I know nothing has happened here for the last couple of weeks. I've been on vacation and didn't remember to schedule all my own posts before leaving. So this post will be lots of photos and just a bit of text since I need to get on schedule with the regular posts and actually creating new stuff. Phew, vacation is hard work ;)
Here's a post I made for Design in Papers using some Lawn Fawn stamps and the eBrush with Spectrum Noir markers. I love those cute dogs!
Here's some cute owls I made for the A blog named hero facebook post. I cut the thought bubble from post it tape and masked to blend some ink as a background. I love the googly eyes, I borrowed some from my daughters craft box ;)
WOW Embossingpowders did a blog hop with Viva Las Vegas Stamps and I got some amazing mixed media stamps to play with. They look so good with the embossingpowders from WOW! I made this collage styled card in all my favourite colors. I had a lot of fun making this card and I loved seeing all the inspiration from the team. Since WOW is making some changes behind the scenes some of the team are leaving after the hop and I look forward to following their new adventures around the crafty side of the web.
I made this art journal page for CiLi in Papers using some old tags, Gesso, Gelatos and Distress paint. I wrote the text from one of my favourite songs by Pearl Jam on top of them.
Here's another card for Design in Papers, I used a background I made with Aqua Tints and some stickers. I think it looks really fun with the pops of color with the black and white.
And here's another card made for the A blog named hero facebook page. And thats it for me today. will be back tomorrow with my regular post for Design in Papers and then another post later this week with some cards I made when I went to a crop before leaving on vacation.
I did make one more card actually, I was super excited to be a guest at the Hero Arts blog and you can find my post here. I was so happy to have been asked and it was a treat to create for one of my favourite stamp companies :)
I have not had a chance to thank you for all the lovely comments on the blog lately, I have been super busy but I read all comments and they make me so very happy! I'm glad some new readers have found me and I hope you will like my posts that usually are a bit less crowded and a bit more evenly spread out ;)
Just a quick post with todays Art Journal page for CiLi in Papers. I had the piece of sticky backed canvas on my desk, I used it to wipe up some mist from another project the other day. I made a heart out of it and the rest just happened. Like it should when doing this kind of thing.
Just wanted to post it here too, I'll be back with some more projects real soon. Promise :)
Let's just say that this Mixed Media/Art Journaling experiment is tuning into a slight obsession. I'm really having fun! So first this is my page for CiLi in Papers. I used Distress Paint, water-soluble crayons, texture paste, Magic Medium and some stamps. And a white gel pen.
Take time to do what makes your soul happy, I think that's what art journaling is to me. Just fun and messy and meditative. I love how this page turned out.
I gave monoprinting a try, I got a jelly plate and started playing. I'm nt thrilled about the results so far, I need more practice. Some of them turned out quite fun and I used them as collage backgrounds for some of my pages. Like this one. Very much inspired by Rae Missigman. I love seing her videos on Vimeo, they are so inspiring! I did a bit of everything on this, I used some feathers I made in Illustrator as image transfers, they look kind of pretty .
This page was a disaster, I covered it up a couple of times before this happened. I really like it now but it was a struggle.
And this page I just played and ti turned out really nice. I love adding mist and Distress paint mixed with water on gessoed sufaces and letting it run. It's so pretty.
Well, that's it for today. Hope to see you soon again. Have a lovely weekend <3
I have been loving experimenting with Mixed Media lately and an art journal is the perfect place to play. I have done some pages earlier but I decided I wouldn't blog them because playing will give some unpredictable results and I kind of like to show things I feel happy about here in the blog. But then I promised to blog Mixed Media in the CiLi in Papers blog every other week for a while and I might as well blog it here too. For those of you who doesn't know, CiLi in Papers is an awesome place to get your craft supplies. It's a huge brick and mortar shop as well as a great webshop. It's also where I started out my designteam adventure a long time ago. It was the first team I applied to and I actually got in, I was over the moon happy that someone actually liked what I made. Happy memories!
I really don't have that much to say about the actual page except I wanted to play with texture paste and this is what happened. I like the colours and texture of the page. I didn't want to put some slarge text over it so I just wrote Just breathe... on the metal tag and called it a day. It's the name of one of my favourite songs by Pearl Jam. I think it went well with the page in some way.
This is my third (!) post today, keep scrolling for my Winnie & Walter guest post and for my Design in Papers post. Be back tomorrow for my third day as a guest at Winnie & Walter! Don't miss it!
