Noe godt til kaffen?

Maja Design har kommet med en flott serie nye, lekre, tosidige mønsterark, kalt Coffee in the Arbour. Og hva passer vel bedre enn å lage et lite album med oppskrifter til kaffegodt..?

Jeg startet med å løsne og grunne chipboard coverne til albumet.

Deretter hadde jeg på litt molding paste gjennom en stensil for å få litt struktur på framsiden.

 Da dette hadde tørket, blandet jeg hvit og rosa maling og malte med fingrene...

Mens jeg ventet på at malingen tørket, fant jeg fram alfabet klistremerker og la ut ordene jeg skulle bruke på forsiden. Disse farget jeg med Aged Mahogany (Distress Stains).

Jeg tørket av overflødig blekk med tørkerull...

Da malingen på coverne var tørr, gned jeg over med litt Vintage Photo (Distress Ink), både for å framheve strukturen, men også for å gi albumet et litt eldet utseende.

Jeg tok ut sidene i albumet og farget endene på disse, også med Vintage Photo.

Deretter var det bare å kutte mønsterpapir, sverte kantene med Vintage Photo og lime fast på disse sidene. Jeg gjorde det samme med baksidene, men da brukte jeg farget kartong som matchet neste side. Her var det viktig å planlegge, i og med at det blir doble sider i albumet.

Jeg hadde på forhånd printet ut bilder til oppskriftene. Planen var å ha disse på de ensfargede sidene, og oppskriften på mønsterarksiden. Jeg brukte stort sett baksiden av mønsterpapiret brukt på oppskriftssiden til å ha bak bildet.

Oppskriftene ble printet ut på akvarellpapir og kuttet til passende størrelser. Jeg svertet kantene og monterte på farget kartong (jeg brukte den som var brukt på den tilhørende bildesiden).

Da alt dette var klart, var det bare å kose seg med montering og pynting!

 Her har jeg brukt lekre blomster fra Petaloo.

En artig variant er å skrive deler av oppskriften på en egen liten side. Og hvorfor ikke pynte med kanelstenger på kanelbolleoppskriften..?

Her er noen av sidene i albumet:

Monsters Line Up Birthday Card

Hi!

I've just discovered a new challenge blog called the Mixed Media Monthly Challenge Blog. This being the last day of June, I just made the deadline for the current challenge, where we had to use spray inks on our projects. Me being a Dylusionist, that would be NO PROBLEMO..!

I made a birthday card for my son's friend who's turning five in July.

I've used Dylusions spray inks for the background of both the card and the letters. Both with the same technique - first making a colourful background with three different sprays, then spraying water (ghosting) and then ink through stencils.

I've coloured the monsters from Stampotique ("Monsters Line Up") with Derwent Inktense blocks. The letters are stamps from Papermania. These were stamped on a background made with Dylusions inks and stencils, then cut out and adhered with foam tape.

This was a fun challenge!

Thanks for looking.

Siv x

Nautical themed birthday card

Hello darlings!

It's been too long since I last posted, but sometimes life gets in the way.

Here's a birthday card I made for a former collegue who's son turned 30 earlier this month. He's got two big tattoos with ships, so a nautical theme was natural.. Not the easiest theme for me personally, but I do love a challenge! This is what I came up with:

 Front

 Detail

  Inside

In six days I'm putting my travelling shoes on and will be on my way to Harrogate!

I went for a weekend workshop with Dyan Reaveley at Art From the Heart last year, and this summer I'm doing it again! Not the same workshop obviously.. It will be so awesome!!

Also, another thing I'm really excited about, is that I've signed up for three workshops with Dina Wakley at Hobbykunst Megastore in October! There are still places available, why don't you join me?! :)

Wishing you lots of joy and sunshine

Siv

x

Gear(s) for hair.. Hey, I made it rhyme! Well, almost..

Here's a card that I made for Hobbykunst a while back, for their Tim Holtz wall..

I thought it would be cool to give this gorgeous classical face a contrast, and came up with using gears for hair..

Detail:

The gears are made from grungeboard, embossed with Distress Embossing powder Vintage Photo and inked with Distress Ink Rusty Hinge to give the rusty effect.

Dies used are Tim Holtz Alterations Gadget Gears (Bigz) and Gears (movers and shapers).

Stamp is from Tim's set Classics no 5.

Cardstock from Core 'dinations.

Thanks for stopping by my place!

Siv xx

Tim Holtz tags

I love making tags!
I Love (capital L..) Tim Holtz' products!

I Love Tim's techniques!

And when Connie at Hobbykunst asks for Tim tags, guess who's the happy crafter?!

Here are the ones I've made so far..

They've all incorporated techniques from Creative Chemistry 102.

 Embossing through layering stencil - rusted enamel

 Chalking technique

Mixed media technique

I never get tired of Tim's products and techniques!!

Thanks for looking :)

Siv x

Birthday card for an 80 year old man

This card I made earlier this year when the lovely Thor turned 80.

It's been so long since I made it that I don't really remember the details.. Only that I used kraft core cardstock (Tim Holtz), lots of distressing and sewing.. The clock is a TH die.

Thanks for looking!

Wishing you all a peaceful and wonderful new year.

