Your Fearless song art canvas

Hello my dear crafty friends!
Today I am going to share a large canvas that I made just for challenges.
Once or twice a month I take time to free myself from any DT job and I scroll the challenge blogs to find the themes that I love. Then I make a pretty large project and try to combine a few of these challenges.
So here is the first one for September and you should read a bit about this project to understand the concept.

As you can see I made a tribute to one of the most famous all time artists- Sir Elton John.
For a few last days/weeks there were a lot of TV shows that remembered  Princess Diana who passed 20 years ago.
So one of the things that made me to make this canvas was  Elton's version for " Candle in the wind" that he made for  Diana's funeral.
This canvas has a lot of items that are connected to his songs: you can spot the yellow brick road, the candle over the tags and even this English rose from Diana's version of the song.
The title says Create your fearless song and is actually his  all time most popular "Your song".

I made this page with different stencils from all possible companies.
The paper and stickers are from 7 dots.
The chipboards are also from a few companies, but mostly from Creative Embellishments.
The background stamps are from Unity.
And the paints? Whatever I had.
I really love the outcome of my love to this artist and even the photos were scanned from the CD covers that I own.
 I think that I would do some more art pieces in the same style and maybe John Lennon will be the next one.

7 dots- Favorite Artist


More than Words- Grungy and word Fearless



Journey for Scrapki-wyzwaniovo- and this is my artistic journey to my early years that  I make these days.
John Lennon will be the next canvas and so on.

You're amazing MM card

Pretty fast new Mixed Media card that I made for no reason.
Made with DecoArt products, dry and heat embossing, MFT stamped sentiment, TCW stencil and ... whatever. I already don't really remember  how and why it was made.

Bee thankful card

New MM card made for some web challenges with stencil, texutre paste, stamping, heat embossing and some stickers added with staples.

 I enter this card to some web challenges:
Stamplorations- Anything CAS

Dream with Meg's Garden

Hello my dear crafty friends!
Irit is here again  and this time, after a few months of altered art made with Meg's Garden gorgeous products, I am back to scrapbooking.

The new French  Garden collection is the most perfect one to make dreamy, shabby and colorful layouts and this is the first one of this kind.
I used the patterned paper as my background one without any cardstock and added a few bog  and cut pieces from another paper from this collection.  Lucky me had those delicious  peonies photos  that are the perfect fit for the paper. I added background texture paste masking with  light and dark green pastes and surrounded my photos with Die- Versions die cuts of background, fence and bird cages, all made of the same patterned paper.

My photos were actually embedded into the background as I added  some pieces under, over and in between photos.

Transparency butterflies from More Butterflies set were hand cut and glued randomly over the page.
I added some vintage metal findings from Meg's Garden shop over the piece paper and embellished them with pearls. Some trims  and ribbons were added too. As the last touch I added 3 big flowers, some doily trims and a big chipboard heat embossed title.

All the page was misted with a mix of light yellow and pink mists.

 Meg's Garden products  used:
 French  Garden collection
More Butterflies transparency
Vintage metal trinkets
Paper flowers
Doily lace
Fibres
Ribbons
 Other products:
Die Versions dies
 Sweet Stamps chipboard title
LSG mists
TCW and Tando Creative stencils
Texture paste
Pearls

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.

Make art or begin to use your hoarded products...

This mini album full of Art  is my tribute to all of those  crafting Hoarders Anonymous (aren't we all are? ).
 I mean all of us, crafters, keep  supplies they bought and never used. Some of those supplies were never used because who can cut a paper so pretty? Some were never used because we forgot we have them. Some were never used because we didn't have a MOJO for them. And then  the day comes and you decide to make a really big  project with one company hoarded products and you realise that you have tons and tons of them  NIP (this is New in package  for those who already ask). So here is my new and fancy and
 " took me 3 days to finish" mini album made with mainly 7 Gypsies products, but not only them.

 First I found two book covers . You need one to make a mini album. So what I am going to do with a second one? The smaller one? To make book in book  and to use the cover inside the main cover.

Then I found this accordion book (there  is a bag that comes with it, but I used just the insert) and I decided to  adhere it inside as my book in book. You can open just two pages or to open the whole thing if you want to.

The point was to make it as my Art inspiration, so the  cover was made with different textures, materials, mask and texture paste, paint splashes and old paint brushes.
The spine was made with grungeboard, dry embossed and painted into this antique brown- black color. The chipboard butterfly was heat embossed and embellished and white flowers were misted to this rich vintage color.
An now to the inner cover. If the ART is a word on the cover the next words are MAKES ME HAPPY.I used an ATC card from the collection that speaks about love and family and couples, but this one was just perfect for my album.

 The back cover of this small Paris one was glued and stamped with the definition of ART stamp.
The inner small cover was embellished with masked word of ART and the sign of infinity. How about it? Will my art last forever? I hope so.

