Topflight stamps shop free style inspiration

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my mid August inspiration made for Topflight Stamps shop.

This is a week to show some of my personal style and as I have a lot of styles I picked a Clean and Simple for this showcase.

But even with  CAS style this card has some Mixed Media add-ons such as using a stencil with clear modelling paste around the heat embossed stamped image.

The stamps I used are from Visible Image UK company and I just adore their Mixed Media style of images.
This is a stamp set I used - Jazz it up set

 My background was made with Tando stencil and new Ranger Distress Oxide inks.

The stamping was made with Memento Luxe ink and heat embossed with clear powder.

Thanks for reading my weekly post.
If you would like to see more of my work you are mostly welcome to my own blog.

For someone special card

Hello my dear crafty friends!
Today I am going to share a very delicate card made for some print submission. As a such I made it not so much messy and just in a couple of colors, with delicate stamping and the only bulky tings here are those Tando spool and scissors and some wooden inked buttons.
Both Tando chipboards were painted into white, inked around and then heat embossed with clear powder all over them.
I used stamps from Visible Image, Tim Holtz and Inspired by Stamping to make this card.
 This card was print published in the latest print issue of Rubber Stamp Madness, but never posted on web. So this is a time to post it and even to enter it to some web challenges.

 I enter this card to some web challenges:
Simon Says Anything goes challenge

Scenic art page with Art Anthology

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my first ever post made as a new Design Team member for ART ANTHOLOGY!

This art  page was made with a full tutorial and you can see it HERE in Art Anthology blog.

There is a full product list there too with links to the shop- so just go to AA blog and enjoy!

Here is a link to a full Snapguide tutorial I made for you:

Check out How to Make Scenic Art Page by Art Anthology on Snapguide.

Welcome to our house of horror

This art page was made  long time ago for a print submission.

It didn't make the print magazine and right now, just before the Halloween , it's a perfect time to share it with the readers of my blog.

So as you can see- a lot of stamping with heat embossing, paints and mists, and a huge title made from chipboard letters.

WELCOME TO MY HOME OF DEATH AND MAGIC!

ENTER ON YOUR OWN RISK!

Sing as no one is watching art board

Something I made just because I love this Visible Image stamp a lot.
I used a mix of other companies stamps to make the sentiment (Rubber Dance, Sprinkle n' Sparkle) and added the stencilled circles using Tando stencil.I made my own sentiment and it's not about dancing, but singing and singing Blues when you are in this blue mood.
Painted and misted with a mix of Tattered Angels.
I enter this to SSS Red, white , blue colors- one or more, so here are my blue and white.

Old world art piece

This art piece was already print published in Rubber Stamp Madness Summer 2016 issue.
I made it to show how round and small the OLD world is- you can just explore it with all those transportation as I stamped over my piece.
Anyway, the whole global world is small now thanks to our web system!
So the stamps used here are from Rubber Dance Norway, Visible Image UK, IndigoBlu UK, The Rubber Cafe USA and VLVS USA. The stencils are from Tando UK and the embossing powders are from WOW! UK. It is a small world for this Israeli artist (me).
Thanks for looking and  you can find two more of my stamped art pieces in this Summer RSM issue.

I enter this art piece to some web challenges:
Wow! Embossing Powders- used here and even are in the product print list
Creative Artiste- Anything goes
Fun with circles for Country view challenges
Studio 75- At least one word and no flowers

Jazz it up Mixed Media tag

Hello my dear crafty friends! Today I want to share a Mixed Media tag made with Visible image main stamp and Ann Butler's art screen, inks and background stamp.
As you can see I used Ann Butler's Stars art screen  on the top with texture paste and then painted the background with Ann Butler's Clearsnap Crafters inks in Ocean Breeze and Blueberry. The main image was also stamped with Blueberry ink and heat embossed with clear embossing powder.
The plaid background is one of Ann Butler's Faux Quilting stamps by Unity.

And  I enter this tag to some web challenges too:
Anything masculine for Southern Ridge Trading Com
Happy Little stamper Mixed Media challenge- Texture

Imagine art page with Rebecca Baer- tutorial

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to myfirst ever post made for Rebecca Baer blog with her adorable stencils.
For my first post I decided to go trendy. Stencil work is trendy and so is gold. Butterflies are always trendy and white dots too. So maybe this art page is screaming " too usual" or " too trendy", but  art pages are made for us, not for  sale or general public and as a such- I like it a lot and I hope that you like it too.
So  I made a small and easy to follow tutorial and I hope that you will try to make something similar using Rebecca Baer most delicate art stencils.

