Beautiful Rainbows with CAS-ual Fridays challenge

Hello my dear crafty friends!
Today I share a new CAS- ual Fridays challenge with you and this time it's all about Beautiful Rainbows.

 So this is the new challenge for you to follow:

My card was made with TUTU stamp set and the background was made with Memory Box stencil, texture paste and 7 different embossing powders.

 You sure can see the rich background texture made with them.

 The light yellow color was made with mist.

The sentiment was stamped over white cardstock with white ink and heat embossed with white powder and then painted over with black ink. 

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!

You make my life colorful Mixed Media card with Honey Bee Stamps

Hello my dear crafty friends!
Irit is here again. Yes, this month you will  see me quite a lot in the Honey Bee Stamps blog ...
This time I decided to share my simple and yet totally Mixed Media card.
I didn't make the tutorial, but I am going to give you the steps to make this card if you like it and want to try something similar.
First I stamped the sentiment using Honey Bee Stamps Color my World set and made the whole sentiment.
I stamped with clear embossing ink and heat embossed it with black powder.
Being more than 4 years on a design team for embossing powders manufacturer made me a kind of " heat emboss everything" crafter, but then it's so easy to colors inside those heat embossed lines!
So I colored the bold letters with all possible rainbow colors using my beloved Zig Real Color brushes.
Then I  punched a circle of scrap paper and made a mask over the stamped sentiment.
I used Memory Box stencil that was arranged over the card and clear embossing ink over the stencil.
The next step was to add 7 embossing powders over the stencilled area and to heat emboss them.

The powders were very different and you can see that some are more solid and some are kind of grainy, but this is what Mixed Media is all about. It shouldn't be perfect. It should be artistic.So why not to add some golden mist over it? So I did  using Tattered Angels Marigold glimmer mist.

The last part was to die cut the copper cardstock circle using dies and DCWV copper paper and the add it over the sentiment.

The basic card was die cut from the same copper cardstock and I added just a few rhinestones over this card.

I really hope that you like my almost CAS Mixed Media card and if you like my projects please visit my Instagram account @iritshalom2000 and become my follower.

I will be posting more Honey Bee projects there every second week.

Rubber Dance gift card holder

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new Rubber Dance  inspirational project.
I really love this Night Cat stamp (and all cats  around too). So this gift bag was made as one layer project with stamped and colored  RD stamp, misted and painted  bag background and then I added stencilled stars and heat embossed them with glitter.
I think that this is an adorable packaging for a nice (think $$$) gift card inside. Can be cash too- it's closed envelope after all.

I enter this to a couple of web challenges:
Anything goes for WOW! Embossing Powders and I used thier powder for the cat and their embossing  glitter for the stars
 Happy Little stamper- Mixe media with texture
Anything goes for Creative Artiste
 Inks for Craft stamper
Mixed media monthly

Bright and warm spring card with Inspired by Stamping

 Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my Inspired by Stamping April post.
Today I am going to share a Mixed Media card made with every possible medium and some lovely Inspired by Stamping  Cherry Blossoms set of stamps.


This is the way this card was done- not a step by step photo tutorial, but a written one and not so hard to remake.
1. Use  the stencil with texture paste over thick white cardstock and make the sun rays as shown. Add green and orange mists over the wet texture paste and heat it with a heat gun to get this lovely texture.
2. Die cut the central circle when the paste is totally dry; ink the edges of this circle with orange ink and glue it over the hole to make this 3d look.
3. Make the stamped circle with Inspired by Stamping Cherry  blossoms set. Stamp the flowers three times and stamp the sentiment in between the flowers.
Heat emboss the stamped images and color with water colors as shown. Now die cut the circle and try to make the cut around the sentiment, not over it (my mistake and I made it twice).
Ink the circle edges and glue it as shown after you cut the  side.
4. Die cut a few more stitched circles; mist them with orange and yellow mists and heat emboss with clear embossing powder when wet. You don't need to use clear embossing ink. The clear powder sticks to the wet mist as well.
Glue the embossed circles and add a few enamel drops.
5. Ink the card around and glue over white basic card.
Add a few mists of orange around the finished card.

