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Friday 31 May 2013

Rodjendan.../Birthday...

je tema trinaestog izazova na blogu Izazovi i slatkisi.
Kao sto sam pomenula u jednom od prethodnih postova, izazovi u toku leta trajace mesec dana, pa tako ovaj izazov traje do 4. jula, dakle imate dosta vremena da prijavite svoje radove. 

is the theme of the 13th challenge on Izazovi i slatkisi blog.
As I mentioned in one of my previous posts, during summer the challenges will be posted once a month, as well as this challenge which will be open till July 4th, so you have enough time to participate.

Ovu cestitku sam napravila po porudzbini, za jednog decaka koji je nedavno napunio 5 godina.
This card was an order, I made it for one boy who recently turned 5.



Pecat je Whimsy Stamps. Bojen akvarel bojicama na 300g akvarel papiru. Tekst je isto Whimsy Stamps. Papir je Basic Grey - Curiosity, Colour me Silly. Dodala sam malo narandzaste cipke i koristila dva dekorativna busaca za papir.

The stamp is Whimsy Stamps. I coloured it with watercolour pencils on 300g watercolour paper. The sentiment is also Whimsy Stamps.The paper is Basic Grey - Curiosity, Colour me Silly. I added some orange lace,  and I used two paper punches.


Tu je i slatkis za jednog od ucesnika, kao i obicno.
We have a candy again for one of the participants, as usual.
U izazovu mozete da ucestvujete do 18h, 4. jula.
You can participate in the cahllenge till 18 h, on July 4th.

I'm entering: Whimsy Stamps challenge - "Anything Goes" 
Cupcake Craft challenge - "Boys"  
 Kaboodle Doodles - "Anything Goes"
Stamp with Stampavie and more - "Ribbon or Lace"
Simon Says Stamp challenge - "Anything Goes" 
Basic Grey challenges - "Inspired by a Song"   ( theme of the song In the Disco by Deen; Basic Grey product used - Basic Grey paper, Curiosity, Colour me Silly)

I ne zaboravite na moj giveaway koji je jos uvek u toku!!!
And don't forget about my giveaway!!!



  

Monday 27 May 2013

Penny Black giveaway!

Just a quick post to let you all know that there's a huge giveaway over at Penny Black blog!
Jedan kratak post samo da vas obavestim o velikom giveaway-u na  Penny Black blogu!



You wouldn't want to miss it out!!!
Ne biste zeleli da ga propustite!!!

Dizajn timovi/Design Teams

Lista mojih trenutnih i proslih clanstva u dizajn timovima.
List of my current and past design team memberships.


Trenutno sam administrator i dizajn tim prvog srpskog izazov bloga "Izazovi i slatkisi".
I'm currently an administrator and a design team member of the first serbian challenge blog "Izazovi i slatkisi".



Od novembra 2012.
Since November 2012.
~ ~ ~

Bila sam clan dizajn tima dve kompanije pecata ( Whimsy Stamps takodje ima i svoje papire, "secke" i mnogo vise). Iz SAD I Australije.
I was a design team member of two stamp companies (Whimsy Stamps has also their design papers, dies and more). From USA and Australia.



Od jula 2010. do aprila 2011.
From July 2010 to April 2011.




Od maja 2011. do decembra 2011.
From May 2011 to December 2011.
~ ~ ~


Bila sam clan dizajn tima cetiri bloga sa izazovima:
I wasa  design team member of four challenge blogs:



Od jula 2010. do septembra 2011.
From July 2010 to September 2011.



 
 Od juna do decembra 2010.
From June to December 2010.




Od maja do novembra 2009.
From May to November 2009.




Mart/april/maj 2009.
March/April/May 2009.
~ ~ ~ 


Bila sam gost dizajner za jednu on-line prodavnicu hobi materijala i njihova tri izazova:
I was a guest designer for an on-line craft store and their three challenges:



Mart 2011.
March 2011.


Bila sam gost dizajner jednog izazov bloga.
I was a guest designer of a challenge blog:



Februar 2010.
February 2010.




