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

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!

Halloween Clay Home Deco

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my Halloween Home Deco project made with Makin's Clay .

This is a tall decorative piece made over the recycled chipboard piece of packaging, but then every  single piece of it is made with Makin's Clay  and arranged into this Halloween scene.

So here is my step by step tutorial for you:

1. Add a bit of orange acrylic paint to  Makin’s Clay® white   to make the orange colored clay. And just blend it to get the real color Orange as seen on the bottom photo.

2. Roll Makin’s Clay®   in black, grape and orange piece over piece over the tall chipboard shape. Just tear the rolled clay pieces and arrange them totally randomly over the chipboard.

3. Use two Makin's Clay Texture sheets from set D (Stars and Woodgrain) to make the texture over the row clay.

Use wooden texture on the bottom and star texture on the top of your piece.Let the background dry.

4. Use Makin’s Clay® Cutters from  Halloween set and cut a few Halloween shapes using white, black and orange (made) clay. On this photo you see more shapes than those finally used on the project.

Let them dry.

5. Stamp textures with background stamps over the dry cut shapes as shown. I used pigmented ink and my heat gun to  make  the ink permanent.

6. Roll a thin piece of black Makin's Clay with Makin's Clay Roller and die cut with your dies.

Let them dry before we use them on the final project.

7. Arrange your die cut and cut shapes over the clay background.

As you can see I added a mixed clay circle under the funky moon shape (mixing grape and neon yellow clay together and using round  Makin's Clay cutter). The I arranged the moon over the circle. Add a thin  layer of  neon yellow clay under the haunted house shape as shown before you glue the house over the piece.

Arrange  all other stamped shapes and glue them over the background.

8. Cover the whole piece with glaze and add some golden glitter around the shapes and over the piece.

Products used:
Makin’s Clay® white
Makin’s Clay® grape (Vineyard tones set), black,neon yellow
Makin’s Professional®Roller and Cutters set®
Makin’s Professional® Cutting Mat

Makin’s Clay® Cutters-3 pc Round, Halloween set- 12 pieces

Makin’s Clay®  Clay texture sheets- Set D- Stars, Woodgrain

Friends together for life inchies set

This line of inchies were already print published in Just Swap Arts! print magazine from Scott Publications, but never shared in my blog.
Made with Untiy stamps and Tattered Angels mists with Tim Holtz stickers.
So easy to do with just one stamp set and so much fun!

Vintage book with ARTplorations

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my second  May inspiration made for ARTplorations with their stencils and stamps.
This time I made a book cover/mini book cover (easy to add some binding system and to add pages inside).
I decided to stay in this vintage monochromatic mood and worked with gold- black and brown color only. Yes, the  flower is yellow, but this is just the last second add- on  to add more interest.
I used Square links stencil and a sentiment from Trendy Butterflies stamp set with DecoArt texture crackle paste and Mixed Media line fluid acrylics over the thick cardstock cover  where I glued an old book page. Everything else was heat embossed with clear embossing powder over the black painted  with DecoArt chipboards. The stamped word was covered with glaze inside the chipboard frame. The book corners are die cuts (MFT) and again heat embossed with black powder. Some washi tape pieces were added on the book spine.

Products used:
Square links stencil
Trendy butterflies stamps

 And some web challenges- Letter B things- Book cover, Bird- for Emerald Creek
 Anything but cute- Celebrate your style- sure not  cute and my Steampunk/Vintage style
 Things to alter- Anything altered MM
Creative Artiste- Anything goes
 Berry71Bleu- Inspiration board- colors mostly
 Country view challenges- Use a stencil
 Anything goed with WOW! Embossing Powders- for WOW! Embossing Powders and I user use their powders as their past DT member.
 Books for Our Creative corner- I used  old book page on the top and made a book shaped cover

Gift card holder tutorial

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to myGift card holder tutorial. This one was made as MOTHER'S DAY gift and can be given to all mothers around, mine too as it's not too young, not too bulky, not too complicated, but still very fancy from inside mostly.
As much as I was tempted to make an art journal page, I moved from my comfort zone and decided to make something useful. So say Hello to my Gift card holder made from  chipboard, cardstock, collage sheets and a lot of Mixed Media products.
Here how it looks when closed and I made it flat in purpose. You can add whatever flowers and extras on the cover if you wish, but I like it flat so it can be sent in an envelope.

Step by step instructions:
1. Cut white 12*12'' chipboard or thick cardstock into two even parts of 12*6''.
Score and fold the first one as shown on 3''-6''-3'' - this is the inner part of the holder.
Score and fold the second half to 2 1/2''- 1/2''- 4 1/2''- 1/2''- 4 1/2''.

2. Cut Kaisercraft patterned cardstock to fit  cover  in one piece and  cut other pieces to fit the " pages" with like 1/8'' less from each side.
3. Use Tim Holtz Gothic stencil and DecoArt Crackle paste  over the cover cardstock. Let it dry and be sure you see crackles before you continue with this piece.

 4.Make the " postcard" with Joggles Quirky Houses collage sheet. Cut  5 houses and arrange them over the patterned cardstock (light wood side). Glue them with Gel Medium and let it dry.

5. Color the Quirky houses with a mix of Ranger Distress markers. Cover  each colored house with Glossy Accents and let it dry. Do not cover the free spaces over the cardstock as we want them to absorb mists and paints later.

