Spring bottle cup magnet with TPD

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my weekly post made for Two Paper Divas stamp company.
This time I decided to make the OOP project and made this huge bottle cap magnet/ornament/ whatever.

I covered it inside with pink lace and pink ribbon; added a huge pink tulle bow; covered the inside with Japanese paper ( almost non seen....sorry) and made the stamped on the vellum inside circle.
I used  one of those cute stamps from TPD Seed Packet Flowers set, stamped with white ink over  milky vellum and heat embossed with white embossing powder.
Then I colored each flower with distress markers and glued it inside over the Japanese paper. I added Zva Creative pearl strips inside and my shabby magnet was done.

Life is what you make it

 This is very easy fancy card made in second!

Try it- just use Paper House Productions paper pad and some stickers. 

Products used:

Blossom Paper pad

Enjoy the Journey 3d stickers

 Other products:

Light blue and light green cardstock

Green dotted ribbon

Twine

 Light blue mist

Pink and blue mist

How to make this card:

1. Make the basic light blue card; add lime layer over it; round one side corners.

2. Round all 4 corners of pink paper from the pad and adhere it over the cardstock.

3. Cut 3 strips from stripped paper from the same pad and make free hand banners. Glue the banners over the pink paper. Tie the ribbon as shown, make the small bow and tie the bow with twine.

4. Add all stickers as shown. Add a few drops of light blue and red mists a few small green pearls all over the card.

Spring is in the air tag: PHP STICKERS

 Lovely Spring tag made with Paper House Productions papers and Spring 3D stickers.

Beautiful orchids with Inspired by Stamping

  Hello my dear crafty friends!
This is my new layout made as a piece of " make your own background"  experiment.
I  made a lot of stamped and stencilled background, but this time I added almost a full package of thin clear stamps to add the texture to this page that was made because of the stamp.
How can it be? It can. First I got this Orchid stamp from IBS  Australian Nature 1 set , then I tried to find good photos to fit it and I actually found a lot from our trip to Orchid garden.
So I added 3 photos in line and made the background around with stamping the same stamp 4 times and coloring with distress markers over the patterned paper. Then I added some stickers over the photos and made the finishing touches with corner and title heat embossed chipboards, canvas. 3d and puffy stickers and a few pieces of ribbons I never use... The stamped butterflies from the same stamp set were the last second add- ons and work perfectly with the sticker ones,  colors and  my photos. And then the little stamped bird over the canvas sticker was the must! The sticker says : Sing your song and the bird was " must to add" image here.

Inspired by Stamping Birthday blog hop

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my blog today!

Surprise!  I'm here today, along with other gals on the Inspired By Stamping design team, to wish the Inspired By Stamping store'sowner, Joanna, a happy 3rd anniversary for the store and an early happy birthday!  You should have arrived here from Grace Tolman's  blog.  If not, and you'd like to join in the fun, please start at Joanna's blog and hop along with us to wish her many happy returns!  We've all made birthday creations to share using Inspired By Stamping products.  Come and take a peek at mine!

And now for my story:
3 years ago, on October 2011, I found a Design Team call for Inspired by Stamping stamps company.
I wasn't much of a stamper those days, but I tried each and every possible call as I was very new to crafting, designing or being on any team, but challenge blogs only.
I made this team and this was my very first stamping company design spot. Three  years later, with like 10 stamp companies more in my resume, I am still on this team!
And I hope it will be forever. Just two of us left from the original list: Kendra Sand and I, but  this team feels like Home, and this is a place you want to stay forever and ever.
So this month Inspired by Stamping is 3 years old.
In a few more days our dear owner, Joanna, will celebrate her birthday.
Happy Birthday to you both: the girl who had a dream and the company that is this " Dream did come true".
I want to thank Joanna for the chance she gave me then and for the opportunity to be creative with her gorgeous stamps, papers, dies and files. This is a place to create whatever I want, in any style and to be true to my artistic way with  all IBS  products and to show the world that any stamp can be used by any crafter if you just have a bit of imagination.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO INSPIRED BY STAMPING AND TO OUR DEAR JOANNA!

Inspired by stamping products used:

Big wishes 2

Flowers bloom

Vintage tickets

 Fancy labels 3

Thank you for stopping by today and for hopping with all of us from Inspired By Stamping!  Your next stop is Joanne Herbert blog. 

Autumn colors for Tando

Hello my dear crafty friends!
Irit is here today with my new Fall inspiration.
I love fall, also we don't have this real fall in Israel. We just have two seasons: summer and a very hot summer. But then I was born in Russia and there we  had all those falling leaves and fantastic fall colors. So this project is made with my childhood memories: colors and smell and a lot of falling leaves around.
I made this frame with a mix of distress inks and some embossing powders and my leaves were painted with FC gelatos and covered with glaze. The book plate was also inked and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. The background  paper and the title sticker are from PHP.

