Showing posts with label Artjournal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Artjournal. Show all posts

Monday, 16 January 2017

Create your own sunshine by thinking beautiful thoughts - Kunst som terapi


Hei og velkommen til dere mine flotte kreative venner.

Forrige torsdag ble min far hjerteoperert. Det var en stor og vanskelig operasjon og midt under denne sprakk hovedpulsåren, samt andre komplikasjoner. Han ble lagt i kunstig koma og har siden torsdag vært i koma. Han ligger i respirator og har skader både på lunger og lever, kanskje andre skader også som man ikke vet noe om før han våkner.
I går så det veldig lovende ut og legene prøvde å vekke ham, men i natt ble han mye dårligere og de måtte legge ham tilbake i koma. For å gjøre en lang historie kort er det slik p.t at det er ingen som vet hvordan dette vil gå. Tilstanden er veldig alvorlig. Jeg har gått fra sorg, til håp og fra håp til sorg igjen flere ganger nå disse dagene.

Jeg har kun tenkt positivt og sagt til min far disse dagene jeg har vært på besøk hos ham at dette går bra, stå på og kjemp. I dag, etter jeg fikk den ikke fullt så oppløftene beskjeden fra legene på Haukeland sykehus laget jeg denne art journal siden.



Jeg tenker akkurat det som står der: Du kan lage solskinn ved å tenke vakre (positive) tanker. I en annen setting kan det bety at man kan snu noe negativt til noe positivt ved å tenke positivt. Det må jeg gjøre nå.

Jeg skriver på norsk i dag fordi hjernen min er ikke helt samarbeidsvillig til å oversette til engelsk alle mine tanker og følelser, så dersom du ikke forstår norsk håper jeg du bruker oversettelsesknappen på høyre side.

Kunst er også terapi når man har det vanskelig, eller det er noe man går med inni seg og ikke helt klarer å få ut. Jeg finner veldig hjelp og trøst i kunsten


Jeg tenker positive tanker nå og krysser fingre og tær og ber om at min far våkner opp igjen.



Kanskje du også, kjære leser kan tenke noen positive tanker for min far? Det skader i alle fall ikke, tenker jeg. Sammen kan vi kanskje dra ham opp igjen i solskinnet.

Tusen takk for at du stakk innom og for at du tok deg tid til å lese og kanskje også reflekterte litt over mitt innlegg i dag.

Livet er skjørt. Ta vare på deg selv og dem du er glad i.

Klem, Anita
♥




Saturday, 28 May 2016

Mushroom in my heart - Art Journal page

Hello and welcome!

Today I want to tell you about Mushrooms.

I looooove mushrooms! So when I was lucky to got these amazing mushrooms stamps from Rubber Dance with Helen Allen's wonderful tutorials was there is no doubt at all - of course I would try the tutorial 7 in the video accompanying Rubber Dance's Mushroom stamp set. The tutorial from Helen Allen is a very detailed and pleasing step by step video that not only shows you how to get the given result, but she also comes with tips and tricks along the way that you can use on other projects as well. Along with stamp set and the video you also get a list of what you need to create the same projects. There are a total of 10 videos in which she deals with, among other cards, art journal pages and a mini bok.Take a look at the intro video which I've linked below so you get a little more information about what you get if you buy this stamp kit with videos. It is definitely worth the money!
This was so much fun that I actually had to make two Art Journal pages in two different books. The one I made after Helen Allen's tutorial step by step bothcolor and text. The second that I made, I've used some other colors, as well as another text which I have written with my Fineline Applicator in Norwegian.

I also have a blog post today over at Rubber Dance Skandinavian blog where I also write about mushroom - in Norwegian. You can hop over and check it out here.











The Mushroom stamp set and 10 video tutorials can be purchased both at Helen's Etsy Shop and on Rubber Dance Stamps website, and there are links to both below, There is also a link to Helen's intro video.





 

That was all for now folks, I hope to see you again soon. Have a wonderful and creative day!

Hugs, Anita
♥

Tuesday, 5 April 2016

The 2016 Art Journal Adventure - Week 13 - Illustrate a Qoute

Hello and welcome

I am following Joggles inspiring blog and since January this year, Barbara (the owner of the blog) has been running a Challenge called "The 2016 Art Journal Adventure" both on her blogg and on Facebook, with a new theme every week. Last week the theme was "Illustrate a Qoute". And I have long been thinking about one of Bjørn Bjørnsons poems "Jeg velger meg april".
Below you can read the poem (in Norwegian):


Jeg velger meg april
Jeg velger meg april
I den det gamle faller,
i den det ny får feste;
det volder litt rabalder,-
dog fred er ei det beste,
men at man noe vil.

Jeg velger meg april,
fordi den stormer, feier,
fordi den smiler, smelter,
fordi den evner eier,
fordi den krefter velter,-
i den blir somren til!

Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson (born 8 December 1832 in Kvikne, Norway - died 26 April 1910 in Paris, France) was a Norwegian playwright, author and poet who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1903 (Source Wikipedia).

I think spring is so beautiful, where everything starts to sprout to life and where birds sing ♪♪♪♪♪
A delicious waiting for the summer, just like Bjørnstjerne Bjørnstjerne said in his poem.

I want to illustrate the spring and the poem so here it is my contribution to week 13 with the Qoute; Jeg velger meg april ( I choose April).


