Saturday, 9 June 2012

Inspired by Stamping - June release recap

Hello again. my dear stamping friends! Today is a final June release recap  from Inspired by Stamping DT and I am going to show you another 2 stamp sets I used for this month hop.
Then visit all other girls blogs and I know they have an amazing inspiration for you made with all new fantastic stamp sets.

And this is my final June release project: altered mini printers tray from Tando Creative  with all kinds of potions- Love, Life , Dreams and Hope.


I used Vintage Backgrounds , 4 of 6 stamps, to make my metal embossed backgrounds. Then I added the titles from Little Phrases set over 7Gypsies small tags and added them over chipboard metal embossed bottles (Tando Creative) . Then I made one big Hope stamped word  using Vintage Words set, made it over the same tags packaging (great piece for recycling, but as it is glossy you need to use Staz-On to stamp it). Then I added TH metal wings, some Webster netting and some flowers.


Hope I inspired you this month and see you next month with another gorgeous Inspired by Stamping new release (I don't even know what it's going to be, but I am sure it will be delightful as always).

Here is  our DT list:

Joanna
Debbie
KendraTammy
 Deb H
Kim
Colleen





My Daily Journal vacation lo


 This page was published in Scrapstreet Fall 2012 issue
This project made Top 3 on Quick Quotes blog
My new vacation lo, but in a kinds of  vintage mood.
It was  made with Bo Bunny products  for their June sketch challenge  and I used just ribbons and some Handmade Halo embellishments to add to this page.

As for a ribbon use- 2 different kinds of ribbon pleating, sewed and glued, cross stitching with twine, covering a plastic recycled circle , a tag bow and  Ric Rack borders .
And some close ups to ribbons and embellishments:
The upper plastic ribbon covered circle is my recycling item (I try to use one on every project). This is a plastic inside from 1/8'' Tacky orange tape, covered with a thin white satin ribbon around and cross stitched to the paper (hard to glue them, so this cross stitching is a nice way to keep them on the place).

A lower corner with a special way on ribbon pleating and some inking over it to get the right colors for the page.

My title, I like it very much also it's flat stickers one a rarely use.Here I made another pleated and inked ribbon edge, but not the same style.

And the central embellishment cluster



As a basic paper had kind of splashes, I just added some more , using Ranger distress stains and then glued some resins over a few of them.I also inked around the papers, here and there, using Quick Quotes Puffy inks in 3-4 colors (Lucky me was QQ guest designer last December and got 12 colors of those fantastic inks and so I entered this page to QQ challenge too.

Friday, 8 June 2012

Inspired by Stamping- Release day

Hello, my dear stamping friends! This is a day of our Inspired by Stamping June new release.
Joanna just released 8! fantastic stamp sets and all are in a store for you to buy.
Here are all stamp sets we used for our group postings.
Cross stitch
 Elegant glowers
Birthday Greetings
Background Basics 1

Vintage Backgrounds

Oh, Baby


Vintage Sayings
Little  Phrases 
All those fabulous stamps we used for our group postings are now available in Inspired by Stamping shop  for you! There are some great flowers  in the shop too and more of Joanna's fantastic stamp sets, some even on sale.
You are just invited to buy some and to come back tomorrow to our blogs for our final June release recap.
See you tomorrow  here again!

Vintage album cover

This project was on my craft table (actually under the table) for maybe 4 month. I just added tags and doilies and paints and then  peeled them away and added more and it was like a Merry Go Round. Today I finally decided that it will be finished. And so  it was.  I added a lot of chipboards, covered with a lot of embossing powders, a lot of ribbon hand made flowers and some pre- made ones, I shrinked   some flower ribbon with my heat gun, made a spine with a recycled twine and even used the Flourishes with a Bling Rak I got. So here it is: my Enjoy the Journey cover and totally empty inside. It will come. Later. Some day. Never. I think I am a cover collector. Does anyone need a great vintage mini album cover? 8*8 size and perfect for a Bind it All spirals?


And now for the product credits:
Cover: Zutter
Chipboards, Masks: Tando Creative (I just got this new DT box and I FLY!)
Ribbons: Prima, craft shops
Flowers: Prima, I am Roses (great shipping with low cost flowers, I got a huge box with free shipping  from Thailand and it only took 7 days)
Inks: Ranger
Embossing powders: Creative Imaginations Paints
Gesso, glaze, Molding paste: Ranger
Metal: Tim Holtz
Swirl: Flourishes with a Bling
Stamps: Inspired by stamping (sorry, not much seen after all)
And now for some close  ups from this cover: A flower cluster with ma bird cage, a key and 2 ribbon handmade flowers.
 Another close up - lamps
And another one : the bird on the corner
And just few more:


Hope you like this project, it was a long and a hard struggle  to make it -LOL.
I also enter this to some web challenges:
Vintage - for Panpastel UK 
Texture for Simon Says stamp and show 
Wings for Southern Girls

Thursday, 7 June 2012

The Rubber Cafe and Faber Castell blog hop

Welcome to The Rubber Cafe/Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft blog hop! If you've just joined us today and would like to start the blog hop from the beginning, simply click on The Rubber Cafe blog to begin. If you've come here from  Melissa's  blog, you are in the right place!

