Christmas Artistic Trading Coins with BoBunny

 Hello my dear crafty friends!

Irit from Irit Shalom Designs is here today with my first project made with the most adorable and newest Yuletide Carol collection.

This is a totally traditional Christmas collection- colors, designs and sayings .

But I decided to make totally new and not so traditional Artistic Trading Coins set.

 Let me explain you a bit about Artistic Trading coins first.
Most of us met and made ATC- Artistic Trading Cards- the small cards that fit the baseball cards plastic pockets.
Some of us even made Artistic Trading Cubes- 3'' cubes embellished from all 4 sides and on the top that can be folded and mailed in the envelope.
Artistic Trading Coins are the new thing that became trendy  during last few months and actually it's 2.5'' cardstock/chipboard/paper/ wooden circle that is pretty flat as we need to swap them and to mail them inside the envelope.
So here are my take of this new trend using this adorable Christmas collection.
I made 6 coins in the same colors and in the same designs.
Each and every " coin" has two cardstock circle layers and then Combo stickers, layered chipboards and Noteworthy die cuts from the very same collections were added on the top.
Some of the coins were embellished with BoBunny die cut from dies, brads, jewels or buttons.
Yet they are still very flat and you can mail them inside the regular envelope.
The first one here has a die cut candle, die cut cardstock layer and some jewels one it.

The second coin was embellished with gold heat embossed wooden shapes, Noteworthy die cuts and jewels.

This coin was covered with Gold glitter paste on the edges.

 The next one has a die cut layer made from the collection cardstock.

The next one is very similar to the second piece, but still totally different.

 The last one is the fanciest one as there are heart die cut, stickers, brad and even button on it.

 And if swaps are not your cup of tea- just add some strings on the back of the coins and you would have 6 adorable hand made Christmas tree ornaments.

Product list

Yuletide Carol collection 12'': O Tannenbaum, Presents, Joyous, Carol, Christmas

Yuletide Combo Stickers

Yuletide Layered chipboards

Yuletide Noteworthy die cuts

Belief dies

Christmas card dies

Double Dot Emerald jewels

Double Dot Ruby Red Jewels

Double Dot Citrus Jewels

Double Dot Emerald brads

American Crafts Sticky thumb glue runner

 American Crafts Sticky thumb 3d foam glue

 I really hope that you like my small art creations today and see you next week with more BoBunny Christmas treasures  using another new and just released Christmas collection! Wait and see how gorgeous this second collection is

All about ATC -and it's not just Artistic Trading cards - with BoBunny

Hello my dear crafty friends!
Irit from Irit Shalom's Designs is here today and I am going to share with you all about ATC.
As you all most probably know ATC was first  Artistic Trading cards item-baseball card size small artistic project that was traded and kept in the baseball cards plastic pocket. And this was sore for two decades.
Then the crafters around the world felt bored and decided that C can be changed to ... cube.
So Artistic Trading Cubes were born: small 3'' squared cube made  from one single cardstock piece and embellished on 5 sides. It also can be folded and mailed for swapping.
Then about 6 months ago the brain stormed artists decided that C can be also for Coins. And so Artistic Trading Coins were born: 2.5'' circled art pieces that are embellished, stamps, misted, painted and whatever and can be mailed and traded.
So today I am going to share all three ATC kinds that were made with one single BoBunny collection named Sunshine Bliss and all of them are  in this correct ATCs size and ready for swap.

 This is my collection of two coins, two cards and one cube.
Also I used stencils, glitter paste and stamps these are not really Mixed Media art pieces, but more scrapbooking style collaged ones.
And this is the glory of BoBunny products: you can make classic projects with them or to move to Mixed Media art. It just depends on your style and your own skills.
So here are the first " born" of ATC- Trading cards.

Both cards are made in the same way: American Crafts black cardstock base. Then Sunshine Bliss die cut rectangle. Over the rectangle BoBunny stencil with Black glitter paste was used and then Noteworthy die cut pieces and Combo stickers were added to finish the card.
ATC must be pretty flat art piece as you are going to mail it in the flat envelope, so I stopped on this level of layers. Some background stamps were used around the upper layers to add more artistic interest to the card.

The next are Coins: same way of crafting and pretty much same style and look.

 And here are the flat pieces all together:

 And now the last C for the Cube.

The cube should not be glued so you can fold it and to ship it. I glued it as I wanted better photos from a few sides.

So here are some close- ups to some sides and to the embellished top:

 So I hope that you understood all kinds of ATC projects and maybe would try to make some of your own with BoBunny delicious paper collections!

Product list
BoBunny 
Sunshine Bliss collection: Peace, Charm, Felicity, Sunshine Bliss, Serene 12*12'' cardstock
Sunshine Bliss Combo Stickers
Sunshine Bliss Noteworthy
Sunshine Bliss Layered chipboards
Mandala Garden stencils
Rough it up stamp
Trellis Square die
Licorice Glitter paste
Clover Pansy flowers
Buttercup Dahlia flowers
American Crafts:
Textured solid cardstock Black
Sticky Thumb glue runner
Sticky Thumb Adhesive foam dots
 AC Black ink

Thanks for being here with me today and see you soon again with a totally different inspiration!

