Live your dreams card with Magenta

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my second Magenta June post.

Irit is here today and I am going to share a card made over the leftover cardstock front and the leftover acrylic paints as my background and card front.

 The die cut circle cardstock was the left over piece from another project. I had a lot of acrylic paint drops on my craft mat. With some water added I swiped the cardstock over these leftovers  and Bingo! What a nice and totally unique background !
The inside circle stamping was done in two layers.
I first stamped Magenta new and gorgeous Galaxy Cluster image over the back white cardstock. Then I stamped the Lone Daisy flower over transparency and added it inside the circle. What a nice way to layer stamped images one over another!
Then I stamped the same flower image in the same gold heat embossed way over the painted card front.

 The sentiment was stamped over white cardstock with VersaMark and heat embossed with gold embossing powder.

 Some white enamel drops were added for more interest and to coordinate with white cardstock with the sentiment and white basic card.

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Thanks for being here with me today and see you next month with more Magenta inspiration!
Irit Shalom- DT Magenta

  

Celebrate with CAS-ual Fridays challenge

Welcome friends. We are so glad you are joining us for the revamped CAS-ual Fridays challenge. There are no genre restrictions for this challenge. Link up your clean and simple designs or layer it on -- the choice is yours.  Make sure to link back to this blog post and include the graphic below in your post for consideration of being chosen a winner.

This card was a pure fun to make.
First I splashed  over the black cardstock with acrylics. Then I added a dotted stencil with VersaMark ink and heat embossed with gold powder.
Then the sentiment was stamped and heat embossed with the same powder and finally the die cuts were
 " goldened" to the same color with heat embossing. It's really 10 minutes card and you can change the colors of acrylics or of embossing powder to make a very similar, but still different card.
 Products used:
Celebrate stamp set
Jumping Jacks Fri-Dies

What are your playing for? 10 winning entries will be highlighted on this blog each Thursday before a new challenge is set to go live the next day.  In addition, Michele has generously offered up a $25 gift certificate to the overall winner atCAS-ual Fridays Stamps. And if that weren't enough, if the chosen winner has used CAS-ual Fridays stamps and/or dies as the main focus in the card, that gift certificate will increase to $50.

Now let's see what our designers came up with for this challenge. Please click on their name above the photo to be taken directly to their blog to learn more about the project and to give them some love.

Also, you can find direct links to the CAS-ual Fridays stamps and Fri-dies that the designers used which are linked underneath their names. Remember, you don't have to use CAS-ual Fridays Stamps and dies to play along but if you do and you are the winner, your gift certificate increases to $50.

Art is the voice of a heart art page with Magenta

Hello my dear crafty friends!
Today  I am going to share my new art journal double spread made over the single A4 Mixed Media cardstock using Magenta stencils and stamps.

This page is all about  your own understanding of art. As Art is the voice of your heart, there is no rules or right and wrong in doing your own art.

So even if it looks a bit weird it's still your own interpretation of your heart in colors, designs and general concept .

I made the background with acrylic paints and then added a few black cardstock pieces in a totally random way.

Two Magenta stencils were used to add the contrast (numbers in black) and texture (stars in blue) and two Magenta stamps were used to add some stamping on the background.

The metal piece was stamped over metal sheet and then colored with a  mix of alcohol inks. Then it was die cuts and glued on the right side of the double page spread.The stamping was made with black pigmented ink and heat embossed with clear embossing powder.

The sentiment was stamped over the page with permanent black ink.

The main image on the left side was stamped in the same heat embossed way and then colored with distress markers and covered with gel medium.

Some black pen doodling was added around the page for more " hand made" interest.

Christmas in July with Topflight stamps shop

Hello my dear crafty friends!
Irit  is here today and I am going to share my Christmas in July inspiration for Topflifht Stamps shop.
Let's begin from two odd things first.
How can we even think about making Winter and Holidays  projects with this hell heat outside?
But actually we all do. Lots of sites  show Christmas releases and projects right now.
 So we, on our Topflight Stamps shop site, do just the same. It make the outside hell less hot, for me at least.
Second important odd thing is that I am Jewish and we don't even celebrate Christmas, also we do celebrate New Year and Winter season.
But for me Christmas is all about my childhood. I was born in Ukraine and moved to Israel when I was about 15, so I still remember and adore all Holiday symbols, colors and tastes and I really love to craft for my friends and part of my family.
And finally here is my Christmas in July card for you to see.

As you can see it's a layered scene made with one single stamp set- IndigoBlu " Looks like rain, dear" red rubber stamps set.