Then I found another ATC cards that tell us my art story:
First you  DREAM  (stamp) and then FOCUS AND LISTEN

Then you just move on and make art - JUST DO IT. (Also you sure are not Da Vinci as my stamps are)

The next step is to DO YOUR BEST : add colors and experiment

And the last one is just very simple : ART- NOTHING LESS

And now for the real dilemma: to add or not to add more embellishments.
Hard one to answer, but my left brain (the realistic one) decided to stop as the book was too fat to fit the main cover and I was too tired to make another spine(cut- dry emboss- paint- paint again- distress just to be able to add more hoarded things inside? No, thanks)
So I will keep the extras for  another hoarded creation. I believe that I can make dozens without even seeing  the craft shop, but I will need some glue one day.
Sorry for the long post, but this is one post I had to make as I know there are a lot of " sisters" (brothers? not sure) around  who are my soul mates in this hoarding thing and maybe it will make them to act.
I enter this to some new October web challenges:
Color inspiration for Berry71Bleu
SSSS- Finishing touches. Each page has a small finishing touch: the stamped sentiment... Weird
Anything goes vintagestamping
 Fall and fabric for Mixed Media MOJO
 Anything goes for Altered eclectics
Products used:
7 Gypsies :
Victoria book cover
Paris book cover
ATC kit Affirmations
ATC kit family
Accordion  book
6*6 paper pad  Off the wall
Other products:
Stamps: Rubber Dance, VLVS
Stencils: Tando Creative, TCW,Memory Box
Chipboards: ScrapFx,
Flowers: Petallo
Bling: FWAB
Mists: Tattered Angels
 Wood: Wycinanka
Letters: Pink Paislee
Embossing powders: WOW! Embossing Powders
Grungeboard: Advantus
Embossing folder: Sizzix
Other: paint brushes, fabric, gesso, texture paste, metal charm, old book pages, lace...
OK, this was a very long list, but hello? It's all hoarded for ages! I finally used them (the only new thing are stamps,really).
And my final word: Don't hoard- Use! 

Making Mixed Media with Ann Butler's Faux quilting stamps and inks

Hello my dear crafty friends !
Irit  is here and this is my monthly project made with Ann Butler's gorgeous products.
This is a chipboard board that became a kind of an art Mixed Media project and I actually tried to show how we can use Ann Buter's inks and stamps over the different surfaces.
So  it's not a real tutorial (almost impossible to make a Mixed Media project full tutorial , but with video); so I just show you the final result and give some tips.
The white artistic chipboard was covered with tissue paper first. Some tissue was with a pattern and some was just white one. I stamped all over the white tissue with permanent black ink and you can see all Ann's stamps patterns over the board, mostly around the central space.  Then I added some stencil's writing about art with texture paste and then all the stamped and masked surface was  inked with a mix of Ann Butler's Crafters Clearsnap inks.
I added two masked circles with  texture paste and white embossing powder and then inked over the  embossed mask with some of Ann's inks again.
So far we used Ann's inks over glued tissue, over texture paste and over embossing powder and we can see how great it works over all of those surfaces.

Now for the next surfaces. I inked the wooden panel and as you can see the words are still visible.

The chipboard bird cage was inked over the bare chipboard ans I like this " like vintage" result. The chipboard Honeycomb was inked with another Ann's ink and so were the feather's edges. Two burlap flowers were inked too and look at this perfect colored result!

Then I stamped  over diamond chipboard pieces  and inked over stamped images: great look again.

The only non Ann's ink here are those stains over the old brush I added to this art piece.

Supply list

Ann Butler's products

Clearsnap Crafters inks: Lilac, Sunshine, Aquamarine,Limelight, Berry

Ann Butler's stamps:

Unity 2'' Doily Picnic

2'' Leaves all over

1'' Diamonds and Plaids

Other products:

Chipboards, wood pieces: Creative Embellishments

Mask: TCW

Embossing powders: WOW! Embossing Powders

Burlap fowers: LYB

Tissue papers 

Same but different: Tando Grass flexistrips

Hello my dear crafty friends! Irit is here today and I am going to show you my take of our Same, but different week in Tando blog. During this week our design team is going to show you our take of new released Grass flexistrip.
Those strips are really versatile- you can use them for layouts and cards, but as they are flexible, you can use them for 3d projects or to arrange them in 3d way as I did in my new totally Tando wall deco.

More info can be found ins this POST
 I enter this to MM madness challenge for SWAT
 Anything but a card for Pinque Peacock

Die versions March Military release- Dreaming of you card

My new card made with Die Versions new March release.

 More info and another project are in Die Versions blog HERE

 You are welcome to visit there and to leave me some love too!

Thanks!

Gorgeous (just my canvas name, not my work's rating...)

My new pastel small canvas made with Prima goodies for PPC of February.
 I also enter this to For the Love of... Spring challenge over Amazing Mold Putty blog