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Monday, April 30, 2012

The Best Birthday Blog Candy – week 3


I haven't had so much fun in a long time! All your stories are great and I'm so happy you shared them with me. I also want to thank all of you for congratulating me on my birthday, you really moved me guys!
And now without delay here is week 2 winner:


Congratulations Margaret!
Our third mission is all about dreams! When you reach 30 you have already done some growing and discovered the world enough to start dreaming. This is the decade you start to have ideas that lead to dreams that lead to plans. This is the time your head is in the clouds and you heart is full of things you want, places you want to see, people you'd like to meet and goals you want to accomplish. Your mission is to share one dream you haven't fulfilled yet!

Here's how to play:
1. Subscribe to my blog.
2. Post the contest in whatever social media you want: blog, FB, twitter etc. with a link back to the Blog. In the post tell me about a dream you have and still haven't fulfilled.
3. Go to my blog and write a comment with a link to your post.

Next week I'll pick a random winner for the weekly prize.
Join the fun!

Einat

Friday, April 27, 2012

Technique Corner: Moment in time


Moments never stay; they pass through life in a heart bit. This is a layout telling the story of a moment like that. This was a happy moment on a sunny winter morning, down on the beach board walk. This is a DT layout I did for My Punch's Kit of the Month Club.

To mark the transience of time I used a ribbon in a special way. I adhered it to the layout not in a straight way, but in a wavy curled way, like a time line that twists and turns through history.


A few challenges:

Cards 365 #57: New Technique: New way to use ribbon
Incy Wincy: sketch
4 Crafty Chicks #87: No stamping
My Mum's Craft Shop #54: The great outdoors

Have fun creating!

Einat

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Reach for the stars


I have a paper with the planets on it in my stash for a long time just waiting for the right photos. Recently my astronomy buff son created a solar system wall in his room and I took photos of the process…of course. The final piece in the puzzle was Scrapping Everyday Miracles April sketch that the DT had to design. Everything came together just right and a layout was born.
It's a multi photos sketch and you still have time to join the fun and win a great prize.
 
For this layout I took a dark blue cardstock as a background. I cut all the stars from the patterned paper and added them to the layout with the photos. I created a asteroid belt from punched stars and spots of stickles.

Created for:


Pile it on #17: Sparkle and Shiny
Tuesday Throwdown #95: Use Sparkle
Totally Gorjuss #128: Boys Toys

Have fun creating!

Einat

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

101 Flowers Tutorial #14: Quilled Flower


It's time for another fun and easy tutorial for making flowers. This time a familiar and old form of art: Quilling. This form of art has been around for a long time and it's believed it started with nuns a few hundred years ago.
Here is how to make an easy flower:

·         Take 6 strips of red paper and a strip of white paper. If you don't have quilling strips, you can cut them yourselves. Each strip is 1/8" X 12".
·         Roll one red strip tight. Then let it open a little bit between your fingers and adhere the edge. Repeat with other 5 strips.

·         Take each circle and pinch on one side to create a tear drop shape.

·         Roll white strip tight and adhere the edge.

·         Arrange all petals on a card and adhere.
·         Adhere the white circle on top as a center of the flower.

Don't forget week 2 of the Best Birthday Blog Candy! You have lots of time to enter and have a chance to win!

Have fun creating!
Einat

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Blossom

My son's favorite season is spring. He loves to go on trips, see the flowers and taking lots of photos with them. Here is a layout with the amazing anemones that color the ground red.



This is my first DT layout as the international design team member of Mad about scrappin'. Every month they have the most exciting sketch challenge with great prizes. I used Glitz and MME, Echo Park, K & Company and Fancy Pants papers. In this lo I didn't use any embellishments, other than a few rhinestones. All the embellishments are flowers or shapes cut from paper.

A few challenges:

Sentimental Sundays #99: Earth Day
Sketchabilities #69
Clear it out: Karaoke inspired  
Aud sentiments #52: Spring/Summer colors
The pixie cottage #117: Green and gorgeous
Craft us crazy #25: Flowers
Paper crafting journey #7: 3 patterned papers
Fussy and fancy Friday #61: Punches
Prairie fairy #77: Flowers
Our creative corner: Butterflies
Creative scrappers #205

Have fun creating!
Einat

Monday, April 23, 2012

The Best Birthday Blog Candy – week 2


Wow! Thank you for all the greetings and the comments. You've really warmed my heart! Before I reveal the second mission, here is the first week's winner.   
And the winner is:

That is Beth, congratulations!
Please contact me for your prize!