 For my card I used the small stamps from the set, all five of them.
Some were stamped directly on the cardstock and some were stamped and hand cut and then glued over the card.
The sentiment spot was stamped, die cut and added on the corner.

As you can see I used 4 waved dies (just non branded cheap ones) to make the snow landscape.
I used  acrylic paint to make the blue background and added " snow effect" with white pearled 3d paint.

I hope that you liked my Winter inspiration today and next week I am going to share the totally different project made with the very same stamp set.
And as for now- run to the shop and see the largest in USA selection of non USA artistic stamps and  the best ever Holiday section.
If I made my very first Holiday project you  should think about it too.
And if you want to visit my blog and to see more of my work- you are mostly welcome!

Best Wishes to your new home card with Scrapmatts

My new fancy card made with a lot of Scrapmatts chipboards in a very nice pastel colors.
This can be a card for a new home or just the general card with Best Wishes sentiment.
I used Scrapberry's cardstock for the background and then added Scrapmatts frame that was painted with light shabby green paint.
Two housed were painted with more of the shabby paint colors and added over the basic cardstock.
Then each house got a sign: one got this Home arrow sign and the second got the sentiment on the top.
Some flowers were added for the texture and the interest.

 Scrapmatts products used:
CB5121 Houses 01
CB6105 Assorted words 23
CB6092 Ornate frame 20
CB1244 Scrap Words 30
 I enter this card to some web challenges:
 Simon Says Wednesday challenge- Anything goes
Altair Art- Chipboards

Grunge set of 4 ATC

ATC cards are fun and I really love to make them.
So those  small grungy cards I made were made for some web challenges.

Backgrounds were made with texture paste, stencils (Scrapmatts), embossing powders, stamping (BoBunny), heat embossing and misting.
Then I added chipboards (Scrapmatts) painted with acylics (Pentart) and clay casted pieces. Everytning was painted again over and over with Pentart paints. Crackle paste was added over some pieces and Scrapmatts words were glued to make it count as real ATC cards.
Here are all ATC shown one by one:

I enter this to some web challenges:
Mixed Media and Art- small art and architecture- all pieces are small and two are connected to architecture


Simon Says Monday challenge- Touchy feely- texture and more texture
Words and Paitery- colors, rust, love (love for grunge, steampunk and ATC)

Mixed Media Monthly- #28 Rusty challenge


SDAE- Steampunk/Industrial

Shine on clear art deco with SinCity

Hello my dear crafty friends!

Irit is here today and I am going to share my lovely stamped project made from the both sided of acrylic piece.

There is a bit of a problem to take a good photo of double sided clear project and as much as I tried this is the best possible. 

Believe me- the actual result of much more gorgeous and shiny and artistic. But you can just try to make  a similar project and to see how easy and fast it  can be made.

Supply list:

Natural beauty rubber stamps set- Fern, flowers

Dandelion Wishes with Butterflies rubber stamps set- Butterflies, Best Wishes

Other products:

Acrylic board- 6*6'' and a small for the sentiment

Black pigmented ink

Clear embossing powder

Mix of achohol ink

Alcohol blending solution

Alcohol ink felt applicator

Gold acrylic paint

Step by step directions:

1. Stamp three butterflies randomly over 6*6'' acrylic tile. Use black pigmented ink and clear embossing powder. You can also use a kind of solvent permanent ink (Staz- On) over the acrylic surface, but the heat embossed effect looks much better.

2. Stamp the ferns and the flowers from the back side of your acrylic tile. Use the same ink and heat emboss in the same way as the front of the tile.

3. Apply a mix of alcohol inks (3 to 4 colors, not more) using felt applicator.Apply the inks on one side only- you pick the side. Add a few  drops of alcohol blending solution for the interest. Repeat this step until you feel that the colors look good.

4. Stamp the Best Wishes sentiment on the small acrylic tile using the same technique as on previous steps.
Paint the back side of the stamped sentiment with gold acrylic paint. Let the paint dry.

5. Paint the edges of the stamped large tile with gold acrylic paint . Adhere the stamped Best Wishes sentiment over the front of the tile.

For more inspiring  projects from the Design team be sure to visit us at  Sin City Blog and to follow us on Facebook.

Let it snow layout with BoBunny and 3L- BLOG HOP

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new BoBunny layout post. This week BoBunny DT girls work with Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L product together with one of our new Fall release collections. Today is our layouts day and this is my  fancy Winter layout here for your inspiration.

