Easy made Baby cards with Scrapberry's

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to  my second November inspiration for Scrapberry's.
Today I am going to share four easy made cards for babies and the reason for making those cards are that I am going to be a third time grandma in a few days only.
So as usual we never have  pre made cards and sometimes we just need to make a couple in no time.
 With Scrapberry's wonderful My Little Star collection it's easy and affordable and you don't need to be a premium crafter  to make lovely cards.
So all those 4 cards were made in an hour!
Yes, I am not a new to car making. But even the new crafter can make a couple of those card in  one single hour.
 So here are the first pair and those are for the Baby girl.
I added the stamped sentiments from another company as I just didn't get anything possible from Scrapberry's and I really wanted to add some stamping to those cards. But you can add paper cuts too to make the sentiment.

I made the main image with paper piecing using the cover of this collection and 3d foam glue.
Everything else are just paper die cuts that can be made by hand.
Look at the first card here:

As you can see I added a bit of washi tape, some rhinestones and that is it. You don't need a card that is an artistic project. You just need a card that it flat to fit the envelope.

Period.

 And now the second one for Baby girl:

Here I added a few small resin flowers and a nice ribbon bow on the corner.

And now for the couple of Baby boy cards:

On both card I added polymer clay Baby shapes, some twine and added a dimension with glze over the paper.

Scrapberry's products used:
My Little Star collection:
Cute as a Button
Baby Blue
Pretty in Pink
Pearl brads Afternoon SCB340304
Polymer items Kid's fun 2 SCB26001011
Set of decorative ribbons Discover Italy SBC390521
Silk ribbon SCB510202
Set of flowers Floral embroidery SCB25002023
Washi tape Colorful dreams SCB490005
Washi tape Basic K SCB4905013

Blackboard project with IBS

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my post made for Inspired by Stamping!
This is a 3D Friendship crafts week here on Inspired by Stamping and I altered a lovely cheap blackboard as my gift to a crafty friend.

Here is a small tutorial I made for you:
1. Stamp Inspired by Stamping Fresh Bouquet large stamp with white pigmented ink over black cardstock and heat emboss with white embossing powder. You can sure use Clear embossing ink ; but white over white gives the best results.

2. Use Tim Holtz (Ranger) distress crayons to color the embossed image.

I just added color over the piece and wiped with baby wipe. You can't see the " over colored" places when you work  on black cardstock, so you don't need to do a nice coloring after all.

3. Add more crayon colors over the stamped piece.

4. This is how this blackboard look and I decided to embellish one side and to leave the second for a real chalk writing.

5. Stamp the sentiment over the stamped piece with the same white ink and white powder heat embossing.

Die cut the stamped and colored piece with stitched rectangle die (Elizabeth Crafts). 

Add strips of black and white washi tape and embellish with black rhinestones.

Add a black swirl of pearls  over the stamped piece and your gift is all done!

Products used:

Inspired by Stamping-Fresh Bouquet

Cardstock- American Crafts

Ink- Clearsnap

Embossing powders- WOW! Embossing Powders

Crayons- Tim Holtz for Ranger

Pearls- Florish with a Bling

Dies- Elizabeth Crafts

Washi tapes- craft store

Same die set- different cards with Die Versions

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my second post made for Die Versions blog.

 Today I am going to share two different cards and  totally different styles made with the very same DV die set: Stitched Nesting Circles.

I need to say that since those dies are released I am totally addicted to them and to their " brothers and sisters" aka all Stitched Nesting dies in the DV shop.

 Their sizes are just perfect for cardmaking and they are so versatile in uses.

 So the first card is a very modern, one layer clean and simple Mixed Media card.

 I die cut  four different Stitched circles  in  white cardstock. Then I die cut same sizes of circles from different  colored cardstocks and made inlays inside the white cardstock. As the next step I  stamped the sentiment on the lower corner (IBS stamps) and misted and painted the panel with Tattered Angels mists.

A few piece of washi tape were added for a bit of interest and some black contrast.

