Paper desk caddy

 A desk caddy I made from cardstock and pp, following Keren Skubach's great totorial - Part 1 and Part 2. 

It was so much fun, and easy to make, that I will defintely make another one preety soon (and maybe, just maybe, more than one..).

It helps keeping my most needed tools just handy and ready to use. It has a pocket for memo notes, small 'shelves' for all those small items that get lost in big pockets, lots of room for sccisors, pens, scoring tools, etc., and even one pannel of cork to pin notes.

Here're some more photos:

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Warm and Cosy - November Counterfeit Kit

This month at Counterfeit Kit Challenge they have 'Emerson' by Citrus Twist to counterfeit. 

I have to admit - I had no inspiration from the kit. Luckily, they also have a FB page, and the lovely ladies over there just helped me with ideas.

It's funny, but my starting point was the cork embellishments, and I remembered that I have a long forgotten cork sheet, so I was very happy to finally use it. I cut some circles with my BigShot, and stamped with archival black ink:

Okay, that's nice for a start, but usually my inspiration drives from the colors. So I set and wrote down the colors, patterns and type of embellishments, to help me.

My list was:

Colors: gray (dark and light), yeallow, light blue, peach/ coral/ light pink, light orange.

Patterns: chevrons, triangles, hearts.

Embellishments: wood veneer, cork, heart in two colors, words stickers, labels, sticky dots/ eyelets.

Bingo! now I was able to sort through my stash. I and finally came out with my 'Warm and Cosy' kit.

Here's my kit:

papers: My Mind's Eye (Find your wings and fly/ Sky's the limit); Simple Stories (Posh/ I laugh lots, Dream big); Echo Park (Go, see, explore/ border stripes, Dots&stripes/ Pineapple), Fancy Pants (Park bench/ Blanket).

embellishments: handmade (cork circles, labels, double color hearts, enamel dots); Fancy Pants (lime envelope, puffy stickers, cork arrows); StudioForteen40 (flair buttons); Creative Embellishments (diamond chipboards); Yael Yaniv (letter stickers); Tim Holtz (Idea-ology word stickers).

This kit is certainly out of my comfort zone and I hope it will inspire me this month. Time will tell..... LOL

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Back 2 School - case file no. 138 at CSI

A new case file at CSI, case file #138:

I used a photo of mine, taken on my 3rd year at the University, studing hard for an exam.

I used Sept. sketch from C'est Magnifique:

My clues to solve the case were:

Scheme - all colors are here.

Evidence - woodgrain (one of the pink papers), grid pattern, damask (stamped in brown on the background, so it can hardly be seen, and on the hidden tag in the envelope), envelope, tape measure, a tag, numbers, buttons, triangles, paint and loops.

Testimony - on a tag, tucked inside the brown envelope, and it reads: "At the end of October 2014, I will return to school :), I'm going to start my Master's degree study at the university, more than 20 years after I graduated my Bachelor's degree :).  I'm about to finish my degree in one calendar year. studying is a little tight - twice a week, while I'm still working full time job, and it's far from home. I'm excited and worried at the same time. September 2014".

All papers are from Fancy Pants (mostly from 'Collecting Moments' collection), and so are the envelopes, flair button, stickers, buttons, cork arrow and the clock die-cut. the flowers are Petaloo's. the flourishes chipboards are from Creative Embellishments, and they're one of my most fav chipboards from this manufacturer, so this page goes for their Sept. challenge. I coated the chipboards with gesso, and painted them with TH distress stain and distress ink, and used Stampendous embossing powder. stamps are American Crafts' and Kaisercraft's. I also used TCW stencil and I colored the modeling paste with LGS magical.

Here are some close-ups on the details:

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At 10 - Sketchabilities #100

 

Today it's reveal day for sketch #100 at Sketchabilities, with this awesome sketch made by the talented Karan Gerber:

And we have a sponsor for this challenge!

