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Shimelle Digitals Blog Hop – New Release

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

I have Killed Spring

[Fonts: Bagad, Calibri; Digital Kits: Write It Down Negative Strips & Spring Time Basics by Shimelle Laine, Rhonna Botanical Swirls (brushes) by House of 3]

Write It Down :: Negative Frames Springtime Basics

In celebration of spring and the seasonable new release of Shimelle’s digital kits on Two Peas In A Bucket, the Baker’s Dozen have arranged a blog hop for you to admire the fabulous new kits and the work of the talented girls I am very happy to work with…

Spring is here, the weather is LOVELY, the flowers are in full bloom – but not at my place. I am ashamed to admit that I have killed spring at home.

How is it possible? I have no idea. But no plant had lived long enough to tell the story…

My journaling reads:

Despite my best intentions, I have killed my plants again. It started with the flowers and moved on to the unsuspecting basil. From there it went on to the lavender who suffered gravely and eventually gave up and welted. Looking at all the beautiful photos of people’s blooming gardens I am all envy. Spring has not sprung here as I have managed to kill spring. No flower or plant is blooming.

After you’ve seen spring’s antithesis in my layout, go on to Karen‘s amazing layout, where spring has definitely sprung….

In case you’ve lost your way on the layouts’ trail, here is the complete list:

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Happy St. Paddy’s Day

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

St. Paddy's Day in Dublin

[Fonts: Vegur, KD Everyday; Digital Kits: Digi Essentials, Cardstock Essentials 1, Rub On essentials – all by Karla Dudley]

Journaling reads:

St. Paddy’s Day festivities in Dublin were the happiest I have seen. The sun was untypically shining and the mood was elevated. Green was the dominant color and pride the dominant spirit. I love the Irish people, they have the best spirit in the whole wide world. Always happy. Always friendly. Always Irish 🙂

Quick Layout Share – Wonderful You

Monday, March 15th, 2010

Wonderful You

[Font: Rough Typewriter; Digital Kits: Karla Dudley Designs Brush Bucket 1, Karla Dudley Designs Trina, Karla Dudley Designs Capture + Record.]

I am very pleased to announce that the gorgeous CTBLOG that Karla Dudley has created and designed (hence it’s being stunning) is up and running. Go ahead and treat yourself to all the eye candy + a video tutorial by Karla on drop shadows.

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Happy Announcement: I Am On Karla Dudley’s Creative Team + Small Comforts…

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Small Comforts

[Karla Dudley Designs: Capture + Record, Silly Lines Green, Rub On Essentials 1 and Alpha Stickers 2; Font: Erika Ormig]

You have probably noticed how much I LOVE Karla Dudley‘s designs. I have been using her gorgeous products in my digital layouts for a long while – they are classically stylish and if a “hard copy” line had been offered, I would probably buy it too…

You can only imagine my delightful surprise when she said she was looking for designers for her CT. I just couldn’t believe my own eyes.

I am beyond happy for making it to the talented CT of the uber talented Karla.

Journaling Prompt

This layout is all about small comforts.

In my journaling I wrote:

When I was a young girl I used to think I needed to be a princess living in a crystal palace located on a rainbow in order to feel grateful. Now I know all I need are tea and cookies.

Like their name suggests small comforts are the little things that make us go “ahhhh…”.
The small things that make us feel serene and happy and thankful.
Jot down what are your small comforts. I assure you that acknowledging them alone would already make you feel this much better.

[Go here for the digital tip on how to create an outline image of your brush or png. image]

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What are your small comforts? Leave a comment and share your delights with me. Please… 🙂
I love hearing from you guys.

Stay tuned for some more free journaling labels.

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What Makes You Smile? Journaling Prompt and a Digital Tip

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Nadav Makes Me Smile

[Font: Erika Ormig; Digital Kits: Write It Down Cute Circles & Autumn Apples Polka Dot Papers by Shimelle Laine, available at Two Peas in a Bucket + Blakely by Karla Dudley, available at The Digichick Shop]

Smiling is better than make up. It gives you a natural glow and a sparkle in your eyes. It deepens your dimples and covers you with irresistibleness. I am telling you – smiling is way better tan putting on make up.

