Hats of to you Graduate card with Two Paper Divas

 Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my first August post made for Two Paper Divas company.
This is a Summer time and sure the Graduation time around. So it is a must to make a great , good for both genders, graduation card made with Two Paper Divas You did it! stamp set. 
The hat image is stamped with heat embossing over white cardstock and colored with Zig Real Brush markers. The sentiment is stamped over cork with black pigmented ink and heat embossed with black powder.
All die cut layers are made with Sizzix dies using DCWV totally new paper stack and cork as the second layer.

50 countries and counting: PHP lo

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my Paper House Production new post for September!

Intro:

Our family members are well known "world travelers". Also when you live in Israel each vacation out of a country means flight ticket, we still manage to see at least 2-3 new countries each year. So far I visited 50 different countries (I mean countries, not USA states); my husband visited much more and we still have a lot in our wish list. So this layout is about me and my addiction to travel vacations. I gathered 6 photos from 5 countries we visited in 2014 and one from our home Israeli vacation and made this layout with a title borrowed from this well known TV show. As the world is round, I made all 6 photos round shaped and made my journaling with names of 

all countries visited that year.

 Product list:

Patterned paper: Bright and Beautiful; Nature paper pad; At the lake-wood; Orchard- Paper house productions

Stickers: World Travel 3d stickers, Birds 3d stickers, Family Portrait 3d stickers,  Travel Cork stickers, Picture Perfect Cork stickers, Urban Snapshots Stickers ,Explore Snapshots stickers,  World Travel cardstock stickers- Paper House Productions

Rub- ons: Paper House Productions

Chipboard alpha: Pink Paislee

Ink: Blue – Clearsnap

Glaze- Ranger

 White pen, white mist

Step by step instructions: 1. Cut the Bright and Beautiful green paper to 11*11'' size. Ink edges of  blue background paper  from Nature pad with blue ink. Adhere green paper over the blue one as shown (a bit diagonally).

2. Cut strips from At the lake-wood paper and Orchard paper and arrange them on the left of your page and vertically as shown.

3. Cut 6 photos with circle cutter or by hand using some plates as your templates and arrange them over the right page side as shown. Add rub- ons over two lower photos as shown.

4. Add all stickers over the photos. Make the title with blue chipboard alphas and connect it with glossy accents for the interest and to keep so called "self adhesive" alphas on their place.

5. Add hand written journaling over the brown wood vertical strip with white pen. Add a few white mist drops all over the page.

Summer PHP blog hop

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my PHP summer projects post.

This week our Paper House Productions girls are celebrating Summer and we are going to share dozens of our new SUMMER projects. And here are a couple of mine.

This new lo I made for myself, I and me... I am not much a " selfie" scrapper, but when I have the  right products  that fit a fair photo, I do make such layouts. So here is one of those " about me" pieces.
I used Paper House Productions themed  papers and stickers and the photo was just a perfect match to the background paper. But is was too dull. So I ended with Tando stencil and WOW! Embossing Powders
 " sunshine" made with texture paste and heat embossing over the wet surface. Then I stamped over the background with  Inspired by Stamping Seaside set.
Then I found this perfect FabScraps chipboard title and with a little help of VersaMark and embossing powder I made it shiny and a good fit to the " sun" above. It was this European summer in Latvia... Summer without sun. So I added one and made it my special summer vacation page.

 The second piece is this Endless Summer layout and it's easy to make with just PHP papers and stickers and some gorgeous Summer photos only.

My second son lives in Ibiza, Spain and this is a little paradise island and I got some paradise summer  from him and it was a fun to make an easy made scrapbooking page with just 3 photos, great scrapbooking PHP paper, photo shot stickers, cork'd stickers and just a bit of blue (like water) mists.
Also I had some PHP palm tree stickers, I decided to add a couple of my own die cuts (just to feel that I am a bit more creative). But if you are not into a die cutting, you can easily use PHP cork's or die cut  palm stickers exactly in the middle, where I added my heat embossed home made die cuts.

ARTplorations : Enjoy life layout

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my very first post made for ARTplorations!
This time I decided to make a layout... I was a primary scrapper once and then moved to stamping and Mixed Media, but I still scrap and make layouts and keep own family memories alive.
So this layout is about our cruise to Greece  last year.
I used Create magazine sketch that was just perfect for 3 photos layout.As we didn't know anyone on the cruise and were too shy to ask to take our mutual photos, the only photos we have are of each other by each other. I used themed paper and embellishments, but altered the background with stencils, texture paste, glitter and inks.
And ARTplorations stencils were just the great  fit to this altered background.
I used Bubbles stencil  with Peacock Feathers  distress ink over the  patterned paper and those are all circles you can see as the background.
Then I added Confetti Circles over the upper part of the basic cardstock and those are those lines in the sky.
The last, but not least are my glittered birds in the sky. Made with Some Birds stencil and white texture paste and then clear glitter was added to the wet paste and I heat embossed it a bit. The great thing about stencils is that you can use them from both sides and I really used  it from the back to make the birds  to fly to the " no photos" side of  my layout.
So as you can see- stencils are not just for Mixed Media! If you are a scrapbooker you still can use them on your pages and to make each and every page unique.

