Winter Hi card with SNS

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my last  Sparkle N' Sprinkle September reveal post.

I know that Winter is far away. But when you see this most adorable winter stamp and you like pinguins as much as I do, you jump to this Winter Hi card and just keep it for later. 

Anyway, it's so hot here in Israel right now that making something cool just gives you a hope for better days.

So this is the second Winter card made in ...July. 

The double background was made over white cardstock and then the second background layer was added using stamped and heat embossed acetate. Then another texture  layer was added with Glimmer paste over the acetate. The main image was stamped, heat embossed, colored and hand cut and then arranged over heat embossed chipboard piece. The sentiment I used  has two parts and I used just one upper part of it.

Product list:

Dancing Penguin set #00-013

VersaMark ink

Black detail EP

Clear Detail EP

Snow white Flock

Vanilla Ice EP

Polar Ice ink Tonic

Laguna Bay ink Tonic

Nuvo Glimmer paste Blue Topaz

Nuvo Glimmer paste RaspberryRhodolite

Nuvo Crystal drops Carribean Ocean

Nuvo Crystal drops Simply white

Embossable acetate SNS

Midas Touch pen Tonic

Tear- ific tape 1/2''
Chipboard- Dusty Attic
Stencil


As always I made a full  and pretty long step by step tutorial for you to see HERE IN MY BLOG.
You are mostly welcome to my own blog to see the tutorial and them to jump to SNS store to buy yourself a lot of great products to make any of your Winter creations.

Here are some close- ups to my card:

Step by step:

1. Stamp and heat emboss large snowflakes over white cardstock.

Add more snowflakes to fill the space.

 Add smaller snowflakes from the Penguin set to fill more space.

2. Mist the stamped cardstock to get this resist- emboss effect.

 Wipe the extra mists as we want it to be mute and not so blue!

3. Stamp snowflakes from both sets over acetate and heat emboss it.

4. Stamp the main image using VersaMark and Black detail EP.

 5. Color the image with water colors.

 6. Add Raspberry Glimmer paste over the red hat on the image.

 7. Add Snow white flock over the hat, face and image body.

8. Use blue Glimmer paste and stencil over the stamped acetate.

9. Staple the acetate piece over the background stamped white cardstock.

10. Cover the bare chipboard piece with VersaMark and heat emboss with Vanilla Ice EP.

11. Stamp the sentiment. Arrange the chipboard and the imagew over it.

12. Add white and blue crystal drops over the acetate as shown.

Thanks layout with BoBunny

 Hello my dear crafty friends!

Irit is here today and this time I am going to share a layout made as a gift for the nursery staff .

 My third and most adorable grandson Lior spent a year and a half in this wonderful place and he is moving to the " big boys" kindergarten.

So my daughter asked if I can do a craft gift with some photos she made during the last months.

Yes, I sure can, even when the photos are totally out of my scrapping range (bad backgrounds, poor quality photos are not my usual scrappy mojo).

But then, with BoBunny cutest ever Little Wonders collection I made a nice multiphoto layout and as for the staff? They are not scrappers, so they just adored it even with the blurry photos.

 I arranged this layout over the wooden 12*12'' stand and there is an option to hang it on the wall too.
This is a totally classic scrapbook layout in a totally classic  style: cardstocks, few photos, title, sub- title, few paper embellishments and a lot of smiles.
I think, and you can connect with it if you feel the same way, that the classic and non Mixed Media scrapbooking is still the best.
When you have a pretty scrapbooking collection with some stickers, dies and photos you don't need to hide the smallest possible photo  under dozens of paint and mediums layers.
Make your photos the stars of your layout!
Make people smiles the joy of your creations!
Go back to classic scrapbooking as we did for ages and this will be the best gift ever!

 And now some close- ups to this page:

 Product list:
 BoBunny products:
Little Wonders collection: Little Wonders, Max, Elliot, Jacob, Evan 12*12'' cardstock
Little Wonders Layered chipboard
Little Wonders Noteworthy die cuts
Little Wonders Combo stickers
Little Wonders Alphabet stickers Gold Thickers
Double Dot Aqua Jewels

 American Crafts :
Color Wheel Mixed Media ink by Vicki Boutin- Blues

Thanks for being here with me today and see you with new BoBunny projects in the near future!

Happy Thoughts with CAS- ual Fridays

Hello my dear crafty friends! Irit is here today with my September card tutorial made with CAS- ual Fridays most delicious stamp and die set- Peaceful Garden stamp set and Garden Fri- dies.

This card is made in a kind of " light Mixed Media style". The background  was made with Distress Oxides; all card was misted at the end; die cut pieces were  covered with embossing ink and heat embossed . But even after all these mediums/ inks/ powders this card looks pretty much clean and simple.

And these are CAS- ual Fridays products I used to make this lovely card:

 Here is a small step by step tutorial I made for you to follow!
1.Die cut card front from white thick cardstock. Die cut the oval frame to use as your stencil.

2.Ink the oval inside the stencil with three Distress Oxide inks as shown.

