Believe in Fantasy Mixed Media canvas

Hello my dear crafty friends!
This is my second art piece made this month just for some web challenges.
I used Lindy's Stamp Gang mists from November challenge to make this piece and this is the first challenge I add thei canvas for.

Lindy's Stamp Gang November challenge
Sprays used:
Urban Amethyst, Tweedle Dee Denim, Steampunk Sepia, Grab a Guy Gold and King Midas Gold embossing powder



 Country view challenges - Stencils
 Non card challenges- Bingo
I picked the diagonal- Digital picture,Mask, Flowers line
 

Steampunk ATC with Topflight stamps

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

As you most probably already know I am a big fan of all things Steampunk and when it's our " free projects" weeks I try to make something in my favorite style.

So today I am going to share a couple of Steampunk ATC card and each one is a real piece of Steampunk art.

Both ATC were made with Carabelle Studio stamps that were stamped with black pigmented ink (my latest love is Memento Luxe  pigmented inks) that then were heat embossed with black embossing powder. 

Then the embossed cardstock was painted with Prima Marketing Mixed Media paints and some, not much, of embellishments were added to these small cards.

This is the first card and it was embellished with metal cogs and one clay handmade piece.

The second art card was embellished in the same style: a couple of metal cogs and one single clay piece.

 Isn't it a fun and quick way to make a bunch of ATC for any Steampunk swap?
Just stamp a large cardstock piece, paint over the heat embossed images and then cut it to the right ATC size.
Embellish with whatever you have in hand and swap with you Steampunk lover friends.
And  now for the stamps used on this project that you can buy from Topflight shop:

Steampunk Time Machine

Steampunk Butterfly

Thanks for reading my weekly post.

If you would like to see more of my work you are mostly welcome to my own blog.
 See you all next weeks with a totally different stamping inspiration!

Imagine the art world altered canvas with Art Anthology

Hello my dear crafty friends! Irit is here today and my project is actually a small tribute to my love of arts and as you can see from the project it's not just fine arts, but everything art related. On this wall decoration I made a collage of all possible arts and you can find ballet, music, fine arts, movies and theatre that all together make this imaginative project. I used canvas as my base and then arranged the collage using chipboards, wooden piece, clay pieces and all together was painted and misted with Art Anthology products.

  As always I made the full step by step tutorial for you to follow HERE: Check out How to Make All You Need Is Art Canvas by Art Anthology on Snapguide.

 And here is a full Art Anthology products list: Scale stencil  Squared stencil Cayman Sorbet Orchide Velvet Cameo Sorbet Fiji Velvet Wisteria Sorbet Rose Velvet Vegas Gold Sorbet Wild Orchid Colorations spray


As you can see it's just an inspirational project. You can make it with other items as your own tribute to arts. On the other hand it can be done as a tribute to sports, nature, technology or whatever topic you choose. Hope you  liked my wall deco and see you next month with more Art Anthology inspiration!
 

Smile altered canvas with Art Anthology

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my first July tutorial made with Art Anthology products.

 Irit is here again and this time I made a small, card sized, altered Mixed Media canvas in a dark , but yet shabby style.

The background was made with Art Anthology stencils and dimensional paints and also it was made over black gesso you can see the shiny purple paint seen over the canvas.

The flowers cluster was misted with black Colorations spray and then painted with a few other AA paints.
The die cut cardstock pieces were also painted to fit the colors of the project.
Two other pieces added here are the clay mold fairy and a chipboard title ; both were painted to get the colors desired for the finished project.

As Check out How to Make Small Mixed Media Dark Canvas by Art Anthology on Snapguide.always you can see the full Snapguide  step by step tutorial HERE:

And here is a list of Art Anthology products used to make this small piece of art.

