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Friday, June 29, 2012

Welcome to ScrapThat! July Kit Reveal and Blog Hop

ScrapThat! is delighted to introduce to you our July Kit featuring Fabscrap's Beautiful Organic Collection!!

This month we have a special treat for you, mark your calendars, July 6th - July 8th
The ScrapThat! Design Team will be hosting our
 "Summer Garden Crop Party"
Crop will include: challenges, games, prizes, as well as live chat!!
Hope to see you'll join us for a weekend of fun!



Without further ado, we are pleased to bring you our July Kit

"Summer In My Garden"

This Kit is full of delectable goodies featuring the gorgeous FabScrap Organic Collection of papers, lace, pearls, chipboard, Ingvild Bolme Ink, an assortment of flowers and more!!


Main Kit $39.99
 1 sheet each
Organic Herbs
Organic Herbs Two
Organic Tree
Organic Garden
Organic Kitchen
Organic Lace
Organic Strawberries
Organic Script
Bazzil Cardstock
Tan, Green, Purple
 FabScraps Chipboard Word – Organic
2, wooden clothes pins
1, Melissa Francis, pearls
1, recipe card
4, fence posts
4, 2” craft sticks
10, IAMROSES – Cherry Blossom flowers - white
4, leaves
1, 2” piece of burlap
1, Ingvild Bolme – Old Road, chalk ink
3 yrds, white cotton lace trim
1, pkg, ZVA flowers, 1- blue & white flower, 1-two tone green flower
1, EK Success, alphabet sheets – green chocolate
 NOTE: The Main Kit cost for non-members is $44.99


Embellishment Add-On $14.99
1 pkg, Prima, 3 resin window frames
1 pkg, Prima, 2 crystal palace vines
1 pkg, Petaloo, 6 wild roses
 NOTE: The Embellishment Add-On cost for non-members is $17.99


Flower Add-On $12.99
(only 20 of these kits are available each month and sold on a first come first serve basis)

1 pkg, Pinkpaislee, 2 Muslin Flowers
1 pkg, Prima. 6 Primer flowers  
1 Pkg, Prima, 2 Sun Kiss vines

Paper Add-On $9.99
 1 sheet each
Organic Herbs
Organic Herbs Two
Organic Tree
Organic Garden
Organic Kitchen
Organic Lace
Organic Strawberries
Organic Script
Bazzil Cardstock – 1 sheet each
Tan
Green
Purple
NOTE: The Paper Add-On cost for non-members is $12.99



We are currently accepting new Kit Club Members
To become a ScrapThat! Subscriber: click here


Please Join Our July Sketch Challenge HERE


Everyone is welcome to participate, all entries due by July 15th

Here are my creations for this kit, including the LO for this sketch:

Close to my Soul

Simply Organic


Sweet Aroma


Our Blog Hop Features 9 Fantastic blogs

To Qualify for this month's Blog Hop prize you must complete the following:

1. Visit each blog listed on the hop to see what each Designer has created using this month's kit and sketch (comments are very much appreciated)
2. Each Designer's blog hop post will feature a word, to make up a secret sentence, collect these words along the way and follow the directions provided in ScrapThat!'s forum when you are all finished.
3. You must become a FOLLOWER of each blog along the way and LIKE us on our Facebook Page!
4. Post the ScrapThat! Blinkie on your blog
5. The last stop on our Blog Hop is our Forum, follow the link provided and complete the remainder of the Blog Hop instructions

The ScrapThat! HOP ends July 1st 10 PM CST
Prize must be claimed within 3 days of announcment that will be made on the ScrapThat! blog July 5th
If left unclaimed a NEW winner will be chosen!
Please Note: for anything larger than an envelope, winner will be responsible for the cost of shipping.

My Secret word is SCRAP THAT!

Next Hop Over To: Alissa's blog

 
Should you loose your way, come back here for the blog hop sequence

Thursday, June 28, 2012

New papers by Les Papiers de Pandore

Look at these cool papers from Les Papiers de Pandore.
They are so cool!!

Check out their blog to win some candy from this French company


and look at these stamps.



Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Scrap That! Summer in My Garden Sneak Peeks

Here is our sneak peek pictures for Scrap That! July Kit Summer in my Garden.

Please stay tuned for our reveal This Friday June 29th and our Summer Garden Crop Party on July 6th

Visit our blog or our forum for more details.


Monday, June 25, 2012

Beautiful Dreamer- Green Tara Guest Designer

Here is my second layout for my Guest Design Team for Green Tara for the month of June.

I used a lot of beautiful Green Tara flowers (listed below) and combined them with the Ambrosia collection from BoBunny.

I tried to match the flowers to the Ambrosia papers but I couldn't find orange flowers.

I took the mini white roses and sprayed them in orange ink to match.




