New Year's Winner

Its time to announce the winner of my blog candy................. and the winner is:

22.	Tracey Sabella

Tracey please email me your address so I can send you your prize kerentamir@sympatico.ca

Happy New Year to you and yours!!!
Keren

Always and Forever

      
  One more day for my giveaway press here if you want to win some Blog candy.

This is my last Design Team reveal for Sketchabilities. I've designed for 2 terms with them which is what's allowed and now I will take a break for 3 months until I can apply again.

For this layout I used Sketch #62 with two different Bo Bunny paper lines. I used ETC and Timeless which are very similar in colours. My favourite part of this layout is all the lace I used around the chipboard and under the pictures. The lace that's surrounding the brown circled chipboard I cut from an old crocheted doily that my grandmother gave me. I cut out the outer circle and used it to surround the edges of the chipboard. I also love the big chipboard clocks I used as a background. I realize that I truly love working with beige and browns. I find them neutral and so they match almost every picture. Those are also the colours I have in my home on the walls, furniture and kitchen. I believe its my favourite colours to decorate with.

Thank you for visiting my blog

Keren

Winter Wonderland

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Here is my new Design Team reveal for Bird is the Word. The new word we needed to use this time is WONDER. I made this layout using the new BoBunny papers Snowfall and the title is Winter Wonderland. I love these Bobunny papers because they are so glittery. I took a clear scrap snowflake and painted its edges with white gesso. Then I added clear glitter on the ends to make it look like snow. I used some old chipboard blue snowflakes. to make them look more realistic, I scratched them with sand paper to make the white come out. Finally I added some gemstone's swirls and flourishes.

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Enjoy your holidays!!!

Keren

Sweet Blessing

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This is my new Sketchabilities DT reveal for December 15th Sketch #61.

Well I've never done such a glittery layout until now. The picture doesn't even do it justice. I recently won these gorgeous papers from BoBunny. The Snowfall paper collection is so beautiful with blues and browns and lots and lots of glitter. I used a Clear Scraps snow flake acrylic shaped embellishment and brushed the edges with white gesso to give it a snow-like effect. Then I put white glitter on it to make it sparkle. I put my kids picture under the snowflake. I love that effect because it looks as if the kids are in actual snow. Instead of using circles as the sketch suggests, I used snowflakes and flowers. I used these very sparkly brown and gold Prima flowers and added a Dusty Attic snowflake on each one. I painted each snowflake with white crackled paint and then added glitter on

each one. I used a picture of my kids taken last winter after a beautiful snowfall. We've been lucky this year and snow has been on hold for a while. I'm happy there's no snow but my kids are waiting....no offence to my kids but I hope they wait for a long time!! Don't let them hear me say that!!!

Thank you for visiting my blog,

Keren

My Love

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Here is a layout I made for the Bo Bunny  Layout Challenge Friday. The challenge is to use circles on the page. I used many large circles and doilies underneath the picture and some flowers and gems that were shaped like a circle. The sketch I used was from Creative Scrappers Sketch # 185. I inverted the sketch 180 degrees like a mirror so the DA chipboard would fit the layout. I love this piece of chipboard because it has a shadow. I sprayed the shadow piece in black and painted the top piece in white. I used the Bo Bunny Enchanted paper line. How gorgeous are they? I love the black and white. Its so elegant.  I used a picture of my husband and I at his brother's wedding this past summer. Formal pictures go so elegantly with these papers. Finally I used a Prima transparency frame with lots of flourishes and the title "My Love" on it. I painted the back around the frame with white gesso to make the printed frame stand out.

I especially wanted to apologise for the blurriness of the pictures because I had to photograph them at night. I haven't been home during the day because my Grandmother passed away this week (may she rest in peace). I did not want to post the bad news first because I wasn't even sure I was going to post them at all. We were very close and although what I'm writing seems short, I'm just keeping my emotions private. 

On another note, we are going on holidays on Friday and when I come back I'm planning to make a layout about my grandmother and me of a picture I took a month before she passed.

I have all my other DT posts scheduled but I will be signing off for a couple of weeks as of Friday. I wish you all Happy Holidays no matter what you celebrate. May you have love, happiness, health and peace in your hearts.

Happy Holidays

Keren