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Friday, September 30, 2011

Top 10 – Readers' choice!

Wow! Thank you all for entering the Top 10 Contest and picking your favorite projects. I had a lot of fun checking out your choices and I really love the final list. So, let's get down to business!
Here are the TOP 10 PROJECTS that you picked:
10. How to use your scraps: a free spirit LO with a fun technique on how to use your scraps in any project! Read more…





















9. 101 Flowers – Scraps Flower: an easy tutorial from the 101 flowers series on how to create a flower from scraps. Read more…





















8. 101 Flowers – Spiral flower: just take a round piece of paper and create a beautiful flower. Read more…
















7. Growing up mini album: a tutorial from the great series of a single sheet of paper projects. Read more…




















6. Baby shower box: an easy cute box made from only two squares of paper. Read more…
















5. Round and round we go: a fun birthday card full of surprises. Just turn it to find them. Read more…





















4. Love Letters mini album: another tutorial from a single sheet of paper. A romantic loving Valentine's mini album. Read more…





















Here are your TOP 3 projects:
3. Treasure box: a wonderful creation made from an old tea bag box. My own version for a printer's trey. Read more…






















2. Haggadah for Passover: a special present for my mother. A handmade Jewish Haggadah for Passover Seder. Read more…




















1. The all time favorite project is: the Clock Canvas! A mixed media canvas clock full of flowers and techniques. It is my favorite too! Read more…




















And now for the winner:

Congratulations…GailD
Thanks for entering! Have fun with your prize!
Please email me your address so I can send you the fab prize!

I want to thank each and every one of you for entering the contest and taking the time to pick your three favorite projects! Have a great year!

Einat

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Happy New Year!

Today Jews around the world celebrate the beginning of the New Jewish year: Rosh Ha-Shana, which literally means "the head of the year". This year we celebrate the beginning of the year 5772 (long time…). It is customary to eat an apple dipped in honey, a symbol of our wish for a sweet happy year. Another custom is to greet each other: Shana Tova which means Good year.


















My happy New Year card has yummy apples and honey bees flying around their hive.































I want to thank all of you for a wonderful, exciting year. You all gave me support, encouragement and love. May you all have a happy new year! Health, happiness, love and successes!

See you next year!

Einat

Monday, September 26, 2011

Photography tips – Back side

Photographs are magical because we capture moments in time. Moments that will never happen again in the same way. The best way to capture such a moment is to take the picture when your subject is unaware you're taking it. To achieve that you either have to be invisible or, if you can't manage that, take the picture from behind! Some of my best photographs are those of my kids when I photographed them from behind where they couldn't see me. To take photos from behind here are a few tips:

1. Wait until you see your subject do something interesting, go behind them and take a picture with their back to you.

























2. Back side photos work best when kids watch TV, play on their computer, run ahead of you or look at something. In all these situations they probably won't pay attention to you and you can sneak behind them.























3. Photos taken from behind are especially interesting because they give us the point of view of the person we are photographing. If a child is looking at the fish in the aquarium we get the feeling that we are looking through his eye and we see what he is seeing.

























Try and find your opportunities to take interesting fun photos from behind!

Einat

Friday, September 23, 2011

Technique corner: Create your embellishment - Button tree

I usually have only an idea when I sit down to create a LO. I start working and then the ideas start to flow. But sometimes I have an idea but not the specific thing I want to use. This time I wanted a tree beside the path I created, but since this LO was for the Kit of the Month by My Punch I had to use the materials in the kit and there was no tree. So, I decided to create my own.

























Here's how you can create your own tree:

1. Cut the shape of the tree from a cardstock.

2. Color it with ink, acrylic paint or any other medium you like.

3. Add different size and color buttons as leaves.






























































Creating your own embellishments gives you a chance for creativity and allows you to use an embellishment that is suited exactly to your project!

Einat

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Sizzix Blog Hop! Meet the Designers

Wow! What a fun exciting thing is coming your way starting from next week: the Sizzix Fresh Vintage blog hop! A group of 75 designers will share their fabulous creations done with the new Fresh Vintage dies every Tuesday and Thursday starting from Sep 27th for six weeks! All of the designers, including me, are already working on our projects and can't wait to share them with all of you! If you want to start the fun early, join our linky party and meet all of the designers at Eileen Hull's blog.
Here is a reminder of all the inspiration and creativity we shared on the last Sizzix blog hop:















Join the Sizzix Fresh Vintage fun!

Einat

Monday, September 19, 2011

Scrap fun with Ingvild Bolme – Part 2

I told you how much fun we had with Ingvild on Friday and now it's time to show you what we did. This is a great beautiful layout full of Prima flowers and goodies. Ingvild's layout looked a little different but part of every workshop is to add your own personal touch and interpretation.



































Don't you just love these prima flowers?
































This not the only project we did, but since I want to give the other project as a gift I don't want to show it before I give it to that special someone. I promise to share it with you right after!