Materials
Velvet Rose 8cm Velvet Flowers Lavender CODE: XF9217L
5cm Skeleton Leaves Lime Pack CODE: RTB15

Oak Leaves Green 5cm  CODE: LA29Gr

1.5cm Roses White CODE: FDR003Wh

Tutu 5cm Organza and Pearl Flowers Lime CODE: XF9227Li

Sakura 5cm Silk and Pearl Flowers Lime CODE: XF9221Li

 Flower Sprays White  CODE: PFST1100
Papers: BoBunny Ambrosia
Thank you for visiting my blog
Keren

Friday, June 22, 2012

Feel the Rush and The Sky is the Limit

Hi everyone,
I want to thank everyone who congratulated me on my blog, on facebook and through personal emails. I am so ever thankful for the wonderful friends and talented artists I've made around the world.
Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart!!

Today I'm sharing 2 layouts one designed by me and the other designed by my son. After he saw me design my layout about an amusement park ride called "Windseeker" that we both rode together, he decided he also wanted to scrap it. It was such an honor for me to have him design and like something I do. I gave him the same picture and here is the result.


 
I followed a sketch form a new challenge blog I found called Skissedilla. Its a great blog with some extremely talented mixed media artists!!

We used 3 main colors: RED, YELLOW and BLACK  for the Scrap Africa Challenge using 3 colors of the flag of South Africa (below)

Here is my take on the sketch!!





Here is my son's design. He got so excited when I said I would put it on my blog



Here is the sketch


Materials used
--White Bazzil Cardstock--
--Echo Park papers and chipboard--
--Adirondack acrylic paint dabbers: yellow, red--
--black gesso--
--black masking tape--
--Panpastels: red and yellow--
--Balzar Designs templates: herringbone--
-- Chipboard title Imaginarium Designs--
--Prima chalk ink--
Thank you for visiting my blog
Keren

Thursday, June 21, 2012

New Design Team for 2Crafty


I'm thrilled to announce that I was asked to be one of the Designers at 2 Crafty Chipboard which is based in Australia. Here is their blog: 2 Crafty

They have and amazing array of chipboard pieces which I will gladly show you in my projects in the next few months.

Here is the list of the new Design Team.

Di Garling (Australia) - DT Coordinator
Kelly Foster (USA)- Team Member
Keren Tamir (Canada) (That's me)- Team Member
Marilia Lopes (Brazil) - Team Member
Vicky Alberto (Canada) - Guest Designer

Isn't it an awesome team. I'm so excited to be designing along this group of super talented ladies.

thank you for visiting my blog

Keren

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Pretty- and a new Winner

This past week was amazing!! Both my kids had a graduation ceremony. My son in Gr 5 is moving on to Middle School and they performed a beautiful "Moving up Ceremony". My daughter who is 5 just graduated from SK and is going to be a big girl next year in Gr 1. Both ceremonies where so beautiful and touching.


I don't do well with endings even if I know they are just beginnings to something wonderful and new. But I have to accept the fact that life moves on and my kiddies are Thank G-d growing up!!!!


In terms of my blog: Mid month for me is always slow in my blog in comparison with beginning and end of month. I decided to add a new post with a challenge so the timing between 2 posts isn't so big.


I've also started my own Facebook page so if you have time please press the LIKE button on my left sidebar and it will direct you straight to my page!!! I'd love for you to follow me there!!!!!!!


Now for the Challenge.


I made this layout for 2 challenges.
1. Its a palette challenge from ScrapFriends
2. Its a sketch challenge from Handmade by Suzanne's


Here are the details:












Materials used
-- Papers: Les Papiers de Pandore and Meg's Garden--
-- Chipboard fence Dusty Attic--
-- Chipboard vines Harmonie--
-- Flowers: Recollections, Ardene's--
-- Leaves: Recollections--
-- Sparklers: Webster's pages--
-- Ribbon: Michaels--
--Fuschia pearl pen--

I know its a long post but please read on......
 
I also have to announce a new winner for the Berry71Bleu Blog Hop.
Unfortunately the first winner did not contact me so one lucky follower will win my prize today!!


and the winner is.........# 16 Julie Tucker-Wolek

Julie please email me your address so I can send you your prize!!


I hope this post wasn't too long
Thank you for visiting my blog
Keren

Sunday, June 17, 2012

Wonder

Happy Sunday and Happy Father's Day!!


As you can see,  I experimented with mists, gesso and lots of mixed media goodies and here is the result of my experiments as my reveal for Bird is the Word.

So you "wonder" what is the word to use today? Its not "wonder" which is the title of my layout and a word we've already used in December. The word to use to day is COLORS. Instead of using the word in my title, I used it in the journaling as a quote: "Colors are nature's smiles"
I love this quote because I can actually visualize this phenomenon: nature smiling at us through the beautiful colors of the grass, the flowers, the ocean, etc.....

Here is a picture of my son leading his baby cousin on a field in the park.

I used the Sun Kiss collection from Prima along with some canvas resist pieces. The sketch is Prima's BAP for June designed by Heidi Kelly, who is in my opinion a fabulous Mixed Media artist and my inspiration for this layout!!

