Love you CAS card

 

A winner at CAS Colours & Sketches

Today I'd like to share with you a CAS Love You card I made, inspired by some challenges.

The white cardstock was scored with some vertical lines, then I die cut the heart shap, and mounted the gap with another white cs, that I first stamped with a distresed triangles stamp (49 and Market).

I die cut 3 hearts on a string, and colored the hearts in red, light pink and dark pink. The hearts were grouped and adhered to the panel. I added a bow from red twine, and in the middle I adhered sticky dot in grey. 

Adding a stamped sentiment (Stampin' Up) and then matting the panel on a red cs, and adhering the white cs basis.

This card goes for the following challenges:

CAS Colours & Sketches - colors:

Make The Cards challenges - Valentine:

SimonSays Stamp Wedensday challenge - with love.

Double D challenges: Hearts:

The hearts, the colors...

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Together Forever - CSI case file no. 297

Happy October to you all, and a Happy New Year to all my Jewish friends - Shanah Tova!

CSI did it again, with an amazing case file:

I really loved the colors and the inspiration photo.

Can you feel the autumn atmosphere?

I scrapped a photo of me and my youngest, on our autumn vacation in London, a few years ago.

I used all 5 colors and from the evidence I took: stripes, chevrons, arrows, flowers, leaves, twigs, triangles, metal dies, a wreath design, woodgrain, architectural elements (well, the Tower of London is just behind us in the photo) and stamps.

As for the testimony - my journaling is on a circular spot and I wrote about how much fun we had on our autumn vacation.

I started by applying Finnabair clear gesso to the background, and then made splatters all over with several Lindy's sprays (Cape Cod Coral, Fuzzy Navel Peach, Milk Chocolate Brown, Clam Bake Beige and Frosty Forest Green).

Next I stamped here and there, using 49 and Market Pascale's writings stamp, with  Ranger's Library Green archival ink.

All the chipboards I've used are from Creative Embellishments, and I gave them a good coat of Finnabair's white gesso.

I colored the  large leaves with Lindy's Ponderosa Pines Olive, and then heat embossed here and there with Lindy's Oakleaf Olive ep. I just love the goldish touch it gave to the leaves!

The small leaves were colored with Lindy's Lederhosen Laurel shaker.

The wreath was heat embossed with two Lindy's ep -Brutwurst Brown  and Byzantine Bronze. I gave 3 coats of the ep.

The title was heat embossed with Lindy's Orange Creamsicle ep, again with 3 coats.

I backed the photo with pp from a beautiful 6X6 pad 'Bornt to Be Free' by WhiteRus. The patterns have arrows, chevrons and stripes. I distressed all adges.

I felt something is missing in the lower part of the design, so I addes a large piece of lace, and I love the softness it gives to the whole page.

I die cut some twigs and colored them with Lindy's Ponderosa Pine Olive spray.

I adhered some flowers and blooms and two tiny arrows. 

For the final touch - splatters of dilluted white gesso.

I'm all up for autumn!

I would like to enter this layout for the October challenge at Creative Embellishments, with this beautiful moodboard, and the twist of adding some lace:

I was inspired by the autumn feeling, especially the two right photos on the buttom, and by the beautiful lace photo.
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Land that I love

Runner Up at More Than Words 

for September challenge

It was Election day this week here in Israel, so apart from voting, I celebrated the day off by making a layout with an inspiration so matching the day.

The current challenge at More Than Words challenge blog is 'Origin plus colors of your country's flag'.

I was born and raised in Israel. this is my homeland, land that I love.

Our flag's colors are blue and white, and the design of the flag is inspired by the Talit design - stripes at the edges and Magen David (star of David) in the middle. I used these elements in my layout.

I used a photo of David's tower in Jerusalem, this is one of Israel's most famous sights.

I was also inspired by the current challenge at Creative Embellishments 

Mostly by the hues of blue in the tubes. I also used some flairs (some of CE) for the twist of a circular element. The flourish chipboards are also of CE.

To color the chipboards, I use Lindy's Gang embossing powders (Midnight Copper, Madonna Robe Blue Gold and Desert Moon Turquoise).

The Magen David is made by two opposite triangles, so I used 7 Dots Studio stamp of triangles (Dreamscapes), heat embossed with Lindy's ep (Purely White).

Some of the stamps on the background are  49 and Market (Pascale's Grammer). The flowers are all 49 and Market (Blossom Blends Cotton, Blossom Blends Sea Breeze, Vintage Shades Potpouri blue and cotton).

Inks are TH tea dye distress ink, and Ranger's archival inks sepia and jet black).

Papers are 13Arts, Mintay Papers, Fancy Pants and Craft O'clock - all from my September Counterfeit Kit (and so are CE flairs)

Mediums - Finnabair's gesso, clear and white.

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Cherish every day

Lindy's Gang gave a beautiful color combo this month (as always...):

These colors give room to so many options, and this time I went on a soft feminine version. I love the contrast between the soft, pale colors to the bold tera cotta color of the leaves.

