I haven't been everywhere but it's on my list - An art journal spread for a travel dreamer

Hello and welcome!

I love to travel. I have been in many different countries during my almost 50 years of life. I have been in Sweden, Denmark, England, Croatia, Austria, Ireland, Spain, Italy, France, Tallinn, The Netherlands, Thailand, Bali and Mauritius. And of all the countries and cities I've been to, it's one country I totaly falled in love with, and I dreaming of returning to maaaany  many times, and that is Mauritius. 

What a wonderful country! A beautiful People! Imagine that so many religions can live so close together on an island without war.....The largest group, 48%, is Hindus. 32.7% are Christians, with the Catholic Church as the largest church community. 17.3% of the population belongs to Islam. And they live together in harmony. I love the Mauritus People. 

Me, my husband and our daughter who was one year at that time spend a month on Mauritus in 2014. We also get married there, so I have many good and lovely memories from this beautiful island.

This art journal spread is my homage to the country I felt so deeply in love with.

 And with this I also participate in Dina Wakley's and Rangers' #ShowusyourMEdia challenge this month as having theme travel.

Materials used:

- Art journal

- Dina Wakley's stamps: Scribbly Insects and Funky Journal Shapes

- Dina Wakley's Paint - color: Lime, Marine, Ocean, Tangerine, Cheddar and     Lemon

- Collage Words

- Collage paper

- Black and white pen

- Dina Wakley's Ultra Thin Gel Medium

Some details:

Thank you for visiting! 

Hugs, Anita

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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
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Decorating the front cover of Mini File Folder Art Journal - video tutorial - Step three

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I have made a series on how to make a Mini File Folder Art Journal from the start to finish. This is a tutorial on how I decorated the front cover of the Mini File Folder Art Journal. There will also be videos of how to decorate the pages inside the book. I will show you a lot of fun techniques and a lot of very funny pictures with hilarious texts designed by Betsy Skagen. 

My idea is to make a book filled with humor. It's so small that it can be with me in my purse and I can draw and doodle whenever I want to. And I can just take a look at the pages/pictures the book when I feel a bit down.

My thought is that it will be a never ending book. I can add more pages with ex. washi tape, I can stamp, I can draw and doodle and make marks. I can add bits and pieces, you know - everything is allow in mixed media.

I hope you will enjoy the video.

Tomorrow I come back with a new video on how to decorate a page inside the Mini Art Journal with a image/focal point designed by Betsy Skagen as mentioned above. Here is a sneak peak:

The printables I've used on the front of my Mini File Folder Art Journal is from Mixed Up Magazine Merhandise.

Please subsribe on my YouYube Channel for more videos to come,

and remember you can also follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nitien/

Thank you for visiting! 

Hugs, Anita
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Pouring Art on canvas

Hello and welcome!

Yesterday I participated in something called Pouring course. It was a course that was held by a local art store here in the city where I live. I had a great time doing this. Pouring is also called Floritol Art, and probably other things as well. I think this is my thing. I love this technique, it is so unpredictable.

Here are some pictures from the course, and some of my canvas where I've used this Pouring technique:

This is my make on the course. The Paint is still very wet. It has to dry for a couple of days.

This is the teacher and the owner of the Art Store, Malepaletten, showing this fun technique for us.

These two are canvases I made before the course with the Pouring technique

I will show you the finish result of my canvas I made on the course when it's dry. 

You will definitely see more of this in the future 😊 

Thank you for visiting! I will soon come back with a video tutorial on how to decorate my Mini File Folder Art Journal. You who follow me know what I am talking about. If not click here to find out. 

Hugs, Anita❤ 

The Madonna from Norway - a different art journal spread

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Today I want to show you a art journal page I did for the Challenge at Aall and Create.
The 1. Challenge is Europe and this is my interpretation of this Challenge:

The base is the Norwegian very well-known artist, Edvard Munch. I have some texture in the background with white texture paste and a stencil, then I draw the Madonna of Edvard Munch on a pre painted paper, and glued her down on my art journal page. For this I use a pencil and the Stabilo all pencil.

I tore some pages out of my French-Norwegian dictionary and glued them down. Some mark making with pencil. Stamped the numbers 1894 and 1895 as are the years Munch used to paint Madonna. And therefore the blue thread that goes through the different elements. My hole pages elements is connected to each others.

AALL and Create: ITAC'17 - Challenge 1 Europe

A face - Madonna

Papers - The drawing and book page

Letters, numbers - Number Stamp (the year of the original painting)

Blue for the colour of the European Union, Union Jack - Blues & Greens

Ribbon, twine, string or lace - Blue Embroidery thread

Textures – take inspiration from history from ancient civilisations to the fall of the Berlin Wall - Texture with Modelig paste and stencil

Something both vintage and modern - Vintage Madonna with Modern drawing

#itac17 #itac17challenge1 #aallandcreate

Thank you for visiting. 

Hugs, Anita 💗

Litle doll in the frame be authentic one of a kind - A mechanical mixed media canvas

Hello and welcome,

today I want to show you a 3D mixed media canvas I've made. This was SO fun! A lot of layers and metallique. The paper Dolls is soften it up a bit. I really like the result and the play!

This is a canvas in size 17,5 x 23,5 cm. I have used a lot of embellishment that I have glued either with Soft Matte Gel or Glue Gun on my canvas first, 

then I paintet it all first with gesso

after gesso was dry I paintet all with Finnabairs acrylic Paint in metallique Emerald green and Deep waters.

Then I did some highlightning with white gesso for interest

I paintet the Prima resin frame with Finnabairs Paint in Opal Magic Violet-green first

I still think it was a bit too light so I used Lindy's spray in the color Baby Blue Eyes Aqua and sprayed a little here and there on the frame.

Now it looks better, and it's time to gather it all together on the canvas.

I painted some metal butterflies in the same color as the canvas and glue them down with glue gun.

The big butterfly is a butterfly that I have printed out from Pinterest, and used several layers of glossy accents, and then I have glued two small pieces of wire as antenna on the butterfly.

The Paper Dolls  in the frame is from Tim Holtz Idea-Ology Collection, the Words is quote chips from Tim Holtz.

The star and the number is Transparent Tiles, Alpha from Tim Holtz Idea-Ology.

The metal gear I do not know where comes from, I bought it on the internet a long time ago.

With this mixed media canvas I join the Challenge at:

Try it on Tuesday - Steampunk/Mechanical
Simon Says Stamp - Touchy Feely
Mixed Media Word - Anything Mixed media Goes


Thank you so much for visiting. Take care!

Hugs, Anita
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