new " old" acrylic mini album. made with our family photos, Bo Bunny papers and staff and some Tando Creative pieces.I also used some SU houses stamps here, with white Stazon  and copic coloring on Primas printed transparency as a front page- which was a last one and I just moved it to the front.
 And some challenges:
Florals for Creative cottage
 Passionately artistic- spring colors
 Not a card for Lets craft and create
 Sparcle for Dutch dare

Best day ever love card

My new Love card made for MME sketch card challenge and mostly with MME products.
 And there are still lots of Valentine challenges over the web- so I enter this card for some of them too

Valentine for Crafty catz
Polka dots and stripes for Creative inspiration paint
 Valentine and colors for Dutch dare

 Valentine for Sarah Hurley
 Make your own embellishment- the heart is hand cut free- for Fub and funky and for Simon says

My Fairy girls mini photo display

This work was sporlighted on City crafter blog on Feb. 22- thanks
This mini photo holder was done for Imaginsce color challenge.. Now LOL- those are the only papers I have from them and some stamps too, but it was a perfect fit and looks so cute after all.

I also used die cut of a Castle, stamped on transparency and paper, made a home made charm and the phoos can be changed in a second.
 Colors and inspiration for City Crafter
 Make your own- the castle and a charm- for Fub and funky and for Simon says
 Not a card for Lets craft and create and for Craft

Good day sunshine lo

This page is published in SNR magazine March issue

Sometimes I need to scrap with a lot of white space.. Sometime.. It happens when the papers are so bright and shiny and tell everything and you really don't need a lot of add ons over it.

So this page, made with Best Creations Jubelly line, was a perfect line for a lot of white space ..

I decided to add a sun and clouds chipboard shapes covered with glitter and pearl glue, from Tando Creative chipboard company, then it was one big Prima flower, some Prima pearls, some twine for the birds to sit on and some faux stitching..

Twins-growing closer together lo

This page is published in SNR magazine March issue

My twins are just unseparatable, if you can say so.. They do thing apart, study different subjects, but still can't be apart for more than let's say a few days.

So the title from this Jubelly Best Creations line- Growing closer together- was just a perfect start for thes page.. I decided to combine a regular glitter cardstock with a part of a shaped one and to make one combined page.. I used lot's of border punches for the strips that connect it together- and it's like my twins:separated and connected all the time.

Good old time office holder

A very old  office holder I decided to alter in vintage style.

It's a bit of a problem to take the 3d item photos- so I did it from 3 sides and then you can see  the overall view of it  too.

I used Graphic 45 papers and die cuts together with TH and other metals, some lace and some mediums:inks, 3d crackled glaze.
 And some challenges:
Old fashioned for ABC
 Not a card for Spoon full of sugar-
 Distress for Creative inspirations

True love double tag

This tag was made for our SNR magazine newsletter- we send those newsletters for all our mail subscribers during this Valentine week and mine is just a last one on the way.
True Love Tags Tutorial


Supply list:Cardstock:Pink Paslee;Embossing plates:Tim Holtz for Sizzix;Fabric border:Pink Paislee;Journaling tag:Pink Paislee;Die:Cheery Lynn Designs;Tickets:Tim Holtz;Ink:Ranger;Artisan element:Pink Paislee;Button:Tim Holtz;Embossing powder:Ranger;Other:ribbons, lace,kraft cardstock,metal flower, brad
Step 1:Hand cut 2 tags from Kraft cardstock and from Pink Paislee Sweetheart patterned cardstock.

Step 2:Emboss the kraft cardstock tag with Tim Holtz Notes embossing plate and the patterned paper one with Post cards embossing plate.

Step 3:Distress both embossed tags and ink them with Tea Die distress ink.

Step 4:Adhere a piece of fabric border as shown over your kraft tag, add the Artizan elements bracket and ink all of them with Tea Die ink.

Step 5:Die cut a TRUE LOVE sentiment from your journaling card.

Step 6:Ink it all over with the same distress ink and heat emboss with some clear embossing powder.
Glue the embossed die cut shape with 3d foam glue as shown, add the metal flower with a brad over it.

Step 7:Ink 3 tickets with Tea Die ink and staple them over your second tag as shown.
Step 8 and the last:Tie some ribbons over both tags together and add a metal button over a hole.

Enjoy your vintage Valentine tag without hearts and with a lot of TRUE LOVE