Waffle Flower Challenge - Oktober, 2015

Over at Waffle Flower there is a challenge going on and the technique of the month is embossing. There is also a sketch and a photo inspiration.




 

I needed to make a card for a friend of mine who lost a friend in cancer last week. I wanted to make a card in white and in bright colors. I find it so hard to deal with death. It feels like someone has been erased from a movie. It's like watching Pretty Woman and instead of Julia Roberts there's a white silhouette where she was supposed to be. I don't think I'll ever get used to it.
This technique illustrates that feeling a bit too. I stamped and embossed the pot with flowers two times and painted one image with watercolors. I cut the watercolored image slightly smaller and attached it to the uncolored image before I attached it all to the card. The die cut sentiment is also embossed.
I wanted to use this stamp of potted flowers from Waffle flower because I've seen it used in a similar way and also because this friend and I ordered these stamps together a while ago.

MATERIAL:
STAMPS:
Waffle Flowers - Potted
INK & COLOR:
Versamark
Papermania - Embossing powder - Seafoam White
Winsor & Newton - Watercolors
DIES:
Waffle Flower - With Love

Hobbyworlds oktobertävling

Cancerfondens Rosa Bandet-kampanj genomförs under oktober varje år och på Hobbyworld har man så passande en tävling med samma tema," Rosa bandet". Och till den tävlingen har jag gjort ett julkort helt i rosa.
Bakgrunden är gjord genom att jag stämplat en textstämpel lite slarvigt och sedan har jag stansat ut en mistel och använt som en schablon och duttat ut distress stain och distress paint. Jag har hållit mig till samma färg men använt olika distress-produkter.

MATERIAL:
STÄMPLAR:
Penny Black - Wonder Collection
Hero Arts - G2679 Thanks
INK:
Distress Ink Stain - Tattered Rose
Distressed Ink Pad - Tattered Rose
Distress Paint - Tattered Rose
StazOn - Jet Black
DIES:
Magnolia Doohickeys - Mistletoe Lace, Snowflake & Mistletoe
ANNAT:
Martha Stewart - Crafter's Clay and mould (start set)
YouDo - 3D Crystal Glaze
Glitter från Panduro
Stickles - Crystal
Symaskin
Ett rosa band

Scrap och tings månadsutmaning 15 september - 14 oktober

Jag trodde aldrig att jag skulle få ihop något till den här utmaningen hos Scrap och ting och var på väg att ge upp några gånger. Jag hade bestämt vilka stämplar som jag ville använda men fick liksom inte ihop dem med någon rad på bingobrickan. Och inte heller färgerna - orange, brunt, grått och vitt?! Men skam den som ger sig!

Jag hittade på ett pappersblock längst ned i mina gömmor (aldrig använt) som skulle passa färgmässigt. Och till slut fick jag ihop en rad med glitter (embossingpulvret), spets och ränder(mönsterpappret i olika lager) tillsammans med ett Halloweentema!! Inte illa! Men jag behövde ju någon kul text också som syr ihop temat med ett kärlekspar, lite sött så där, och Halloween. Det tog ett tag det också men till slut så kom det - together forever! Jag är riktigt stolt över att jag fick ihop det! Jag gillar verkligen utmaningar! Det är så himla roligt att utmana sig själv till att både göra någonting man inte brukar och att använda saker man heller normalt inte använder! Det här var en riktigt, riktigt rolig utmaning!

 

MATERIAL:
STÄMPLAR:

Dracula och skelettjej - okänt märke
Studio G - alfabetsstämplar
BLÄCK:
StazOn - Jet black
EMBOSS - embossing ink
Judi-Kins Sternenstaub - Schwarze Diamanten, Weisse Diamanten
PAPPER:
Prima marketing - Songbird Collection

Cardabilities - Final Sketch Reveal #132

Celebrate the wonder
(74 Days until Christmas!)

I found a really, really pretty sketch at Cardabilities: Final Sketch Reveal #132. It seems like it is the last? Such a shame, I just found the blog. I am in love with this sketch though and I will use it again. I love when the main image isn't in the middle of the page. I really, really liked creating after this sketch.