Supply list:

Cardstock: Paper House Productions

Stickers: Paper House Productions

Rub- ons: Paper House Productions

Puffy title: Paper House Productions

Stencils:ARTplorations

 Inks: Ranger

Other: texture paste, glitter

I also enter this page to a couple of web challenges:

Cliqie kit Anything goes challenge

Scrap our stash challenge- use something that begin with letters PHOTOS:

P- PUFFY STICKERS

H- HAND JOURNALLING

O-ODD # OF PHOTOS

T-Texture paste

O-Oval stickers and big oval sticker

S- Stencils

 Greece inspiration for http://pixelsandpaperchallengeblog.blogspot.com.au/- Greece is greece is Greece, no more inspiration needed

Cross the ocean with your courage: altered shadow canvas with Makin's Clay

Hello my dear crafty friends! Irit is here again and this time with my Summer project.

I live in a very hot country, Israel. Actually we say that we have only two seasons here: Summer and a very hot summer. So for me every day a year is a summer day and to make a shore project is something that is very close to the heart as we live maybe 20 minutes ride to the shore. (Need to add that this very  pink girl  doesn't spend a second on the beach and is in a permanent struggle with her close family members about the issue). But then I do love  our sunset shores a lot. I even love sand and pebbles and to collect shells with my grand kids.  But this piece is not about collecting shells and about the lovely shores. It's about a courage to cross the ocean even when you lose a sight of the shore. So this is my tribute to anyone who needs a bit of courage to make a first step.Believe me, the next step is easier, and the next, and so on...

And now for the real thing: shadow  frame in the canvas

Product list:

Makin's Clay products:

Clay- white, natural, blue,earth tones colors (mostly Adobe Brown, Sand)

 Clay Push molds- Sea Shells

 Clay Texture sheets- Summer time

Other products:

8*8'' canvas

 Stamp- Inspired by Stamping

Ink- Clearsnap

Cork and cardstock stickers- Paper House Productions

Micro beads- Martha Stewart

Mist- Tattered Angels

Paints, varnish, powder- Earth Safe Finishes

Step by step instructions:

1. Use Light Adobe clay from Earth tones set with Cobblestone texture sheet from the Summer Time set. Then - without extra photos- use the same clay with Sand sheet . It was a bit difficult to release the wet clay from the texture sheets; so next time I  am thinking about using some mold release spray. Anyway, let them dry after they are released and then tear them to part and arrange one over another as stones and sand on the beach. 

2. For the next step mix a lot of white or natural clay with Adobe Brown and Persimmon colors and make a few sea shapes.The colors may vary and can be totally mixed or partially mixed as it is with nature.Release the pieces and let them dry.

3. Mix about 1/2 of a small white clay package with just a bit of Blue clay. Don't mix it to the light blue color, but make this marble look with a partial mixing only. Arrange a big " ocean and sky" clay piece and cover it on the bottom with your " stones and sand" pieces. Make the arrangement random. Later I decided to add some wavy texture with another Texture Sheet and just re -arranged some small blue clay pieces. Take the clay landscape out of the canvas and let it dry.

4. In the meantime paint the inside of your canvas. I used a couple of Chalk It Up ESF paints and even made some splashes with water mist over the dirty paint brush. Anyway, most of the painted space will be covered by clay arrangement, so don't try to be a great painter.

5. And now I just glued the clay piece inside the painted canvas and added all those sea shapes that are already dry.

I added some color splashes over the shapes with ESF Ann Butler's  Iridescents powders in a couple of shades.  couple of cardstock and cork sea stickers were added over and inside the frame. The sand on the bottom was made with ESF Varnish and a mix of golden micro beads. And now is was a time  to add the stamped sentiment. First I tried to  stamp over the dry clay with permanent brown ink. And I tried. And wiped it and tried again and it was a stamping disaster. So I went to Plan B and stamped over white tissue.

Bingo! It's the best way as you can't even say where the tissue begins and where it  ends.

 I used ESF Gel medium under and over the tissue and the piece was almost done.

Not yet! I  few teal mists over the piece were added and I was happy with the final result.

I hope that you like this art piece too and will try the same techniques too.

