We Were Kids (and it was a long time ago)

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On the 'Watch List' at CSI

April 1st challenge at Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge is up, with a wonderufl prompt - "scrap or art journal about a favorite pastime from your youth. Was it a sport, fishing, cycling, reading or teasing your older brother?". 

So I took an old photo of my brother and me, playing is a natural pool on a summer vacation. I think it was 1968 or 1969. 
It was also a perfect match with case file 116 at CSI, as one of the testimony options was to be inspired by a song title or lyrics for the journaling. My title says, in Hebrew: "We were kids, and it was so long ago", and it was taken from a very beautiful Israeli song, talking about childhood memories of the singer, Yossi Banai' who grew up in Jerusalem. If you're interested, you can hear the song and see translation of the lyrics :) :

I used the sketch from Scrap365, only turned it to the side, but I think you can still see the sketch in my page:

I was inspired by the work of two very talented scrappers: Georgia Heald and Sanna Lippert. If you are not familiar with them, you should do yourself a favour, and pop over to their blogs, trust me you won't be disappointed.
I would like to enter this lo also for the 'Vintage with a twist' challenge at Orange Paperie&Co.  You should pop over to see what beautiful creations are posted there, and they're so much friendly :).
Anyway, here's case file #116 at CSI:

My clues to solve this case were:
Scheme - all colors are here.
Evidence - music elemnts (music notes stamp on the background), circles, metal, buttons, labels, use something that runs on electricity to make your layout (having a mixed media lo, I sure used my heat gun a lot...), diagonal cross-hatch pattern (a stamp on the background and on the right bottom corner).
Testimony - inspired by the song lyrics, I wrote about fun vacation memories from my childhood: "Sleeping in a tent, jumping to the cold water, floating inside tires at the pool, pulling out air from vehicles' wheels, and then running to hide behind Mom&Dad's back, oh our family's summer vacations, simple yet so enjoyable."
Here are some close-ups on the details:

So what was YOUR fav pastime when you were young (not that your not young now... LOL)? scrap about it and share it with us at AFSC. we'd love to see it.
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High Expectations

After a very busy week, I finally got some time to scrap a little, so naturally I worked with CSI's case file from last week (there's already a new one...).

Edit: this lo is on 

the Most Wanted list at CSI

The photo is of my eldest, and it was taken a little more than a year ago, but I used it to document something from now days.

Here's case file # 93 from CSI:

My clues to solve the case were:

Scheme - all colors used.

Evidence - airplane accent, something dangling, pinwheels, stripes/plaid patterns, mixed media background (masking with modeling paste, which was colored with Mr. Huey's yellow mist), triangles, a string, a tag.

Testimony - on the tag behind the layers. I was inspired by the inspiration words, but a little different - high; unexpected which turned to expectations... :)

My boy reaches adolescent, and it sure shows up.  My journaling documents an event from two days ago -my boy came back from school with homework, to ask me what are my expectations from him on his Bar Mitzvah year (if you're interested what Bar Mitzvah is, you can read about it HERE). I thought about it and my answer was: "My expectations from you for this year are that you'll discover the changes you're going through, physically and emotionally, and that you'll learn to accept them. I wish and hope that  you'll feel free to talk with me about anything, and most important - I wish you'll be happy and thay you'll enjoy this year".

Yesterday he told me that he read it out (and he said he was not shy to do this...). I hope his teacher didn't think that his mom does not understand the difference between expectations and hopes... I do understand, and yet this is my interpretaion. I really think that high expectations are not necessarily a bad thing...

I used papers from different manufacturers: Studio Calico, Fancy Pants, Carta Bella, Amrican Crafts. The airplane is paper piecing of a cute die cut. I also used MR vellum arrow, Mr. Huey's triangles mask, MR stamp, MFT stamp and sequins.

Here are some close-ups on the details:

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אחרי שבוע עמוס מאד, מצאתי סוף סוף זמן גם לסקראפ. עבדתי עם האתגר השבועי ב-CSI. התמונה היא של בכורי, מלפני כשנה וחצי. התגית מתעדת אירוע מהימים האחרונים - בביה"ס הם התבקשו לשאול את ההורים מה הציפיות של ההורים מהם בשנת המצווה. התשובה שלי הייתה: "שתגלה את השינויים שחלים בך, הגופניים והרגשיים, ותלמד להבין ולקבל אותם. שתמיד תוכל לבוא ולדבר איתי על כל דבר, והכי חשוב - שתהיה  מאושר ותהנה מהשנה הזאת."

השתמשתי בדפים מדוגמים מחברות שונות, בין היתר מהקולקציה של Carta Bella - Rough&Tumble. זו קולקציה נפלאה לעיצובי בנים - גם הדיגום של הדפים וגם הצבעים - כל כך עליזים ושמחים. אני ממש שמחה שמתחילים להביא לארץ יותר ויותר מוצרים שמתאימים לעיצוב עבור בנים.

השתמשתי גם עם משחת עיצוב, שנצבעה במיסט צהוב של מר יואי, על  מסיכה של מר יואי בצורת משולשים, ועם חותמות שונות של חיצים. החץ האדמדם בתגית הג'ורנלינג הוא החתמה ואמבוסינג עם אחת מהאבקות בסט אבקות אמבוסינג.

תודה שקפצתן לבקר בבלוג שלי, ואשמח מאד לקרוא את תגובותיכן.

Me, Myself, I

My 1st lo with my April Counterfeit Kit, for #65 case file at CSI. It turned out very colorful, just the way I named my CKC kit.

Here's #65 case file from CSI:

My clues were:

Evidence: stripes, pinwheels, something spiral, circles, mini brads.

Testimony: hiddend jouranling (the resish semi circles), in 3 different spots, about 3 sides of me - family, friends, work.

Almost everything on this lo came from my April Counterfeit kit. I added some pale blue scraps and the brads. I also used CW mask with modeling paste that I painted with a little glimmer mist to make it pale blue. The dotted buttons are Purple Pumpkin's and the brads are American Crafts.

I've used April's sketch from Paper Stories, by Em Stafrace:

Here are some close-ups on the details:

Thank  you for taking the time and visiting my blog. Your comments are much appreciated.

דף ראשון מקיט החיקוי של חודש אפריל, ויצא לי דף מאד צבעוני. אחד הדברים הטובים בקיט החיקוי, כמו גם בהשתתפות באתגרים ב-CSI, הוא שיוצא לי להשתמש בצירופי צבעים לא שגרתיים עבורי, ועל כך אני שמחה מאד.

ברקע עבדתי עם מסיכה של עיגולים, עליה מרחתי משחת עיצוב שערבבתי לתוכה קצת גלימר מיסט לקבלת גוון תכלת, וזה מתאים לאתגר המסיכות ב'יוצאות מהקווים'. מרבית הרצועות בדף הן מדף מדוגם אחד של October Afternoon. הוספתי גם כמה רצועות של וואשי טייפ כחול מנוקד. הדוילי'ס, שמשמשות כמאטינג, נחתכו בביג שוט עם תבנית חיתוך של Cheery Lynn. הוספתי 'שבשבות' קטנות, שבמרכזן סיכות מתפצלות קטנטנות, וכפתורי בד מנוקדים (הם פשוט מתוקים להפליא, ומוסיפים לכל עבודה), ופרח ספירלי מקופל.