Love you tag

Made with Tando Creative flowers, Die Versions background, border  and words  die, MME papers and Faber Castell DMC Gelatos- this tag was already web published in SG Create web magazine .

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

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CHF Sketch week: A great day

There are two DT posts today- so please scroll  the blog  for the second post.

Hello my dear crafty friends1 Irit is here again with my new card made for Cornish Heritage Farm sketch week.
The best thing with sketches is that you can rotate them and to make them your own and still  to see the sketch you used.

So I rotated this sketch to the vertical position and made this 3 color  card using a lot of easy techniques. The background designer paper (MMY) was dry embossed   and I used the pink on on the embossed side and the flowers design from the back side. Both embossed papers were inked with black ink to fit the basic card.

I made a brick die cut background with DV die and then printed the CHF Digital stamp  Flower Jar (re sized to fir the card) over some  thin plastic and not over the paper. I added a lot of clear embossing powder and heat embossed the printed image  to make the ink permanent and to get this shimmery look. Then I hand cut the image and colored it a bit with Copics (it became permanent and Copic works great over plastic).
As the sentiment I added this die cut and some red pearls were the final touch of this card.
See you again in 2 weeks and hope that my " real" stamps will be here for more techniques to use.

Don't forget to stop by everyone's blog today for more inspiration.

Cornish Heritage Farms Blog - http://cornishheritagefarms.blogspot.com
Frances Byrne (Design Team Co-ordinator) - http://stampowl.blogspot.com
Kristine Reynolds - http://stampingandscrapingincalifornia.blogspot.com
Steph Ackerman - http://stephaniescraps.blogspot.com/  
Amber Hillman - http://ambersantics.blogspot.com
Ann Marie Saunders - http://cre8nart.blogspot.com
Irit Shalom - http://iritshalom.blogspot.co.il- you are here!
Kelly Santi - http://sandcastlestamper.blogspot.com
Maureen Russell - http://maureensmagic.blogspot.com

IBS NEW RELEASE: Blowing wishes your way

New month- new Inspired by Stamping release! And this is my card made with Pinwheels gorgeous set in this mute, sort of pastel palette.
I made card with a tag over it, using a lot of washi tapes punched to 1'' squares to make the background and adhered the tag with same washi tape. The  pinwheel was stamped over washi covered Kraft cardstock too and heat embossed later with clear embossing powder. The sentiment was stamped over a regular cardstock, but in the same color.

Sweet Stamps challenge #137: Borders

Hello my dear crafty friends!
 This is our Sweet Stamps new challenge and this week  it's all about Borders!
Any border is great: punched, jandcut, stamped, pre- made- just show us your borders and you can win some great goodies.
So here is my card. I made 2 kinds of borders: one is punched with MS lace punch  and the second one is stamped with SS delicious Lace  border stamp with parchment effect (white ink, white embossing powder over vellum paper) . I also added some pearl strips to make it  fancier.
Then I stamped this small WITH LOVE sentiment and used this well- known daisy for " Loves me- loves me not)

And now it's your turn! Play with our challenge and you can win some great goodies!
 I enter this to Moxie FAB general craft supplies challenge: brads are so general and so are pearls and premde flowers too.

Lace Border 418 Parchment Craft Vellum PCV25 White Dye Ink Pad for Parchment Crafting With Love

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Sweet Stamps challenge #133: Butterflies

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to our new challenge and this week we , on Sweet Stamps, challenge you to use Butterflies!
So lovely and so easy challenge!Anyone love them,  everyone have them. So make a project with butterflies and play with us to win some great goodies!
And here is my card for this week.

2 butterflies were stamped with 2 stamps from Fanciful  Butterflies  set and heat embossed with a mix of glitters; then misted with the same mist colors and glued over the card.

So make a project with your  favorite butterflies and enter this weeks challenge!

Sweet Stamps challenge #130:Bling

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to Sweet Stamps Bling challenge.
This week we challenge you to use blings: all possible kind of glitter, stickles, rhinestones and everything that sparkle!
So here is my not so ordinary Wedding card.

 The colors are vintage and not the usual wedding colors, but then it is full of sparkle. I added stickles glitter  ICICLE GLUE  over the stamped  Antique dancing couple image (first heat embossed with Fine Detail   Black sparkle embossing  powder). Then I added rhinestone FWAB swirls and a lot of small pearls over the patterned paper, die cut with CLD Scalloped Card maker nesting dies, all inked around with Nightfall ink spot. And then some flowers with more rhinestones were added to make it even more fancy..

Hope you like my card and now it's your turn to play with us! You can win gorgeous stamps if you enter our challenge! Be there to win!

Sweet Stamps monthly challenge: Dryer sheet technique

Hello my dear crafty friends! It's our monthly Technical challenge here on Sweet Stamps  blog.
 Today I am going to share the card made with Dryer's Sheet technique.
This is a very simple technique (if you do  have a single drier's sheet and was a problem for me as we live in a very hot and dry country and use  our drier one month a year... ). So get yourself a piece of a drier sheet and enter our Monthly technical challenge as you can win a lot of great goodies from the shop!
And here is my card : this month it's Christmas in July theme , so I made the Christmas card for the future use.

