New layout: Olive Harvest

This layout was inspired by sketch #44 @ Tuesday Trio. The extra challenge was "circles". The pictures were taken about 2 years ago. The kindergarten's management arranged a picnic for the kids' families. There were few activities, but the big attraction was to harvest olives.

The inspiration for the layout came from Isabelle Gallien's layouts - she taught some classes at PACS and her work is very inspiring!

I used:

Cardstocks: My Little Shoe Box

Stamps: Marmelada

Ink: Tsukineko Versafine

Pen: Sharpie

Tools: Fiskars circle cutter, Stampin' Up circle punch

New Chunky page: Happy Birthday to Tamika14

Last Thursday we celebrated Tamika14 her birthday. It was kind of blind date for me - I never met in person 3 of the other 4 participants - and it was a great evening! Simple & Tasty food, great company and new friends!

Since the scrappy birthday has a chunky book tradition (hopefully I'll have a chunky book too one day <--- CLUE!!) - This is the page I created (note the embroidery of the circles & Mazal Tov):

And this is the back - Many wishes for her birthday (health, happiness, pleasure, satisfaction, love & creativity):
And here's a picture to show you the dimensional work - chunky or not??

I used:

Cardstock: Kraft, DCWV, Sonburn (and other scraps)

Pen: Sharpie

Tools: Stampin' Up! circle punches & Cropodile - for the little circles...

PACS 2010 - Christmas Challenge

On Saturday night we were asked to come with Christmas spirit... Red & white, christmas hats etc... The organizers gave us a small kit for a challenge: create a christmas card, using the kit and/or any other paper & embellishments we want, to fit the given envelope - all in 30 minutes...

I didn't bring my scrapbooking tools that night, so I had to go back to my room, get my tools and come back (so I had less than 30 minutes)...

This is the card I created:

And the inside, after pulling the pear paper to the sides (I'm not sure if the picture is clear - but it's like a box):

We don't know who will get our card - but I hope she likes it!

I appreciate your comments :-)

PACS 2010 - Team challenge - Chunky Book

When we prepared our team challenge for PACS, we suggested to create a chunky book - in order to have a special memory from the team challenge. Everyone should have made 5 chunky pages, so all team members will have one from each.

This is the chunky page I made:

I used:

Cardstocks: Kraft, Sonburn

Stamps: Unity, JustRite

Ink: StazOn

Tools: Fiskars border punch, Tim Holtz distress tool

Pen: Sharpie

Other: buttons, brad, thread

PACS 2010 - Team challenge - Totem

We're back.

The PACS convention was a GREAT experience for me. I loved few workshops - I learned new things and tried different techniques. Few workshops were nice & fun, but I didn't learn anything new and 1 workshop was terrible! But it was 1 out of 12, so it'

s not that bad.

Anyway - this is our centerpiece for the team challenge. We didn't win a prize, but it was fun to make, especially considering the fact that all the pieces came from 3 different countries, all had to fly to France...

We chose to be "the scrap fairies". We wore pink wings, crown & wand...

These pictures were taken at the morning after the crop night, when we put it all together:

Close up to the fairy house door:

Many people complimented us for our work (and some even asked us how come we didn't win). It was fun!

I appreciate your comments!