Looking all around for you - An art journal page for the Rubber Dance Challenge

Hello, and welcome

These days it is freezzzzzzing cold in Norway!

Here in Bergen where I live it is around 12 minus degrees celsius, but I heard it on the radio this morning that there were ceveral places in Norway where it was all the way down to minus 41,8 degrees... (!) That is cold!!
So I am very happy that I have a house, a woodstove and a lot of wood, and that I have my little nest where I can sit comfortably and enjoy myself crafting while the "murder" snails is freezing to death (I hope..) Do you have murder snails where you live? (These nasty brown big snails who eat all of the flowers and salad in the garden)

This month there is a new Challenge over at Rubber Dance, And this month the theme/color is circles, stamps, buttons diecuts/lavendel, black, light grey.

Here is my make for your inspiration. 

I hope you will join the Challenge, it is fun and you can win prizes 😊

This is a art journal page in my Dina Wakley journal.
Supplies used:
- Stamps from Rubber Dance - Butterfly Trio
- Stamps from Rubber Dance - Solid Butterflies
- White gesso
- Acrylic Paint
- DWM marking tools
- Archival ink, in black, grey, and lavendel
- Black pen
- Round gelli plate

Some close ups for details: 

Thank you so much for visting. Good Luck in the Challenge!

Hugs, Anita
❤

A creative weekend in Oslo

Hello and welcome my beautiful creative friends ♥

Today I want to tell you about a great adventure I was on last weekend. I was in Oslo and visit a new friend, Liven and her friend Mona  who live near by. We became acquainted through a creative art Facebook group. How cool is that!!? Me, visiting someone a whole weekend which was totally unknown until that weekend...
We had a great time - a hole weekend in her atelier just having fun with Paint, Stencils, Gelliplate, Stamps, old newspapers, old cabin guest books etc. I even slept in the atelier ☺LoL

Liven in her atelier

Me reading a newspaper, Aftenposten, from 29. april 1940...

Atelier and my bed for the weekend

And here is the creative women

And of course I have to show you some of the amazing art that was made during the weekend:

Gelliplate art on old cottage guest books sheets

This stencil was made by Liven (http://m.facebook.com/LivSglede)

I have to tell you - this weekend was like a fairytale one dream weekend unparalleled that I will never forget. Thank you, Liven and Mona and Liven's husband who was chef and fender ☺

There was much laughter, joy, aspirations and creativity. 

I hope this was inspiring for others to do the same. Come along for a weekend and be creative! ♥

I will soon come back and show you the results of my recent work as I mentioned in my previous blog post. Make sure to stay tuned!

Hugs, Anita

♥

Fun fun fun with Gelli Plate and Package Tape

Hello and Happy New Year!

I am finaly back in my Craft room after a looong holiday ☺ I am so ready for doing some art no so I'm just starting by showing you my latest artwork:

This I made on my Gelli Plate, and I would like to show you step by step how I did this:

1. Take your Gel Printing Plate, cover some space with Delipaper. If you don't have Delipaper like me, you can use bakingpaper from your Kitchen.

 

2. Roll on acrylic paint with one or two colors. I've used two colors here; green and yellow

3. Find some stamps you want to use. I've used stamps from Rubber Dance.

4. Stamp all over your Gelli plate with different colors and different stamps.

5. Let it all dry. It is very important that it is all completely dry. This technique will not work if the paint is still wet.

6. Take your package tape and tape side by side all over your Gelli plate. Start at the top of your plate and tape all the way down. Make shore you're not overlapping.

7. Pull the tape of and then turn the backside up on your workingtable and ad some Metal Leaf in silver, gold or copper here and there on the tape where there is no paint. Don't use to much of the leaf, just a tiny bit here and there.

8. Ad colours on the open space where it's still sticky with Pan Pastel or Perfect Pearls with a brush. Use different color and different media on each strip for variation.

9. Clean your brush betwen the layers on a silicon mat.

Here is the final results, strips in beautiful bright colours and patterns. It's much more colorful and bright in reality. Try it and you will see ☺

You might use these colorful glossy strips to paste in your Art Journal as a window with a frame, like I will do.

And with this colourful beauty I'm joining the fun at:
Scrapiness - Utfordring #11: Mixed Media Desember/Januar - Using a lot of media like Gelli Plate, Tape, stamps, Paint, inks, Perfect Pearls, Pan Pastel and Bakingpaper.
Anything but cute - Challenge #9 - Ring out the Old, Bring in the New - My New is a New technique, using Package Tape as a Canvas, Metal Leaf and Bakingpaper.

All the stamps I've been used is from Rubber Dance. If you want to buy some stamps from Rubber Dance remember to use the code Anita2016 and you will get 15 % of on your purchase.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and that you come back soon. Please leave me a comment, I very much appriciate it!

Hugs, Anita
♥