Art altered notebook cover with Rubber Dance

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my last for 2017 Topflight Stamps post.

This time I just used one single Rubber Dance stamps to make the altered cover of the small, card sized, notebook.

This notebook was " striped" from the inside pages that were then added after to cover was altered.

I used fabric for the cover and made it in this messy Mixed Media style using a lot of painted chipboards, texture paste and stencils on the back and a mix of paints and mists to get these grungy colors

The main image was stamped over the thick white cardstock using black pigmented ink and then heat embossed with clear embossing powder.
The colors were added with distress inks and some water over it.

This is the single Rubber Dance stamp I used to make this project:

Mona Lisa stamp

I hope that you liked my altered project  and love Rubber Dance stamps as much as I do.

You can  buy this set and much more in the Topflight Stamps shop.

And if you wish to see more of my work you are kindly invited to my own blog.

Plant Dreams with IndigoBlu stamps

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new Topflight Stamps post.

This time I made a card using one large IndigoBlu stamp and the sentiment that was added using another company stamp from Topflight Stamps shop. (For the Love of  Stamps one).

The 4 layered background was made with 3 matching  card size dies in three different colors and the main image was stamped and water colored with Zig brush markers.

I actually used just a part of the colored image as it is a large image and I still wanted to show the die cut background.

The sentiment was stamped and then die cut to make this circled sentiment spot on the corner.

 Here are the stamps I used to make this project:

Country House

Barrow of blooms

I hope that you liked my card today.

You can  buy this set and much more in the Topflight Stamps shop.

And if you wish to see more of my work you are kindly invited to my own blog.

Rubber Dance SOAR Door Hanger

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Today, I made a Mixed Media altered wooden door hanger using a couple of delicious Rubber Dance stamps.

The wooden base was  first covered with white gesso and then stencilled texture image were added with a stencil and heat embossed with a mix of embossing powders. Some of the powders were with a bit of glitter.
 The whole piece was then misted with a mix of mists.
Then The Studio Light background was stamped over the textured base to add some interest.
The die cut and the chipboard wing were arranged with a few flowers as the main image base.

The main image was stamped with black pigmented ink and heat embossed with clear embossing powder and then colored with Distress Oxide inks and glued on the top.

The Rubber Dance sentiment was stamped as one single stamp and then hand cut to strips and glued in a kind of art journal over the finished piece.

And here is another view of the project from the side:

Here are the stamps from Topflight Stamps shop used to make this project:

Large Postoid 

Hummingbird stamp

Studio Light background

Thanks for being here with me today and see  you next week!

I hope that you liked my altered project   and love Rubber Dance stamps as much as I do.

You can  buy this set and much more in the Topflight Stamps shop.

And if you wish to see more of my work you are kindly invited to my own blog.

Explore Beauty ATCs with PaperArtsy

Hello my dear crafty friends!Welcome to my new Topflight Stamps shop blog post.
We invite you to our daily sales that we have in Topflight Stamps shop for 12 days before Christmas.
Today's sale is 25% off all Christmas Sentiment Stamps!!

Irit is here today and I am going to share a set of 4 Mixed Media ATC cards made with the most gorgeous PaperArtsy stamp set- Eclectica Sara Naumann 21 set.
 I know that we are close to all winter Holidays , but as I live in a very hot country and we still wear our short sleeves here I decided to make this bright and bold ATC set . I did it mostly because of the stamps I have for this week, not because of my Spring mood.

 First each ATC card was stamped with one of 4 stamps from the set using permanent black ink.
Then I made the background using some stencils (one is a honeycomb as we have a bee as one of 4 stamps here). Stencils were used with texture paste and when dry I painted all over with acrylic paints from Prima.
Then each image was stamped again over black cardstock using clear embossing ink and then heat embossed with white embossing powder.
Then each stamped image was hand cut partially and glued over the original background stamped image.
The words on the stamps made this " Explore Beauty" saying as it should be for any ATC set.
Here are the single ATC cards for you to see with more details.
As you can see the embossing powder was not the fine kind, but pretty much grainy, but as we are talking Mixed Media art pieces it looks just fine.

