Christmas in July with Topflight stamps shop

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my second Christmas in July Topflight Stamps shop post.

A week ago I shared my blue colored Winter card made with IndigoBlu most gorgeous "Looks like rain, dear" stamp set.

Today I want to show you how the very same stamp set can be used for traditional colored 3d central table/shelf art recycled piece.

This art piece was made using the clear plastic spool that was left after I finished the ribbon  from this spool.
I covered  the bottom with patterned cardstock and covered the top with stamped and die cut circle using the background stamp from this stamp set:

Stamping was made using black pigmented ink and clear embossing powder and then misted with red mist.

The deer from the same set was stamped  in the same heat embossing technique, hand cut and glued over the $ store plastic Christmas greenery.

The sentiment was stamped with green permanent ink and then die cut and glued over the leftover circle from the previous step.

This is just an example of an easy and frugal kind of Holiday crafting.

Everyone has those plastic spools . Anyone can buy a $ store green leaves.

Now go to Topflight Stamps shop, pick this adorable stamp set and make a few of those altered spools that can be used as place cards stands or table decorations.

 And just to show you how adorable this 3d piece is I took another photo with different staging.

 I really hope that you liked my altered project today and see you in a week with something totally different.
If you want to see more of my work you mostly welcome to my own blog!

Dream paint brushes deco with Art Anthology

 Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my Art Anthology second April post!

This time I decided to show you how you can use your old and messy paint brushes and to make a lovely wall decoration using them with Art Anthology paints and a stencil.

As you can see the project base is made of 21 old paint brushes. My problem is that I never clean my brushes in a proper way. I do clean them here and there, but finally they are done and gone and the only thing you can make with them is an altered project. 

Lucky me, I never buy the expensive brushes and those are all kind of a general $ store ones.

So then life gives you messy " lemons" make a nice lemonade and in my case make a nice altered project.

Here you can see some close- ups to this project:

You can see the full step by step tutorial here on a Snapguide:

Check out How to Make Used Paint Brushes Wall Decoration by Art Anthology on Snapguide.

All products are listed in the Snapguide and I made a full Art Anthology products list HERE in this post .

Hope you like my project and see you soon again with a totally different Mixed Media creation.
 I enter this altered project to some web challenges too:
 Show us some chipboard- for Scrap and Craft challenge

CAS-ual Fridays Stamp Guest Design post

Hello my dear crafty friends! This is part 2 of my Guest design for CAS-ual Fridays Stamps and this time they tell a bit about me and this is a project I made for this separate post.
You are most welcome to their blog HERE see the full post.

If girls celebrate their adult age on 12, for boys it's 13. And still it's not just the religious part that is important, but boring, but the party!  So this is a gift box (also we mostly give cash…) that was the Swatch watch box and it's about 12'' long. First I covered it with cardstock and then added two spots of stamped images. On the right side I stamped the general sentiment. On the left I stamped, heat embossed, colored and hand cut the hot air balloon and added the number 13 for the age of the celebration. Small blue stamped sentiment was added under the balloon.

I want to thank CAS-ual Fridays Stamps for a great chance to be their Guest designer this  month and to work with their beautiful stamps.
I hope to be back there some day! Cross my finger I will.

Just add color and have a lovely day!

Hello my dear crafty friends!

This is my small art piece made for Honey Bee Stamps as one of Instagram projects.

I made the stencilled (Tando stencils) card shaped piece with texture paste and a lot of Tattered Angels mists and paint and then stamped over it using Honey Bee Color My Word stamp set and Honey Bee Happy Everything stamp set.

 This is a problem to stamp over glittery paint such as a paint I used here, so the stamping is not much seen unless you enlarge the photos.

The word COLOR was painted inside as this is a bold  stamp and I added this painted chipboard & sign frm Tando to make the statement : Just add Color & havr s lovely Day!

So just add some colors into your life and your days will be lovely!

Rubber Dance recycled tags

Hello my dear crafty friends! This is Irit from Rubber Dance International team here today and I made a very small tutorial that is all about recycling.

Most of us buy outfits. Outfits come with tags. Some of those tags are lovely and some are just tags with price and everything. So what  about to make your own art tag from those useless ugly things? Here is my way to make this kind of art.

1. Use stencil and inks to add some color to the old book page.

2. Take two tags with good shape and cover them both with this stencilled paper using gel medium.

Trim the edges and ink them around.

3.Grab some stamps from Rubber Dance that you love and stamp over tissue paper with black permanent ink. I used the following stamps from Rubber Dance:

ROUND IN CIRCLES , word Together from Nostalgic Couples and a post stamp from Collage mix

4. Stamp the word TOGETHER over the book page on the smaller tag. This  time make direct stamping and not the tissue one.

5. Glue tissue stamped images over the larger  circle tag  as shown.

6.Connect both tags with the add- on of one wooden tag with the word " Happy" with tulle on the top. Add some color with a few rhinestones.

 Your recycled beauty is done and can be added to any gift bag.

Use Irit2016 discount code to get 15% off your order and the shipping rates are great too! Check the shop and pick your own favorites!
You can also win some great stamps as we offer you our Monthly challenge in the blog!
So enter your project ( you can use any products to win, but for the Top pick  you do need to use Rubber Dance stamp) and maybe you can win some fantastic art stamps. 

ETI Blog hop

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to our ETI BLOG HOP!

Today the whole line of fantastic designers  are going to show you all possible projects made with resin arts products.

And please comment in each an every blog as you can win this delicious prize too:

I hope you came from Heather's blog. If not- go to the first stop and begin the hop there!

So here is my project: I made the fancy recycled jewelry/specks organiser using  a few of ETI products.

I didn't make a whole tutorial, but I took some photos for some steps, just yo make it easy to see the process.

So this is a finished project. 

Now lets see how it was done. First I painted this pretty old and already used Canvas Corps wooden tray with white paint using Earth Safe finishes Chalk It Up Whipped Cream paint. When it was dry I rolled the candle (the color is just what I had , you can use any color of candle as nobody is going to see it later).

Now I painted the " candled" tray with ESF Chalk It Up Rock Candy paint and then distressed it with sand paper. (This step is not shown here, but on the finished project only)

To make the sides pretty I used ESF Texture paste with Tim Holtz stencil and made it over all 4 sides. You need to do 2 sides and then to let them dry and to make two more sides if you don't want to mess the process.

Now it was a time for my ETI play.I didn't take any photos as those steps are easy and each and every of my previous tutorials made for ETI has the very same steps.
So first I casted Plaid molds with Easy Cast resin (mixing  for 2 minutes and then for one more minute in a new glass). I made 4 pieces to use inside my tray with this resin mix and some brown glitter. One single " clear" piece was made with  just a bit of light blue glitter. After almost 24 hours my pieces were hard and ready to use.
First I made a few die cuts using gold cardstock and MFT 4 small doilies dies. The die cuts were arranged inside the box . I added my 4 resin glitters pieces over the die cuts.
Now I mixed about 4 Oz of Easy Cast resin and just added it over the box spots. Some small beads were added randomly for the interest. I also glued the sequin ribbon over the tray with the very same ETI Easy Cast resin leftovers from the big glass. 24 hours later my fancy wooden tray was ready to use.

Here you can see the resin pieces and clear resin over those pieces.

And this is another look on my finished project.

And now to your next stop on the hop:

LARISSA

Rubber dance January tutorial

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my Mail art tutorial made for Rubber Dance blog.

This is my second recycled envelope only; I am just on my learning curve, but I think that the result looks fine.

So here is my tutorial and remember to recycle your envelops as thing is good for the Earth and for all of us.

STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS:

1.Find a good thick  used envelope and open it from inside. Cover it with a thin layer of gesso (not shown here) and let it dry. Paint over the gesso with a mix of Gel Medium based paints. I used Earth Safe Finishes Iridescents paints here, but any shiny semi translucent paint will work. While your paints are pretty wet wipe  some paint with baby wipe to leave this distressed white space look.

2. Tear a couple of rectangles from the left over paper and glue them as  shown  with repositionable glue. Paint over both rectangles with one of the paints (I used shiny blue one) and add a thin layer of black embossing powder  around the rectangles while your paint is wet.
This step was a bit tricky as you can't add it from the jar if you want it to be only a thin line around the rectangles. So I added it with a tiny spoon part by part.
Heat emboss the powder and peel of the paper pieces (easy to do as we used non permanent glue).

3.Grab your Rubber Dance Envelope stamps and some others- list on the bottom of this post- and using Ranger Archival black ink stamp randomly  and not so randomly over the envelope.  I tried to stamp with a different inks, but it seams that this Archival is the only one that works over this  glossy paint. I tried to stamp with STAZ- ON, pigmented inks and dye inks; bad result or zero result.
After all this stamping I  used a stencil to make some white paint images, such as SECRET word and a few splashes. This was done to add more interest and more depth to this  totally flat, as it should be, piece of art.