I  stamped 2 Ginger Bread  Boy  and Girl Duo large images over the MME patterned (slightly) paper; colored them with Faber Castell Design Memory Craft Pitt  India Ink Artist pens  and then covered the whole piece with a liquid glue. For this technique you need to use permanent inks and markers, as the glue (any glue) can damage the colored images, so go for  permanent this time, please. Add your dryer's sheet over and press. Sprinkle our delicious Sweet Stamps  Micro Fine Transparent glitter over the wet piece and  let it dry.
Trim the piece to a square shape, make some border punching of 2 other PP pieces and made your  red card   matting with CLD Cardmaker  rectangle largest die.
 Stamp " Happy Holidays" Old fashion  sentiment OVER the leftover, drier's sheet covered piece of cardstock (this time we stamp over the covered paper, not under it) and again, use a permanent ink. Embellish as much as you want and your lovely " technical" card is done.

Now make a card with the same technique and enter our Sweet Stamps monthly challenge!

Happy Butterfly buttoned Birthday! IBS

New card made with a whole pack of small buttons over this Tando butterfly shape and with Inspired by Stamping great sentiment. Papers from MME. Ans yes, it's pretty heavy with all those buttons over the chipboard.
 I made it  for Creating with paper and more Buttons challenge.

Family today mini album with GJS

Hello my dear crafty friends!
This is my monthly post for Genuinely Jane Studios and this time  it's my Family today mini album.
The house shaped mini was just perfect for my son's family photos and all pages inside are very simple (not  the cover), also I used a lot of dies over those pages.

All papers in this mini are from one single MME 6*6'' pad in 3 colors  only; all dies are from Die Versions. The tags are from Pretty Little Studio, wooden embellishments are LYB .
Here is my cover:

And some close ups to the title made with Tando Creative chipboard together with Tando gate.

And now for the inner pages

Please visit GJS blog and leave me some love there!

Sweet Stamps monthly challenge: Flip flop card

Hello my dear stamping friends! Our monthly Sweet Stamps challenge is to make a Flip Flop  card and I decided to make my own version of this card.
So here we go:
Circled Flip Flop  card
Step 1: Cut a piece of a basic cardstock into 5.75*6.25 ''
Step 2: Make pencil lines on the back of your card as shown: the first one is 2.75'' from the edge and the second is 4.25'' from the edge; each one should be 1.25'' long.
 Then add same lines on the bottom part of your card, but make them 1.75'' long. Score all 4 lines and don't fold yet.
Step 3: Using any possible circle cutter cut the circle on the card front, but don't cut the upper and bottom piece in between scored lines. Now your basic card is done.
Step 4: Cut 2 circles a bit smaller then your partial main circle used any solid cardstock you want. I used Kraft one. Stamp your Butterfly Bookmark  stamp  on one of the circles, as this is a long vertical stamp make it partially on both circle sides. Use clear embossing ink and Red embossing powder and heat emboss it. Glue the stamped circle in the middle.

 Cut LOVE YOU die cut using Die Versions Everyday Complements  die from Kraft cardstock and glue it on the side, as this side will be seen  when your card is folded.
Step 5: Cover the card with  MME 6*6'' pad patterned paper as shown. Die cut die  border with Cherry Lynn Border Carnivale  die and glue it on the side.  Tie a green  ribbon as shown.
Cut Tropical Flourish  from CLD die and add it over the ribbon. Paint it with Olive Green,Citrus and Bright Yellow Creative Inspirations Paints.
Die cut a lot of flowers with Build a Flower #1  die, arrange 3 flowers using brads and glue them over the leaves. Paint them with Garnet CIP .
Step 6: Fold the left scored line back (mountain fold). Then fold the right scored line to the front. Now you can see Love you sentiment on the front.

Now open the card and you can see the whole butterflies  stamped image.

Enjoy your project!
 Now it's your turn! Come and play with Sweet Stamps monthly challenge: make swing card and enter it to our challenge to win!

Inspired by Stamping May Release Day 3: Basic Backgrounds 3 +French Notes

Hello my dear crafty friends! This is Day 3 of our gorgeous Inspired by Stamping May release and today I made a whole mini book with  Basic Background  3 , French Notes  and much more of IBS sets inside.

Let me show you some inside pages, all stamped and all  are good to add some small photos. This one has 2 more French sentiments.

And the back page stamped with IBS handmade  stamp and signed too.

I enter this to Moxie Fab gift challenge as this is no photos gift mini album

 And  to Simon Says Stamp and show Little papers challenge- all made from 6*6'' single pad

You are my cup of tea tag (actually more my coffee)

Hello my dear crafty friends!
Since my school days I remember this " not my cup of tea" saying, but I don't like tea (also Earl Grey one is great if you have a common cold), so I used this stamped sentiment, but for me it means " my cup of coffee" and it should be very strong one).

I used a pre- made wooden tag. covered with MME paper, inked around and then I used (my very first time for this chipboard set) this delicious Tando cup. I stamped over the white chipboard, added some white embossing powder over the bottom part of the chipboard. Then I added liquid applique brown paint over heat embossed copper one and some pearl paint over the steams. And is it was not too many mediums used (ha- ha- ha), I covered the stamped cup with glossy accents.

I enter this to Moxie Fab gift tags challenge

One day in May

I made some free time and decided to make a page for some web challenges.  I made it for  Berry 71 Bleu sketch (sides switched) with chipboards, Artastic use masks, Molding paste for Show us your staff and  lot of flowers for Get Creative challenge .That's it. So here is my new lo with my adorable  2 years old grandson.
 

It's  what I call " light Mixed Media " project: some gesso and masks (Tando Creative), some paints, not a lot as I wanted my photos to stay the star of this lo. Some die cuts (words and cages from Die- Versions, tags and tabs from Sizzix). Home misted  flowers (Prima white to blue), some washi tape. Painted May  word in the title, light hand written journaling. And one stamped sentiment from Paper wing stamps I won and just got.