Here comes Fall with Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new Prickley Pear Rubber stamps post.

This week it's a  orange Fall/Indian Summer inspiration and I used patterned cardstock that fit the mood and mists to make the similar flowers.

Stamps used:
Black capped chickadeer
Congratulations 2

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:

Steampunk all over

 Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my Steampunk  post.
I am really a big Steampunk fun and making these project is  one of the best creative things I can imagine.
So this art piece was arranged with lots of Tando chipboards, a few resin, self casted pieces and a lot  of mediums and imagination.
It's a kind of flying scull and looks like an old art cameo.
Each and every chipboard piece was covered with white gesso and them Cogs mini mask was added with texture paste.
Then all pieces were painted with a mix of DecoArt Media line paints.
The wings and the scull are made of resin , but painted with the very same paints in the same way.

 I really love this steampunk piece! Don't you?
I enter this to a couple of web challenges:
SASPC- June 2017- Anything Steampunk goes

Colors of life layout with Scrapberry's

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my second Scrapberry's post for May.

As usual one of my projects is a layout and this layout was made with gorgeous photos I took last Fall while travelling  in Macedonia and Albania.

The photos are from the lovely park in not so much known Albania.

 So I used Mediterranean Dreams collection also both countries are not really Mediterranean ones, but just close.

I mostly used patterned cardstock to make this layout.
Lots of dies were grabbed to add some interest to my page.
One larger flowers cluster was added on the right corner of the lower photo over the cardstock title that says " Colors of life".
Yes, they sure have colors in Albania. Not sure how much of life they have in this poor, still very much communist small country of Eastern Europe.

Here is the cluster made with a tree die cut, some paper and some resin flowers.

And I sure added a hand written journalling:
Albania 2016.
Looks like Paradise.
Feels like 50 years ago.
And as I was born in a former communist country I know how it was looking .

 I hope that you like my layout and my use of Scrapberry's new collection.

Products used:
Mediterranean Dreams collection:
Moroccan Plaid 12''
Cards 1 12''
Stone Beach 12''
Mediterranean Dreams 6*6'' pad
Flowers Curly roses SCB280603
Stains inks- Blue and Yellow
Antique Shop chipboards SCB 62000109b
Wax cord SCB 20020333073
Floral Embroidery set of resin flowers SCB 25002023
Blue rhinestones

Made with love notebook cover with Scrapberry's

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my first May Scrapberry's post.

Irit is here and I am going to share a pure Mixed Media project made with our gorgeous Scrapberry's products.

This is an altered  planner I made over the cheap office planner.

I tried to keep the front as flat as possible with Mixed Media work, but after all it's full of texture and not flat at all.

The cover was made with linen fabric and painted with gild paint around the edges.
I added pieces of cardstock over the cover and made a bit of texture with stencils.
The resin pieces are not Scrapberry's, but my own resin casts made with different molds.
I used DecoArt paints and mediums for this piece to make it easy to copy as those products can be found in each and every craft shop.
As you can see here the paper cuts are painted with gold and reddish paints and arranged over the frames with vintage paper cuts inside.

Here is another look on the cover cluster:

I hope that you liked my altered piece of art and you would try to make something similar with Scrapberry's products.

Products used:
Photo Archive collection :Frame 12'' cardstock SCB2206066912b
Flash 12'' cardstock SCB220606907
Detals 12'' cardstock
Snatch 12'' cardstock
Photo Archive Cards cardstock
Stains ink Green
Hangers metal charms
Floral Embroidery flowers SCB25002023
Wax string SCB20020333073
Discover Italy Crystal stickers SCB53000005
Metal charms SCB25013631-1
Leaves SCB300601
Flowers SCB280603
 I enter this to Simon Says Monday challenge- Frame it up with at least two frames on this cover.

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

Hello Spring card with SCRAPBERRY'S

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my first Scrapberry's inspiration for March.
For the next two months Scrapberry's keeps this Spring challenge in the blog and this is my Spring card made for the challenge.
As you can see it's an easy card in gorgeous colors and the only non Scrapberry's thing here is Die Versions die cut made with Scrapberry's cardstock (actually this is just a part of a die cut added on this card).
You can see the full product list at the end of this post and you sure are invited to play  with us to WIN!

Product list:
Cherished Jewels 6*6'' paper collection SCB220612008x
Floral Embroidery Crystal Stickers decorations SCB53000007
Dream Land Set of Cards SCB341404
Dream Land Set of cards 3*4'' SCB341405
Fairy  Tale Set of flowers Resin SCB25002019
Stain ink Yellow
Stain ink Green

Easy made Baby cards with Scrapberry's

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to  my second November inspiration for Scrapberry's.
Today I am going to share four easy made cards for babies and the reason for making those cards are that I am going to be a third time grandma in a few days only.
So as usual we never have  pre made cards and sometimes we just need to make a couple in no time.
 With Scrapberry's wonderful My Little Star collection it's easy and affordable and you don't need to be a premium crafter  to make lovely cards.
So all those 4 cards were made in an hour!
Yes, I am not a new to car making. But even the new crafter can make a couple of those card in  one single hour.
 So here are the first pair and those are for the Baby girl.
I added the stamped sentiments from another company as I just didn't get anything possible from Scrapberry's and I really wanted to add some stamping to those cards. But you can add paper cuts too to make the sentiment.

