scrappin' it

Friday, March 16, 2012

Prime Tour – Mixed Media Workshop

Prima opened its European tour in Israel!! Yesterday we had our first workshop with Sharon Laakkonen. This was a fabulous mixed media workshop full of techniques and we got our hands dirty, just how I like it! We got to work with the new mixed media album kit that has canvas, paper, tags and all kinds of goodies! Here are some of the pages we did:

We created beautiful backgrounds with PanPastels, what a fun, great technique!

The new resist canvases are just amazing and such fun to work with:

Today we had two more great workshops with amazing kits and beautiful products! Tune in on Monday to find all about it!

Have fun creating!

Einat

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Published on Prima: Magic of Creation

Another one of my layouts was published on the Prima blog! This time it's a lo of me when I was so much younger. As you can see I started crafting early and this photo was taken when I was sitting in the garden doing needle work of some kind. I really love this photo and I've used it before on a layout, but I couldn't resist the chance of scrappin' it again.

First I had to print the photo so my image's size will be compatible with the bench's size. Then I cut the image out and adhered it to the bench. Then I created a magical surrounding by adding lots of flowers and butterflies.

Have fun creating!

Einat

Monday, March 12, 2012

Angel layout: finally scrappin' for a girl

As you all know I have two beautiful boys that I love to infinity. I love making lo's with their photos but every now and then I really want to make a flowery, girly lo. My mom is turning 60 in the summer and since I'm really busy I have already started working on her special birthday scrapbook. That means I get a chance to make those flowery girly lo's with my nieces' photos. This is a DT lo for My Punch's Kit of the Month Club and it's full of handmade flowers, butterflies and angels and a cute title.

I created the flags by cutting squares from scraps of paper and punching them with border punch. I added a string and angel rub-ons that will hold it.

A few challenges:

Paper Sundaes: Feminine Flair
Sketchy Colors: Sketch
The Pink Elephant #139: inspiration photo
The Shabby tea room #105: Spring is near
Tuesday Throwdown #88: New Life
My mum's craft shop #47: Spring is springing
Scrapalicious USA: Anything goes
C.R.A.F.T: Inspired by a song
Totally Paper Crafts: Favorite Things: flags and hand made flowers
Crafty Catz Weekly: Special lady
2 Sisters challenge: Spring Colors
Allsorts challenge: Say it with flowers
Gingerloft challenge: spring
Our Creative Corner: Tic Tac Toe: flowers, stickers, blue
Totally Gorjuss: Anything goes with a button

Have fun creating!

Einat

Friday, March 9, 2012

Technique corner: how to scrap bad photos

Everyone has photos that are not exactly good. They are out of focus, the background is too noisy, the angle is wrong etc. Usually these photos find their way to the computer's forgotten libraries or deleted all together. I had three photos like this: there was nothing special about them. There was no interesting background because they were taken in my living room, the colors were different and I didn't really like them. Before I threw them I decided to take another look. I discovered a hidden potential in the fact that all the photos were of my son and they were all kind of funny. I decided to use them in a DT lo I did for My Punch's Kit of the Month Club.

Other than potential the photos had a problem they were boring and other than my son's image there was nothing usable in them. I had to get rid of the background! I did that with an old but fun and easy technique: cutting out the image. You only need to cut out the image you want to use with one important rule: the image can be cut completely without cutting off a leg, changing the hair or anything like that.