Sweet Summer's Days - August Counterfeit Kit

At Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog they have a beautiful inspiration kit, Cocoa Daisy July 2018 kit:

I really loved this one and went deep into my stash to gather my own version of this kit - Sweet Summer's Days.

Papers side A:

Papers side B:

Small scraps to counterfeit some of the embellies in the inspiration kit:

I really liked the hexagons and circles with the two patternes, so I used my hexagons and curcles dies and die cut from the small scraps. I also die cut some words and adhered them to some of the embellies:

Then I gathered some bigger pp scraps as my 'add on papers':

I've put stamps, honeycomb and hexagons dies, thickers, alphas in different sizes, labels, tags, tabs, baker's twines, enamel dots and sequins:

I counterfeited the daisy flowers in two ways: with a punch and with stamps, and colored the centers of the flowers with some yellow mist:

At the last minute I added a pinky pp with a white handwriting pattern, a dotted ribbon, a stamp for the coming Jewish holidays and a flair button:

It turned a bit autumnal colors, so I have a feeling that whatever leftovers I have from this kit, I will use them in a month or two... LOL.

I love how my kit turned out. now it's time to use it!

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A birthday card for 'Celebrate' challenge at Altair Art

This month is my turn on Altair Art blog to host the monthly challenge, and since August is my birthday month (actualy - today!), I chose the theme of 'Celebrate', and kind of celebration:

Hop over to Altair Art blog to see the fab creations my fellow DT made for this challenge.

I made a birthday card, using the beautiful papers by Altair Art, but this time with some mixed media techniques.

I was inspired by the colors of the monthly challenge at Lindy's Gang blog:

So I went with this beautiful soft and subtle pallet. For my card I chose the colors of pink, purple and green.

I used my bigshot to cut the doily and then used embossing ink with Lindy's Weapping Willow Green ep to get this beautiful shiny subtle green color. I also die cut a circle using the same technique, for the center, and matted it with a circle cut out of Altair Art paper. I really love the shiny look it got!

I also die cut the flourishes and colored them with Lindy's Pop Rock Purple flat fabio spray.

The flower in the center was colored with Lindy's Chteau Rose flat spray and the center was colored with the Pop Rock Purple spary.

I used a beautiful pinky paper by Altair Art, both for the main rectangle, and the matting circle and the sentiment.

I heat embossed Kaisercraft stamp on the pinky paper with Lindy's Oom Pah Pah Pink ep, and splatterd some Lindy's Mad Hatter Mint shimmer spray and Chateau Rose spray.

The sentiment was heat embossed with Lindy's Weapping Willo Green ep and then stampped again with Ranger's ink, so it got a little shaddow.

For the final touch I used gauze, pink enamel dots and micro beads.

The Altair Art papers I've used are:

Ever Dream 02

Sunrise 06 Purple

Here're some close-ups:

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Good Day Sunshine - CSI case file no. 259

A new month means a new case file at CSI - case file no. 259:

The first element from the inspiration image that my eyes were drawn to, was the black spech buble with the white handwriting in it, so I incooprated it with one of the embellishments (a Kaisercraft's stamp, heat embossed with Lindy's Purely White ep):

I've used all 5 colors, and my clues to solve the case were: speach bublles (I have 5(!) in this layout. can you spot them all?), architectural elements (Echo Park's Eiffel Tower stamp, Kaisercraft's skyline stamp), transportaion (Kaisercraft's plane stamp), travel themed elements (Echo Park's suitcase stamp), cursive fonts, stamping and map pattern (sort of - the globe die cut).

For my base, I've used Altair Art pp (Sunrise 04 blue), as it mimics the sky so well. Prima's stitches stamp was used for framing the pp, and some Lindy's sprays were used to splatter here and there (Mango Mania flat fabio, Sidewalk Chalk flat fabio, Sassy Sapphire starburst shimmer spry). 

Enamel dots were added here and there.

The journaling, on Prima's Amber Moon papers cut to tags, document a wonderful day on our travel to Paris.

It was pretty cold and grey, but suddenly the sun came out of the clouds.

I used the inspiration word "Good", as the shining sun remined me the Beatles' song I've used for my title: "Good Day Sunshine":

I need to laugh, and when the sun is out

I've got something I can laugh about,

I feel good, in a special way.

I'm in love and it's a sunny day.

I've used sketch #151 from Sketchabilities:

I enjoyed working on this layout, and I really love the outcome.

