Clean and simple Love

The DT girls on Inspired by Stamping were asked to make a card for Addicted to stamping challenge and this time I made this very simple and even clean card, using just one stamped circled label and a sentiment from IBS. I also added one die cut Fancy Label from IBS, dry embossed  over the Kraft cardstock and used Glitz papers  and a very old resist heart embossed with the same Red Apple Wow!Embossing Powder as the stamped image.
And as I am in my " use your own stash" year, the old plastic pink pin was added and one Halo resin flower too.(This one is not old, but I have it for 6 month or so)

Happy Birthday tag

Made with Helmar sketch and Helmar  glues (thanks to my previous DT  product swaps I have a lot of it ) , 7 Gypsies paper, tags , VLVS , WOW! Embossing Powders (sentiment), Inspired by Stamping (words on tabs) stamps, Sizzix  die cut tabs, Tim Holtz metal clips,some pink and black ink and a lot of layers.

I enter it to Helmar challenge- I used Helmar premium craft glue  as my flat adhesive and Helmar Zapdots for the dimension.
 I also enter this to Pan Pastel Birthday challenge
Use Kraft for Addicted to Stamps challenge
 Layer it up for Joanna Sheen
Tag for Love rubber stamps-
Tag for Shopping our stash-

Lot of Love with WOW! and Tando

Hello, my dear crafty friends! Also Valentine Day is over for this year, but I want to share my Valentine Mixed Media project made with WOW! Embossing Powders and Tando Creative chipboards.

First I covered all chipboards with white pigmented ink (Clearsnap), them I covered them with Red, Pink and Pastel Pink embossing powders and I made it 3 times. Then I added a thick layer of Clear High Rich embossing powders over them and the mix of hot melted powders gave me this unique look.

I made the chain with old recycled gold plated chain, added a fabric brad over one chipboard and made  two ribbon bows around this huge metal key. All together this is a nice usable key /bag chain (to be sure that it will last for a long time I also covered the back of my chipboards with clear embossing powder.
 And this is my extra embossed project: the small and lovely  magnet all full of love and embossing powders. All made with Tando Creative chipboards, 4 of them and covered with a mix of WOW Embossing powders

Here are some close ups to embossed parts.

Happy Valentine (also maybe for  next year already)!

Visible Image Friday: White embossed easy cards

Hello my dear crafty friends! Today is Friday and it's my new Visible Image weekly post.
For this post I decided to make 2 easy cards, both with stamped and white heat embossed images and to show  you how easy it can be done with Visible Image gorgeous stamps.
My first card was made with Ten Little Fingers stamps and both  Baby  Feet and Baby Hands stamps , all from Baby Stamp set. I  used a very old SU papers, stamped over the orange patterned paper (with white embossing you can stamp over any colored paper and it's still white and shiny).
I made some border punching, added some heart buttons, some Pink Paislee bracket stickers and an office staple over the top. The colors are not a very usual baby ones and I think that it can be used both for girls and boys.

My second card is  very general Thank you card made with a sentiment from  More than Words SET 7.
I made a multiple random stamping with Small Winter Tree stamp, heat embossed it with white powder, added Petallo flowers (you can make your own too, I was lazy), some red stickles and a chipboard corner. All papers are Glitz and a resin hat is from Halo Handmade shop.

See you next week with more Visible Image inspiration.

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Life treasures with my Dad

This is  another new lo in memory of  beloved Dad. He was a well known composer and this photo strip is all about him: his smile, his work. I made it in monochromatic brown- grey tons  with just a bit of color (MME papers) and with gorgeous A2Z Scraplets chipboards covered with WOW!Embossing powders black powder and some back ground stamping too.

I enter this to B/w PHOTO challenge for Inkido

Vintage" Miss you" card

New vintage card made with Inspired by Stamping lot of stamps, Graphic 45 papers and some vintage goodies (the flower a lace tape  are also  from Inspired by Stamping shop). This card was made for Addicted to Stamping challenge blog as we, the IBS team, were all asked to play with this Vintage challenge.

Capture the moment with Faber Castell Design Memory Craft

My new Mixed Media page is in Faber Castell Design Memory Craft blog today with a full tutorial too.
Please visit the blog.  There are lot of photos there and a full page made with Faber Castell Design Memory Craft products, but also with Handmade Halo, A2Z Scraplets, Visible Image stamps and much more. And if you have a minute- please leave me some love there, I really need some comments! Thanks a lot!

Timeless Love of my dear parents

My dear parents were married for 57 years. And they were madly on love  till the last second last year when my Dad passed away. So this new Mixed Media page is my tribute to this endless love and so perfect for this month love themed challenges. I made it with Prima February sketch.

Here you see it with journaling, but this is a hidden spot, as you can see on the next photo. Great way to keep your journaling under the photo spot.

It is made in totally nontraditional love colors and a lot of mediums, mists, paints and some stamping and it's a pure Prima page with A2Z Scraplets only.