Einat

Friday, September 16, 2011

Scrap fun with Ingvild Bolme - Part 1

I just love days like this! Yesterday and today I had the pleasure to attend two classes with Ingvild Bolme from Norway. We had a lot of fun creating projects with Prima products, and boy, did we get Prima products. Each kit was packed full with goodies: papers,8 packages of flowers, letter sheets, metal embellishments, journaling cards, ink, adhesive, mini album, sticker sheet and the list goes on.











































We also had the pleasure of working with Ingvild's new tools! These tools are just great. The knife is super sharp and flexible and there is an option of changing its angle if you want. The distressing tool is basically 5 tools in one: two files one rough and the other gentle, bone folder, distresser and a metal brush. It is all on one tool! Very clever!
















You can already see a hint of one of the projects we did, but I want to finish all of them so I can share them with you. They are truly amazing. Tune in on Monday to see the great stuff Ingvild has taught us.
















See you then,

Einat

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

101 Flowers Tutorial #7: ribbon flower

I love ribbons, you love ribbons, everybody loves ribbons! Why? Because they are so versatile, pretty and fun. One of my favorite things to create from ribbon is flowers.
















From each ribbon you can create two sizes of flowers: big and small, all you need is a needle and thread:
1. Thread the ribbon on the bottom.
















2. Pull the thread to crease the ribbon.
















3. Join the two edges with the thread.
















4. To create a smaller flower fold the ribbon in half length wise and repeat the first stages.
















5. To finish your flowers add a brad or a button in the center.
6. You can create layered ribbon flowers too!

































Have fun creating flowers for your projects!

Einat

Monday, September 12, 2011

Blog Star Award

I love sharing my work, ideas and knowledge with all of you and I know you appreciate it from all your amazing comments and responses I get. But every now and then it's rewarding to get the recognition from someone else. I was very proud and honored to be awarded the Blog Star Award by addyourblog.com. My blog was chosen by their webmasters for the quality of web content, great design and web log everyone loves to read.


















Thank you very much addyourblog.com!

Don't forget to enter the Top 10 Contest!

Einat

Friday, September 9, 2011

Top 10 contest

In 3 weeks time Jews around the world will celebrate the Jewish New Year. This is a great time to summarize a fabulous year and what a better way to do that then share it with all of you in an exciting, surprising, fun contest:
Top 10 contest!

Here is what you have to do:

1. Go through all my blog posts this year and leave me a comment telling me which three projects are your favorites.
2. Become a follower (leave me a separate comment telling me this).
3. Subscribe to Scrappin' it (leave me a separate comment telling me this).
4. Spread the word about this contest on your blog/FB/Twitter/Forum 
(leave me a separate comment telling me this).
You can enter until Sep. 29th

Three weeks from today I will compile all the results and reveal your Top 10! I will randomly pick a winner from everyone who entered. Here is what you can win (I highly recommend reading everything...there is a surprise hidden in the list):

















Chipboard letters stickers-atd
Clear mini stamps – Inkadinkado
Glue stick – Hercules
Sculpture flowers – Prima
Fancy Corners Embossing folders – Cuttlebug
Bind - it – All –Zutter (yes, yes you read correctly!!!)
Designer paper Classic Stack – K & Company
Vellum quotes stack – DCWV
Grungeboard mixed minis – Tim Holtz for Advantus
Brads – recollections
Pearls – Queen & Co.
Rhinestones – Queen & Co.
Maddeline Rub Ons – Prima
Gelly Roll Shades – Sakura

I can't wait to see which projects you will choose!

Einat

Monday, September 5, 2011

Designer Crafts Connection: Baby Shower Box

It's the first Monday of the month…time for another fun inspiring Designer Crafts Connection blog hop! This month we have a mixed theme: baby/celebration. I decided to create a combined project: a cute baby shower favor box. It's really easy to make and you can fill it with anything you want!






























Here is how you can do it: start with the upper left picture and just follow the process step by step!












We have a great give away for you this month! If you want to win a DVD set of the new TV show, Scrapbook Soup, Series 100 keep on hopping and look for the Scrapbook Soup logo which appears in eight blogs in the ring.post where you found them in the comment section of Julie McGuffee's blog. You can enter until the 15th. To keep hopping just go to the Designer Crafts Connection button on the right side of my blog.
Have fun!
Einat

Friday, September 2, 2011

Technique corner: Layout with a hinge

I shared with you before my passion for interactive scrapbooking. I don't know, something about moving parts in a scrapbook layout just does it for me. Interactive scrapbooking can be anything as long as you have to discover a hidden secret, a photo or a message. It can be hidden in a small booklet, a turning wheel or even a pocket. This time it's hidden behind a door! But not just a regular door, but a two sided photo door and just like any door it has a hinge that keeps it attached to the paper.









































Here is how to create a hinged door on your layout:

1. You will need two photos in the same size. I used 4" X 6" photos. It is the same photo, one in colors and one in black and white.

2. Attach a hinge to one of the photos using two brads. I used regular hinges I bought at the hardware store.

































3. Adhere the other photo to the back of the first photo, hiding the legs of the brads.

4. Attach the hinge to the paper using two brads.

5. Add a hidden message or journaling behind the photo door.

6. Embellish your layout!

This is a DT layout I created for My Punch's Kit of the month Club. Try it! It's really fun creating interactive scrapbooking!

Einat