Egypt- tissue altered box

I have to do this Ancient world item for my Gingersnap DT this week (actully I am very late for it as I was without any ideas..)Then I saw this triangle Kleenex tissue package in my DD trash- and here it is- triangle- piramide- Ancient Egypt.
Evrything else was very easy- an old Egypt stamp set (Plaid)- never used,one big Eye of the Rie stamp I bought after we went to AIDA musical on Broadway about 5 years ago, some web prints- they are free- ancient or not?, some Ac frames, 7 Gypsies transpanency,lots of new distress inks, clear crackle paint, 3d glue, sand paper for the borders, cork for piramides- free hand cut and Hanna stamp wall stamping on it with Stazon, some more stamping and embossing and a polymer clay stamped magnet I did once and was perfect here.
The box can be used for school supllies- pens, pencils etc- also my DD are in college- but they can use it..
And as always- this is great for some web chalenges:
Anything goes for Paper players
Colors for OCC
Colors for Little paper shop
Circled for Frosted designs
Fall colors for Wild flower patch
Hot- decert, Egypt- can't be hotter- for Charisma
Old stamps- old Egyptian set- for Belli's
Charm for ABC- this metal huge piece on the open side of the box is an old pendant
Anything goes for Crafty little place
Shaped- the whole piramide is triangle shape- for Dare 2 u - and I used a few digis- these one with people
Distress for Artful inkables
Summer inspiration- what is more summere that Egypt and desert- for Crafty sentiments
Layers for Donna Den's of crafts
Not a card for Sisterhood of crafters
Anything goes for Your next stamp
Travel for Kardsandklay
Vintage for Bunny Zoe crafts
Vintage for My partner in crafting crime
Not a card for Totally stampalicious
Layers for Simon says stamp and show
Vintage for Creatalicious

Summer heat card- GINGERSNAP DT

A month of July is a month of HEAT- so this card was made for this weeks challenge - Heat one
I used the colors I don't like so much so I went for techniques and did a sun with circle masking and used watercolor penciles here together with stamps, distress stickles and lots of glitter for the rays. I added some felt flowers and felt ribbon for the final touch
And as for other challenges- not too much:
Hot for Woopsy daisy
Summer for Sir Stampalot, for My partner in crafting crime, for Fresh brewed

Dream frame

This altered frame was published in August 2010 issue of SNR magzine

This work was done for the Shadows of blue challenge on Gingersnap creations and it was perfect for my blue eyed daughter photo. So I did some recycling- the canvas was a used old one with this 5-6 years work that I never dispalyed, the metal owl is a part of very old mobile,

an angel piece is my own molding- very old one too.

I also did all my flowers here on this piece- but the small ones.

The Dream title was done with hand cut chipboard and with an addition of glitter pearls, distress stickles , 3d glue and old beads

I used here about 5-6 blue acrylic paints, blue inks, blue glitter on the wings, pale blue home

made mist for the roses and lots of molding paste for the texture.

And as for other challenges:

Flowers for Aly's

Ribbon border for Really reasonable ribbon

Blue- for Just a little something

Anything goes for Freshly brewed

Shimmery for Some odd girl

Monochromatic for Creative inspirations, for Craftalicious

Paper flowers- I have 5 hand made here- for Crazy for challenges

Circles- clocks- paint- gem for ITSF

X tra dimention for ABC-

Shine- for Crafty creations-

Monochromatic and wings- for Fussy and fancy

Flowers and die cut- the wings- for Fun with shapes

Vintage for Challenge up your life

Something old for Paper play- the canvas frame reused, the owl too

Old- new- blue- for By cute and girly

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

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

We'll always have Paris lo

This page was published in SNR JUNE 2010 ISSUE
This lo was a winner on The pink elephant chipboard and paints challenge- thanks!!

I did this lo for my Kraft challenge on Gingersnap creations DT- but is was a statement: we can use our very old neglected stash and to get the most of it.

We can do great lo (as I really like this one) without using the whole lines of new papers and embellishments- we just need to think!!

