Embellished clips tutorial with Susan W

Hello my dear crafty friends!

Welcome to my new small tutorial made for Susan K Weckesser's blog.

This time I decided to make something for the planners trend. And as I don't even have a planner, but I do use  small notebooks, I made a few stamped clips for my notebooks as dividers.

So here is my tutorial:

1. Stamp Susan's  houses with her Clearsnap ColorBox mini Pop ink in Mystery color twice using co-branded with Unity Tumbleweed Houses stamp set.

2. Color the houses with Susan's other Clearsnap inks in Fresh, Ice, Sky and Kiss colors and as there is no Susan's yellow ink I used another Clearsnap ink in yellow. Don't try to make the best ever coloring and don't afraid to be out of the lines as we are going to cut the houses later.

3. Cut all colored houses and make them 3d using 3d foam glue.

Glue the house over plastic office clips with strong paper to plastic glue.

Use them!

Shrink plastic flowers box tutorial with Art Anthology

Hello my dear crafty friends!

Welcome to my first Art Anthology post for December.

After making some Mixed Media projects I decided to make something totally different and this time it's an altered small gift box and shrink plastic stamped flowers that were made to embellish this box. Both box  and glower bouquet were painted with gorgeous Art Anthology paints and it's another way to use those paints that I want  to share.

Step by step tutorial:

1. Stamp all flowers from In my Garden Unity  stamp set with black permanent ink as shown on white shrink plastic.

2.Color all stamped images with Art Anthology dimensional paints and don't try to color inside the lines as we are going to cut the images.

3. Hand cut the images and shrink them with your heat gun. That's how small they look after shrinking and the colors are very intense.

4. Paint the small Kraft box with Art Anthology  light green paint and let it dry.

5. Use Art Anthology stencil with Dazzling dimensional clear paint over the green box cover and let it dry.

This is how it looks after the second paint layer.

6. Arrange the shrinked images as you wish over the box and glue them to the cover.

This is how your lovely box looks from the side/top with all flowers on it.

To my cool friend card

Hello my dear crafty friend and welcome to my  inspirational post made for both Tando  and Susan K Weckesser.
This is Tando recipe week and we were asked to use one stencil, 2 stamps and 3 snowflakes.
And it was a time to make some winter cards too. So here is the card I made for both companies.
So I used Sunburst stencil with Susan's Clearsnap ColorBox Mini Pop ink in Ice color for the background.
Then I used Susan's two stamps from Snow Way stamp set co- branded Unity set for the main Snowman image and the sentiment using here other color of ink- Sky.
Three chipboard Tando mini snowflakes were covered with a thick layer of Ice ink and as they are bare chipboards the color is pretty dark after all. I covered the ink with clear embossing powder  for some glossy effect.
The snowman image was stamped twice, hand cut and made into 3d figurine.

 Tando mini snowflakes


Sunburst stencil

Stamping on vellum card tutorial

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my last November tutorial made for Susan K Weckesser blog.
I didn't make step by step photos this time, so it's just the step that you can do to make this fancy card.
1. Make the basic card with stitched rectangle die and Susan's Live in color cardstock.(Use the back side for this card)
Add another layer die cut in smaller size using Susan's Colorburst cardstock.(Use back side again)
2. Die cut the third rectangle and die cut the honeycomb using Sizzix die. Glue the die cut layer as your third layer.
3.Make yellow cardstock matting and the diagonal cardstock layer and glue them over the first three layers.
4. Stamp the Susan's co- branded with Unity sentiment from In my garden stamp set with black pigmented ink and heat emboss with clear powder. Die cut the sentiment and make a yellow circled matting using Die Versions stitched nested dies. Glue the sentiment over the card as shown.
5. Stamp the big flowers over clear vellum from the same stamp set in the same way and hand cut them. Color the flowers with Susan's inks from Clearsnap using them as water colors (Kiss, Fresh and Snow).
Glue the flowers with clear glaze and cover them with a  glaze layer.
6. Add some rhinestones and three yellow circles around the card. Make faux stitching as shown with black pen.

Mixed media tags tutorial

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new tags tutorial!

This time I made a couple of fancy tags with Susan K Weckesser's Unity co- branded stamps, Clearsnap inks including Susan's gorgeous mini ColorBox Color Pop inks and the most gorgeous Makin's Clay casted in molds embellishemnts that were painted in gorgeous shimmery paints from Art Anthology.

So here is the full tutorial:

1. Stamp two tags from The Garden whatnot collection with black pigmented ink and heat emboss with clear embossing powder.

2. Hand cut the tags around the stamped images and made two copper glitter hand cut tags a bit bigger than the stamped tags.

3. Ink the stamped tags with a mix of Susan's Clearsnap ColorBox mini Color Pop inks in Kiss, Fresh and Ice colors. Just use them as a kind of watercolor over the tags. 

4. And as a magic-  your tags are just done!
Glue the inked stamped tags over the copper glitter tags.
Tie the twine and glue Makin's Clay embellishments that were previously painted and add some pearls on the side.