I started by playing around with some distress inks on a piece of watercolor paper. I find it really hard to get that beautiful watercolored look that everybody else is getting. I stamped with a text stamp, made some splashes with the distress ink stains and added circles by coloring in an old lid.
Since Christmas is coming up (74 Days left!) I had that in mind and decided only to use greens. I also found some nice mistletoe dies I wanted to use.
I sew the border die onto the card. Since I dont have a stiched die yet I sew on my sewing machine without a thread around the borders.
The frame is made out of Marta Stewarts Crafter's clay and I have had it lying around for ages. It's really fun to make them out of the clay - it has such a nice texture! - but I don't know what to do with the frames after I've made them. I think they really looked nice on this card! Finally I stamped a sentiment in the frame and filled it with 3D glaze and some glitter.

MATERIAL:
STAMPS:
Penny Black - Wonder Collection
Hero Arts - G2679 Thanks
INK:
Distress Ink Stain . peeled paper, crushed olive
Distressed Ink Pad - Peeled Paint
StazOn - Jet Black
DIES:
Magnolia Doohickeys - Mistletoe Lace, Snowflake & Mistletoe
OTHER:
Martha Stewart - Crafter's Clay and mould (start set)
YouDo - 3D Crystal Glaze
Sewing machine

Gummiapan - Challenge #5

Skål ta me fan!

I was thrilled last Friday when the goodie bag I won from challenge #1 at Gummiapan finally arrived. I thought it had been lost in the mail and it really made my day.! The new challenge is 'Something to eat/drink' and some stamps in the goodie bag fitted perfect for that theme! Lucky me!




I won a challenge!!

Happy mail day!

So, I wanted to use the stamp of the glass and the sentiment 'SKÅÅÅL!' ('cheers!'). I decided to make a background with the sentiment since it was kind of small. I stamped the glass in black and masked it. Then I stamped the sentiment in different distress ink colors. I mounted this card on another piece of card which I embossed with dots. I was thinking that the dots could symbolize bubbles. I tied some baker's twine on the card and attached another sentiment made with my dymo. That sentiment says 'skål ta me fan' (cheers damn it') and I think it makes a few Swedes smile! In the '80 there was a show on tv called Jacob's Ladder and the host ended all shows with uncorking a bottle of champagne and said 'Skål ta me fan!'. Those were the days!

MATERIAL:
STAMPS:
Gummiapan - cocktail glass, SKÅÅÅL!
INK:
Distress Ink Pad: peacock feathers, seedless preserves, worn lipstick, spiced marmalade, squeezed lemonade
StazOn - Jet Black
OTHER:
Embossing folder from Cuttlebug
Baker's twine from Ordning & Reda
Dymo

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Clean and Simple Christmas

When I went through my sequins for the card I made this morning I found some really nice sequins in Christmas colors so I decided to make another card by using them. At Simon Says Stamp I found this challenge - Clean and Simple Christmas. Lucky me!
I wanted to use a stamp from the stamp set but I also wanted it to say something with Christmas. A friend of mine uses the expression 'Sweet' (even though she is Swedish) so I came up with 'Sweet - it's Christmas'. Maybe I'll sent it to her? I masked off the 'You're so' on the stamp and then I stamped the rest of the sentiment with some alphabet stamps I had.

 

 

MATERIAL:
STAMPS:
Studio Calico Sandlot Card Kit
Studio G - alphabet stamps WM0174
INK:
StazOn - Jet Black
OTHER:
Washi tape - Little B
Sequins
Baker's Twine from Leila's General Store
Overhead transparency sheet



Sparkle and Shine Challenge 15

I love these gumball machine stamps!

Sparkle and Shine Challenge has a challenge which looked like a lot of fun. The colorful dots made me think of sequins and the sequins made me think of a shaker card!

 

The challenge was to be inspired by the photo and to use sequins. I didn't have any sequins from Pretty Pink Posh, who is sponsoring the challenge, so I used the ones I had.