Magenta ATC trio with more than dozen products

 Hello my dear crafty friends! Welcome to my very last post as Magenta DT member.
It was a lovely year long trip with this company and it's over now.
So as my last tribute to this design team I made an ATC trio using not less then 5 Magenta stencils and 8 Magenta stamps just to make those small and adorable art pieces.
I made the backgrounds with white texture paste and 3 different stencils.
Then I added black glitter over two more Magenta stencils.
When it was dry it was Painted with Prima paints.
Stamped imaged were made over white tissue paper with permanent ink and glued with Gel medium over the textured pieces.
As the last, but no least, part of the design butterflies and bees were stamped over white cardstock, painted, glittered and hand cut.
Here are some larger photos of my ATC:

Vintage pocket letter with CCB

 Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new Canvas Corp blog post.

This pocket letter was made with CCB PRODUCTS and I made a full step by step tutorial for you to follow in the company blog HERE!
So here are some more close- ups to this project:

 I really hope that you like pocket letters and liked my post.
Thanks for being here with me today!

Fun ATC set with Topflight Stamps

Hello my dear crafty friends!Welcome to my new Topflight Stamps shop blog post.
We invite you to our daily sales that we have in Topflight Stamps shop for 12 days before Christmas.
Watch the shop for today's sale!
Irit is here today and I am going to share a set of 4 Mixed Media ATC cards made with the most gorgeous PaperArtsy stamp set- Eclectica Sara Naumann 21 set.
 I know that we are close to all winter Holidays , but as I live in a very hot country and we still wear our short sleeves here I decided to make this bright and bold ATC set . I did it mostly because of the stamps I have for this week, not because of my Spring mood.

 First each ATC card was stamped with one of 4 stamps from the set using permanent black ink.
Then I made the background using some stencils (one is a honeycomb as we have a bee as one of 4 stamps here). Stencils were used with texture paste and when dry I painted all over with acrylic paints from Prima.
Then each image was stamped again over black cardstock using clear embossing ink and then heat embossed with white embossing powder.
Then each stamped image was hand cut partially and glued over the original background stamped image.
The words on the stamps made this " Explore Beauty" saying as it should be for any ATC set.
Here are the single ATC cards for you to see with more details.
As you can see the embossing powder was not the fine kind, but pretty much grainy, but as we are talking Mixed Media art pieces it looks just fine.

 And this is the stamp set I used to make this project:

Eclectica Sara Naumann 21 set

I hope that you liked my ATC set and love PaperArtsy stamps as much as I do.

You can  buy this set and much more in the Topflight Stamps shop.

And if you wish to see more of my work you are kindly invited to my own blog.

Bees ATC duo set with Magenta

  

Hello my dear crafty friends!
Today I am going to share a couple of simple, but yet lovely ATC cards made with one Magenta stencil as the background, one small Magenta stamp as the main image and just one sentiment that was cut into two parts and added on both ATC pieces.

The background was made with Chicken wire stencil and light gel medium over black cardstock ATC blanks, so it's not much raised over the cardstock. When it was dry the metallic acrylic paint were added and the gel medium borders were colored into the light golden yellow.
Then I just added the splashes of more metallic acrylics colors using a paint brush and the old tooth brush.

The bees were stamped over white cardstock  with pigmented black ink (Memento Luxe) and then heat embossed with clear embossing powder.
All six bees were hand cut and then painted with yellow marker and clear glitter glue was added over the wings.

I added a die cut flowers made with black die cut under the white one and painted the white with more acrylics to fit the card colors.
The sentiment was stamped over white cardstock with permanent black ink and hand cut into pieces that were adhered over both cards.
Gold acrylic was added around the edges.
Both ATC backgrounds were covered with a light layer of glaze, but it's hardly seen over all colors.

  

Steampunk ATC trio

Hello my dear crafty friends!

Today I am going to share my new ATC trio.

Lately, when I have spare time, I make a couple of ATC.

Those small art cards are so fun and fast made and lovely.

So here is my new trio- Steampunk style, made with Art Anthology stencils, paints, mists together with heat embossing , crackle mediums, metal parts, resin self  casted parts, chipboards, real metal window net and Tim Holtz stickers.

I also enter them to a couple of web challenges:

Simon Says Monday challenge- ATC

Found magic Urban ATC set with Art Anthology

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my first Art Anthology August tutorial.

Today I made a set of three ATC in this dark industrial urban look and as always I have a full tutorial for you made with a Snapguide.

 Let me show you each and every ATC card:

 Here is a full tutorial for you to see:

Check out How to Make a Set of Industrial ATC by Art Anthology on Snapguide.
 I really hope that you liked my grungy ATC set!
Thanks for visiting my blog!

Grunge set of 4 ATC

ATC cards are fun and I really love to make them.
So those  small grungy cards I made were made for some web challenges.

Backgrounds were made with texture paste, stencils (Scrapmatts), embossing powders, stamping (BoBunny), heat embossing and misting.
Then I added chipboards (Scrapmatts) painted with acylics (Pentart) and clay casted pieces. Everytning was painted again over and over with Pentart paints. Crackle paste was added over some pieces and Scrapmatts words were glued to make it count as real ATC cards.
Here are all ATC shown one by one:

I enter this to some web challenges:
Mixed Media and Art- small art and architecture- all pieces are small and two are connected to architecture


Simon Says Monday challenge- Touchy feely- texture and more texture
Words and Paitery- colors, rust, love (love for grunge, steampunk and ATC)

Mixed Media Monthly- #28 Rusty challenge


SDAE- Steampunk/Industrial