The second decade of life is magical. These are the years you discover everything there is to know about yourself, about your life and about the world. These are not easy years the terrible teenage years are full of discoveries, good and bad and then you finish high school and discover that there is so much more to learn, to know and to try. The second mission is all about discovery!
Here's how to play:

1. Subscribe to my blog.
2.
Post the contest in whatever social media you want: blog, FB, twitter etc. with a link back to the Blog. In the post tell me about something you discovered about yourself when you were young or recently.
3. Go to my blog and write a comment with a link to your post.
Next week I'll pick a random winner for the weekly prize.

Come on and join the fun!

Einat

Friday, April 20, 2012

Inspiration Card – Create


First a reminder: the Best Birthday Blog Candy – week 1 is still on. You still have a chance to join the celebrations!

My recent passion is making cards. I've always enjoyed making them, but I recently found myself creating what I call Inspiration Cards. It's a type of card that is not for a specific event or person and it has something inspiring to say in a form of a word or a sentiment. So, I've decided to share these cards with you in a new segment in the blog that would be known as
Today card is inspiring you to create. It doesn't have to be a lo or a card, it can be another type of craft or art. It can be a dish or a cake, it can be a relationship or anything that is that is making something new and bringing it into the world. I created this card from My Punch's April Kit of the Month club scraps I had. I just love the blue and orange combo!  

A few challenges:

Comeand Get it: sketch
Stamptacular  #159: Freebie week
CupcakeCraft #188: In the Deep End
PaperTake Weekly: A stitch in time
TheKraft Journal #67: Use your stash
CreativeCard Crew #8: Kraft
LadybugCrafts Ink #58: Shapes
Crafts& and Me #80: Vintage
Let'scraft and create #43: Sentiments
PaperPretties #202: Card for a girl
SweetSketch #150: sketch
TheSisterhood of Crafters: Recycle, Reuse, Renew - Reused and Recycled scraps.
CharismaCardz: Shabby Chic
TotallyPaper Crafts: All buttoned up
CardMakin Mamas: MAke it Girlie
Crafts4 Eternity #68: Something New - first time to stitch on a card.
Allsorts #150: Buttons and Threads
Crazy4 Challenges #132: Buttons
Have fun Creating!

Einat

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Technique Corner – Dance "flag" letters

Another one of my layouts was published on Prima blog! This time it's a really cute lo telling the story of two young dancers: my son and my niece. The dance and the choreography was completely theirs as well as the idea to make the performance it my son's 11th birthday.

I wanted to share an easy fun technique I used in this lo. Flags are in fashion these days, but sometimes I feel like it's been done too much. So, instead of hanging flags on the rope I decided to hang letters! The technique is simple:

*letters with holes like O, B, and D are easy to hang. Simply thread the twine or string through the hole and your letter is hung.

*letters like E, M and F are a little trickier because they have no hole. In this case hang the letter by placing the string in the corner of a letter creating the illusion that the string is holding it.

*The problem is with letters like I, L and J, they are straight and can't be hanged. The solution I found is put the letter on the string and let it blend with the other letters as if it is hanged as well…lol.

A few challenges:

CreativeInspiration Paints: Inspired by spring
OneStitch at a Time #109: Bright
Pileit on #16: Pop it up
Scrapit with a song: Beautiful Day U2
Thecrazy challenge:  Movie – Dirty Dancing, Dance, Streetdance
Thepink elephant #144
Clearit out: Based on a song - "Dance", "Dancing Queen"
PartyTime Tuesday #64: Color inspiration
AudSentiments #52: spring summer colors
ColorThrowdown #188
CreativeBellie #141: children
Movingalong with the times #144: Vintage, Shabby chic
Polka Doodles: Pretty in pink
Berry71Bleu: Inspirational photo

Have fun creating!

Einat

Monday, April 16, 2012

The Best Birthday Blog Candy!

After a little break I'm back. I'm back with a wonderful blog candy for you! I'm turning 40 and the blog is turning 2! In honor of this double celebration I have the greatest blog candy ever!

Turning 40 is a big occasion it's one of those dates where you feel you have to stop and take stock of what you have and what you want. So, we will also take stock, with 4 missions: each mission will be dedicated to one decade. Each mission will have agreat prize for you to win!
The first mission is about the first decade of life, which is all about growing. Here is how you play along:

1. Subscribe to my blog.
2.
Post
the contest in whatever social media you want: blog, FB, twitter etc. with a link back to the Blog. In the post tell me about a growing experience. It can be personally, professionally, it can be about you or someone you know.
3. Go to my blog and write a
comment with a link to your post.
Each week I'll pick a random winner for the weekly prize.

