January 30th, 2012
Every now and then, although I adore flowers, I feel like doing a layout with no flowers, no elaborate embellishments, just something simple, quick and easy. This is a DT layout I did for My Punch’s Kit of the Month Club. This layout is really easy to do, because it has the most basic embellishments of all…words. I didn’t put any flowers, bling, swirls or cutouts, I used word stickers. This way I killed two birds with one stone: I embellished the layout and I wrote the journaling. It all goes well with the theme of the camera and photography, since the words are all in that subject. This type of simple embellishing frames the photos and gives them the focus. Don’t forget to enter your card to the Valentine’s Day Card Contest and get a chance to win a great prize! Have fun creating! Einat
January 20th, 2012
There are so many designs for a baby card. But for this baby (first born of a dear friend of mine) I wanted to make something special, something different. I thought about it for a long time and one day it came…the perfect idea! A knitted card! The card is really easy to make (if you know how to knit): 1. Knit a square that is a little bigger than the card you want to use. 2. When finished wrap the card with the knitted piece (the same as you wrap a book with paper) and adhere to secure. 3. Add embellishments. I added a small sock attached a safety pin and added stars, ribbons and a title. I “hanged” the sock with two small laundry pins I painted blue. You can make a pink version for a baby girl. Have fun creating! Einat
January 18th, 2012
This is a DT layout I did for My Punch’s kit of the month club. Whenever I design layouts for the kit I try to make as many layouts as possible with the materials I’ve got. The problem is I don’t always have as many embellishments as I need, and I always need a lot of embellishments. The solution is to create my own embellishments. One of the papers in the kit was this pretty Echo Park paper. I cut different sizes of flowers and wrinkled them in my hand. I inked their edges and layered them with 3D foam tape for extra dimension. I added rhinestones in the centre for a finished look. Have fun creating! Einat
January 13th, 2012
You really liked the clock canvas I did last year. So much that it was voted by all my readers as the favorite project of the year. Here is a new clock canvas I recently did that I wanted to share with you. On this canvas I tried two new things. First, I created two separate canvases with the same theme, color palette and coordinating embellishments. Then I combined the two pieces into one by attaching the two canvases with a flowerpot hanger. The big canvas was the “wall” that held the hanger and the smaller canvas hanged from it. Second, layers. Not layers of paper, but layers of canvas. I adhered a small size canvas on the big one to add more dimension a difference of height. One of the things I like to do on canvases is to write with a pen nib. I wrote one of my favorite quotes with black ink on the bog canvas and …
January 9th, 2012
What a better way to open the new year then a creative inspiring blog hop with my designer friends from the Designer Craft Connection! This month our theme is journaling. The magic of words, a collection of letters telling a story, a memory, a feeling. My creation is a layout with a very special photo: a photo of my mom and my aunt when they were little girls. This layout is part of a birthday scrapbook I’m making for my mom’s 60th birthday. It’s going to be a unique scrapbook because all the journaling is going to be written by different family members. Each layout will have the story from the point of view of the person in the photo. For example: my boys will write the journaling on the layouts showing their photos, with all their feelings, experiences, memories and love for their grandmother. The journaling on this layout is going to be written by my aunt, her sister. The layout has a …
January 6th, 2012
Here is another great flower tutorial! This time a combination of two materials I really like: paper and crochet yarn. This flower is a merger of the two materials, and when I say a merger I mean these two materials are connected to each other and can’t be separated, The paper petals are crochet to the flower center and not glued! Here are the instructions: (I initially tried it with fabric but the hole kept tearing so I replaced it with paper). 1. 6 chain stitches and close with a slip stitch. 2. Row 1: 9 single crochet stitches and close with a slip stitch. The single crochet is not through the chain stitch but around it. 3. Row 2: double crochet stitch, 2 chain stitched. Close with slip stitch. 4. Cut 7 petals in two different sizes. Punch a hole on the bottom of each petal. 5. Row 3: crochet the petals: take one large petal on top …