I started by stamping here and there on the background. Next I used embossing ink with a stencil and heat embossed it with a white ep.

I stamped two flowers with a gray ink, and one with embossing ink and heat embossed with a pale pink ep. For all the 3 flowers I outlined the petals with a black pen and adhered micro beads in the center.

I stamped and heat embossed leaves with a dark red-brown ep and cut them out.

The others leaves were cut with a die and colored with a Lindy's spray.

The edges of the paper were distressed, using a distressing tool and distress ink

I glued the lace petals with a gel medium and then gathered all the elements.

Splatters here and there, using Lindy's shaker and adding the sentiment.

Lindy's products I've used:

Spray - Bodacious Blush Shimmer

Shaker - Aged Copper

Embossing powders - Oom Pah Pah Pink, Puerly White and Gilded Burgundy Brass.

Other products:

Paper - Piatek 13 Love in Bloom 6x6 paper pad.

Inks - Ranger's Emboss It clear ink; Ranger's shadow grey archival ink; VersaFine Smokey Gray; Ranger's TH tattered rose distress ink.

Stencil - Stampersannonymous TH layering stencil mini set no. 30.

Stamp - 49 and Market Pascale's Gramer.
Medium gel - Prima Finnabair soft matte gel.

I would like to enter this card to the following challenges:

Crafty Cardmakers - anything goes with punches/dies.

SimonSays Stamp monday challenge - make your own background.

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Explore - CSI case file no. 278

A new month, with a new case file at CSI, case file no. 278:

I really love when I have the perfect photo for the case file, and this time I had a photo, taken by Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, with the matching colors, and it matched the theme of 'Travel' - two points for me!

I used all 5 colors from the scheme and my clues were: solid cs, globe, triangles (a modeling paste through a stencil on the background) and circles, plante, negative shapes (the title is a negative adhered on a pp background) and drip something (lots of Lindy's sprays as usuall for me).

I used a circular journaling spot for my journaling, documenting our vacation in Paris.

Here're some close ups:

All pp are Maja Design 'Enjoying the Outhdoors' collection. 

I used Lindy's sprays: Sassy Sapphire (to color the doily), Shabby Turbine Teal and Sweet Violet Purple Teal. For the stamping I used Ranger's archival inks.

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A Wonderful Day - case file no. 278 at CSI + Sketches in Thyme

Top 3 at Sketches in Thyme

Hello dears, today I'm sharing with you my layout for the new case file at CSI, case file no. 278, with this inspiration photo:

As soon as I saw the IP, I knew right away that I have the perfect photo to match the colors of the scheme - a photo of my boys, at Eilat Bay, sailing on a boat. it was such a wonderful day, and it was during a so needed vacation we had during a hard period in our life.

I used sketch no. 364 from Sketches In Thyme:

As for the clues to solve the case file, I used: dots, grid pattern (almost unseen, the journaling 'clouds'), gingham, stripes, woodgrain, hearts, sun, string, kites, die cuts, pinwheels, triangles and diamond shapes. My journaling, on the clouds, documents our wonderf day.

Here are some close-ups on the details:

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Together Forever - CSI case file no. 270

Hello dear friends and welcome to my blog.

I'm sharing my DT layout for case file no. 270 at CSI, with this beautiful photo inspiration:

Once again I've used my January Counterfeit Kit, but added some diy embellishments.

I was very inspired by the color scheme, and used a photo of myboys playing. The photo was taken on our vacations, 4.5 years ago. So much happened since that photo was taken...

My clues were: woodgrain, branches, flowers, clock and brush lettering.

I started by stamping here & there with 49 & Market Pascale's writhing stamp with gray ink and a MME stamp with brown ink. Then I used Lindy's Tainted Love Teal spray, and some splatters with Lindy's Steampunk Sepia spray.

The flowers were stamped with anoter MME stamp on a heavy whiegh watercolor paper, using a Ranger's ink (Yeallo Chrome), then I fussy cut them and added an enamel dots in brown.

The leaves were made in two versions. the bigger ones I die cut with my Big shot, and then embossed with Lindy's Spring Leaf Chartreuse ep. For the smaller leaves I stamped on a watercolor paper, fussy cut and colored with Lindy's Aloha Avocado spray.

For the branches I die cut a watercolor paper and colored with Lindy's Steampunk Sepia spray. I really love the shimmer look on the branches!

I also stamped a Kaisercraft's clock stamp on a gray cs with Ranger's ink (cornflower blue, which has a grayish blue color).

As for the title, I used Creative Embellishment chipboard, first covered with Finnabair white gesso and the heat embossed with two Lindy's ep - Twilight Blue Slate and Byzantine Bronze. I love the two colored effect on the chippboard:

The sub title was stamped and mounted on a woodgrain pp, embellished with a stamped arrow, a flower, leaves and branches.

for the final touch I added some enamel dots in coordinating colors.

And here's the full layout once again:

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