I hope you'll join me in the celebrations!

Einat


Friday, April 6, 2012

Spring freebie!

Today all Jews celebrate Passover, a very important holiday celebrating freedom, Miracles and faith. This is also a holiday celebrating spring and the awakening of nature. Here is a spring cluster freebie to celebrate the holiday of spring, may it be Passover or Easter.

Here is the story of Passover in a nutshell: After many decades of slavery to the Egyptian pharaohs, God saw the people’s distress and sent Moses to Pharaoh with a message: “Send forth my people.” But despite numerous warnings, Pharaoh refused to heed God’s command. God then sent upon Egypt ten devastating plagues, afflicting them and destroying everything from their livestock to their crops.

At the stroke of midnight of 15 Nissan (The Hebrew month coinciding with April) in the year 1313 BCE, God visited the last of the ten plagues on the Egyptians, killing all their firstborn. While doing so, God spared the Children of Israel, “passing over” their homes, hence the name of the holiday. Pharaoh’s resistance was broken, and he virtually chased his former slaves out of the land. The Israelites left in such a hurry, in fact, that the bread they baked as provisions for the way did not have time to rise. Six hundred thousand people, left Egypt on that day, and began the trek to Mount Sinai and to the Promised Land.
The highlight of Passover is the Seder, a fifteen-step family-oriented tradition and ritual-packed feast.
The focal points of the Seder are:

* Eating matzah.
* Eating bitter herbs to commemorate the bitter slavery endured by the Israelites.
* Drinking four cups of wine or grape juice—a royal drink to celebrate our newfound freedom.

* The recitation of the Haggadah, a liturgy that describes in detail the story of the Exodus from Egypt.

Happy Passover!

Einat

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Funny scrappin'

This is my first DT layout for Scrapping Everyday Miracles. This month's challenge was to create a lo about someone in our family who makes us laugh, who sais funny things. This is a lo about my cute beautiful niece and a very funny story from when she was two years old.

When she was two years old we all went on a picnic. We saw some ants on the ground carrying food on their backs. We called her over to show her the ants and we said: "you see how the ant carries a lot of food on her back? It's probably very heavy for the ant". So she bent down, looked at the ant and said: "Do you need help?

So cute, so naïve, so funny! What a considerate thing to say…to an ant…she was so serious and really wanted to help that poor ant!
You can join this fun challenge at SEM blog, enter your layout and get a chance to win a great prize!   
A few challenges:
The Paper Players: #89 Tickle your funnybone
Incy Wincy Design: #140 Pastel colors
PapertakeWeekly: Anything goes
The Crazy Challenge: #113 Spring
Party TimesTuesdays: #62 Flowers
Crafty Creations: #164 Spring Greens
Papercraft Star: #91 Anything goes
PaperCrafting Journey: #6 Photo inspiration
Allsorts: #148 Photo inspiration


Have fun Creating!
Einat


Monday, April 2, 2012

Messages from the past – Reach – DCC Hop

It's the time to hop again with all of my fellow designer friends from the Designer Craft Connection! The theme this month is spring! Spring for me is Passover, a special time to be with family and learn the story about redemption. As you all know the story tells us about the Israelites slavery in Egypt and the miracle of their exodus led by Moses after the 10 plagues. This is a powerful historic story but it still has some lessons for us today.


The people of Israel made the transition from slaves to a nation by pure faith. They left everything they knew and went forward. They reached out with their hearts, hands and minds and made a leap of faith. We need to do the same. We need to reach out and grab life, believe in ourselves and reach for the sky, reach for our dreams. Like the arrival of the Israelites to the Promised Land we need to find what our promise is and reach for it. Don't give up if it's hard or the journey is long, there is a right place for all of us and we have to reach out, find it and get there!


A few challenges:

Come and Get it: Spring
Creative Inspirations Paint: Easter
One Stitch at a time: #107 New - 2 new punches
Pile it on: #14 Create a scene
Craft your Passion: #104 stripes and dots
Creative Card Crew: #7 spring
Top Tip Tuesday: #73 Animals
Tuesday Throwdown: #91 outside of the box
Southern Girls: #41 something you wanna say?
Crafts 4 Eternity: #65 3 of a kind
Our Creative Corner: How green is your spring?

Have fun creating!
Einat