Tando products used for this project:

Minis leaves 3

Scalloped nested  rectangles

Mini book plate

Life as a puzzle with Rubber Dance

 Hello my dear crafty friends!

Irit is here and this time I am going to share my Rubber Dance new project  that was made a tribute to trends.
I am not a very trendy girl when it comes to outfits or home decoration; but when I craft I try to incorporate a few of  latest trends as usually people are looking for them. But then  it's always my own take of those trends.
So here are some trends I tried to show on this altered recycled puzzle trio:
Pink and Aqua colors- but I made them more saturated
Recycling- this one is done " as is": the puzzle pieces were found in the  trash and I really up cycled them to this art piece.
Chipboards: I used at least one chipboard over each puzzle piece, but I altered them a lot as a usual trend is to leave them bare, whitewash or inked a bit.
Mixed Media art trend- ongoing one: I tried to make it " lighter";  not to cover all pieces with a heavy layer of gesso, masks, mists and inks. Just to use stamps, some inks and embossing powders over this  piece.
It still counts as Mixed Media, but in my own really light way.

And now for some close- ups.
Each puzzle piece was stamped with a one main encouragement sentiment from Something Wonderful set with clear embossing ink and heat embossed with black fine detail powder. Then I stamped Lace background around the sentiment with the same ink and white fine detail embossing powder.   Then I added a few of Collage elements stamps with black embossing again over the white lace image.Both powders work as emboss resist technique when you ink/color over them; so I used a mix of distress Ranger inks to make the color mix over the pieces.

The chipboards were glittered with blue glitter embossing powder and glued over the pieces.

I made the holes with my forgotten hole punch and tied some vintage  ribbons to connect the puzzle pieces.

Some random pearls are my only extra embellishment over this piece as I wanted the stamps to shine and not to be covered with layers of flowers and leaves and swirls.

I hope you got some inspiration from my art piece and see you again!

Rubber Dance products used :

Collage elements 1

Collage elements 2

Lace background

Something wonderful sentiment set

 I enter this to SSSS challenge Falling in love: with colors, tectures and stamps and mostly with recycling

Color inspiration for Pixels and Paper

Inspired by Stamping new release: 3 easy tags with Teeny Tiny Greetings

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new post made with Inspired by Stamping most delicious new released stamp set:  Teeny Tiny Greetings
I really love this set for the option to use much more that one single sentiment over the card or tag. There are small and pretty and you can combine 3- or even 4 of them over one single project  and they are just adorable! But please be careful with those stamps: as small as they are , they are easy " gone" into the trash bin or around the table.
So here is my three gift tags made with this set and using some stamps from 2 other new released sets around the sentiments.
 Autumn blessings check background over tag #1
 Flower of the month: Aster dotted square over tag #2
Flower of the month : Aster chevrons  strip over tag #3

I used 2 colors of inks and just mixed them over the tags and then added same ribbons and made a sturdy background for those tags.

As you can see I managed to use a lot of tiny sentiments on each tag and they are all different! So much more left unused: it's a perfect never ending sentiment set!
And now some close ups to my tags:

More stamped jewelry with Ann Butler's stamps and inks

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my monthly Ann Butler's products blog post!

A few weeks ago I made a small pink and black jewelry piece with Tando jewelry elements and Ann Butler's stamps. I loved it so much that I decided to make  three more wearable pieces with the same technique and in different colors.

So welcome my new wearable papercrafts.

The first one is this purple and black piece made with Ann Butler's faux quilting Unity stamps. I stamped over the white cardstock and hear embossed the pieces with  clear embossing powder, Then I inked the stamped cardstock with Lilac Crafters ink from Clearsnap (Ann Butler's product again). The chipboard frame was covered with a think payer of Ann Butler's Earth Safe Finishes Lilac paint and the thick layer gave it a good non even texture. I added some pearls inside the piece and used the same dotted ribbon for the bow.

The second piece is this orange and black one.

Same stamping technique, but this time the frame was made with Ann  Butler's Tangelo ink and clear embossing powder only.

The last piece was made in blues, with Ann Butler's Aquamarine ink and clear embossing powder over the frame.This time I added some pre made flowers in the same color as the ink to make it a bit different.

 And here are all my beauties together.

