Life is a box of crayons: Rubber Dance tutorial

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my very first post made for Rubber Dance Stamp Company.

For those who are not familiar with the name ATB is a name for Artistic Trading block. This is a very similar to ATC item, but made in 3d cube shape.

I used Sizzix die cut to make this cube and then covered all surfaces with heavy stamped cardstock.

I picked the images and my color according to the sentiment I wanted to use: Life is about using the whole box of crayons" and rainbow coloring technique was just a Must for this project.

So here is a small tutorial I made for this post and I hope you like this technique as much as I do.

Step 1:

1. Make a strip from 31*7.5 cm white cardstock and divide it to 4 *7.5 squares. Don’t cut it into the squares, this will be done later. Using clear embossing ink and Rubber Dance Lace background stamp impress the image over the lower third of the cardstock strip. Add white embossing powder and heat emboss the stamped piece.

 Step 2. Stamp the images you picked over the strip with clear embossing ink and black embossing powder. Don’t' afraid to overlap the white heat embossed strip.

 Step 3. Pick 3 primary Staz-On inks (Blazing red, Azure and Mustard work perfectly for this technique, but you can use other companies' permanent primary inks too). As we all know those three colors make the whole rainbow range when we mix them from red to yellow and to blue. So start inking your heat embossed images from red- but not from the edge as we want the coloring to be continues and this is a place for color blue to make the purple. Cover the whole strip with those 3 inks and blend them with wet baby wipe all over. Let it dry. Make another 7.5*7.5 cm square for the top of the cube- I used the Lace background only with black heat embossing and the same 3 inks coloring.

 Step 4. Stamp the sentiment over the white cardstock, ink it to the same colors. Arrange 7 crayons with twine into a bundle and glue them over the top of the cube. Glue the sentiment. (I know mine are not the cheap ones over the cube, but I didn't find anything else at home. Buy the kids kind of crayons, the cheap ones if you want them to stay over the cube as a permanent embellishment).

Step5: Cut the inked stamped strip into 4 squares and adhere it over the cube. Enjoy your artistic creation!

Photo 5,6,7,8,9 and a final one here

And the final project:

Supply list

Rubber Dance stamps

 Lace background

http://www.rubberdance.com/backgrounds.html

Something wonderful

http://www.rubberdance.com/sentiments.html

Collage elements 1

Collage elements 2

http://www.rubberdance.com/collage.html

Other products:

Die- Sizzix

Inks: Distress inks- Ranger, Clear embossing ink, Staz- Ons- Tsukineko

Embossing powders: WOW! Embossing Powders

Crayons, twine

Best friends gift and card with Ann Butler

Hello my dear crafty friends !

Irit is here again and this time I want to show you how to make an easy, fast and even clean and simple gift box and a card using Ann Butler's gorgeous EZ De's Kellycraft set and Ann Butler's Clearsnap Crafters inks.

This is an overall look of this project: a wooden altered box and a matching card made for a friend.  The box was painted with white acrylic paint and then I added black heat embossed edges  for this a bit distressed look.

The front was made with three stamped 1*1'' stamps from the set with clear embossing ink and heat embossed with black embossing powder. This are actually what some of us call " inchies": small inch by inch shapes embellished  to become a piece of art.

I added  three of those inchies over the black cardstock that covers the glass lip of this $1 box and embellished them with two chipboard shapes  of people from Tando Creative. Each chipboard man or woman were inked with Ann's Crafters inks .

The card was made in the same style: black cardstock base, white glitter cardstock second layer and 4 inked stamped inchies , this time embellished with 6 people smaller chipboard shapes in more ink colors. I added a sticker sentiments on the top of the card and I think any friend will like this small and easy made gift.

 And  a box

Ann Butler's products used for this project:

EZ De's stamps by Kellicraft Sampler set A

Clearsnap Crafter's inks by Ann Butler

Hope that you  like my project and see you again next month.

Timeless memories with my parents and Meg's garden

Irit is here and this is my very first post here on Meg's Garden blog featuring Kerry-Jean Watson new vintage and most adorable Correspondence collection (also I have as small piece form the same designer new Gentlemen collection too).
I made an altered box and a wooden tags mini album, but first let me tell you the story behind this project.
My dear parents were married for 57 year before my Dad passed away  two and half years ago. They were madly in love till  his last day. But then they didn't have too many photos at all. This old generation didn't have a camera  and later didn't think they need one.
So we just have a few old vintage scanned photos and I used  two of them for the first 2 pages and another  two, like 22 years ago were added to the last 2 pages.