For this blog hop, we will be showcasing project ideas, inspiration, and tutorials featuring fabulous products you won't want to miss!  Hop along with us as we work with products from these great companies:

The Rubber Cafe

The Rubber Cafe is a stamp manufacturer of high quality, deeply etched stamps and other fine paper crafting tools and accessories. All of our beautiful stamps are made right here in the USA in sunny San Diego, California! Visit http://www.therubbercafe.com today to view their complete product line!

Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft Faber-Castell was founded more than 240 years ago in Germany as a pencil manufacturer. Today Faber-Castell is world renowned for its high quality, professional art supplies in the Art & Graphic line, as well as its fine writing instruments and accessories. Too see their complete product line, visit http://www.fabercastell.com today!


And  here is my very very LONG card for this hop.
We just got those new stamps and a dies made for TRC by Spellbinders, so as the fence is long, I decided to use it all and to make this low and long card.

I used TRC fantastic Pugnacious Signiture Paper cream cardstock over the Kraft base. Then I stamped grass, flowers  and everything on my background with masking some images parts with stamps for Window Garden  new May release set, then all stamping was heat embossed with clear embossing powder.
I made another set of flowers and  a vase, heat embossed with colored embossing Wow Powders and painted with some FC Gelatos (I used Earthtones  over the embossed areas).


Now the background that  was made with 5-6  gelatos, Blue/Green set, some Eeathtone and  mixed with a  baby wipe.
The  same cardstock was stamped with TRC new Wood grain  background stamp and colored with brown gelato and then I made a  On the fence die cut and added the   bars.
Pot with  flowers and  the fence were adhered with 3d Candies foam glue.
I made a sentiment flag with on of the newest TRC Friends set  and glued it over the top part of my card. 3 more pearls were added using the Scrap Happy Glue.
And my card was bare. So a branch of Prima flowers was glued over the fence and now it was all done.

I really love the final result: new TRC stamps, new die and all new FC goodies!
Hope you like this project too.
Supplies used:
Stamps:Window  Garden, Friends , Wood Grain
Die: On the  Fence
Paper: Kraft cardstock, Pugnacious Signiture Paper
Inks: Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft Color Gelatos - Neutrals, Green, Blue ,Quick Quotes Mocha Mama
Glue: Scrap Happy Glue, Candy Fix-foam pads , Glossy Accents
Embellishments: Jellie Dots - Pearl, Prima flowers, twine

For your next stop on the hop, you'll be visiting Mou Saha
Don't forget to leave a comment on each manufacturer and designer's blog for a chance to win great prizes such as:  

Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft will be giving away a $50 Gift Certificate!
The Rubber Cafe will be giving away a TWO $25 Gift Certificates!


The blog hop contest will be open until midnight June 10th and the winners will be announced on June 12th on the company's blogs.

Here is a complete list of the designers participating in our blog hop:
START AT: Rubber Café http://blog.therubbercafe.com/
Cherry Nelson http://cherrysjubileehome.blogspot.com/
Jennifer Matott http://arttalk-sigmagirl.blogspot.com/
Melissa http://stamping-queen.blogspot.com
Irit Shalom http://iritshalom.blogspot.com/
Mou Saha http://collagecollagecollage.blogspot.com/
Michele Ciola http://creative-mayhem.blogspot.com/
Tesa Broman http://tesasscrap.blogspot.com/
Rita Barakat http://letsembellish.blogspot.com/
Michelle Pearson http://inspirationblooms.blogspot.com/
Tiffany Johnson: http://iheartartblog.com/
Kristine Reynolds http://stampingandscrapingincalifornia.blogspot.com/
Karen Thede http://imbydesign.blogspot.com/
Heidi Blankenship http://embellished-dreams.blogspot.com/
END AT: Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft
http://designmemorycraft.typepad.com/

So hop with us to win: be our followers and comment on each blog for a better chance to win some great products from  both companies.

