Shaker cards - CAS-ual Fridays challenge

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to our new CAS-ual Fridays challenge!
This challenge is all about Shakers!
Shakers are pretty trendy now and everyone makes shaker cards.
So why not to make one for our challenge and even to win some goodies?


 For my card I used one single, but outstanding CAS-ual Fridays stamp set and the matching dies.

CAS-ual Fridays products used to make this card:
Twinkle set
Stars Fri- dies

There are no genre restrictions for this challenge. Link up your clean and simple designs or layer it on -- the choice is yours.  Make sure to link back to this blog post and include the graphic below in your post for consideration of being chosen a winner.

What are your playing for? 10 winning entries will be highlighted on this blog each Thursday before a new challenge is set to go live the next day.  In addition, Michele has generously offered up a $25 gift certificate to the overall winner at CAS-ual Friday stamps. And if that weren't enough, if the chosen winner has used CAS-ual Friday stamps and/or dies as the main focus in the card, that gift certificate will increase to $50.

So don't wait! Play with us and you can be our WINNER!

Celbrate USA shaker card

Hello my dear crafty friends!

Today I want to celebrate with  my numerous USA friends .

So Happy 4 th of July to you all and here is a card I made for this celebration.

I enter this card to some web challenges:
Addicted to stamps and more- Celebrations

To be honest this is not a new card, but it was never published on web. This card was print published in the last  (they closed the publication) print issue of Craft Ideas with a full step by step tutorial.

Holidays gift tag with DV

Hello my dear crafty friends!

Irit is here again and how about another Holiday's tag?

It's so easy to make a very fancy Holidays tag with one single Die Versions Angelic die and some pretty papers.

Die cut the Angels background from pattered blue stars cardstock and make the tag mattings a bit larger than this die cut card sized piece.

Arrange the die cut over double sided glue sheet and add colorful assortment of glitters over the die cut piece.

I used three colors that were great fit for my cardstocks.

Add some titles and stickers, ribbons and twine and your easy made fancy tag is ready.

One thing on a top of another with TPD

Hello my dear crafty friends!
Today  I am going to share my last project for March made with Two Paper Divas gorgeous stamps and this time I used the whole Tea Cups set on this card.
I made 3 matings with Spellbinders dies and glitter cardstock and then stamped the cups and colored them with distress markers. The sentiment was stamped  on the bottom with black permanent ink.
Easy to make card and still very cute and lovely for any occasion.

Key to my heart

Hello my dear crafty friends!
Irit is here again and this is my last card made  in January with new DV release.
DV new release is totally different and totally delicious: new fantastic sets of dies and stamps make your crafty life easy and outstanding.
I love all combo sets  in the shop and I am very glad to get two sets that I love even more:
Tweety Pie dies and Tweety Pie stamps and Sail Away  dies and Sail away  stamps.
This is my second card made with Tweety Pie set and I also added one DV background die as my basic matting of this card (Ovals background)

This time I used a few pieces that were already die cut and I didn't use them on my first card.
And I still believe in gold as a color trend in 2015 I painted the lock and the key  with gold glitter , added a bit of clear glitter over the empty places and stamped the sentiment with red ink.
As Valentine is near, this is a very fast kind of cards to make just with one single die and stamp DV set.

 You can follow the Die-Versions Blog, Facebook Page, and shop till you drop at the Die-Versions Website!!!
 Hope you like my card and hope to see you here again soon with my next project.

You and me So Tweet!

Hello my dear crafty friends!
Irit is here and I am very happy to continue to design for Die-Versions for my second year.
DV new release is totally different and totally delicious: new fantastic sets of dies and stamps make your crafty life easy and outstanding.
I love all combo sets  in the shop and I am very glad to get two sets that I love even more:
Tweety Pie dies and Tweety Pie stamps and Sail Away  dies and Sail away  stamps.
So here is a first card I made with Tweety Pie set and it's just perfect for the soon to come Valentine.

I made the basic card with two matching glitter cardstock mattings and added this gold glitter panel as my stamped images base.
Gold is back and will be the most significant trend in the new 2015 year. So grab your gold glitters, pens, paints and embellishments and make this year your Golden one.
It was my very first time to work with matching dies and stamps and here are some tips for all of us who are new to this combos.
1. First die cut the images using a very thick cardstock. Do not disconnect the small dies in the set; keep them as is unless you want to loose some later...
2. Pick the images you want to stamp and the matching die cuts. Find the right way to stamp over the blank die cut piece as even if it seems to be symmetric, sometimes there is only one right way to stamp over the die cut piece.
That's it. Really easy and fun way to make lovely cards and crafts.

