Song of Ice and Fire altered canvas

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new Mixed Media canvas post.
 This pretty large canvas was made as a tribute to one of most favorite books- Song of Ice and Fire (also most of us know it as the most famous TV production named " The Game of Thrones").
I am a big fan of all things fantasy and SF and everything that maybe is not real, but makes me happy to watch or to read it.
So I made it for a couple of web challenges and you can see the challenges under the project photos.
As you can see it has the vintage Mixed Media background made with stencils, texture paste, Prima Mixed Media products , Tattered Angels  paints and mists.
Then I added the smaller altered canvas over the large one and then the tag was added with the chipboards ad trinkets cluster and the saying.
 Actually I used a lot of products over this canvas: painta, mediums, waxes, micro beads, silk and paper flowers, chipboards, metal pieces, cardstock die cuts, foil transfers, stencils, lace, chain, wires and even this fabolous jewelry ice drop on the front.
And I even used nver used old brads to make the grid background to look as the wooden pieces connected in this oldfashioned style.

I made this project for a couple of web challenges:
Favortie book for Canvas Corp- my inspiration came from old books with vintage looks, journal cover on the bottom and general colors.

Fantasy for Mixed Media and Art- my inspiration came from the theme and gold splashes and general fantasy look of this canvas.

Glossy or shiny with Tando: Early Christmas tag

Hello my dear friends and welcome to my new Tando inspiration.

This is a glossy or shiny week on Tando and this Christmas decoration is really glossy (as the paper is glossy) and shiny (as I added a lot of sparkle paint and micro beads to my Tando chipboard pieces).

This is easy to make art piece and I used Paper House tags that were layered with Tando frame, another cardstock frame and embellished with Tando Christmas tree.

Even with all those layers this is a flat art piece and can be sent in the envelope. 

 The micro beads were added directly over the DecoArt silver and purple paints and you don't need any glue when it's dry.

 Tando products used:
Frame- Large rectangle


Fir trees standing

 DecoArt products

Time Flies canvas with Art Anthology

Hello my dear crafty friends ! Irit is here again and this time I made a mini card size canvas with some gorgeous Art Anthology products.

This project was made because of a stencil. When I see Time Flies words I make a Mixed Media project that is all about time using clocks and gears and things that are connected to a time issue. But then working on 7*5'' canvas doesn't leave you a lot of space to add many things over. So I just add mediums and textures and Art Anthology products are just perfect for this matter.

Here how the finished project looks:

I made a full Snapguide tutorial for you and here is a link to it:

Check out How to Make Mini Altered Canvas by Art Anthology on Snapguide. 

The full supllies list is  in this post HERE!

Mixed media art card with Plaid and Sizzix

 This is a pure Mixed Media card made for FaveCrafts Best Blogger contest, but I also entered another piece to this contest and  with that piece I made Third place and even won some good money.
 But then this card is not bad and I need to share it in my blog too.
Made with Plaid  Mixed Media new paints, Sizzix die, Tando stencil and DecoArt  texture paste; with My favorite things stamped sentiment , gold foil and micro beads. So as you can see it's a true Mixed Media card-  and totally flat one too.

Makin's Clay April post: Seeing all blue

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my Makin's Clay first post for the new 2016 term.
I am very happy to stay on this gorgeous company team and to move to the next step from Makin's Professional certification I already got.
 But for this I need to develop my clay skills and this post is all about " do things without knowing the final result".
For this post we  were asked to mix Makin's Clay. Yes, to mix colors with Makin's  Clay Mixing Ruler and to make the project from the mixed colored clay.
So I mixed,and mixed and mixed and got like 10 shades of blue. (Not grey, just blues, like my mood lately). And then I made a lot of different things of all mixed clay and here is the way I worked this time.
But for today's post I am going to share just my kind of faux TURQUOISE color and made a really fancy necklace that maybe seams heavy, but as Makin's Clay is very light, it's just an illusion.
 Step by step tutorial:

1. Makin's Clay Mixing  Ruler  color chart has a lot of mixing possibilities; but unfortunately Turquoise  is not in the chart (and I didn't want to mess with mixing acrylic paint this time).
So I made my own mixing recipe and I checked and double checked it and IT WORKS!
Mix H part of Concord Blue  clay form Vineyard Tones set with G part of  white clay together with F part of Grape Leaf clay( Vineyard Tones colors) and E part of Green clay. This will give you the right  shade of turquoise, but if you want it lighter or darker- just add more white or use smaller  white portion. For my project I used much more then one portion (just mixed like 10 times more of each color to get colored clay for this project).

