It's a wrap! 2011 Most favorite projects

Wow! I can't believe another year is over. It went by so fast; it seems I didn't get anything done. Seriously, it was a great year, with wonderful achievements and projects and I'm really looking forward to 2012! So…let's say farewell to 2011 with some style and inspiration! Here are my ten favorite projects of 2011:
10. Dear Dad card – I love this card because it's so simple to make, yet so special and sooo my dad! Read more on how to make the card…

9. Digital paper freebie – toward the end of the year I started designing digital stamps, papers and embellishments, and all of them…FREEBIES! My favorite is the Halloween paper. You can still downloadit here…

8. Love Letters mini album – this mini is part of the SINGLE SHEET OF PAPER tutorials. A series of tutorials with ideas, tips and inspiration on how to make great, wonderful projects from only one sheet of paper! Read on to learn how…

7. Journey layout- I love this layout for a few reasons: first, I love the photo of my two boys. Second I love the path that winds towards the horizon. Lastly, I love the tree button! Find out how to create all these great elements…

6. Home is where the heart is frame - I cherish this project because of its message and its photo. I also love all the details: the little chair, the shelf and the flower pots on top. Be inspired with more photos…

5. Treasure box – this project is one of my favorite recycled projects. You can always take something you don't need, like an old tea bag box and turn it into something completely different, like a printer's trey. Read more…

4. Canvas clock – beautiful home décor piece that was selected by you, my readers, as their favorite project! Find out what were the readers' top 10 favorite projects…

Here are my 3 most favorite projects for 2011:

3. Magic of Creation layout-a sentimental layout showing me when I was a child, doing something crafty. If you have creativity in your blood you start early and never stop! Read more…

2. Passover Haggadah – a special Passover present I made for my mother. A family Haggadah that would be passed on from mother to daughter.  Check out all the photos here… and here…

1. Smile layout- my absolute favorite project this year is this layout. Not only because it was chosen to appear on the Prima blog but because it has one of my favorite son's photos. The inside story...

I really enjoyed sharing my work with all of you and I hope I gave you a little inspiration this year. I wish you all a happy, prosperous new year. May you be happy, successful, healthy and loved!

Have fun creating!
Einat

Single Sheet of Paper Tutorial: Gift box

Just in time for your new year's gifts, an easy, fun and inexpensive gift box you can make yourselves from only one sheet of cardstock!

Here is a sketch with all the measurements:

1.       Cut a square 10 5/8" by 7" from one sheet of cardstock.

2.       Mark a divide line 5" from the top. This line divides the square to two squares A and B.

3.       Cut 1/2" from both sides of square A. This would make it smaller than square B.

4.       Make four fold lines 1" from all three edges of square A and the divide line.

5.       Cut slits where lines marked red on the sketch.

6.       Make four fold lines on square B: three lines 1 1/2" from the edges and 1" from the divide line

7.       Cut slits where lines marked red on the sketch.

8.       Fold all lines.

9.       Fold slits inside and adhere to the walls to create a box from square A. repeat on square B.

10.   Embellish your box.

Have fun creating!

Einat

Ins(paper)ation: a layout for my inspiration

"He has the spirit of the sun, the moods of the moon, and the will of the wind."  Julie Perkins Centrell.

My first born is a constant inspiration for me. From the day he was born, he was special. Little did I know how true that would be. Years later he was diagnosed with PDD and we began a special, challenging and sometimes difficult journey. This journey has taught me so much about life, about love, about patients and about joy. This (not so little) guy has inspired me in so many ways and gave me strength to get up and WALK a journey of my own.

Sometimes a story can be told in only a few words. This layout has the same logic. A simple layout for you my son, that tells a huge story. I wanted to make it a simple layout so the center of it will be you. No big embellishments or title, just an image of you walking, walking on the path of life. Keep on walking tall, smart, happy and loved!

Have fun creating!

Einat

Technique corner – Magic of Creation

This is another DT layout for My Punch's Kit of the Month Club. I really like this layout because it has in it one of my favorite things in scrapbooking: a scene. The scene has a magical atmosphere about it, mainly because the image of the girl (me) blends effectively into the background and seems to be part of the paper.

This look is very easy to achieve:

1.       Find a photo where the image has clean lines that will be easy to cut. In my case I had to find an image of a person sitting, because I wanted to use the bench on the layout.

2.       If you put the image on something, like in my case, a bench, make sure that the sizes fit. Cut the image.

3.       Build the scene. I stamped a street light and added grass from a blue ribbon and flowers.

4.       Add a title.

The Hebrew journaling sais: when you have creativity in your blood, you start early and never stop.

Have fun creating!