I picked this most wonderful just released Winter wishes collection and scrapped the photos from our Italian sky trip a couple of years ago.

Actually living in Israel means that you don't see any Winter at all (kind of Florida). So when we travel and there is some snow around I took all possible photos  to remember and to scrap later.

I used Winter Wishes Chill cardstock as my basic cardstock and added two more smaller layers with Snowfall (back side) and Whimsy (back side) cardstocks.

Each layer was painted around with Pentart Metallic Pink paint. I used 3L Crafty Foam tape to arrange the layers in this kind of 3d arrangement.

The folded curtain was made with Icicles cardstock and arranged with the very same Foam tape . It was so easy to glue all die cut from Noteworthy pack over the folded 3d " curtain" with the very same glue tape.

The small die cut dots were glued with 3L DODZ (those clear 3/8'' round glue dots that were perfect for small round die cuts from the pack).
Each dot was painted with Silver Glitter paste over them.
The smaller photos were inserted into the hand cut slots and I added Pentart Pink Acrylic paint with new Winter Fun stickable stencil over the photos. It makes those monochromatic photo more interesting and adds a lot of dimension to those kind of flat images.

I made a kind of a keepsake piece with hand cut paper clock and some chunky glitter using the most perfect 3L keepsake envelope.
So easy to use and so effective on the page!

One single layered chipboard was added to connect all three photos as shown:

And another look over those painted snowflakes:

I really hope that you like my take of Winter and enjoy our week long blog hop with Scrapbook Adhesives with 3L!

 BoBunny products used:
Winter Wishes collection:
Chill 12'' cardstock
Icicles 12'' cardstock
Snowfall 12'' cardstock
Whimsy 12'' cardstock
Winter Wishes Combo stickers
Winter Wishes Layered chipboards
Winter Wishes Noteworthy
Glitter paste Silver
Winter Fub stickable stencil
 Double Dots Jewels Tuxedo


Pentart products used:
Creamy Acrylic Rose paint
Creamy Acrylic Mettalic Rose

3L products used:
E-Z Runner Ultra
Crafty foam tape
DODZ medium
Keepsake envelopes

Gift box with IBS

Hello my dear crafty friends!

Irit is here today with a small and lovely Gift box tutorial.

I know that this is a Christmas time and everyone makes Christmas presents.

But my present is for all times and can be given on Christmas day, but  it's totally general one and you can make it for any occasion.

 Here is something about this project:

I love shrink plastic a lot, but I barely use as you need pretty big shapes or stamps for this product, unless you really want to see micro mini shapes after the heating.

So those new, just released, Inspired by Stamping roses from Garden Roses stamp set were just perfect for shrink plastic experiment.

Why is it an experiment? Because I used four different coloring mediums on stamped rose before I picked the best version for the final project.

So here is my tutorial for you:

1. Stamp two roses images over  white shrink plastic. As this was an experiment I tried both Memento and Ranger Archival black inks. The  upper roses are stamped with Memento and the bottom with Archival and I like Memento better. I know that the images are not very sharp. But as we are going to cut them from the plastic sheet, it really doesn't matter.

2. First use very cheap acrylic from Plaid to paint the images.

3. Now move to distress markers from Ranger and color the second pair of images.

4. The third medium used were Art Anthology dimensional paints (Sorbet and Velvet).

5. The last paint used was High Impact from Tattered Angels.

6. Let all paints dry and cut our the shapes. Use your heat gun and heat the images.
That's how they look when shrunk.
The upper left are distress markers painted images.
The upper right are Plaid acrylics painted images.
The lower left are Art Anthology painted images.
 The lower left are Tattered Angels painted images.
As you can see the distress marker leaves a very pale color.
The bottom two have these bubbles that maybe interesting, but totally not perfect.
The only images I loved are the cheap plaid acrylic painted ones.

7. So as you can see I make a few more Plaid painted roses and arranged them over distress looked painted old metal box.
I used  Glossy Accents to glue the plastic roses and my small gift box was ready.

And here is a close- up to the roses again:

I really hope that you liked my tutorial and will try this  technique with more Inspired by Stamping stamps!
Any big stamp will work here!

Product list:
Inspired by Stamping-Garden Roses



Ranger- Distress Markers
Ranger- Glossy Accents
Ranger- Heat tool
Tattered Angels- High Impact paints
Art Anthology- Velvet and Sorbet paints
Plaid- Acrylic paints
Ranger- Archival  ink black
Memento ink-Tuxedo Black