 As you can see I used glitter glue to color my  die cut and stamped images and added a few small rhinestones as bird's eyes and around the stamped sentiment.

 You can follow the Die-Versions Blog, Facebook Page, and shop till you drop at the Die-Versions Website!!!
 Hope you like my card and hope to see you here again soon with my next project.

Hannukah with IBS

Hello my dear crafty friends!
This a month of Holidays all around the world and here in Israel we celebrate Hanukkah.
So lucky me could do this fancy Hanukkah card with a very new IBS Big Holidays sentiment. But then I had to make my own Menorah - this is this 9 candle stand we use to light our candles for each day of 8 days of Hanukkah.

I used IBS Fancy Labels 1 set and made this Menorah base with cutting two biggest dies together and then cutting it to half. Then I added this free cut stand and made all 9 candles using Basic Backgrounds Chevron stamp with red heat embossed image and orange misting over the paper. All 9 candles were free hand cut and arranged with 3d foam glue . The flames were made with puffy heat embossed medium.
 I used the very same dies to made the base for my sentiment.

Just  remember: Hanukkah cards can be done in traditional silvers and blue, but them you can sure add all colors of lights, such as orange, yellow, red etc and it's still a very traditional Hanukkah colors.

Sweet Stamps challenge #121: Parchment

Hello my dear crafty friends!
Today is our Sweet Stamps Parchment week challenge.
I am not much of a parchment person. I don't have tools or even much of thick good vellum to make it, but Sweet Stamps  have a lot of great stamps made for parchment and it's so easy to make a faux one that looks exactly like a real parchment.
So here is my take of this challenge:  Six Heart Medallion stamp  was stamped with White Die ink   over clear white  vellum and then heat embossed with  Fine Detail White EP.

I stamped it twice and hand cut  both layers, making the second one smaller and then made this 2 layers medallion.
The sentiment was stamped the very same way over the same vellum and I made this  simply, but elegant card that is good for any occasion. Then I added a light layer of Smooch Sassy  Pink  ink over the white medallion for more interest.

And now is your turn: play with our parchment challenge and you can win some delicious goodies too!

Inspired by Stamping March stamp release: Pirates

Hello my dear crafty friends! Today is a last day of my Inspired by Stamping March release show.
My last stamp set  for this day is Pirates set.
This is  kind of artsy card, not a greeting one. I used Pirates set, but added Tim Holtz metal sentiment that was a great fit for the theme.Please click on the photo to see that's it all is in your imagination.







It's Free shipping for any $25 and more order during March 10th for 24 hours .No code required and it will be ended March 11 th 7 PM Brisbane time.
Buy all 6 new sets as a bundle and you get 10% discount and free shipping too.
And finally our BLOG CANDY: comment in Joanna's blog during all release days and you can win a gift card each day! It's 5 total chances to win some great stamps randomly! Just comment!
I enter this to some web challenges
Monochromatic for Cards for men

Learn from your mistakes

This page was done for those who , like me, need to learn from their mistakes. If you are not this glimmery kind of girl- don't buy those fancy dresses and then ask yourself " why". So this is a page about me and about this issue. Please, read my journaling to understnad it all.
I used A2Z chipboards and Handmade Halo items here, as well as washi tape, lot of gems  and 3 old alpha sets.I made this  page for C'est Manifique sketch November challenge and I hope they like it.

Just me

This project was published in SNR May 2012 issue
This time a very delicate lo made with MME products,  old Best Creation chipboards I got when I was on there DT as my publication credits and they are perfect, some Maya Road zipper trim and a few Pink Paislee octagons. I don't really " feel" this octagon mania, but I used some as my template and just left 3 as is. But then, we need some new products to use, don't we? So I used this new May release from Inspired by Stamping Inspired Sentiments set, 4 of all stamps, on this page and their lovely flowers, sold in the SHOP, too.

And some close- ups over the stamped sentiments

Sweet as always- our Tamar

This page was published in Scrap 365 UK print magazine August 2012 issue
Another lo with my adorable niece photo: this time in this minimalistic style with background stamping (TRC Grandma's Doilies and some homemade stamps with circles), all white heat embossed. The photo cluster was made with Crate products, same line and I stamped the journalling lines with TRC Background stamp, just a piece of it, masking all thing around.

I made a hand writing journaling , but added another stickers - Authentique Paper- journaling spot on the top. The chipboards are Best Creation and I added this leftover plastic circle from Tacky Tape with Baker's Twine over the photo. Some more hand stitching was added randomly over the page.