So here is an overlook of this wooden tag album (I think it's Kaisercrafts, but I am not sure as it was in my stash for ages).

  

Each tag was covered with Correspondence paper, mostly form the 6*6'' mini  pack and then when I used all six designs I moved to 12*12'' papers and used just a few of them to cover the backside of the tags.
Actually I used just two patterns from this collection: Distress letter and Letter from Tucson 1909.
And now for the close- ups of all page. First the front cover again:

I used  this gorgeous Vintage  collage stamp set  for all my stamping over this project. Vintage collage saying was a perfect match for the cover page and I also die cut this Good old days sentiment from the same paper collection to make the title. Then over all pages, not just over the cover, I used bits and pieces from Cut and create correspondence paper. Over the cover I covered it with a frame cut from Frames 3 transparency, clocks cut out from  Old world time and a couple of butterflies from More butterflies piece. Then I added a few  Hardware metal  and Vintage Trinkets pieces 
( Handle/knob, Lion head with handle) and misted white Cherry Blossom  flowers with  light brown mist to make them more vintage. Finally a few " blood" drops were added, both misted and some blings too.
The back of the cover  was made just for the journalling made with old Prima stickers.

Now its a turn for the first  inside tag that was made with a lot of stamping from the very same Vintage collage set, some more clock transparency and some metal charms.

And on this tag's backside I added a  first photo of my Mom as a young 21 years old bride.

The second  inside tag is very similar to the main line of my book: same paper collection, same transparencies  etc.

And my dear parents  1955 photo on the back of this tag.

The third  page- front and back.

And the last one -  front and back again with photos of my parents just 22 years ago. 

And now for the second part of this project as I made an altered box to put this mini inside.

I used a very old cardstock box and covered it with the same two 12*12'' papers from Correspondence collection that I used over my tag book. 

I made my title with old stickers and some distress ink and with a die cut inked to the same brown color as all my inking on the mini book.

Here I used a piece (just one clock) from a very new and gorgeous Gentlemen collection and then just the very same Cherry Blossom flowers, one single fabric Ivory Heirloom  flower  misted again to fit the project colors,  Handle or pull  piece, transparent butterflies and  another clock and added some leaves from Flourish with a Bling and a washi tape to cover the box on the front . And then I added a Doily over the front  side of the box with a single metal  Filigree flower charm.

I hope you like my project as much as I do. It was made as a tribute to my dear parents and will be given to my Mom very soon. I also hope this was not  a very long post after all. See you soon again with another Meg's Garden project.

 I enter this to some challenges too

Another freaking challenge asked for something about parents

Sweet Stamps Embossing week

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to Sweet Stamps new weekly challenge and this time it's all about embossing.
I love to emboss as it gives a lot of texture other then to use the color inks only.
So this card if  " over embossed" all over as you can see.
I used the new Butterflies set released a month or so ago that I just got and I used a lot of powder colors to make the background.
Then I used Globecraft and Piccolo delicious chipboard butterflies and covered then with most gorgeous Cranberry Wine enamel . I added the stamped sentiment directly over the background ; added a few paint splashes and a few red rhinestones.

I hope you like my card and you will enter yours into our weekly challenge. We do offer some great prizes weekly , but you should be in to win them!

Swirly Doodle Butterflies Clear Stamp Set

Enamel EP CRANBERRY WINE

White EP

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Rubber Dance September color challenge

Welcome to the Rubber Dance monthly Art Stamping Challenge!

Our challenge is all about colour! Each month we bring you a gorgeous colour scheme to kick-start your stamping.

 This month our colours are classic autumn – warm golds, oranges and reds; the rich hues of trees in the fall.

 We'll pick an overall WINNER at random who receives an amazing grab bag of Rubber Dance stamps worth 25 Euro! (- that's over $30!)

• The Design Team will choose our favourite entry - our DT Pick of the MonthAND
• Any entries using Rubber Dance stamps will get a special mention!