You may buy make up online, at department stores, drugstores, boutique shops – but where do you get a smile?

What have you that makes you brake out with a glowing smile?
Who brightens your day in a way that curves your lips from deep inside?
What can transform a gray day into a glorious and a happy moment?
Who is able to make you forget everything but your happiness and gratefulness?

I have my Nadav, my husband.

He injects my life with humor and makes it a million times better.
He manages to make me smile and forget I have been angry for an untended chore.
He surprises me, time and again, with the creative ways he finds to make me laugh.
He brightens my day and keeps my plate of gratitude overflowing.

When asked “where did you come up with that?”, he simply answers: “my mouth” or “my hands” – depending whether his current cuteness involves a saying or a deed.

Same goes for the arbitrary day in which he brought me a plate with an “apple face” – mine is smiling and his – sour.

I was surely smiling once I got this plate, but he’s just incapable of being sour 🙂

I love my Nadav.

Digital Tip

Do you want your png. images or brushes in your digital kit do double duty? Then create an outlined image of them.

How To – Adobe Photoshop Elements

  1. Lay your image or brush stroke on a separate layer.
  2. Copy this layer – either right-click on the layer indicator and choose “duplicate layer” or click on the image itself, while pressing the [Alt on a PC] or [OPT on a Mac] button.
  3. Reposition the copied image with the move-tool to where you wish your outline image to be.
  4. Open a new layer above the latter.
  5. Press [CTRL on a PC] or [CMD on a MAC] and click on the image on the left side of the copy layer indicator. That step will automatically select the image’s silhouette.
  6. Make sure your new – top layer – is selected and click on: “Edit” => “Stroke” (use the eye-drop tool to choose the color from the original image) and commit.
  7. Uncheck or delete the copied layer.

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What makes you smile? Share by leaving a comment. I LOVE hearing from you. Each comment makes me smile, so please share!

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Hybrid Cards – Mix Fancy With Funky

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Hybrid Cards - Mix Fancy With Funky

I was looking at Shimelle’s new kit: Write It Down Ornate Frames, which “aired” today on Two Peas In A Bucket, and thought it would be just perfect for making a bunch of hybrid cards.

At first I thought to edit them on photoshop, add the greeting with one of my gazillion fonts, print out, add a ribbon, or some gems and call it a day. A great way to make a bunch of coordinating classic cards.

Then I thought, lets take it up a notch… It would be really cool to mix Shimelle’s beautiful, classical, traditional ornate frames with some funky patterned papers and a funky – non-traditional – design, and that’s exactly what I did.

I hope you like it and will give it a try. (Shimelle’s kit costs just 99 cents…)

Step by Step Instructions

Hybrid I Love You Card

  1. Use a photo editing program to lay the frame on the right side of a letter size document. Size it to measure 4″ by 5¼”. Print out the document on textured white cardstock, using the borderless settings of your printer.
  2. Cut the cardstock in half – to 5½” and fold in half at 4¼” to create a standard size card.
  3. Print out Creativity Prompt’s free classic journaling tags on plain non-textured cardstock. Cut out one of the tags and cut off about an inch from its right edge.
  4. For the letters I used plain and glittered fun foam that I cut with my Cuttlebug, using QuicKutz Moonlight dies, and adhered it with Tombow Mono Multi glue you can also use American Crafts Thickers.
  5. Adhere the journaling tag to the bottom right edge of the card using foam squares.