I also enter this to some web challenges:
Stencils- for AAA cards
 Yellow and more from the inspiration for Double D challenge 
Anything goes for Scrappy land- used Die Versions dies
 Spring with die cuts for Die cut divas
 Inspiration- color yellow, sun/rain- for Inkspirational
 Stamping, stncilling and  your choice (texture paste, die cutting, heat embossing, watercoloring)- for CAS Mix up challenge
 Mixed media card challenge- inspiration


Casology- Sprout
 More Mixed Media- Yellow
 Anything goes with embossing powder- and I used WOW! Embossing Powders all over this card- for WOW!

Happy Birthday card with Rubber Dance

 Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new post made for Rubber Dance company.
This time I even made a full tutorial. So here we go and enjoy!

Product list:

Cardstock: American Crafts

Stamps: Rubber Dance- Music Notes, 29 again from  Funny Birthday set

Inks: Clearsnap

Dies: Inspired by Stamping

Stencil: Sweet Stamps

Mist: Tattered Angels

Other: texture paste, glitter, enamel dots

How to make this card: 1 .Cut black cardstock to 5 1/4*4'' size card base. Cut gold cardstock to 4 3/4*3 3/4'' size and adhere it over the black base.

2. Stamp Music Notes Rubber Dance background over cream cardstock with black ink and heat emboss it with clear powder. Add texture paste over the stamped background with Sweet Stamps stencil and heat emboss over the wet paste with blue glitter.

3. Die cut the Inspired by Stamping label from gold cardstock and glue it over the card as shown. Die cut a smaller label from white cardstock and stamp Rubber Dance sentiments with black pigmented ink and heat emboss with clear powder. Color the label with yellow mist and heat emboss with blue glitter around the edges.

4. Add a few enamel dots as shown.

Paint your dream with VLVS

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new tutorial made for VLVS blog.
It becomes harder and harder to make tutorials as actually everything was already made and shown over the web.
 So if not the new techniques, maybe a new arrangement of pieces or just a way I think when I  make a big project that involves Mixed Media art and stamping.
 So this is a tutorial about all of those: my way of thinking when I make a new art piece/pieces; some of my favorite techniques and last, but not least- 4  canvases arrangement into one single art adventure.
I decided to make 4 canvases art piece with 3 Banksy stamps and to connect them all as a part of wall paint art. So  each stamp has it's own small (4*4'' ) canvas and the title canvas(7*7'') it the one that connect all small art pieces to one single " something".
Step by step tutorial:
1. Stamp background over each small canvas with some small background stamps. I picked small stamps and even with them I just stamped on the edges as the central part  intended to be for the main stamped image. I used pigmented black ink (Clearsnap) and clear embossing powder to heat emboss the backgrounds. 4 background were used here: Six Hexagons, Washi Grid, Think to thin round and Grunge circles.

I made the same stamping over the larger canvas using Brick background.
2. For the next step I used a few of my stencils (Memory box this time) and Gel medium. Yes, I didn't use texture paste but a very gentle gel medium that is almost translucent when it's dry. I covered the whole canvas with the stencil, but added gel medium randomly here and there. Let the wet medium dry. It takes time. You can do step 3 while your are waiting.

And the large background with stamping and gel medium over stencil:

3. Stamp all three main images with black permanent ink (Ranger) over tissue white paper. As our canvases are very textured, the only way to add good stamped image is to stamp over tissue, to tear the image and to adhere it with the very same gel medium.

4.Mist your 4 textured canvases with a mix of mists, according to the colors you want to see with each image. Wipe the mists a bit as we really want to see the gel medium stencilled texture and our primary background stamping.

5. Adhere the torn stamped over tissue images over  those three small canvases and let it dry.
6. Glue letters over the large canvas to make your title. I used simple stickers and Thickers to make my title. As always the sticky backs are not sticky, so I used my usual trick and it's to make a thin line or a few lines with some clear glaze to connect the letters and to adhere them to the background. The dry glaze looks divine (like water drops) and adds some interest to  your finished piece.
7. Add some drops of color to each canvas and arrange them to your favorite group arrangement.