Siv xx

Fly away ~ a mixed media canvas

Hi all!

Just a quick post to show you a canvas I made when I was in the European Scrap Challenge. I'd never made a canvas like that before, and it was great fun making it. I think this one is really "me".. 

I've painted the canvas with Distress paint Black soot and Stewart Gill MetaMica paint Moonlight and Silver. The MetaMica paints are absolutely gorgeous!!!

I've embellished with lots of different Tim Holtz idea-ology products and flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts, sprayed with Dylusions Black marble.

The flying steampunk man is a stamped image from Lost Coast Designs, an American company with soooo many gorgeous stamps!!

Hope you all will have a fabulous weekend, I know I will! ;)

Siv xx

Tim Holtz configuration box

This is a configuration box I made a while back. 

It's filled with papers and goodies from Tim Holtz.

I'll just pop in the pictures, don't have the energy to write the details right now. Maybe some other time.. ;)

Have a fabulous weekend!

I will "enjoy" my penicillin this weekend and hope it kills the tonsillitis..

Siv x

Live ~ a mixed media canvas

Hi there!
I've got so much on my plate recently that I haven't had the time to make anything new, which really bugs me! Got so much left from CC102 I need to get done, but there just aren't enough hours in the day. Sounds familiar?

Anyway! :) Just wanted to post a mixed media canvas I did for Hobbykunst a while back. I was given a blank canvas and some oil pastels, and this is the result. Pictures borrowed from Hobbykunst's blog.

Thanks for looking! 

Siv x

Creative Chemistry 102 - Day 4

Hello, lovelies!

Let me just start by saying; YES, I know I've skipped Day 2 and 3. I'll get back to those when I have the time.. I'm way behind, so it doesn't really matter which day I complete first.. Today I really wanted to play with alcohol inks, so there you have it - Day 4 in CC102 became my day 2..

Anywaaaaaaaaaaaay.... Here are my tags!

Close ups..

 Faux Patina Technique

 Tinted Tinsel Technique

Ombre Technique

 

  Monoprint Technique

 Faded Layers Technique

This day's lesson has reminded me that I must play with alcohol inks more often!!!

Thanks!

Creative Chemistry 102 - Day 1

Yesterday was the first day of Tim Holtz' newest online class, Creative Chemistry 102. 

We played with the fabulous Distress Paints and learned six different techniques.

Here are my tags for Day 1!

Let's take a closer look..

Technique 1: Marbling

 Technique 2: Coloured crackle

 Technique 3: Altered surfaces

Technique 4: Eroded metallic

Technique 5: Stamping resist

Technique 6: Industrial

Have a fabulous day!

Siv xx

A couple of ATCs - European Scrap Challenge

Here are the ATCs from round 2 and 3 in the European Scrap Challenge I'm currently participating in. Round 4 is now open for voting, and I'm entering in the categories ATC, Alter, Card and Mixed Media! I'm really honoured to have gotten this far in all the categories I entered!

Anyways.. Here are the ATCs!

Here's the one from round 2. It's made from this great ATC stamp from Tim Holtz / Stampers Anonymous. The background is made from Dylusions (I used the new Dylusions ink spray pad).

 

This one's from round 3. I used a TH stamp here too. I inked it up with various Distress markers. The star and rays got some Distress stickles Clear rock candy for an extra sparkle.. I'm not really super satisfied with this last one, but who cares - I got the votes I needed to go on to round 4.. lol

Can't wait to show you what I made in this round (can't do that until the voting closes)! Stay tuned!

Also, today is the first day of Creative Chemistry 102! Can't wait to get started! Whoop whoop!!

 

 See you in class?

Siv xx

European Scrap Challenge - Mixed Media part 2

The task in round 2 of European Scrap Challenge was to use only one word. A word that described why we like having this hobby.

For my mixed media piece, I decided on the word DREAM. I wanted to use this word because playing in my journal really gives me peace of mind and lets my thoughts and dreams wander..

Here's the spread I did in my gorgeous journal 

(a ledger from the 60s - I love it!):

I've used Golden fluid acrylics Teal and Cadimum Yellow  + Dylusions Squeezed Orange to the background. The right hand circles are made from an empty kitchen roll (I used Distress Paint Black Soot).The circles on the left are coloured with Dylusions Squeezed Orange and Lemon Zest and cut out from a telephone book. I've circled them with my Sharpie and sewn around it on the sewing machine (not very easy when the paper is thin..).  

The star and figure stamp are from Dina Wakley, while the letters are Tim Holtz foam stamps.

I've also used TH tissue tape, bubble wrap and modeling paste...

Circles close up

The tag is coloured the new Dylusions pad inked up with Squeezed Orange, Bubblegum Pink and Lemon Zest. The stamp is from Tim Holtz / Stampers Anonymous.

It was so much fun doing this spread! And, I made it to the next round! How cool is that?!

Siv xx

European Scrap Battle - Cards part 1

Hi all!

It's been a while since I last blogged. Holiday's over and it's been back to reality, really wish I had more hours in the day! A quickie here from me today..

Anyways!
I'm currently in a challenge called European Scrap Battle, where I made it to the next round with this card:

Thanks so much to those who voted for me!! :)

Siv xx