I wanted to keep my card quite clean so I just used black ink to stamp with and the sequins stood for the color. I cut a hole in the front of the card and used a overhead transparency sheet to both the front and the back of the shaker piece. On the inside of the card I stamped 'You're so sweet'.



The inside of the card says 'You're so sweet'.

MATERIAL:
STAMPS:
Studio Calico Sandlot Card Kit
INK:
StazOn - Jet Black
OTHER:
Sequins from Dollarstore
Baker's Twine from Ordning & Reda
Overhead transparency sheet

Hello sunshine!

Maybe it's the wrong season for this card? Here in Sweden the days are getting shorter and shorter. But I couldn't resist making this card because at A Blog Named Hero (Die Cutting) and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge (No Designer Paper) there are fun challenges going on!
I wanted to use the die cut clouds I bought in Denmark this summer and also a background with clouds from Hero Arts.
I started by adding three different blue/turqoise shades of distress ink directly on the stamp and misted the stamp with water before each impression. I managed to get three impressions without inking the stamp up again. I sprayed the pieces of watercolor paper with some more water before I dried them with my heat gun. I really like how the background turned out!
To make the sun I taped some washi tape on a scrap piece of paper and die-cutted a circle, I cut the rays with a pair of scissors. Since the clouds had holes in them I tried to hide them behind some rhinestones.

Washi tape sun!

I had to make my own sun here in Sweden!

MATERIAL:
STAMP
Hero Arts - Clouds S5215
Lawn Fawn - Hello Sunshine
INK:
Distress Ink Pad - peacock feathers, tumbled glass, salty ocean
StazOn - Jet Black
OTHER:
Washi tape from Panduro
Die-cut clouds - Indeks Retail A/S
Rhinestones
Watercolor paper
White cardstock
White card and envelope

Happy Birthday Ria!

Happy birthday, Ria!
(from me and your daughter!)

This is a birthday card I made for an artsy friend of mine. I wanted the card to be more artsy than cute, I don't know if I succeeded? Maybe I have to put that pink ink away? ;-)

Ria sent me a rubber stamp for my birthday and I just had to use it straight away. It's a stamp with her daughter! Have a look here! I love it! It's so cool to have a stamp with her daughter! I also got one for my birthday last year! Awesome!

I made a resist with Ria's daughter, blended in the distress colors and dripped some water on a scrap piece of paper. Added some more stamps in pumice stone, some grey nail polish and finally the text stamp from Tim Holtz. I finally distressed the edges with pumice stone and added a black line around my image to frame it in.

MATERIAL:
STAMPS:
KiCoStamps - People collage (2) A4 plate HI2
Hero Arts - Envelope Pattern S5507
Stampers Anonymous - The Journey, Artful Things
INK:
Distress Ink Pads - cracked pistachio, worn lipstick, dried marigold, pumice stone
StazOn - Jet Black
Tsukineko - EMBOSS
Reprint - EP clear

Happy Holidays!

 

Happy Holidays!


With this card I'm entering Virginia's Wiew Challenge #18 (the theme is geometric/patterns) and A Blog Named Hero's challenge (the theme is happy).
I've used triangels to form Christmas trees. I used black StazOn on the outlined stamp and clear EP on the solid stamp to emphase the triangular shape. I blended in the distress colors and made some splashes with water. I really like this card, it was a fairly quick Christmas card to make!

Everything with this card makes me happy! I'm happy to make use of stamps in ways they might not have been ment to, I'm happy about this resist technique which I love, I'm happy about the distress colors (love, love, love!), I'm happy for the Christmas season coming up soon and I'm happy because I've made four Christmas Cards already! ;-)




The stamps I used

MATERIAL:
STAMPS:
Hero Arts/Studio Calico
INKADINKADO - 99499 Tags & Wishes
INKS:
StazOn - Jet Black
Distress Ink Pads - worn lipstick, dried marigold, cracked pistachio
Tsukineko - EMBOSS
Reprint  - clear EP
OTHER:
Snowflake ribbon

Happy Birthday Anna!

