Trip of a lifetime altered canvas

Hello my dear crafty friends!
Today I am going to share my new Mixed Media canvas that I made for .... Not for any of my design teams and just for a fun!
Yes- sometimes I have spare time and hopeful now I have a bit more of this rare  for me thing.
So this is  a " Trip of a Lifetime" altered Steampunk /Vintage style project and I made it for a couple of web challenges.
 The central cluster was made with wooden pieces, Prima molds, metal trinkets and a lot of paints and waxes from Prima.
The first challenge is for Dusty Attic and they asked to work with their products (all chipboards are from this company) in a vintage kind of style.My inspiration came from the clock and general background on the bottom and the vintage look of the moodboard.

I also made this for the Words and Paintery challenge using the colors the  general " be creative " words.

Steampunk ATC with Topflight stamps

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new Topflight blog post.

As you most probably already know I am a big fan of all things Steampunk and when it's our " free projects" weeks I try to make something in my favorite style.

So today I am going to share a couple of Steampunk ATC card and each one is a real piece of Steampunk art.

Both ATC were made with Carabelle Studio stamps that were stamped with black pigmented ink (my latest love is Memento Luxe  pigmented inks) that then were heat embossed with black embossing powder. 

Then the embossed cardstock was painted with Prima Marketing Mixed Media paints and some, not much, of embellishments were added to these small cards.

This is the first card and it was embellished with metal cogs and one clay handmade piece.

The second art card was embellished in the same style: a couple of metal cogs and one single clay piece.

 Isn't it a fun and quick way to make a bunch of ATC for any Steampunk swap?
Just stamp a large cardstock piece, paint over the heat embossed images and then cut it to the right ATC size.
Embellish with whatever you have in hand and swap with you Steampunk lover friends.
And  now for the stamps used on this project that you can buy from Topflight shop:

Steampunk Time Machine

Steampunk Butterfly

Thanks for reading my weekly post.

If you would like to see more of my work you are mostly welcome to my own blog.
 See you all next weeks with a totally different stamping inspiration!

Smile altered canvas with Art Anthology

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my first July tutorial made with Art Anthology products.

 Irit is here again and this time I made a small, card sized, altered Mixed Media canvas in a dark , but yet shabby style.

The background was made with Art Anthology stencils and dimensional paints and also it was made over black gesso you can see the shiny purple paint seen over the canvas.

The flowers cluster was misted with black Colorations spray and then painted with a few other AA paints.
The die cut cardstock pieces were also painted to fit the colors of the project.
Two other pieces added here are the clay mold fairy and a chipboard title ; both were painted to get the colors desired for the finished project.

As Check out How to Make Small Mixed Media Dark Canvas by Art Anthology on Snapguide.always you can see the full Snapguide  step by step tutorial HERE:

And here is a list of Art Anthology products used to make this small piece of art.

Grunge set of 4 ATC

ATC cards are fun and I really love to make them.
So those  small grungy cards I made were made for some web challenges.

Backgrounds were made with texture paste, stencils (Scrapmatts), embossing powders, stamping (BoBunny), heat embossing and misting.
Then I added chipboards (Scrapmatts) painted with acylics (Pentart) and clay casted pieces. Everytning was painted again over and over with Pentart paints. Crackle paste was added over some pieces and Scrapmatts words were glued to make it count as real ATC cards.
Here are all ATC shown one by one:

I enter this to some web challenges:
Mixed Media and Art- small art and architecture- all pieces are small and two are connected to architecture


Simon Says Monday challenge- Touchy feely- texture and more texture
Words and Paitery- colors, rust, love (love for grunge, steampunk and ATC)

Mixed Media Monthly- #28 Rusty challenge


SDAE- Steampunk/Industrial

Tando with black modelling paste

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my first June post in Tando blog.
This week we were challenged to use Black modelling paste on our projects and I used it the very first time as I usually just add black paint into white paste. But the black one works just perfect!
 I made the background with Tando Harlequin mask over Tando Media board and then heat dried  it the get some bubbled texture.
Then I used whatever was left to cover Tando Letters negative and to glue it over the board.
The golden colors was made with  a mix of mists as those mists usually have some mica powders inside and Bingo- you get this gold on black texture with mists only and no paints used.
Actually even the metal flower, metal sign, Tando chipboard book sign and the clay bird were only misted.
And you can see how gorgeous those mists look on totally different surfaces.
The edges were covered with DecoArt Media gold acrylic paint.

Tando products used:
Mixed Media board 138*74 mm



Mini book plates


Harlequin mask

IBS TAG tutorial

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my Inspired by Stamping July post.

This time I decided to make a Mixed Media tag and to stay in this summery green color pallet.

So this is a tag  made and I made written tutorial for you, also not the photos step by step one.

1. Cover Tando Mixed Media board with a thin layer of white gesso.
2. Use Harlequin Tando stencil with DecoArt texture paste to make your background.
3. Paint Tando Iron gate (half of the chipboard piece) and Tando Wings with white gesso.
4. Glue the gate part, the wings and add some resin handmade swirls over the gate chipboard.
5. Mist the whole piece with a mix of Lindy's Stamp Gang and Tattered Angels green mists. Some of the mists have a bit of copper mica powder and this is the copper you can see over the gate.
6. Stamp over the dry misted wings using Inspired by Stamping old and retired (sorry) background stamp with permanent Ranger black ink.
6. Stamp four Inspired by Stamping Butterflies over the thick white cardstock with clear embossing Ranger ink. Heat emboss them with Copper embossing powder and hand cut all 4.
7. Mist the embossed and hand cut butterflies with  the same green mix of mists. Let them dry and them glue them over the art piece as shown.
8. Die cut Inspired by Stamping Love word  and heat emboss it with the same copper embossing powder. Glue the embossed die cut as shown.
9. Punch a hole on the top of Mixed Media board and tie IBS lace ribbon.
10. Add a touch of copper wax (Pentart) over the chipboard pieces and around the tag edges.

