Best Wishes-Clear acrylic home decor

Hello my dear crafty friends!

Irit is here today and I am going to share my lovely stamped project made from the both sides of an acrylic piece.

*I had some trouble taking a good photo of double sided clear project and as much as I tried this is the best I could achieve. But believe me, the end result is far more gorgeous, shiny and artistic.

When you make one too, you will see how easy and fast it can be made.*

Have fun!

Supply list:

Natural beauty rubber stamps set- Fern, flowers

Dandelion Wishes with Butterflies rubber stamps set- Butterflies, Best Wishes

Other products:

Acrylic tile- 6 x 6'' and a smaller one for the sentiment

Black pigmented ink

Clear embossing powder

Mix of achohol ink

Alcohol blending solution

Alcohol ink felt applicator

Gold acrylic paint

Clear adhesive

Step by step directions:

1. Stamp the three butterflies randomly over the 6"x6" acrylic tile. Use black pigmented ink and clear embossing powder. You can also use any kind of solvent permanent ink (Staz- On) over the acrylic surface, but the heat embossed effect looks much better.

2. Stamp the ferns and the flowers from the back side of your acrylic tile. Use the same ink and heat emboss in the same way as the front of the tile.

3. Apply a mix of alcohol inks (3 to 4 colors, not more) using felt applicator. Apply the inks on one side only- you pick the side. Add a few drops of alcohol blending solution for the effect. Repeat this step until you are happy with the colors.

4. Stamp the Best Wishes sentiment on the small acrylic tile using the same technique as on previous steps.
Paint the back side of the stamped sentiment with gold acrylic paint. Let the paint dry.

5. Paint the edges of the stamped  tile with gold acrylic paint .
Adhere the stamped Best Wishes sentiment over the front of the tile.

For more inspiring  projects from the Design team be sure to visit us at  Sin City Blog and to follow us on Facebook.

Happy Birthday Mixed Media card

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my Sin City stamps new post.

This is Irit here today and I am going to share my Mixed Media card made with two gorgeous sets of Sin City stamps.

Usually I don't make too many cards, but sometimes the sentiment are just perfect for a card or two or even many.

So here is my Birthday card made in Mixed Media style with a lot of background stamping, hand cut stamped images, misting, heat embossing and more. 

It's perfect for any gender as the colors can fit any person of any age. 

As you know this new adventure is not age connected,  I began my crafty adventure when I was a pretty old lady and it has been a success so far.

Supply list:

Sin City Stamps:

Steampunk'd Rubber stamps set- Collage, Hot air Balloon, Pocket watch

Steampunk Circus rubber stamps set- Happy Birthday, Let the adventure begin, Crowned clock

Other products used:

White and black cardstock

Stitched rectangles dies

Mists

Black pigmented ink

Clear embossing powder

Blue distress ink

Glaze

Metal charms

Chipboard hot air balloon

Heat gun

Stapler

And as usual- here is a full Step by step tutorial for you to follow if you want to make a similar card for your loved ones:

1. Die cut the  cardstock to 6" x4 1/2'' rectangle using any stitched rectangle die.
Mist the  cardstock with a mix of three green- blue- yellow mists.
Let this dry before adding the next color.

2. Stamp the hot air balloon and the clocks using Sin City stamps , with black pigmented ink and heat emboss with clear embossing powder.

3. Mat your stamped card with black cardstock and attach with staples at the corners.

4. Stamp the clock and two sentiments on the white cardstock with the same pigmented ink and heat emboss the stamped piece. Hand cut the clock and the sentiment strips as shown.

5. Mist the hand cut images with yellow mist and when dry glue them onto the card.

6. Stamp the part of Collage stamp image (the letter part mostly) over white chipboard hot balloon using the same heat embossing technique as on previous steps.
Paint the stamped chipboard with distress blue ink.

7.Adhere the stamped chipboard piece onto the card. Add a few metal cogs and some clear glaze drops. Finish by adding the metal winged charm over the stamped crown.

 Enjoy your card!

For more inspiring  projects from the Design team be sure to visit us at  Sin City Blog and to follow us on Facebook.

Time Flies when you are Clowning Around

Hello my dear crafty friends!

Irit is here with a inspirational post made with Sin City's gorgeous stamps!

This time I made a square chipboard art piece using just two  stamps, but pretty big ones and one sentiment stamp that made my title: Time flies when you are clowning around.

And time sure flies when you have great  time!!

Product list:

SinCity stamps:

Steampunk circus rubber stamp set- Clown and the sentiment

Steampunked Rubber stamp set-Collage stamp

Other products:

Texture paste

Gesso

Modeling paste  

Stencils

Acrylic paints in white, 

Metallic Gold acrylic paint

3D art stones or micro beads

A 6"x6" chipboard square

Color ink mists in yellow, brown, teal, copper and purple

Black permanent ink

Tissue paper - white

Gel Medium

Letter stickers

Pearls

Step by step instructions:

1.Cover the chipboard  with white gesso and let it dry.

2. Place the stencil on top of the dry chipboard. Spread a thin layer of modeling paste and then lift off the stencil. Completely let the raised design dry before moving onto the next step.