Einat

Hanukkah Freebie

Here is another great freebie for you, and this time especially for Hanukkah! This freebie can be used as a journaling spot, as a frame for a photo or as an embellishment for all your Hanukkah projects.

If you want to use it in your digital designs, just copy the PNG file to your computer and add it to your project. You can add color, change the size, add shadow, glow and other effects. You can also use it in your traditional designs! Copy it to your computer and print it on a piece of paper. Cut it and add to your project. You can color it, add glitter or adhere it to the paper with 3D foam tape to add dimension.

Here is my digital page.

Have a Happy Hanukkah!

Einat

101 Flowers Tutorial #10: flowers from the heart

A holiday is a great opportunity to give someone you love flowers from your heart. It can be a wonderful bouquet of flowers or it can be flowers made from heart shaped punches.

All you need to do is cut or punch different size hearts and assemble them in flowers shape.

Use them to embellish a card or a gift and there you have it…flowers from your heart!

Have fun creating!

Einat

End of the Year Scrap Party

I love when one year ends and the other starts. There is a special mood in the air, a different vibe, something festive. The affirmation that the circle of life keeps turning gives me a happy feeling and I love sharing it with my friends! And did we share it or what?! We had the most fun, festive, tasty, happy, scrappy party ever!

First we had an amazing sale! All my favorite products, papers, stickers, inks and the list goes on and on!

We had yummy food!

I taught a little make and take.

We had a huge raffle with great prizes.

I wish you all a creative, happy, inspiring year! May all your dreams and wishes come true.

Have fun creating!

Einat

Published on Prima

I wanted to share with you my layout that was recently published on the Prima blog as part of the Build-A-Page contest. I wanted forever to send one of my layouts to the BAP contest, but I never had the time. Finally, last October I found the time to sit down and create a page according to the sketch. I guess they liked it over there at Prima.

This is a layout I made with one of my son's favorite photos. I don't have a lot of photos of him smiling like that, so this photo is really precious.

I didn't forget our winners!

The winner of Day 12 of the Blog party is…Candice!

Our grand prize goes to…Salina!

Congratulations!

Please email me your details.

Thanks again to everyone who participated in the blog party, it was really fun!

Have fun creating!

Einat

12 Days of December Blog Party – Day 12

Today is the final day of our blog party. It was really fun! I enjoyed sharing my holiday projects and inspiration and I hope you enjoyed it too. I want to wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy Hanukkah! May you spend the holiday season with the people you love, enjoy good food and get a lot of great presents…

Yesterday's winner is…

Congratulations, Lilach!

Contact me with your details, so I can send you your prize.

For those of you who missed it Here is how it will work:

Every day, for 12 days, I will post a holiday project/s to inspire you and to give you ideas for your holiday table, presents, cards and more! Following the project you will get a mission, there will be a new different mission every day. To participate in the blog party and be eligible for the daily giveaway you will have to:

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

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

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

The winner of yesturday's giveaway and the grand prize will be announced on Wednesday. The winner will receive 150$ gift card to some fabulous shopping at Scrapbook.com

Day 12 project: Hanukkah Layout

My last project is a Hanukkah Layout. I know there is a lot of inspiration for Christmas layouts but not a lot of ideas for a Hanukkah page, so I wanted to share mine.

Day 12 Mission: (if you choose to accept it) is to share what would you change in the holiday season and what would you add to it. Post it on your blog, on FB, on message boards, anywhere on line you want with a link to the Blog Party. Then go back to my blog and write a comment with a link to your post.

Day 12 giveaway: today's winner will get five sets of two different Sizzix3D flowers dies.

Have fun creating!

Einat

12 Days of December Blog Party – Day 11

Tomorrow is the last day of the Blog Party, so I think it's time to start saying thank you. Thanks to all of you who participated in the blog party. I hope you had as much fun as I did! Thanks to all the new friends who subscribed to my blog and thanks to all of you who just stopped to say kind warm words! Thanks for all the love and support, you really moved me!
Yesterday's winner is…

Congratulations, Carol!

Contact me with your details, so I can send you your prize.

For those of you who missed it Here is how it will work:

Every day, for 12 days, I will post a holiday project/s to inspire you and to give you ideas for your holiday table, presents, cards and more! Following the project you will get a mission, there will be a new different mission every day. To participate in the blog party and be eligible for the daily giveaway you will have to:

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

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

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

You can join us for some of the days or all of them. Each day I will randomly choose a winner for the daily giveaway and post it the next day. Whoever takes part in minimum of 7 missions out of 12 will have a chance to win the grand prize, which will also be randomly selected. The grand prize is going to be 150$ gift card to some fabulous shopping at Scrapbook.com! if you hadn't join us yet, you definitely should! There is still time!