Here it is:







Thank you for visiting my blog
Keren

2 Challenges For you

Its Sunday evening and I have 2 fun challenges for you to play with.

The first one is at Berry71Bleu and the Second one at Zeus and Zoe:

Please read about both challenges below:

At Berry71Bleu:

For this month's challenge, you will have to use chipboards on our projects...

Paint, mist, glitter, distress, decoupage, stamp, emboss....doesn't matter how you do it, just as long as you use chipboard on your project. It could be a LO, altered art, OTP, home decor, card, tags, or any way you can creatively use chipboards.

So we hope you can join us and share your project using your favorite line of chipboard.

Our sponsor this month, Wycinanka, had generously provided the winner a package of chipboards.

Here is what you can win..




Here are the rules to follow in joining the challenge:

NEW RULES AND INFORMATION

As always there are a few basic rules to follow:-

 1. You are allowed to make a card, layout or altered/off the page 
project as long as you follow the challenge specifications.
 2.   Projects must be linked up to our linky tool in the 
sidebar, using the URL of the ACTUAL POST not your entire blog.

 3.  You may submit as many entries as you like for each challenge
and combine your entry with up to 2 other challenges.

 4.  It is required that you mention in your blog post that you are playing 
along at Berry 71 Bleu TOGETHER with a link back to our blog. 

 5. All entries must be received by MIDNIGHT EST on the
 last day of the month the challenge was posted.

6.  Entries to be submitted via the linky tool at the top of the
sidebar ONLY, not by e mail and not by linking up in the 
comments section please.


Information about our Challenges:-

1.  Berry71Bleu Challenges are open to anyone, 
anywhere in the world.

2.  Our Design Team do their best to comment 
on all entries, you can make their job easier by turning OFF 
your word verification.  Try it and if spam is a problem 
you can always enable comment moderation.

3,  Challenges are held monthly and each month TWO winners are
chosen.  One winner is chosen by our design team, who all vote for
the project they consider to be the best, while another winner is
chosen by random draw.

4.  Challenge winners will always be announced within a week
of the challenge closing and winners are then required to
contact our Sponsor Co-ordinator, Agnieszka.

5.  Prizes not claimed within 2 weeks of the challenge closing 
will be forfeited.

6.  The Merit winner will have an image of their project featured in 
the winners post, together with a link back to the homepage
of their blog.

7.  Merit winners will be awarded a Winner's Badge to post
on their blog - full bragging rights included!



Challenge at Zeus and Zoe:

Zeus & Zoe Monthly Vintage Image Challenge: Mixed Media




Our challenge for June 15th:  Create a project that includes Mixed Media. You can drag out your mists, glitter, paint, fabric, markers, inks and anything else to create something amazing. Please gather inspiration from this image when you are creating your project. You don't have to USE the image, but certainly can if that tickles your artistic spirit.

The Zeus & Zoe kits are designed to have many vintage elements and lovely new papers to inspire you. You don't have to use a kit from Zeus & Zoe to play along. Although it might help you to be inspired!
For the first prize winner, a flower was designed by Irini who makes Get Creative Embellishments

For the second prize winner, you can win these brass and metal skeleton keys from Zeus and Zoe Etsy Shop.



Our plan with our monthly challenges is to support other artists by promoting their hand make embellishments, so you are interested, please let us know!

And, a quick word about rules:

1. You are allowed to make a card, layout or altered/off the page 
project as long as you follow the challenge specifications.


 2.   Projects must be linked up to our linky tool in the 

sidebar, using the URL of the ACTUAL POST not your entire blog.


 3.  You may submit as many entries as you want

and combine your entry with up to 2 other challenges.


 4.  It is required that you mention in your blog post that you are playing 
along at Zeus & Zoe TOGETHER with a link back to our blog. 

 5. All entries must be received by MIDNIGHT EST on the
 15th day of the month the challenge was posted.

6.  Entries to be submitted via the linky tool at the top of the
sidebar ONLY, not by e mail and not by linking up in the 
comments section please.

Information about our Challenges:-
1.  Zeus & Zoe Challenges are open to anyone, 
anywhere in the world.
2.  Our Design Team do their best to comment 
on all entries, you can make their job easier by turning OFF 
your word verification.  Try it and if spam is a problem 
you can always enable comment moderation.
3,  Challenges are held monthly and each month TWO winners are
chosen.  One winner is chosen by our design team, who all vote for
the project they consider to be the best, while another winner is
chosen by random draw.
4.  Challenge winners will always be announced within a week
of the challenge closing and winners are then required to
contact Marivic. 
5.  Prizes not claimed within 2 weeks of the challenge closing 
will be forfeited.
6.  The Merit winner will have an image of their project featured in 
the winners post, together with a link back to the homepage
of their blog.
7.  Merit winners will be awarded a Winner's Badge to post
on their blog - full bragging rights included!