3. Mix the white paint with art stones or micro beads.

4. Add the mixture to the chipboard piece as shown.

5. Mist the right side of the board with yellow and brown.

6. Add teal and copper mists, then cover the raised areas with gold paint.

7. Stamp the collage stamp with permanent black ink onto white tissue paper.

Stamp the sentiment and clown in the same way.

8. Glue the stamped tissue piece over the board with gel medium.

9. Add the clown too.

10. Glue the clown tissue piece as shown with gel medium.

Add purple paint over the edges.

Make the rest of the title with stickers.

11. Add a few purple splashes over the finished art piece.
Add a couple of purple pearls.

I hope that you liked my art piece and see you soon again!

Not so Fragile after all Art Page

Hello my dear crafty friends!

 Irit is here and welcome you to my new Sin City Stamps Inspirational Post! 

Today's art page is full of bright colors ... a tribute to International Women's Day on March 8.

Not too many people celebrate this day, but for those who do in the world- Happy Woman's Day!

So as you can see the main point of this art page is a saying.

Everyone thinks that woman area fragile, delicate , little creatures who needs men to help her.

Big No!

We are not so fragile as we look.

We are not fragile at all.

So this art piece was done for all the strong women on the earth ! I salute you all!

Product list:

SinCity stamps:

Face 3/4 view Strand of Hair

Vintage button medalion

Vintage key with hearts

Rosette hearts rubber stamp set- key and heart from this set

Other products:

White thick cardstock

Gesso

Stencils

Acrylic paints in yellow, orange, red, teal and black.

Metalic gold paint

Modeling paste

Black permanent ink

Sticker letters

Spatula

Acrylic block

A brown stained flower

Wooden clock

A 2" circle punch

Adhesive

Random embellishments and chipboard mesh shapes

Black pen

And now as always- here is my step by step tutorial:

1. Prime your cardstock with a layer of gesso. Then use the modeling paste and stencils to make a random raised impression over the cardstock. let this dry.

2. Stamp the face stamp with the black ink onto your piece.

3. Next, stamp the Button over and over with the same black ink.

4. Randomly stamp the hearts using the same technique (no photo for this step).
Punch the circle a bit larger then the face stamp and outline it with modeling paste so the circle is raised around the face.

Paint a few chipboard mesh pieces with yellow and orange acrylic paints then add them to your piece.

Paint the whole page with the mix of the same colors.

5. Apply red and teal paints onto the page. Outline the words with red paint as shown.

6. Out line the circle around the face stamp with black pen. Glue the stickers in place.

Finish with some black paint splatters and your embellishments.

Touch up the flower with some gold paint.

I hope you liked my art page!
Thanks for coming by!

Got Steampunk? Mixed Media Tag

 Hello my dear crafty friends!
My name is Irit from Irit Shalom Designs blog and this is my first ever blog post as Sin City Stamps Inspiration Team member.
I am totally thrilled to be a part of this team and I hope to do my very best to show you the beauty and versatility of Sin City stamps!

I am a big fan of everything Steampunk. So first I asked for Steampunk stamps and when I got them I decided to use quite a few of them for my first project- hence " Got Steampunk?" was born.

Product list:
SinCity stamps
Clock with crown vintage style 
Got Steampunk
Hot air balloon with wooden barrel basket
Small cogs and gear Steampunk
Steampunk definition phrase
1923 Numerals

Other products:
Chipboard tag
White gesso
Texture paste
Stencil
Black pigmented ink
Clear embossing powder
Acrylic paints
Colored pencils
Teal Antiquing cream

Small bolt chipboards
Metal corner and cogs
Scissors
Baby wipes
Liquid glue
Glossy Accents
Paint brush
Misty stamping tool
Heat gun


Step by step instruction for this tag:
1. Cover the tall thick chipboard tag with a thin layer of white gesso.

2. Add a thin layer of texture paste over stencil and let it dry.

3. Stamp  with 1923 stamp randomly using pigmented black ink and heat emboss with clear embossing powder.

4. Add some random stamping with Cogs and gear stamp in the same technique as the previous step. Paint with a mix of fluid acrylic paints.

5. Paint the edges with another acrylic paint and move some to the middle of  your tag.

6. Stamp the Hot air Balloon with black pigmented ink. You don't really need a fancy stamping tool  used here, but if you have it it makes your life easier. Heat emboss the stamped image with clear embossing powder.

7. Stamp the title, the vintage clock and the Steampunk definition in the same way and hand cut them both.

8. Hand cut the stamped Hot Air Balloon and color it with pencils. The pencils used here were Inktense, but any markers or pencils will do a job.
Glue the colored image over the tag as shown.

9. Add Copper Metallic acrylic paint using baby wipe over the tag.

10. Paint the two other stamped pieces with copper paint and add some Antiquing teal cream.
Let it partially dry and then wipe with  baby wipe.

11. Paint the bolt chipboards as shown with a mix of two acrylic paints. Glue the circle on the top of the tag and all 4 bolts over the definition stamped piece.

12.Arrange all stamped pieces over the tag as shown. Add a couple of metal cogs painted in the same way as bolts. Use Glossy Accents to glue all metal pieces. Attach the cord on the top of the tag.
Add the metal corner.

And now to some close- ups of the finished project:

That's it for today. I hope  that you liked my Steampunk tag and will try to make a similar one with our gorgeous Sin City Stamps.

You can also find ALL the stamps that were used to make this project on the Steampunk Circus set.