3.Stamp the leaves over the inked part of the card using black pigmented ink and heat emboss with clear embossing powder. You can use VersaMark ink and black embossing powder as well.

4.Add more stamped leaves and flowers around the main stamped image using the same technique.

5.Stamp and die cut two  more leaves.

6. Die cut roses; ink them with  ink and heat emboss with clear embossing powder.

7.Glue the die cut leaves and flowers over the stamped ones.

8. Stamp the sentiment on the card.

9.Cover the entire card with VersaMark ink and heat emboss over with clear embossing powder.

10. Add green ink splashes over the card.

11. Add enamel drops as flower centers and around the card.

I hope that you like my small tutorial and would try to make the similar card with all shown techtniques.

You can find the products in CAS- ual Fridays chop and to use my own discount if you wish to do so.

All about ATC -and it's not just Artistic Trading cards - with BoBunny

Hello my dear crafty friends!
Irit from Irit Shalom's Designs is here today and I am going to share with you all about ATC.
As you all most probably know ATC was first  Artistic Trading cards item-baseball card size small artistic project that was traded and kept in the baseball cards plastic pocket. And this was sore for two decades.
Then the crafters around the world felt bored and decided that C can be changed to ... cube.
So Artistic Trading Cubes were born: small 3'' squared cube made  from one single cardstock piece and embellished on 5 sides. It also can be folded and mailed for swapping.
Then about 6 months ago the brain stormed artists decided that C can be also for Coins. And so Artistic Trading Coins were born: 2.5'' circled art pieces that are embellished, stamps, misted, painted and whatever and can be mailed and traded.
So today I am going to share all three ATC kinds that were made with one single BoBunny collection named Sunshine Bliss and all of them are  in this correct ATCs size and ready for swap.

 This is my collection of two coins, two cards and one cube.
Also I used stencils, glitter paste and stamps these are not really Mixed Media art pieces, but more scrapbooking style collaged ones.
And this is the glory of BoBunny products: you can make classic projects with them or to move to Mixed Media art. It just depends on your style and your own skills.
So here are the first " born" of ATC- Trading cards.

Both cards are made in the same way: American Crafts black cardstock base. Then Sunshine Bliss die cut rectangle. Over the rectangle BoBunny stencil with Black glitter paste was used and then Noteworthy die cut pieces and Combo stickers were added to finish the card.
ATC must be pretty flat art piece as you are going to mail it in the flat envelope, so I stopped on this level of layers. Some background stamps were used around the upper layers to add more artistic interest to the card.

The next are Coins: same way of crafting and pretty much same style and look.

 And here are the flat pieces all together:

 And now the last C for the Cube.

The cube should not be glued so you can fold it and to ship it. I glued it as I wanted better photos from a few sides.

So here are some close- ups to some sides and to the embellished top:

 So I hope that you understood all kinds of ATC projects and maybe would try to make some of your own with BoBunny delicious paper collections!

Product list
BoBunny 
Sunshine Bliss collection: Peace, Charm, Felicity, Sunshine Bliss, Serene 12*12'' cardstock
Sunshine Bliss Combo Stickers
Sunshine Bliss Noteworthy
Sunshine Bliss Layered chipboards
Mandala Garden stencils
Rough it up stamp
Trellis Square die
Licorice Glitter paste
Clover Pansy flowers
Buttercup Dahlia flowers
American Crafts:
Textured solid cardstock Black
Sticky Thumb glue runner
Sticky Thumb Adhesive foam dots
 AC Black ink

Thanks for being here with me today and see you soon again with a totally different inspiration!

Your age card with SNS

Hello my dear friends!

    Irit is here today with my second September Sparkle N' Sprinkle reveal card.

Today I used the most adorable, funny and cute new stamp set called  Spring Chickens.

This set is so much fun and so much firs my age and my " not saying" age.

I love all of the sentiments and all of the cute image of this set so much and I sure whould do more cards with them.

I tried a new for me technique by mistake: after coloring I moved with colors around the images by mistake. So I took a new baby wipe and moved the colors up and down by purpose and BINGO! I really love the result. Just try it! Ir works with water colors and distress inks.

Product list:

Spring Chickens set #914

VersaMark ink

Black detai EP

Nuvo Glimmer paste Moonstone

Nuvo Crystal drops Carribean Ocean

Crystal Ice Glitter SNS

Rich Rosewood ink Tonic

Nuvo Mica Mist Turkish Rose
Tear-ific tape 1/2''

! And as always- the full step by step tutorial is here in my blog! Please visit and enjoy it

 Close - ups to my card  for you to see

Step by step:

1. Stamp two main chicks images over die cut white cardstock with VersaMark and heat emboss with Black detail EP. 

 2. Color the images with water colors and " move" colors with baby wipe over the card.

3. Add Crystal Ice glitter over the images centers as shown.

 4. Stamp and arrange the sentiment using Tonic Hybrid ink and heat emboss with Clear detail EP.

 5. Add hearts texture over BoBunny stencil using Moonstone Glimmer paste. When dry add Turkish Rose Mica mist splashes.

6. Add blue crystal drops as eyes over the images.