Vinny got married on Friday! In a special place by the pool surrounded by grass and trees, a beautiful bride dressed in an exquisite dress, wearing red lacquer sandals, holding a unique bouquet. The music was great, lunch was fabulous, the barman was cute and very helpful, surrounded by great friends and a lot of love. A wedding calls for a wedding card! The base of the card is a 21.5X14 cm’ (8.5X5.5 inch) double sided cardstock in black and white flower pattern, the one side has a black background with white flowers and the other side is opposite. The center flower is made from ribbons connected in the middle by a button and the stem is sewn with a sewing machine.
The second layer is glued with little foam squres to give it dimension. I sewed around the card using black thread on top and white thread in the bottom spool so that the black thread will show on the white background of the cardstock and the white thread will show on the black background on the other side.
The back of the card has a little envelope in which I put their wedding present.
Vinny dear, I wish you and your husband all the best!!!!!
Who said baby booties are only for winter? It’s freezing inside air-conditioned places during summer isn’t it? These are made from 100% organic cotton fiber, using crochet knitting needle number 2.5.
I once wrote a tutorial for knitting them, it’s still available on YNET craft forum only in Hebrew, I can translate it to English, just email me if you’re interested.
Here they are all wrapped up in a little box, it's 8.5 X 11.5cm big that's about 3.5 X 4.5 inch.
I received the tin box with a disk on key as a promotion, this is what it looked like before I embellished it with Basic Grey paper, ribbons and a congratulations rub-on.
I thought the little tin containers were so cool that I collected a few when these disks on keys were distributed, most of the people that received them were ready to throw the tin away, and wouldn’t that be a waste?
I put my eyes on Basic Grey’s new paper collection a while ago, it was February, the middle of winter, right before the Craft and Hobby Association (CHA) convention and I saw the ‘Sultry’ line, such vibrant, fresh, summer looking colors, my favorite greens, pinks, browns, and fuchsia, my absolutely favorite color, I always feel it’s such a happy shade of pink isn’t it? There it was in the middle of winter.... So the first day of my Spring vacation I took out the Sultry pad and created these 2 new friendship greeting cards. The pencils are the ones from IKEA that I dyed with some pigment ink, I love these little pencils and measuring tape they have so I help myself to some every time I visit. I was so overwhelmed by fuchsia that I went out and bought myself a fuchsia shirt, something that I wouldn’t normally wear as it’s so noticeable but I just couldn’t help it…
Vinny's birthday was celebrated yesterday, it's a special birthday as in less then 3 weeks she is also getting married! I had so many things to write and wish her for both events so I ended up making 2 cards and 2 presents. I made her a scarf suitable for spring and autumn as it's made of cotton fabrics. I always find it to hot to use a wool scarf in these seasons but still feel the chilly air in the morning round my neck so I thought it's a perfect solution. I made a similar one in winter using cotton and fleece, both inspired by Aliner’s one .
And here it is wrapped up
And the card that went with it
And the second card
And the scrappy cubes I made for her using the couple's photographs, sorry it's all blurred but I'm not sure they want their faces on the Internet. The cubes are made from solid wood and are 9X9cm', I purchased them at a Netanella's scrap party that was so much fun!
I now have 10 new cubes to embellish, 3 for my desk at work and 3 for each grandmother, the last one is for a test project. If you create such a project note that gel glues are not recommended, as the wood absorbs all the moisture in them and the paper tends to separate from the cube, rather use double sided tacky tape, mod Podge or rubber adhesive.
Vinny IS GETTING MARRIED and she has a birthday and she's looking so radiant and happy and in love! I'm so excited for her...
My 11 year old twins celebrated their birthday in February, birthday morning I left a track of red and pink hearts from their room to the dinning room where they found balloons, each had a voucher connected to it, a voucher for a kiss and hug, a voucher for hot chocolate and brownies in our favorite coffee shop, a voucher for a present etc. What’s a birthday without a party? Guy had his friends over for a pajama party two weeks ago and today Raz celebrated with her friends; we had a scrap party and altered coffee tins (all of them almost identical, I created one as and example and most of them copied it, girls…), had too much pizza and popcorn and watched a great movie, Bridge to Terabithia. Photos aren't that good, there is something wrong with the camera... Special thanks to Ruthi for helping out with the girls, to Yafit for the paper and to Tzik for the internship (-: Birthday project 2008 is officially over! This week, now that my sewing machine returned from repair I’m going to dedicate to sewing their costumes for Purim.
