Simple Shaker Love card with Papericious

Today I am going to share a simple shaker card made with new, just released, Perfect Affair collection from Papericious.

I made a full step by step tutorial and with this gorgeous collection everyone can do this lovely Valentine card.

Step by step tutorial:

1.Die cut 3 stitched rectangles from three different cardstock as shown.

2. Use nested hearts dies or punches  and die cut one frame out of double sided glue foam sheet, 2 white cardstock frames, one patterned cardstock red frame and one transparent full large size heart and one cardstock full size heart.

3. Glue the foam glue frame over the cardstock heart.

3. Glue two more layers using white cardstock heart and fill with Papericious sequins.

4. Add the transparent heart over and cover with red cardstock frame.
Your shaker part is all done.

5.Arrange the card with three die cut layers we made during step 1 and add some hand cut flowers.

6. Use clear embossing ink and gold embossing glitter to cover the chipboard shapes.

7.Add gold lines over flowers with gold liner.

8. Now  your shaker  card is done!
Enjoy!

Let is snow layout with Scrapberry's

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my first December Scrapberry's inspiration.

It's a winter season and when you get the most delicious new paper Winter collection you just go on and scrap your favorite Winter photos. Let's say that my photos are not from my home country as we don't even have a proper Winter here. So the photo is from our Italian Sky season a couple of years ago and yew, it was the best snow I've ever seen.

I used A Taste of Winter new , just released, collection and used the Paisley Frost  cardstock as the base. The snowflakes were added with light texture paste and a stencil all around the page. I added a kitchen square doily for the interest and then moved to 6*6'' same collection pad to layer the paper squares over the doily as shown.  

Most of the embellishing of this page was made with die cuts and patterned paper from the same collection.The title was die cut and added on the bottom of the photo.

The upper embellishment cluster was made with some Scrapberrys embellishment, silk ribbon bow, metal flair and Cards sentiments.

More die cut trees and snowflakes were added on the other side of the page.

I hope that you like my Winter page and this adorable Winter Scrapberry's collection.

Scrapberry's products used:
A Taste of Winter collection:
Snow Bunny 12*12'' cardstock
Seasonal Drift 12*12'' cardstock
Paisley Frost 12*12'' cardstock
Cards 12*12'' cardstostock
Create Wonder embellishments SCB340001094
Crystal stickers Floral Embroidery SCB530000007
Pearl Brads SCB340304
Winter Joy decorations SCB340982
Silk Ribbon White

Catch your dreams with Canvas Corps

Project Description

I made this Dream Catcher for Kids crafts call. It is easy to make project and can be done as a gift for kids, with kids or by older kids. All you need are Canvas Corps products, cross stitching medium hoop, good scissors and one single Spellbinders die. As all feathers are double sided, you can use glue dots only to keep both die cuts together. I used denim, lace, cork, metal sheet, real leather for feathers, but you can also use speciality paper from CC or cardstock or actually any material. The lace inside the hoop is just cut around to fit it. The bow on the top is from another CC lace. The waxed black cord is just the best for hanging the die cut feathers. I added glaze over chipboard letters to keep them over lace. The die cut lace feather was first glued over double sided glue sheet and then added over denim cut.

Materials Used (if helpful)

1.Lace trimming- assorted pack-CC
2.Waxed cotton cord black-CC
3.Denim dark sheet-CC
4. Wooden cross stitching hoop
5. Feathers die- Spellbinders
6. Cork
7. Metal foil
8. Leather
9.Wood paper

