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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Smile & enjoy today - a card

A card I've made, inspired by some challenges and inspiration moodboards. It's all in pastel colors, with some nautical elements.

Lindy's Gang challenge for August gave this beautiful pastel palette:

From Lindy's products I've used:

Sprays: Cotton Candy Pink, Opal Sea Oats, Azure Sea Asters, South Shore Sand, Cafe' ou Lait, Tilt-a-Wheel Teal, Tawny Turquoise Vintage.

Shakers - Oom Pah Pah Pink, Alpine Ice Rose.

Magical - Caribbean Blue from the Caribbean Cruise magical flat set.

Another inspiration came from More Than Words mini challenge:

The last challenge was a local one, held by the talented Sharon Burla-Ziv, which is 'Under the Sea'.

Here're some close-ups:

Other materials I've used:

Prima/Finnabair - heave gesso white, 3D gloss gel, acrylic paint metallique light patina, patina effect paste blue, snowflake paste, mega art stones, mini art stones.

Tim Holtz- mini stecnil set 30, Ideology words stickers.

Creative Embellisments - fishnet stamp.

Versafine - mini ink cube toffee.

Molds and real seashells - from my stash.

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Treasures from the sea - an altered frame for Art and Soul Challenge Blog

Today I would like to share with you an altered frame I've made for Art & Soul Studio challenge blog.

I was inspired by the current moodboard:

The frame looked like this:

I took the back out and covered it with Finnabair's black gesso, then I worked with a modeling paste and a stencil to give some texture. 

The next step was to color with Lindy's Gang sprays (Tainted Love Teal, Tibetan Poppy Teal, C'est la vie Cerise). Then I adhered trinkets, sea shells and molds, and colored them with Finnabair's acrylic paint - metalic light patina and mermaid sparkle.

The same way I worked with the frame itself, only this time the basis was Finnabair's white gesso.

After all was dry, I added more colros and depth with more Lindy's Gang sprays, this time adding some brownish hues (Shabby Turbine Teal, Afternoon Delight Denim, Clam Bake Beige, Fuzzy Navel Peach, Tawny Turquoise Vintage, Treasure Iland Aqua Vintage).

For the final touch, I added some Finnabair's mini art stones, to get the look of the sand, and some white gesso splatters, here and there.

Here are some close-ups on the details:

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Desktop calendar for Altair Art

Happy Friday!

Today it's my turn on Altair Art blog, and I'm sharing a desktop calendar I've made as a gift to a good friend of mine.

The sizes are 5.5"x7.5".

I've made this calendar from scratch, start to end.

The base was made from chipboards covered with efalin paper (which is perfect for binding!), and then I adhered Altair Art papers to both panels for the background.

I've made 6 pages from cardstock covered both sides with beautiful Altair Art papers, so each page holds two months.

After adhering the months pages (the file was made by the talented Moran Hamilton, and I backed the papers with cardstock), I decorated each side with lace, die cuts and beautiful florals which I fussy cut from the Altair Art papers. 

I added some enamel dots to extra finishing.

I used the following Altair Art papers:

Sunrise - 01 pink

Ever Dream 12 x12 set of papers

Here are photos of some of the pages, along with close-ups on some of the detais:

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A decorated box for molds - Altair Art

Hello lovelies :),

A little late, but better late than never...

I needed a place to store my molds, so I've made a box out of heavy wheigt cardstock, decorated with the beautiful papers by Altair Art.

Making the box is very easy, and you can see my tutorial of how to on my Youtube channel:

This is my DT work for Altair Art blog.

Now I have a beautiful box to store all my molds. I've very happy with this box.

I used one beautiful paper to decorate the inside and the outside of the box:

EverDream 02

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Nature - Timeless Beauty

Winner at More Than words

one of the Top Picks at Words & Paintery 

Hello dear crafty friends,

I'm sharing a layout I've made with the inspiration of some challenges.

All papers are from 13@rts, and so are the different mediums (list of 13@rts products in the end of this post).

One challenge is at More Than Words, with asked for Nature and an aminal image. 

The photos I've used are from Paris, a little place of nature in the middle of the big city, with a beautiful tree next to the river Seine. I love water and trees, and I love little places with nature in the middle of an urban city. Butterflies are my ultimate image of freedom, so I've stamped lots of butterflies on my layout.

Onother challenge is at Words & Paintery, with this wonderful image:

I was inspired both by the colors and the encourgement phrases, and I've use one on my layout: "A flower blooms more than once".

The 3rd challenge I was inspired by is from Mixed Media Place, with this beautiful mood board:

I love the colors of blue/aqua with kind of orange in the sky with the clouds photo, and also by the white flowers photo.

Here are some close-ups on the details:

13@rts products I've used:
Untill Dawn collection - paper -Sending Flowers, A4 element #2, stencil - Berries, A4 stickers.
Stencil - Strip mesh.
Alice in Candyland - paper - Destination Unknown.
Mediums - gesso clear, gesso black, gesso white, modeling paste, gel medium.
Color Glow - Emerald, Amber.
Mists - Pastel Antique Cream, Pastel Blue, Pastel Turqouise, Chalk Turqouise Light, Pearl Old Gold.
Splash! ink white. 
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