 And just one piece with close- up to the texture:

VLVS STAMPS USED TO MAKE THIS PIECE:
6 Hexagon background Item 19076 Plate 917
Washi Grid Background Item 19074 Plate 917
Thick to thin Round Item 900 Plate 272 Page 279
Brick backround- Item 19077 Plate 917
Grunge cricles Item 19563 Plate 1451
Banksy Rain Under Umbrella girl  Item 19486 Plate 1447
Banksy Swing girl Item 19425 Plate 1443
Banksy Girl Floating with Balloons Item 19421 Plate 1443

Other products:
Canvases
Stencils- Memory Box
Mists: Tattered Angels
Inks: Ranger, Clearsnap
Gel medium
Letter stickers- AC,Pebbles
 I enter this art piece to a few web challenges:
 Anything goes to Mixed Media Mojo
 Gels and mediums for Paper Artsy

Hi- Tropical Mixed Media card

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my very first  Die Versions July post in my blog.
 This time I am going to share a Mixed Media card. Yes-  this card was made with stencils, texture paste, inks, embossing powders and glitter. So this is a true Mixed Media piece. But on the other hand, this card is a card. With a focal point (also a bit cluttered) and a small sentiment and it's not this heavy stamped/misted/painted Mixed Media piece we are used to  think of when we see the term " Mixed Media".
So this is my kind of Mixed Media: lots of mediums and no mess. And then I just added a couple of Die Versions June release dies as my  large focal card point.
Both Hula girl and Tiki boards  were die cut  from simple thick white cardstock.
The Hula girl was layered over double sided adhesive piece and glitter was added over the open adhesive (now you can see it inside the die cut ). The Tiki boards die was covered with clear embossing ink and then I used at least 5  colors of embossing powders and embossing glitters to get this look. I also added a simple heat embossed with yellow powder punched circle as a " sun" on the back of my die cut cluster. The " sun rays" background was made with a stencil, texture paste , embossing powders and  color mists.
 I hope you like this card and the techniques I used with Die Versions new dies.

Celebrate the great day

This page was published in Create magazine March issue.
Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my showcase of Paper House Productions Snapshots  stickers.
For those who are new to this product- those are adorable photo stickers with add -ons on  some of them and it's just so easy to use and so lovely to add to your scrapbooking, cardmaking or all other paper projects.
For this showcase I made this lovely summer layout with photos of my adorable grand babies celebrating Jewish Holiday called Shavuot. This is an early summer Holiday we celebrate as a tribute to nature and to all things mother nature gives us and this is a reason they hold a basket full of veggies and fruits and wear this flower bouquet. (The little one  doesn't like anything over  her head, so it stayed there for a second only).
The easy way to make garden page is just to use PHP Garden paper pad. Period. Any single paper from this pad will do the job, so I picked a couple and hand cut big images to overlap the background paper.
I also added inked over stencil flowers, lot of  home die cuts made from the patterned paper and then I played with PHP stickers.

Products  list:

 Paper House Productions

Garden paper pad

Butterflies 3d stickers

 For the birds 3d stickers

 Be Hoppy 3d stickers

 Floral Snapshots  stickers

Other products:

 Dies- Die- Versions

Mask: Memory box

Inks: Ranger 

 Step by step instructions:
1.Use green and yellow distress inks over the flowers mask and add the images over the background patterned paper.Hand cut the flower watering can and the strawberries and glue them on both corners as shown.
2. Die cut the hexagons background and adhere it over the page. Glue both photos over the die cut background.Die cut the bow and glue it to connect both photos as shown. Hand cut the " Home grown" circle and glue it on the bottom as shown.
3. Adhere all 3d stickers over the photos and over the hand cut circle. Add 3snapshots stickers on the top of the photo and one extra on the can.
4. Die cut the  Celebrate sentiment from patterned paper and the " great day" sentiment from a piece of red cardstock.Make your mixed die cut title over the photo.
 I entered this project to Let's get arty challenge blog for Alter the patterned paper background. I used mask and inks over the patterned background here.

32 years: True story lo

 This page was published in Create magazine March issue.
Hello my dear crafty friends!
This is Irit here today and this is my True story layout story.
Usually it's pretty hard to make masculine layouts. You can't add too many embellishments; you can't add to many rhinestones, glitter, bling or anything sparkle. The colors are pretty much mute and monochromatic and finally our men don't like to be on that side of a camera.
So when I have good photos of my husband for already 32 years, I scrap it . But if this photo fits the most gorgeous Paper House Productions  Old World  paper pad patterns, I am  more than happy with it.
This photo I took on our Cyprus short cruise vacation just screamed " scrap me" with those old window paper. To make it more interesting  used distress ink with a stencil over the paper to imitate the old stone wall (kind of it at least) and then the only products that are not PHP are my mixed title made with a part of die cut tag and a few letter stickers.
 It's so fun and easy to make great pages with our PHP loads of stickers of every possible kind!


