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
♥

October Challenge - Rubber Dance Stamps

Hello and welcome to my post of Autumn.

I love autumn! That is my favorite season. That's because I have birthday in the autumn, but also because I like to enjoy myself inside with candles, deer stew, fire in the fireplace and curl up well in the couch with a good glass of wine and maybe a good series on Netflix :-) And I can also go to my studio and be creative with a good conscience.

Today I want to show you a Art Journal Page I just did With the gorgeous stamps from Rubber Dance. Remember to join in on the Challenge over at Rubber Dance and you can win some of these beautiful stamps I've used on this page.

I was based in the colors for October and the theme:

October Challenge:

 

And here is my contribution to the month Challenge - I called it "The Tree of Love":

 

The tree of love

 

 I have drawn the body of the deer. Are not completely satisfied, think it looks more like a dog ... LoL

 

 

 

 

The stamps I've been use is:
- Deer head is from Frosty Friends
- The bird is from Frosty Friends
- The cones is from Frosty Friends
- The weed is from Weed Love
All the stamps I've been used and much more you can find and buy at Rubber Dance online store. If you use the discount code Anita2015 you will get 15% of.


I hope I will see you soon - until then have a wonderfull day

Hugs, Niti/Anita
<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
<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

Step by step tutorial - colourful butterfly

Hi and welcome to my blog
This time I will show you step by step how to do this one like I promised you at my latest post.

 If you dont remember it or if you are a brand new visitor of my blog you can take a look by clicking here.

I told you in my post of August 15 (you can find the post here), that we dont have any summer here as I live...... but now we have it! It is an absolutely wonderful weather. Hot and sun from a cloudless sky. Had it like for a week now, yay! :-)

But now back to the butterfly:

1. First smear gesso all over the Art Journal page


2. Acrylic Paint in color light green, green, pink, yellow, ligth orange and purple

 

3. Add some gesso here and there to tie the colors together

 

 

 

4. Then I added some more Paint in the same colours

 

5. then some stamps from the Rubber Dance Collection. This beautiful butterflies wings is from the set called Collage Elements I

 6. More stamps from Rubber Dance. This is from the Collection called Antique Botanicals

7. Then I draw a half butterfly with my black pen. I hope you can see it on the Picture below

8. Finaly I used black acrylic paint and paintet around the butterfly wings

 9. And for the last but not least i used the Antique Botanicals stamp from Rubber Dance and emossed them with silver embossing powder, and some doodling around them

 

And here it is. I hope you like it and that my step by step was inspiring and helpful.

 



Before the sun rose in the morning this week, I made this little work of art. I am very satisfied with this one.

 

All stamps I've used comes from Rubber Dance



You are very welcome to visit me again soon and leave me a comment.
Until you visit me again, have a wonderful day!

Hugs Niti/Anita <3

Hot'n Crazy Art Journal - some inspiration for Mixed Media Art

Hi!
In my last post - as you can see by clicing here, I did promise you to come up with some madness, and here it is:


DELIGHT IN EACH CRAZY MOMENT SHINE ON!

Another dobble page in my Art Journal. This time I use warm colours just to get some summer feeling. We have not had any summer yet, in my opinion, where I live in Norway, then I found out that I paint the summer feeling instead :-)

I think of summer as warm red, orange, turquise and yellow so i've used these colours - unless the yellow, for the background. Then I stamp different flowers all over the page, and stamp a Board around the page. Then I took some gesso on my finger and rub it in here and there on the page, just to get the colors to blend nicely together.

I took a lot of different stencils and make some very nice pattern and depth to my page using exactly the same colors that I used for the background, and I also used yellow. Then I used some rubber stamps both from Dylusions and from Rubber Dance to make some more pathern and life to the page using black and white ink. I cut out the big bird, lady's face and body from Magazines and the rest of the images I stamped, cut out and colored them with Distress Ink and Promarker Pens. Then I glued all Down to the page. The small flowers I find in my stuff, glue them down and slew them with a small dot of Liqued Pearls on each petals.  Around the edge I used my white pen here and there.

Here is some close ups for you:

I am in to these fun Challenge with my Hot'n Crazy Art Journal page:

Try it on tuesday - Use Stencils
http://tuesdaytaggers.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/use-stencils-is-new-challenge-at-try-it.html

Our Creative Corner - Mexico Moods
http://ourcreativecorner6.blogspot.co.at/2015/07/mexico-moods.html

Next time I will, among other Things, show you step by step  how to get depth, pattern and life in you artwork. I hope you will visit my blog and leave me a comment it is very much appreciated.