Saturday 25 May 2013

Jagodice, jagodice... :) /Strawberries...:)

Zdravo svima! 
 Sta covek da radi kada dobije punu vanglu slatkih domacih jagoda? Da uziva jeduci ih, naravno! ;)

Hello everyone!
What is a person supposed to do, when they get a bowl full of  sweet home grown strawberries? To enjoy eating them, of course! ;)



Nama je medjutim, i posto smo se postenski najeli istih, ostalo toliko mnogo (slika odozgo), a do sutradan bi se vec pokvarile, tako da smo odlucili da ih iskoristimo na neki drugi nacin, da napravimo nesto od njih. Odluka je pala na slatko i vocni jogurt (ja sam doduse napravila i kolac koji je bio potpuni fijasko, o njemu nekom drugom prilikom ;). 
I tako sam ja prionula na posao. A, imala sam i podrsku :) 

 We, however, even after we ate a lot of them, had so much of them left (the above picture) and by tomorrow they would have gone bad, that we decided to use them in some other way, too, to make something with them. The decission was made and we were to make "slatko" and yogurt ( I made the cake, too, which was a complete disaster, more about it in aosme other post;).
And so I started working. And I had a support, too. :)

Ovo nije klasican recept, i ne bih bas mnogo da se pravim pametna, jer sigurna sam da svi otprilike znaju kako se pravi slatko i da svakako ima mnogo u tome iskusnijih od mene, ali ja cu evo ipak ukratko podeliti sa vama kako sam ja, po prvi put, pravila slatko od jagoda. :)

This is not a clasical recipe and I wouldn't want to make smart, because I'm sure that more or less everyoen knows how "slatko" is made and that there are people with much more experience in that., but I will in short share with you, how I for the first time, made strawberry slatko.

 

Dakle...
Oprala sam i ocistila (skinula peteljke) sa 2 kg jagoda, krupnije presekla na pola, sitnije ostavila citave i pocela da ih redjam u serpu, po principu red secera, red jagoda, s tim da secera bude koliko i jagoda, znaci 2kg (nisam koristila limun, niti limontus). Ubrzo sam, medjutim, shvatila da mi 2 kg jagoda ne moze stati u serpu koju sam imala na raspolaganju, te sam smanjila kolicinu na 1 kg i 600g, toliko i secera. 

So...
I washed and cleaned 2kg strawberries, bigger cut in half, smaller ones left whole and aranged them in a pot, row of sugar, then row of strawbeeries, so taht there's sugar as much as strawberries (2kg) ( I didn't use lemon). Soon, however, I realized that 2kg  of strawberries won't fit in the pot I was using, so I put less of both strawberries and sugar, 1kg 600g of each.

Redjala sam tako da obavezno secer bude na dnu i na vrhu. Zasto? Nisam bas sigurna, ali mum said so, pa se pitanje i ne postavlja. :)

I aranged them so that sugar would be on the bottom as well as on top. Why? I'm not quite sure, but mum said so and so there was no questioning about that. :)


Dodala sam i 2 vanilin secera, pa prekrila lepljivom folijom i ostavila u frizideru do sutradan.

I added to packs of vanilla sugar and covered the pot and left it in the fridge by the next morning.


 Ujutru sam skinula foliju i stavila jagode i secer da se kuvaju. Kad je provrilo, smanjila sam temperaturu, ali tako da slatko i dalje vri po malo. Bez mesanja, samo sam s' veremena na vreme prodrmala serpu. 

In the morning, I uncovered it and put strawberries and sugar to be cooked on the stove. When it boiled, I lowered the temperature, but so that "slatko" would keep shimmering a little. Without mixing, just from time to time I would shake the pot.


  Penu sam obavezno skidala kasikom.
I took off the foam  witha  spoon. (it's a must)


Koliko se slatko kuva, tesko je reci, jer sve zavisi od kolicine, samog sporeta...Ja sam moj kuvala, oko sat vremena. Proveravala sam par puta pred kraj kuvanja da li je slatko gotovo, tako sto sam vadila kasikom malo vodice iz slatkog na tacnicu i kad se ohladi, gledala sam koliko se lepilo za kascicu, koliko je bilo gusto i kako je kapalo sa kascice.Treba da bude lepljivo, ali ne previse, ne kao med, jer bi u tom slucaju bilo prekuvano i kasnije bi se usecerilo. 
How long slatko is cooked, it's hard to say, as it depends on the fruit, the stove...I cooked mine for about an hour. I checked a couple of times, close to the moment when it was about to be cooked, by taking some liquid on a saucer and when it would cool, I checked how sticky was to the teaspoon, how tick and the way it poured out of the teaspoon. It should be sticky, but not too much, not like honey, because in that case it would be overcooked and became "sugary" afterwords.


