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Siblings: Compare and contrast – Journaling Prompt

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

Siblings

[Fonts: Asha, Tidy Hand; Digital Kits: Springtime Basics, Starburst Mini, Long and Winding Road, Can’t buy Me Love – All by Shimelle Laine at Two Peas In A Bucket.]

Journaling Reads

One is blond. One is brunette.
One is pale. One is tan.
One is quiet. One is verbose.
Both are fabulous.

Sometimes siblings are spitting images of each other.
Either they look alike, behave the same or think similarly – or all the above.
Sometimes the only thing siblings are sharing is their DNA.

Tsuf and Shoham, my niece and nephew are nothing alike.
[Except for both being very good kids]
They look very different and they behave really differently.

Try to make a short list and find what is similar and what is different between siblings in your family.

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Are you and your sibling look alike or do you look nothing like your sibling – or are you an only child?
How are your kids? Do they look and behave the same or do they have nothing in common?
Please share your comparisons. It’s fun!

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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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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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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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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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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.

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Mission Accomplished – Journaling Prompt

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Mission Accomplished

[Fonts: Vegur, Popsies, VTPortableRemington Digital Kits: Shimelle Laine’s Write It Down Pretty Labels, Can’t Buy Me Love & Penned Words: Dates => all available at Two Peas In A Bucket.com; Karla Dudley’s Digi Essentials and Blakey, both available at the Digi Chick Shop.]

We often take extra responsibilities and engagements upon ourselves and the extra burden is noticeable. We “sacrifice” all our free time and we feel stressed and overstretched.

However, these experiences enrich our life and provide the sweetest taste we can ever taste in our lifetime – the taste of accomplishment. The taste of finally being done with our “extracurricular activity” and marking the big fat ‘v’ on our to-do list.

Take heed of these accomplishments. Whether they’re big or small – every accomplishment is worth documenting and the real value of some of these accomplishments can only be revealed over time – so notice and document them.

In this layout I documented the end of a course my husband took at Stanford University. The course was intensive with a ton of assignments and responsibilities – while working full time for Google – and the sweet taste of getting through it (with an ‘A’) has been just as intense…

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Have you had a sweet accomplishment lately? Do you usually journal or mark your accomplishments in any way? Share by leaving a comment on this post.

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The Whole Is Bigger Than The Sum Of Its Parts – Journaling Prompt

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

The Whole Is Bigger Than The Sum Of Its Parts

[Fonts: Vegur; Rough Typewriter; English. Digital Kits: Shimelle Digitals Remember Page Template; Shimelle Digitals Trip to Nature Papers; Shimelle Digitals Long and Winding Road Mini Kit; Karla Dudley’s Digi Essentials kit.]

The law of preservation of mass determines that matter cannot be created or destroyed. However, in life, I find that often the whole can be bigger than the sum of its parts. Sometimes even smaller… (when a person or an opportunity doesn’t live up to their potential).

A job, for instance, can be much more than a source of income if we are passionate about it and if we are determined to learn, evolve and draw life lessons from it.

A special person in your life also has an aggregate value that is much greater than the sum of every little ray of light the person introduces to your world.

Take notice and write about it.

Nadav, my dear husband, is smart, compassionate, understanding, blessed with an overdeveloped sense of humor and a special ability to make any sadness and rage disappear. These are his parts. Together they make my world brighter. Together they guide me in the sea of life. Together they warm my heart and make it sing. Together they make me thankful everyday. Together his parts are much bigger than his physical whole.

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What parts in your life sums up bigger than the whole? Share your journaling and thoughts by leaving a comment on this post.

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My Recurring Theme In 2009 – Journaling Prompt

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

2009's Recurring Theme

[Fonts: Vegur; Rough Typewriter. Digital Kits: Karla Dudley’s Digi Essentials (Staples & Stitches); Shimelle Digitals 2009 Streamlined Template; Shimelle Digitals Starburst Solids.]

Journaling reads: Whether I like it or not (honestly, I haven’t decided yet) most of 2009 has passed online. I blogged. I read other people’s blogs. I have joined a couple of new forums. I shopped until the connection dropped. I reconnected with old friends through Facebook and met new cyber-friends on Twitter. I connected with friends via e-mail, instant messages and Skype. I kept in touch with my family – all ONLINE. So it’s only natural to represent the past year by my different Avatars…

Looking back at the past year, in a retrospective look that is only attainable early the next year, you can ALWAYS find one dominant recurring theme which is weaved through the entire year. One theme that hasn’t changed from the beginning throughout the end.

As it seems 2009 has been a “cyber” year for me. I spent most of my time online – both for business and pleasure (Hello Hulu and live streaming on Netflix. Hello facebook, Ustream and Twitter. Hello poor eyesight and pale skin…).

Therefore I felt like my Avatars on the different social media websites represent 2009 fully & succintly for me.

It may be lame but it is what it is. Thanks god for 2010…

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What was your recurring theme in 2009? What do you think will your predominant motif be in 2010? What would you like it to be? Share your thoughts by leaving a comment.

I would love to hear about your past year and predictions regarding the current one.

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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.

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