So I decided to do this lo as I was organizing my very old chipboards - and these Provo craft ones were screaming to me " use us". All the rest was easy:

the plain craft paper got some " dressing up" with home made glimmer mists and huge chipboard circle as a home made mask I keep just for this kind of misting.

Then I stamped lots of white images and heat embossed them, added some brown inked Tim Holtz french stamps on the top, inked and distressed the paper.Here we are- one craft paper, no designers at all.

Then I found this old Orient express ad on the web together with this french lady I got once as a RAK (just added some cut out of this image)- this one was laminated so it shines a bit.

The MME journaling tags were the Rak I just got a few days ago and they are.. French!! and from 2007. I did some random journaling - like the name of the city in English/ French, Russian and Hebrew, connected the city sights with this recycled string, added some music twill ribbon for my love for French chansons (hope this is the way I should write it- not sure, my French is not very great - 3 years in high school and .... nothing at all I remember..), fleur de lis brads,Mona Lisa stamp in home die cut frame and some vintage button were the last touch..

And the title? Ok, one of the greatest movies ever.. Give it a guess..

The biggest problem with this title is that you can never did it with one pack of letters- so here we have 5!! packs- all used and some very old too.

And as I was thinking about other web challenges doing this- here they are

No photo lo- for BASB

Recipe for Craftstic- cardstock background, journaling blocks (their own Rak I won),lots of stamped images, yellow color of brads.

Recipe for Mission create- no pp, stamping, game pieces- 5 of them on Paris label on the suitcase

Chipboard and paints for Pink elephant

Distressing for Prarie fairy

LIFE IS A GAME LO

This no photo lo was made for my very first DT job on Gingersnap creations challenge blog. I am really thrilled to be there and I hope to stand be their standarts (very high one actually)

So for this blog you need to be a creative stamper (I am not- I stamp just a bit on my pages)- and the decision to do " no photo" was as I needed space for techniques. So here they are:

misting, plain stamping, resist ( on these puzzle shapes), inking, distressing, heat embossing , using " founded objects " as this eas the challenge!!

So I found some playing cards, some cardboard, dominos, some play dies, some newpaper crosswords, old chinese coin and paly dies and non used stamp " game" set ...

And this Alice in Wonderland bunny is just right here- as all the book is full of games and card characters ..

And here it is - life is a game- you just need to know how to play it.. Any kind goes- if you win.
And as for other challenges:

Use a neglected stamp ( all game set is a year old and never used ) for Fab and funky

Anything goes for Penny's

Metal for Quixotic- coin, letters

Distressing for Totally paper crafts

Distressing for Sophysticat

Bronze hamsa

I did this Hamsa (Israeli " good luck" item) for my new and very exiting DT
- GINGERSNAP ..
This was a very fast item to do as I needed to do it after I was entered to DT to introduce myself
This group is mostly mixed media and stamping artists- so I was very thrilled to be a part of this great names DT .
As the " entry" we need to do some ginger color artwork and I decided to do a
Hamsa - the altered item we hang on the wall for good luck. We also add some home or other blessing on it usually- but this one is more for display and less for luck- so it's without the blesssing.
I used this acrylic shape from both sides of it.
The back is covered with very thick homemade paper I painted with bronze paint.On the front I stamped and heat embossed some butterflies from this great new set I won on Clearly inspired blog and then added some bronze Pearl ex powder all over.2 other butterflies are die cut and embossed from a foil- but as I only had silver foil I painted them as well and then accidently decided to dry with my heat gun.. Part of the paint melted and it gave them this funny and unsxpected look.
The sun shape was a curtain holder- I love to use all this recycled items on my work. The last touch was some blings, lace, yarn and a title made with very old ABC metal set- but usuful one.
But as always with me this one was done for some more web challenges
Not a card for Creative inspirations
Texture for Prarie fairy
Embossing for Paper garden
Anything goes for Meljen designs
Anything goes for Twisted tuesdays
Anything goes for Just add ink
Anything goes for papertake weekly
Anything goes for Crafty creations
Butterflies for Tuesday taggers and the sponsor is Craft barn
Artistic stamping for Scrappy frogs