Always give love mini album with CCB

 Sometimes all you need to make a lovely and easy project is a great paper collection, good nesting dies set and  perfect pair of scissors.This mini album cover is a great example of such a project.
Using only Compose you life 8*8'' paper pack and book shaped set of dies with a lot of fussy cutting of paper and cardstock flowers from this collection this old, almost 10 years old ) mini album with pink pages was done in less than an hour.
It's lovely and fancy and fits any girly photos.

Product list:
 Aga Baraniak- Compose your life 8*8 paper pack
Aga Baraniak- Compose your life Journal cards 
Tattered Angels -Crushed shells glimmer mist
Tattered Angels- Gold glimmer mist
Tattered Angels- Wedding pink glimmer mist
Book shaped nesting dies- Tattered Lace
Mini album
Tea dye Distress ink- Ranger

Christmas Artistic Trading Coins with BoBunny

 Hello my dear crafty friends!

Irit from Irit Shalom Designs is here today with my first project made with the most adorable and newest Yuletide Carol collection.

This is a totally traditional Christmas collection- colors, designs and sayings .

But I decided to make totally new and not so traditional Artistic Trading Coins set.

 Let me explain you a bit about Artistic Trading coins first.
Most of us met and made ATC- Artistic Trading Cards- the small cards that fit the baseball cards plastic pockets.
Some of us even made Artistic Trading Cubes- 3'' cubes embellished from all 4 sides and on the top that can be folded and mailed in the envelope.
Artistic Trading Coins are the new thing that became trendy  during last few months and actually it's 2.5'' cardstock/chipboard/paper/ wooden circle that is pretty flat as we need to swap them and to mail them inside the envelope.
So here are my take of this new trend using this adorable Christmas collection.
I made 6 coins in the same colors and in the same designs.
Each and every " coin" has two cardstock circle layers and then Combo stickers, layered chipboards and Noteworthy die cuts from the very same collections were added on the top.
Some of the coins were embellished with BoBunny die cut from dies, brads, jewels or buttons.
Yet they are still very flat and you can mail them inside the regular envelope.
The first one here has a die cut candle, die cut cardstock layer and some jewels one it.

The second coin was embellished with gold heat embossed wooden shapes, Noteworthy die cuts and jewels.

This coin was covered with Gold glitter paste on the edges.

 The next one has a die cut layer made from the collection cardstock.

The next one is very similar to the second piece, but still totally different.

 The last one is the fanciest one as there are heart die cut, stickers, brad and even button on it.

 And if swaps are not your cup of tea- just add some strings on the back of the coins and you would have 6 adorable hand made Christmas tree ornaments.

Product list

Yuletide Carol collection 12'': O Tannenbaum, Presents, Joyous, Carol, Christmas

Yuletide Combo Stickers

Yuletide Layered chipboards

Yuletide Noteworthy die cuts

Belief dies

Christmas card dies

Double Dot Emerald jewels

Double Dot Ruby Red Jewels

Double Dot Citrus Jewels

Double Dot Emerald brads

American Crafts Sticky thumb glue runner

 American Crafts Sticky thumb 3d foam glue

 I really hope that you like my small art creations today and see you next week with more BoBunny Christmas treasures  using another new and just released Christmas collection! Wait and see how gorgeous this second collection is

Altered cross stitching hoop : Give Thanks

Hello my dear crafty friends!
Irit is here today and I am going to share my Thanksgiving altered project made with totally non fall / non Thanksgiving BoBunny collection.
This week  the DT members were challenged to make Thanksgiving project. I was also challenged  to make Mantel decoration. So from the beginning there were two major problems with this project.
 First of all I didn't even know what this one was. Then I was told that this is a fireplace decor. Living in Israel  the fireplace is the least used thing in our life. So I just made a nice home decoration and took a photo over the only shelf I have in my home. Really. There is a TV screen over each and every other drawer or shelf in my house, so imagine that you have a fireplace and my decoration is a part of your fireplace space.
The second problem was that I never got any Fall or Thanksgiving paper collection.
So this Floral Spice new and most gorgeous collection was the closest to the Thanksgiving that I had and yes, it worked!

I tried to make the simple and affordable and something that any crafter can make with just one BoBunny collection without die cutting, stamping or Mixed Media add- ons.

The background was made with two pieces of cardstock; the upper  circle  edges were covered with BoBunny Gold Glitter paste.
Then some more layers were added using Combo Stickers, cardstock hand cuts, a couple of Layered chipboards etc.
Two flower clusters were made with a lot of hand cut paper flowers from one single cardstock piece and layered with American Crafts foam dots.
The circled saying was made with Thickers from another new and adorable collection- Something Splendid.
The Floral Spice  collection has it's own lovely Thickers, but the color was too dark to be seen over my decoration hoop and I decided to use gold for the brighter color.

 I added some gold glitter paste dots over the paper flowers and around the hoop.
Product list:
 BoBunny:
Floral Spice collection 12'' cardstock- Floral Spice, Owls, Intrigue, Take Flight, Memories
Floral Spice Combo Stickers
Floral Spice Layered chipboards
Something Splendid Thikers
Gold Glitter Paste

American Crafts:
Sticky thumb glue  runner
Sticky thumb adhesive foam dots

 I hope that you like my " non fireplace" altered piece!
Thanks for being here with me today and see you in a week with my first Christmas project!

Irit

Recipe stand with Canvas Corp

Hello my dear crafty friends! Irit is here today and I am going to share an easy and fun project made for our September" Let's orginize" challenge.

And a few more views of this project:

You can see a full step by step tutorial in a CCB blog HERE!

Enjoy Every Moment decoration frame with CAS- ual Fridays

Hello my dear crafty friends! Irit is here today and I welcome to my new post made for CAS- ual Fridays  blog.