Fancy ribbons and bottle caps magnet tutorial

This project was published in Scrapbooking. com August 2012 issue
It's was quite along time since I made a real tutorial, so I decided to make one again for all of my blog readers and hope they will use it some day.
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This fancy ribbons and metal bottle caps project is an easy and simple , so even kids can  do it (OK, 10 years old ones as we still need some  handy  skills)
First,  here is our supply list:
Metal Bottle caps : Large, Medium and Small flat one (Bottle Inc.)
Ribbons:Never now the  names, just have a huge bowl full of them on my shelf
Felt flowers : Prima, Epiphany Crafts
Patterned paper: Prima, Basic Grey
Sticker: Simple Stories
Die: Cherry Lynn Designs
Epoxy bubble caps, Pink plastic charm: Epiphany Crafts
Crystals: Kaisercrafts
Tacky tape – 1/4'' and 1/8'' sizes
 Crop -A-Dile tool  or any other hole punch that can work on metals
Magnet and some 3 seconds glue
So here  the easy steps  to make this project
Step 1:
Punch holes in all three  bottle caps. The Large one should be punched twice on the top, make your two holes with a half inch gap. Then make another single hole on the bottom, right in the middle below your first two holes.
The Medium cap should be punched twice: one hole on the  top and one directly opposite to the first in the bottom .
The Small flat cap should be punched once on the top.


Step 2:
Cover the back of two largest caps with   1/4'' Tacky Tape on the back as shown.


Pleat the Purple ribbon over the Large cap as shown on the photo.
Pleat the Teal ribbon over the Medium cap the same way.


This nis how it should look after your pleated both ribbons around the caps.


Add a layer on 1/8'' Tacky tape over the pleated ribbon to keep your pleat in their place.


Adhere a thin white satin ribbon over the thin Tacky tape to keep you pleats tight forever.
 Now you need to remake your holes, as we covered them with ribbons, so go to your CAD again and make the same  holes in the ribbon, using the previous ones as your guide.



Step 3:
Tie a huge and fancy bow on the top of the Large cap threading your ribbon into both holes from the backside and making a bow on the front.


Glue the pink felt Prima flower in the middle of this cap, adhere  Epiphany Crafts blue felt flower on the top  and then add the pink plastic charm with a bit of patterned paper cut into a small circle and covered with a small EC   epoxy cap.


Step 4:
Cut another paper circle to fit  your Medium cap , glue it and add a die cut butterfly. Embellish the butterfly with some crystals . Make a Yellow dotted ribbon tie , connecting the bottom of the Large cap and the top of the Medium one.


 Cut a circle from Simple Stories  small pink doily sticker to fit the smallest cap, adhere it and cover with EC larger epoxy. Tie and small green ribbon tie to connect the medium and the small caps.
Add a magnet on the backside on the largest cap and enjoy your project.
And I also  enter this to some web challenges:
Pretty Little  Ribbon shop- lots of layers and ribbon
RRR- Flowers and ribbons
Bows for Crafty Boots
Butterflies and bows for Crafty Ribbons 
Use  Die cut for Ribbon Reel 



Wednesday, 6 June 2012

Inspired by Stamping June Release- Day 1

Hello. my dear stamping friends! June is here and our new Inspired by Stamping release too.
Today I am going to shoe you my work with four of all 8 delicious new stamp sets that are going to be released in 2 days.
The first set I used is Elegant flowers one. I made a layout using most of the stamps in this set.


Some are stamped on the basic cardstock with white ink and clear  heat embossed. Then I stamped some roses over the patterned paper , heat embossed them, cut out and painted with some CIP paints.




All other paper products on this page are Echo Park; the chipboards are from Tando Creative- inked, heat embossed, some covered with Angel Dust glitter and some covered with fabric.
This is my baby  gradnson Omer and he is our family angel as my title says.

My second project is a card made with Birthday Greetings and Birthday Backgrounds 1 set.


I stamped  2 patterns from Basic Backgrounds over  some cream cardstock with clear embossing ink and then heat embossed them with 4 colors of Wow Embossing powders. Then all flags were made with EC tool and epoxies and I made my banner.


The sentiment was stamped on TC die cut (so are all other paper products on this card). Then I made an inside stamping  from the same Birthday Greetings set as you can see here.


My last project for today is another Birthday card. I used Simple Stories paper products and then stamped a sentiment and 2 other images over a postcard.


 The inside is stamped and decorated too, also the flowers on the upper part are the must (to cover the hand stitching insides)



I used 2 stamps from the Stitched sentiments set for the inside and another Birthday Greeting for the long inside sentiment.

I hope I inspired you a bit with 4 new stamp sets and here are all other girls with their projects made with the same sets.

Irit- that's me here!
 Tomorrow some other DT members will show you another 4 stamp sets from this June new release, so please go to Inspired by Stamping blog and hop with them too. Then in 2 days, come back to see all new  released stamp sets and then we have the final recap with all sets together.
So see you here in 2 days!

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