Happy Spring canvas with Prickley Pear

This is my new fancy Spring canvas made with Prickley Pear Rubber stamps.
I used Tando chipboards, DecoArt mediums and paints and Tando stencils for the background.
The sentiment was stamped over the canvas. The birds were stamped and die cut with the matching PPRS die and the leaves were stamped and hand cut after being heat embossed.
All flowers were covered with a thin gesso layer for the less brightness.
Prickley pear products used for this project:
Build a bird 2 set, Bird die

I enter this canvas to some web challenges:
Anything goes for Love to Scrap

Hello life twinchies set

 Some stamped and die cut 2*2'' pieces I made awhile ago and were already in print.
Made with Unity stamps (Ann Butler) and different dies with heat embossed black pigmented ink and gold pigmented ink.
So easy and so fancy! Don't you think?

Winter clay banner

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new tutorial.
This time I decided to make a banner made with clay only (all, but ribbons) and I made a full step by step tutorial for this Winter project made with Art Anthology  paints and stencils  and Makin's Clay®.

This a banner we are going to create: three flags made of Makin's  Black Clay® with intermediate layer made with light blue clay (mixed) and then embellishments that were made with Makin's Clay® push mold and  slightly painted with shiny paint.

 And now to some close ups of the finished project:

You can see the full step by step tutorial HERE:
Check out How to Make Painted Clay Banner by Art Anthology on Snapguide.
And to find the full product list HERE!

Scrapberry's cards inspiration

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my Scrapberry's April new inspiration.

I am not really a card maker. But when I see gorgeous paper collection I try to make some cards with it and this is what I made with Scrapberry's new The Pirates Treasure 6*6'' paper pad.

Both card are made with the same paper collection, but can you see how different they are?

It means that this collection can be used in a lot of different ways and even colors.

So here is the first card: blue sea and adventures. It's a card that is perfect for boys and young men and maybe any age men too.

The whole card was made with layers of cardstock. Some are die cut (the circles). A lot fo cardstock pieces were hand cut and arranged layers by layers.

Red and blue Stain inks were used over the edges and I just added one single metal charm and a recycled rope to finish this card's design.

Some mist splatters were added over the card as you can see to make it more interesting.

The second card was made in those red and green colors and this is still the very same paper collection.
I made a lot of cardstock layers with the same techniques: some die cut layers and die cut matting.
Over this card I added self made resin piece, one metal charm and some paper flowers. I misted the flowers with a bit of sea shell  mist and a bit of the mist left over the white resin piece too.
Not sure how permanent it is over resin cast, but it looks great.

Scrapberry's product list:
The Pirates Treasure 6*6'' paper collection
Stains ink Red
Stains ink Blue
Stains ink Yellow

 I hope that you like my cards and the most adorable The Pirates Treasure paper collection.
See you again  in two weeks with more Scrapberry's inspiration.

Life is a Journey altered notebook with BoBunny

This is my Media post project for BoBunny made as an altered notebook with a door and a fancy embellishments cluster.
The door is not my invention. So I want to thank Ola for the design of the door. Eveything else is mine and BoBunny's.

Butterfly kisses all in one book box with BoBunny

Hello my dear crafty BoBunny fans! Irit is here and this is my blog post made with the most adorable  Butterfly Kisses BoBunny collection as the Round 2 BoBunny DT  call finalist. I know this is an old news and I made the team in July, but I just forgot to post this project that most probably entered me to the team.
So the post was made then, but the project was never seen. Maybe now it's a time as it's full of Spring colors?

First I need to say that I was totally on cloud 9 just to be BoBunny finalist. But then I am on cloud 9 again as this is my very first time to own the entire paper and embellishments collection from any company.
 Living in Israel is not so easy for an addicted crafter: you can buy some products here, but not everything and you can order some , but still not everything. So to get the full collection makes my crafting possibilities just endless. 
And this is a reason for this very long post. At the beginning there was one project done. Then I decided to add more small crafts and more and more... Finally I just dropped when most of my bright colored products from this collection were used.
So bare with me if this post is too long, please!
I promise  to showcase you some lovely , easy to make, sometimes just in 10 minutes, projects ans I am pretty sure that you will rush to the nearest shop to get yourself this Butterfly Kisses collection.
And now  those are my projects all together is their shining glory:

 The main piece of my craft collection is a book shaped self made shadow box.
Long time ago I made a tutorial in my blog with step by step instructions for this project and as this blog post is not a tutorial, I am just going to show it and to explain a bit about it. 
All you need are three recycled chipboards that I covered with BoBunny patterned papers to make a kind of a book cover.