And finally those Epiphany Crafts circles- all 3 possible- small, big and scalloped were added.

Dream in Color

 This page will be published in SNR April 2012  issue
This lo was made for WOW Embossing powders blog hop and I was told to make a page about things I love about myself. Too bad, as I don't like to share my very personal thoughts with all my Blogoland friends, so I decided to make this page about myself, but without this " I am...." things. But then I thought that I can do it kind of a personal one as I  usually I am a very Black and White person (no grey in between, totally straight and no rounding corners), but my crafty life and my dreams are colorful. So Best Creation Black and White glitter papers  were just perfect for this page.  Them I made this rainbow flower swirl chipboard (A2Z Scraplets) with 6 Wow Embossing Powders (I don't have Orange and Light Blue, so I inked those 2 colors and used a Clear Glossy Regular powder on those colors. The long title was a must to explain this page and the last word was also heat embossed in color.
Here is my product list for this lo:
Wow Embossing  Powders Stamps Butterflies (swirls over the embossed areas)
Wow Embossing Powders : Suzy West Cable red, California Sunshine,Bay Area Blue, Presidio  Purple, Tea Garden Green, Clear Glossy Regular
Cardstock: Best Creation
Chipboard: A2Z Scraplets
Letters: Robin's Nest (white), AC (Black),Maya Road (bare)
Buttons: Dress it Up
Hearts : Epiphany Crafts Heart Tool and bubbles

You all are invited to hop with up for this Love week- we have great giveaway in

Wow blog later this week.

Hello fall card

I adore fall, not the rain, but colors and weather and not using AC all the time and I love fall craft products too. So this very new fall line from Best Creation was just perfect for this card .

I made the wrap  recycling the white plastic inside from this orange Wonder tape I use all the time.

Then I just use papers from 6*6 pad, stickers and added those lovely EC vintage setting with round epoxy and 3 EC handmade buttons.Robin's nest ribbon was the last product used here.

Rock your wild world card

 Best Creations papers, stickers and chipboard were used for this card I made for Eyelet Outlet sketch challenge- I got those "wild" brads about 2 years ago and never used them. I also used eyelets from this company- CHA 2009 grab bags I got  is kind of " use your stush" project for me now



Celebrate card

This card was published in SNR July 2011 issue

Made with Best Creation goodies and lot of  home die cuts

My wild cat lo

This fun lo was made for Tando Creative " Going wild" Challenge. I had to use Tando products and the theme, so this fun " cat" photo of my DH from some Orlando park was there and never scrapped. Just  be sure: he is not a wild and not a cat, more a  pretty funny lion. So 2 Tando chipboard pieces were added, one covered with glitter and flock and second painted and 3d glued.I also used the very last pieces of Best Creation Safari Boy papers- this was a very first collection I got as their DT member and I used it a lot since

YOU ARE INVITED to Play with Tando challenge- there prozes to grab and you pick them if you win

Keep in touch card

This page was published in Ready- Set- Create web magazine Oct/Nov 2011 issue
I never use a lot of 3d stickers, but this AC set was just so cute that I decided to buy it and actually to use 3 of 4 shapes for this card. They were just perfect for this " keep in touch" sentiment.
And some challenges too
Anything goes for Clear it up
Recipe - faux stitching, scallopes, die cuts, just becase card etc- for  Catered Crop
Stitching for Art Impressions Stamps

More bits and pieces with CLD dies

From time to time I collect all projects I did using CLD  fantastic dies- even if it's 2-3 dies only and make a post with some of them.. So this post is my new " collection" of projects using CLD dies, even if I used just one or 2- they make  the difference.

So here we go.

The first project was made with Waves border die for this fun summery lo - actaully this was a very first die I used on this DT and it's time to grab it back for use- summer is here and watery pages too.

I also added the cut sea shapes using this Sea shells border die and then I moved to cards and made this clean and simple card with a bit of a same die

This Prima oriented page was a bit bare- so I decided to add this huge Oriental  Butterfly Doily- cut several times and horray- the butterfly was just a perfect touch

And the last one- this page was made for Pretty Little Studio DT call- and I actually made the team, maybe because I used lots of CLD Little Nested Inverted  Scalloped Cirles cutting the home fabric prints

So as you can see here, CLD dies cut printers fabric just perfectly, try it too.

I have more and more to share, but I think it's just fine for this week.

What to try something similar? Go to our shop and pick some great dies too.

See you next week with more fun projects.



Wish you were here card

Published in SNR magazine May 2011 issue

Best Creation goodies on this simple collaged travel card