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Monday, January 30, 2012

Technique corner – all you need are words

Every now and then, although I adore flowers, I feel like doing a layout with no flowers, no elaborate embellishments, just something simple, quick and easy. This is a DT layout I did for My Punch's Kit of the Month Club.

This layout is really easy to do, because it has the most basic embellishments of all…words. I didn't put any flowers, bling, swirls or cutouts, I used word stickers. This way I killed two birds with one stone: I embellished the layout and I wrote the journaling. It all goes well with the theme of the camera and photography, since the words are all in that subject. This type of simple embellishing frames the photos and gives them the focus.

Don't forget to enter your card to the Valentine's Day Card Contest and get a chance to win a great prize!

Have fun creating!
Einat

Friday, January 27, 2012

Valentine's Day Card Contest

Starting today and until February 10th we will have a special Valentine's Day card contest! If you haven't started working on your cards, you will have a really great reason to start now! There are never too many Valentine's Day cards, that what I always say. Love should be spread around right?! so I like to give cards not only to my husband, but to my family and friends as well.

Here is what you need to do:

1. Subscribe to my blog (if you are not already subscribed).

2. Post the contest in whatever on line media you want: blog, FB, twitter etc. with a link back to the Blog.

3. Go to my blog and write a comment with a link to your post.

4. Add your card to the contest with Mr. linky.

The random winner will be announced one day before Valentine's Day (Monday, Feb 13th).

The prize: LYB products for all your scrapbook layouts and paper projects!


Can't wait to see your creations!
Have fun creating!

Einat

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Getting ready for Valentine! Card contest

Have you started getting ready for Valentine's Day? I have just the thing to motivate you to create and prepare for this romantic day…a card contest! Starting Friday you will be able to add your Valentine card to the contest and have a chance to win a great prize (which will be revealed on Friday).  Here is my card, the first in a long list.

It's not that I have so many valentines; it's just that I believe in spreading the love to my family and friends who all will be getting a card!

Don't forget, we start on Friday!
Have fun creating!

Einat

Monday, January 23, 2012

Ins(paper)ation: a tribute to Grandma


“Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
Mark Twain
This week my grandmother will celebrate her 85th birthday. She is a remarkable woman who has inspired not only me and our family, but generations of students through the years. My grandma is a holocaust survivor who endured the horrors of the war in concentration camps, labor camps and a death march. After the war she got married and had two daughters, twins: my mom and my aunt. This is a DT layout for My Punch's Kit of the Month Club with a photo of them.

She became a high school history teacher and for 30 years she has instilled in her students the love of past events. During the years she wrote teaching plans for the holocaust and instructed many teachers. She wrote several books on that period culminating in her PhD and awards she received for her continuous holocaust education in the national level.

She has inspired many people including me to overcome difficulties, be excellent in what you do and share your passion and knowledge. I hope each and every one of you has someone like that in your life.

Have fun creating!
Einat

Friday, January 20, 2012

Baby Card tutorial

There are so many designs for a baby card. But for this baby (first born of a dear friend of mine) I wanted to make something special, something different. I thought about it for a long time and one day it came…the perfect idea! A knitted card!

























The card is really easy to make (if you know how to knit):

1. Knit a square that is a little bigger than the card you want to use.

2. When finished wrap the card with the knitted piece (the same as you wrap a book with paper) and adhere to secure.

3. Add embellishments. I added a small sock attached a safety pin and added stars, ribbons and a title. I "hanged" the sock with two small laundry pins I painted blue.

You can make a pink version for a baby girl.



















































Have fun creating!

Einat



Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Maximize your supplies: create your cut out flowers

This is a DT layout I did for My Punch's kit of the month club. Whenever I design layouts for the kit I try to make as many layouts as possible with the materials I've got. The problem is I don't always have as many embellishments as I need, and I always need a lot of embellishments.

The solution is to create my own embellishments. One of the papers in the kit was this pretty Echo Park paper.


I cut different sizes of flowers and wrinkled them in my hand.  I inked their edges and layered them with 3D foam tape for extra dimension. I added rhinestones in the centre for a finished look.

Have fun creating!

Einat

Monday, January 16, 2012

Frames Freebie

Here is another fun freebie for your digital and traditional scrapbook layouts and projects.

You can cut the frames after printing them, color them and add embellishments. You can also print them on a pattern paper or a cardstock and then cut it. If you are a digital fan, you can add the png file to your design. They can frame a photo, be an embellishment or a journaling spot 

Have fun creating!
Einat

Friday, January 13, 2012

Clock canvas (number 2)

You really liked the clock canvas I did last year. So much that it was voted by all my readers as the favorite project of the year. Here is a new clock canvas I recently did that I wanted to share with you.

 On this canvas I tried two new things. First, I created two separate canvases with the same theme, color palette and coordinating embellishments. Then I combined the two pieces into one by attaching the two canvases with a flowerpot hanger. The big canvas was the "wall" that held the hanger and the smaller canvas hanged from it.

