My thoughts - My Art Journal - Always kiss me goodnight

Always kiss me goodnight

Sometimes when the days are the darkest, I'm very happy that I have my hobby, and that I am an art journalist. Then I disappear into my room and Paint, Stamp and draw me a better day. I can express my feelings through the art and do not have to relate to people who may not understand and just makes my day worse....

I have a disease that is very difficult to understand. Even for me. I was told to live with it and not fight it. It is very difficult, but I try. I realy try.

This page I made yesterday when I suddenly came to think that; I want to be loved, I want to be useful and not least I want to live. This was the result of my thoughts yesterday:

Always kiss me goodnight

It's a Norwegian proverb that says: "Elsk meg når jeg fortjener det minst, det er da jeg trenger det mest". And that is soooo true.

I wish you a very nice weekend and I hope you soon will come back.

Please leave me a comment - I very much appreciate it! ♥ Take care!

Hugs, Anita

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Art Journal page tutorial at Rubber Dance Scandinavian blog

Hello and welcome

hope you are still alive after black friday chaos ☺I kept me safely at home.

I just pop in to give you a litle peek of my Art Journal Tutorial at Rubber Dance Scandinavian Blog today.

Don't forget about the 15% discount code you'll get on your next order in the Rubber Dance online store using Anita2015.

Please come and visit me again soon.

Take care!
Hugs, Anita
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Flower Power - A tribute to Mimi Bondi

Hello and welcome

today the winter has arrived to Norway and my hometown Bergen. When I get up this morning the temperatur was about -1c (minus one celsius). Thats cold! But at least we have sunshine in Bergen and that's the great part ☺

Anyway, I am reading the fantastic book of Mimi Bondi from the Sunny side of life: "No shenanigans". Do you remember me getting the book? I told you about it on my previous blog post. You can see the blog post here



I have chosen one of her wonderful artwork and gone step by step and made this:

I just love these flowers and the intense colours. This is my preliminary favorite painting!

It's a bit odd to make warm flowers when it's winter out here ☺

I think it was absolutely gorgeous. Thank you so much, Mimi for your fantastic tutorials and inspiration. I must also say that I think it was very nice to read the book too. Many good tips and humor. I would recommend anyone to buy this! Yes, it was the current advertising *LoL*.

Thats all for today, folks. I will soon come back with more. Make sure to stay tuned ☺

Hugs, Anita
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Do what you Love. Love what you do - This make me SMILE

Hi again :-)

I promise you to show you what I've been doing for the last past days. And voila - here it is

This is my big Art Journal book from Dylusions.

I startet with gesso all over the page,  so I made balls of paint here and there with the colors pink, yellow, green and blue. Let it all dry and then i came in with Rubber Art Stamps from the collection called Arty Hearty and stamp some heart here and there.

I used a stencil for the arrow-like stuff, and stamped some gorgeous pocket watch from the Rubber Art Stamps collection called Collages Elements. I also drew some curves with my Uni Posca Pen.

Here is some close up of the gorgeous pocket watch

Then I came in with a stamp - still from Rubber Dance Art Stamp, from the collection called New Retro Beach.

Then I used paint brush mixed some gesso with water and painted a little here and there with mixed gesso just to make the colour of the paint and the stamps mixed beautiful togheter.

This beautiful flower is from the collection Antique Botanicals. As you can see of the picture below I stamped this flower on top of the gesso.

Then I took a little more paint and painted a little here and there and made some circles with my fingers, and some gold paint and stamp some more of the pocket watch with gold painting.

and did some doodling

Here is some more close up of the finaly results

This Art Journal Page was really fun to make. I hope I have inspired you also to play with stamps and paint.

I think i will join in with this Art Journal page for the challenge at http://ourcreativecorner6.blogspot.co.at/2015/06/what-makes-you-smile.html

because this Art Journal spread make me SMILE :-) And if I win this june-challenge I will smile even more : -))

Doodling, stamping, art, colours, drawing, play with different techniques,colours and materials make me happy and SMILING!

I hope you will give me a comment so that I know you're out there and follow me in my artistic world.

I will soon be back. Until then - take care!

Hugs from Niti :-)