Card tutorial with Inspired by Stamping

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

This is a card I made for this tutorial and it's this multi layers card made  with the same stamp and layered using the die cuts one over another.

Here is my step by step tutorial:

1. Use Misti (must do thing when doing layered and die cut technique).

Arrange Inspired by Stamping Fresh Bouquet flower stamp and stamp over the die cut card front three times with black pigmented ink (Memento Luxe).

 This is the stamp set I used to make this project:
Fresh Bouquet


 2. Heat emboss all three stamped pieces with clear embossing powder (WOW! Embossing Powders).

3. Use Stitched Rectangles Elyzabeth's Crafts die set and die cut each stamped front as shown.I used every second size of the dies (#3-5-7) to die cut the stamped images.

4. Glue the stamped die cuts as shown: use the third negative as your base and then arrange all three die cut shapes.

5. Color the images in all three layers with Zig Real Brush colors as shown.

6. Mist the background with Lindy's Stamp Gang mist . Stamp the Inspired by Stamping sentiment from the same stamp set.

 Here is your finished card!

 I hope that you liked my small tutorial and see your next month with more IBS inspiration!

Smile tags with Inspired by Stamping

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my Inspired by Stamping  new blog post.
Today I am going to share two shabby stamped tags that were made with Inspired by Stamping most gorgeous stamps , some chipboards , some Mixed Media techniques and a lot of color.

As you can see I used the die and the stamps from the latest IBS release.

And now a short  tutorial for these tags.
I didn't do a full photo step by step tutorial, but for  you can sure make the similar project with my no photo tutorial.
1. Use pre- made tags as I did or make yours own tags. Cover them with white gesso from any company you  own and let it dry.
2. Use 4 different stencils with heavy gel medium and add texture over the tags. Try to make it more over the edges as the middle part wouldn't be seen  on the finished tag.
3. Mist and paint the texture with a mix of Art Anthology sprays and paints. You sure can use any other company that you have. Try to stay in 2-3 colors only scheme.
4. Paint the chipboards (I used Scrapmatts, but again... You know. Use whatever you have) with the same paints as you did for the background and add a bit of gold over the dry painted chipboards.
Glue the chipboards over the tag.
5. Stamp the sentiment with black pigmented ink and heat emboss with clear embossing powder. (I used Memento Luxe and Wow! Embossing Powders for this step.). Cut the sentiment and glue it over the tag as shown. Add a bit of light color over the sentiment strip using the same mists from the previous step.
6. Die cut the sentiment from  white thick cardstock - this will be the highlights base. Then die cut it again 3 more times from thick black cardstock and glue the three black layers over the white one.
Paint over the die cut with gold paint for highlights.
Glue the sentiment as shown.
7. Make flowers cluster and glue it over the tags. Add a bit of paints/white gesso over the flowers for the shabby look.

I hope that you liked my tags and my small tutorial.
Here are the products used from Inspired by Stamping site:

Smile stamp set



Smile die

Easy watercolor video tutorial with Inspired by Stamping

Hello my dear crafty friends!

Today I am going to share my just third ever video tutorial I made to show the process of making this lovely Inspired by Stamping card.

I show you the finished project, but the steps can be seen in my video tutorial.

 I know thart it's not the best ever video, but I am on my learning curve and this is my first time to work with Filmora editing program and to upload the video all by myself.
So be gentle and you still can see the whole process here:

Make home decoration with 4 ATC cards

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my July Inspired by Stamping inspiration post.
Today I am going to show you how to make 4 very similar ATC cards and then to make a lovely home deco piece out of them.

 Usually most of us think that ATC cards are just for trading.
But look how lovely is this home decoration piece made over the wooden panel with lovely cardstock, some central embellishments cluster and all 4 ATC  over it.

And  here is a quick tutorial I made for you to use and to make the similar project with Inspired by Stamping stamp set here:



Words of Inspiration 2 set

Step by step tutorial:
1. Arrange 4 stamps from the set inside your Misti tool .Use dark pigmented ink to stamp them all together.
I used dark brown ink as my black was dry, but it actually doesn't matter as I heat embossed it later with black powder.

2.Heat emboss the stamped sentiments and then cut to ATC size.

3.Use 4 different stencils and add texture paste over the cards, but try to leave the stamped images without any white paste over them.

4.When dry use mists (not shown) and sparkling acrylic paints to get this colorful look for your cards.

5.Add some crackle glaze around the cards and sprinkle some micro beads over the wet glaze.