Step 1:
Mist an A4 piece of thick white cardstock with a mix of Tattered Angels mists.
You sure can use other mists; I used the one I own. I didn't try to dry each and every misted layer and lucky me finished with good, non messy colors. But as usual: dry each color before you add another one unless you want to finish with brown mess.

Step 2:
Use Golden Heavy body gel medium and Rebecca Baer Moroccan Tile and vine Medium sized  stencil over the misted (and very dry!!!) page. I worked with this stencil from two sides of the cardstock and used two sides of the stencil. Wet gel medium is pretty much white, so you can still see it. Later, when dry and if not covered with another medium, it becomes clear.

Step 3:
Add a thick layer of gold embossing powder (the finer - the better) over your wet stencilled areas.
Don't wait till it's dry. Heat emboss the whole page and find the MAGIC!
Look how gorgeous are those gold impressions over gel medium.

Step 4:

Now it's a play time! Lets add some stamping and some dotting to make the page more interesting.

I used Visible Image background stamps and made black inked plaid and white paint dotts. You sure can use any similar stamps from other companies.

I didn't cover my heat embossed stencilled areas as they are totally pretty without any add- ons.

Step 5:

For the final touch I added the stamped sentiment over the upper, non textured piece of the page.

I used black premanent ink and Visible Image sentiment old stamp.

Step 6:

Stamp a couple of fancy butterflies; heat emboss them with the same  gold powder and mist with two of mists you used before (to stay in the same color range). Hand cut the dry butterflies and glue them over the finished page with gel medium.

Your art page is done! Enjoy!

I also enter this to a couple of web challenges:

 Wings- for Happy Little Stampers Mixed media challenge

 Wow! Embossing Powders challenge- I used their powder seen in tutorial

Scrapmatts layout for March

Hello my dear crafty friends!  Today I am going to share my second March project made for Scrapmatts.

 And as I was very  passionate to use my new Scrapmatts products, I made a layout in a totally different vintage style and this is all about time.

 I used a photo of my home clock and made a statement about perfect moment in our lives.
The paper products are from old DCVW stack, but the gorgeous Scrapmatts chipboards made this page unique and outstanding.

 This time all chipboards were painted with DecoArt Mixed Media line paints to get this rustic vintage look. The ornate  toppers pieces were heat embossed with a mix of black, gold and copper embossing powders.

The stamped sentiment (Visible Image) was just perfect size to be covered with one of Chains circled chipboards.

Other chipboards were connected around the clock and embellishment cluster.

I added the Scrap Words21 CB6103 sentiment under the photo.
And the sentiment is just perfect as this photo was taken on my daughter's wedding day while she was dressing in my bed room.
I also added some paint stencilled letters over the background with Alphabet  CT5017stencil.

Scrapmatts products used:

Chains 01 CB5132

Scrap words 21 CB6103

Ornate toppers 01 CB5137

Stencil CT5017 Alphabet

I hope I inspired you  with my vintage layout today.

My life on canvas- with Scrapmatts

Hello my dear crafty friends! This is my very first post as Scrapmatts DT member.

For this post we were asked to make a kind of a " selfie" canvas.
I hope  that I am seen in a proper way on this project as usually I am on the other side of the camera.

 So as you can see I made it to fit the photo. Actually those are two photos from the same vacation, but I managed to destroy to lower one with mists. Then I realised that I don't have another good photo that was in a portrait way and every single piece of chipboards was already glued with gel medium over the canvas.
So when life gives you lemons, try to make a lemonade from them and try to correct your mistakes. The other similar photo was a landscape kind. I just trimmed it and made this 2 layers double photo and it seams to be unique and interesting after all.
My background was made with two Scrapmatts stencils: Circles  CT1001 and Alphabet  CT5017. I used texture paste (DecoArt) to make the whole background and let it dry.
As the next step I added paints and mists all over the canvas, using Plaid Mixed Media gel paints and their new mists. After it was dry I added some stamped frame with black permanent ink (Ranger) and Andy Skinner's stamps.
The next step was to paint the Retro squares chipboard, to cut it into two parts and to glue over the canvas.