Hybrid Thanks Card

  1. Use a photo editing program to lay the frame on the right side of a letter size document. Size it to measure about 3½” wide (keep its proportions). Print out the document on textured white cardstock, using the borderless settings of your printer.
  2. Cut the cardstock to 5¼” by 4″.
  3. Use a craft knife to cut off the oval center of the frame.
  4. Cut a textured yellow cardstock to 8½” by 5½” and fold in half at 4¼” to make a standard size card.
  5. Cut a piece of a funky patterned paper at 3½” by 3½”.
  6. Lay the printed cardstock on the yellow card base and trace the oval window with a pencil. Adhere the patterned paper where the window will lay, over the pencil marks.
  7. For the letters I used plain and glittered fun foam that I cut with my Cuttlebug, using QuicKutz Moonlight dies, and adhered it with Tombow Mono Multi glue you can also use American Crafts Thickers.
  8. Adhere the printed cardstock with foam squares.
  9. Adhere the hearts. I Cut the heart with a Cuttlebug die from the glittered fun foam. (I used a VERY old punch for the small heart)
  10. Adhere the button (I would have used a yellow button if I had one…) with a couple mini glue dots.
  11. Adhere the line of yellow gems below the greeting.

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If you have any question, suggestion or remark – don’t hesitate to contact me – either leave a comment here, use the contact form or start a new thread on the Creativity Prompt Flickr Group!!!

I would also be very happy to see your own creations, so don’t be shy and share 🙂

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Daily Reoccurrences – Journaling Prompt

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Daily Reoccurrences

[Fonts: Rough Typewriter, Walk Around The Block; Digital Kits: Digi Essentials #2 by Karla Dudley & Write It Down Top Ten Lists + Long and Winding Road – both by Shimelle Laine.]

Journaling Prompt

One of the disadvantages of a repeated daily routine is that its details are forgotten and lost.

We are so used to repeat the same errands or be with the same people every day that we don’t always notice things about them. We don’t notice the small details of what occurs daily without fail.

In my journey to document and remember as much as I can, I try to take heed of things that I can count on – for better or for worse – to occur and reoccur every single day.

This journaling prompt is general and can refer to people who do certain things in a certain way – every day, or it can refer to errands we run daily (or several times per day, OCD?!), food we eat or beverages we drink daily, etc.

In this layout I highlighted a few of my husband’s behaviors that come up each and every day – and I love him for that… It’s the small things that count most.

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Leave a comment and share what things occur daily, without fail? I’d love to get a sneak peek into your dailyness (& I don’t care it isn’t a proper English word. I like it nonetheless).

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Note The Changes Over A Period Of Time – Journaling Prompt

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

Note The Changes In A person

[Fonts: Vegur, Popsies; Digital Kits: Blakely, Digi Essentials #2, Digi Essentials #3 – all by Karla Dudley]

Journaling Prompt

I have recently come back from a visit back home. This time it’s been over a year since my last visit and a lot have changed. I was astonished by all the changes.

Some changes are subtle and creep up on you very slowly.

Such is a crack in the cement and a peeling of the wall and stains that keep on expanding until you climb up the staircase you used to climb on throughout your childhood and you cannot recognize it anymore. It looks old and disengaged. It became alien.

Such are wrinkles that add up one by one, until the wrath or love of time is boldly noted.

Having said that, some changes are rapid. They usually occur in children. A baby becomes a child.

In this layout I documented the changes in my youngest nephew: Ori (Who will be celebrating his 4th birthday this week). Ori is Asaf‘s brother. This is what the journaling reads:

A lot have changed during the year I’ve been away. His glamorous red curls have been cut down. His beautiful brown eyes were framed in glasses (bandaged after numerous accidents in kindergarten). However, two things remain exactly the same: the pacifier in his mouth and the wonderful spirit in his kind and warm little heart. I love Ori. A lot.

Document the changes you note in something or in someone after a long period of time you haven’t seen it or him.

Sometimes a day can be a long period of time and sometimes only after a decade changes start to become apparent.

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Have you been startled by a change lately? share your thoughts by leaving a comment. I really want to hear so please share.