Here are some close-ups:

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Happy Dreams - a beach inspired card

Happy Saturday dear crafty friends,

Today I'd like to share with you a beach inspired card, all full with summer vibes, I've made using beautiful Lemoncraft's papers.

I love to add more and more layers to my projects, and this card is no exception:

I had some stamped and heat embossed seashells from a previous project (you can see it HERE), and I used them in this card:

I really love the one that is stamped and heat embossed on a vellum (Lindy's Gang Orange Creamsicle embossing powder)!

The sentiment is also stamped and heat embossed (Lindy's Gang Desert Moon Turquoise).

I used pieces of gauze, a twine and Finnabair's mini art stones, all adhered with Finnabair's soft gel medium:

I would like to enter this card to 2 challenges:

Lemoncraft - Pastel Summer:

Scrap and Craft - Summer:

I've used Lemoncraft's Gossamer Blue 6x6 pad.

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PInk & Gray cards for Altair Arts' Ever & Always II collection

Happy Friday dear crafty friends,

A little late, but better than never, I'm sharing my cards with the beautiful new collection by Altair Arts: 'Ever & Always II'.

It was posted a few days ago on the Altair Art Blog HERE.

As soon as I saw the papers I just fell in love with this collection! Such beautiful colors and designs, so delicate and elengant. Love it!

For my cards I decided to go on the pink & gray colors. I love this combination of colors, as it gives a very elegant look to any project.

Here're some close-ups:

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Clowns - a mixed media layout for 13@rts Circus challenge

I had so much fun making this mixed media layout for the current challenge at 13@rts, which is Circus.

Here's the fab moodboard:

I knew I would use a photo I took at Madame Tussaud's museum at London, whith the clowns.

To make my layout even more clownish, I turned the patterned paper, so the printed words were upside down :)

I added lots of stitched circles to the already printed ones on the pp, and used lots of mediums to create a fun atmosphere.

Here are some close-ups on the details:

13@rts products I've used:

Alice in Candyland - 'Whatfever U Want', 'Queen of Hearts'

Untill Dawn - 'Days and Nights'

Mediums - Gesso clear, Gesso white, Gel medium

Mists - Pastel Blue, Chalk Blue Light

Color Glow - Ruby, Amber

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Follow Your Heart - case file no. 258 at CSI

At CSI blog we have a new case file, with a beach theme inspiration. Here's the inspiration photo:

I made a layout full of sea and nautical treasures, and lots of mixed media. 

one of the Runners Up at

More Than Words July challenge

I used my counterfeit mini kit for this layout.
To 'solve the case' I went the old school way: used all 5 colors from the scheme, from the evidence I used stripes, beach/nautical elements, animal (the seahorse on the bottom), circles, wet medium, grainy things (embossing powder, texture paste and mini art stones), and shells (real and stampped and heat embossed). In my journaling I documented one of our visits to the Red Sea.
The chipboard title is from Creative Embellishments and it was coverd with white gesso, and then heat embossed with four different embossing powders. I love how it came out.
Here are some close-ups on the details:

some real seashells, with mini artstones

Some wooden ship wheels, along with a compass chipboard, heat embossed with Lindy's ep (Angel Wings Gold):

You can see how the compass simply shines with this ep! I added a sticker with "8", as it was my boy's age at that time.

Along with real seashells, I alos added some stampped seashells over vellum, which I then heat embossed with Lindy's ep (Orange Creamsicle). It got a lovely sandy look:

I also stamped and heat embossed seashells directly on the paper. Adding some dew drops in matching colors, gave a feeling of treasures from under the sea: 

To get even more of the seaside look, I added lots of Prima/Finnabair mini art stones:

Using texture paste over a stencil, along with some Blue Fern's stamps, and 7Dots' stamps:

As for the title, after covering it with Finnabair heavy white gesso, I used 4 Lindy's ep! ( C'est la vie Cerise, Twilight Bloue Slate, Midnight Sapphire and Orange Creamsicle):

I stamped this cute seahorse and tucked it between the wavy borders on the bottom:

I also made a 'start to finish' video:

I would like to enter this layout to the following challenges:
More Than Words: beach +seashells:

As there's a limit to combining challenges at the MTW blog, I've removed my entry from the other challenges.

Creative Embellishments - 

I was inspired by the colors of blue, red and white, the way the graphic is splitted between the colors, and ths splatters.

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