IRIT SHALOM- Craft addict

Sunday, 4 February 2018

Mixed Media Envelope mini book

Hello my dear crafty friends! This Mixed Media envelopes mini album was made for CCB blog a couple of weeks ago.
You can find the full step by step photo tutorial in CCB blog HERE

Thanks for visiting my blog and I hope that you liked my small photo tutorial.

Friday, 2 February 2018

Winter Playground altered hoop with BoBunny

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my first post with the new, just released Winter Playground collection.
We don't have any proper Winter here in Israel. As we say we only have Summer and a very hot Summer, but as I travel a lot I am used to snow and a real Winter landscapes and making a project with this cutest possible Winter collection was not a hard job after all.
So here is my Winter Playground altered cross stitching hoop and this is a pretty large one, about 9'' diameter.

First I made the strings with Baker's twine around the inside wooden circle. Then I closed the outside circles and painted around with BoBunny White 2 step crackle paste. I covered the hoop with a thin layer and as you can see the cracks are small and fit the size of the hoop.

The background cardstock circle was made from Winter Playground cardstock and then a hand cut half circle was added over the first layer (using Toboggan cardstock).
The whole piece was then covered with snowflakes made with Winter Fun stencil and BoBunny Sugar Glitter paste. Then a few stamped images of doodled balls from Doodes set were added with blue ink over the free spaces. Then the background was glued to the back of both hoops.
The snowman and the huge snowflake were hand cut from Noteworthy and Icicles cardstock and more glitter snowflakes were made over the huge snowflake with the same stencil and Turquoise Glitter paste.
Then both piece were glued between two layers of strings (it's really hard to see the inner strings layer on the photos).

Then Mandala was die cut from Frosty cardstock and small heart circle was die cut with one of Belief dies.
Both dies were glued over the string and embellished with a hand cut girl doll.

The boy doll hand cut image was added over the second side of the hoop.
The wooden snowflakes were painted with both Coral and Island Mist pearlescents and embellished with Double Dot Aqua jewels.

The whole piece was splashed with BoBunny Frost Glimmer spray and the only non BoBunny products was added as the date - 2018 (American Crafts old Thickers in the most perfect color and shape).

Hearts challenge with CAS- ual Fridays

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to our CAS- ual Fridays new challenge!
This challenge will go for almost two weeks and we challenge you to use hearts on your creation.
And this is my card made for the challenge: gold and pink and a lot of Love.

CAS- ual Fridays Stamps used: Be set

Fri-dies used: Smiling

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!

Thursday, 25 January 2018

Congratulations with Magenta

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new Magenta blog post!
Today I decided to make something a bit different and to show you that I can make pretty and quite simple cards and not Mixed Media projects only.

This square card was made with a few unbranded basic dies, three Magenta stamps and one Magenta new stencil.

The stencil was applied using so called circle template I made with the same circle die, so the texture part is just inside the circle.

I used texture paste and then embossing glitter over the texture.

Then the box was die cut from Kraft cardstock and butterflies in two sizes were stamps, heat embossed and colored with watercolor markers.

The butterflies were hand cut and added with 3d foam glue and you can see the texture and the layers on this photo.

The sentiment was stamped in this not so perfect way, but I decided that I like it with these extras even more (as I am primary a Mixed Media artist I never looks for the stamping perfection... LOL).

This is a very general card that fits a lot of occasions and very easy to make.

Actually you don't really need all these dies at all. Look at the box die cut shape and just copy your own!

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Wednesday, 24 January 2018

We Are your past altered canvas

This is my new altered canvas made for some web challenge.

I made it with a lot of chipboards - positives and negatives and added some letters. Then I discovered that letters W and R made this " we are" thing and added the sentiment " your past".
It's a kind of a travel in time- to old world and old and odd things.

Made for some web challenges:
I Kropka- Travel in time form one small step and this is my travel back in time

Country view- Anything goes

Tuesday, 23 January 2018

L4Love altered door hanger

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new Tando blog post. Irit is here today .
This time I am going to share my new easy to make Mixed Media door hanger.
It's a perfect one to make for the next month Valentine day small present.

