Sin City bookmark

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my book mark tutorial made for Sin City stamps blog.
This is one of my first attempts with Misti and my very first attempt with water color markers and I made it in my own and different stamping way as you can see in my small tutorial.

Product list:
Sin City stamps - Natural Beauty stamp set

Other products:

Misti Stamping tool
Water color paper
Spectrum Noir markers
Black archival ink
Black cardstock
Twine and bead

Step by step tutorial:
1. Arrange the water color paper and the stamp in the Misti tool. Cover the stamp with pink and green water color using markers. Wipe the paper with baby wipe and stamp over it.
As you can see it's just the color base and not the fine stamping seen on the paper.

2. Leave the cardstock and the stamp in the same place. Ink the stamp with black ink and stamp over the water color image.

3. Stamp the leaves with another Sin City stamp in the same way: first the marker color over wiped cardstock and then the black fine image over it.

4. Add more leaves images over the cardstock piece. Make some without the baby wipe to get another stamped look of the same stamp.
Make masks by stamping with ink on  thin paper and cover the stamped images with these masks.
Now  stamp over the images with the same two steps technique.
P.S. The left piece is just the left over to cover the Misti tool and not to be used as a part of a project.

5. Cut the stamped piece to a book mark size. Add the black cardstock matting. Make a hole and tie the bead over the twine.

Same stamp- 4 ways with Sin City

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my Sin City stamping tutorial.

This time I decided to make 4 ATC cards with the very same stamp set and very different techniques and to pick my favorite technique for the future use.

Here are all 4 ATC together.

Product list:
Sin City stamps: Dandelion Wishes with Butterflies

Other products:
White, black and Kraft cardstock
Vellum paper
Black pigmented ink
Clear, colorful and white embossing powder
Clear embossing ink
Heat gun
Mists
Gel Medium
Stencils
Texture paste
Gelatos
Acrylic paints
Crackle Glaze


 Step by step instructions:
1. Make two white cardstock ATC cards. Stamp with the same stamp over both cards. Use black pigmented ink and heat emboss with clear embossing powder.

2. Use large acrylic block and mist it with 3 or 4 different mists.

3. Wipe the stamped ATC card over the misted block.

4.  Stamp a few butterflies using  Clear embossing ink and heat emboss them with a mix of colorful embossing powders and glitters.
Hand cut the butterflies.

5. Glue a couple of hand cut vellum stamped butterflies over the first card. Use stencil to add Gel Medium over the card.

6. Stamp the small words with Sin City stamps and hand cut one to add over the first finished ATC card.
Ink the edges of the card with paint or ink.

7. Mist the second white cardstock stamped card with three different mists directly over the card.
As you can see we had a different background look with this technique.

8. Use another stencil to add Gel Medium over the second card.

 9. Glue the stamped vellum butterflies over the second card and add another stamped word.

10.Stamp  more images over black cardstock ATC card using clear embossing ink and white embossing powder.

11.Paint over the textured ATC card with Gelatos. Wipe the color with baby wipe and make kind of circles over the flowers.

12. Add some texture with stencil and white texture paste.

13. Ink the edges and glue two vellum butterflies. Glue the stamped words.

14. Stamp  in the same way as on ATC #3 over Kraft cardstock.

15. Paint over and around the stamped images with acrylic paints.

16. Add a thin layer of Crackle Glaze over the card. Let the glaze dry.

17. Glue a butterfly and the stamped words.

So here all 4 ATC are together and to say a truth- I am not sure if I like one of them more then another. 

I think that black is my favorite, but as you know we all like different things.

So just go and try each and every technique!

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 the adventure of your Birthday begin

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my Sin City stamps new post.

Usually I don't make too many cards, but sometimes the sentiment are just perfect for a card or two or even many.

So here is my Birthday card made in Mixed Media style with a lot of background stamping, hand cut stamped images, misting, heat embossing and more. 

It's perfect for any gender as the colors can fit any person of any age. And as you know  the new adventure is not age connected. I began my crafty adventure when I was a pretty old lady and it was a success so far.

Supply list:

Sin City Stamps:

Steampunk'd Rubber stamps set- Collage, Hot air Balloon, Pocket watch

Steampunk Circus rubber stamps set- Happy Birthday, Let the adventure begin, Crowned clock

Other products used:

White cardstock

Stitched rectangles dies

Mists

Black pigmented ink

Clear embossing powder

Blue distress ink

Glaze

Metal charms

Chipboard hot air balloon

Heat gun

Stapler

And as usual- here is a full Step by step tutorial for you to follow if you want to make a similar card for you loved:

1. Die cut the thick white cardstock to 6*4 1/2'' rectangle using any stitched rectangle die. Mist the die cut cardstock with a mix of three green- blue- yellow mists. Try to let it be dry before the next color.

2. Stamp the hot air balloon and the clocks using Sin City stamps , black pigmented ink and heat emboss with clear embossing powder.

3. Make black cardstock matting for the stamped card panel and staple it on the corners.

4. Stamp the clock and two sentiments on a thick  white cardstock with the same pigmented ink and heat emboss the stamped piece. Hand cut the clock and the sentiment strips as shown.

5. Mist the hand cut images with yellow mist and when dry glue them over the card.

6. Stamp the part of Collage stamp image (the letter part mostly) over white chipboard hot balloon using the same heat embossing technique as on previous steps.
Paint the stamped chipboard with distress blue ink.

7.Adhere the stamped chipboard piece over the card. Add a few metal cogs and some clear glaze drops. Add the metal winged charm over the  stamped crown. Enjoy your card!

I enter this card to Craft Stamper- Anything goes challenge

Day of Dead Sugar Sculls blog hop with SinCity stamps

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome  to Sin City Day of Dead Sugar Sculls blog hop!

The premise of this blog hop is for you to meet our in house Inspiration team members along with a few guest members, discover more ways to create with these stamps and possibly win a set for yourself!

No matter where you have started, to qualify to win your own Day of Dead Sugar Sculls stamps set (we are giving away 3!!!) all we ask that you visit each of the blogs participating, leave a nice comment and then come back to Sin City Blog and let us know which blog projects you liked  the most and why.

The blog hop will end on the 27 th and 3 winners will be announced on Sin City blog and on our FB Fan  Group on March 28 th.

Here is a full list of blog participants:

1. Main- Sin City Stamps http://sincity-stamps.blogspot.com/...
2. Michelle Frae Cummings http://faeriedustdreams-michelle.blogspot.com/...
3. Katie Lamb http://whatkatiedid2.blogspot.com/2...
4. Chris Pozzi http://ole682000.blogspot.com/2017/...
5. Irit Shalom- You are HERE! http://iritshalom.blogspot.com/2017...
6. Shilpa Nagaonkar http://nagaonkarshilpa.blogspot.com/...
7. Sharon Rogers http://sharonshowcase.blogspot.com/...
8. Jenn Gary DuBell http://yvonnebijouxcrafts.blogspot.com/...
9. Monique van Dijk http://phoebekattebeest.blogspot.com/...
10. Adam http://sincity-stamps.blogspot.com/...
11. Kim Johnny http://tangledbluerose.blogspot.com/...
12. Granne http://aavamaki.blogspot.com/.../si...
13. Anne http://dreamindarkness.blogspot.com/...

For this blog hop, we are featuring stamps
 Designed by Michelle Frae Cummings!
This stamp set has a total of 4 skulls and 10 extra stamps for you to create with.

And now to my  blog hop projects:

The first is this Mixed Media chipboard printers tray that I made with a lot of background stamping using different Sin City stamps  and I used the Sugar Scull as a head of my chipboard skeleton.

I made this weird figure as his own kind of wonderful.

By this I mean that each and every person is a wonderful one. It doesn't matter if you are different. You are still your own kind of wonderful and believe me, the more you think that you are- the more of other people will take you as a such.

Here are some more photos of this project:

 And a close- up to the Sugar Scull that was stamped with blue pigmented ink, heat embossed with clear embossing powder and then colored with permanent markers.

The background stamping was also heat embossed and colored.

 And as I loved those Sculls a lot, I added another project: two clay magnets.
I really love those sculls keeping some boring notes on my fridge.

I made my own molds using ETI mold material and then casted two sculls into my homemade molds with Makin's Clay Black non baking polymer clay.
It took around 24 hours for clay to be dry and then I painted the casted sculls with Pearl Ex powders mixed with Gum Arabic (as these powders are not permanent without the add- on).
Two piece of magnets were glued on the back and I love those beauties a lot.
I really hope that you like them too!
So now it's a time to leave me a mice comment and to move to the next blog on the list.
Remember- you need to comment in all our blogs in order to win one of 3!! sets we give away!