Here are some of the close- ups to this art tag:

Forever Love layout with Scrapberry's

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my second April Scrapberry's inspiration.

As usual if the first project were cards or tags of something small, this will be a layout. So this is my second daughter Wedding layout made with the most gorgeous Holiday Romance collection and I just had the photos that fit the background cardstock in the most perfect way.

As you can see this layout was made with two photos in a different sizes and with the main embellishment cluster under the first photo.
The cluster was made with cardstock cuts, chipboard " Love " Title, metal flair saying " Forever" and my own hand made resin pieces.
I added a bit of blue " water drops" mist over the page and even over the photo.

" Happy Moments" arrow was stamped and added on the bottom of the page.

On the right  upper side I die cut lots of blue cardstock circles and stamped this " Best picture ever" with white heat embossing over on of them.
More Scrapberry's embellishments were added near and over the circles.
Two couples clips were glued over the cardstock cluster and they are very similar to  my darling family new couple.
Some chipboard arrows negative were glued near the circles and yes, I use the left over negative and added red Stains ink edges to fit  some of red color as the extra color of this kind of Nautical  page.

 I really hope that you like this page and can see the option of making wedding photos shine in a totally different, non traditional way.

 Scrapberry's product used:
Holiday Romance- Dreams 12*12'' cardstock
Holiday Romance- Day Dream 12*12'' cardstock
Holiday Romance- Full of Mirth 12*12'' cardstock
Holiday Romance - Touching Story 12*12'' cardstock
Holiday Romance -Nostalgia 12*12'' cardstock
Holiday Romance 6*6'' paper pad
Photo Archive stamps SCB4907013b
Photo Archive stamps SCB4907011b
Floral Embroidery Crystal stickers decorations SCB53000007
Birds of Paradise chipboard embellishments SCB62000110
Holiday Romance chipboard embellishments SCB62000106b
Discovery Italy Crystal stickers decorations SCB53000005
Elegy Rhinestone brads SCB340108
Metal embellishments
Stains ink Red
Stains ink Blue

Winter clay banner

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new tutorial.
This time I decided to make a banner made with clay only (all, but ribbons) and I made a full step by step tutorial for this Winter project made with Art Anthology  paints and stencils  and Makin's Clay®.

This a banner we are going to create: three flags made of Makin's  Black Clay® with intermediate layer made with light blue clay (mixed) and then embellishments that were made with Makin's Clay® push mold and  slightly painted with shiny paint.

 And now to some close ups of the finished project:

You can see the full step by step tutorial HERE:
Check out How to Make Painted Clay Banner by Art Anthology on Snapguide.
And to find the full product list HERE!

Final Makin's clay inspiration

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome  to my very last Makin's Clay® inspirational post.

After two full years on Makin's Clay® team it's just time to move to another adventures and I just made one final altered totally clay project to show you the wonders of delicious Makin's Clay® products.

It's not a real tutorial, but just a kind of " how to make this project" photo steps.

Step 1:

So  as the first step I made those two Makin's Clay® hearts using Die Versions XL Heart die, thin rolled white Makin's Clay® and as you can see the die cutting was just partial.

When working with a very thin and intricate dies, even the thin rolled dry clay can't be full cut. But those partly cut hearts  look fantastic after all and they are the base of this art piece.

2. Use different molds  to  cast all shapes using Makin's Clay® White and Natural clay. Let all shapes dry.

3. Use Pentart Acrylic paints (some are metallic) to paint all dry clay shapes. Don't try to paint them perfectly.
Just add some color over the shapes and let them dry.

4. Arrange the shapes over the  clay hearts and make the collage of vintage shapes, fairies and butterflies. Arrange the whole collaged piece over the frame.

Product list:

Makin's Clay products:

Makin's Air Dry Polymer clay® in White and Natural
Makin's Clay® Cutting mat large
Makin's Clay® Cutter and Roller set

Other: molds
Pentart Acrylic paints
Die Versions Die
$1 shop frame

Fairy door

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new altere project post.

This time I made a totally different project: altered Fairy door  chipboard set from Tando Creative.

I used chipboards and Art Anthology products only with the small add- on of Makin's Clay molded fairies added to the finished project.

As always I made a small tutorial for you. I even made my own paint tool from the old (or new) tooth brush.

Each chipboard piece was painted in the different way to get a different effect. There are stone effect, wood effect, painted  leaves and a mushroom, " metal" hinges and pastel fairies. And each effect was made just with Art Anthology paints and sprays.

It was so much fun to make this project and to see the final result! The only problem was the long waiting time as those Art Anthology dimensional paints are slow drying and the layers were thick.

You can see the full tutorial HERE:

Check out How to Make a Chipboard Fairy Door by Art Anthology on Snapguide.

And there is also a full supply list in this tutorial .

Art Anthology blog post is HERE  - you are most welcome to visit the blog for more painting inspiration too.

Close up to the misted Makin's Clay fairies. The original color was natural.

The close up to the leaves, the hinges and the 3d mushroom: