2 beyond the page projects

Hello again
Today I have to kaisercraft beyond the page altered items to show you. The first is the birds wreath,

For this project I used the stupendous Gabrielle collection from Bo Bunny. I covered all the pieces with the paper, and painted tthe sides with acrylic paint dabber. I added some embellies and the word across the middle very roughly translated from Hebrew means good morning. I then sprayed it all over with some Crafters Companion iridiscent sparay and sparkle to give it some shine. The stuff has a really strong smell and gave me a nasty headache for a while but the effect is brilliant. You can't really see it on the photo, but it fiinishes it off beautifully.

My secod project is the kaisercraft star wreath

 This one was made using a combination of Fancy Pants, To The Moon collection, and Bo Bunny's Blast off collection. Again I covered all the stars with the paper and painted the sides. After that I added the embellishments ad the wording means, May the angels be with you, well it more or less means that. It's a little prayer we say every night before we go to bed. On this one I used the multicolour spray and sparkle and it smells just as strong as the iridiscent one.
My Children love the finished projects and are absolutely chuffed that I decided to hang them in their bedroom.
Thanks for stopping by

Zentangles

Hey there
I'm trying to get myself into art journaling. Now I know it's a free form of messy art with lots of inks and paints. To give me the courage to explore my freedom someone over at UKS (thanks Nipper) introduced me to zentangles. I'd never heard of it so off I went and googled it, and I liked what I saw. So there I was withe a 6 x 6 square of white paper and a black fineliner. I started doodling and found I was really enjoying myself. My hand more or less flowed by itself and I came up with something I really like. You can see it below. I think I'll make an inky glittery frame for it and hang it above my craft table as my tentative entry into art journaling. And thank you everyone over at UKS for your encouragement. Thanks for visiting.

A New Mini

Hi all

Today I have a mini to show you which I made of a recent trip to Israel. This is my first ever video blog so please be patient  and try not to laugh too hard. I have also uploaded pictures so you can see the pages more clearly in case the video is a complete failure.

With this album, I challenged  myself to use only old stash and I pretty much succeeded. All the pp's and embellishments have been lurking in my craft room for ages, begging for some attention. I can't tell you manufacturers as I really don't remember anymore where the stuff comes from. It's all from my early days of scrapping when I just bought random stuff. So here goes, and enjoy. Thanks for coming over

 Front cover. Cut out of chipboard in a star of David shape. Painted with acrylic pait dabbers and some glimmer mist to finish

 Map of Israel and my boarding passes in a little pocket

 Accomadotion for the duration of my stay

 Jerusalem icluding the Old City

 All the money I spent phoning home

 I scream you scream

 Have bus will travel

 Holy graves to pray at

 Yum Yum, fancy food

 The Souk

 A renovated synagogue

 The western (or wailing) wall

 The Rabbi's wife and aother holy grave

Time to go home

A CJ entry

I'm loving my crafting rebirth. There is so much I want to do and there just aren't enough hours in the day, what with housework and feeding the kids and all the other mundane jobs that need doing around the house.
Over on UK Scrappers I was somehow roped in to host a Circle Journal. I've just finished this month's entry. The CJ's title is All our Yesterdays and the owner wants a vintagy feel on any subject. For me the obvious choice was Vintage Vogue. My love of fashion and sewing combined with my crafting obsession really got me excited about this one.

It's a really small picture, but I'll explain it asdbest as I can. I used the Sew Cute range from My Little Shoebox, lots of distress inks, Tim Holtz ruler ribbon and Tattered angels resist alphas. My printer was having a tantrum so I cut pictures out of old sewing pattern envelopes. I tore up some sewing instruction sheets, crumpled them and distress inked them. I did the same with pattern tissue paper which I then sort of squashed up and stuck on the right hand side of the page. The little dress forms and cotton reels are stamped with the sew cute stamps, cut out and coloured. I also wrapped some bakers twine around the cotton reels and then stuck them on the pages with foam squares to give them some dimension. Hope you like it an TFL

Finally - Something to show you

I Did a Layout. I'm so glad to be back! I really enjoyed playing with all my toys yesterday and produced a layout for the first time in months. It shows my oldest granddaughter now 3 years old ''helping'' me bake. When she grabbed the spoon and the pot of chocolate cream, what did I do? Take her away? Nah gotta get the camera. This is one of my favourite pictures of Tzivi and I've been wanting to scrap it for ages. The scrummy-licious Sweet Tooth collection from Bo Bunny was. the perfect choice for this.

 

Firstly, I used 3 different colours of cardstock for the base. I then used various flower and leaf dies, to cut the bed of flowers from an assortment of the Sweet tooth patterned papers I layered the blooms around the picture, added some jewels, a little noteworthy and a title, and Voiila, a scrummy little layout of a scrummy little girl Thanks for coming over and looking

Cast off!

Well hey all of you. I'm delighted to tell you that my plaster cast has finally come off, and while it's not as good as new yet, I'm really doing my excersizes faithfully, and over the weekend I hope to do some gentle scrapping. I can't wait to use all the new goodies I bought while being out of action, and also to try some of the wonderful techniques I came across while blog hopping. It's been a long couple of months, but Hopefully I'll soon be back to my usual scrappy, stitchy self. Thanks for stopping by.

Pictures

We finally got our Bar Mitzvah pictures, so here's a little show of my lovely family

 The Bar mitzvah boy

 Father and son gazing at each other on this special day

 The family

 With Mum and Dad

 The beautifully laid table

 The adorable Granddaughters

 Sarah

 Lazer

 All the family

Yossi making his speech

As you can see I am hiding my hand behind my back so no one should see my cast. It wa a beautiful occasion and my heartfelt thanks to my husband and children who helped it all happen. It coulld not have been done without them.
Now all of you think of me tomorrow when I have an appointment to see if my cast can finally come off. So I can soon get back to crafting and sewing and showing off some of my projects which are twirling arond in my head. Isn't it funny that when you can't craft your mojo comes hitting youu in the face with a gazzilion ideas. I just hope I'll remember them all.
Thanks for stopping by even though it's just pictures