6. Use Travel stencil with DecoArt Modelling paste over three cardstock pieces that were cut for the horizontal inside pages. Let the paste dry.

7. Use a mix of distress Ranger inks (names in the supply list) to  color the stencilled cardstock pieces.

8.Cut three flower images from Joggles Basilius Besler Botanical plate collage sheet and glue them over the central piece as shown. Use Gel medium to glue the pieces as this is the best medium to keep everything on place forever.

9. From this step  I am going to show the finished  pieces without extra photos as this is just " add mediums/stickers" techniques.

This is a full opened project and I am going to begin with the upper piece.

And this is how it looks with closed " folds".

 The whole inside was inked with a mix of two distress inks : Wild Honey and Peacock Feathers.

 This upper  piece was covered with  dark " wood" cardstock. The pink bird from Watercolor  birds Joggles collage sheet was cut and glued over it. I covered it with a thin layer of Glossy Accents and added white pen line and dots around. The Tim Holtz stickers were added on the lower left part.

10. Add a bird from the same Watercolor birds collage sheet over the flowers, cover it with glaze and add white line and dots around as shown. Add pink  Glimmer mist ( Tattered Angels Wedding Pink) over the finished pages and let it dry.

11. Now for the closed folds- this is a place to add the real gift card inside the project.
Glue two patterned paper pieces and add 4 black  photo corners to keep the card inside.Ink cardstock edges with distress ink before you glue them.
Cut two feathers from Joggles Watercolor pink feathers collage sheet. First cover them with DecoArt Crackle glaze and let them dry.
Then add Gold fluid acrylic  to enter the crackles and glue them as shown. Outline the feathers with white pen and add  white dots.

12. The " postcard" lower piece was painted with Chalkboard paint; then the paint was wiped and just a bit of stain left over the  piece. Add Verdigris Tattered Angels mist over and wiped it from glazed houses.Add a sticker on the bottom as shown and make all outlines with white pen.

13. Use Gold fluid acrylic to cover the crackle paste crackles over the cover piece . Then add Verdigris mist and even a bit of pink mist and let the cover dry. Glue it over the basic chipboard. Add the metal trinket to make a closure.

I enter this piece to Creative Artiste Anything goes challenge- with chipboards, flowers and stencils.
 SSSS- Show us your metal
 Emerand Creek- Mother's day 

Have an Eggs- cellent day with TPD

 Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my first April post made for Two Paper Divas.
Easter is over , but this new stamp  It's all about the egg set is just fantastic to make my own sentiment.
So I used the eggs from the set and made this " It's your eggs- cellent day" using It's your day  TPD  stamp and I just used a partial stamping with TPD stamp and added the stickers sentiment.
All eggs were stamped over  white cardstock using Ann Butler's Clearsnap Crafter's inks in 6 colors: Sunshine, Aquamarine, Tangelo, Berry, Lilac  and Limelight.
The background is dry embossed and I added a few drops from Ann Butler's reinkers over the  front panel.

I enter this card to a few web challenges:
Dare2B ArtZy- polka dots

Lucky Makin's Clay necklace

 Hello my dear crafty friends!

Irit us here again with my Makin's Clay Lucky necklace.
I think that anyone needs a bit of luck. And games, any kind of them, are the most common way to get some luck together with a lot of fun. So I made a fancy 3 colors only necklace with Makin's Clay using all possible techniques.
Supply list:

Makin’s Clay®

White

Black 

Red

Tools:

Makin's® Ultimate Clay Extruder™- Disc #29

Makin’s Clay® Cutters –Mini Geo cutters set

Makin’s Clay® Professional Clay Tools® 

Makin’s Professional® Ultimate Clay Machine®

Makin’s Professional® Cutting Mat

Makin’s Professional®Roller and Cutters set®

Other products:
Stamps- Rubber Dance 

Glaze- DecoArts

Acrylic paint- DecoArts

Jewelry parts and beads- craft shop

Let me show you all of them techniques  used today:
1. Use Ultimate  Clay Extruder with large square disk #28 (you can't  see the disk on this photos, sorry about it) with white and black Makin's Clay to make this " so called" chess game  board.
I used a piece of thin red clay that was rolled to #6 setting on  Makin’s Professional® Ultimate Clay Machine® and dry to make the base for all those extruded squares.

2.Make a free hand  game cube from black clay and making the dots with Makin’s Clay® Professional Clay Tools®  top as shown.

3.Stamp with black permanent ink over wet clay rolled with Makin's Clay roller.I used Rubber Dance stamp to make this playing card Queen image.

4. Stamp with bare stamp  into the wet white clay. I used Rubber Dance stamps again and in my final project the Bingo card was not used after all. But I did used the domino piece as you can see. All piece were hand cut with a cutter from Makin’s Clay® Professional Clay Tools® set. 

5. Use  Makin's Clay small cutters of playing cards signs  from Mini Geo  cutters set to make the small pieces for the necklace. I didn't find the diamond shape(mess is my second name) in my cutters box, so I made it totally free  hand.

7. Make a mold  using a real chess game piece and cast  the chess game piece with black clay.

8.Cover all dry pieces with  glaze. The Domino piece dots were painted with black acrylic paint.

The cube dots were all painted with white acrylic inside the dots.

 And this is my finished pieces added to a fancy multi strings necklace.

 I added the word Lucky over the chess board with stickers and then covered the stickers with glaze again.

So are you Lucky? I hope you are and if not- make this necklace for some extra luck!