 Posle drugog provravanja, po mom  ( i misljenju moje mame, iskusne kuvarice) slatko je bilo gotovo. :)
Afther the second checking by my (and my mum's opinion, an esperienced cook), slatko was done. :)

Prekrila sam mokrom krpom i ostavila da se prohladi.
I covered it with wet cloth and let it cool

 Red je bio da se proba i da se sipa u tegle.:)
It was time to taste it and pour it into jars. :)

Dobila sam tri tegle od, ako se ne varam 750g, s tim sto treca nije bila puna. 
I got three, 750g jars, if I'm right, but the third one wasn't full.


E, sad posto ja nisam "food blogger", sto se moze vrlo lako primetiti, ;), ali volim ponekad da podelim sa vama i po neki recept, kad je slatko bilo gotovo,  moj (kreativni) posao tek je poceo. :) Resila sam da "dekorisem" tegle.
And now, since I'm not a food blogger, which you can notice easily;), but I like sometimes to share a recipe, when slatko was done, my (creative) work began.:) I decided to "decorate" the jars. 


 Bacila sam se  na pravljenje etiketa. :) Uradila sam tri.
I started making jar labels.:) I made three. 

 Posto sam htela da tegle budu "vintage", nisam htela beli papir, vec sam uzela neki zelenkasti, vodootporni papir, malo deblji od hamer papira.Sa zadnje strane zalepila sam obostrano lepljivu traku.
Since I wanted jars to be "vintage", I didn't want to use white paper, but a greenish one, waterproof and a little thicker than the simple paper for printing. On the back side I put doublesided tape.


Koristila sam dva Whiff Joy pecata sa jagodama, koje sam ispecatirala StazOn vodootpornim mastilom i obojila ih Tim Holtz "Distress" mastilom. Dodala sam i malo detalja sa belom Sakura gel olovkom. Tekst "Sweet" je takodje Whiff of Joy, pecatiran Distress "Vintage Photo" mastilom, kao i pecat sa gornje i donje strane, koji je inace "Stampendous", isto mastilo sam koristila i za ivice papira/etikete. Koristila sam i busac u levom donjem i desnom gornjem uglu.
I used Whiff of Joy stamp with strawberries, which I stamped with StazOn ink pad and coloured with Tim Holtz Distress inks. I addd some details with white Sakura gel pen. The sentiment "sweet" is also Whiff of Joy, stamped with distress ink pad "Vintage "Photo", just like the stamp on the top and bottom sides, which is "Stampendous", the same ink pad I used to distress the paper. I used a punch in the left bottom and right top angle.




Zalepila sam etikete na tegle i preko poklopca stavila ovo karirano platno, koje sam prethodno isekla na krugove i vezala koncem od kudelje.
I sticked the banners and over the leed  put the ghingham material, which I previously cut in circles and I tied it with some rope.


Slatko je ispalo ( kao sto slatko inace ispadne ;) ) slatko i ukusno, i valjda sto su jagode domace, ima  ukus slatkog od sitnih/sumskih jagodica. A moram da budem iskrena i da kazem da sam ovim malim "projektom" (dekorisanja tegli) prezadovoljna. :) Mnogo mi se svidjaju! Planiram da uradim isto ili nesto slicno i kad budem pravila slatko od neceg drugog, dzem i sl...
Slatko turned out (as it usually does ;) ), sweet and tasty and I guess because strawberries were home grown, it tastes like woodland strawberries slatko. And I have to be honest and say that with this project (decorating jars), I'm really sattisfied.I like them a lot! I plan to do the same or similar when I make some other fruit slatko, or jam or so...

E, i dok sam jos uvek bila pod utiskom i u kreativnom zamahu ;) odlucih da napravim ovaj tag, od koga sam posle napravila cestitkicu. I tagom sam jako zadovoljna moram da kazem. U istom stilu, jagodice, "vintage", Whiff of Joy"..
And while I was still under impression and in creative spirit;) I decided to make this tag, from which I afterwards made a small card. I'm happy with the tag as well, I must say. It's in the same style, strawberries, "vintage", "Whiff of Joy"...


