Spring love card

Spring card made for some challenges with shaker part on it using Stamplorations stamps for resist emboss and inside the window.
Black pen drawing lines were made on this  water color card and hand stamped butterfly was embellished with foam glue heart.

I enter this card to some web challenges:

Marker Pop- Valentine
 Love to scrap- Who  loves you baby? with stamping
 Stamplorations- Sketch (a bit out of the middle, but still the sketch) and using all their stamps
 AAA- Water colors
 Dies R US- Think Spring- not many dies, but still few used- such as stitched rectangles and the heart

You are so SPECIAL card

 New card - masculine style. Made for print and was there already. Now I can publish it in my blog and maybe to enter to some web challenges.

Forever my friend card

Easy to make Mixed Media card made with texture paste over stencil, VLVS image stamp and STAMPlorations stamped sentiment.
Watercolors used for the background here (FaberCastell DMC gelatos)

I enter it to some web challenges too:
Addicted to stamps- Cas
Cas Mix up challenge- the circle is a die cut

Live, Love , Enjoy - ARTplorations tutorial

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new Mixed Media tutorial made for ARTplorations company.

Actually this is my last tutorial post for them as after a full year  with this great stencil/stamp company it's a time to move to another possible adventures . But as you know when I love products I use them. So most possible that you will see a lot of new projects made with this company's delicious products.

And now for my tutorial:

1.Use DecoArt Modeling paste over a chipboard door hanger (was covered with white gesso before this step). Use Merry go round  ARTploration's stencil and let it dry..

2. Paint the dry piece with two DecoArt Fluid acrylics' paints as shown.

3. Add orange paint over the yellow/bit of blue paint layer and mist with a bit of water for a nice effect.

4. Stamp a few  butterflies from STAMPlorations'Trendy Butterflies stamp set,  using clear embossing ink and heat emboss with black embossing powder. Then hand cut the stamped butterflies and mist them with yellow mist. 

5. Add white faux stitching with Uniball pen and adhere the stamped and hand cut butterflies as shown. Outline the edges  of the hanger with black permanent ink.

6. Stamp a couple more of black butterflies with the same technique.

Stamp the sentiment words with Trendy Butterflies stamp set over white cardstock with black heat embossing and mist with the same yellow mist. Glue the sentiment words and outline them with black pen.

Your bright door hanger is done!

I also enter this piece to some web challenges:

Wow! Embossing Powders- Anything goes and I used their powder here

Anything goes for Creative Artiste

Anything goes for Things to alter

YOU are perfect card

New Cas Mixed Media card made with ARTplorations stencil, VLVS stamp and STAMPlorations sentiment; texture paste from DecoArt and watercolors are from FC DMC

I enter this card to some web challenges:
 Simon Says- Stencils

Life and beauty: ARTplorations tutorial

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new Mixed Media tutorial made for ARTplorations.

This time I made a up cycled  foam door hanger, the kind you buy for just a few cents in any  craft shop.

Step by step tutorial:

1. The foam door hanger was already painted when I decided to up cycle it in Mixed Media style, so I don't have any painting photos, but it was painted with acrylics only with a bit of copper acrylic over the basic paint. So I use ARTplorations Big Bloom Factory  large  stencil and DecoArt Modelling paste and cover the whole piece with a pretty thick paste layer. And as usual- let it be totally dry!

2. The dry paste was painted with two fluid acrylic paints (yes, blue and yellow make green shadows as I wanted). Then the wet paste was heat embossed with clear embossing powder.

On this close up photo you can see the great texture of  texture paste, acrylics and heat embossing. All surface was painted with gold acrylic paint and you can see the final result on the finished project photos.

3. For the next step I used STAMPlorations Vignette: Eclectic Florals stamps with Gold pigmented Clearsnap ink and heat embossed them with Gold embossing powder.

You sure can use clear embossing ink and gold powder, but with this double gold combo the colors are rich and no spot  left uncovered.

4.The flowers were hand cut and then misted over with light pink mist (Tattered Angels). 

I added the same acrylic paint that was used  for the stencil as my flower centres and added it to the edges too. 

 A couple of butterflies were made in the very same way (stamped, heat embossed, hand cut) using STAMPlorations Trendy Butterflies set.All stamped pieces were glued over the door hanger as shown.

5. Puffy stickers words were glued over the bottom part of the hanger and painted with gold and blue acrylics.

And one last view of the finished Mixed Media project! Don't you think the STAMPlorations/ARTplorations combination is just GORGEOUS? 

I also enter this piece to some web challenges:

Butterflies and blooms for Mixed Media monthly challenge

SSSS- Home decor

 Butterflies- for Emerald Creek- Things with B

Anything but cute- Celbrate your style- and this one is sure not cute and sure my style
 Anything with WOW! products- on the photos- for WOW! Embossing Powders

Things to alter- Anything goes altered MM

 Country view challenge- Use a Stencil

Imagine endless possibilities art page with ARTplorations- tutorial

Hello my dear crafty friends ! Irit is here with my new Mixed Media art page tutorial and this time I made is in a totally different style. It's my first time to use this technique and I hope you like the final result as much as I like it.

So let's go!

Step 1:

Paint the thick Kraft cardstock with a mix of DecoArt Mixed Media line acrylic fluid paints. Make some rectangles and some splashes over the page and let it dry.

Step 2:
Use ARTplorations Bold Florals stencil with DecoArt Gel medium and add the flowers randomly on 2/3 of the page. The gel medium with be clear after it's dry; for now you can see the flowers as mute white ones.

Step 3:
Paint the whole page over the gel medium flowers with black acrylic paint and wipe the wet paint from the flowers as shown.

Step 4: Use white fluid acrylic paint and STAMPlorations rectangle stamp from Frames and Flowers  set to stamp all random rectangles over the dry black painted page.

 It shouldn't be too pretty- just stamp and let it dry.

Step 5: Use ARTplorations Bubbles stencil to add white acrylic circles randomly over the page as shown.

Step 6:

Add some white mist over the page and make a title rectangle with 3 stickers covered with a bit of white paint like a chalkboard.

Look how this title is perfect for this page? I didn;t know what will be a result of my art work and I think that the possibilities are really endless.

I enter this page to Creative Artiste Anything goes challenge- with stencils, flowers and (no chipboards, but it's optional anyway)

Perfect in any way: Steampunk canvas for MMM

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new project made for Mixed Media Mojo challenge blog.

This time we were asked to make a project with recycled pieces and to use metal.
The canvas I used was already used and I didn't like the result. So I just covered it with black gesso and Bingo! Steampunk was the thing that i had to make over the black texture I got.
I used a big chipboard from FabScraps as the background one and added a few smaller from Tando. DecoArt Mixed media paints were used to cover the whole piece with mixture of textures and colors.

 I added a few metal painted pieces and made some clay pieces using Makin's Clay with different steampunk molds and painted over with metal paints.
I also stamped the STAMPlorations sentiment that is about being perfect in any style, even Steampunk one.

So here is Mixed media mojo challenge for you to participate!
Just recycle and if you want- add some metal.
Good luck!