To make it look more similar to a real book I added a spine and even a  chipboard  piece as a title.
So my book is called " Butterfly Kisses". How about that"? Pretty much obvious.
This is how this beauty looks from the side:

And this is the front  over embellished cover. Yes, the front can be bulky and shiny and you sure can add even more layers to it. I made a hand made frame with patterned paper over a chipboard (sorry, dear  BOBUNNY, this is the only products that I used that is not yours. I just had to use a rectangle die to make it pretty and professional).

Inside this pink frame I added the piece of  Butterfly Kisses Foil Vellum paper and it was just in a perfect size to fit this frame inside.
A few pieces from Butterfly Kisses chipboard was added over the frame to make the title ans then I even embellished the jar over the chipboard with the same collection buttons and a few pink rhinestones.
For the next step I die cut three most adorable paper butterflies using BoBunny Flutters dies and made around the dies hand cuts as the second lower layer.

The inside of the cover has two parts. The left one is just a cover and it should stay flat. So I just embellished it with Butterfly Kisses Noteworthy pieces and some Combo Stickers and added a few rhinestones.

And now  the shadow book shaped part of this project:

All you need are a few piece of solid cardstock and a good scoring board. Score the cardstock 16 times on 1/2'' scale and make 4 pieces of it. Fold them into accordion  kind of folding and make a frame of four  folded pieces. Cover with patterned paper and if you wish you can add some hand cut corners too. Add a nice piece of another patterned paper inside and your shadow book shaped box is done.
But my entire project has much more pieces made in the same style with the same bright part of this collection, but they are totally different.
When you have a shadow box you can  put things inside! So I made a few to put inside this  box.
The first one are a bunch of mini greeting cards made in this " Take 10" style (you can make each one for not more than 10 minutes and maybe even less).   Make the basic cardstock cards, add the front paper panel, adhere a sticker, add the sentiment and embellish with a single button. 
Here are all four together:

 And now a look at them separately:

But wait! Didn't I made them to put into the box? So here they are inside the box:

The second  project that I made to add into the box was a Gift card holder.

Remember the cover die cut pink paper frame from the cover? I used the inner  part as my card holder with a little add- ons of papers and chipboards.
And look how fancy it looks inside the box!

The third project that I decided to  put  inside the box (actually over the cards etc) is this one single paper sheet folded mini album.
This is my " master piece tutorial " project: I made a tutorial a few years ago in my blog and this mini album post still is a top star of my blog. Then I was asked to teach Make N' Take with some paper company on last Winter CHA and ... Yes, it was this  kind of a mini album and it was a hit too.
So without a tutorial: one 12*12'' sheet of double sided paper; three folds; 4 scissors cuts and whatever you decide to add inside and outside as long as it is FLAT!
This is how it looks when totally closed:

Unfold the flip:

Unfold the top fold down:

Unfold the top fold up:

Unfold the top and bottom flaps to left to see it totally open. By the way, the lovely kids are my own grand kids about a year ago.

And now  let me show how it fits the shadow box- on the top, not inside, but you still can close the whole structure.

After making three " old fashioned" projects I decided to add a trendy one. How about this Pocket letter? If you are not familiar with this swap item, it's just a Baseball/Football cards refill filled with 9 hand made cards and it's very similar to Misc Me  project.

So with four vellum and four paper card that I found in this collection I just added one more vellum piece as the main  theme card.  And the reason  this pocket letter is a great box filler is that you can and need to fold it as the main reason  you make then are swaps.

So here it is inside the box:

And this is my Pocket letter in a full  opened:

And just a couple of close- ups to show you how gorgeous this piece is with only papers, vellum, chipboards and stickers. Flat as it should be!But wait! Gold is over it and I love it , using Foil transfers was a blast!

So how about one more add- on to this project? Just one more.
I made a fancy gift tag to add to the shadow box with all crafts inside. And I am totally in love with this 
BoBunny collection as you can see from the sentiment over my tag.

 So just one final look at this lovely shadow box and thanks for being here and reading this long- long post!
Now I cross my fingers for like two weeks to see if I made the team . Please , cross your fingers for me too!

Product list:

BoBunny Butterfly Kisses Lush
Butterfly Kisses Springtime
Butterfly Kisses Delight
Butterfly Kisses Bliss
Butterfly Kisses Flutter
Butterfly Kisses 6*6'' Paper pad
Butterfly Kisses Chipboard
Butterfly Kisses Combo Sticker
Butterfly Kisses Buttons
Butterfly Kisses Noteworthy
Butterfly Kisses Layered Chipboard
Butterfly Kisses Foil Vellum paper
Double Dot Think Pink Jewels
Accents Gold foil transfer
BoBunny Craft Dies Flutter

Other products:
Recycled chipboard
Rectangle dies
Twine
Ribbon
White cardstock
Glue