Pecatirala sam na istom zelenkastom papiru i bojila sa distress mastilom. Dodala sam isto karirano platno, malo cipke, cvetic, jagodicu. Tekst je takodje Whiff of oy. Pozadinu sam pecatirala jagodicama koje sam vec koristila za tegle.
I stamped on the same greenish paper and colored with distress inks.  added the same ghingham material, some lace, flower, strawberry. The sentiment is also Whiff of Joy. I stamped the background with strawberry stamp, that I had already used for jar labels.

Prijavljujem se za/I'm entering:
Whiff of Joy challenge  - "Happy Birthday"
Elphine House Australia challenge - "Die cuts and layers"

Kao to sam rekla, pravila sam i vocni jogurt, ali o tome nekom drugom prilikom. :)
Like I said I made fruit yogurt, but more about it, some other time. :)

Don't forget about my/Ne zaboravite na moj giveaway/slatkis.
I sansu da dobijete jednu moju cestitku.

Lep vikend vam zelim! :)
Have a nice weekend! :)



Friday 24 May 2013

Poziv za nove clanove "Izazovi i slatkisi" tima

 Dragi kreativci!

U toku je poziv za nove clanove "Izazovi i slatkisi" tima!!!

Jasna i ja smo smo odlucile da pozovemo jos dva kreativca da nam se pridruze!
Svi koji bi voleli da postanu deo ovog malog, ali izuzetno talentovanog, vrednog, kreativnog, ma jednom recju fenomenalnog tima ;), a pri tom su kreativni ( pozeljno je, ali ne i neophodno da se bave pravljenjem cestitki) mogu da se prijave, poziv je otvoren do 4. juna!!!
 Izabrani kreativci
zvanicno postaju clanovi tima od septembra!!! Znaci posle letnjeg odmora. ;)

Sve bitne informacije u vezi sa pozivom i prijavljivanjem mozete procitati na blogu "Izazovi i slatkisi" - u ovom postu!

Prijavite se!!! :)

Takodje izazov  "Skica" koji je u toku traje sedam dana duze, do 30. maja, a u toku letnjih meseci izazovi na blogu  Izazovi i slatkisi bice postavljani jednom mesecno.
Od jeseni povratak na staro uz neke novine. Budite tu, ucestvujte, druzite se sa nama, osvojite nagrade i povrh svega -  zabavite se. :)

Moj giveaway je takodje u toku.

Prijavite se, osvojite presladak silikonski pecat i druge stvarcice. :)


Monday 20 May 2013

Ukrasavanje rama za sliku - tutorijal/Altered Picture Frame-tutorial

Zdravo svima! 
 Pre nekoliko dana, posto sam resila da konacno "sredim" haos u svom kompjuteru (slike su razbacane na sve strane, folderi "izgubljeni u vremenu"...), sasvim slucajno naletim na jedan tutorijal koji sam uradila pre otprilike 4 godine i koji je bio objavljen na mom starom blogu (koji ne postoji od 2009), pa resih da ga postavim i ovde i podelim sa vama, bas mi je delovao nekako slatko i zanimljivo. :) 

Hello everyone!
A few days ago, as I finally decided to clear the mess in my computer (photos are everywhere, folders "lost in time"...), by accident I stumbled upon  a tutorial which I made four years ago and which was published on my old blog ( which doesn't exist since 2009), so I decided to post the tutorial here and share it with you, as it seemed kind of cute and interesting. :)

Sta sam sve koristila: 
Ram, naravno, zatim dva razlicita papira za cestitke/scrapbook (u ovom slucaju Sweet Shoppe Designs i Basic Grey), makaze, skalpel, konac, motiv (u ovom slucaju pecat Whiff of Joy), pecat "pcela" - Stumpin' Up, obostrano lepljiva traka i nekoliko dugmica.

What I used:

Picture frame, of course, then two different papers for cards/scrapbook (n this case Sweet Shoppe Designs and Basic Grey), scissors, scalpel, rope, an image (in this case a Whiff of Joy stamp), a bee stamp from Stumpin' Up, doublesided tape and a few buttons.


 

Ispecatiran motiv sam obojila vodenim bojicama, da se slaze sa papirima, a zatim ga izrezala.
Ovaj motiv decaka sam izabrala
, jer sam planirala da uramim jednu svoju sliku sa sestricem, sto sam i uradila.