Creative Embellishments

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Please stop over to the Creative Embellishments store and have a look around.

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For my take, I slightly moved the photo with it's background to the side, but otherwise kept my lo very close to the origin sketch.

The photo is of my elsdest, about 1.5 year ago, when he was 10.

I used Basic Grey kraft cs. Distress stain, Mr. Huey's white mist and embossed stamping (TH stamp) were used for the background.  For the matting, I used some Echo Park pp, cork scraps and red corrugated paper. My embellies include homemade blackboard style tags, stars (die-cut, punched, stickers and  a Purple Pumpkin's flair button).
Here are some close-ups on the details:

Now it's your turn to show us what you can do with this wonderful sketch, and share it with us at Sketchabilities.

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דף שהכנתי כחלק מצוות העיצוב ב-Sketchabilities. הזזתי את התמונה והרקע שלה מהמרכז לצד, כדי להתאים את העיצוב לתמונה ולשמור על איזון בין המרכיבים. כרקע השפרצתי מר יואי לבן והחתמתי עם דיו אמבוסינג חותמת עיגולים והבלטתי עם אבקת אמבוזינג לבנה. כרקע לתמונה צבעתי עם צבע דיסטרס והוספתי גם כמה תגיות סטייל לוח גיר שהכנתי בעצמי. להשלמת העיצוב, הוספתי קישוטי כוכבים מסוגים שונים - סטיקרים, תבנית חיתוך, פאנצ'ים וכפתור פלייר.

התמונה היא של הבכור, בטיול בנחל עיון לפני כשנה וחצי, כשהיה בן 10.

אז מה דעתכן על הסקיצה והפרשנות שלי? אשמח לקרוא תגובות וגם לראות השתתפות ישראלית באתגר הסקיצה.

תודה שקפצתן לבקר.

Grayish Venice

Edit: this lo is on the watch list

for case file #83 at CSI

1st layout from my August Counterfeit Kit, made for case file #83 at CSI:

The photo is from Venice, from my traveling to Italy, 18 years ago.

Venice is very special, some people love this city, and some just dislike it. I didn't like the city at all... I came there from Florence, which I simply adored, so the disappoitment was big. I really didn't like Venice and the morning after my arrival, I just got out of town and went to the lakes in north Italy.

I used #96 sketch from Sketchabilities:

The clues to solve the case were: 

Evidence - stripes, punches, jewels, tags/labels, stamps, circles.

Testimony - the joranling tag is a Prima stamp. I stamped it and fussy cut around and then adhered it on a piece of cork, and matted it with a scrap of diagonal stirpes. On the cream tag, behind the photo, I wrote about my traveling to Venice.

Here are some close-ups on the details:

 I used some Purple Pumkin's products (large spotty button, kraft tags and tickets)

And for some more challenges:
triangles - simonsays
bingo - craft room (mine are: butterfly, kraft, pearls)
elements - yotzot
flowers - ladybug
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את הדף הזה הכנתי לאתגר ההשראה ב-CSI, ובחרתי לעבוד עם תמונה שצילמתי בונציה, בטיול לאיטליה לפני 18 שנים. הגעתי לונציה אחרי פירנצה, עיר שבה התאהבתי. את ונציה, לעומת זאת, ממש ממש לא אהבתי. עד כדי כך, שבבוקר למחרת הגעתי לעיר, פשוט תפסתי סירה מוקדם בבוקר ועזבתי את העיר בדרך לאגמים בצפון איטליה. דווקא התמונות שצילמתי בונציה יצאו די יפות...

החומרים בהם השתמשתי להכין את הדף כולם מקיט החיקוי לחודש אוגוסט, וחלקם קישוטים בהכנה עצמית.
אני מעלה את הדף הזה גם לאתגר של יוצאות מהקווים, הפעם לרשימה של עינת - תחרה, פרחים, פרפרים וחותמות.

תודה שקפצתן לבקר, אשמח לקרוא את התגובות שלכן.