Intuitive art journal play with a tutorial

Hi and welcome,
today I have a YouTube Tutorial for you, Yeah. I hope you get inspired to buy Rubber Dance Stamps and to make something yourself. The possibilies is endless on how you can use your stamps. I show you some ideas in the tut. among with other GREAT ideas hi hi hi 😉

On this project I have used a lot of Rubber Dance Stamps, a Geli Plate, old Paint (?), Dylusion Ink Spray's, Archival Ink, Tim Holtz Stamping Plattform, Tissue paper etc.

I hope you enjoy it.

Note to self 😚

Remember to use the code ASFreeShip if you buy stamps in the Rubber Dance Shop for 15 Euro or more to get….yep… Free Shipping.

Thank you so much for visiting today.

Hugs, Anita
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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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What I admire - a confidences in my art journal

Hello and welcome,

I want to show you an art journal page I made for the ShowusyourMEdia challenge this month.

The theme is to create a piece of art about what you admire. Is it a grand admiration or is it small and simple? How does what you admire enrich your life?

I admire people who brighten up my day and are happy which gives more of themselves than what they take, Those who dare to show happiness and joy. Happiness is what I admire the most.

Happy People enrich my life by beeing happy. You happy, me happy. That is very contagious.

 I have used the burlap page in my Dina wakley Media journal. I stamped the woman on cardboard. Cut out in a square and stretched around with a black pen. Outside the frame I wrote "I admire people who brighten up my day and are happy which gives more of themselves than what they take".

Materials:- Dina Wakley's Media Journal

- Dina Wakley's Scribbly women stamp

- Dina Wakley's Circle Script stamps
- Dina Wakley's Scribble sticks
- Dina Wakley's Collage paper

- Archival ink in black and pink

- Black pen

- White cardstock

- Dina wakley's Ultra thick Matte Medium

Thank you so much for stopping by! Take care. And remember; "Always look on the bright side of life..."

Hugs, Anita 

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Feel the sorrow - art Journaling the sorrow away

Hello and welcome

My father died unexpectedly the night of January 17. It was a big shock and I have a very difficult time now. I thought he would live for many years yet. That we would experience several days together and that he would experience many nice moments with his grandchildren and great grandson. I was wrong.

In my greaf I find comfort in art and in my art journal. So this page is my expression of my sorrow:

Even in the darkest days there is a shade of colors.

In what way do you deal with grief? Music maybe? I think music can also be a help in grief.

The funeral will be on Thursday. Then that is the last goodbye. After that we have to try to live - laught, love, dance and sing.

Tell someone dear "I love you", today. Tomorrow it could be to late.

Thank you for visiting. Take care!

Hugs, Anita

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Today I'm happy - new wonderful stamps arrived

Hello and welcome!

Today I'm very happy. Because I received the most beautiful, coolest, prettiest funniest, cutest stamps ever! When I first saw them I could'nt take my eyes of them -  and here they are, from Rubber Dance to my green ugly mailbox straight to my studio ☺

Tadadaaaa:

Aren't they absolutely adorable? I think so! And so much fun I gotta have with them - you wait and see. So, this is my first prosject made in my Art Journal with my new stamps from Rubber Dance:

Here is some close ups of the beauties:

This stamp is from the Think again set

If you want to buy them and/or others stamps, remember to use the magical code Anita 2016 and you will get 15% of on your purchase.

And just because I'm happy, it's tuesday and it's raining here in Bergen I will give you a direct link to the goodies:

Textured Flowers

Today I choose to be happy

Last but not least I want to say thank you to Bibi that she creates all these wonderful stamps and sends them to me. I love you, Bibi! ♥

Big hug to Bibi, big hug to Susanne Rose who has designed these Textures Flowers, and a big hug to all of you readers and followers! Love you all! ♥

Hugs, Anita

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Good Day vs Bad Day - Art Journal

Hi and welcome
Long time no see. I've been away a lot lately. First I have been in Brussels together with my colleagues, then I have followed my oldest daughter in two days seminar on The multiple sclerosis for new diagnosed. But now I am here and and working on new ideas. Here is a sneak peek - work in progress :-)

 

I will soon come back and show you the final result of my Art Journal Page.

I hope you are doing well and that you have time to be creative.

 

Hugs, Niti

<3

Make art out of a cleaning page

Hello and welcome, it's me again :-)

Today I just want to show you my Art Journal page made of "a cleaning page". It means that this background was created by leftover paint, stampinks and stencilspaint etc. that I cleaned after making other creations. I hope you understand what I mean :-)

So just because the background already was finished I've just used Dylusions Journal Block to make the board around the edge of the page, cut out something from a magazine, and stamped some images on a separate sheet and cut it out, glue it all down with my glue stick, some doodling here and there.
And voila this showed up:

I'm sorry, I don't remember ordening a glass of your opinion

I think the results were pretty good, what do you think?

Pleave me a comment if you have any questions.

I hope to see you soon - until then, take care and be creative.

Hugs, Niti/Anita
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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

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

This has been a bad day - FORGLEM MEG EI

That feeling - when you had a real bad bad Day and just go into your artroom, breathe in the smell of paint, stamps, paper, inks etc. sit down and just begin to make something beautiful out of your feeling... That feeling....

It's priceless. I am so glad that a have this room of mine and the possibility to express myself trought art. 

                                  FORGLEM MEG EI (forgot me not)

       

Tomorow I will come back and give you a list of what I've been using to make this Journal Page. I hope you pop in and say helo. 

Hugs, Niti