Sweet smile lo

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new Colorways post today!
Since Paper House Productions released those 3 new collections, I just add more and more projects made with those delicious papers and stickers and this new layout is not an exception.
This is my lovely granddaughter Netta again and because of this blue photo background it was just  a must to scrap this photo with PHP Colorways Sapphire line.
Actually it's a totally PHP  layout and the only things that is not PHP  products are some punches and a basic white cardstock.
Supply list:
Paper House Productions:
Colorways Sapphire paper collection
Dahlia paper- backside
Spanish tiles paper
Delft paper
Trimmings paper
Mini trim cards
Sapphire accent pack
Today happens Rub- ons
 Explore puffy sticker
Enjoy puffy sticker
Hey you cork'd stickers
Meant to be cork'd stickers
Owls cork'd stickers
Other products:
White cardstock
Punches- Martha Stewart
Ink- Clearsnap

Step by step instructions:
1. Trim Dahlia paper to 11 1/2*11 1/2'' size; ink the edges with teal ink and glue it over the white cardstock a bit diagonally (as shown). Cut 2 strips from Spanish tiles paper and punch the edges with scalloped punch.Glue one strip horizontally and one vertically as shown over the previous striped paper.
2. Add an inked strip from  Dahlia paper ( this is the strip we cut to make the paper layer; just keep it and ink it )over the dotted blue strip from the previous step. Cut a strip of Delft paper (the dark side) and punch the circles with another scalloped punch. Glue the strip over the horizontal strips.  Cut 2 more strips from  Trimmings paper and glue them over the vertical dotted strip.
3. Make a big matting from light blue dotted      paper; ink the edges, make the binding edge punched side and glue it over the layout as shown. Add a  piece of cork as a second matting layer. Over the cork make 3 more paper mattings using Delft paper and a couple of cards from Mini Trim cards paper.
4. Glue the photo over all matting layers. Add SWEET SMILE puffy words over the strips as shown.
Add all cork stickers over the photo.
5. Make the upper corner cluster with some paper leftovers, one die cut flag and a small arrow cork sticker.Add some rub- on  arrows over the flag die cut.  Mist the whole layout with a bit of teal mist. Glue the die cut word Magic over the photo.Make your handwriting journalling on the " spare" white space around  the white cardstock. This is what I added here: " My name is Netta. I am 1 year old I am happy! I am a girl in blue! So what?"

Beautiful love card

 Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new post made for Die Versions blog and using this most lovely Straw Basket die.
This time I die cut it from thin cork and added more cork on the background and it looks so fresh and pretty.
I added some paper flowers inside the basket and some PHP butterflies and a sentiment sticker on this card.
So easy to make a lovely Spring card with just one great die and some good embellishments.

Class of 2013 lo

Sometimes the only graduation photos you have are full of background images that you don't like or need on your scrapbooking page. The only possible solution is to cut the silhouette and to glue the photos over the solid backgrounds as I did on this page. The second thing is the products we use for graduation projects. If you have the themed products it's very easy to use them. But with non themed products you should fit the colors and the papers to your graduates. My twin girl graduate is what I call "my blue girl": blue eyes, blue mood and even baby blue outfits in her past. So I used Colorways blue collection and added some symbols such as a huge door (that will open in her after college future).

Supply list

Patterned cardstock: Sapphire scales, Sapphire Ornamentation Coloraways paper by Paper House Productions

 Die cuts: Die cuts Sapphire accent pack by Paper House Productions

Rub- Ons: Today Happens transfers by Paper House Productions

Stickers: Explore Puffy stickers, Enjoy Puffy stickers, Graduation 3d stickers, Good Life cork stickers, Picture Perfect cork stickers, Hey you cork stickers- Paper House Productions

Punch: Circle by Martha Stewart

Ink: Blue by Clearsnap

Letter stickers: Thickers by American Crafts

Step by step instructions: 1. Cut the door image from Ornamentation cardstock, ink all strips with blue ink and then glue the two side  strips with the backside up over the Scales cardstock. Glue the cut out door in the middle as shown.

2. Cut out the graduate silhouette and glue it over the silver and blue card from the die cut accent pack. Punch the graduation hat circle and glue it over the image as a circled accent.

3. Make the foam letters title and add puffy "Explore Life" stickers as your sub title. Use rub- on saying over 

Love it card

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new Die Versions post.
Today I am going to share a lovely " Love it" card  made in this kind of a vintage style with a new, just released DV Closed  Umbrella die.
I used PHP papers and stickers and added Umbrella die cut made with two cuts (kind of a shade or interest). I also added the Brick background and it was meant to be cut on the sided only.  I think that those die make this card a perfect Mother's day or Valentine gift.