Until next time - Go crazy :-)

Hugs, Niti
<3

My art on canvas - Everything is possible and Good things are going to happen

Hi
it's so good to see that you came and visit me. I hope you are doing fine.

I've had so much fun this days by making these canvases, The first one I called 'Everything is possible'. I started With gesso all over the canvas (30 * 40 cm), then I had som washi tape in the midle. I used some gesso Wash all over and then I draw the Girls face and took my Creons and draw some circles. And a stencil for some pattern. If you take a look at my post of yesterday you can see how it looks like. You can find the post by cliking here

If you want a tutorial - step by step please let me know and a will post a step by step with picture for you..... Maybe I should try to make a live tutorial? Would that be interesting? Please let me know, okey?

What do you think of my art? I am very satisfied with my work.

 

 

And this one I called 'Good Things are going to happen'. This is also canvas 24*30 cm. On this one I used paper from a old book and some pieces from a cardboard Box, acrylic Paint, and some stencils and rubberstamps.

And just because I've used so much pattern and gorgeous textures on this canvas I will try my luck  over at Mixed Media World, for this Challenge http://mixedmediaworld.blogspot.no/2015/08/mmw6-gorgeous-textures.html - MMW'#6: Gorgeous Textures, With my 'Good Things are going to happen' (I do hope so anyway).

There is a lot more bright colour in both canvases, but unfortunately it don't appear on the photo. They looks better in live :-)

Okey, that was it for today; I hope you will leave me a comment and also let me know if you want a tutorial. I will be happy to show you a step by step :-)

Until the next time have a great time and make something beautiful <3
I will soon come back and show you something madness ;-)


Hugs from Niti/Anita

Because I'm Happy - Me, the thrilled member of a marvelous Design Team

Helo you Sweeties

It’s Sunday today, but it’s not just only a Sunday, it is a very special Sunday for me. It’s now official that I’ve become a very proud member of the Rubber Dance Skandinavian Design Team J And I’m just overthrilled. This is a dream come true.

Not only do I get the opportunity to show my artistic skills, but I get in addition allowed to become acquainted with many wonderful artistic people around the world. Where we can both support, encourage, and last but not least, inspire each other. No wonder I’m happy :-)

You can read more about Me, Rubber Dance, Bibi (the big Boss and the Designer and Developer of the beautifull Rubber Stamps), and all the other remarkable Design Team members here






And to celebrate the good things I've just made this marvelous piece of art - if I do say so myself :-)

This background is a bit special. I have used clingfilm from the kitchen. The technique is simple but ingenious, and I just loooove the result.

This time I just used stamps from Rubber Dance. You can find and buy all the stamps I have used and even more fantastic rubber Stamps here

I realy do hope you want to come back and visit me on my blog, cause here is a lot of inspiration and glory, and it's just getting better and better.

If you want a step by step tutorials, or/and want to know which equipment I used on this Art Journal page, please write me a comment and I promise you both answer you and also Publish a step by step tut on my blog. Just to make you happy :-)

Finally, I would just like to say a BIG THANK YOU to Bibi (the big Boss over at Rubber Dance) who have given me this opportunity. I am very glad that I have discovered you and your wonderful stamps. Must of course emphasize that you are also a very talented artist and a lovely human being.

Until next time - Be Happy and give the world a big happy SMILE!


Hugs, Niti/Anita x

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

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 :-)

Rubber Dance June Colour Challenge

Gooooood morning sunshine! It's a beautiful Day coming up :-)

We who lives in Norway and espesially Bergen this Days have to keep up the positive thougt. It's june 11. and only 8 degrees Celsius outside and heavy rain..... When will we get to experience to feel the summer heat and see the sun?

In the meantime - I create something sunny by the sea yesterday evening and this is my contribution for the challenge over at Rubber Dance:
http://rubberdance.blogspot.com/p/colour-challenge.html

For June our colours are:

Sunny/sand yellow, green and ocean blue.

In addition to our colour scheme, our OPTIONAL theme for June is Sand & Sea

Here is my contribution for this months colour challenge at Rubber Dance. I hope you like it - and that I win ;-)
I used Rubber Dance Art stamps collection called New Retro Beach

Some close up of my card. 

And here is a picture of what i used. Unfortunately I forgot to bring in the glue and Baking Baper for the picture. I used crumpled Baking Paper to create the sea. And some Mod Podge to glue the pearls and the fishnet.

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