I made the main image with paper piecing using the cover of this collection and 3d foam glue.
Everything else are just paper die cuts that can be made by hand.
Look at the first card here:

As you can see I added a bit of washi tape, some rhinestones and that is it. You don't need a card that is an artistic project. You just need a card that it flat to fit the envelope.

Period.

 And now the second one for Baby girl:

Here I added a few small resin flowers and a nice ribbon bow on the corner.

And now for the couple of Baby boy cards:

On both card I added polymer clay Baby shapes, some twine and added a dimension with glze over the paper.

Scrapberry's products used:
My Little Star collection:
Cute as a Button
Baby Blue
Pretty in Pink
Pearl brads Afternoon SCB340304
Polymer items Kid's fun 2 SCB26001011
Set of decorative ribbons Discover Italy SBC390521
Silk ribbon SCB510202
Set of flowers Floral embroidery SCB25002023
Washi tape Colorful dreams SCB490005
Washi tape Basic K SCB4905013

Resin covered bookmarks tutorial

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my October tutorial made with Rebecca Baer's delicious stencils.

Also I already made a couple of bookmarks before (I am a book worm, so this is my must to craft item), but this time the technique is different and I made them over simple kitchen  foil and covered with a layer of resin to make it like forever.

So here are the steps for this project:

1.  Make three strip of a chipboard in bookmark size and cover them around with a kitchen foil. Use Heavy gel medium (I used Golden, but any heavy gel medium is good) with Rebecca Baer Mosaic Medium size stencil over the all three pieces together. Let the gel medium dry and it takes TIME! 

This is how it looks after you take the stencil off- gel medium is still white. But after it's dry it becomes pretty much clear.

3. Use a few of your favorite Staz On inks over the texture. Just rub them over and over and you can also mix some of the primary colors to make more colors. Those inks are perfect for  non paper surface.

5. Add a thin layer of Gaze On medium over the colored pieces.

This medium  was made to make Staz On ink permanent no matter what. Let it dry.

6. There are no photos of resin filling step as I had to work without moving the covered pieces to the light to take photos. But it's just " mix resin according to instructions and the brand and cover the colored bookmarks from the front. Do not touch them for 24 hours. Now make another portion of resin mix and cover the back side and let them dry for another 24 hours."

Use your hole punch (heavy duty one) to make holes on the top  of the bookmarks and tie a piece of lace or ribbon on the top. 

You can't see it , but  those bookmarks look and feel like a piece of glass and you can still see all stenciled texture.

Spread your wings Spring card with Scrapberry's

 Hello my dear crafty friends!
Today I am going to share my very first project made for Scrapberry's Design team.
Our October challenge is Seasons and you can pick your favorite season and to make any project about this season.
 My card is all about Spring. Living in a country with only two seasons- Summer and a very hot Summer- you always dream other seasons. But as we do have a bit of Autumn season, not the falling leaves, but some rain and even some Winter without snowflakes, but with bare trees, the only non existing season for me is Spring.
So  in my eternal love for everything Spring I made this card using a wide range of Scrapberry's products.
My  job was to make a card that is pretty much flat and still to make it with lots of layers. So mission is complete as I have 5 layers of matting and another 5-6 layers of embellishments and it's still very much flat and can be entered into the envelope.
As for techniques used there are a lot of die cutting(I used 10 different dies to make this card);some stamping on the background patterned paper and some stamping and hand cutting the  stamped images later (butterflies); heat embossing with clear embossing powder of die cuts and hand cut paper flowers; heat embossing of inked bare chipboard frame and stamped sentiment over the stamped image.
And one tip for those who are always looking for tips: die cut shapes twice and use the darker die cut as the shadow bottom part of the glued piece.
And now to some close- ups:

Scrapberry's products used to make this card:
Scrapberry's:
In Bloom collection: Pretty in Pink and Spring notes 12*12 cardstock
Floral embroidery crystal stickers SCB53000007
Fairy Tale set of resin flowers SCB25002019
Exquisite embellishments SCB340001094
Chipboard die cuts SCB2022646
Dream Land set of cards SCB341405
Birds of Paradise 6*6'' paper collection SCB22060631g
Metal charms SCB2501003
Happy Day stamps SCB4907084
Spread your wings stamps SCB4907003b
Best Things stamps SCB49070001b

Other products:
Dies- Elizabeth Crafts, Sizzix
Inks- Clearsnap, Tsukineko
Embossing Powder- Clearsnap

Wisdom of Nature with ARTplorations

 Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my first March ARTplorations post.
This is an art page/board/whatever we call it made with a lot of stencils' layers and one single hand molded and casted owl.
For the first layer I used Retro circles with acrylic glaze paints from ColorArte.The second layer of stencils is Confetti Circles with texture paste and the upper flowers are made with more texture paste  using Bold Florals stencil and more acrylic glazes from ColorArte.
Everything around was covered with layers of H2O ColorArte water colors and so were the very old stickers in ugly color.It gave me this wooden look with this mixture of glaze and water colors.
The owl is made with my own mold and casted with colored resin where I also  added  micro beads.
 The whole page is about nature and the owl is the smartest one. So I called this piece WISDOM OF NATURE.

Here is our Mixed Media challenge for you for March and there are prizes to win if you play with us!
Products used:
Stencils: Bold Florals,Confetti Circles,Retro Circles 

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