 And this is the stamp set I used to make this project:

Eclectica Sara Naumann 21 set

I hope that you liked my ATC set and love PaperArtsy stamps as much as I do.

You can  buy this set and much more in the Topflight Stamps shop.

And if you wish to see more of my work you are kindly invited to my own blog.

Believe in yourself art page

Hello my dear crafty friends!

Irit is here and today I am going to share a large art journal page made with quite a few of Topflight Stamps shop stamps.

 This is designers free style week and Steampunk/grunge is my most favorite style lately.

Add the fantastic Carabelle Studio stamps that you can buy in the shop to my Steampunk mood and you get this Believe in yourself page.

The page is made over a thick A4 size white cardstock.
First I added a few stencils with texture paste and then misted and painted them with a mix of Distress inks and different mists to get this vintage background. A few Carabelle Studio stamps  were stamped with permanent black ink to add some interest to the background.
Then I added a cluster made of thin chipboards and stamped the Carabelle Steampunk heart to be hand cut, misted and added over the cluster.
The red paint drop were added to imitate the blood drops of the heart.

The sentiment was made with a few Rubber Dance stamps that were stamped over black cardstock using clear embossing ink and heat embossed with white embossing powder.
The sentiment was actually made as a collage of four different stamps. This sentiment stamps set is just the blessing for any art journal artist as you can make dozens of different inspirational sentiments just with  one stamp set and each and every sentiment is totally unique.

 Here is some close- up to the main stamped image.

  Here is a long line of stamps used to make this project:

  Circles and Stitches

Texture Stars

The heart has it's reasons

Affirmations Sentiment stamp set


Thanks for being here with me today and see you next weeks with a totally different project.
And if you want to see more of my work you are kindly invited to my own blog.

Shaker card with Crafty Individuals

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new post made for Topflight stamps shop.

 Irit is here today with a new Topflight Stamps shop inspiration.

This week the designers were challenged to make a project with Crafty Individuals stamps  and this is my shaker card made with one single, but so powerful stamp from this company.

I made the patterned cardstock background and made the shaker with a chipboard painted frame.
The inside image was stamped with clear embossing ink and heat embossed with black embossing powder.
Then the white cardstock was colored with a mix of distress inks and covered with clear transparency as it should be with shakers.
This card looks like a framed piece of art and it is so easy to make a similar card with this gorgeous Crafty Individuals stamp that you can find in Topflight Stamps shop.

And here is a stamp I used to make this card:
Dancing Dragonflies

Thanks for reading my weekly post.

If you would like to see more of my work you are mostly welcome to my own blog.
 See you all next weeks with a totally different stamping inspiration!

Beautiful day card tutorial

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Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my last October Topflight blog post.

This is a kind of " make whatever you want" week and I decided to make a card and even to add some step by step written tutorial, but without step by step photos.

So here is a card I made with this gorgeous IndigoBlu stamp set Floral Fantasy. As you can see the main image was stamped 3 times on the same size of white cardstock die cut front and then die cut again and again to arrange this three layers card.

So here is the step by step tutorial and I hope that it's pretty easy to understand and to make the similar card.

Here is my step by step tutorial:

1. Use Misti (must do thing when doing layered and die cut technique).

Arrange IndigoBlu  flower stamp and stamp over the die cut card front three times with black pigmented ink (Memento Luxe).

2. Heat emboss all three stamped pieces with clear embossing powder (WOW! Embossing Powders).

3. Use Stitched Rectangles Elizabeth's Crafts die set and die cut each stamped front .I used every second size of the dies (#3-5-7) to die cut the stamped images.Now you have a frame and the stamped image die cut piece for each frame.

4. Glue the stamped die cuts as shown: use the third negative- the smallest die and the largest frame as your base and then arrange all three die cut shapes over this frame.

5. Color the images in all three layers with Zig Real Brush colors as shown.

6. Mist the background with Lindy's Stamp Gang mist . Stamp the sentiment over the separate cardstock piece, mist and hand cut it and glue as shown. I used the sentiment from For the Love of Stamps Barrow in Bloom set.
7. Add some rhinestones.