Then I heat embossed  one window from Windows  04 CB5120 set and three pieces from Ornate frames 22 CB1220 and Ornate toppers 01 CB5137 sets  using clear embossing ink and opaque white embossing powder.  Those pieces were arranged on the top and  on the bottom of my photo.

As the next step I painted the Flowers 12 CB1220 and added them over the window chipboard.
I used two pieces for sentiments, both from Scrap Words 21 CB6103 set and they coordinate together to make the statement of Life being a journey and adventure that just begins.

As my last touch I added a bunch of 3d stickers and a few drops of blue mist. Yes, the mist that ruined my lower photo.
I really hope  that you like my canvas as much as I do, but it goes to Scrapmatts shop, not to my craft room wall.

 Scrapmatts Products used:

Stencils: CT5017 Alphabet

Circles CT1001

Chipboards:

Scrap Words 21 CB6103

Ornate toppers 01 CB5137

Ornate frames 22 CB1220

Flowers 12 CB1220

Retro squares 01 CB5141

Windows 04 CB5120

I also enter this to a couple of web challenges:

Craftylife challenges- Tic-Tac-Toe line of chipboard- mist- flowers

 Sketch - for Scrappy sketches

 Studio 75 - Spring with purple

 Eyeconnect crafts- Inspiration  with chipboards

 Spring- for Stamps and Stencils

 Creative Artiste- anything goes with chipboards from Scramatts

Make a perfect moment altered canvas

 My new art canvas in a very light, pretty shabby style, made with Lindy's Stamp Gang March color challenge products, Visisble Image stamps, Tando chipboards and a lot of die cuts from different companies (Cherry Lynn, Prima, Die Versions).
 I made it for some web challenges listed below.

Lindy Stamp gang colors challenge. I used Crem brulle cream mist, Baby Blue eyes aqua  ,Plumeria pink and Time travel teal.
Eyeconnect crafts challenge- inspiration and butterflies with any chipboards
Visible Image March Anything goes challenge
 2 crafty girls- Anything goes with die cuts
 Berry71Blue- inspiration of colors, butterflies etc

Bright and bold : DecoArt shines

 Long time ago (I mean like 6 years already) I became a DT member of UK company named Tando.
 6 years later we are still together and this is a reason to know Andy Skinner's name long before it was all known around the world.
Andy runs his own Mixed Media line with DecoArt, makes his own stamps  and stencils and even runs his own Mixed Media challenge. As for me? I own a lot of his stencils, tons of DecoArts MM products and even one single new released stamp set that I got while attending his fantastic class on last CHA.
So making a project- a second one already- was his new challenge is a fun and easy task.
Bold and bright? I sure love it.So this art page was made with everything you can see below (Andy's stamp set is not on this photo, but lots of his other products are). One single sentiment stamp set is from Visible Image and I used it as it was just perfect for this pretty dark stencilled girl who should take a moment and to make it bright and perfect.

And some close ups too. Lot of texture made with DecoArt Texture paste, Fluid acrylics, Matte Gel, Gesso and also a lot of dry time and some heat embossing.
The sentiment was stamped over tissue as with this texture it was almost impossible to make it other way. The white splashes are from the new Andy's stamp set made with white acrylic paint and glitter over it.

I enter this art piece to Andy Skinner's first challenge.

 Craft stamper- Anything goes

Visible image - Show and tell

SSSS- Something unknown- this page is made with different home items- like fork, knives, comb over the paint. First time to do so- and I like the texture I got
 Spring for Stamps and Stencils
 Creative Artiste MM challenge- Anything goes
 Anything but cute- anything goes with colors, not cute

Adorable- with Sparkle - Layout

 It was quite awhile since I scrapped. I know. So one scrapbooking layout for February, made for some web challenges only  with just a little of my DT products.
This is my gorgeous grand daughter Neta a year and something ago. She is bigger now and still gorgeous.
I made  it with DCWV cardstocks ; chipboards from all different companies; some Prima flowers; a bit of bling from FWAB company.
The backround was made with Tim Holtz stencils- 3 of them and the crackle paste from DecoArts.
Paints are all Ann Butler's Iridescents from Earth Safe Finishes.
 The sub title is Visible Image stamped  over the basic cardstock  and heat embossed with embossing glitter.

I enter this piece to some web challenges:

More than words- Wonderful and Sparkle

Scrapafrica- moodboard- colors, roses, small paper cuts,vintage feeling etc