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Meet and Make: Einat Kessler

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Today’s Meet and Make designer is Einat Kessler. Einat is a scrapbook designer and workshop teacher. She is considered a pioneer in Israel’s scrapbooking industry, which has grown significantly in recent years. She also blogs at Scrappin’ It, her personal scrapbooking blog.

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10 Fun Facts About Einat Kessler:

  1. I don’t drink milk at all.
  2. My favorite movie is “Back to the Future.”
  3. I always create with music.
  4. I started scrapbooking after I was inspired by my grandfather’s scrapbooks!
  5. I have craft and paper materials that I haven’t used in 5 years.
  6. My husband and my friends laugh about me because I go to bed at 10 PM.
  7. I can’t start a new project if I know I only have an hour to work.
  8. I love cats more than dogs.
  9. I live 15 minutes from my mom, dad and mother in law.
  10. If I had an option of going shopping for clothes or scrapbook materials, I would pick scrapbook materials every time!

Here’s Einat’s Project:

Materials:

  • 1 sheet of double sided cardstock
  • Bind It All

Instructions:

1. Cut four 4″ by 8″ rectangles. You can fit 4 rectangles on one page if you cut three of them horizontally and one vertically.

2. Cut one rectangle in half, so you will have two 4″ by 4″ squares.

3. Make two fold lines on one rectangle: the first on the 2″ line and the second on the 6″ line. Fold a valley fold to create two flaps.

4. Repeat on the other two rectangles.

5. Adhere the first folded rectangle to the second, back to back, applying adhesive only on the 4″ back and not on the flaps.

6. Adhere the third rectangle to the flap of the second rectangle, applying adhesive only on the flap.

7. Add the covers on the front and back and bind.

Here is my completed flap mini album.

Don’t you think making projects from only one sheet of paper are super fun?

Hook’d On Scrapp’n

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Have you been caught by the creative bug of scrap booking? Teresa Church, of Clinton Ontario is passionate about the world of preserving her memories through “Scrapp’n”. As crafting sections such as fabrics and yarns have depleted from the shelves at the stores, the scrap booking mania has expanded. After speaking to Church, her level of enthusiasm draws you in and you suddenly feel like you need to run out and buy up a storm of scrapping materials to be part of her energy wave.

It’s about telling the life story of a subject, person, or event that has happened. Photo albums are great; however, why not add some embellishments such as ribbons, stickers, or extra writing to explain the moment captured. It allows the scrapper to document who people are in the pictures and reduces figuring out who people are in the future to come. Scrapping solves some mysteries that may be left behind and is a wonderful reference resource to trigger memories that may have been forgotten.

Scrapp’n is art. The way you cut your materials, display the pictures or treasures you want to keep, and how you colour code your book is extremely personal. Church explains that it reveals the level of creativity along your scrapp’n journey. Looking at the first books and comparing to how much more creative you have become is satisfying to see your personal growth creativity wise while walking down memory lane.

Church even attends “Scrapp’n Retreats” for getting away and diving head first into her artistic getaway. Together with 20 – 25 people they scrap all weekend long. They share memories, trade tools, try interesting ideas, and leave with finished scrap books. It allows them to sit down and really think about their art. Think of it this way, she is preserving her memories and creating new memories at the retreat while she is making her books.

The appeal to scrapp’n is the inexpensive start up costs. You can start off with a few items and slowly build your collection of supplies over time. She’s a crafter at heart and like many of us will “Bee Line” directly to the crafting section before walking around the store. Church emphasizes that Canada seems to lack of the availability of finding supplies. She’s talking about large retailers that don’t change their products for lengthy periods of time. She finds herself ordering most of her stuff online from the United States to keep her books unique.

If you like to see your family and friends in pictures all around the house, than this craft is definitely for you. Enter the world of scrapp’n and see if this art is for you!

For more fabulous ideas on exploring your creativity, visit www.mikeyssmail.com.

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