You are " Tie'rific" card with Two Paper Divas

 Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my weekly Two Paper Divas post.

Today I am going to share a masculine card and as hard as it usually is to make those cards, with TPD terrific masculine stamp set called For a Special Guy, it was really easy job.
I used masculine patterned paper from PHP and stamped every image over Kraft cardstock with the same ink colors as the paper ones. Each tie was hand cut and glued with 3d foam glue and I added a few cork stickers to add some more texture and interest.

32 years: True story lo

 This page was published in Create magazine March issue.
Hello my dear crafty friends!
This is Irit here today and this is my True story layout story.
Usually it's pretty hard to make masculine layouts. You can't add too many embellishments; you can't add to many rhinestones, glitter, bling or anything sparkle. The colors are pretty much mute and monochromatic and finally our men don't like to be on that side of a camera.
So when I have good photos of my husband for already 32 years, I scrap it . But if this photo fits the most gorgeous Paper House Productions  Old World  paper pad patterns, I am  more than happy with it.
This photo I took on our Cyprus short cruise vacation just screamed " scrap me" with those old window paper. To make it more interesting  used distress ink with a stencil over the paper to imitate the old stone wall (kind of it at least) and then the only products that are not PHP are my mixed title made with a part of die cut tag and a few letter stickers.
 It's so fun and easy to make great pages with our PHP loads of stickers of every possible kind!


Products used:
Paper House Productions:
Old World paper pad 
Birds 3d stickers
 Garden Canvas art  stickers
 Picture Perfect Cork'd stickers
 Family Chalkboard stickers
Other products:
Tag- Pink Paislee
Letters- American Crafts
Stencil- Memory box
Inks- Ranger

Step by step instructions:
1. Cut the window paper  into two piece. The left strip should be cut as a brick wall pattern. The inside should be cut  into 8*8'' piece. Make the stone pattern with a stencil and brown distress ink and then glue the 8*8'' paper over the basic green one.
2.Glue the photo under the window and add cut out tag and letters title as shown.
3. Add all possible stickers around the page as shown. Hand write your journalling over the chalkboard sticker and glue it near the photo.

Wedding celebration with Paper House Productions

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to our Paper House Productions Wedding celebration!

No, nobody is getting married right now. We just showcase you our Wedding projects and encourage you to use those most delicious PHP wedding themed products to make memories of your family weddings.

So here is the story of this layout.

Our family is pretty small and we don't celebrate too many weddings. The last one , of my oldest son, was about 6 years and two kids ago. Also one of my daughters is getting married in May this year, but till then the only wedding photo I can share are from this six years old wedding. Actually they have so many photos that I can scrap them forever. But with like 80 12*12'' layouts that I already made, the only thing I was thinking was to add as many photos as I can to each single page. So I made those photo collages  and as you can see I managed to scrap  a lot of photos with only  four 4*6'' photos and even those photos were a bit cropped after all.

Paper House Productions:

3D Wedding stickers

Just married  cardstock stickers

Meant to be cork stickers

 Wine Snapshot  stickers

Patterned paper:

  Sweet love

Tie the knot

There is no really need to make the step by step tutorial for this easy to make page. So just a few tips and tricks I used to make this colorful wedding page.

1. Arrange all 4 photos diagonally over the pre-cut to 11*11'' patterned paper. Cut the photos to fit the edges and arrange the whole piece diagonally over the basic paper as shown.

2.Add all possible kind of stickers: 3d Wedding  and cardstock stickers as the upper title and as the lower journalling cluster. Add stickers over the photos and don't be afraid to cover some parts of your photos! You sure have more then you need with this collage system. Add some cork stickers around the photos and yes, they are seen. Make some white pen journalling if you like, but this is not obligatory after all as everyone can see that this is a wedding celebration. And last, but not least: glue some snapshot  stickers over the small photos as a part of your photo collage. Those stickers are so much unique and so much fit this kind of scrapping.

Love your decisions with Rubber Dance

New card I made with stamping over cork and heat embossing the stamped images.
I also stamped over the wooden buttons with permanent black ink.
For this card I used stamps from Rubber Dance company :  Vintage Script and Something wonderful set

Another mascuine card with IBS

Hello my dear crafty friends!

This is my new  masculine card made with Inspired by Stamping gorgeous Guy Sentiments sentiment set for men.
I used Paper House Productions patterned paper Hipster 6*6'' pad and a very new cork stickers that were the perfect fit for the paper and for the sentiment.
I stamped the sentiment with black ink and clear embossed with powder  and added the cork stickers over the punched black cardstock circles.
Easy card to make and still very fancy for the men in your life.