A London tag with a Travel Doll

Hello and welcome sunshine!

I love to travel and I love to travel to London. I've traveled and stayed in London several times. And when the spring is here I want to travel again. Spring is a new begining a new adventure ♥
Anyhow, I've thinking a lot of London lately and my thoughts make me make this tag:

These paper dolls of Tim Holtz is SO adorable isn't they? In the background you can see I've used Distress Oxide, which is my new favorite and stamps from Rubber Dance. I love this tag!

London I love you! ♥  Keep calm and carry on :-)

I will soon come back. Take care!

Hugs, Anita
♥

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
♥

Sprøe fugler med spreke farger

Heisann dere,

i dag tenkte jeg at jeg skulle skrive på mitt morsmål, som er norsk. Det er egentlig mest fordi jeg i dag har laget en liten inspirasjon for Hjerteboden. Hjerteboden er en norsk hobby butikk og i dag har jeg altså gleden av å vise det jeg har laget ved hjelp av produkter man kan få kjøpt i nettbutikken til Hjerteboden.

Dette er en Manilla Tag i størrelse #10.

Jeg begynte med å påføre litt farge i bakgrunnen med Distress Ink - Broken China, Dusty Concord og Wild Honey.
Dernest fant jeg frem stencilen fra Tim Holtz som heter Holiday Knit og laget litt mønster her og der med Distress Ink i fargen Seedless Preserves.

Jeg stemplet Crazy Birds på en ny Manilla Tag, fargela disse med Distress Ink, klippet ut og limte på Tagen min. Jeg stemplet først fuglene på tagen for å få med alle detaljer, som de søte små føttene og krøllen på halen og håret før jeg da limte på de utklipte fuglene.

Rundt kanten av tagen brukte jeg Distress Ink i fargen Gathered Twigs. Jeg tok litt vann i hånden og knipset dråper litt her og der på tagen. Jeg limte på Observations, samt knyttet et bånd i hullet på toppen. Og voila der var tagen ferdig. Denne kan jeg selvsagt bare ha sånn som den er eller jeg kan velge å lime den inn i min Art Journal som en del av noe annet. Alt er mulig.

Håper du likte tagen min og at jeg ga deg litt inspirasjon til å lage noe du også. Husk å bli med på månedens utfordring over hos Hjerteboden bloggen som denne måneden er "Alt er lov".

Tusen takk for at du stakk innom! Med ønske om en riktig god sommer ☺

Klem fra Anita
♥

The ultimate Christmas house with a little twist

Hello and welcome
I've been very busy lately, both with a few social dinners and family visits, but also accompanied my eldest daughter to the hospital for her monthly medicine. Getting the Multible Sclerosis (MS) medication that she must have take even a whole day at the hospital. A little stress for both mother and daughter. So while we sat there I thought hmmm it's almost Christmas, maybe I should show the stylish Christmas house that I have made in between battles.

And here it is - my christmashouse. I am very proud of the results ☺It was so much fun making this madhouse ☺

And here - just because I like you so much, is a step by step tut. of how I did this marvelous house:

I started with a canvas shaped like a house and gesso it

and took out my tim Holtz stencil called Holliday Knit and stenciled with red and green acrylic paint, like a panel on the house. 

the roof is made of watercolor paper in 100 lb, cut into a bunch of small round triangles, and painted with gold paint

then I find my Rubber Dance rubber stamps Giraffe, Deer and Pinecones and stamp them on a tag with Archival Black ink, then I collored them with Distress Ink and cut them out.

I painted with yellow and white in the windows to get the effect of lamplight from the inside of the house. I also stamp the girafe and deer in the window, just to gain a little shade

and here is the animals and the pinecones in color

I stamp the beautiful snowman with Distress ink on a tag

 I colored the hat with Distress ink

 and the rest of the snowman with promarker pens

I glued a lace ribbon at the transition between the wall and the roof before I glued all the tiles on the roof

I took the snow paint and pushed a litle snow on the roof,  window sills and bottom of the wall with a big brush

I glued some bling up under the eaves for icicle effect

and here is some close ups for my project

I am in on the Challenge with my christmashouse at:
Scrappiness - jul
Anything But Cute - its ornamental
Noor Design - Anything goes
Live and love crafts - Christmas Tic-Tac-Toe - glitter, snow

The snowman, deer, pinecones and giraffe is all Rubber Dance stamps, and you can buy them and other beautiful and fun stamps here.
Don't forget if you are shopping at Rubber Dance you can get 15% off with my code  Anita2015

I hope to see you soon again.
Now I will have a good time reading and enjoing my new book that finaly had arrive in my mailbox: The book from the beautiful and very creative Mimi Bondi

A very early happy face *LoL*

I'm sure I'm going to be very inspired and that I certainly is going to show you some of my creations inspired by Mimi Bondi here on my blog, so be sure to stay tuned.
You can even sign up for follow my blog so you make sure you dont miss a thing. You find the button "Bli medlem på dette nettstedet" on the right hand sidebar.

See you soon. Take care ♥ 

Hugs, Anita
♥

Art Journaling with Tim

Hello and welcome

I got totally random over this blog called Vintagejourney and they have going on a challenge called Art Journaling with Tim and I thought hmmmmm this is just perfect for me. Because I love Tim Holtz's stuff (you know what I mean) and I love Art Journaling so here I go. This  is my contribution to the challenge:

Ps. I am sorry for the quality of the photos. 