Fabulous!

September really is the birthday month! I think I know someone who is born on every day in september!
This card is made for a newfound scrapping friend and I'm joining the challenges at Scrappa Loss (the challenge is to make something feminine and to use lace) and at Crafty Ribbons Challenge (the theme is birthday and of course: ribbons) with it.
The card is made in the same way as I described in Take It Make It challenge: September  but to make the card extre feminine I added some more gold foil at the bottom and some lace ribbon to cover the gap.


MATERIAL:
STAMP:
Old Loveletter J - INKIDO
VAM9071100: V&A Quilts 1700-2010 - Victoria and Albert Museum - Docrafts
INK:
Distress Ink Pads - antique linen, worn lipstick, drid marigold, spiced marmalade, pumice stone
EMBOSS - Tsukineko
DIES:
Fabulous - Technique Tuesday
OTHER:Embossing powder - clear
Gold foil
Ribbon - Tiger and from  flea market

Take It Make It Challenge: September

Fabulous 44!

  

I saw a gorgeous card made by Crafty Clarey and decided to have a go at the same technique. I went through all my stamps but couldn't find a single tree stamp. I do have a lot of stamps but obviosly no stamps with  trees! (maybe I should get a few??? ;-) ) After a while I found this floral stamp and thought that it might work.

First of all I stamped the text stamp with antique linen on a white piece of paper. I overstamped the text with the floral stamp and heat embossed it with clear EP. Then I started to blend in all the distress colors. I really, really like this technique! It's amazing to see the resist appear behind all the bright colors! Finally I die-cutted the sentiment.

I'm sending this card to a friend of mine who is 4 days older than me. We went to school together and we have sent eachother birthday cards ever since then! We have known eachother since 39 years! (OMG!)
I'm also entering the TIMI challenge at Craft Stamper with this card. This month the theme is 'Take A Stamp' Stamp and Anything Goes. 


MATERIAL:
STAMP:
Old Loveletter J - INKIDO
VAM9071100: V&A Quilts 1700-2010 - Victoria and Albert Museum - Docrafts
INK:
Distress Ink Pads - antique linen, worn lipstick, drid marigold, spiced marmalade, pumice stone
EMBOSS - Tsukineko
DIES:
Winter Wishes - Quickutz
Fabulous - Technique Tuesday
OTHER:
Embossing powder - clear
Gold foil
Marquee tape - Heidi Swapp

Gummiapan - challenge #4

What's up?

This card is made for challenge #4 over at Gummiapan. The challenge was to make something for a boy/man. I started on this background a while ago and just didn't know what to do with it. I bought some die cut clouds when I was in Denmark this summer and came to think about them.

 





Close up

 





MATERIAL:

STAMPS:

Cloud - Gummiapan

What's up?  - (I Think it's Simon Says Stamp???)

OTHER:

Baker's Twine - Leila's General Store

Ink pad - old, cheap one bought ages ago (doesn't even have a name)

Pan Pastel - Phthalo Blue Tint

Round-it-all - Zutter

Life Book week 32

You are Wise with Tamara La Porte (main lesson)

I've said it before, I'll say it again: this lesson was exactly what I needed right now! Tam taught us to turn limiting beliefs into liberating beliefs and this is what I've struggled with basically all my life! I just come to realise that I deserve to make art and be happy! That should've been easy like that but it hasn't for me.  I feel full with energy and it was such a fun lesson!

I deserve to make art and be happy!

Close up

Happy art day!

Life Book - Week 35

Create New Possibilities with Andrea Gomoll (bonus lesson)

This bonus lesson was about simplyfing to to get out of a creative rut and to avoid or overcome a creative block. With all the possibilities with all the supplies you have and all the input on social media it's easy to get overwhelmed. Andrea challenged us to work with limited supplies. When she creates like this she starts with a word or a picture and hasn't got the finished picture in mind.  It just builds up as she goes. I decided to work with some cheap but oh-so-cute stamps I got from Tiger and watercolor markers. I also made some smaller pieces instead of one large page.

