Happy Everything art page with Honey Bee Stamps

 Hello my dear crafty friends ! Irit is here and I welcome  you to my very first post as a Design team member of Honey Bee stamps.
As most of you most probably know I am more a Mixed Media artist than a card maker, so I decided to show you how Honey Bee Stamps can be used for Mixed Media projects. I will craft some cards too, but with a touch of Mixed Media mostly in the future.
So today  I am going to shoe you the art journal single page made with just a few products.
All you need to make the similar page is a piece of good thick white cardstock from any company, one single Tando Creative stencil, DecoArt texture paste and ColorArte Silk Acrylics paints and .... Yes, our gorgeous Honey Bee  stamps:
Happy Everything set and Color My Word set.
This is not a tutorial post, but I  will tell you  briefly how I made this piece.
First I used the stencil with texture paste and made all textured images over the white cardstock.
Then, when the paste was dry, I added paints and mist to get those summery green, blue and yellow colors over the whole stencilled images.
I kept a few areas without texture to stamp later over them.
Let's say that the Silk Acrylics are fantastic as paints, but terrible as the stamping background. The gel medium inside them makes the good stamping almost impossible. So this was a time to use my Misti maybe for the very first time and to stamp the Happy Moments and Happy Everything  from Happy Everything set over and over with black permanent ink.

But finally the stamping was good for the Mixed Media page. Not very crispy, but sufficient.

I added stamped flowers using Color My Word set  on the " white" areas that sure were green...

To make the flower pop I added white acrylic around and over the images and added some of the paint over the textured images too.

As you can see this is a real art page: flat, made with a lot of mediums and no " add- ons" at all.
And it's a great example for you to see how Honey Bee stamps can be used on Mixed Media projects.
Just grab some of them and make your own art journals with your own mix of colors, textures and sentiments.
Thanks for being here with me and you are welcome to my Instagram account @iritshalom2000
-where I will post more of my Honey Bee projects in the future! Please follow me there if you like or just pop to say hello.
I also enter this art piece to some web challenges:
Craft Stamper- Anything goes

Strawberry fields forever: Makin's Clay tutorial

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new tutorial made for Makin's Clay blog.

As you maybe remember last month I decided to make a couple of flower tutorials  made with Makin's Clay and totally different techniques. This is my second tutorial and this time , as my tribute to Spring, I made this Strawberry blossoms with strawberries piece. Last month I explained the die cutting of dry Makin's Clay sheet technique.This time it's hand made, scissors cut flowers with a little help of other techniques that you will see in a second.

So lets make this beauty!

Step by step tutorial:

1. Roll a think sheet of Makin’s Clay® white clay using Makin's Clay  roller from the Makin’s Professional®Roller and Cutters set® set over Makin’s Professional® Cutting Mat.

Don't let it dry for now!

2.Use medium size circle cutter form 3 pc Makin's Clay 3 pc. Round Cutter set and make a few circles from your rolled white clay.

3.Now  lets see how to make  strawberry blossoms. First  I checked the number of petals and the general shape of those blossoms. We need 5 petals flowers and  they are round shaped ones.

So divide the cut circles to 5 as much as possible equal sectors using  Makin's Clay  tools and make the central notch. (See circle #1 from the left ).

Use your fine scissors and cut between the sectors as shown on flower #2 on this photo.

Now round the petals with scissors (#3 on this photo).

Flatten the hand cut flower a bit- not too much- with the roller (#4 on the photo).

Make veins with any tool you feel comfortable with and shape the flower (#5 on the photo).

Make as many flowers as your need. For this project I made just 5.

4.Make leaves with a die, but just as a shape maker.  I didn't die cut the leaves and used the die over the wet clay. Then hand cut the shape around the image as shown.Those leaves are pretty much general shaped ones; so you can also free  hand cut your own leaves without any die or template.

5.Make the back of the flowers using hand mixed Makin's Clays; I  used a mix of the same size Yellow and Olive green and just made an initial mix with marbled look. Then use Makin’s Clay® Cutters smallest Flower cutter and make 5 pieces from the mixed clay as the bottoms of your blossoms. 

6.Make the blossom centre with Makin's® Ultimate Clay Extruder™  using the disc with the smallest possible round holes. Then arrange a few  round strips together to make your blossom's centres.

7.From this step and on there are no more detailed photos, but the general ones.

Use Colorarte Silk Acrylics (gel medium based) to paint the leaves and the finished blossoms with the centre on them. 

 Make three strawberries using a mold  with Makin's Clay  white clay and paint them as shown.

8. Make the arrangement base from Makin's Clay Brown clay and  medium  4 pc new Flower shaped cutter. This piece is not really seen, so you can use any other  natural color too.

9. Arrange your leaves, blossoms and  berries as shown.

Cover them with glaze and enjoy your Spring project!

Products used:
Makin’s Clay® white
Makin’s Clay® brown, olive, yellow
Makin’s Professional®Roller and Cutters set®
Makin’s Clay® Professional Clay Tools® 
Makin’s Professional® Cutting Mat

Makin's® Ultimate Clay Extruder™-disc from this set

Makin’s Clay® Cutters-3 pc Round, 3 pc Flower

Makin’s Clay® Cutters-4 pc. Flower

Wisdom of Nature with ARTplorations

 Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my first March ARTplorations post.
This is an art page/board/whatever we call it made with a lot of stencils' layers and one single hand molded and casted owl.
For the first layer I used Retro circles with acrylic glaze paints from ColorArte.The second layer of stencils is Confetti Circles with texture paste and the upper flowers are made with more texture paste  using Bold Florals stencil and more acrylic glazes from ColorArte.
Everything around was covered with layers of H2O ColorArte water colors and so were the very old stickers in ugly color.It gave me this wooden look with this mixture of glaze and water colors.
The owl is made with my own mold and casted with colored resin where I also  added  micro beads.
 The whole page is about nature and the owl is the smartest one. So I called this piece WISDOM OF NATURE.

Here is our Mixed Media challenge for you for March and there are prizes to win if you play with us!
Products used:
Stencils: Bold Florals,Confetti Circles,Retro Circles