One stencil- two ways

Hello my dear crafty friends! Welcome to my new April post made for CAS- ual Fridays blog.

Irit is here today and this time I am going to show a card made with one single new and just released stencil that was used in two different ways as the background and then on the main heart shaped image.

I used this lovely Bold Trellis stencil with two different mediums and as you see it looks totally different.

The background is made with Gel medium over the stencil that was positioned over white cardstock

Then the dry image was covered with a mist of Distress inks and wiped with a baby wipe to leave the white images that are glossy.

 The inside heart was die cut from the stencilled black cardstock.

This time I used red glitter paste and the look is very glittery.

The sentiment was stamped over white cardstock and glued over the inked smaller heart.

This is the stencil used twice to make this card:

Bold Trellis

And the stamp set used :

 Bushy Tailed

I hope that you like my used of one single stencil and as you can see this is an easy way to make lovely card with minimum effort if you have our lovely CAS- ual Fridays products.

So here is my own discount for you to use in CAS- ual Fridays shop.

Go for it! And see you in a couple of weeks with a new card and a tutorial.

Your inner sparkle card

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new CAS- ual Fridays post.

Today I am going to share my new lovely sparkle card  made with one single CAS- ual Fridays   stamp  and one CAS- ual Fridays matching die.

Lately I am in this glittery mood and unicorns are the best fit for the glitters and sparkles.

The background was made over the adhesive paper with a stencil. First the blue layer of glitter was added over the stencil and then the clear glitter was added on the rest of the adhesive paper with the stencil off the paper.

The unicorn was stamped and die cut with the matching die and then the background black die cut was glued for the shadow.

The sentiment was stamped with black permanent ink and then inked with pink mist over it.

I decided to add the flower cluster to make it even more sparkling and festive.

Here are the stamp and the die used to make this lovely card:

Uni- corn Fri- die

Be a uni- corn

See how easy it is to make this  card with just one great CAS- ual Fridays stamp set and one single die. 

 Hope that you like my  card and you still have time to buy yourself these gorgeous stamps from CAS- ual Fridays shop. 

Check the discounts and subscribe to our newsletter to get the best possible prices.You can also use my personal discount to make your order in the shop.

See you in two weeks with another lovely creations made with CAS- ual Fridays products.

Best Ever Floral day

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new CAS- ual Fridays post.

Today I am going to share my new lovely floral card of a card made with one single CAS- ual Fridays  background stamp set and one CAS- ual Fridays die .

I know that it's a Winter around, but here in Israel it's a kind of a Spring and I was in this bright mood and this is how this card was born.

The background floral set was stamped with black pigmented ink and then heat embossed with clear embossing powder.

Then I colored the floral background with watercolor markers.

Here are the CAS- ual Fridays products that I used to make this card:

Best day Fri- die

 Full on Floral 

And some more photos of this card:

The title was die cut and then covered with black embossing powder and I tried to leave the part of the title non covered as the shadow.

Black enamel drops were added as my flower centres all over the card.

See how easy it is to make this lovely floral card with just one great CAS- ual Fridays stamp set and one single die. You sure can change the floral colors and the title can be die cut from colored cardstock or painted in another color.

 Hope that you like my  card and you still have time to buy yourself these gorgeous stamps from CAS- ual Fridays shop and even to use our  discounts.

Check the discounts and subscribe to our newsletter to get the best possible prices.

See you in two weeks with another lovely card made with CAS- ual Fridays products.

Somebunny Hoppy Birthday

Hello my dear crafty friends! Irit is here today with a new small card tutorial I made for CAS- ual Fridays blog.

I used a cute stamp set and Fri- dies to make a black and white (with a touch of gold) Birthday card.

As you can see this card has minimum coloring and minimum embellishments.

Actually I only used glitter glue and some enamel drops to add gold touches and some coloring of the bunnies.

Here you can see the layering over the card :

And some close- ups too:

CAS- ual Fridays products used to make this card:

Bunny Fri- dies

Heart to Heart

Somebunny

And now to the tutorial:

1. Die cut two card bases in the A2 size- one black and one white.

Stamp the Heart to Heart background with black pigmented ink over white cardstock and heat emboss with clear embossing powder. Stamp the same background with VersaMark over black cardstock and heat emboss with white embossing powder.

2. Cut both stamped pieces diagonally . Glue two triangles over the black card  base as shown. Glue the two remained triangles on the back and die cut the smaller rectangle. Glue the smaller die cut  rectangle over the first one as shown.

3.Stamp the bunny image twice- one over black cardstock with white heat embossing and one over white cardstock with black embossing. Die cut both bunnies and one balloon as shown.Stamp the sentiment with permanent black ink.

4. Arrange the images over the basic card and glue them with 3d foam glue.
Add gold glitter glue and white, black and clear enamel dots as shown. Your fancy and yet easy to make card is done.

I hope that you like my black and white card and you  to buy yourself these gorgeous stamps from CAS- ual Fridays shop and even to use our  discounts.

Check the discounts and subscribe to our newsletter to get the best possible prices.

You can also use my own discount if you wish and sometimes you can even get the extra discount.

Happy Hanukkah Mixed Media card

Hanukkah is just around the corner and as CAS- ual Fridays have the most beautiful Hanukkah stamps and Fri- dies this is a time to get yourself a few new items from the shop and to make a few new Hanukkah cards.
This time I decided to stay with die cutting  only and there is no stamping on this new card. But then there are a few background techniques that can be useful for non  stamping crafters or for these who want to make a set of cards with just dies and to try some Mixed Media easy techniques.

This card was made over the thick white cardstock without any patterned paper (not so much of  Hanukkah cardstock can be found in the shops).

I tried to stay in our traditional Hanukkah colors of blues and silver, but believe me you can use purples and gold, black and white or even reds and oranges of candle flames.

This is how it looks from the side: flat and fits the regular cheap mailing envelope.

And here is the main part- with both CAS- ual Fri- dies.

I used two sets of dies for this card: the first is the new and just released Happy Hanukkah Fri- dies set and the second is the older,but still much loved Happy Hanukkah Fri-n dies set.

Happy Hanukkah

Happy Hanukkah Fri-dies

And I made a full step by step photo tutorial for you all too.

1.Cover the card front with 3 strips of painters tape (repositionable tape to use for painting lines).

2.Use inks (I used American Crafts Mixed Media inks for this card) to ink the first strip on the card and then move the strips and ink all other parts with different blue ink colors.

3. Die cut the Star of David as shown and then arrange it inside with colors in the different spots.

4. Cover the card front with the stencil and use translucent texture paste over the stencil.
Let it dry for a few minutes.

5. Heat the dry paste and use silver foil and bone folder to add some distressed silver foil over the stencilled parts. This is not the usual way to use the foil, but  it worked without any laminators or other fancy tools. Anyway all I wanted is the get some silver over the texture paste lines, not to foil the stamped images.

6. Add some silver glitter drops over the die cut star as shown and let them dry.

7. Die cut the Happy Hanukkah and heat emboss it using VersaMark ink and glitter blue embossing powder.

8.Arrange the card and add more glitter glue drops over the card front.
Happy Hanukkah to you!

 I really hope that you like my Hanukkah card and my small tutorial.

And if you want to buy our fantastic Hanukkah dies in the shop- here is my discount code  for you to use:

See you soon again  with more CAS- ual Fridays inspiration!

Irit