In my big Dylusions Creative Art Journal from Ranger I've used Tim Holtz tissuepaper Melange, I've used Tim Holtz Butterfly stamp from the Perspective collection, I've used - of course, Distress Ink in brown colours and some purple, and I've used Tim Holtz Small Talk.

At the background I used Tissue paper from Tim Holtz Idea-ology and colour it with brown and purple Distress ink with the mini blending tool. The picture I find in my stuff, used my patternscissors and cut it out, then I coloured around the edged with Distress ink Vintage Photo.

I used a Manilla Tag for the sentence and inked around the edged with my mini blending tool.

Then I glue some ribbon at the botton of the tag.

I stamped the butterfly with purple and pink Distress Ink on a tag and cut them out.

Then I glue it all down on my page. And it turned out this way. I hope you like it. I do!

With brave wings she flies
and
collect beautiful moments

I had a moment when I created this page. I get peace in mind and feeling kind of happy. It was a moment I tell you.

This is a bit away from my ordinary colours and a bit away from my sort of theme, but I realy liked it and I think I maybe will do more of this colours and theme in the future.

Any way, I'm in on the challenge at Vintagejourney and I do hope you like it.

Hope to see you soon again. Thank you for visiting.

Hugs, Anita
♥

Happy colours in Art Journal - step by step

Hello and welcome to my world of art <3

Today I will show you an double art journal page that I'm very proud of.
I will first inform you that I have been inspired by the lovely Mimi Bondi. She is one of the most talented artist I know of, So I dedicate this page to her.

I have used many different colors in bright tones and painted layers and layers...
I have only used my fingers to apply the Paint.

I've also used rubber stamps, gold ink, black ink and stencil.

Here is some close ups of the pages:

 

 

For the big elephant I have used stencil. On the first page I've using black Dylusions Paint on the body and bubblegum pink on the ears.

On the second page I lay the stencil down on the page, draw around inside the stencil and then I painted with black paint strokes until after taking away the stencil. Then I used the Dot Fade Stencil from Tim Holtz Collection on the black.

I am very proud of this pages. I think they were absolutely gorgeous, if I may say so. What do you think? Please leave me a comment and also come and visit med again.


Hugs from Anita/Niti
<3

Ticket please - metal in my Art Journal - step by step

Hi and welcome
I think I am in a flow these days. I keep on bursting of all creativity and ideas for new stunning artwork - hihi..... But it is a lovely feeling and I am so pleased that I have the opportunity to make art. And I hope I inspired others to do the same.

Today I'll show you my Art Journal page that was inspired by the Metallica concert me and my husband was on last Thursday in my hometown Bergen in Norway. I hope you know Metallica....If you don't I can briefly tell you that Metallica is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles, California. Metallica was formed in 1981 when vocalist/guitarist James Hetfield responded to an advertisement posted by drummer Lars Ulrich in a local newspaper.
Metallica has been listed as one of the greatest artists of all time by many magazines, including Rolling Stone, which ranked them 61st on its list of The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. So now you know a little of Metallica :-)

I'm in for the Challenge Ticket Please over at Simon Says Stamp. Here is the link to the site: http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/?p=2986

And here is my Metallica inspired Art Journal Page - With my ticket as a part of the art:

I love going to concerts and I'm sure we went for about four or five concerts each year both at home and abroad. Now in September we travel to Stocholm and experience U2 in "Globen", than in november this year it'ss Melody Gardot in Grieghallen in my home town. Earlier this year we experience Ryan Adams, also in my home town. Oh, Lucky me :-)

But now over to my newest page in my big Art Journal from Dylusions. I startet with the background - off course ;) Since the colour of the metal band Metallica is for the most, black, grey, blue, white and gold I og for these five colours on my page. I painted With a brush acrylic Paint and scrub over it With a tongue brush when the Paint where still wet, and use a note stamp to stamp notes here and there.

 

Then I grab my new stencil from Dina Wakley and used black and white acrylic paint and stab the paint on with a mini blending tool from Ranger. I also used a stencil called Dot Fade from Tim Holtz collection. Then I stamped some basic background from Dylusions and the Memoirs stamp from Rubber Dance.   In addition, I stamped notes with gold acrylic Paint.

 

 

I took a Tag and and used it to wipe up the rest of the paint on the workbench so I cut it and stamped notes With gold acrylic Paint, and the Collage Elements I stamp from Rubber Dance and I used the blending tool With Distress Ink black soot around the edge.

 

The guitars and lyrics I found on the internet. And of course the ticket it's my own that I used on Thursday at the Metallica concert. It was a very good concert. Very good music and very good atmosphere :-)

 

Here is some close ups:

 

 

 

 

 

Here is the final result. I am very pleased with it. I hope you enjoyed it and that I gave you some inspiration.

Let art meet art <3

 

Hope you will give me a comment just so I know you're out there :-) And please come and visit me again soon.

 

Hugs, Niti/Anita

 

oh, I almost forgot - I paintet the letters in Metallica with gold acrylic paint. Just so you know it :-)