Thank you window card tutorial with IBS

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my March Inspired by Stamping tutorial.

This time I made a clear window card and made a full step by step tutorial.

This is how this finished card look:

And now the full tutorial:
1. Die cut a window using two dies from Stitched Rectangles by Elizabeth Crafts.Make the window on the folded card and not of a single panel.

2. Die cut the patterned cardstock  (Scrapberry's) into the same size as your card.

3. Stamp the Inspired by Stamping Cherry Blossoms with white pigmented ink and heat emboss with white embossing powder over the frame. Hard to see as this is all white on white color.

4. Stamp the sentiment over the transparency using black pigmented ink and heat emboss with clear embossing powder.

5. Glue the stamped sentiment over  the back of white window and glue the colored window cardstock over the transparency.

6. Stamp the cherry blossoms on white cardstock with black pigmented ink and heat emboss with clear embossing powder.

7. Hand cut the stamped image and color with Zig Real Brush markers.

8. Glue the colored flowers over the card front as shown.
Add a few random black rhinestones.

Inspired by Stamping stamps used:
Cherry Blossoms


Big thanks


Other products:
White cardstock- Michaels
Dies- Elizabeth Crafts
Markers- Zig Real Brush
Inks- Clearsnap, Tsukineko
Embossing powders- WOW! Embossing powders

Faux wood tutorial with ARTplorations for September

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my Faux Wood tutorial made with one single, must to have, ARTplorations  Weathered Wood stencil.

This is not a wood texture over wood. This is a wood over paper. Let do it! It's fun and easy and gives you a gorgeous old wood result.

Step by step instructions:

1.First fins an old toothbrush. Then cut  each second row inside it with fine scissors and make your own home made tool. Take a piece of Kraft cardstock and add a thick layer of gesso with your new crafty tool.  Let it dry!

2.Take your  Weathered Wood  ARTplorations stencil and add a thick layer of white  texture paste over the first gesso layer. Let it dry again.

3. Use brown Gelato water color and make random lines over the dry texture. Then wipe it with a couple of wet baby wipes all over.

4. Add a layer of Tsukineko Terra Cotta mist over the first brown layer and you got this lovely wood color.

5. Now let's make the wood panel with markers and a ruler. 

You can use Copic or Faber Castell Artist Big brush and to make a faux separations over the whole cardstock as shown.

6. And as your " wood" is done, let's make the final project.

Cut the piece into two long strips and 3 horizontal smaller ones. Arrange the wood piece as shown and glue with a good permanent glue on the back.

Add a few stickers over the pallet and enjoy your " wooden" project!

Happy Birthday with Rubber Dance December challenge

 Hello my dear crafty friends!
Today I want to share a card made with Rubber Dance December challenge colors and a very new, one of  more, Birthday stamp.
There are a lot of new RD Birthday stamps released this days and they are so gorgeous!
Just jump to the shop and buy some. Or a lot. Or every single stamp RD sells.
And you can just win some by entering our color challenge. You don't need to use RD stamp. You don't need to make Birthday card. You just need to follow our colors for this month and then you can win!

I enter this to Red Rubber challenge- Frame it

Faux wood tutorial for IBS

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new tutorial made for Inspired by Stamping company.

This time I am going to teach you how to make Faux Wood background (just one of the ways I am going to show in a few next months).

This tutorial is based on gesso and stencil way of making your Faux wood background.

Step 1: Make your own tooth brush tool by cutting  each second  row  from the old or Hotel (bad unused) tooth brush. Then apply gesso over the white thin cardboard as I did here. 

Step 2: Take your wood grain stencil (there are a lot on the market and it's just one you must have piece) and add more gesso over the first gesso layer. You also can  use white texture paste if you want more textural background. Add some  clear embossing powder over the texture and heat emboss it to limit your drying time and to give this piece more interest.

Step 3: Use Terra Cotta Walnut ink and a simple baby wipe and add color with misting around the dry piece from the previous step. Add as little or as much as you want: this will make your wood color lighter or darker, depends on your wishes only. Let the mist dry and please use gloves or try to keep you fingers out of the mist as this mist is pretty messy; unless you really don't care about your  hands and want the whole world to see that you are a real Mixed Media artist. 

Step 4: Imitate the wooden plaque with simple dark brown lines made with the darker color of Walnut ink and the simple and cheap Fantastix tool. Use your metal ruler to make the lines: just dip your tool into the ink and draw the lines over .

And now for the small finished project I made using this handmade background.
As I used the whole piece for the bigger frame project , I just had small leftovers and make this lovely wooden plaque with 5  pieces of my " wood".
I stamped some leaves and small flowers directly over the background using  permanent inks and then made three stamped titles using some  Inspiring Sentiments  my most beloved  IBS set. The leaves and flowers are from new just released Autumn Blessings set.