Happy Jewish New Year and STAMPlorations CAS Card Design Team

I am not sure if I have any followers left since I haven't blogged in the last 6 months. My attention has been diverted from stamping and making cards for many reasons that I won't go into here. I am excited to get back into the stamping/blogging world though and I have Shery Russ to thank for that - I have been accepted to the STAMPlorations CAS Card Design Team starting this month so watch this space for the October challenge starting on October 5th.

I did create some Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) cards to raffle off at my temple's Labor Day BBQ fundraiser in August so I will leave you with photos of them:

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Mazel Tov to Megan!

I needed to make 2 cards to give to a past Rabbinic intern who is getting ordained as a Rabbi this weekend. The above card I made to give to Megan from my family.  This really isn't a traditional card to give someone for an ordination I suppose but in my mind, this is Megan. The butterfly is from Visible Image from the UK. I embossed it with white embossing powder. Then I did a background wash with my Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolors. I used a strip of PTI patterned paper for the edge and stamped the sentiment by Zenspirations with Versafine Onyx Black ink. I clear embossed the sentiment for some nice dimension.

The card below I made for someone else to give to Megan.

This is another stamp from Zenspirations. It is one wood mounted stamp which I stamped with Versamark and embossed with silver embossing powder. I then did this colorful wash with the Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolors. The sentiment is from a Psalm that we sing at our temple.

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Visual Art Journal Days 4 and 5 - Shabbat

Our fourth day was Friday, July 3 and the camp gets ready for Shabbat (Sabbath) which starts at sundown.  We don't have work or classes on Saturday because the Sabbath is a day of rest.  But after services on Saturday morning we had free time so I opened up the art room to those campers that wanted to relax and play.  Their journal prompt for Friday's journaling was to display through watercoloring and journaling how Shabbat makes them feel. Another prompt was what colors represent how they feel about Shabbat or how Shabbat makes them feel.  Below are my journal entries:

The first page was watercoloring with markers directly onto a Penny Black stamp, misted with water and then stamped.  The next page was watercoloring with a stencil - I applied distress inks right onto a stencil, misted it with water and then "stamped" with it onto the page.  The two pages with the Clearly Besotted tulip image was demonstrating watercoloring in the lines and then no line watercoloring.  Lastly I created a background using Color Bursts and Brushos and then stamped the Rubbernecker flowers with Versafine Onyx Black ink and used washi tapes to adhere the panel to the journal page.

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L' Shana Tova

Today is Erev Rosh Hashana - this evening at sundown the Jewish New Year Starts and lasts through Thursday sundown.  Today I will be baking a Caramelized Apple and Cinnamon (Gluten-free) cake and an Apple Crisp to take to my temple this evening for the Oneg (snack) after services.

This image is from a Zenspirations set called Judaica for Impression Obsession.  I stamped it with a Kalaidecolor ink pad.  The sentiment is from PaperTrey's Mazel Tov! set.

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