 The second card was made with the very same Stitched Nesting Circles dies, but in a kind of more shabby, vintage look.
 I used DCWV cardstocks, dry embossed the background and added  five circle over the card with 3d foam glue. The Small Wordlet  THANKS DV sentiment was die cut three times  to make it totally visible.

Have a Bee-utiful day with TPD

 This is my last card made this month for Two Paper Divas blog and this time another clean and simple kind of a card.
I made the background with stencil and acrylic paint and stamped the new TPD Big Buzz stamp over the stencilled area with black permanent ink. A few rhinestones and pearls were added as small embellishments and a couple of washi tape to connect the panel to the basic card.
And I enter this card to some web challenges too:
 Simon Says- Anything goes
 Addicted to stamps- Anything goes

Friends are like stars

Hello my dear crafty friends!

 Today  I am going to show you my use of Xmas die for non Holidays card and it actually WORKS!

This is July new release Delicate Star die and it was used as a main point of this Good friends are like stars sentiment from Inspired by Stamping . I made a cut from thick silver glitter cardstock and made my background with washi tapes only.
The small stars are heat embossed chipboards.

Hope you got my point: any die can be used " out of the box". Just try to find a good sentiment and make the connection over your project.

You are the best Dad: Sweet Stamps challenge #173

Hello my dear crafty friends! 

Irit is here with my FATHER'S DAY card made for our  weekly challenge here on Sweet Stamps blog.

You still can enter this challenge today and maybe it will be your lucky day!

As always, making masculine projects are hard and I just found that I don't have any male stamp in my huge stamps box, but one single sentiment. So what! We can always be creative and to use masculine colors, some general background stamps and to make a card that is good for any masculine  event.
So I used kraft base , some light patterned paper and stamped 9 squares with 2 stamps only over this kraft cardstock.

Some washi tapes and black pearls were added to make it more interesting and I think my mission to make a masculine card was a success.
 Here are the products I used for this project. You can get them in our Sweet Stamps shop and to make some similar projects too.

Family Clear Stamp Set AF4402

French Writing Background ATC

Black EP

InLinkz.com

Happy Father's Day - AGAIN

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my last- for May release of  Die- Versions- blog post.
Today I am going to show you another Happy Father's day card made with a couple of May  new dies and one old die too and a few trendy items added to my card.

First the dies I used for this card:
The adorable Dad's  closet die was cut to 1/3 and 2/3 to fit this vertical card and I just made my " closet" in two levels.  The sentiment I used here is a new Enhanced Spot " Happy Father's day " die layered over the old Sweet Spots Angel Wing Scalloped Circle. 

And now for some trends as promised:
Kraft  and yellow colors- trend #1
Washi tape - this dotted frame was hand cut  from washi covered cardstock piece- trend #2
Cloth line wooden clips- covered with a small pieces of the same washi tape- trend #3
Metal wire- this thin yellow one I have for ages in my stash- trend #4
Newsprint over anything- here it's over those Candy dots- trend #5
Anyway, all those trends are just the add- ons to our gorgeous dies! This card is made with  dies and for dies!

Please be sure to check the DV blog everyday for more ideas of how to use the new May Die-Versions dies!  Our Design Team has really done a wonderful job with these new dies and I know you are going to love their projects and want all the dies too!!  And don't forget to share your creations with on us on the DV Facebook page.

See you soon again!
Irit

Selfie page with ANN BUTLER'S products

Hello my dear friends and I am glad to see you here again.

NSD is a great chance to make some pages and even to fit them to a few challenges. So here is the first one I made for this challenges.(and with some of my DT products too)

 Today I am going to share a very flat and  non messy page, made with dozens of stamped  background images, a lot of stamped sayings , a lot of washi tapes and one single selfie photo.

The background cardstock is the only paper used on this page (OK, and this small black cardstock triangle). Then, this is a very trendy page: the  newspaper printed paper; triangles all over the page; geometric stamp patterns; " hand writing" titles, also stamped; dots and splashes of paint; washi tapes; bright fluorescent inks.

