Childhood Hero - CSI no. 312

Happy March 1st to all! it's time for a new challenge at CSI - case file 312, with this awesome inspiration photo:

The colors of the inspiration photo screamed 'Disneyland', so I used two photos that were taken on our visit to Disneyland Paris on April 2016.

Winnie the Pooh was my eldest's childhood here. He just loved it so much, and went with his big puppet everywhere, and even went to sleep with it by his side on bed.

Naturally, we went to meet Winnie on our visit and took many photos with him.

I used all 5 colors from the scheme. For the eviedence I used: tone-on-tone patterns, wood (the arrow wood veneer), stripes, dots, checker pattern, speach bublles, stars, flair badage and stitching (faux).

My testimony is about how awesome and adorable was my son with his Winnie the Pooh.

I used Laura Whitaker's sketch for My Creative Scrapbook:

I used two photos, and for the third one on the sketch I just added stickers.

Here're some close-ups on the details:

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My November Counterfeit Kit

I loved the inspiration kit for November at Counterfeit KIt Challenge blog, with a very beautiful color palette. 

The inspiration kit is from a Dutch club:

I used Lisa's tip to use Coolors.Co to play with the colors, and this is what I came up with:

And this is my kit, first papers side A (along with solid cardstock in coordinating colors):

Papers side B:

I love the houses and the coffee cup to go images, and especially the watercolor strocks paper, so I counterfeited them. I played with Lindy's Gang products and made my a paper with strocks of the kit colors. I stamped a house stamp, and colored it with the same colors I already made, as for the coffee cups, I found this digital stamp, and then playes on my pc with the colors:

Finally - the embellishments:

Lots of buttons, some wood veneer embellies, stickers, alphas stickers, flair buttons and chipboards.

I didn't include flowers, stamps and enemal dots, as I will use them enyway as I make my projects.

I love my kit and hope to use it as much a posiibble!

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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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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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A desktop calendar board

U

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.

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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Fly Away - September's Counterfeit Kit

Once again I'm playing with Counterfeit Kit, which have a special kit for this month, designed just for the blog, by Secret Not Secret Kit Club. Here's the inspiration kit:

I really loved it! finally a masculine kit :).

As usuall, I started by the colors, then the patterns and other items that my eyes were drawn to (like the white doodled ellipses on a gray paper, and the paper with the pine trees).

I decided that I MUST include some old papers and items in my kit in order to de-stash, along with more new papers/ items.

So here's my 'Fly Away' kit:

Papers side A:

Papers side B:

Add on papers side A:

Add on papers side B:

Embellishments:

I counterfeited the trees paper using Deep Red rubber stamp with different inks, I made a 7X5 kraft paper with cameras, using a Jillibean's stamp and embossing it with Lindy's ep.

Next I die cut some words from foam, and 2 others from a heavy wheight black cs, and then heat embossed it with a dark blue shiny Lindy's ep.  I also made my own doodled ellipses:

I also die cut some stars, tags, arrows, and made some 'tickets'.

I didn't include cs, stamps, mixed media products and stencils, as I will use them anyway along the way.

I already have some project in mind to use with my kit, so stay tuned....

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