Products used:
Paper House Productions:
Old World paper pad 
Birds 3d stickers
 Garden Canvas art  stickers
 Picture Perfect Cork'd stickers
 Family Chalkboard stickers
Other products:
Tag- Pink Paislee
Letters- American Crafts
Stencil- Memory box
Inks- Ranger

Step by step instructions:
1. Cut the window paper  into two piece. The left strip should be cut as a brick wall pattern. The inside should be cut  into 8*8'' piece. Make the stone pattern with a stencil and brown distress ink and then glue the 8*8'' paper over the basic green one.
2.Glue the photo under the window and add cut out tag and letters title as shown.
3. Add all possible stickers around the page as shown. Hand write your journalling over the chalkboard sticker and glue it near the photo.

Spring art journal pages with Rubber Dance

 This is my second journal page- double spread- made in my first ever art journal.
I made it solo with stencils, paints, embossing powders and one single stamp  from Rubber Dance company. The sentiment is a part of Think again gorgeus stamp set that I use again and again.
 I also used RD March challenge colors for this project.
 I stamped over tissue paper as this rich texture made a regular stamping mission impossible.
I also added a few doodling strokes with white pen all over the page.
The " hard" texture was made with tons of embossing powders.

 

 

I enter it to Artistic stamper Spring is coming challenge

Always live a life inspired :printed in RSM Spring 2015 issue

I am very totally proud to share my art piece made for Spring 2015 issue of Rubber Stamp Madness print magazine.I finally got my own issues and the note from the staff about loving this  art piece a lot. Thanks for the third in  row issue of RSM with my art inside and for 3 more to come (they will, I promise you that they will as all art pieces are already sent  by request).

Love you card :easy made Mixed Media card with IBS

My old technique and new sentiment over this Mixed Media card made for Inspired by Stamping. I used a mask with texture paste, embossing powders and then stamped a circle and a love sentiment inside the tag and adhered them over the stamped circle.
Easy and fancy card. Don't you think so?

Happiness card with Rubber Dance

 My new Mixed Media card made for Rubber Dance company.

Supply list:

Cardstock: White, yellow- American Crafts

Stamps: Happiness form Something Wonderful, Art background from Da Vinci- Rubber Dance

Inks: VersaMark- Tsukineko

Stencil: Memory Box

Embossing Powders: WOW! Embossing Powders

Rhinestones: Molossi

Punch: Martha Stewart

Other: Texture paste

How to make it:

1. Make a basic card with white cardstock. Make the second yellow matting a bit smaller than the basic card and adhere it to the white base.

2. Punch a circle and glue it over the centre of another white cardstock piece as we want this place to be without texture paste after we will use the stencil. Add texture paste over the stencil and peel the stencil off after a few seconds. Sprinkle a mix of red, yellow and sparkle embossing powders over the wet masked texture and heat emboss it.

3. Stamp the sentiment over another punched white circle and heat emboss it with black powder. Make a mask with another stamped sentiment and then stamp the background script with clear embossing ink. Heat emboss with red powder and peel the mask off. Glue the sentiment over the card and add some random rhinestones.

Happy Holidays card with IBS

 Hello my dear crafty friends!
This is my new card made with Inspired by Stamping stamps for some web challenges and just in case. You always need Holidays cards, so I already made some.
I used vintage Holiday papers and made a light Mixed Media background with paints and  stencils and then added this chipboard oval piece that was just perfect for IBS snowflakes and a sentiment.
This is not a new released stamps- I just got mine and this card was made a few days ago- but then those stamps are so gorgeous too and timeless. You still can buy them in IBS shop.

 Stamps used:

Elegant Christmas Sentiments- snowflakes

Holiday Expressions- Sentiment

No bird soars card

A new card made for Rubber Dance company with a very new September released Vintage birds set . I used one big post stamp shaped stamp, but then made a circle of the stamped  image and one sentiment stamp from the same set.
The background is done with Memory box stencil and texture paste and then heat embossed a bit and misted a lot. The background paper and the stickers added are from PHP.  This card is a good example of how we can use cute stickers and paper and to make not so cute Mixed Media card: just add some MM background and some- a lot- of stamping over and you can use any products for you MM cards.