 6. Arrange the cards over the cardstock glued to the wooden  panel. Add the central embellishments spot.

For someone special card

Hello my dear crafty friends!
Today I am going to share a very delicate card made for some print submission. As a such I made it not so much messy and just in a couple of colors, with delicate stamping and the only bulky tings here are those Tando spool and scissors and some wooden inked buttons.
Both Tando chipboards were painted into white, inked around and then heat embossed with clear powder all over them.
I used stamps from Visible Image, Tim Holtz and Inspired by Stamping to make this card.
 This card was print published in the latest print issue of Rubber Stamp Madness, but never posted on web. So this is a time to post it and even to enter it to some web challenges.

 I enter this card to some web challenges:
Simon Says Anything goes challenge

IBS TAG tutorial

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my Inspired by Stamping July post.

This time I decided to make a Mixed Media tag and to stay in this summery green color pallet.

So this is a tag  made and I made written tutorial for you, also not the photos step by step one.

1. Cover Tando Mixed Media board with a thin layer of white gesso.
2. Use Harlequin Tando stencil with DecoArt texture paste to make your background.
3. Paint Tando Iron gate (half of the chipboard piece) and Tando Wings with white gesso.
4. Glue the gate part, the wings and add some resin handmade swirls over the gate chipboard.
5. Mist the whole piece with a mix of Lindy's Stamp Gang and Tattered Angels green mists. Some of the mists have a bit of copper mica powder and this is the copper you can see over the gate.
6. Stamp over the dry misted wings using Inspired by Stamping old and retired (sorry) background stamp with permanent Ranger black ink.
6. Stamp four Inspired by Stamping Butterflies over the thick white cardstock with clear embossing Ranger ink. Heat emboss them with Copper embossing powder and hand cut all 4.
7. Mist the embossed and hand cut butterflies with  the same green mix of mists. Let them dry and them glue them over the art piece as shown.
8. Die cut Inspired by Stamping Love word  and heat emboss it with the same copper embossing powder. Glue the embossed die cut as shown.
9. Punch a hole on the top of Mixed Media board and tie IBS lace ribbon.
10. Add a touch of copper wax (Pentart) over the chipboard pieces and around the tag edges.

Here are some of the close- ups to this art tag:

Mixed Media cards with Art Anthology

 Hello my dear friends and welcome to my new card Mixed Media tutorial!

Today I am going to share a totally different project. This time I am going tom show you how you can use Art Anthology products to make two clean and simple cards using the very same stamp, two different Art Anthology stencils and Art Anthology paints and colorations.

As you can see these cards are made with the same stamped sentiment, but them the cardstock, colors and mediums made them totally different.

Here are the cards again:

You can see the full step by step tutorial here on a Snapguide:

All products are listed in the Snapguide and I made a full Art Anthology products list here in this post 

Hope you like my project and see you soon again with a totally different Mixed Media creation.

Hello card with Inspired by Stamping

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my Inspired by Stamping April inspiration.

I am sorry, but due to family vacation out of the country I had a very limited time for crafting and this card has the written tutorial only, without the step by step photos. But I think it's easy to make and you can do it without all  extra shots.

So here is my Hello card made in Kraft, gold and white lace colors only. 

Product list:

Stamps: Inspired by Stamping Fresh Bouquet stamp set

Other products

Patterned cardstock: DCWV

Kraft cardstock: American Crafts

Inks: Clearsnap

Clay: Makin's Clay

Punch: EK Success

Mold: WOW! Embossing Powders

Dies: Die Versions, Elizabeth Crafts

Other: lace, rhinestones, paint, glue sheet

Step by step: 1. Die cut the largest stitched rectangle with Elizabeth Crafts die from DCWV  

gold dot cardstock and add the bigger Kraft cardstock card base.

2. Die cut a smaller rectangle with the same die set and arrange it over the first one as shown. Stamp the flowers with gold ink over Kraft cardstock (Inspired by Stamping Fresh Bouquet stamps) and heat emboss with gold embossing powder. Punch the strip and glue it over the card as shown.

3. Adhere a big piece of lace over double sided glue sheet and die cut four different circles with Die Versions dies. Glue the die cut lace circles over the card as shown.

4. Die cut two stitched circles from the small dotted cardstock and Kraft cardstock (Die Versions dies). Stamp the Inspired by Stamping sentiment  from the same stamp set and arrange the sentiment circle on the top of the card.

5. Make air dry polymer clay flower with a mold and Makin's Clay Black clay and let it dry. Paint the dry clay flower with gold paint and glue it over the card.

.Add black rhinestones as shown

Here are the close- ups to the stamped gold flowers and the lace die cut circles.

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