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.

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.

June By the Sea challenge with CCB

Hello my dear crafty friends and wecome to my new Canvas Corp post.

This altered notebook was made for the current BY THE SEA challenge .

Here is our monthly moodboard for you to be inspired:

And some close- ups to my project:

 You can see the full step by step tutoril in Canvas Corp blog HERE!

Live in the Sun mini album with BoBunny

Hello my dear crafty friends!
Irit is here today and I am going to share a hand made fabric album made with a new and delicious Summer Mood BoBunny  collection.
Usually I don't make a lot of mini albums. It is time consuming and I don't have so many family photos to fill the whole album.
So this fabric album base was done a couple of years ago and was waiting for a nice paper collection to fit the fabric cover. More than this it was waiting (and still is waiting ) for my dear grand kids Summer photos.
So as it's without any photos I just added matting for the future photos to be added there. Some day. Maybe. Or maybe not.
Here is the album front.
I used BoBunny Ornate chipboard frame, but I trimmed it a bit to be over the album cover. As this collection has some black pieces and prints I painted it with black acrylic paint.
Then a few cardstock pieces were added inside the frame.
Another cardstock piece was die cut to be higher layer and the pink doe cut doily was added as another layer.
I finished with layered chipboard from this new collection as a title.

 This is how this album looks from the top side.

 For more embellishments two painted wooden birdcages were added on the top.

The BoBunny flowers cluster was added on the lower corner and embellished with jewels.
Some Combo Stickers were added over the frame as the sub- title.

 And here are the inside pages with mattings ready for the photos.
 I really tried to keep the as flat as possible as the album size was already given and I can't add too much layers inside the pages.
All pages were made in the similar way- one photo , some stickers some washi tape added to connect the cardstock pieces and some sayings around.

 Product list BoBunny:
Summer Mood collection:
12''*12 '' cardstock: Mood Magic, Sweet, Wonderful, Lets' Go, Summer Mood, Perfection, Happiness, Dots
Summer Mood Combo Stickers
Summer Mood Layered chipboard
Square Ornate chipboard frame
Darling Doily die
Lovely Leaves dies
Congratulations card dies
Licorice jewels
Blush Zinnia flowers
Double dot Think Pink jewels
Buttercup Bouquet flowers
Birdcages wood shapes

American Crafts :
Sticky Thumb Solid adhesive runner
Sticky Thumb Adhesive foam dots

 I really hope that you like this project and look how easy this collection makes the whole summer album!
And if you don't make your own handmade albums you can easily make your pages in any bought album.

CAS- ual Fridays Forget your trebles

 Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to our new CAS- ual Fridays challenge!
This time we challenge you to make something with treble key.
The only thing I had in my stash were those music chipboards as I forgot to order the proper CAS- ual Fridays stamp sets and believe me - they have a lot of them! My fault. So I used CAS- ual Fridays sentiments and made this music card with  a real music sheet.
 As you can see you can do anything music as I did and to enter our challenge for the next two weeks.

 Products used:
Frankly

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.

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 at CAS-ual Friday stamps. And if that weren't enough, if the chosen winner has used CAS-ual Friday stamps and/or dies as the main focus in the card, that gift certificate will increase to $50.

So don't wait! Play with us and you can be our WINNER!

Little moments of green altered canvas

 Sometimes when I have spare time I make a project or two for cuttent web challenges.
This green canvas is this kind of a project.
 Made for fun and challenges and not for any design team job and it was a real fun to make something some monochromatic and springy and bright after all dark projects I made as my usual altered art.
 So here are some close- ups:

  Made with different stencils and texture pastes, lots of paints and mists from different companies and Dusty Attic chipboards.It's actually large canvas and the smaller one over it.

I enter this canvas to one web challenge as it was made for this challenge only:
Snip Art- mostly inspired by color green and flowers and nature and I think it's a great fit to this challenge.

Love life altered wooden box

Hello my dear crafty friends!
Today I share a box made for Canvas Corp blog and this is a link to this post in the company blog.
For me, romantic love is not the only possible love. I cherish it a lot, but the love of life is the must for the humanity. So I made this love box with hearts connected, but not just for couples in love.
So you can see more about this altered project in the upper link.
I hope that you like this projects and see you soon in my blog !

Frames and leaves with Tando

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to our Tando Frames and Leaves week.

This week I made an altered Mixed Media project using a lot of Tando chipboards and even used the leaves negative as my background. 

Sometimes the negatives are really nice as the background if we use the whole piece and then add the leaves over it.

Under the chipboard background I used Tando stencil to make texture of a kind of a dark wood.

The frame was covered with DecoArt Crackle paint and then some DecoArt Media line paints were added over to color the frame.

All Tando leaves were painted with a mix of DecoArt paints and the only other thing that was added are these green and gold berries.

Tando products used:
 Large Rectangle frame


 Mini Leaves #3


 Leves and Florals 1

Mask Stripes


DecoArt Media line

We Are your past altered canvas

 This is my new altered canvas made for some web challenge.

I made it with a lot of chipboards - positives and negatives and added some letters. Then I discovered that letters W and R made this " we are" thing and added the sentiment " your past".
It's a kind of a travel in time- to old world and old and odd things.

 Made for some web challenges:
 I Kropka- Travel in time form one small step and this is my travel back in time

Country view- Anything goes