 And this is the stamp set used to make this card:

Floral Fantasy

Barrow in Bloom

I really hope that you like my small card tutorial and remember that this can be done with any other big stamp you can find in Topflight shop. See you next week with another Topflight shop inspiration!

Something Wonderful Mixed Media Canvas

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Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new Topflight  blog post.

Today I am going to share the 8x8'' Mixed Media canvas made with most gorgeous Katzelkraft Butterflies stamp set and I am going to show  you a few stamping techniques while working over the Mixed Media canvas project.

First I added the background texture with texture paste and stencils (Tando Creative UK) and glued a few cardstock pieces with DCWV old cardstock collection. Then the whole piece was painted with DecoArt acrylic paints.

It's almost impossible to stamp over this heavy textured canvas, so I stamped the flowers stamps from the same stamp set over the white tissue paper and glued them on the bottom of the canvas with gel medium.

Now I decided to stamp over the chipboard flowers and butterflies with the large stamps. I used black pigmented ink (Memento Luxe) and heat embossed with clear embossing powder.

Then I colored the heat embossed chipboards with more acrylic paint and you can see that the butterflies are pretty much similar to the large ones on the bottom even with this partial stamping due the chipboard shapes size.

The sentiment is the most gorgeous Rubber Dance one and I hand cut it to the strips to make the "canvas look" for the sentiment.

Then two large and full size butterflies were stamped, colored and glued over the canvas.

Here are the stamps used to make this project:

Butterflies

 Something Wonderful

I really hope that you liked my weekly inspiration post today and as you know all stamps are in the Topflight shop waiting for you! See you next week for more Topflight inspiration!

Steampunk ATCs

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Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new Topflight blog post.

As you most probably already know I am a big fan of all things Steampunk and when it's our " free projects" weeks I try to make something in my favorite style.

So today I am going to share a couple of Steampunk ATC card and each one is a real piece of Steampunk art.

Both ATCs were made with Carabelle Studio stamps that were stamped with black pigment ink (my latest love is Memento Luxe  pigmented inks) then heat embossed with black embossing powder. 

The embossed cardstock was painted with Prima Marketing Mixed Media paints and some embellishments were added to these small cards.

This is the first card and it was embellished with metal cogs and one clay handmade piece.

The second art card was embellished in the same style: a couple of metal cogs and one single clay piece.

Isn't it a fun and quick way to make a bunch of ATC for any Steampunk swap?

Just stamp a large cardstock piece, paint over the heat embossed images and then cut it to the right ATC size.

Embellish with whatever you have in hand and swap with you Steampunk lover friends.

And  now for the stamps used on this project that you can buy from Topflight shop:

Steampunk Time Machine

Steampunk Butterfly

Thanks for reading my weekly post.

If you would like to see more of my work you are welcome to my own blog. See you all next week with a totally different stamping inspiration!

Do You Believe in Magic? Mixed Media Shadow Box

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Irit is here again and this is my free post made for Topflight Stamps shop.

As you know this is this week when the designers can pick their own style of stamps and to make the project that speaks for them in the best artistic way.

So for me it was my very first time  of working with Lavinia stamps and making this magical project in my own creative Mixed Media way.
I made this shadow box over the white plastic shadow frame.

Every single inch was covered with mediums,paints,  texture paste over stencils and chipboards were added for the more texture and interest.

The inside of the box was made with stamped image using Lavinia Guinevere Mermaid stamp.
I stamped the image over white cardstock and heat embossed it with black embossing powder.
Then I added more texture with a stencil that was heat embossed with sparkle powder.
The inside chipboards were added inside.

The sentiment was stamped with Lavinia Those who don't believe in magic sentiment stamps, die cut and added on the box corner. The sentiment was arranged on a piece of a real fishing net.

Here are the stamps I used to make this altered shadow box :
Guinevere Mermaid by Lavinia

Those who don't believe in magic by Lavinia

I really hope that you liked my Mixed Media stamped project and love the Lavinia stamps that you can buy from Topflight Stamps.

If you want to see more of my work you are kindly invited to my blog!