This time I decided to use CAS- ual Fridays stamps and die to make a lovely and totally easy to make home frame.

I got this black and white plastic frame for free and it was almost in the trash box. But then I've seen these CAS- ual Fridays Sands of Time 2 and Hourglass Fri-die on my craft table and BINGO!

This stamp set was a perfect match for this frame.

The central part is the main image that was first stamped and heat embossed and then die cut with the matching die.It was glued with 3d foam glue and the top and bottom die cut strips were inked with the same red ink and heat embossed with clear embossing powder.  

The upper and lower parts were used to stamp the sentiments from the same stamp set.

Everything was stamped on one single long white cardstock strip. Then the whole stamped strip was misted with light pink mist and added to the frame from the back (as it should be with photos).

Here are the CAS- ual Fridays products used to make this project:

And now to some close- ups for this project:

I hope that you liked my altered frame and remember- this stamped over the strip technique can be done with the hand made or die cut film strip frame too. 

See you  again in like two weeks!

Have a great crafty day!

Family Heritage mini handbag album with BoBunny

 Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome  to my new BoBunny inspirational post.
Irit from Irit Shalom's Designs is here today and I am going to share a card size mini  folder/ album made with one of my most favorite Once in a Lifetime BoBunny collections.

I love the vintage look of this collection and it's a perfect for family layouts, family mini albums and anything family related.
So as you can see this is a folded 12*6''  American Crafts black cardstock and the front is made like an old Heritage book.
I used a nested die set to make the book shaped layers using different collection cardstocks.

When opened this mini folder has three parts and a place for 3 wallet sized photos.
As you can see I added photo corners and the sample of the photo to insert into the corners.

 On the middle part there are place for two photos.
The cardstock was stamped with BoBunny most gorgeous background stamps and you can see the stamp names in the product list below.
The lower part is too small for photos, but great to cover the small magnet that together with the second one on the top makes the perfectly tight folder closure.

 And here are some close- ups to the cover.
 The upper cardstock page was stamped, also finally not much of this stamping is seen.
Then a few dies cuts made with a few BoBunny dies were added together with some cardstock hand cuts.
The key and a keyhole are also die cuts made from black cardstock and heat embossed with copper American Crafts embossing powder.
The clock die cut was embossed with AC Black embossing powder.

 The other part of the cover was made in the same style with die cut title added on the top.
The whole piece was covered with crackle glaze and you can see small vintage cracks here and there.

As you can you need this cardstock collection! It's the most gorgeous vintage collection of the year!

Product list:
 BoBunny
Once upon a Lifetime collection: Generations, Relatives, Traditions, Memories, Once upon a Lifetime, Family Tree 12*12'' cardstock
Trellis Square die
Royal dies
Tick Tock die
To and From dies
Take Note stamp
It's Written stamp
Double Dot Mocha jewels

American Crafts products:
Texture Solid cardstock Black
Embossing powder Zig Charcoal
Embossing powder Zig Copper
Black ink pad

Thanks for being here with me today and see you soon with more BoBunny inspiration!

Be a Unicorn Mixed Media canvas with CAS- ual Fridays

Hello my dear crafty friends!
Irit from Irit Shalom's Designs is here today and I am going to share my new Mixed Media canvas made with the new and most adorable CAS- ual Fridays stamp and die set-BE A UNICORN stamp set and Unicorn Fri- die.

Usually we share cards on the company blogs. But as I am not just a card maker. but a Mixed Media artist I will share some other than cards projects too if and when the stamp sets fit.
So this unicorn stamp set is a perfect fit for any Mixed Media artist and you can see how great  both unicorn stamp and die and the sentiment stamp  fit this artistic canvas.

 The canvas textured background was made with texture paste,stencils. lots of different chipboards and a lot of paints and mediums. You can see crackled surface, splashes, misting, waxes and much more over the background.
But after the background was done the main focal point are CAS- ual Fridays stamps and a die.
The stamped floral circle from Full on Floral background stamp under the sentiment tag and the Unicorn was made with CAS- ual Fridays background floral stamp left from the precious project. It's heat embossed and that made it able to paint over with acrylics and still keep the stamped flowers seen.
The sentiment was stamped and heat embossed over a thick white cardstock and painted with pastel colors of acrylics.
And the die cut and stamped Unicorn was made with 5 layers of die cuts and then painted with the paint called Unicorn Hair. This is a light gold with a touch of light blue color and it is the best of the best for any unicorn. (Prima paints).

Unicorn Fri- die

Be a Unicorn

Full on Floral

 I added a few close- ups to show your the stamped part of the canvas and a bit of the background texture.
All flowers are foamiran hand made by me  flowers.

So as you can see CAS- ual Fridays stamps are not just for card making.
I promise to share more of my different projects in the future, maybe even classic scrapbooking layouts.
So if you like this stamp and die set- here is my discount code for you to use in CAS- ual Fridays shop.

Magenta ATC trio with more than dozen products

 Hello my dear crafty friends! Welcome to my very last post as Magenta DT member.
It was a lovely year long trip with this company and it's over now.
So as my last tribute to this design team I made an ATC trio using not less then 5 Magenta stencils and 8 Magenta stamps just to make those small and adorable art pieces.
I made the backgrounds with white texture paste and 3 different stencils.
Then I added black glitter over two more Magenta stencils.
When it was dry it was Painted with Prima paints.
Stamped imaged were made over white tissue paper with permanent ink and glued with Gel medium over the textured pieces.
As the last, but no least, part of the design butterflies and bees were stamped over white cardstock, painted, glittered and hand cut.
Here are some larger photos of my ATC: