SCG #66 ~ Stripes

Hi all!
So, it's time for yet another challenge over at the Southern Girls. Now is the time to find your striped paper and make something gorgeous for us! ;)

This time I've used a digital stamp from The Paper Shelter, called So stylish.

I've coloured her with Distress reinkers and think she goes well with the sentiment from Dylusions!

Thanks for stopping by my place - hope you'll join our challenge!
Siv xx

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Birthday metal tag

A wonderful collegue of mine had her birthday yesterday, and of course I had to make her a tag!

This time I landed on metal tape and lots 'n lots of Tim Holtz stuff!

And then some detail photos..

Happy Easter to all of you!

Siv xx

Crackled glass bell

I got this glass bell from Melissa Frances as a challenge from Connie at Hobbykunst. "Do what you like with it," she said.. Cool! :)

I immediately thought of a vintage bottle that Wendy Vecchi once made using crackle paint. It's on her blog somewhere.. I decided to use her technique for my glass bell.

First I primed the glass bell with multi medium matte from Claudine Hellmuth/Ranger. If you skip this step, the crackle paint will just fall off if you touch it once it's dry.. So, very important!

Once dry, I gave it a generous coat of Distress Crackle paint - Clear rock candy. Then all I had to do was wait patiently...

Crackles beginning to emerge!

 

Then, when the crackle paint had done its part, all I had to do was to decorate the now crackled glass bell inside and out!

I made a decoration from different Mathia flowers, which I glued to the base (that I'd painted in a light pink colour) with my glue gun. Once this was set, I fixed the bell to the base and decorated the outside with some pink string, a charm and a bird on top, and some lace on the bottom. I used a textile pearl pen to make some pearls on the lace.

Here's the finished project:

This was a fun project!

It looks quite fancy, but it was SO easy to make! Why don't you try it?

Have a great weekend!
Siv xx

This is what happened to the pink tag..

Hi!

So I made some tags earlier when I tested out my new Distress Paints. One of them, the pink one, was not finished, and I promised to get back to you when it was..

Well, I finally completed it some days ago, and here it is:

 I think TH thought of me when he made this stamp.. lol

The tag is actually part of a canvas which I made as a sample for Norway's biggest craft store, Hobbykunst, to show how you could use the Distress Paints on canvas. Check it out!

I absolutely adore the bright gorgeous colours, and I had so much fun making it!

Have you tried the Distress Paints yet? You should, they are amazing!!!

You can find them at Hobbykunst!

Siv xx

SGC Challenge 64 ~ Tag you're it; step by step instructions

Hey guys!

I loooove making tags! Therefore I am so excited to announce that in this fortnight's challenge over at the Southern Girls we would like you to show us something with tags. Yaaaay! He he..

This time I have made a tag using Dylusions and a couple of gorgeous stamps from one of our sponsors, Stampotique Originals, called Gooseneck and Bla bla bla. They have plenty of awesome images on their website - why not head on over and take a look?!

 

This time I've decided to make a step-by-step post on my tag. Please continue reading if you wanna take a look!

Yes, yes, YES!!!

Yes!!
I made the design team at Hobbykunst Megastore in Vestby! Can you believe it!?

I'm over the moon and way beyond thrilled to be in, and so so proud!

This calls for a celebration! 

I'll be back with a little candy in a few days, as soon as I have time to gather some stuff together. 

Stay tuned! :)

Whoop whoop!
Siv xx

Trying out my new Distress Paints

Hi there!
So I bought a couple (five to be precise) of the new TH Distress Paints the other day. I used them to create backgrounds for a couple of tags. I put different paints on my craft sheet, spritzed them with water and swiped my tag through. I then misted the tag and dried it.

I made these three backgrounds:

 I just love the marbelised effect these paints give!

Paints used:

Left tag: Seedless preserves, Picked raspberries, Broken china and Picket fence.

Middle tag: Seedles preservevs, Picked raspberries and Picket fence.

Right tag: Broken china, Salty ocean and Picket fence.

I had time to complete two of the three tags. Here are the finished results:

On this last one I used some of the new Dylusions sprays on top of the paints, so you don't see the original background that much...

The pink tag became part of a mixed media canvas. You can read more about it here!

Siv xx

SCG Challenge 62 ~ Bling it on

Hey guys!
It's time for a new challenge over at the Southern Girls. This time we'd like you to use BLING! Now how hard is that?! Lol!

Here's my tag for this challenge

I've used the Marianne Design dies LR0235. 

Here's a close up:

Now go on over to the SGC and join in! There are great prizes to be won!! Good luck!

Siv xx

12 tags of 2013 ~ January

He did it again! His royal craftyness, Tim Holtz, has started another round of 12 tags, one each month. Check out his gorgeous tag for january!

Of course, nothing I make can match Tim Holtz, but I keep on trying.. lol! I love the inspiration I get from his monthly tags, and here's mine for January:

I want to say a big Thank You to Tim for bringing us amazing inspiration every month (or even more often!) - you rock! xx

Thanks for stopping by my place!

Siv xx

SGC #60 ~ Thank you kindly

This fortnight's challenge over at the Southern Girls is all about being thankful. After all the yummy unexpected gifts you may have received over the last month from crafty friends, family and friends we want you to create a project that says "thanks".

This is my thankful contribution...

 I used a gorgeous digital stamp from A Day for Daisies, called Flowers In My Garden in my project.

I decided to make something different this time, and landed on making a painting. It's about 15 x 25 cm, printed on watercolour paper and painted with watercolours.

I made some flowers using the Marianne Design creatables xl die Flowers and Leaf (LR0196).

I hope you'll join our thankful challenge! Thanks for stopping by!

After my house burned down...

Hi!

First of all, HAPPY NEW YEAR! Hope it's been good to you so far. 

Here's my first journal page this year. It's about looking forward and beyond and moving on when sh%# happens to you..

I've used a lot of different Dylusions stamps, stencils and inks to make this double spread. 

I absolutely LOVE all those gorgeous products!!  

(..I suddenly had a feeling I'm repeating myself here..)

 

 

So here's to a fantastic 2013, leave the sh%# from 2012 behind and move on in the new year!

Siv xx

She decided to leap...

Hey all! Another AJ page from me today. I made this for the lovely Dyan Reaveley's latest Dylusions challenge, where we were to use the snow stencil, Santa's beard stamp and the colour London Blue.

 I used London Blue and Pure Sunshine to make the background. I did some ghosting with the large snow stencil, and drew through one of the big snowflakes with a white pen.

I then used the small snow stencil and dabbed through some of the snowflakes with the silver paint dabber from Ranger + drew through the word "snow".

Using a stamp from the Further around the edge set I made a border around the page. I used the Snow cap stamp pad (Adironac pigment ink). Inside this border I stamped skulls from the Dependable Dotty set with Archival ink Aqua. I just love this skull!

The splatter in the bottom right corner was made by Snow cap paint dabber and the splatter stencil from Crafter's Workshop.

The girl is a stamp from Christy Tomlinson's She Art collection. She is coloured with Crushed Grape, Melted Chocolate, London Blue and Postbox Red. I gave her new legs from the Travelling Travis set, a hat from Love Struck Lucy's set and last, but not least, Santa's beard from Christmas Accessories.

The sentiment on the page is from Say what you mean. The one on the girl is part of the stamp. I coloured it with the Scattered Straw Distress Marker. Both sentiments are drawn around with white pen to make them stand out.

I really enjoyed this challenge! Thank you for making me think, Dyan! :)

Wishing you all a wonderful week end!!

Siv xx

Dylusions meets alcohol inks on suitcase lid..

Hi beautiful people!

So, I've got this small suitcase with some of my pens and pencils + + which I use for my journaling. 

This weekend I decided to decorate the lid of it...

I used various Dylusions stamps and coloured them with Adironack alcohol inks...

Here's what you need..

I usually use Archival ink on all my projects, but on this I used StazOn, since it's a solvent ink pad. It dries quickly and the stamped images last long.

 Dried Alcohol ink of various colours. I use the ink pallette from Tim Holtz.

The Adirondack fillable ink pen, filled with Blending solution. With this pen you pick up any of the colours above. Before changing colour, just scribble a bit on the craft sheet, and the pen will clean itself. 

Neat, huh?

Note! Alcohol inks will erase each other. This means that you have to colour with just one layer (not scribble back and forth), or else the stamp that you colour will smudge.

And last, but not least, some stash to put in the suitcase! :)

SGC challenge 58 ~ Pink & brown

Hello everybody!
Over at the Southern Girls we've got a challenge going where we want you to use pink and brown on your projects. What a great colour combo!

This time I made an art journal page, using the Lila May holding flower digital stamp from DTSart and different Dylusions products and gesso. I've coloured the image with Prismacolor pencils and Neocolor crayons.

 

Hope you'll join our challenge! Thanks for popping by!

Tim Holtz inspired card

Hi all!
Just a quick post on the card I made tonight, much inspired by his royal craftsman Tim Holtz.

AJ ~ A life without dreams...

Here's a double page I made in my Dylusions journal (love-love-love!) this week.

I'm afraid the pictures aren't the best, it's really hard to get good pictures when the sun sets so early..

I'll try to upload better ones later...

 

 This splatter is made by Distress reinker Black soot and air on can :)

Whoop whoop!!

Just wanted to spread my happiness and excitement..
Yesterday I booked two classes with the fabulous Dyan Reaveley! Yep, that's right, she's coming to Norway in December!
I'm so so sooo excited!!!!! Can hardly wait!

HAPPY Sunday to everybody! :)