Day 10 project: Name Card

Every holiday has to have a proper holiday meal. You know, the big family meal with all the good food, the same jokes and the nagging aunt… I always like to set a really beautiful, festive table and in order to avoid problems; I make name cards, so everyone will know where to sit. This is a very easy to make name card – just cut two trees from a green scrap of paper, embellish them and add a name. Then adhere the trees to a piece of white cardstock to create a snowy forest scene.

Day 9 Mission: (if you choose to accept it) is to write a holiday blessing to someone you love. It can be a family member, a friend or even someone you don't know personally but would like to bless him. Post it on your blog, on FB, on message boards, anywhere on line you want with a link to the Blog Party. Then go back to my blog and write a comment with a link to your post.

Day 9 giveaway: today's winner will get stickles, micro beads and glitter. Just what you need to add some bling and shimmer to your holiday projects.

Have fun creating!

Einat

12 Days of December Blog Party – Day 10

I can't believe the party is almost over. We only have two more days to go. I think we had fun, inspiration and I'm happy to say many newfriends!
Yesterday's winner is…

Congratulations, Zehavit Shaked!

Contact me with your details, so I can send you your prize.

For those of you who missed it Here is how it will work:

Every day, for 12 days, I will post a holiday project/s to inspire you and to give you ideas for your holiday table, presents, cards and more! Following the project you will get a mission, there will be a new different mission every day. To participate in the blog party and be eligible for the daily giveaway you will have to:
1. Subscribe to my blog (if you are not already subscribed).

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

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

You can join us for some of the days or all of them. Each day I will randomly choose a winner for the daily giveaway and post it the next day. Whoever takes part in minimum of 7 missions out of 12 will have a chance to win the grand prize, which will also be randomly selected. The grand prize is going to be 150$ gift card to some fabulous shopping at Scrapbook.com! if you hadn't join us yet, you definitely should! There is still time!

Day 10 project: Holiday Countdown

A really fun project to make is a countdown board for the holiday. I decided to make one from Sizzix 3D Gift Toppers Die. Instead of using the toppers on a gift I used them as a small countdown board for my desk! This way I can never forget how many days I have before the holiday and how little time I have left to do all the things that need to be done! Every day I take one day off and I know the holiday is getting here really fast!

Day 9 Mission: (if you choose to accept it) is to share your holiday traditions – how do you countdown for the holiday? What preparations do you make? And what traditions do you have? Post it on your blog, on FB, on message boards, anywhere on line you want with a link to the Blog Party. Then go back to my blog and write a comment with a link to your post.

Day 9 giveaway: today's winner will get Bo Bunny Blitzen Collection 12X12 Pack.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Have fun creating!
Einat

12 Days of December Blog Party – Day 9

Wow! Day 9 already, time flies when you're having fun! I really enjoy your missions. They are funny, moving and sometimes surprising.
Yesterday's winner is…

Congratulations, Maria!

Contact me with your details, so I can send you your prize.

For those of you who missed it Here is how it will work:

Every day, for 12 days, I will post a holiday project/s to inspire you and to give you ideas for your holiday table, presents, cards and more! Following the project you will get a mission, there will be a new different mission every day. To participate in the blog party and be eligible for the daily giveaway you will have to:

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

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

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

You can join us for some of the days or all of them. Each day I will randomly choose a winner for the daily giveaway and post it the next day. Whoever takes part in minimum of 7 missions out of 12 will have a chance to win the grand prize, which will also be randomly selected. The grand prize is going to be 150$ gift card to some fabulous shopping at Scrapbook.com! if you hadn't join us yet, you definitely should! There is still time!

Day 9 project: Winter Tag

Hanukkah and Christmas both take place in the winter, at least in the northern hemisphere. However, not everyone gets snow and gets to build cool snow men. I love the winter; unfortunately where I live…there is no snow. So, to honor my holiday wish I created a frosty card full of glitter and shine! The tag can be attached to a gift, embellish a layout or be a holiday card. It is very easy to make: spray a little blue glimmer mist, add some eyelets and stickers and add a sentiment. Make sure not to forget to add a lot of bling!

Day 9 Mission: (if you choose to accept it) is to share your wish for the coming holiday and the new year! Post it on your blog, on FB, on message boards, anywhere on line you want with a link to the Blog Party. Then go back to my blog and write a comment with a link to your post.

Day 9 giveaway: today's winner will get a complete 8" by 8" Album Kit. The kit has 183 pieces, including Album with page protectors, 12 pattern papers, 41 epoxy stickers, 15 clear stickers, 4 layered stickers and 100 cardstock stickers!

Have fun creating!

Einat