SGC #74 - Animal Antics

This fortnight we at the Southern Girls Challenge blog want to see you use animals on your projects!

Time was short for me this time, since I just got home from holiday, so I made a CAS card. I had brought the image and my Distress reinkers with me to the cabin, but unfortunately all the inks got mixed on the way (uuups..).

So I went through the other stash I'd brought, and ended up colouring it with Gelatos and a waterbrush...

The image is from The Paper Shelter, and is called Jurassic Love.

Papers are from Abbey Road and Ladybug and Friends.

Punch from Martha Stewart (Doily Lace) and heart die from Nellie Snellen.

The text stamp is from Tim Holtz (Simple Sayings).

This is my last DT entry at the Southern Girls. I've got so much on my plate at the moment, that something unfortunately had to go.. Some of the others have done as I, but we have all been replaced by other really talented girls! 

I can't wait to see what they will come up with in future challenges! :)

Hop on over to our blog and see what the other lovelies on the current team Trace has come up with!

Thanks

Siv xx

Tim Holtz meets Dylusions - a birthday tag

Here's a tag I made the other day for my brother in law.

Let's start with the background..

I've used the Dylusions ink sprays White Linen, London Blue, Calypso Teal, After Midnight and Cut Grass. Ghosting and spraying throught stencils gave the background some layers...

The circles are made with a lid from one of the sprays and white paint.

The star stamps are from Dina Wakley, and I've outlined the bottom corner one with my white Sharpie paint pen.

 I stamped "Dream" on the tag, and outlined it with my Sharpie.

 This gorgeous stamp from Tim Holtz is coloured with Dylusions inks in waterbrushes and outlined with my Sharpie.

 

The back of the tag. The circles are from Tim Holtz. I've sown the bottom with my sewing machine.

The seam binding is coloured with variuos Dylusions inks and Distress Stains.

Thanks for looking!
Siv xx

A weekend with Dyan Reaveley

The last weekend this June I was fortunate enough to attend a weekend workshop with her majesty Dyan Reaveley at Art From The Heart. The workshop was called "Homemade books and journals".

Here's my little recap..

Friday I left for Manchester Airport from Oslo-Gardermoen via Sola-Stavanger.

 The flights were pleasant, but when I went to collect my luggage at Manchester, my suitcase was missing. It turned out it was still at Stavanger.. Typical, just my luck! Oh well...

From Manchester Airport I went by train to Leeds and from there to Harrogate. Finally, after ten hours of travelling, I was there!!

About 45 minutes after arriving, I got a taxi (missed the train - typical!) to Art From The Heart. I was super excited!!!!!

 Yaaaayyyy!!! I'm in the Queen's palace!!!

Here are some sneek peeks into the studio, with all the lovelies playing along with Dyan.

And the Queen herself in action!

 Make big puddles!!

 Blend..

 Put another paper on top...

Here's a couple of the pages for my sown book.

 Inky fingers!

On Saturday, my luggage had arrived the hotel, and I finally had my journaling stuff at hand. So after having dinner with a couple of really lovely ladies, I went to my very own studio - lol!

 There was of course a desk in my bedroom, but the lighting there was rubbish. So the bathroom was the next best thing! If there's a will, there's a way... lol

 There's nothing like journaling in your PJs!!

 And here's as far as I got with the page. Love the colours!!!

Now let me present the three journals I made during the weekend:

 Ta-daaaaaa!!

And here are all the lovelies who attended the workshop

 A great group of girls!!! I hope I can meet them again!

Of course, when you're at AFTH, some shopping is manditory... lol! Here's what I got:

I also had time for about 15 minutes of shopping in town as well.. Love the bracelets I got for myself!

While waiting for various trains and planes on my way home to Norway, I had time to finish two pages in my smallest journal. I absolutely love the stamps from Stampotique! They're really hard to get in Norway, so I stamped away as much as I could when I borrowed Dyan's.. hehe...

So that was my weekend at Art From The Heart. I must say, Dyan really impresses me. She is a wonderful artist, a loving mother and such a wonderful person! I loved being at her studio - the atmosphere was so relaxed and natural - not "stiff" like it sometimes tends to be at workshops back home.