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

Tando with black modelling paste

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my first June post in Tando blog.
This week we were challenged to use Black modelling paste on our projects and I used it the very first time as I usually just add black paint into white paste. But the black one works just perfect!
 I made the background with Tando Harlequin mask over Tando Media board and then heat dried  it the get some bubbled texture.
Then I used whatever was left to cover Tando Letters negative and to glue it over the board.
The golden colors was made with  a mix of mists as those mists usually have some mica powders inside and Bingo- you get this gold on black texture with mists only and no paints used.
Actually even the metal flower, metal sign, Tando chipboard book sign and the clay bird were only misted.
And you can see how gorgeous those mists look on totally different surfaces.
The edges were covered with DecoArt Media gold acrylic paint.

Tando products used:
Mixed Media board 138*74 mm



Mini book plates


Harlequin mask

Hello card with Inspired by Stamping

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my Inspired by Stamping April inspiration.

I am sorry, but due to family vacation out of the country I had a very limited time for crafting and this card has the written tutorial only, without the step by step photos. But I think it's easy to make and you can do it without all  extra shots.

So here is my Hello card made in Kraft, gold and white lace colors only. 

Product list:

Stamps: Inspired by Stamping Fresh Bouquet stamp set

Other products

Patterned cardstock: DCWV

Kraft cardstock: American Crafts

Inks: Clearsnap

Clay: Makin's Clay

Punch: EK Success

Mold: WOW! Embossing Powders

Dies: Die Versions, Elizabeth Crafts

Other: lace, rhinestones, paint, glue sheet

Step by step: 1. Die cut the largest stitched rectangle with Elizabeth Crafts die from DCWV  

gold dot cardstock and add the bigger Kraft cardstock card base.

2. Die cut a smaller rectangle with the same die set and arrange it over the first one as shown. Stamp the flowers with gold ink over Kraft cardstock (Inspired by Stamping Fresh Bouquet stamps) and heat emboss with gold embossing powder. Punch the strip and glue it over the card as shown.

3. Adhere a big piece of lace over double sided glue sheet and die cut four different circles with Die Versions dies. Glue the die cut lace circles over the card as shown.

4. Die cut two stitched circles from the small dotted cardstock and Kraft cardstock (Die Versions dies). Stamp the Inspired by Stamping sentiment  from the same stamp set and arrange the sentiment circle on the top of the card.

5. Make air dry polymer clay flower with a mold and Makin's Clay Black clay and let it dry. Paint the dry clay flower with gold paint and glue it over the card.

.Add black rhinestones as shown

Here are the close- ups to the stamped gold flowers and the lace die cut circles.

Chrismas cards inspiration with BoBunny

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my Papercrafting inspirational post.

 Irit is here today and I am going to share with you a couple of Winter cards.

I was asked to make a layout or a couple of cards with Pentart Magnetic paint and it was a bit tricky.

Making out of the page project with magnetic paint is a piece of cake. You can do boards, clip boards, party projects or even canvases with magnetic paint and to add trinkets or  photos over it. But making cards or layouts with this kind of medium was a true brain storming.

And after this so called " brainstorming" I decided to make a couple of cards and to add clay hand made embellishments that can be used as magnets after nobody remember the card they got.

So here are my cards and yes, the left one is totally huge one!

I used the most adorable Winter Wishes collection and made those Winter cards with hand cut chipboard frame that was totally covered with Pentart Magnetic paint.

This is the large card  in it's glory!
I added stickers, die cuts and one single  layered chipboard piece and hand made the poinsettia flowers with leaves using white air dry  polymer clay and push molds.
After the clay was dry I painted the dry piece with BoBunny Paerlescent paints in Tutu and Silver and it was like a magic! The colors are delicate, but still bright and the magnet piece is truly adorable.
So here it is over the magnetic paint and then, after the Holidays are over, the recipient can use the magnet as is, on the fridge.

And here is the second, quite smaller card, but made in the same style and with another self made clay magnet that was painted  with the same BoBunny paints.
An yes- the magnetic paint actually keeps the magnet on it's place (you sure need to add a piece of magnet on the back as it's not a magic, just pure physics).