- Both our winner and Pick of the Month will get badges to proudly display on their blogs.

- Winners will be announced here at the end of the month, so remember to check back to see if you won!

- Please take a quick look at the rules below before you create, as entries that don’t meet the requirements  are not eligible for prizes. Don’t worry, there aren't many rules and they are not complicated. 

Need some inspiration? Check out these examples from our fabulous Design Team!

 And this is my art piece made for this challenge here:

  Fall is just around the corner with its rich colors and textures and this month RD challenge is just a perfect one to combine new Vintage birds stamp set and lovely set of leaves to make this warm chipboard tray as a wall deco for this season.

I used patterned paper to stamp over it as my basic layer and then added heat embossed and hand cut images from the Vintage Bird set around the frame. The bird was stamped clear embossing powder and heat embossed with black one; then I added some gold 3d enamel lines over the embossed surface.

Products used:

Rubber Dance- Vintage Birds, Twiggy Leaves

Other products:

Paper, stickers- Paper House Productions

Chipboards: Tando Creative UK

Embossing powders: WOW! Embossing Powders

Paint, glaze: Ranger

Bling: Molossi 

All you have to do is:

1. Create something with this month's colour scheme
2. Add your linky below before the closing date
3. Add a link back to the Rubber Dance blog to your entry post.
4. Follow our blog 

 GUIDELINES:

• This is an art stamping challenge so all entries need to include rubber stamping (no digi stamps please).
• We'd LOVE it if you use Rubber Dance stamps but this is NOT necessary to join in and will make no difference to your chances of winning.
• Entries need to use the colour scheme provided – you are welcome to add neutral colours like white, black, cream or metallic to the given colours.
• You can make absolutely anything you like for the challenge – cards, ATCs, altered art, mixed media, scrapbook pages, jewellery....... whatever you want!
• Entry is via the linking tool only. We are very sorry that we can't accept email entries.
•  Please provide deep links to your actual project post, not just a link to your blog (to do this, click on the title of the blog entry and copy/paste the URL in the when uploading).
• Please link only to new work – don’t backlink to previously made art.
• You are welcome to combine our challenge with up to five additional challenges.
• We accept multiple entries as long as they are on different blog posts and linked up separately
• Entries are welcome from anywhere in the world.
• PLEASE consider turning off word verification on your blog if you would like to receive comments from the Design Team as this makes our job much easier.

Colour scheme for September:

Classic autumn – warm golds, oranges and reds; the rich hues of trees in the fall. 

Closing date for entries:

Midnight September 25th, Central European Time (= GMT+1 or EST + 6) 

Have fun! We can't wait to see what YOU come up with! :-)  

Greetings from the DT & Staff at Rubber Dance  

 www.rubberdance.com

I also enter this piece to some stamping challenges
Red Rubber Inspirationals- Anything with stamping goes
Use stamps for Frosted designs
 Fall colors for Artistic stamper

SS MASCULINE BIRTHDAY

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to our  Sweet Stamps Masculine Birthday challenge!

Irit is here and also it's a last day to enter this challenge, you still have pretty much time to do so.

Here is my card made for this challenge: masculine colors and very general sentiment, but then it's just a good fit for the challenge.

First I made a background with Memory box mask : Texture distressed grid  and distress inks.
Then I made the focal panel with new released Backgrounds stamp using my favorite resist emboss technique: clear ink, white embossing powder and then  a lot of inking over the embossed image.
I used ATC white cardstock and then matted it over ATC black one with a bit of edge cutting.

I made the embellishment with Globecraft/Piccolo bird cage chipboard covered with embossing enamel and layered over the background shape and just added a piece of twine.
The sentiment was made with the new gorgeous sentiment set and my card was all done.
Seams like a lot of techniques, but then it's easy to make card.
Now it's your turn: just  one more day to enter the challenge! Go for it and you can win!

ATC Backgrounds #3 Clear Stamp Set	Distress Ink Pad DUSTY CONCORD	Distress Ink Pad MOWED LAWN	Black Artist Trading Cards ATCs
Distress Ink Pad PEACOCK FEATHERS	Distress Ink Pad SALTY OCEAN	Simple Greetings Clear Stamp Set	Black EP

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