Christmas gift card holder and bookmark with BoBunny

Hello my dear crafty friends!

Irit from Irit Shalom Designs is here today with my second project made with the most adorable and newest Yuletide Carol collection.

This is a totally traditional Christmas collection- colors, designs and sayings .

 So I decided to make the totally traditional Christmas Gift card holder/card and to add a lovely interactive bookmark made with the same collection.

 As you can see the gift card holder is a standing card and the bookmark is made with the frame and inside moving piece.
I made the front with book shaped dies using different cardstocks and added distressing to the edges as this is a pretty much vintage collection.
The book pages were glued one over another and then embellished with Combo stickers, Layered chipboard, jewels and a couple of BoBunny dies were used to add the interest to this project.

 Here you can see all layers of this project when closed:

 And this is the " step" that holds this piece standing: made with cardstock, die cuts, stickers and BoBunny die cut sentiment arranged in 5 layers as a " chipboard" piece.

 The inside tag is glued on the top and on the bottom , so you can put your cash or your gift card under the tag.

 And here is the book mark- the " Joy" part can be used as a separate bookmark too.

 Product list:

Yuletide Carol collection 12'': O Tannenbaum, Presents, Joyous, Carol, Christmas

Yuletide Combo Stickers

Yuletide Layered chipboards

Yuletide Noteworthy die cuts

Christmas card dies

Tick Tock die

To and from dies

Belief dies

Double Dot Red Flourish jewels

Double Dot Emerald jewels

American Crafts Bottle green cardstock

American Crafts Sticky thumb glue runner

American Crafts Sticky thumb 3d foam glue

Thanks for being here with me today!
This was my last Christmas project made with two newest collection and see you soon again!

Bookmarks with Prickley Pear rubber stamps

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new post made for Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps.

This week the designers were challenged to make bookmark.

So here is mine and as you know, bookmark should be totally flat if we really want to use it inside a book.

As you can see I stamped the images and water colored some of them to get this pretty vintage/monochromatic look.
I just added a bit of glossy accents for a bit of dimension and added a minimal tied ribbon and just one gemstone embellishment on the top.

Stamps used:
Heart Dandelion
Vase with Heart
Blobby Flowers 2 clear set
You are most welcome to Prickley Pear Rubber stamps blog to see more bookmark inspiration!

Sin City bookmark

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my book mark tutorial made for Sin City stamps blog.
This is one of my first attempts with Misti and my very first attempt with water color markers and I made it in my own and different stamping way as you can see in my small tutorial.

Product list:
Sin City stamps - Natural Beauty stamp set

Other products:

Misti Stamping tool
Water color paper
Spectrum Noir markers
Black archival ink
Black cardstock
Twine and bead

Step by step tutorial:
1. Arrange the water color paper and the stamp in the Misti tool. Cover the stamp with pink and green water color using markers. Wipe the paper with baby wipe and stamp over it.
As you can see it's just the color base and not the fine stamping seen on the paper.

2. Leave the cardstock and the stamp in the same place. Ink the stamp with black ink and stamp over the water color image.

3. Stamp the leaves with another Sin City stamp in the same way: first the marker color over wiped cardstock and then the black fine image over it.

4. Add more leaves images over the cardstock piece. Make some without the baby wipe to get another stamped look of the same stamp.
Make masks by stamping with ink on  thin paper and cover the stamped images with these masks.
Now  stamp over the images with the same two steps technique.
P.S. The left piece is just the left over to cover the Misti tool and not to be used as a part of a project.

5. Cut the stamped piece to a book mark size. Add the black cardstock matting. Make a hole and tie the bead over the twine.

Rebecca Baer inspiration

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my June inspirational post made with Rebecca Baer delicious  collage style stencils!

This time I made a double sided bookmark and as you can see I used one single stencil for both sided.

First I used two bookmark blanks  arranged side by side. Then I applied Modeling paste over both with one single Enchanted wine and let  both part dry.

The next part was adding DecoArt Fluid acrylic paints with sponge over the dry paste and as your see I got fantastic pastel colors  with very visible stencil image over both  sides.

Then I just flapped them one over another and glued to get this double sided effect. 

The top part was punched and I added a ribbon over the bookmark.

And this is the second side with a fabric flower added on the top and over the front.

Same colors with a bit of different design and it's still the very same  Rebecca Baer stencil used here.

 I think that this project can be done as a kind of " mass production" using a lot of blanks and different Rebecca Baer's stencils with same paint or different colors. 

Very easy to make as teachers' appreciation gifts and Birthday girl/boy small presents.