Hi card with Prickley Pear

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new post made with Prickley Pear Rubber stamps .
This time we were challenged to make the warm yellow, red, summer  project and I made this Mixed Media card for this matter.
I used those stamp sets here:
Hi-red rubber and Flower Silhouettes

The background was made with Gelatos and Crackle paste.
I enter this card to some web challenges:

Same stamp- 4 ways with Sin City

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my Sin City stamping tutorial.

This time I decided to make 4 ATC cards with the very same stamp set and very different techniques and to pick my favorite technique for the future use.

Here are all 4 ATC together.

Product list:
Sin City stamps: Dandelion Wishes with Butterflies

Other products:
White, black and Kraft cardstock
Vellum paper
Black pigmented ink
Clear, colorful and white embossing powder
Clear embossing ink
Heat gun
Mists
Gel Medium
Stencils
Texture paste
Gelatos
Acrylic paints
Crackle Glaze


 Step by step instructions:
1. Make two white cardstock ATC cards. Stamp with the same stamp over both cards. Use black pigmented ink and heat emboss with clear embossing powder.

2. Use large acrylic block and mist it with 3 or 4 different mists.

3. Wipe the stamped ATC card over the misted block.

4.  Stamp a few butterflies using  Clear embossing ink and heat emboss them with a mix of colorful embossing powders and glitters.
Hand cut the butterflies.

5. Glue a couple of hand cut vellum stamped butterflies over the first card. Use stencil to add Gel Medium over the card.

6. Stamp the small words with Sin City stamps and hand cut one to add over the first finished ATC card.
Ink the edges of the card with paint or ink.

7. Mist the second white cardstock stamped card with three different mists directly over the card.
As you can see we had a different background look with this technique.

8. Use another stencil to add Gel Medium over the second card.

 9. Glue the stamped vellum butterflies over the second card and add another stamped word.

10.Stamp  more images over black cardstock ATC card using clear embossing ink and white embossing powder.

11.Paint over the textured ATC card with Gelatos. Wipe the color with baby wipe and make kind of circles over the flowers.

12. Add some texture with stencil and white texture paste.

13. Ink the edges and glue two vellum butterflies. Glue the stamped words.

14. Stamp  in the same way as on ATC #3 over Kraft cardstock.

15. Paint over and around the stamped images with acrylic paints.

16. Add a thin layer of Crackle Glaze over the card. Let the glaze dry.

17. Glue a butterfly and the stamped words.

So here all 4 ATC are together and to say a truth- I am not sure if I like one of them more then another. 

I think that black is my favorite, but as you know we all like different things.

So just go and try each and every technique!

Forever my friend card

Easy to make Mixed Media card made with texture paste over stencil, VLVS image stamp and STAMPlorations stamped sentiment.
Watercolors used for the background here (FaberCastell DMC gelatos)

I enter it to some web challenges too:
Addicted to stamps- Cas
Cas Mix up challenge- the circle is a die cut

You are perfect card

Mixing the VLVS image stamp  with STAMPlorations sentiment and just to say that everyone is perfect in his own style.

And I enter this to some web challenges too:
Addicted to stamps- CAS
CAS mix up challenge- the matting are all die cuts

Dare to dream art page tutorial

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new tutorial.
This is single art page made with a lot of mediums and this time I used Faber Castell DMC products as my mediums and Rebecca Baer stencils  and a lot of Mixed Media page.

 Step by step tutorial:
1. Make the background over thick white cardstock with Faber Castell gelatos and wipe the colors with baby wipe.
I made rectangles with those colors, some are metallic colors and then blended them all together without adding any water.

2.Use Rebecca Baer stencils- two of them- with modeling paste  over the watercolored page.
You may secure the stencils with washi tape as shown.

This is  how this page looks  without the stencils and it's still wet. 

3.Cover the main circled areas with a thick layer of Faber Castell DMC Glaze Medium, also I used Texural Accent Sampler. Add a few more smaller circles on the " empty areas"  as shown for more interest.