This Tando door hanger was covered with stencilled letters using DecoArt texture paste and them painted with a mix of Media line paints and other metallic paints.
I added small white marker dots to ass some light to this dark piece.
The title was made with another tag using the chipboard circle inside and this time I used texture paste and a bit of embossing glitter over the letters.
I made this L4Love title with one single stencil and then added a couple of glittered hearts over the title.

Products used:
Door hangers style A

Textured hearts

Giovanna- Alphabet
Giovanna - Alphabet

Mask- Letters
Mask - Letters

Thanks for being here with me today and see you in a couple of weeks with more Tando inspiration!

Monday, 22 January 2018

Top 10 for 2017 Blog Hop

Edited: Sorry for not picking my winner earlier, but my new grandson was born on 1/1/18 and my whole life was a bit around this event.
So I decided not to do it with random pick, but just to make a summary of his birth date and 1+1+1+8 is 11, so my winner is number 11.
Laura Cox- your my my winner!
Please e- mail me with your shipping addy to get your win!
And again- very sorry for the delay, but I was a bit out of the blog loop lately.

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to our mutual TOP 10 blog hop.

Here are my Top 10 as I picked them for my own (read about it, please) reasons.
This year I was mostly concentrated in making altered and Mixed Media projects with a small touch of CAS cards and a small number of scrapbooking layout.
Most of my favorite projects were made for one of my design teams or for some challenges and lucky me even won some great prizes for them.
I hope that you came from Laura's blog

Altered Mixed Media notebook

This project was made for a contest of Fave Crafts blog as a part of Prime CHA event for those who attended the event and got some goodies from different sponsors.

The best 20 projects were picked by blog admin and then it was a public voted competition with $1000 prize.

And I WON IT! Public voted win and a great cash to spend on more goodies.

This altered Steampunk box was made as a part of my designing for BoBunny and was made with cardstock only, using dies, stencils , embellishments from BoBunny and paints and mediums from Pentart.

This box was in print in the latest VOL.10 Just Steampunk! print magazine and made a cover too.

This altered canvas is another Mixed Media project made for some web challenges and yes, I won some and was spotlighted in some more with this canvas.

And after few grungy projects I decided to show one shabby and bright tag made for a couple of web challenges and actually I won one and got great prize for this win.

This is a double tag made with stencils, chipboards, paints, dies and patterned cardstock in this " light Mixed Media" style.

This is another Mixed Media canvas made for BoBunny with their products and Pentart paints and mediums and yes, I am back to grungy Mixed Media style.

In between dark and Steampunk projects I made a few CAS cards too.

This card was made for Magenta DT call after I made round 1 and gor some of their products and I made this team and design for Magenta for the last few months.

A I already told you I didn't scrapbook much during this year, cut I still made a few nice layouts.

This layout with my daughter's wedding photo was made for Scrapberry DT I served till June this year.

I really love my totally modern girl on this vintage style layout.

Hope you like it too!

Next one of my favorite projects is this shaker card that was in print in Craft Ideas Summer issue magazine.

It looks like a simple card, but the inside of stars is stamped and heat embossed and stars are die cut and glittered, so after all it's a kind of not so simple card after all.

Another Mixed project that I like a lot is this altered notebook cover with Mixed Media faux wood background and totally cute embellishments cluster that was made for print publication and was in print in the latest new issue of Just Christmas cards and decorations! 2017.

And the last , but not least is this cute shabby Mixed Media card

So as you can see I picked my own favorites in different styles, but it's still me and my own styles after all.

Now you should visit the next blog in the hop-Nicole's blog

And yes, I do have a lovely giveaway for you to win.

As you can see this is a mini clor board, 2 sets of dies and three sets of stamps and they all are new in packages.

To win this giveaway you should be my blog follower, my Instagram follower and my new video channel follower AND TO COMMENT ON THIS POST THAT YOU MADE ALL THREE.

So subscribe for them all and you are in the draw and it doesn't matter where you live!
The last day to enter to my draw is December 31 and I will post the winner in this updated post on January 1.

I would ship the giveaway to any winner around the would.

Thanks for visiting my blog!

Here is a full list of our blog hop:

Laurel Seabrook