I added a  couple of chipboard words to make those tags more artistic and not just  usual gift tags.

Thanksgiving card with Susan W

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my post made with Susan K. Weckesser's gorgeous co- branded with Unity stamp called GOING WILD. The image was stamped with Susan's Clearsnap Mystery Color Pop Colorbox archival die ink and this is a perfect ink to color with watercolors inside the image.
I colored the image and the hand cut  stamped leaves with Zig Real Color brushes as those are the only coloring tools I like... LOL
The background papers are all from BoBunny Farmer's Market collection and I used small Misc Me cards to make the background square with the sentiment.
The shape was made with Sizzix dies and the fox is sitting on BoBunny layered chipboard sticker.

 And this is a stamp set used for this card:

So Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends!

Altered Home sign

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my small tutorial post made Susan K. Weckesser stamps.

It's an easy art piece that you can make in no time and the stamps that you can can be totally different, just fill the " window" with whatever you like. I made it as a kind of " Home" sign.

Step by step instructions:

1. Cover the black craft store puzzle with a thick layer of white gesso and let it dry. You can  also recycle the old puzzle in about A4 size if you have one.  Use Rebecca Baer Mosaic Medium stencil with Texture paste over the puzzle piece and let it dry.

2. Mist the dry piece with  Tattered Angels blue mist and .... you know, let it dry!

3. Take out a few of the central pieces and make the " window" inside the puzzle.

Stamp Susan K. Weckesser " Home"  sentiment using her TUMBLEWEED HOUSES  Unity co-branded stamp set with her Clearsnap ColorBox Color Pop mini Mystery ink  and glue it inside the puzzle as shown.

Stamp 4 houses with the same stamp set in different Color Pop mini inks in Kiss, Sky,Ice and Fresh colors and  hand cut them and glue over the puzzle.

Mist the whole piece with gold mist of any company.

Paint your own rainbow art page

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my second  September post made for Susan K. Weckesser blog.

This time it's an art page made with lovely Susan's products and some recycling too.

So here is my small step by step tutorial:

1. Use texture paste  with stencil to make the bricks over the thick cardstock page that was covered with gesso.

Then I added some texture circles made over punched cardstock with the same texture paste  (not shown as a separate photo). Let all paste dry!

2. Use Susan's Clearsnap Color Pop mini inks to make the rainbow over the page. I also added Clearsnap yellow and purple inks to make the full range of rainbow colors over the page. The colors used here are Kiss, Sky, Fresh and Ice.

 Add a line of each ink over the the top side of the page and mist with water over it.

3. From this step over I didn't take the step by step photos and there is only written steps for the rest of this page.
First I added all flowers from Israeli post stamps booklet. I love recycling and those rainbow colors from the booklets are so lovely!
Now  stamp the Unicorn image with Susan's Unity co-branded stamp (Unicorns and Rainbows set) and color it with Zig Real Brush watercolors. Hand cut the unicorn image and glue it over the page with Gel Medium.
Stamp the " paint your own rainbows" saying using the same stamp set all over the page using Susan's  mini ink in Mystery color. Add a stamped rainbow image over the page and leave it in a very light colors; this is just a small rainbow we are looking for after the rain.

Happy Thankgiving card

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new post.
This Happy Thanksgiving card was made  with BoBunny great Farmers Market collection using cardstock, journalling card and the sentiment chipboard.
The Fall leaves were stamped with Susan K. Weckesser's gorgeous Autumn Grunge stamp set made by Unity. I stamped over light patterned paper  with Susan's Clearsnap ColorBox Color Pop mini ink in Cocoa and added a bit of Kiss ink from the same line by Susan K. Weckesser.
The only embellishments used here are the bird house and a bird that I casted using white Makin's Clay and when dry I painted them with DecoArt paints. The painting was  a bit distressed to fit the paper and the stamped images.

To my cool friend card tutorial

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my Cool friend card tutorial made for Susan K. Weckesser blog. This is a Mixed Media background card with Susan K. Weckesser sweet images and a lovely sentiment and it perfectly fits this month theme.

So here is how I made this card:

1. Use texture paste over the Rebecca Baer small sized Snow Flurries stencil . This size of  stencil is just perfect for the cards.

Let the paste dry.

2. Add a mix of Tattered Angels mists over the dry  stencilled image. Wait between the layers unless you want to get a " mad" over your card.

3.Stamp the couple of snowmen using Susan's ....... stamps and her Sky Clearsnap ColorBox Color Pop Mini ink. Stamp each image twice as we're going to make some paper piecing later.
Stamp the To my cool friend sentiment too for the future use.

4. Color the images with Zig Real Color Brushes and then cut the pieces that we will use for a 3d effect.

4. And this is how the pieced and arranged images look on the finished card. All card was misted with golden mist , so the colors are slightly different after all.

And this is a finished card- the background white card and the  Mixed Media background were die cut with Elizabeth Crafts Stitched rectangles dies and I added a few random golden sequins.