2.Make 2 large  round beads  and cover them with clear glitter. Make a few flat sided smaller beads using Makin's Clay Ultimate Clay  Extruder without any disc- the log that comes  out is just in a perfect size to make those beads in no time. Make a hole with the tool from Makin's Clay  Professional  Clay tools set pushing it from both sides of the flat beads. Cover flat beads with blue glitter. Now let the beads dry for 24 hours.

3. Use Makin's Clay roller and cut  a heart with a big heart cutter(just my old stash); I also added 4 small circles made with Makin's Clay small circle cutters. For the texture I rolled copper, light and dark blue micro beads over the wet heart shape. Just sprinkle the beads and roll over with Makin's Clay rolled tool. Then make holes and let the pieces dry overnight.

4. Arrange the necklace over the thin ball chain adding some copper beads.  Make elephant from black clay using a mold (this is my own home made mold). Paint the elephant with copper acrylic paint and a bit of turquoise acrylic hue and glue over the heart pendant. Cover all clay pieces with glaze and let it dry.
Enjoy you nice necklace !

And this is a finished necklace in all its glory!

Product list:

Makin's Clay products used:

Makin’s Clay®

White

Green
Concord blue
Grape leaf
 Black

Tools:

Makin's Clay Mixing Ruler ™

Makin’s Professional® Cutting Mat

Makin’s Professional®Roller and Cutters set®

Makin's® Ultimate Clay Extruder™- no disc used

Makin’s Clay® Professional Clay Tools® 

Makin’s Clay® Cutters –Circles

Other products:
Heart cutter-my own kitchen
Copper acrylic paint- Plaid
Micro beads- Marth Stewart
Glaze- Sweet Stamps
Glitter
Elephant mold- hand made mold
Copper bead, ball chain

Artplorations door hanger tutrorial

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my February ARTplorations tutorial.

This time I decided to alter a wooden door hanger from the craft shop; the one you buy for a few cents and with some paint, stencils, die cut and a lot of imagination you can alter it to a fairytale art piece.

My inspiration for this piece was this old and well known kids tale about the Frog Prince and about being beautiful from inside and not just from outside.

So this is my small tutorial :

1. Paint the  wooden door hanger with green  paint  and let it dry for a couple  of minutes.

2.  Add texture with Texture paste and Artplorations Retro Circles stencil. This time don't let it dry.

3. Add a mix of micro beads into the wet texture paste. And now let it dry. How obvious is this?

4. In the mean time make a frog die cut using Die Versions die . I made it from green textured cardstock, but the color was too mute. So I just painted over the die cut with a mix of Iridescents paints and with a bit of the same green paint that I used over the wood piece.

 This is how it looks now. Much more interesting.

5. Arrange the die cut over the stencilled hanger and glue it with Gel Medium. 

Add a bit of highlights with blue paint over the circles and embellish with a couple of sequins.

Stamp the sentiment using STAMPlorations   Fond Expressions 2 stamp set. I stamped with green pigmented ink and heat embossed with clear powder. 

Arrange the sentiment and add a couple of ribbons on the top.

Look how perfect is this sentiment for the theme of this piece? Even if it is a frog, for you it's a prince and he is totally perfect just the way he is.

Now you can give this door hanger to your own Frog Prince. 

I enter this to Recycle challenge for SSSS

ARTplorations post: Be Hoppy!

 Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my last October ARTploration post.
As I am a part of a Mixed Media team I do things that are not cards and then tags are my love, so I made another tag.
This tag is very textures one. First I made the texture paste thin layer with Botanical Lush  stencil. Then, after layers of mists and paints, I added another thick and heat embossed texture layer with Bold florals stencil. I also added micro beads into the wet paste and misted and painted them over again and again.
When the layers were dry I added a couple of 3d PHP stickers,hot pink lace and  blue twine around the tag.
I love the colors and the texture! It's fun to make layer over layer with ARTplorations stencils!

King of Steampunkland

Hello my dear crafty friends!

Irit is here and I welcome  you to my new ETI post.

Today I am going to share the easy and fun way to make your resin lovely Steampunk doll. Actually my doll is a King of  Steampunkland and was even sits on his throne, as you can see.

So here  is the product list:

ETI  Easy Cast Resin

 ETI  Resin Jewelry mold

 ETI MC Poly mold

ETI Mold Release Conditioner

ETI Amber Transparent Dye

 ETI Envirotex Jewelry Clay

Metal pieces- from here and there and some Tim Holtz

Micro beads- Martha Stewart

Chipboard- Creative Embellishments

Clear embossing ink

Embossing powder- WOW! Embossing Powders

Face mold

Copper wire

Easy steps to make this project:

1.Spray Mold Release Conditioner over the big and small molds; let them dry and repeat the procedure. This step is very important as releasing your casted pieces from this kind of mold can be mission impossible without this Release Conditioner.

 Mix a  total of 4 Oz (2+2) from Easy Cast Resin and mix it according to manufacturer's instructions. Add a couple of drops of Amber pigment to your mixed liquid resin  and mix it for a few second. Put a few small metal pieces inside the molds and add  resin over. Sprinkle a few copper micro beads on the top of your filled mold. Let them dry for at least 24 hours. The more- the better.

2. Release the shapes from the molds and trim the backside with a sharp knife if needed.(Sometimes we have those small leftovers and we need to trip a piece from the back)

3. Now for the fun part: make your art doll with all casted pieces and much more.
First I heat embossed the background chipboard with glitter  teal embossing powder. Then I glued the doll body over the chipboard with jewelry glue.All  outer metal pieces were colored with alcohol ink to get this copper look (most of them were in silver). I made the face using ETI Jewelry Clay and  faces mold and painted it (when it was totally dry) with blue alcohol ink.I then made a couple of copper wire spirals and glued all metal pieces over the resin body.

Look how cute he is! He is sure a King!

Should I make his Queen? Maybe I will when I find more metal trinkets to use.

Spring resin box with micro beads

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my easy to make new ETI post.

This time I decided to make something easy and to show how ETI products can be used with your old and hoarded stash.

So I took one on my black and white old painted wooden boxes (I used them for embellishments before I found that I can't find anything inside and moved to flat ones) and decided to recycle it to this lovely Spring box using old molds I have for maybe a year and never used and even older micro beads.

As a first step I mixed a small portion of ETI Easy cast resin  with just a bit of fine green glitter added to the mix made by manufacturer recipe. Please remember my previous mistakes and heat the bottles a bit in a warm water container before the mix!

Here you can see the  casted leaves after like 24 hours and there are some residuals over the cast. Take good sharp scissors and just cut  all extras away. As it was  only 24 hours since the casting, the extras were pretty much flexible and easy to cut. 

 Now I casted blue glittered flowers using two roses molds from my stash. Those flexible molds do not need any conditioner- just cast, wait 24 hours and pull! Clean the molds after the casting even if they look pretty clean! 

 Now to the final stage- arranging the casted pieces and adding my micro beads.

I made another small portion of Easy Cast and used it to glue the leaves and flowers over the glass lid. Perfection! It's invisible and will be glued forever over night. 

Now I made a good spread of the remaining resin mix with the ETI brush from Mixing cup set and filled it over with a mix of blue and green micro beads.

I really love how those small beads look over the glossy surface.

I hope you like my easy to make  resin project and will try to recycle your old boxes in a similar way.