And as it was made for some challenges- here is a list of them
White space (not white, but without anything at all, but paints) for Berry 71 Bleu
Love with hearts and pink for 13 arts
 Mad about scrapping: embellishment cluster, favorite colors, 2 techniques (modling paste under mist, dripping colors, but I have much more, like stamping backgrounds etc)-
B/w photo- for Inkido
Non traditional love colors for Quick Quotes
Love for Zeus and Zoe
 Felt (flower and leave) for Scrap it girl
 Love for Get creative
 Hearts for Scrap Africa
 Not a card for Hot shot crafts
 Romance for Emergency Crafters
 Love for Heck of a challenge
 Love for Ladybug  crafts
 Love- use your imagination for Pumpkin spice

Dream in color

New page full of color in black and white. I used Dew Drops to make this Dream circle and added A2Z Scraplets January  new  release title.

Lot of WOW! Embossing powders around this page, all possible colors used over the rainbow circle.
And my other addiction: washi tapes and no patterned paper at all.
Made with Swat SKETCH
Washi tape for The paper girls
 Washi tapes for IAMDOE

Some love for you

February is this Love month, so it's obvious that we all make a lot of Love projects.
This is one of my cards: old Unity stamps (great heart stamps, even if they are old), Glitz papers, washi tape flower and covered with washi button and Handmade Halo resin (lucky me has a lot of those gorgeous resins to use)

I enter this to some Love web challenges too

Washi for I am doe

 Love for Ladybug crafts

 Hearts for The stamp spot

Hearts for Art impressions

 Hearts for Great Impressions

 Romance for Sweet stamps

 Love with pink and hearts for 13arts

Smile , kiss and Love printers tray

This heart shaped  Tando Creative printers tray was in my stash for last 4-5 month and I just  made it for Prima February PPP and for some more web challenges and I think that I am in love with this shaped tray!
All products are Prima: paper, stamps, flowers, charms, felt etc. The only non Prima items are the tray itself, embossing powder and crackled paint over the tray.

And now for some web challenges too
 Not a card for Sarah Hurley
Hearts for Great Impressions
 Vintage/shabby for Anything goes
 Love with pink and hearts for 13arts
 Felt for Scrap it girl
 Love for Zeus and Zoe
 Love for Kiwilane
 Hearts for Scrap Africa
 Love for Paper craft journey
 Love for Sincerely yours creations
  Love for VS sweet ideas
 Love for Come and get it
 Hugs and kisses for Creative  crafts
 Love in the air for Ribbon Carousel
 Hearts for Belli
 Love and romance for Divas by design
Not a card for Hot shot crafts
 Love for Creatalicious
 Love for Heck of  challenge
 Love for Ladybug crafts
Love for Pan pastel

Visible Image Friday: Inky fingers and a lot of colors

Hello, my dear stamping friends! This is my new VISIBLE IMAGE Friday and today I am going to share a very cool and messy technique with fantastic colored results.

First of all you need a piece of glossy cardstock as this works better over the glossy one (try a  good quality photo paper if you don't have a " real" glossy cardstock, it works too). Then you need 3 primary colors of Staz-On inks: red , blue and yellow. Those 3 will give us all possible colors of rainbow after we mix them. Then you need  the black pigmented ink of any kind I am pretty much sure we all have. And last, but not least- our Visible Image best ever  The Sewing Room  set and a couple of Visible Image background stamps. I picked Check Background and Grunge Polka  Dot, but any square and dotted ones will work too.
Now for the technique.
1. Stamp a central image with black ink, make a mask (just stamp another same image, cut it and  cover your stamped image with it). Now stamp around some backgrounds and fill the " holes" with small stamps (I used buttons and spools).Cover it all with clear embossing powder and heat emboss it all.
2. Add red ink  with a sponge  over the central part and  and over 2 corners. Now  go for blue ink on 2 other corners and mix  a bit. Now add yellow ink over all  bare places and mix all inks with a clean sponge. Can you see all possible colors shown? It's purple and orange and green and so bright and shiny!
3. Now for the boring part- outline all possible shapes with white pen (Uniball is the best)
4. Add some black enamel paint over the dots and Glossy Accents over the big images. Glue the title (I used AC foam letters ) and make some white pen dots over them too. You " art card" is finished. This is a great technique for any art page too, also as far as I know most of  art journals don't  have glossy cardstock pages, so just glue one over the page.

Hope you like my small tutorial and see you next week with more Visible Image projects!

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Also play with our challenge. Make some Love and Valentine creations with any stamp from any company and you can win a great prize and TOP 3 badge too.
 I also enter this to Simon says stamps and show Messy challenge
Bold colors for Frosted designs

Happy Valentine with Inspired by Stamping challenge

Happy Valentine to all my friends and lot of Love all over the world! Here is my new card made for Inspired by Stamping #46 Inspirational challenge. I just love those colors!
Hope you like my card too

I used Inspired by Stamping stamps, ribbon and Scrap Cake paper together with American Crafts cardstock and some  old blings. Embossing was made with WOW!Embossing Powders Copper and Pink powders and the die? Inspired by Stamping very first labels die set. Hope for much more to come.
Now enter our challenge and you can win some great goodies to make some similar cards too!
 I enter this to IAMROSES challenge- those are their roses there.

Just to wish you all Happy Valentine

My box full of roses!
I enter it to IAMROSES challenge- all their flowers in this box.

My perfect journey lo

This is another " All about me page" made in Mixed Media style. Prima papers, some recycled cork, lots of stamps, some chipboards (the swirl is a Rak I got from Words or Whatever), some Handmade Halo goodies, title  from there too, some vintage buttons from my junk box, some washi here and there and a lot of watercolors.

Valentine key chain: Mixed Media art 100 Proof Press

Hello, my dear crafty friends! Happy Valentine day to you!

 This time I used  100 Proof Press  Sweet  Valentine  Hearts  stamp  and in those red and white Valentine colors. This piece is a totally wearable piece of  art  with stamping, heat embossing, using chipboard and some metals.

First I used Tando Creative chipboard jewelry piece, covered it with clear embossing ink and embossed with Silver embossing powder. Then I stamped a woman face  using Small Face Block (this stamp has 4 small faces and I just used one), punched it with Epiphany Crafts round 25 tool , added the right  epoxy and framed into EC metal charm. As it was a bit naked I added some Robin's Nest small dew drops over using Glossy Accents. The central piece was stamped with Valentine stamp (also just part of it seen because it's  much bigger), covered with clear embossing powder and heat embossed it. The women's " body" is a gorgeous piece from Handmade Halo shop, all others Advantus findings or even some real vintage ones.

And now for some thanks  to my recent and previous design teams for almost all products:
Tando Creative for chipboards
100 Proof Press for stamps
Wow! Embossing Powders  UK for powders
Handmade Halo Shop  for crystal piece
and my previous Epyphany Crafts for tools, epoxies and charms I still have and use and Robin's Nest for Dew Drops.
I am so glad I picked the right teams to try and they picked me. Mutual love!

Inspired by Stamping February tutorial

Hello my dear stamping friends!

This is my new tutorial made for Inspired by Stamping blog  and you all are invited to visit the blog and to try this lovely and very easy technique.

Dream in color with Faber Castell Design Memory craft

My guest design post is today in Faber Castell Design Memory Craft blog.

If you want to see a full step by step article- please visit their blog and leave me some love too. I really love to see your comments on the blog post there!

Thanks !

Your hot hat

My lovely grandson's new hat and he even likes it.
Lily Bee products and some BG ones and A2Z Scrapelts new release banner on the bottom.

Back to my handmade Calendar: January and February pages

About a month ago I  got this lovely blank calendar from 100 Proof Press shop and made the cover. I decided to make the monthly page each month and to show it in my blog, but January was a very busy blog month with a few guest design teams etc, so I will show you both January and February pages at once and then continue with monthly  posts.
So here is the cover again-  with full Calendar  Blocks stamp.

I decided to make my monthly pages in the very  similar layout: a tag, a month stamped and cut from the 12 month calendar stamp, an open book stamp and small stickers month name over it. The colors are a fit to the month, some washi tape keeps the tag  and some small embellishments.
So he is my January: winter blues and greys, some shiny color splashes, a metal charm painted with enamel paint over it. It screams Winter and January. (Authentique papers as my double background)

And now for February- also it's still winter, I made it in a very vintage Valentine style , with Pion Designs  papers, pink letters, some mute Petaloo flowers and a gorgeous Handmade Halo glass pebble.
Again- month February stamped and cut and the open book to make the word with stickers. And yes, it's a bit bulky and after 3-4 4 month I need to take some embellishments off if I want to leave it on the wall. So what? I love it this way for a whole month!

Hope you like it too.
Want to make a similar project? 100 Proof Press blank calendar is in the shop and 2 stamps you need to make this project are there too: Calendar and Open Book. Everything else is " whatever you have at home and don't use...". So go and use it!

Visible Image Friday : Best wishes card

Hello, dear crafty friends!

 It's Friday and  it's Visible Image new post  day.
Today I am going to show you a card I made with Immortal Love Rose stamp and one on the new sentiment More than Words  Set 7  stamps. This is a very general feminine card that can be used for all possible occasions.

 

I used 4 layers of Scrap Cake patterned paper as a base and then stamped the rose 4 times, colored it with Faber Castell Gelatos, glazed and glittered the hand cut the images  and made the middle one double layered using 3d foam glue. I also stamped the sentiment over the same range  or the paper and embellished it with Prima blings and Word or Whatever leave chipboard.  Pretty simple (for me anyway) card and yet very fancy.

Subscribe on our newsletter! All information is in our blog!Great deals, ideas, prizes and anything you need for more stamping inspiration. You can find all info in our Blog. And last , but not least: the shipping costs all around the world are just 3$ flat rate and are free for UK. Really very low price for the International shipping and you can buy as much as you want for this flat rate cost of shipping. Great deal!

And Like our FB page too- lots of " for the members only" promos can be found there.

Also play with our challenge. Make some Love and Valentine  creations with any stamp from any company and you can win a great prize and TOP 3 badge too.