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 handsome guy - Scrap The Boys

Honourable mention at Scrap The Boys

Scrap The boys blog has a wonderful moodboard for this month:

The minute I saw it, I knew I wanted to play along. The mix of blue and green is just fab.

I used lots of scraps for this one - Basic Grey, Echo Park, 7 Dots Studio, K & Co., Crate Paper.

For the background I used mostly 13@rts mediums, plus stamps from Prima, 7 Dots Studio and Blue Fern Studio. I also use TCW stencils and TH distress ink.

I really love the messy background, and the colors go perfectly with my boy's photo.

Here are some close-ups on the details:

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You make the earth move - Scrap Africa Sept 1st sketch challenge

A new sketch challenge at Scrap Africa, with a wonderful sketch by talented Denise. the sketch was very romantic, but I used it for an earthly page, with photos of my boys at Makhtesh Ramon Visitors Center. the boys were fascinated by the geoligical exhibition, and tried every single part of it. they loved to see how they can 'move' the earth.

Here's my take on the sketch:

For this lo, I used my August counterfeit kit, and TCW stencil with modeling paste, that I colored with some Perfect Pearls powder. I also worked with distress inks and mists over the chipboard gears, die cuts with the TH Sizzix Gadget Gears die. I added a flair and a chalkboard tab from StudioFourteen40. the background paper is from Crate Paper 'The Pier' collection.

Here are some close-ups on the details:

I was also inspired by the sketch, by the theme and by the colors I worked with, so I made a masculine birthday card:

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Imagine

The new case file at CSI, is quite a girly one, and it gave me the inspiration to scrap a photo of myself, taken when I was about 4 years old.

Here's case file #136 at CSI:

Here's my take on this case file:

My clues to solve the case were:

Scheme - all 5 colors are here.

Evidence - book pages (which I painted with gesso and distress stains), floral pattern, butterflies, leaves, wet medium (lots of mixed media products here - gesso, Lindy's Stamp Gang starbursts, Mr. Huey's mist, distress stains) and mesh.

Testimony - I wrote about me as a child, playing all by myself building an imaginative world of princesses and knights, castles and palaces, and about how I was drifted in my invented world.
I used a sketch from Scrap365:

I was also inspired by Aug moodboard at Scrap Around The World, with it's feminine theme, and the flowers on the lady's shoe:

Papers and most of the chipboards are Crate Paper, I used Creative Embellihsments chipboard, covered with gesso and embossing powders. I've added a StudiouFourteen40 flair.
Here are some close-ups on the details:

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Love - case file no. 135 at CSI

This week's case file at CSI, case file 135, is so bright and cheerful:
And this is my take on it:

The photo is of my youngest, and it was taken when he was about 8 months old. I really love this photo, he's so sweet and cute and adorable, and in this lo I documented these feelings on the back of the layout.
My clues to solve the case were:
Scheme - all colors are here, including the pink on a boy's lo... LOL.
Evidence - polka dots, triangles, arrows, birds, doily.
Testimony - my hidden journaling, on the back of the page, says: "You're so cute and looking at you makes my heart sing. you're such a huggable boy and though you didn't like hugs when you were a baby, you grew to a boy who loves to hug and to be hugged. You're still as sweet and cute as you were when this photo was taken, back at 2005. Love you, my huggable boy. Mom 2014".
Here are some close-ups on the details:

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True Beauty - a lo for Stuck?! June 1st reveal plus GD for Color Me Scrappy

One of my April's layouts won Top 3 at Color Me Scrappy, and I was invited to be a Guest Designer over there for June. Here's June 1st palette, with the added creteria to use at least 3 different manufacturers. Here's the palette:

I combined it with my DT assignment for Stuck?! June 1st sketch:

I flipped the sketch to the side, and this is what I came up with:

 At first, the color combo, with the pink, was very challenging for me, but I'm so pleased with how my lo came out! so soft and serene. The photo was taken on March this year, on the deck at Tel Aviv port. I've had a wonderful day, great weather and meeting my BFF.
The products I used to meet the CMS creteria:

Prima - pp, flowers

K & Co. - die cuts

Crate Paper - pp, a brad

My Mind's Eye - pp

Basic Grey - a brad

Fancy Pants - flair buttons

Purple Pumpkin - crochet doily

Petaloo - flowers

Kaisercraft - flowers

Here are some close-ups on the details:

Thank you, Tammy, for inviting me to be a Guest Designer at CMS. I enjoyed making this lo very

much.

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My Sweet Baby

Last week we were on our Passover holiday, and traveld a lot, so I didn't have the time to make a lo as a DT for the current case file at CSI, but I still loved the palette very much, so I decided to make a lo for this case file. I used my April counterfeit kit. I used some gorgeous chipboard by Wycinanka.

I used April's sketch from PageMaps:

Here's case file #119 at CSI:

How I solved the case? here are my clues:

Scheme - used all 5 colors.

Evidence - tags, frames, metal (the flair buttons), labels.

Testimony - hidden journaling on a tag, behind the pp on the left side, and it says: "On Passover 2006 you still didn't walk and when I put you on the blanket at the seaside, you started crawling all around. But when you reached the end of the blanket and touched the sand, you backed and returned to the safe boundaries of the blanket. Years after, we discovered that you have SPD and hence your recoiling from the sand. With time passing, you no longer withdraw from the sand, the opposite - you just love to play with the it and to dig in."

I would like to enter this lo also for the current challenge at Scrap Africa, which is 'distressing with a difference'. the twist is to use household items for the distressing. what a fun challenge!
 I used coffee to distress the edges of the background paper, and after it was dry, I slightly distressed it with a smoothing foot file :). I really loved this challenge, as it made me use techniques I no longer use, so big Thank You, Scrap Africa!

Here are a few close-ups on the details:

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