Happy Birthday art journal page for Rubber Dance

Hello and welcome,
today it's my turn to have a blog post over at Rubber Dance. Please visit and take a look, it is a art journal page this time.

Here is a little sneak peak:

I wish you a wonderful and creative day!

Hugs, Anita
♥

Four seasons, four techniques - four canvas

Helo and welcome
This post I had in Norwegian at the Scandinavian Rubber Dance blog September 6., and to the extent that my English speaking readers want to read about the four techniques I have used, I just post it here for you as well.

I started with four small stretched canvas size 10 cm x 10 cm. Prepared with the Gesso - except the one that I should use Pan Pastel on.

Canvas 1 - Spring - dare to - this is the hope season - heart means hope, love - Dare to ......
Here I used color combination from May, which was yellow, pink and purple. Used Embossing stamp and stamped the background and colored into this with Pan Pastel colors in purple, pink and yellow. Then I stamped the heart on a tissue paper, tore around it and glued it on the canvas with Mod Podge. The same I did with the sentence; Dare to.

 Canvas 2 - Summer - Believe - summer, we can believe in everything - it's summer, there is sun, there is bright evenings.Here I stamped the cute little butterflies around on a page of an old book I had lying around. Clip looked routes and glued them on the canvas with modge Podge. Then I stamped the flower with Archival ink on paper, cut out the flower and leaves separately and colored leaves green with Distress Ink and flower with pink Distress ink color. When this was dry I painted Glimmer Structur Ice with a small brush on both the flower and the leaves - then they got a very nice, shiny polished look. I decided to bring a yellow butterfly and also did  the same steps with the butterflies like the flower.
 Meanwhile canvas dried and I could apply some washed gesso over the entire canvas. Washed gesso = gesso mixed with water so that it becomes a lean mixture. Took a bubble-stencil and modeling paste and applied a little down and the right edge of the canvas. This is to get some volume in the image. This I let dry long before I took up my gelatos and dyed canvas to August colors were pink, yellow and green. After this was dry, I  stamped the word Belive right up on the canvas. Flower and butterfly were glued on with such a small adhesive pad. In addition, I made two small feelers on the butterfly with brass wire and glued them on with Instant glue. I also used black and white Posca pen to create some effect on the image.

Canvas 3 - Autumn - Dream - then we can dream about the summer that was or coming spring. Autumn is the dream season.Here used color combination for September which was mustard, red and dark orange. I began by pasting on a design sheets in a light brown color with modge Podge. Then sealed everything with modge Podge and let this dry. I used the heat gun to dry it. So I used a technique which is called Peeled Paint. Spent some Vaseline patchy around and painted so with the dark red acrylic paint. Dried thoroughly with my heat gun, took a wet wipe and dried over canvas - gently. So I took more Vaseline around and painted with the dark orange color. Dried and washed off with wet wipe. You can do this as many times as you like, but I stopped there because I would only use colors for september. Stamped word dream (from kit "Affirmations"), crown deer and some cones on the canvas with Archival ink.

A little tip if you use paper design in a thick  version - it becomes more manageable if you spray some water on it and then roll it back and forth with your hands. You preparing the fibers so the paper become more manageable to work With.

Canvas 4 - winter - Wish - you may wish that it will soon be Christmas, you may want something special for Christmas, or you may wish it was summer.....
Here I used the technique of newsprint. Tore out a page in Bergens Tidende (my local newspaper) and leave it on my workbench. Swabbed on gesso throughout. Dried properly and then I sprayed with Dylusions Ink Spray, with colors for December as was pink, purple and turquoise. Showered some water over and rolled over with a paper towel roll and dried with heat gun. It was absolutely beautiful colors - as you can see on the Picture below.

 

I tore off a suitable bit so I got with all the colors and glued the piece on the canvas with modge Podge. Dried. Stamped the word Wish and some snow crystals with Distress Ink in color Stormy Sky. Secondly, I painted snowpaint (when it dries it looks like snow). And so I stamped snowman on. As you can see was not the totally perfect, but it does not matter because I have made a snowman from before that I should just paste on top. Thus, the Stamped snowman just a shadow of himself ... :-)
I took my black Distress marker and drew up the arms of the snowman, so they appear a little better. Then I glued the snowman with double sided tape.
The snowman I have stamped on one side of an old book. Dyed with two-tone turquoise in Distress Ink and the hat in a purple color, the carrot I dyed with orange Stampers Big Brush Pen and so I cut it out. I think the snowman is absolutely beautiful.

This was my interpretation of the four seasons, four color combinations and four techniques. I hope you enjoyed my small canvas and  that I gave inspiration. Below is a small selection closeup of some details.