I really hope that you got some Winter inspiration from my fancy cards and thanks for visiting our blog!

 Product list BoBunny:
Sugar Chevron Double Dot cardstock
Whisper Dot Double Dot cardstock
Frosted 12'' cardstock Winter Wishes collection
Magic 12'' cardstock Winter Winshes collection
Flurries 12'' cardstock Winter Wishes collection
Winter Wishes Noteworthy pack
Winter Wishes Layered chipboard
Winter Wishes Combo Stickers
Winter Wishes Foil Vellum paper
Double Dots Jewels  Think Pink
Winter Wishes 6*6'' pad
Flourish dies
Keeping Tabs dies
Frosting Jewels
Blue Hues Jewels
Pearlescents Silver
Pearlescents Tutu

Pentart products used:
Creamy Acrylic Metallic Rose
Magnetic paint

Back to school with Makin's Clay - MINI notebook cover

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new Makin's Clay tutorial!

August is a Back to School month and  I decided to use some Makin's Clay techniques to make the mini notebook clay cover. I thought that I never made anything in those trendy aqua and pink colors and with a small add- ons of black and gold it may become the next trendy thing.

 So here we go!

1. Add a few drops of acrylic paint to half a package of  Makin’s Clay® white and mix it . On this photo you see the Primary Magenta actylic before the mixing. You can see the perfect pink on one of the next photos.

2.This is a mix already made with White Makin's Clay and Cobalt teal actylic. I used Makin’s Professional® Ultimate Clay Machine® on setting 4 to make the clay sheets for this project.

3. Now cut the stright piece using Makin's Clay cutting tool from Makin’s Professional®Roller and Cutters set® . Cut it into two equal parts to make the front and the back of the notebook cover. Now let it dry over night.

5.Use any good hole maker to make three holes on the top of each half and if you wish add eyelets into the holes.

Makin's Clay is easy to use with any hole maker and eyelet setter as it's light weight and flexible when dry.

6. Now use any good heavy duty corner rounder to round the low corners on both front and back covers. 

Again, any good corner rounder will do the work because of the clay qualities.

Our covers are done and now we move to the embellishment  part of it.

7.Use pink wet mixed clay and Makin's Clay® Texture sheet set H to make the front cover main matting piece.

Roll over the texture plate with a roller from Makin’s Professional®Roller and Cutters set® .

Let it dry before you try to use the textured piece.

8. Due cut a small stitched rectange using the left over  aqua dry clay sheet and a die. 

9. Use Makin's Clay Push mold  and Makin’s Clay® black to make a  border piece for the embellishment cluster.

Also the photo shows the leaves border, finally, due the small space I made the rope one and used it on the finished project.

10. Use other molds to make some flowers and leaves. I mostly made black ones and just one single pink for the contrast. 

Let the molded pieces dry and then take them of the molds.

11. And this is a close up to the finished cluster.

The textured pink piece was hand torn and edges were covered with gold actylic.

The aqua die cut rectangle was added over the pink textured matting.

All black and one pink flowers and leaves were gold painted on the top and arranged into one big fancy cluster.

The push mold rope was added on the bottom and I also added one molded bow to finish this notebook.

And now to the final project photos (no paper is inside the notebook yet as I need to cut  it to fit the covers).

Product list:

Makin's Clay products:

Makin’s Clay® white
Makin’s Clay® black
Makin’s Professional®Roller and Cutters set®
Makin's Clay® Texture sheet set H
Makin’s Professional® Ultimate Clay Machine®
Makin’s Professional® Cutting Mat
Makin’s Clay® Push mold- Borders


 Other products:
 Paints- DecoArt
Glue- Beacon Adhesives
Die- Elizabeth Crafts
Molds other then Makin's Clay- WOW! Embossing Powders
Corner rounder
Eyelet setter, eyelets

Binding rings