Purim

As I told here before, I have a suitcase full of old pictures.

Yesterday I was looking in it again and found all these

pictures with people being dressed up!

I lay them on the table and it looked like a sprappage in

the making!

Yesterday and today the Jewish people are celebrating

PURIM,

a holiday with a lot of dressing up! Why? Well read all about 

this holiday here.

And this is my finished page.

I dug into my stash of Jewish rubber stamps and

found this big Purim stamp and the smaller "chag sameach"

stamp. This is Hebrew for Happy holiday.

I used the stiched slots die (by Tim Holtz) to add little

notes of the persons on the pictures. Right in front you see me

and my daughter (about 3yrs old). Next to every picture

there is a number and this corresponds with the notes

I added in the slots.

Thank you for looking 

and have a happy creative day!

Club Scrap Ultimate Challenge

Have you missed me????

I am trying to get my stash organized in my graftroom! But doing nothig is totally not me.
So while sorting out my Club Scrap stash, I cam across some wonderful papers
and just had to use them for some of the January challanges on the  Club Scrap Chat Facebook group.

This month I go for the Ultimate Challenge. 
Here is the explanation by Julie:

Participate in any SIX of the following challenges each month. 
1. Past Present Challenge 
2. Idea Deck Challenge
3. Monthly Layout Challenge
4. Card Sketch Challenge
5. Project Use It! Challenge
6. NBUS Challenge (Never Before Used Stamp/Stencil)
7. Tool/Stash Challenge
8. Assembly Line Challenge *Note: does not have to be the current kit but must have been assembled this month to qualify
9. Technique Challenge *Note: details posted on the blog each month.


NBUS: Lay out using BananaRama (retreat 09) stencil

Idea Deck - Layout using Jack of Spades

Tool Stash: Using embossing folder

Card Sketch: 

I used BandanaRama '09 papers and a Fizz sentiment.

The background is embossed with a paisley 

embossing folder. For the front panel

I stamped the wooden rubber stamp, that came

with the kit, in versamark and embossed it with

clear embossing powder. 

Next I colored the panel with turquise

ink and the stamped images stand out.

With a few sticky pearls, a ribbon and

the sentiment I finished the card.

Assembly Line: Completed BananaRama Retreat 09 papers

I have been to the retreat in 2009 and never

made the BandanaRama kit. I love it!

Technique: Embossed shape

Papers, shapes and stamps

Oopsie Daisy 2014.

Past and Present Challenge: 

Tribal papers and cut outs.

Cups with Tim Holtz Bigz Tea Time die.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Club Scrap June kit: Firecracker

Sharing with you the new hybrid kit by

Club Scrap for June: 

FIRECRACKER.

It is a very patriotic kit and 

absolutely great for 4th of July

celebrations. But as you know 

I live in The Netherlands and so we

do not have this celebration, but I came up

with another great use of this kit.

I used the background papers and images to make this

wedding lay-out. It is why I went to Israel.

The Firecracker papers fit the theme wonderfully.

Working on some more pages, that I will share with you 

in the next couple of days.

I used photoshop to make this page

and on the Club Scrap website

you can find some tutorial as how to use

 the program and make your own pages HERE,

Sharon and Pinchas,

I hope your 4ever after will be 

so happy and wonderful.

It was such a pleasure to 

be at your wedding.

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

Club Scrap September Orchard Blog Hop

Welcome to the monthly

Club Scrap Blog Hop.

The theme this month is: Orchard.

I hope you have arrived here from 

Pam's Blog

and have been amazed by her artwork.

I have been playing with the ALSB scrapbooking

pages. This is a wonderful way of getting the most 

out of your papers/ ALSB stands for Assemblyline

Scrapbooking and on the Club Scrap site you find 

information about it HERE.

This time of the year the apples are ripe

and the apples are an important symbol for

the Jewish New Year, that was celebrated last week.

I stamped with real apples, acrylic paint and the grandchildren.