Next week is my birthday; I told my 15.5 year old this week that I'm going to be 42 in a week and he said, "mom you're 30 with 12 years experience"... I like the way he thinks. At the "Frida&Numa" forum I participate in we take turns sending each member a birthday card and present, I got mine from Yama, my personalized birthday snow man, a beautiful altered paper bag and a Bday card of course, I love it!
Hila was the first to introduce the maze book, a wonderful mini album, with a tutorial available on craftweekly. The whole album is made out of 1 12X12" (30X30cm') cardstock, the final size of the pages inside the album is 3X3" and the finished album is a bit more than that because of the cover which is slightly bigger.I created one for a swap, it's stamped with Stazon Timber Brown ink using Tim Holtz and Uptown Design Company stamps. I think I have a growing fetish for wings, actually I think I'm going to create a deco with wings as a theme, maybe get it out of my system (-: I love this album it takes only 10 minutes to create the cover and pages, and ages to embellish but the possibilities are endless, check out Hila's Flickr.
I took part in a mini accordion album swap. Every participant sent the swap organizer 3 topics that he/she would be interested to receive a book about. I was happy when I found out that I will be preparing an album for Maya (Yama) as I really appreciate her art. The topics she suggested were magical creatures, birds and journeys, I only had to choose one out of the three so I chose journeys as you can see. The album is quite small, only 5cmX5cm, made of cardstock, stamped with See D's Clear Stamp Rubber Images-Travel by Sugarloaf Products Inc, using Stazon ink and colored with Aquarelle colors, I opened it and took a photo of both sides. The deadline is at the end of the month but I finished early for a change so I'm going to mail it tomorrow, clearing my desk for the next project (-: The topics I suggested for my album were nostalgia, black and white and wings, I wonder what I'll receive.... Swapping can be so much fun, I really enjoyed creating this one. You can see more of Maya's art at http://www.flickr.com/photos/mayac72
I have been planning to make one of these for ages and finally sat down to create one. She is 25cm' high from toe to the tip of her crown. If you want to create one of your own all you have to do is follow these simple instructions:
Print the template
Put it over the cardstock you want to use and trace using carbon paper.
Cut out all pieces, you need 1 of each. I used black and white cardstock for the legs and arms and plain white for the face and body as they are covered.
Punch out little holes where indicated the size for your brads to fit in. Print out an image of a face, I used this site.
Use chalk to create a blush look and a red ink pen for a lipstick effect.
Glue the face to the face template and assemble all parts using brads.The brads enable motion so if you don't want your paper doll to be able to move her body parts you can just glue them together instead of using brads.
Now you can start to dress her, you can really go wild here, I cut out a dress shape from fabric textured paper and glued a piece of lace to the bottom of it.I then attached a ribbon to act as a belt with a bow shaped charm in the center and I also used fibers to act as a scarf, I just tied them round her neck.
Now glue the clothing you made to the body of your paper doll.
The crown is made of gold color cardstock cut into shape and I used crystals to embelish it.
I then gave her a key and glued a sentance from a book I liked:"I think this is the real key, to love what you do, it is often very difficult to know what you love to do because you want to do so many things" (see picture at the top of this post).
What can it be used for? I think I'm going to frame her and take her to work, can also be used on a greeting card but then you must make it smaller.
My husband is away for the weekend, bike riding in the desert with friends, I have some time on my hands so I planned to sew but inspiration has a life of it's own and as inspiration is not easy to come by I decided to take advantage of what I have and found myself elsewhere. I decided for a change to add the envelope to the photograph of the card, usually I only take a picture of the card but realized the envelope is also part of the design. The flowers in the flower cards are doodled by hand accompanied by a button or brad in the center.
These are so cute and so easy to create, I saw something simillar in a magazine named 'You go girl' a few months ago and I can't get enough of them. What I like about them the most is that they can suit every ocasion so they are great to have around the house. Every once in a while I need a card NOW, a last minute party or occasion I forgot about... When I create these I keep them blank without the stamped wording and at the last minute I can add (or not) an apropriate line. All you do is divide your card into 2 parts, each part a different color, I like the use of black and white. Take a ribbon and adhere it at the center of your card all across. Take a silk flower and cut it in half, you can adhere both parts together to get a puffy look and you can use just the one half, adhere it above the ribbon in the middle of your card. You can also stick a bow or button or any embellishment in the middle. Now all that's left is to doodle the face, you can draw any expression, a smile is always nice but other options can be an O shaped mouth for an astonished look or a curved mouth for a sad effect, play and experiment with it, it's fun!
The back of the card has a little envelope in which I put their wedding present.
Vinny dear, I wish you and your husband all the best!!!!! 