4.Add a thick layer of clear glitter over the glazed circles as shown.

5 Wait till all previous mediums are totally dry. Now let the fun begin! Cover the entire page with a thin layer of Faber Castell DMC Chalkboard paint. Then wipe the paint over  glazed, embossed, glittered areas with baby wipes. And  also just one wipe  is shown  here, you sure need much  more to get this finished look. And yes, it's totally messy, but worth the result.

6.Stamp Rubber Dance flowers from Antique Botanicals  and  Bold and Beautiful sets with FB DMC   Stampers Big Brush pen in Black over white tissue paper.This is an India ink big pen that works perfectly as an ink over rubber stamps as you can see.

7.Stamp two Rubber Dance Dragonflies - large and small ones-  over clear vellum.

Use clear embossing ink and heat emboss the images with black  embossing powder.

Hand cut the images and color them with FB DMC Pitt Artost  Pens in two  colors and one Stampers Big Brush pen in Light blue.

8. Stamp s few more flowers from Bold and Beautiful set  directly over the page near the edges using the same  black Big Brush.

Now tear the tissue stamped images and glue them as shown with FC DMC Gel Medium.

Outline the largest circle with the pen- this will be our sentiment spot.

9.Let the page be totally dry and them color the tissue  flowers and leaves with a mix of bright colors using FC DMC  Stampers Big brush pens in a few colors.

10. Glue the  vellum dragonflies over the  page using Gel medium.

Make the sentiment with stickers (I used MME ones)

Outline some glitter circles with white  pen as shown.

And here are some close- ups to this art page:

I hope that you liked my tutorial!

I also enter this piece to some web challenges:

Anything goes with embossing powders- WOW! Embossing Powders and I used their product here
 More Mixed Media- Anything goes with purple
Floral frenzy for Stamps and Stencils

Anything goes for Creative Artiste

Mixed media monthly

Catch a drop of sunshine on the rainy day- Tando watercolor week

 Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new Tando project.
This is Tando watercolor week and I made this small altered canvas using Faber Castell gelatos and some mists with  one Tando mask and some Tando chipboard leftovers.
I stamped the image with black pigmented ink and clear heat embossed it over the blank canvas.
Then I added strips using Tando Stripes  mask and texture paste and misted it all with a mix of blue mists.
As a next step I added some DecoArt crackle glaze and misted with yellow water color mist.
 I added those circles of chipboards from Tando Grid - Circles piece, covered in yellow as the small drops of sunshine.
Look at my sentiment! It's totally perfect for this piece: When nothing is sure, everything is possible. So even on a rainy day you can catch a  small drop of Sunshine.

Tando products used:

Grid - Round

Stripes mask

I enter this to SSSS April showers/May flowers challenge

Alter your napkin holder from shadow box

This is my alteration of Canvas Corps shadow box that was brown and not fit to my kitchen/rooms. So as I was in need of napkin holder and the size was just perfect, I decided to alter it to this " light vintage" piece using DIY paints and embossed paper. To make it durable I added a thick layer of clear resin over the paper.

Materials Used

1. Shadow box 8*8'' Stained wood-Canvas Corps
2. DIY Viridian paint- Tattered Angels
3. DIY Ivory paint- Tattered Angels
4.Embossed large floral ivory paper-Canvas Corps
5. Easy cast ETI resin
6. Water colors- Faber Castell DMC Gelatos
7. Crackle medium- DecoArt

Step by step instructions:

Step 1

Paint the shadow box with Viridian color and let it dry

Step 2

Cover the painted box with crackle medium and let it dry

Step 3

Paint over the dry crackle with Ivory paint. Try not to repeat over the already painted area if you want to get good crackles

Step 4

Cut a piece of ivory embossed floral paper to the size that cover the inside of the box. Glue it into the box. Water color the embossed florals with your colors of choice.

Step 5

Cover the colored box with a thick layer of ETI Clear cast resin and let it dry for at least 24 hours. Distress the edges of your painted box as much as you want to get this " old" look

Step 6

Put your favorite napkins inside and enjoy!