I was using their stamping to make cards.

Together with Owen I baked a special round braided bread,

that symbolizes the circle of life.

We also eat apples with honey to wish each other a very

happy and sweet year.

So hear you see the stamping of the boys

and Owen is holding the result.

These are a few of the finished cards:

I asked Owen to stamp with a few sentiments and

bees in black all over the page, then cut them up in 

4x5,5 inch panels and made these into cards for all

the parents and grandparents.

The tiny apple is a paper punch.

On the right you see a stamped border I created.

First I used the Club Scrap honeycomb stencil with

yellow and orange ink. Then I used several stamp

to make a collage on top. All the stamps come with

this kit, excepy the tiny bee (Michael Strong).

We also went to an orchard nearby to do some apple picking

for applesauce and apple pie. And I even adopted a tree so

we can even do more picking next year!

My daughter and her apples!

And of course i wanted a picture of Ray and me picking

apples too! Owen also had fun getting the apples of the tree.

On this panel I tried this month technique of

shaving cream marble technique with stencils,

but I am not very happy with the result.

Even though you dio not see the marbling to well, 

the panel looks nice on the page. I got the right part of 

the apple a little litter by using some bleach on it.

Nowit is time to see what 

Jennifer's Blog

has in store for you. I am sure you will be inspired.

Thanks for looking and have a creative day!

Club Scrap July Blog Hop: Vintage Botany

Welcome to the monthly

Club Scrap Blog Hop.

We are sharing the July kit with you for ideas.

This month the kit is called:

Vintage Botany.

I hope you have arrived here from

Pam's Blog

and seen her beautiful artwork.

My contribution ia a mini album for this

hop today. You need one 12x12 piece of cardstock for it!

For this album I  created a closure with one of

the wooden buttons that came with this kit.

Only the problem was that they were all lengthwise.

So i sanded the backside and stamped it horizontal.

 I choose one of the beautiful decorated flower papers

for this album and used my score board for all the lines.

Here is the template for the album.

If you enlarge the picture (by clicking on it),

you can read all the measurements.

After cutting some parts away you start folding it.

I added some vintage brown ink on all the folds.

I decorated my album with garden pictures, stamps,

cut aparts and using the stencil that all came with this kit.

On the right side i created a pocket. You can do this for

all 3 if you want, but I wanted some more space for

adding pictures.

Yhis is the album all folded open.

I just love this sentiment and I used it multiple tmes.

It also looks great for decoration in the background.

Here you see I used the stencil for decorating

the background of these pages. The twins have

fun playing in the garden.

Now when you lift the card from the pocket

there is another picture to see, that I added to the

back panel of the pocket.

Also I want to share my digital page again.

After I finished making the page, I printed it, but it was to small for

my 12x12 scrapalbum, so what to do?

I took one of the yellow 12x12 inch pages from the paper kit

and stamped and decorated the background. Adding some

of the cut aparts and I turned the digital page into a real page.

For more inspiration, hop over to

Jennifer's Blog

and see what she has in store for you!

Thank you very much for looking

and have a creative day!

Club Scrap May: Adirondacks

Sharing with you a view to the new 

Club Scrap kit of the month May.

I share with you the digital Adirondacks kit

that has arrived in my mail box.

You can find it HERE for only $ 4,95

It is great for scrapping and making card

digital, but you can also print it and use it

with real paper to make a project.

The paper kit will arrive later this month.

This page is made in photoshop with pictures of the

grandkids exploring our garden.

And here is a paper scrap card.

Papers printed and some of my Club Scrap stash

papers for the body of the card.

For the background panel I also used this

arrow embossing folder.

After it was embossed I took some earth Club Scrap ink

and colored the raised parts of the paper.

Now there are even more arrow on the paper.

The sentiment was cut out with a die and some ink

was added all around before taping it to a piece of

green paper (same as the card base). The square metal

decorations is also out of one of my Club Scrap kits.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!