The Phantom of the Opera - art journal

An art journal I've made, inspired by two challenges:

The 1st from More Than Words, which asked for a costume and a black background:

My inspiration was the musical The Phantom of the Opera, the first musical I've ever seen, years ago.

I was facinated to the act, could hardly breath, and the music! a fantastic show.

The lyrics of the theme song, captured me- evil and good, combined in one, it's here, it's there, inside my mind....

The 2nd challenge was from SnipArt, with this beautiful moodboard:

Once again - the contradiction between darkness and light, evil and good.

I started by covering a piece of watercolor paper with Finnabair's balck gesso, then I applyed Finnabair's soft matte gel through TH mini stencil. While the gel was still wet, I sprinkled Lindy's Ceasar's Gold ep and heat embossed it.

I die cut geometric shapes and heat embossed it with Lindy's Terra Cotta Rust ep. 

I die cut some leaves in two shapes and heat embossed them with LIndy's Tannenbaum Green Gold ep and Starbright Gold Green ep.

I glued everything with the soft matte gell and added the sentiments.

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Chess - Scrap The Boys

This is my take on October challenge at Scrap The Boys. Well, one can not resist a sketch by Laura Whitaker, right?

Here's the sketch:

I used my October counterfeit kit, and along with me being happy how this layout turn out, I'm also very happy that I've used my old stash, and my DIY embellishments.

Here're some close-ups on the details:

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A box for greeting cards

My sister asked me to make her 2 wedding cards, and I thought 'why not making her cards, AND a box to host the greeting cards with their envelopes?'...

I used Mintay Papers from my October Counterfeit Kit.

I used Yael Youtzis' tutorial, which you can find HERE (it's the 2nd box).

The black basis is from a very heavy cardstock, so it's very steady.

I've kept it very clean and simple and hope to fill her box with many more greeting cards.

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October Counterfeit kit

This month I joined (again) to the challenge at Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog, which had Studio Calico's 'Summer of '69 kit' as inspiration:

With the color scheme and patterns in mind, along with some of the embellishments, I decided that it's time to finally use some of the oldest items in my stash.

Yes, like most of us, I'm an addicted hoarder! So I took a decision that all the papers that I will include in my counterfeited kit, as well as some of the embellishments - will be at least 6 years old!

Here's the full kit:

Papers:

It has Fancy Pants, DCWV, My Mind's Eye, Echo Park, Carta Bella, Studio Calico, October Afternoon and Glitz. The only exception are 2 pp by Mintay Papers, but all the papers are 2013 and even before!

As for the mbellishments, again, a mixture of oldies with some new ones. Lots of enamel dots, in many colors, as I wanted all the colors that match my papers, doilies, DIY embellies ('chipboard' banners and buttons, large and small tabs, pp circles, 3D 'stickers', pp hexagons), washi tapes, stickers and alphas. I also added some embellishments from September countefeit kit, hoping to use them this month.

Finally, I also gathered some scraps of pp, with coordinating colors. It's time to destash the scraps box too:

And here're some close-ups on the counterfeited embellishments - I'm really proud of them:

I already have the 1st project to share with you, using this kit, in my next post.

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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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A desktop calendar board

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sing my September Counterfeit Kit for a gift project - a desktop calendar board, with a pocket for all the months, plus some inspiration notes, and a large photo mat.
I also attached a birthday card.
I used a great tutorial for making the board with the pocket, which you can find HERE (it's in Hebrew, but with the photos I believe you can figure out what need to be done).
I've made my own interpretation for this board - I didn't use a magnetic sheet, as I wanted it to stand on the desk, so I've made a supportive board on the back, to hold the board steady (but forgot to take a photo of the back side...). I also added metal corners.
In the pocket there are 6 cards with the months, one on each side. There's also an envelope to hold all the small inspiration notes.
It's a perfect gift for the begining of the year and I will give it to a good friend who works with me.

#Beautiful - mixed media layout

DT fav at Splasy Mix challenge

September 2019

For this layout, I was inspired by two challenges.

The 1st one is Lindy's Gang September challenge:

The 2nd is September challenge at Splashy Mix Challenge:

Such a fabulous color combo! you can take it to verious options, and mine is the industrial one.

The papers (13@rts and Craft O'Clock) are from my September Counterfeit kit.

Lindy's products that I've used:

Sprays: Sweet Violet Purple Teal, Urban Amethyst, Hi Maintenance Mgenta, Grab a Guy Gold.

Magicals - Pineapple Paradise from Caribbean Cruise set.

Shaker - Magnolia Magenta Gold.

Embossing powders - Midnight Sapphire, King Midas Gold and Sunset Yellow Orange.

Here're some close-ups on the details:

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