Reminder of a fun challenge at Rubber Dance Blog

Hello and welcome.

I just came by to remind you of the fun Challenge over at Rubber Dance blog.

I made this art journal page with some of my favourite stamp set; Textured Houses, for your inspiration:

This is how I did this art journal page:
I started with Dylusions Paint in the colour Funky Fuchsia, Squeezed Orange and Pomegranate Seed and a blending tool on the page. I used some stencils with the same colours over the page to achieve some pattern. Then I used my palette knife and scratched some white paint here and there over the page. I took all those tiny background stamps from the set and stamped (still with the same colours that I've used all the time) over the page. I stamped the houses on a paper called Newsprint and cut them out and glued them down on my page. I took Dylusions ink (as I have filled in water pens) and coloured in some of the houses. I wrote my thoughts with black Stabilo pen all over the page, made some white circles with my fingers and white paint. The heart is stamped in the centre of each circle with Plum Archival Ink. And for the final touch I used Posca pens in different colours and made some splatters on the page. I also scribbled around the white circles and around on the page with grey and black pencil.

Come on and join the fun!

Thank you for visiting.

Hugs, Anita
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Art Tags with Distress Oxide

Hello and welcome

I am so exited! I finaly got the Distress Oxide's as I have waiting for! Johooooooo Yeh and Iiiiiihaaaa :-) So I had to play with them immediately.

Here are the goodies:

And here is what I make with them this morning:

I am already in love with the Distress Oxide ♥ The possibilities are endless!

Here are some close up pictures of the Tags:

Materials used:

- Tags by Ranger

- Distress Oxide in colors Broken China, Cracked Pistachio, Fossiled Amber and Faded Jeans by  Tim Holtz/ Ranger

- Vintage Script by Rubber Dance

- Numbers by Dylusions

- Loving Words by Ali Edwards

- Bubble Background by IndigoBlu

- Liquid Pearls in Onyx Pearl and Bisque by Ranger

- Layering Stencil by Tim Holtz

- Big Chat by Tim Holtz

- Ephemera's Heartsong Printable by Ephemeras Vintage Garden

I don't have time to write more, I need to go back to my playroom and play more ☺ I will soon come back and show you more projects using Distress Oxide.

Take care! Bye for now.

Hugs, Anita
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A brigth Art Journal page

Hello and welcome
I just came by to show you an art journal page I did this morning:

I love this sentence: "Forgiveness is that subtle thread which binds both love and friendship"

Here are some close up of my art journal page:

Please ask if you do have some questions, I be happy to answer.

Thank you for visiting. Take care, Keep calm and be inspired!


Hugs, Anita
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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
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Love yourself - a message to me and to you on a black art journal page

Hi and welcome beautiful

Today I want to show you something I did in my black Dylusions art journal with help of Mimi Bondi's free watercolor paper Printables, Paint, Posca pens, Distress Crayons, Dylusions Ink Sprays and Distress Mica Sprays:

Love yourself

Here is step by step pictures of how I did my art journal page:

black art journal and watercolor paper printables

glued down with Matte Gel Medium

some white Dylusions ink spray and a stencil

Stamping with my home carved stamp and pink Archival ink

Heart punsher and Mimi Bondi's watercolor paper

Distress Mica spray in gold and a stencil

Lots of lots of Paint in green, yellow, pink and blue, and some gesso

I also have some blue, pink, white, black and gold splashes on my page.

I've used a lot of gold - in Mimi Bondi's style :-) Thank you Mimi Bondi both for all the inspirations and the lovely free printable ♥

That's that for today. Soon I will be back and show you what else I'm up to :-)

Hugs, Anita

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A canvas for celebraiting

Hello and welcome!

Finaly I'm back - back were I belong, in my studio making art, and stamp my toughts away. 

I made this canvas board to celebrate that I still am a design team member of Rubber Dance. So I've used a lot of Rubber Dance stamps on this canvas.

Here is some Close ups of details:

Butterflies is from the set Antique Botanicals

The flowers is from the set Textured Flowers
and the ''body'' is from the set Sew Sweet

The sentence is from the set Affirmations 

The cute little hearts I've got from Bibi, world's best boss! ♥

The background stamp is from the set Textured Flowers

Girl on the bike is a napkin

I just love those butterflies, they are so beautiful!


That was that for now, folks! I will soon come back and show you a litle strange kind of art and a beautiful story. Stay tuned!
Here is a litle sneak peek:

 

Thank you for visiting, and please leave me a comment below! If you have any questions do not be afraid to ask.

Hugs, Anita
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Mixed Media fun with elephants

Hello and welcome!

I have to tell you I am WAY behind my "do some wonderful art time-Schedule" because the weekend to weeks ago we were away at the mountain skiing, And then monday my litle sweetie get sick (this stumic thing we Norwegians called omgangssyke) and then me and my husband get sick.... you know - the hole week in bed or sofa doing nothing. So last weekend my brother and my father and stepmother came visiting to celebrate litle Amalie three-years day. And  now, this days we renovated kitchen and living room.... ☺and Saturday (tomorrow) we get visitors again...

But today I had to have some quality time in my studio! And I want to show you something I've never done before. I was inspired my the loveley and talented Marta Lapkowska and do some Mixed Media, Scrapbooking, yeh!

I find some Scrappaper laying around in my studio. I think this sheet was very sweet with elephants and the fine sugar color. I started with some white gesso, then some Modeling paste trought a stencil just to get some texture.

I've used my heat tool to to get it all dry and then I took Dylusions Ink sprays in colour Bublegum pink and yellow and spritz ligtly over the modeling paste.

as you can see I've also used Vibrant Turquise Dylusions Ink spray to the piece

I  tore apart some other Design Paper, punching holes, hearts, flowers and stars using my punshers and my husband's hole punch.

I've used a stapler to gather all and then use my glue gun to glue it down.

Then I find my stash such as flowers beads, ribbons, cloth, etc.

I also had some lace curtain fabric lying around which I cut up and colored with light green fabric color

Then I stamped the elephant on a white cardstock and the thread stamp around the edges. I used another stamp to get stitches above the thread.

I stamped the phrase "An elephant never forget" on a napkin I've been decorated earlier then glue it on a white cardstock.

The rest of the phrases I just stamped on white cardstock with pink and silver ink, and cut it out with my scissors

Then I glue it all down on my scrappaper with my heat glue tool and glue pads.

Here is some close ups for details

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial. I really had a good time making this. Not only it was very cozy to make, I even got to use a little of everything of my stash that has been laying around, and some recycling.

All the stamps I've used comes from the online store Rubber Dance Stamps, except the stitch stamp and the sentence "Thank you".

I want to thank Marta Lapkowska for giving me so much inspiration ♥
Next time I will show you my studio/Craft room and a wonderful piece of art using Magicals among other  - also inspired by Marta ☺

I joining the fun over at Creative Carte Blanche which has a challenge this month called "Try Something Artistic You've Never Done Before!" (after a tip from lovely Marjie Kemper ☺Thank you Marjie! ♥)

Hope to see you again! Thank you for visiting.

Hugs, Anita
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