Non traditional Christmas ornament tutorial

 Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new Makin's Clay tutorial.
As this month we make Holidays projects, I decided to make an ornament. But then I decided that I want it full of glitter and in non traditional colors.
So pink, blue and golden yellow colors were the colors I picked for this project.
Another thing I tried to do in this tutorial was to find a few ways to add glitters to Makin's Clay and to see the ways that I like while working with glitter inside or over the clay.
So here is my step by step tutorial for you and I am sorry for the not so good photos, but it's raining here for a few weeks already and I can't do outside photos with the good light.
1.  The first way to add glitter to Makin's clay is to cover the wet clay with some glazing medium and just to sprinkle the glitter over. After the glitter is dry we can see this sparkling clay.
So first I covered the $1 plastic tree ornament with the wide circled yellow clay snakes made with Makin's Professional   Ultimate Clay  extruder.
I took a whole package of the  yellow clay to make the cover of the 1/3 top and 1/3 bottom as I used the very thick rolls, but if you want to cover it all, use the smaller circled disc and it will cover the whole ball.

2. As a next step I covered the ball with Ranger Glaze Accents and added a generous amount of golden glitter. Now let it dry for a few hours.

3. While waiting for the ball to dry you can make your embellishments.
The pink embellishments were made with Makin's Clay Christmas Nature  push mold and another way to add glitter to Makin's Clay.
I used white clay and mixed it generously with red glitter. I used the  Makin's Proffecional Ultimate Clay Machine to mix the color and it's not very glittery after all, but the color is pretty and looks like some kind of pink marble.
The mixed clay was pushed into the mold and  I trimmed the edges when it was totally air dry.As it wasn't too too sparkling for me, I added a bit of blue glitter over the dry pieces.

4. While waiting for the pink  shapes to dry, I moved to another  way  of adding glitter to Makin's  clay.
I made the thin sheets of white clay using theMakin's Proffecional Ultimate Clay  Machine on setting #5 and covered the wet pieces with blue glitter.

5. The dry thin sheet were then die cut with a snowflakes dies. I need to say that the dies I used didn't cut the #5 setting clay sheet too well, so I helped them a bit with  scissors later. The best die for  dry clay sheets are Sizzix Bigz and not those thin dies from all other companies.

6. Now I arranged the molded and die cut pieces over the dry golden ornament  using hot glue and you can see this beauty from 3 sides as there are a lot of  clay shapes over the ball.

And this is how it looks from the top.

All you need is just to hang it on your Christmas tree!

Live simply, Bloom wildly- with TPD

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my last November post made for Two Paper Divas stamp company.
This time I used two new stamp sets and stamped the sentiment inside the image.

This is a pretty easy to make card and all you need is to do some stamping, a bit of coloring of the flowers, some die cutting and some misting over the card.
I used two new stamp sets from TPD:
Bloom wildly
Bloom wildly sentiments

(As you can see there is a spelling mistake in the set I got, but I am sure this will be corrected in the shop sets.)

Makin's clay School days presents

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

This month of August we were asked to made some Back to School projects and I made a few small school presents.

As my kids are all grown- ups and my grand kids are still very little, I  am really not sure what those school projects should be. But then, nice altered notebook and an altered pencils organiser can be great when altered with lovely Makin's Clay products.

So here is a small tutorial  and you sure can do it if you are also a paper crafter, like me, and have a die cutting device and some dies too.

1. Roll a few pieces of Makin's Neon clay using Makin's Professional Ultimate Clay Machine.

I used #3 setting and it was just a try and the great fit for the die cutting the dry sheets of clay with a regular Cuttelbug that I own. So make a few pieces of  rolled clay on #3 setting and let them dry.

2. When your rolled clay is totally dry die cut it with a regular  thin metal dies in your regular die cutting machine. I used Spellbinders Book shaped labels and actually made a mix of colors and sizes.

3. Arrange 4 die cut clay piece by the size and by different color into two die cut books.

Glue all pieces with a good clay and then adhere  your clay books over the general notebook cover.

Those neon colors work perfect over the black/grey covers.

Now the part of your school gift is already done.

4. While waiting for your rolled piece to dry, used the Neon pack leftover to make some cut shapes and to embellish a container that will be used a your pencil holder.

I mixed my Neon clay left overs by hand and made a marbled mix that then was rolled with Makin's roller from Roller and Cutter set.

