June ScrapbookSteals Blog Hop

Welcome to the June ScrapbookSteals Blog Hop!

If it is your first time here, welcome! I am glad you stopped by!

I am super excited to be part of this blog hop and even more excited to work with this super cool American Crafts Glitter Tape. American Crafts brought us many great products that became a staple in the stash of any scrapbooker (thickers anyone?). I think this glitter tape will be one of those products.

When I first saw this tape I immediately thought that I have to try iris folding. Using the tape I don't actually need to fold the strips, I just layer strips of glitter tape following the pattern. The fact that the tape is adhesive on the back really makes the life easier!. I explained how I do iris folding in some older posts so I will not go into details here. There are plenty of good tutorials online.

Supplies: glitter tape (American Crafts), stamps (Teresa Collins), glitter cardstock (Recollections)

To start my card I stamped 4 triangles and a sentiment on a piece of cardstock slightly smaller than my card base.

I used my Fiskars fingertip knife to cut out the triangles.

I traced one of the openings on the piece of scrap paper and created the iris folding pattern. 

The iris is done  on the back side. That's how my card looked like when I worked on the last triangle.

After all triangles were completed I mounted the card front to the piece of slightly bigger glitter cardstock and to the card base.

Simple and festive!

I planned to make a layout but was too busy with all the craziness of the last day week of school. Instead I made few gift card holders where the glitter tape came very handy. It basically holds everything together.

1. Start with 3"x12" piece of cardstock (use one 12"x12" sheet of cardstock to make 4 gift card holders).
2. Score the cardstock 3" from the right edge and 4.5" from the left edge. 
3. Wrap the glitter tape  around the folded edge creating a pocket. 
4. Wrap one or two more tapes around the folded part.

Decorate the pocket as desired. I used diecut label that covered the ends of the tape and letter stickers.

Decorate the front of the gift card holders. I chose the papers and embellishments form the Little Yellow Bicycle Saturdays collection.

And here is the  front:

 

And the back:

And peek inside:

I hope you liked the projects, I know I had tons of fun working with this tape! Don't' forget to visit the rest of the blog hop stations!  Be sure to leave a comment at each stop along the way, since one lucky person leaving a comment on one of the 8 blogs (this includes this ScrapbookSteals blog posting) by Sunday, June 10th at 11:59 PM MST, will receive a $20 gift certificate to use in the ScrapbookSteals store! 

With that I will send you on to the next stop: Ashley Newell at Heart Hugs Designs.

If you get lost here is the full list of the blog hop.

1. ScrapbookSteals http://scrapbooksteals.stealnetwork.com/wp/
2. Becky Williams http://onescrappinmama.blogspot.com/
3. Kimberli Bean http://www.kimberliscreations.blogspot.com/
4. Maya Oren-Dahan http://mayadahan.blogspot.com/
5. Ashley Newell http://hearthugsdesigns.blogspot.com/
6. Miriam Prantner http://mprantner.blogspot.com/
7. Cathryn Hanson http://www.catscrapcreations.blogspot.ca/
8. Regina Mangum http://thestampinbean.blogspot.com/

I am linking this post with WIP Monday on ScrapScene

Scrapbook That Baby - new prompt and look, we are in Scrapstreet magazine!

The newest prompt at Scrap That Baby is up and it is all about the baby gear! The DT made some awesome layouts about wipes, bumbo chairs, swings, strollers, car seats, toys and other useful stuff that we all have (or had at some point). The best part - this month we are featured in Scrapstreet ezine!! Head on over and check out Melissa's awesome article all about Scrap That Baby in their Blog Bay section.

For this prompt and for the article I made a layout about our dear pacifier. First I wanted to find pictures of all my kids with pacifier but didn't find anything that would fit, so I just used 3 pictures of Eli from different times.

Supplies: patterned paper (Creative Imaginations, Recollections), tag (Jenni Bowlin), letter stickers (Recollections), ribbon (Recollectiosn), chipboard (Recollections), pens (Sakura, ZIG), jewel (Recollections), stamp (Fiskars), tools (fiskars border punch and fingertip craft knife)

You can also play along! The winner of the challenge will get a fabulous October kit from Tidbitz in Time kit club. You have till November 13th to submit your project.

Inroducing my new nephews

2 layouts inspired by Shimelle's challenges. The first one is based on this sketch
This is the first picture that I post of my new nephews. They were born on February 15th and they are the most adorable and sweetest babies. They were the highlight of our visit to Israel and it breaks my heart to know that the next time they will see me they will not be babies anymore.

Supplies: cardstock (The Paper Studio), patterned paper (GCD Studios), letter stickers (Heidi Grace, Making Memories), journaling tag (Heidi Grace), chipboard bird (DCVW), scallop trimmer blade (Fiskars)

This layout is my response to Scrapbooking With Patterned Paper challenge. I based my layout on the last layout in this inspiration chain. The picture is taken taken by my sister on Saturday morning. She posted the picture and wrote the journaling on our new blog that we started while I was in Israel (more on that later, it is still work in progress). I really wanted to keep the journaling as is so I printed it in Hebrew. That required a Hebrew title. It took me hours to find Hebrew fonts, download them and install, resize and print my title and finally handcut it with my Fiskars fingertip craft knife. But totally worth it. The title says "Saturday morning" and the journaling says "We woke up Saturday morning to the day that was supposed to be the hottest day of summer 2010. One by one, all kids came to our bed (and also Mishuta, White Bunny, Blue Bunny, Elephant, Moosik and Tom). Crowded, but totally worth it."

Supplies: cardstock (The Paper Studio), patterned paper (Heidi Grace, Scenic Route), sticker (Heidi Grace), brad (CTMH), fonts (Boker, Petel), border punch (Fiskars), craft knife (Fiskars)

CHA-S 2010 Part 1 - Friday Fun with Fiskateers

I hardly made it on time for the Fiskars workshop. It was called Friday Fun with Fiskateers and was taught by 4 Lead Fiskateers - Cheryl, Angela, Rebecca and Tami. Each of them used Fiskars tool to create a piece of jewerly.

That's what waited for us at the tables when we came in. The candy was very welcome since I was starving.

We used retractable fingertip craft knife to work with the clay and create a clay pendant. We used pinking shears to create a felt flower, we drilled into the vintage soda bottlecap and made a little charm, we punched a strip of ... (I forgot what it was, some type of material that looked like interfacing) and created a flower with shiny button.

We left home with 4 tools pictured below. Notice that 3 of them I didn't open. I already have them. Can you smell a giveaway coming?

Here are the flowers and the pendant I made. It is still need to be baked, stringed, misted and maybe taken apart and redone :)

The projects were fun and it is always fun to get new tools but the best part was seeing my fiska-friends.

Flight

It is Wednesday again and that means the new Twisted Sketch is up

This time the twist was Flight. 2 year ago we visited Wright Brothers National Memorial and I took those pictures of Ella running along the first flight line. I thought it will be appropriate to use them.

Supplies: patterned paper (Pink Paislee, Creative Imaginations, Studio Calico), cardstock (Core'dinations), letter stickers (Making Memories), lace border (Doodlebug), airplane tag (Jenni Bowlin), metal tag (unknown), USX, fingertip craft knife

Scrap That Baby blog started to introduce the DT members. I am so excited to be part of this talented group. The next challenge is coming on April 1st. Get you baby pictures ready!