New Challenge - Use an animal stamp!

Hello and welcome!

There is a new Challenge over at Rubber Dance Blog today; Use an animal stamp. And here is my inspiration for the Challenge:

On this tag I've used,  Elephant, Frosty Friends, Sarcastic Superpower, Pines Fir Yew and Mushroms stamp

Hop over to Rubber Dance blog and join the challenge, there is awesome prizes to win!

With this tag I am also joining the Challenge over at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity.

Thank you for visiting, I will be back tomorrow with the Tips and Tricks Monday post.

Hugs, Anita 

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Tips and Tricks Monday - Wonderful and inspiring cards and stickers for the Happy Planner Calendar

Hello and welcome!

Monday morning blues... I had a wonderful weekend!
Especially Saturday because I had four very good girlfriends over, where we chatted and solved all problems in the world, drank delicious wine and ate deer pot (which my husband had made for us).
Such moments are precious. I get very sick after such nights because of my illness, but sometimes I just have to live a little too. I hope you had a wonderful and memorable weekend too. 

Today I want to show you a great way to use, for example, the Rubber Dance stamps:

I have extremely much design paper lying around.I have a whole shelf of paper in various colors and patterns, and when I sat looking at my shelf the other day, I thought hmmmm ...... why not? Why not make some cards I can use in my Big Happy Planner?

Instead of buying expensive stickers and cards from the calendar manufacturers, we can make them ourselfs. Right? 

You can even use them in other projects such as in art journal, or give them away as small cozy presents along with a box of chocolate or a bottle of wine.

Of course I do not want to use everyone at once over my calendar, I just put them up to show you all I've made :-) 

Stamps used in this project is: 

Beautiful Words

Think Again

Something Wonderful

All of the stamps I've used on this project you can find in the Rubber Dance online store.

You can of course also use the other stamps that are not text on either, or both. For example, a flower and a nice phrase. Such I want to make now. Now I was actually a little inspired by myself    LoL :-)

I hope I also inspired you a little. Next monday I will come back with another little tips or tricks or both :-) 

Thank you so much for visiting! 

Hugs, Anita 

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Reversed canvas - a blogpost for Mixed Up Magazine Merchandise

Hello and welcome,

I have my first bloggpost for the Mixed Up Magazine blog today showing step by step how I did use a lot of pritables on a reversed canvas.

Here is a sneak peak:

Hop over to Mixed Up Magazine's blog to see the finish Project and a step by step how I did this canvas.

To get your hands of these wonderful printables visit Mixed Up Magazine's Etsy store here.


Thank you for visiting.

Hugs, Anita
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Seek beauty - inspiration for a new challenge

Hello and welcome!

This month there is a new Challenge over at Mixed Media Monthly Challenge Blog.
Rubber Dance is sponsor for this Challenge and  I made this canvas for the inspiration.

On this canvas I've used the funny fungi stamp set from Rubber Dance.

Create a project that plays off of the color scheme in the challenge graphic above and you can win a $30 gift certificate to the Rubber Dance Online Store!!!

Thank you for visiting.

Hugs, Anita
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Be true to you - wall decoration with MixedUp Magazine's Merchandise printables

Hello and welome,
today, October 1th, there is a new issue of Mixed Up Magazine out, and in this number I represent this project where I have used printables from MixedUp Magazine's Merchandise. These are some freebies that is being offered on the Mixed Up Mag blog during October.  

The background/fence are ice sticks that my four year old daughter has gathered for me after she has eaten her ice cream. 

I have washed them and painted them, first with a slightly darker green color, then I used Tim Holtz crackle paint and on top of that I used a slightly lighter green color.

I have colored the ribbons and the shoes to the girls red and yellow to match the flowers.

And I have used black pen around the people and brown distress ink around the edge of the other elements.I have punched holes in two of the sticks to pull the rope through and hang it up on the wall.

These free printables is so fun! There is a lot of poosibilities. Keep an eye out for them on the Mixed Up Blog during October!

Thank you for visiting. 

Hugs, Anita 

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Art journal page with hand carved stamps

Hello and welcome,

I've taken up a fun hobby, stamp carving. It is both fun and relaxing. If you have not tried it before, you have to do it!

I've made a art journal spread using my own carved stamps. What do you think?

The sentence is Rubber Dance stamp

Thank you for visiting. Take care!

Hugs, Anita
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Reminder of a fun challenge at Rubber Dance Blog

Hello and welcome.

I just came by to remind you of the fun Challenge over at Rubber Dance blog.

I made this art journal page with some of my favourite stamp set; Textured Houses, for your inspiration:

This is how I did this art journal page:
I started with Dylusions Paint in the colour Funky Fuchsia, Squeezed Orange and Pomegranate Seed and a blending tool on the page. I used some stencils with the same colours over the page to achieve some pattern. Then I used my palette knife and scratched some white paint here and there over the page. I took all those tiny background stamps from the set and stamped (still with the same colours that I've used all the time) over the page. I stamped the houses on a paper called Newsprint and cut them out and glued them down on my page. I took Dylusions ink (as I have filled in water pens) and coloured in some of the houses. I wrote my thoughts with black Stabilo pen all over the page, made some white circles with my fingers and white paint. The heart is stamped in the centre of each circle with Plum Archival Ink. And for the final touch I used Posca pens in different colours and made some splatters on the page. I also scribbled around the white circles and around on the page with grey and black pencil.

Come on and join the fun!

Thank you for visiting.

Hugs, Anita
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