See how textured this looks after all! 

And this is my finished envelope when closed. 

And this is how it looks from the back. 

I really love this Mail Art Rubber Dance  stamp set! I will use it again and again. Just for fun. I never send real letters anyone. Who does? 

Stamps used from Rubber Dance company:

Round in circles

Envelope stamps

ATC Backgrounds 1

ATC Backgrounds 2

Arty Hearty

You can buy all those gorgeous stamps HERE!

Altered hanger with Makin's Clay

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new Makin's Clay post!
Today I am going to share an altered/recycled project that became a lovely home deco piece.
I have this wall hanger for ages and I don't really like the cheap look of paper over it, also the roses are pretty. So with some work and some Makin's Clay I made a hanger that I do like and will use on my wall.

Step by step instructions:

1.Roll 20 gram of Terra Cotta and 20 gram of Brown Makin's Clay. Flatten it  with Makin's Roller to be used in Makin's Ultimate Clay machine.

2. Use your Makin's  Ultimate Clay machine  on setting #2 and make a mix that imitate wood. It should be the hanger size, around 3*4''.

3. Use wood grain texture from Makin's Clay texture sheets set D  over this piece and help yourself with Makin's Clay roller from the tool set.

4. Cut the textured clay with straight cutting tool from Makin's Clay proffessional clay tools set to fit the hanger as shown. Glue the clay " wood" over the hanger.

5. Use Leaves push mold , the roller and olive green Makin's Clay to make some leaves .

6. Use flower and bee molds to make 2 big flower and 2 bees with white clay. I used some Russian molds that work perfect with Makin's clay.Let then dry and trim the edges if needed.

7. Paint the leaves and flowers with Earth Safe Finishes Iridescents paints. Those paints are Gel Medium based and leave fantastic shiny look over Makin's Clay shapes. The only problem is that this paint has a very long drying time, not minutes, but even hours.

8. And now  for the finished project! I added heat embossed chipboard on the back and arranged those leaves, flowers and bees.

Close ups to the shapes- can't show the shine on those photos, but it looks gorgeous.

Each second counts altered canvas with ESF

Hello my dear crafty friends, Irit here, welcome to my August tutorial made for Earth Safe Finishes blog, called Each Second Counts Altered Canvas.  

I made an altered Mixed Media canvas with a twist and the twist is to recycle 10 cents kids toy as a main focal image of my canvas.  So let’s see how you can make a fancy canvas  using some cheap kids toys to fit whatever you wanted to say over your art piece.

All step by step directions can be seen in ESF BLOG HERE!!!

You are welcome!

I enter this piece to a few web challenges:

Anything goes for Mixed Media Mojo

 Time flies for Stamps and stencils

Explore your journey with DV and CC: recycled art journal

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my " take an ugly notebook and make it pretty journal"  post.

This time I took this Oral B notebook (that's what you get for being a dentist) and totally recycled it to a pretty travel journal.

This is how it looked before. 

First I painted it with Tattered Angels Decor and DIY Jade color paint. This is a perfect paint to cover this paper cover with just one single layer and no primer at all!

Then I gathered and trimmed some lovely papers to make the colorful red/Kraft/beige cover piece.
I used Cherry Lynn Designs card makers dies to make 2 dotted red pieces, one Kraft script piece and one Vintage America map piece.
Then a smaller pieces from Vintage America 8*8'' pad were cut  and punched with Binding edge punch. I cut one single Post card from the same set and a few USA images from Ephemera set and paper cuts.

The trimmed papers were arranged to a " like layered card" piece.

Now it is a FUN time! Stamping it is!

I used this adorable 7 Gypsies stamp set that was just a perfect fit for the theme.

Most of stamping was made over the Post Card piece and I stamped the Hot air balloon over the patterned paper and hand cut it to glue over the piece.

 And now the finished project:

I just added a piece of natural twine under and over the arranged cover piece and glued it over the painted cover.

I added a die cut Vintage Bike (double cut from cardstock) and those USA 2015 title on the corner.

More red twine and colorful staples and this cover is all done.

 It's pretty flat after all as it's not for a display, but for a real use. So I decided that those layers are  all I need to finish this travel journal.