A stamped image I coloured with watercolour pencils, to match the papers, then I cut it out.
This image of a boy I chose because I wanted to frame one of my photos with my nephew, which I did. 
 
 

Koristeci obostranu lepljivu traku zalepila sam papir  sa jedne strane rama.
Using doublesided tape I attached the paper to one side of the frame.

 

Zatim sam ram okrenula i skalpelom isekla papir kao na slici iznad.
Then I turned the frame around and cut the paper, like in the photo above.

 
Koristeci  obostranu lepljivu traku, zalepila sam drugi papir na kvadrate u coskovima rama.
Using doublesided tape I attached the other paper on the cubes in the corners of the frame.


Sada je ram spreman za dalje ukrasavanje.
Now the frame is ready for further decorating.


 Vezala sam konac i koristeci istu taku zalepila motiv decaka, kao na slici iznad.
I tied the yarn/rope and using the same tape attached the image of a boy, like in the photo above.


Ispecatirala sam nekoliko puta "pcelu" na papiru.
I stamped the "bee" a few times on the paper.


Isto sam uradila i na ramu, ispecatirala sam pcelu na nekoliko mesta, a zatim obojila motive pcela na papiru i izrezala ih.
I did the same on the frame, I stamped the bee ina  few different places, then coloured the bee images on the paper and cut them out.


Na svakom mestu gde sam pecatirala motiv pcele na ramu, zalepila sam po jednu obojenu pcelu, tako da su krila ostala slobodna.
On each place where I stamped the bee on the frame I attached one coloured bee, leaving thir wings free.


Sa leve strane rama zalepila sam nekoliko dugmica, kao na slici iznad.
On the left side I attached a few different buttons, like in the photo above. 


I ram je bio spreman. :)
And the frame was ready. :)

 

Bila sam i jos uvek sam zadovoljna rezultatom. :) Nadam se da vam se svideo moj mali tutorijal.
I was and aI still am happy with the result. :) I hope you liked my little tutorial.  

 Ne zaboravite da se prijavite za moj slatkis/giveaway koji je u toku i otvoren za sve!!!
Don't forget to enter my blog candy/giveaway which is open for everyone!!!

Samo kliknite na sliku ispod. :)
Just click on the picture bellow. :)



Sunday 12 May 2013

Poklanjam cestitku / A card giveaway

Zdravo! 
Jedan kratak post, samo da vas obavestim da poklanjam jednu svoju cestitku, na mojoj "Valems cestitke" facebook strani.

Hello!
One short post only to let you know that I'm giving away a card on my "Vanja's handmade cards" facebook page

Ova cestitka je u pitanju, tako da, ako ste zainteresovani, pogledajte. :) 
 Znate vec 100% rucno pravljena, pecat Magnolia (korisceno vodootporno mastilo StazOn), bojeno akvarel bojicama isl.. 

 It's this card, so if you're interested, you can take a look. :)
You know, 100% handmade, stamp Magnolia ( I use water resistant ink, StazOn), coloured with watercolour pencils etc...

 Potrebno je samo da lajkujete moju facebook stranu i da kliknete "share" ispod slike cestitke  ( a naravno i da napisete komentar, cisto da znam da biste voleli da dobijete cestitku). I to je to.
Ja licno mislim da bi se svako obradovao da dobije ovako nesto
za rodjendan ili neku drugu priliku, kao mali znak paznje, tako da mozete da je poklonite dragoj osobi. :)
 
All you need to do, is like my facebook page , click "share" under the photo of the card (and of course write me a comment, so I would know that you would like to win the card). And that's it. 
I personally think that everyone would like to receive this for thir birthday, or other occasion, to show someone that we care about them, so you can give it to one of your loved ones. :)

Ja sam prosto zelela da obradujem nekog, 29. aprila bio mi je rodjendan, a 28. aprila sam se verila. :)
(u pripremi je i jedan veci giveaway/slatkis da to propisno proslavimo :) )

I simply wanted to make someone happy, it was my birthday on April 29th and I got engaged on April 28th. :) (and I'm preparing  a bigger giveaway to celebrate that properly :) )

Toliko za sad i budite u pripravnosti, jer kao sto rekoh, spremam jos jedno slatko iznenadjenje. :)

That's i for now, but stay tuned, because just as I said, I'll have another sweet surprise. :)


 

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