Then, even for a non trendy " me" all those trends made one graphic and good layout.

I used Ann Butler's Unity Faux Quilting stamps from those sets:
2'' Leaves all over
2'' Doily picnic

 And Ann Butler's Crafters Clearsnap inks:

Aquamarine

Limelight

Berry

Sunshine

Some of triangles were stamped " as is" and some were stamped in another pre cut like a mask triangle.

As you can see this triangle trend is all over the web and Ann Butler's Faux Quilting stamps are a great fit for this trend. Just get some and stamp. No trimming needed.

I enter this to a few web challenges

 Friends with flair Unity weekly link up as those are Unity stamps here, all of them

Something trendy- Triangles, stamping over lo, selfie photo, washi tapes, dots, chevrons, paint splashes- for Challenge yourself

 For Off the rails scrapboking- Strips and polka dots

Love life (even in antique style)

This is my new altered chipboard (bare one I just recycled with a lot of gesso over it). I used a lot of tapes to cover this chipboard- great way to use all those hoarded tapes.
First the overall look over this board

And now for some techniques used here- with the highlight of WOW Embossing powders and Tando products.
The basic tapes were covered with another layer of thin gesso and then I used texture paste to make all those swirls with Tando mask. The wet paste was covered with Metallic Gold Regular powder and heat embossed all over.
The chipboard shapes were heat embossed partly with Primary Ebony Super Fine powder and then I added Ruby Romance glitter over the still bare parts.

The  whole board was misted with a mix of gold, pink and light yellow mists (LSG).
Then I made WOW! molded shapes: small rose and this big fancy heart. Both were made with Melt-it and a pitch of color. The heart shape was then embossed over with the same Ruby Romance glitter (please make it very quick as you will melt the inside shape)

The metal frame with the word Love was originally in silver, but I just made it gold with Metallic Gold Super Fine powder and added this stamped Love word (Inspired by Stamping)
The other embellishments added were the old recycled gold chain with a bead on the bottom; the die cut word LIFE (CLD); Prima misted flower that was white and a vintage diamond shaped button.

As you can see everything can be done  using Wow! powders: you can cover your texture and backgrounds; can make your own embellishments;can  change any other colors and you can make your chipboards shiny in any possible color.
Now it's your turn to play with WOW! MONTHLY CHALLENGE. Make something Antique with heat embossing of WOW! products and you can be  the winner.
 I enter this to Anything goes  altered challenge for http://rheddscreativespirit.blogspot.co.uk/

Indian Summer lo

Sometimes I just scrap... Period. No DT work, not for CHA, just to keep my own memories alive.
So this is a page I made with my India 2012 trip photos and I am really ashamed to say that this is a very first page from this trip. I sure have hundreds of photos to scrap, but I sure don't have too much time to do so.
Since this vacation we already visited Armenia, Vietnam and Cambodia, but with my  so called scrapping
 " speed" I will scrap those in a year or two... LOL.
So enjoy those lovely faces of people we met and  it was a real INDIAN Summer, not the one we think when we see this title.

Products used:
Paper- H. Swapp
Stamp- Unity
Ink- Memento Black
Tags, Rub- ons- Chic Tags
Foam letters- AC
Chipboards- Creative Embellishments
Swirls,pearls-FWAB
Washi tape, white and black  pen

I enter this to Scrap our stash Countdown challenge:
5 pearls (also 5 photos, but those are not stash items)
4 papers
3 round tags
2 bare chipboards
1 rub on  sheet all over the page

Bloom lo

Hello my dear crafty friends ! 

Irit is here again and this time with another shabby  scrapbooking page full of our gorgeous FWAB goodies.

This is a page about blooming: my daughter blooming smile and some summer flowers in the garden and this fantastic green vine  was   my flower cluster's core.

I used a lot of FWAB products and a lot of Wycinanka goodies over this page and all flowers here are hand made too.

Hope you like this fancy lo.