Busy Being Happy - Lindy's Gang and 7 Dots Studio

Hello to you, dear friends. I would like to share with you my latest layout.

I was so inspired by the challenge at 7 Dots Studio, with their theme 'Sunrise/ Sunset':

So I took a photo of my youngest, taken a few years ago, on one of our beach days. It was summer and we spent the whole afternoon till the sun went down. I just love the colors of the sunset and how they reflect in the water.

I tried to mimic the colors with different mediums, also to match November challenge at Lindy's Gang:

These are the Lindy's products that I've used:

sprays: Grab a Guy, Steampunk Sepia, Afternoon Delight Denim, Bayou Boogie Gold, Milk Chocoalate Brown.

ep - Byzantine Bronze, King Midas Gold, Midnight Sapphire.
I also used lots of 7 Dots Studio products:
pp - Drive all night/ Dreamer collection; Torn/ Writer's Block collection.
stamp & stickers - Thoughts Keeper.
tags - Writer's Block.
The chipboard is from Creative Embellishments, and this lo is also for their November challenge, with this beautiful moodboard:

I was inspired by the warm autumn colors, with the touch of blue and by the leaves. I covered the chipboard with Lindy's ep King Midas Gold and heat embossed it. Just love the rich gold color it turned out.
Other products I used:
Prima - art basics - clear gesso, texture paste; art alchemy - acrylic paint Dragon's Eye; metallique wax vintage gold.
TH - mini stencil set 30; distress ink Faded Jeans.
metal die - Die-Namites Large Ivy.
Ranger's archival ink coffee.
misc.- micro beads, sequins, gauze, resin, metal gears and 'Dream' label.
I would also like to enter this lo the the 'metal embellishment' challenge at Altairart:

Here are some close-ups on the details:

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A mixed media birthday card - Lindy's Stamp Gang

Winner of the Autumn moodboard

at AltairArt challenge blog

Continuing with the autumn mood, I've created a birthday card, using Lindy's Stamp Gang products, along with Finnabair's products.

I used papers and embellishments from my October Counterfeit Kit (7 Dots Studio pp, Lemoncraft pp, Prima flowers, Petallo flower, sequins, Robin's Nest's dew drops, DIY enamel dots).

I started applying Finnabair's clear gesso all over the 7 Dots Studio pp, then I used Finabbair modeling paste over a foliage stencil. 

After all was dried, I stamped leaves and foliage stamps (one from 7 Dots Studios, and the other I don't know the manufactor) with Ranger's black Archival ink.

I colored the masking areas with 2 LSG sprays - Go Greased Lightinin Green and Summer Lovin Sun, to get the lime color. With this combination I also colored the swirl die cuts.

The other leaves were colored with a combination of two other LSG sprays - Buccaneer Bronze and Mango Mania.

Then I adhered some microbeads with Finnabair matte gel, and some Prima's & Petaloo's flowers (after adding Finnabair's white gesso on them).

This is how it looked in the process:

Later I added some sequins, DIY enamel dots and Robin's Nest dew drops. 
I added Finnabair's Art Alchemy Sparks Acrylic Paint - Ginger Magic on the flowers and the edges of the sentiment block.

Topping with splatters of LSG Sidewalk Chalk and the lime green sprays combination.

The sentiment was heat embossed, and so was the flower next to the sentiment.

Here are some close-ups:

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

Lindy's Stamp Gang October challenge:

AltairArt fall moodboard challenge:

I was inspired by the leaves and the orange and green colors.

Mixed Media World - mixed media with a twist - glass or something that imitate glass (the Robin's Nest dew drops are transparent).

Dies R Us - leaves (I used two metal dies: Cheery Lynn's mini fanciful flourish and Die-Namites Large Ivy).

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A world that has been gone

A new challenge at CSI, special case file S365-9:

And this is my take on this case file: 

My clues were:

Scheme - all 5 colors are here.

Evidence - leaves/branches, music elements, mist, hearts, fence, scatter something (scattered Stars of David),.

Testimony - I documented about a journey I had recently to Poland. this photo was taken at the old Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw. I wrote my journaling right on the background, and it reads: "A journey in time, to a world that has been and don't exist anymore. Great communities, enriched colture, a varied world, fuul of content. The Jewish Cemetery at Warsaw, a very big one, full of old tombstones, that tell the story of people who lived and contributed to their people, as much as to their country. A cemetery with so much sorrow in it, with a monument for 1.5 million jewish children, who were murdered by the Nazis."

I used sketch #126 from Sektchabilities:

It also goes fot the 'Good 'ol Days' challenge at Simon Says Stamp & Show.
Here are some close-ups on the details:

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Simple Pleasures - Stuck?! October 1st reveal

It's a new month, so at Stuck?! Sketches we have a fab new sketch, drwan by talented Laura Whitaker:

This time we also partnering with the color combo from Color Me Scrappy:

And this is my take on the sketch and the the palette:

Patterned papers are Jillibean Soup, and so is the label die-cut on the upper right corner and the journaling tag behind the photo. I also used products from our sponsor, Scrapmatts - the wood titles and the big butterfly chipboard.
I also used Prima stencil, dies (Die-Namites, Memory Box, Die-namics) and Marta Stewart's punches.
I would like to enter it to the current challenge at Frosted Designs - 'Fall'.
Here are some close-ups on the details:

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Door sign

This is my take on the current challenge at Off the Rails Scrapbooking, with this gorgeous moodboard:

I've made a door sign for a good friend of mine:

Here are some close-ups:

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You are the child I've always asked for - case file #122 at CSI

Case file #122 at CSI is up, with a beautiful inspiration photo and awesome palette:

This is my take on the challenge:

A photo of my oldest, taken about 6 months ago on a vacation we had in Eilat. He has so many qualities and I couldn't dream of a better child. The title says in Hebrew: "You are the child I've asked for", and it's the nave of an Israeli song.

This is how I solved the case:

Sketch (by the talented Em Stafrace) - I've changed it a bit, beacuase I wanted to use one photo, rather than many small photos, so I've minimized the upper banner, which was made from scraps of the big banners under the photo.

Scheme - all colors are here.

Evidence - actually I used all the elements here :) flowers, leaves, metal (brads from my stash and StudioFourteen40's flair buttons from Boys will be boys set 5 & A happy life set 5), ribbon (baker's twine to hold the upper banner), something transparent (StudioFourteen40 vellum dots set 4 & vellum file tabs), grid pattern (on the two green pp), cursive font (some of the block alphas of the title and my handwritten journaling tag), circles, fabric (gauze), labels, tags and sprig.

Testimony - hidden journaling on a tag, handwritten in cursive, and it says: "Even in my best dreams I couldn't ask for a better child than you are. Your talented and wise, loving and caring, considerate and helps me in so many ways. You have a big sensetive and loving heart and I hope you'll remain like that forever. You are the child I've asked for, the one I always dreamed about. Love you, Mom. April 2014."
I would like to enter this lo to current challenge at The Crafty Scrapper, which is 'use layers'. this challenge is right up my alley, as I always use many layers on my laouts :).

Here are some close-ups on the details:

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Adding touches to layouts - 2nd post as a Guest Designer at Die-namites

My 2nd post as a Guest Designer is up at Die-namites blog is up, and it's all about adding touches to layouts, using Die-namites dies.

You can see the post HERE.

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