I sure hope Dyan will arrange another weekend workshop, or workshops in two-three days in a row next summer as well! If so, I will be there!!!!! :)

Thanks to all the wonderful ladies who were at AFTH, to Ali who made delicious food for us, and a huge hug and MWAH to her colourful majesty, Queen Dyan!

Siv xx

SGC #72 ~ Leaves

Hi all!

It's time for a new challenge over at the Southern Girls again. This time we want to see you use leaves in your creations. We've got some awesome sponsors yet again, so join in - and maybe you'll be one of the lucky winners!

Here's my contribution for the challenge..

The background of the tag is made by Distress Paints (Broken china, Salty ocean and Picket fence).

Background stamp is from Stampendous.

The green Jack vine is from Flourish With A Bling (FWAB). The metallic backside shining through really reflects the light beautifully.

All other embellishments used on this tag are from Retail Girl.

 The image from Delishious Doodles is called Rosalee. She's coloured with Distress reinkers.

The text on the banner is printed from my computer.

Is this a pretty flower or what?!

Adding a bling in the centre made it even more gorgeous.

That's it for now! Hope to see your creations on the Southern Girls Challenge blog!

Siv xx

Dylusions mask #2

My second Dylusions mask was finished a while back, I just haven't had the time to put it up on the blog until now.

This one is quite different from the first one, with less dimension.. This time I went for a spider theme..

 Both skull and bird have been embossed

 

Glossy Accents is added to give spiders dimension

 

 

This sleeping beauty is having "sweet" dreams about spiders... She is coloured with Dylusions inks in water brushes, and her body is embossed with clear embossing powder. The lips have got Glossy Accents on them, and I used orange Stickles to bling up the eye lashes a bit.

That's my second and last Dylusions mask, folks! What a fun project to make!

24 days to AFTH weekend!!!! Whooooohoooo!!!!!

Siv xx

Did I just do that!??!

OMG, I cannot believe what I did last night!!

I signed up for a weekend workshop with colour godess Dyan Reaveley at Art From The Heart, in Harrogate - England!

It's the 28th - 30th of June, just about a month from now. I an super duper excited!!!
Whoop whoop!!!!

Here's a pic of the lovely Dyan in action at my local craft store last December:

I guess you could call me crazy, travelling alone from Norway to England, and it's also costing me a small fortune, but hey - what the h... - It's mommy's turn now! :) Hehe..

..did I mention how excited I am?! Lol..
Let the countdown begin!
Siv xx

Dylusions mask - a fishy one..

Today I completed one of my favourite projects ever - a Dylusions mask! Such fun!!

I made this for Hobbykunst on Connie's request.

First I started off with a blank mask, made from paper mache. I had to prime it with gesso, since it was brown (kraft)..
Once dry, I started creating my water background, using Dylusions sprays Vibrant turquoise, Calypso teal and Cut grass. It took quite a few layers of ink to get the effect I wanted, because of the gesso.

I then stamped some sea weed around the bottom of the mask.
I tried colouring it with Cut Grass at first, but that didn't show very much, so I ended up with painting it with Liquid Pearls Key Lime.

Went around the edges with a black pen to make the sea weed stand out a bit more..

I then stamped, coloured and cut out more sea weed, another kind this time. This was coloured with Fresh Lime and Cut Grass, and glued to the top of the mask once dry.

Now all I had to do was stamp, colour and cut out loads of fish and creatures of the sea..

Before I glued these lovelies to the mask, they all got a dash of Glossy Accent on their eyes.

Some doodling and a lot of Glue Dots later.... the mask was done! Tadaaaaa! :)

I got the inspiration from Jim Hankins, aka The Gentleman Crafter.
He was the first one (as far as I know) to make these masks, and I would really like to thank him so much for all this fabulous work and inspiration!! Btw, did you see his Dylusions school bus? So so cool!

Can't wait to make my next mask!!!

(Just wish the day had more hours...)

Thanks for stopping by!

Siv xx

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