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Write About A Different Kind Of A Loving Relationship – Journaling Prompt

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

A Man and His Cat - True Love

[Fonts: Vegur, BatikRegular; Digital Kits: Can’t Buy Me Love, Write It Down Lovely Lables, The Long and Winding Road – All kits are by Shimelle Lane and available at Two Peas In A Bucket]

Journaling Prompt

Right before Valentines Day the romantic layouts are spreading rapidly all over the net. We are used to cherish our significant others as well as parental love (I mean anyone who has kids…) and we also document the love between BFFs, etc.

In short, we are documenting the loving relationship we or our loved ones have with other people.

I have a nontraditional idea… what about commemorating the love between us and our pets? They take such a great part of our life and are so dear to us – sometimes closer than some people are to us, so why not writing it down to paper. Why won’t we preserve these memories of this special loving relationship.

After all – isn’t it true love? The truest? 🙂

Digital Kit Tip

Don’t feel obligated to use the items on the kit as is. Just as you would cut a pattern paper, punch it, mist it, sew it, etc, you may also adjust and re-purpose any of the items in a digital kit.

For instance, I was using the labels from the Write It Down Lovely Lables kit but I wasn’t interested in the text on the beautiful labels, so I just rotated them and pushed them out of the layout and used them as embellishments.

Similarly, I was using the gorgeous postcard from The Long and Winding Road kit by selecting just the embellishment with the Magic Wand Tool on Photoshop Elements, copied it, recolored it and pasted it on several places on the layout just to add a floral finishing touch.

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Share your pet love, or a loving relationship with pets (or different kinds of loving relationships) by leaving a comment. I’d love to discuss about any kind of love with you guys.

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Try an Unexpected Point of View – Photography Prompt

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Look!

[Fonts: Vegur, VTPortableRemington; Digital Kits: Can’t Buy Me Love + Write It Down Aged Lables – both by Shimelle Laine; Digi Essentials #2,#3 – both by Karla Dudley.]

The journaling in the layout above reads:

Who said everyone should look at the camera in order to capture a moment in time and immortalize a memory.

I stand by these words.

As you might have notice, no one in the picture is looking at the camera, yet I kept this pictures because it captures a true, uneditted, unstaged moment – and I love it! The photo is genuine and authentic and thus precious to me.

Give it a chance. try to capture a true moment in time and choose the best point of view to depict that moment.

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Are you always asking people to look at the camera and say ‘cheese’? Share your thoughts by leaving a comment on this post.

Side Notes

You might have noticed a slight downsizing on my part. I haven’t been updating the blog as often as I used to and that stems from a couple reasons.

First, I have just come back from a two-week vacation back home after more than a year of absence and remoteness. It has been quite an emotional as well as an awakening and changing experience. I just could not take time from my visit and spend it online. I hope you understand.

Second, I have embarked on a challenging journey. It has nothing to do with paper crafts – or any other crafts for that matter. It has everything to do with my peace of mind and personal development. At this early stage, I find it difficult to share (and no. It isn’t pregnancy) but I hope I’ll gather the courage sooner or later.

For these reasons I have decreased the amount of posts I put up each week, though I will keep on updating and putting up tutorials, journaling prompts and general ideas, as well as share crafty projects with you and in time I hope I will be strong enough to share more about my current challenge in life.

So please bare with me and stay put. You are very welcome to comment and I will join any discussion you start. You may also feel free to contact me and e-mail me in person. I will do my very best to get back to you as soon as possible.

I love you!

…and I need you to stay with me, are you in?

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This year you can really make your dream come true!

“Capture Your Dream” workshop is a self-paced, six weeks long workshop, that will walk you through a journey of capturing your biggest dream and making it come true.

In the process of making your dream happen – with lots of inspiration and guided self-exploration, you will also create a mixed media mini album from scratch and learn many tips and techniques – including some photography pointers that will add character to your photos and will help you take better pictures of your projects.

The workshop includes 30 printable PDF lessons with step-by-step pictures and instructions as well as several printable templates you may use in other projects too.

I am confident you will enjoy it and find it helpful so I also offer full money back guarantee while the workshop lasts.