 If you have any questions please write questions in the comments below and I'll be glad to respond to you.

All the stamps that are used you can buy in online store Rubber Dance. Below is a list of links to all of the stamps I've used in this Project:

On the Canvas Spring I used: Arty Hearty og Affirmations     

On the canvas Summer I used: Antique Botanicals og Affirmations

On the canvas Fall and Winther I used: Frosty Friends og Affirmations

I hope you enjoyed my four seasons and you will soon come back and visit me.

Hugs,
Niti/Anita
<3

Sneak peek - four season four techniques on canvas

Good morning my beautiful shiny friends

I just popin' by to  make you aware of my post over at Rubber Dance Scandinavian blog where I show step by step four canvas with four seasons and four techniques.

Come on over at Rubber Dance Scandinavian blog and take a look. Here is a sneak peak:

I will soon come back and show your more fun and creativity. Make sure you stay tuned :-)

Please give me a comment below if you have any question and/or if you just want to say Hello.

Hugs,
Niti/Anita
<3

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

My new Art Journal Page and some good news :-)

Hi folks :-)

I made this art journal page when I was waiting for my brand New Rubber stamps from Rubber Dance. I thougt it came out very Nice. What do you think? 

I have to tell you; I'm so happy these days. I have been selected to participate in Rubber Dance's new Norwegian Design Team. I am SO happy and proud to have been given this opportunity. Its going to be so much fun. We'll start on August 1. Stay tuned! :-)

If you are norwegian and interest in art and rubber stamps take a look at this site:

http://rubberdanceblogg.blogspot.no/2015/04/dt-call-norske-designere-skes.html

Maybe we can play together : )

While I was writing this post my new gorgeus rubberstamps from Rubber Dance Art Stamps thumping right in my mailbox. Oh lucky day! :-)

I will soon come back and show you my stamps and some of my art using Rubber Dance rubberstamps. Don't go away!

Hugs from Niti :-)

Jeg liker ikke å snakke - This is my Norwegian kind of art :-)

Hi, it's me again :-)

I promise you yesterday that the next thing i will show you is My newest art on canvas. And here it is :)

Jeg liker ikke å snakke;
da tror jeg ikke meg selv.
Men blomstene her vil takke
allikevel!

Suddenly I realized that I could also take this  peace of art to the Challenge at Rubberdance.blogspot.no. What a brilliant idè ; ) So her I go again. I think I'm addicted....
This applies to participate in the contest:
For May, the colours are bright summery shades of purple, hot pink and sunshine yellow

In addition to our colour scheme we also have an optional THEME: FLOWERS

Here is the link to the May-Colour-Challenge:
http://rubberdance.blogspot.no/2015/04/may-colour-challenge.html


I hope I will win and that I can recive some of the amazing rubber stamps from Rubber Dance Art as prize. They are all gorgeous, but I did find some favorites. That I can talk about another time. Now lets concentrate on my art on canvas.




I did my art on canvas 20 * 20 cm. this time. For the backround i used tissuepaper from Tim Holtz: Idea-ology - melange. I glue this on with mixed media matt. Let it all dry over night, and then I paint over with gesso mixed with water. Let it dry.

Then I came in with acrylic paint with the fab. coulor Pastel Pink, Pastel blue and Pastel Violet. I painted with babywipes so the colour just melted beautiful together. Then i colored the Big Butterfly with Faber Castell Gelatos in tree different pink coulor.


Then I stamped the background with the background collection from Dylusions called Basic Backgrounds.




I Stamped the flowers who is from Tim Holtz collections called Flowegarden and cut them out. I colored the flowers with Distress Ink in shades of purple, hot pink and sunshine yellow ;) Then I stamped the leaves direct on the canvas (this is from Dylusions collection called Around the Edge), and colored the leaves with Gelatos in two different green colour.




The Verse I have taken from a famous Norwegian writer and Lyricer called Arnulf Øverland. He was born in Kristiandsund in 1889, and died in Oslo in 1968.




I written the Verse into a bit of a design sheet, cut it out and glue it onto the canvas and then doodle a "sew edge" around it. I thougt the Verse is beautiful. In english it goes something like this: "I don't like to talk. When I do I do not believe myself, but the flowers here will thank anyway!"
I think the Verse sounds better in Norwegian....  :)

I do hope that I remember it all, but if I don't please do not hesitate to ask if you have any question, okidoki?

In closing I will just show you my mixed medium art collage in my Art Journal that  I received tremendous positive response on Facebook and Instagram. I am very proud of this one : ) What do you think? Did you like it?





I'l be back! In the meantime please write me a comment, just so I know you are out there and watching my art, and hopefully get inspired to do art yourself.


Hugs from Niti : )