Do not over mix it! We really want this marbled look and not some muddy color.

Then use your small cutters and cut some lovely shapes. I used a few shapes from Flowers and Leaves cutter set.

5. Let your cut shapes dry and adhere them to the metal container that you like.

So easy to make and so lovely!

If you like the shiny look, cover the shapes with some glaze. 

Love with IBS

 Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my last Inspired by Stamping May post.
 This time I made another Lilac card, but with the totally different look and totally different, but yet gorgeous IBS  stamp set:  Flower of the Month- Pansy.
The stamped image is heat embossed with black powder and colored with distress markers. I added the LOVE sentiment from another  great IBS set: Tulip Bouquet

Masculine Birthday card for Inspired by Stamping

Hello my dear crafty friends!
Today I am going to share my new masculine Birthday card and as hard as it is to make masculine cards, it's pretty easy if you have some of Inspired by Stamping most gorgeous Masculine sets.
I used Guy Sentiments set for this card and I used it twice.

First I made book shaped die cuts with 2 frames and two inside parts: one in cream and one in black.
Then I  stamped the same sentiment once with white heat embossing and once with black permanent ink and arranged both frames and stamped sentiments over the Kraft card.
I added a simple stamped masculine image from the same set on the bottom and embellished with a few black and white Candi embellishments .
I think that Kraft, cream and black make the perfect masculine color scheme and we don't need to look for  any patterned paper or more masculine images to make a lovely card for our masculine Birthday boys (adult boys anyway).

Welcome Spring card

Spring is here and this is my first Spring project for Spring 2015.


Product list:
Paper: Paper House Productions- Rejoice, Hipster
Stickers: Spring. All creatures 3d- Paper House Productions
Dies: Spellbinders
Inks: Clearsnap
Other: Lace, card

How to make this project:
1. Cover the card with dotted inked around paper. Add another paper strip in the middle and add two piece of blue lace frm both sides of this strip.
2.Die cut two big flowers and adhere them one over another with 3d foam glue. Glue the sentiment sticker on the upper flower die cut. Add all other stickers as shown.

One thing on a top of another with TPD

Hello my dear crafty friends!
Today  I am going to share my last project for March made with Two Paper Divas gorgeous stamps and this time I used the whole Tea Cups set on this card.
I made 3 matings with Spellbinders dies and glitter cardstock and then stamped the cups and colored them with distress markers. The sentiment was stamped  on the bottom with black permanent ink.
Easy to make card and still very cute and lovely for any occasion.

Lucky me with Lucky stamps AND IT'S MY BIRTHDAY TODAY!

 Hello my dear crafty friends!
Today is my Birthday - and I am not going to say how old I am, but I sure am going to say how lucky I am.
I am lucky to have great family, lovely home, great hobby and a lot of fun.
So here is my Lucky card , made with Lucky Me Two Paper Divas stamps for the lucky St. Patrick day.
I used green cardstock as my basic card and added a piece of light gold glitter cardstock over it. Sorry that it looks silver, it's a gold as my golden luck.
Then I stamped the main image and colored it with distress markers. The whole image was die cut into this flower shape as I don't have any shamrock one. I added this wooden 5cent embellishment and a few buttons and stamped this lucky sentiment.
Are you lucky? Go and make a lucky card for yourself! TPD Lucky  Me set is just the best!

Live with passion (and everything else)

Hello my dear crafty friends!
This is my weekly post made with delicious Two Paper Divas stamps and this time a simple card with not so simple sentiment from TPD shop.

A bit about how this card was made:
I made the background with 2 kinds of washi tapes; added another glitter tape over and heat embossed chipboard stars with gold and silver powders.
The matting and the stamped panel were die cut with Spellbinders and the sentiment was simply stamped with black ink.
This is a totally golden and silver card, also it's like yellow, but it's a real yellow gold not so much seen on this photo.