Here is some close ups:


   

Thank you for visiting my blog. I wish you a pleasant and creative day!



Hugs, Anita
♥




Tuesday, 29 March 2016

Follow your heart - An art journal page with music

Hello and welcome!

One day just before Easter, I received in the mail a whole package of old sheet music, and last week there was a large package of stamps from Rubber Dance in my mailbox. What a joy! ☺

All the stamps from Rubber Dance was absolutly awesome, but I must admit that I found right away some absolute favorites ☺ And that is what I want to show you today.

Here is my page in my old Bar Association Calendar (Advokatforeningens forfallsbok på norsk) where I paste the whole sheet Music page that I had printed with Gelli Print in pink, turquoise and silver acrylic paint and a stencil, in the book.



I've made this of Gelli Printet sheet Music, stamps from Rubber Dance, acrylic paint, Lindy's sprays, and Lindy's Magicals, and some building materials, namely adhesive templates strip.


I have colored the stamped characters With Derwent Inktense 12 Ink Pencils, and Waterbrush.

There is a lot of glitter and intense colors, but they are not showing so well on the pictures unfortunately.

You can even say that "When you follow your ART the Journey becomes the destination", don't you agree?

I hope this Journey was inspirational and makes you want to do art as well.


If you want to shop some (or all) the Rubber Dance Stamp you can go here, and remember to use the code Anita2016 to get 15% of on your whole purchase.

The stamps I have used this art journal page is from the Fly With Me set, from the Think Again set and from the Round in Circles sett.

I will soon come back and show you more of my favorite Rubber Dance stamps and maybe some more Sheet Music ☺


Hugs, Anita
♥





Tuesday, 25 August 2015

I am sending you flowers - just because you are you

Helo and welcome to my world

As you can see at the sidebar I am one of the Lucky winners of ToT stencil Challenge. I am so happy! This was awsome! You can read more of the Challenge by cliking here: http://tuesdaytaggers.blogspot.co.uk/2015_08_01_archive.html

And just because i am so thrilled I'm joining in for the newest Challenge over at ToT for this month with the theme Sending you flowers. Here is my contribution. I hope I win with this one to ;-)

If your're Lucky enough to be different, never change.

AND because there is also a lot of circles on this piece of art I'am also joining in for the Challenge over at Paperartsy with the theme circles . You can find out more by this link: http://blog.paperartsy.co.uk/2015/08/2015-topic-16-circles-challenge.html

This is a Art Journal page with a lot of texture and colours and  I'm actually very happy with the result. Here I'm using stencils, neocolors II, gelatos, acrylic paint, rubberstamps and white and black Posca pen.

I hope you stay tuned until I come back with more. By the way it has now start raining....again, here in Bergen, Norway so now I have plenty of time to make more art. Never so bad that it is not good for something :-)

Hope you come back soon, and do leave me a comment below, it is very much appreciated.

Hugs, Niti/ANita <3


Wednesday, 8 July 2015

FORGLEM MEG EI - step by step

Yesterday I told you I had a bad day. Today I'm feeling a little better. A good night sleep is not to overrated, it can heal almost anything. Also the immense grief you get by getting a serious diagnosis of the doctor..... So when I've told it to My family and also tried to get it from a distance I will tell you about it too.
BUT NOW - lets talk about something much more pleasant; this art journal page of mine, and what I've been using and how I built up this page, okidoki? :-)


This time I'd used my big Dylusions Art Journal 



then I use some baby wipe and covered the whole page with white gesso



I took a rubber stamps from the beautiful collection En liten hilsen from Rubber Art Dance and stamped Tenker  på deg (thinking of you) sentiment over a old book page





and LOVE from the Arty Hearty collection of Rubber Art Stamps



then I took the heart rubber stamps from Arty Heart Collection of Rubber Art Stamps and stamp some heart over an old book page



with my scissor I cut out the  different peaces in squares and use Matt Gel Medium to glue them down  to my page



I mixed white gesso with some water and brushed the page with gessowash



I used a old stencil, unsure which brand and smeared some Modeling Paste with my sparkel here and there on my page







Then I took my  gelatos and colored the page using my fingers





I took the Rubber Art Dance Stamp from the Artsy Heartsy collection and stamped some more heart on my page



with a ornament Stamp bougth at Panduro Hobby (unknown  name of the stamp) and Archival Brilliance Galaxy Gold Ink Pad I stamped a little here and a little there



THEN, my friend, I find this absolutly specatular flower stamp from the collection called Antique Botanicals of Rubber Art Stamp and  stamp it with Distress Ink. For the leaf I used Distress Ink colour Forest  Moss and embossed it with  Clear Embossing Powder and meltet it with my heat gun





The same  technique i used for the flowers as well. Distress Ink in the colour Picked Raspberry, Seedless Preserves, Marmaid Lagoon and Tumbled Glas and embossing them with Clear Embossing Powder. The results became just yammy yammy, don't you agree? :-)








For a frame I glue down Lace around the edge.
Below you see some close-ups of some of the details








I hope you like this journal page and that I gave you a inspiration to make something beautiful. Please give me a comment below,it will be greatly appreciated.


Tomorrow me and  my little sweet family is going by boat to Denmark on vacation. I realy looking forward to it, I just hope its not going to be a storm over the sea... I get very easily seasick.


Hope you have a great summertime! Until we meet again - take care.


Hugs from Niti