Second, layers. Not layers of paper, but layers of canvas. I adhered a small size canvas on the big one to add more dimension a difference of height.

One of the things I like to do on canvases is to write with a pen nib. I wrote one of my favorite quotes with black ink on the bog canvas and added a sentiment to the other.

Have fun creating!

Einat

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

A tag doesn't always have to be a tag

Sometimes I like to dive into my stash and fine forgotten treasures. The last time I did it I found a white chipboard tag with a really nice shape, not your ordinary square tag but a tag with a scalloped top. I don't know why, but for some reason when I looked at it I saw it not as a tag but as a card.

I took the tag and adhered it on a cardstock I folded in half. Then I cut around the borders of the tag to give the card the same shape. I wanted to use some of my scraps (my scraps drawer is too full!) and I found a piece of paper full of flowers. I cut the flowers and adhered them to the front of the card some with 3D foam tape to give them a little dimension. I added a sentiment and inked the edges.

Now I have to find someone to give it too.

Have fun creating!

Einat

Monday, January 9, 2012

You and Me – Creative Journaling - DCC Blog Hop

What a better way to open the new year then a creative inspiring blog hop with my designer friends from the Designer Craft Connection! This month our theme is journaling. The magic of words, a collection of letters telling a story, a memory, a feeling.



My creation is a layout with a very special photo: a photo of my mom and my aunt when they were little girls. This layout is part of a birthday scrapbook I'm making for my mom's 60th birthday. It's going to be a unique scrapbook because all the journaling is going to be  written by different family members. Each layout will have the story from the point of view of the person in the photo. For example: my boys will write the journaling on the layouts showing their photos, with all their feelings, experiences, memories and love for their grandmother. The journaling on this layout is going to be written by my aunt, her sister.

The layout has a hidden journaling spot. I created a pocket from the photo and inserted a journaling tag to the pocket. In order for it to be easily pulled out I created a "handle" from flowers. When the tag is closed the flower handle is a part of the design and blends in with the other flowers.

Make sure to keep hopping and see all the wonderful creations. Simply click on the DCC button on the right side of my blog to move forward or backwards. Don't forget to show some lovin' to these talented designers!

Have fun creating!

Einat

Friday, January 6, 2012

101 Flowers Tutorial #11: Crochet and Paper combo

Here is another great flower tutorial! This time a combination of two materials I really like: paper and crochet yarn. This flower is a merger of the two materials, and when I say a merger I mean these two materials are connected to each other and can't be separated, The paper petals are crochet to the flower center and not glued!

Here are the instructions:
(I initially tried it with fabric but the hole kept tearing so I replaced it with paper).  

1.       6 chain stitches and close with a slip stitch.
2.       Row 1: 9 single crochet stitches and close with a slip stitch. The single crochet is not through the chain stitch but around it.

3.       Row 2: double crochet stitch, 2 chain stitched. Close with slip stitch.

4.       Cut 7 petals in two different sizes. Punch a hole on the bottom of each petal.

5.       Row 3: crochet the petals: take one large petal on top of it put a small petal. Turn them over. Put the needle through the holes and to the chain. Then crochet 2 single crochet stitches. Turn the petals back up.

6.       Then stitch 2 chain stitches followed by 2 single crochet stitches. The single crochet stitches are not through the chains but around them and into the hole created by the stitches in the previous row. Then repeat with another petal.

7.       Row 4: 42 single crochet stitches.

Since I'm not a professional crochet artist writing the instructions was a little difficult. Please feel free to ask me any questions or even email me!
Have fun creating!
Einat

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Maximize your supplies: elements on paper

It's not easy scrapbooking with a tight budget and in this day and age everybody tries to save some money. We don't have to stop buying products, just find new ways to maximize the products that we have or buy. Here is one idea on how to do just that.

This is a layout with the materials from My Punch's October's Kit of the Month Club. The paper I used for this layout is by Webster's Pages. I wanted to embellish my layout with some butterflies. So instead of using stickers or cut-outs I used the butterflies that were already on the paper.
I cut each butterfly's wings and left the centre uncut. This way I could lift up the wings and give them a little dimension.

I adhered a piece of paper under each butterfly to cover the hole and secured the wings with 3D foam tape. Then added a few embellishments and a title and my layout was ready.

Have fun creating!

Einat

Monday, January 2, 2012

Create * Dream * Enjoy Canvas

There is nothing more personal, more loving and more beautiful than a handmade gift. I wish I could always give my family and friends handmade gifts, unfortunately it takes time to make them and time is always short! However, this time, I made it! A good friend of mine is celebrating her birthday and I made her an inspiring canvas for her new craft room.





















It's a happy, flowery, cheerful canvas that will hopefully give her inspiration and encouragement if she doesn't feel like creating, or her muse has left her.


































Have fun creating!

Einat



The funny thing is that I thought I didn't like yellow. I hardly ever use it my projects, I don’t wear it and nothing in my house is in yellow. But for some reason I made this canvas in a yellow pink combination…who knew that yellow could be so pretty.