Life Book week 35

MATERIAL:
Distress Markers
Stencils
Liquitex Light Modeling Paste
Gemstones
Ink (copper)
Acrylic (white)

Life Book week 36

Finding Strenght with Donna Downey (main lesson)

I finally found some strenght and did another Life Book lesson! I have been waiting for this lesson with Donna. I took a class with her in Stockholm last year and it was awsome! I'm so glad I already had some of the materials she used. We got a bottle of the india ink she used and since she spoke so well of Golden, I have bought a few. Just a few, since they are very expensive in Sweden! I still had to be very creative and use other materials.

Finding strenght

MATERIAL:
White Gesso
Clear Gesso
Panduro Acrylic Retarder
Golden Soft Gel (Matte)
Golden High Flow Acrylics
Duga Liquid Metal - Classic Copper
Bombay Dr Martins India Ink - Black

A Blog Named Hero - Make the Sentiment the Star

Over at A Blog Named Hero there is a fun challenge where we are supposed to "make the sentiment the star", i. e. the sentiment should be the main focus on the card.
I stamped a background and die-cutted the sentiment from it. Added five more die-cuts under the one from the background. Finally I colored the top die-cut with Distress Markers. A few letter stickers, and voila! I think this would be a cute wedding card!

You had me at hello!

Close-up

MATERIAL:
STAMPS:
Hero Arts: Delicate Branches S5262
DIES:
Lawn Fawn - Scripty Hello
PAINT:
Distress Markers
OTHER:
Baker's Twine

Life Book week 30

Letting Go and Letting In with Flora Bowley (Main lesson)

Abstract isn't really my cup of tea, actually, but this lesson seemed like a good lesson to losen up a bit more since I haven't been painting for a while.
The first part of the lesson was to gather up a visual language and even though it seemed a bit boring - I wanted to start painting! - I think it was a great learning experience.
Flora works on two paintings at the same time in order to let the pieces dry up a bit before adding more layers. I also think it is a good way to paint intuitively.
I liked the idea of letting go and letting in and not being too precious about what you're creating. It was  fun painting like Flora Bowley, but a bit challenging. It took a while before I liked what I was doing. I think I will do more of this. I really enjoy painting freely!
The final paintings got a bit dark so I had to lighten them up with a bit of doodling with a white Sharpie this morning. I am quite pleased with what I came up with!

To find out more about Flora Bowley, please visit her site www.braveintuitiveyou.com

Painting #1



Painting #1 - the process



Painting #2

Painting #2 - the process

MATERIAL:
Acrylics from Panduro
Adirondack Acrylic Paint Dabbers
Different mark makers
White Sharpie

Life Book week 16

Being Here Now with Alena Hennessy (Bonus Lesson)

I have taken a break from Life Book lately. I felt that the lessons took a bit too much time. But I miss painting so I wanted to find a fairly quick and easy lesson to get me back on the train and I found this bonus lesson by the super sweet Alena Hennessy. Just by watching her talk on the videos I got so calm and felt really happy!

To find out more about Alena Hennessy, go to www.alenahennessy.com

We were supposed to do three warm up paintings to loosen ourselves up and to access our intuitive and free-nature style of painting. The paintings should be done in 15, 10, and 5 minute increments. The lesson is all about freeing up your hand and playing with the paint to tap into the way we created as children. This is a super fun and immediately satisfying little lesson, Alena Hennessy wrote, and I can agree with that!

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

-Picasso

This is not my style in painting at all and I don't even know if I like them yet. But it was really freeing. It felt good in my heart! The first painting took me 13 minutes, the second 8 minutes and the third 5 minutes. I completed the paintings with some doodling in the sofa in front of the tv during the commersials. I just had to finish them!

15 minutes painting

10 minutes painting



5 minutes painting

MATERIAL:
Acrylics from M and Golden
Neocolors
India Ink
Different pens
Sharpie in black, white, silver
Posca in black, white