Product list:

Ann Butler's Faux Quilting stamps 

1'' Leaves all over

1'' Doily picnic

Crafter's inks Clearsnap

Aquamarine

Tangelo

Lilac

Earth Safe Finishes  Ann Butler- Lilac

Art is not what you see tag

 My second project made for Paper House Productions Canvas stickers  week.
You can do it in no time with the tutorial I made here and a full supply list:

Supply list:

Tag products from PHP

Artist paper pad

http://www.paperhouseproductions.com/artist-paper-pad.html?___SID=U#.U_t9e8V_sS4

Impressions canvas art stickers

http://www.paperhouseproductions.com/shop/stickers/stickers-shop-by-theme/stickers-inspirational/impressions-canvas-sticker.html#.U_t97MV_sS4

Other products

Ink: Clearsnap

Mesh ribbon- May arts

Bling, plastic leaves: FWAB

 Other: twine

Step by step instructions for tag:

1. Make a tag from Artist paper; distress and ink the edges. Make a hole for the ribbon on the top.

2. Tie a piece of thin natural twine over the top third of the tag. Adhere 4 small canvas stickers making a square in the middle of your tag. Tie a piece of mesh under the stickers. Adhere rectangle sentiment sticker under the mesh.

3. Adhere a small piece of plastic leaves under the sentiment sticker and a big piece of leaves over the other 4 stickers. Add some pearls as shown and tie a bow on the top of your tag.

Imaginatium GD post #2

Hello my dear crafty friends! 

This is Irit Shalom here again as Imaginarium September Guest Designer and this time I made an altered shabby style printers tray to showcase those gorgeous Imaginarium chipboards.

This is my son's small family (since those photos were taken they got another little girl into their family) and I decided to make it in this pastel shabby style.

This 7 Gypsies tray was dark brown and I just painted it to this dirty white color with a simple paint spray.

Most of the chipboard were added on the outer side of the frame. They are so beautiful to hide them inside.

So two larger ones framed the main photos: Window with lattice and shutters and Frame 1.

Both were covered with gesso, then heat embossed with white embossing powder and then misted with a light pink mist.I didn't try to make  the coverage perfect as this is this style where some bare spots are just welcome.

As I already used Capture Moments Smile inside chipboards for my two other  projects, I decided to use the negative as a mask with light pink colored gel medium over the patterned paper. And it worked great! What a nice use of all possible leftovers! Just try it on your projects too.

The oval frame was painted in the same way as two large photo frames and I used it for the partial title of this project with a chipboard word " Family" inked with distress ink and connected with a strip of glossy accents. This is my favorite way to connect letters : looks so much different and glues the letters perfectly.

The leaves with holes smaller piece was just  heat embossed with white powder and glued over the top of the oval frame.

And now for another " use everything " item: two negatives from Edward relief ornament were used as small photo frames. I added " Just for you" inked chipboard inside the first frame and framed a photo with an extra flourish under the frame in the second one.

The second part of my title , word " Forever" was made with upper and low single letters and as you can see for this word you really need to use both sets or to get doubles. Anyway I managed to make the word and as you can see glued it in the same " add the glossy accents line over" style.

Hope you like my altered tray and see you again with my last post as Imaginarium Guest Designer in a couple of weeks. Please visit Imaginarium blog for the full list of products used to make this project.
 I enter it for a couple of web challenges
Anything goes for Paper Issues
 Bling it on for Quick Quotes
 Vintage to Scrap Africa

Fun for fun and any other letter too..

Hello my dear crafty friends! Today I want to share a card I made with those fabulous Ann Butler's Faux quilting stamps from Unity and it's just a sample card. Why just a sample? As actually you (and I) can do a lot of those cards using any background and a small tag with one single monogram letter from Ann Butler's Flourish 2'' ABC from Kellycraft stamp set ,and  gorgeous Unity 1'' Faux Quilting stamps (any stamp can be used here as this is just a random background stamping with Ann great Clearsnap Crafter's Inks).

So you can make it L for Love, H for, I for Imagination and so on. You got it, do you?
 And just a few words about the background: it was made with Die Versions background die as a mask and then this inked mask was added over the  inked surface. Here is another fast technique for you: any background die can be used as a mask. Just rub the inks over it and let it dry a bit.
Hope you like this concept and will do some similar projects in the future.

Grace's Special delivery blog hop

Hello, friends!  Today some of the Inspired By Stamping design team members are sharing some very special cards for our teammate, Grace!  Grace is having a little baby boy and we decided to hop and celebrate with her!  If you arrived here from  Donna's  blog, you're on the right track!  If you haven't and would like to hop with us, please start at the Inspired By Stamping blog and start from there!

And this is my card made for Grace!

I made this baby boy card in green and blue color with stamped and heat embossed background and a LOT of IBS stamps. Then I stamped the heat embossed sentiment over the white board chipboard with some more stamping over the chipboard and some misting over the stamped image. 

I hope Grace loves it!

 Grace, we wish you and your newest bundle of joy, or should we say bundle of BOY!, all the best!  Here's to your health and happiness, sweet friend!  Enjoy your baby boy! 

Your next hop stop is Jo 's blog!  Thanks for taking some time to hop with us--please leave some love with Grace on her blog, In Her Shoes, as well!  Happy hopping, friends!