This will be a very long post with lots of pictures. Last week I visited Birmingham and the Hobby Craft + Stitch international trade show together with Cicci and Katalin from DESIGN in PAPERS. I had a really good time, three days just rushed by! I wanted to post some pictures and share some of the fun. Since there was a lot of pictures they are kind of in a random order, no real rhyme or reason in the order they appear.
This is from the last workshop of the last day of the show. This is Andy Skinner, mixed media artist. He designs stamps for Stampendous and make the most amazing works of art. He was also very entertaining and this workshop was one of my favourites. Very inky fingers after this and I had so much fun and learned a lot!
We made cute pieces of wall art, this is mine. Aren't they amazing? And it was not hard at all. I really need to try this at home too. It looks way harder than it is.
Just a shot of the table at the workshop. I really love the stamps and stencil we used, and I got to take them home. Yay!
Here is what we started out with. Looks like junk, right. Magic! :)
Here is one of Andys own, isn't it cool! He passed a few around for us to see and they were all equally cool. Go check out his blog where he posts videos and techniques. Very good! He is my new mixed media guru!
I spent most of the time in the Crafters Companion area. I signed up for all of their workshops and loved trying the whole Spectrum Noir product range and other things. Here is Sheena Douglass, she was a treat to listen to! She makes some awesome stamps and dies among other things. Really realistic. And here she is talking about the Spectrum Noir Aqua Tints, one product I was very impressed by. I can't wait to play with them. Lucky me, I got a set to take home. These guys are super generous!
Here Leann Chivers are demonstrating the Spectrum Noir alcohol markers. I really enjoyed this demonstration as well as the Aqua markers and the blendable pencils too. It is really cool learning from the woman who designed the products. She is also really sweet and fun, like all of the Crafters Companion Crew. I also got to meet Sara Davies who is the woman behind the company, she started the company in her early twenties, very cool! She was demonstrating the large A3 scoreboard. Being a Swede and using the metric system for all things except papercrafting I was really happy to see that one side had scorelines in inches and the other side in cm. How convenient! I really didn't know I needed this tool but I apparently did.
We went to the British Craft Awards one night. There was a LOT of prizes presented in a really high tempo but I really enjoyed it. Our friends at Crafters Companion and Tonic Studios won several awards even though competing with some well known companies like Martha Stewart and Spellbinders. The coolest thing was the fact that everyone was cheering for each other and it felt like this is a community where people care for each other and are happy for others success.
Here are Lynell Harlow from Dreamweaver. I was lucky enough to walk by the Stampendous booth just as she was setting up a workshop and she was really nice and asked if I wanted to join when someone didn't show up. Of course I wanted! This was such a fun workshop with lots of techniques. Lynell was really good at explaining the products and I enjoyed listening to her.
We made a canvas wall piece with ocean theme. I really loved seeing how everyones turned out. All the same materials but still all different.
Pretty cool, right? I loved the black embossing paste, I'm looking forward to playing some more with it!
One of the nights we went to dinner with the ladies from Fabscraps. I had a great time. This is Bridget or Bee as her friends call her and she runs things and also designs the lovely products. She told me a lot about living and running a company in South Africa. Quite a contrast from what I'm used to and the opposite from north of Sweden where I used to live. It was a fun evening. I really should have taken a picture of the lovely dress forms made from Fabscrap paper in the monter. Sooooo cool!
This was a display from a company selling storage bins. There are all little storage boxes, how cool is this??? Being a video game geek I LOVED this! I only wish there was room enough to take a picture of all of it at once.
This is the Sizzix booth. I thought it was so pretty with all the butterflies. I was very happy to run into Pete Hughes from Sizzix again, we met a couple of years ago and he was really inspiring. He gave me some great advice back then that I had good use for when I started making my own cut files for Pretty Crafty Stuff. Also he is super nice. I was doing a make and take with him, a felt flower pin and he had to help me to sew because that is so not my thing doing fancy stitching. It was a mess, I was VERY thankful for the help getting it all together. It turned out pretty in the end.
Here is another part of the Sizzix display. Love the colors. I wish I had remembered to take a picture of Petes amazing photo cubes and wall art. So cool! And I forgot to take a picture of us together like I did last time.
I think Tonic Studios won the award for great customer service. We were saying they really should do some more colors than orange on their products and the guys used their new glitter to make a pair of pink glittery scissors for Katalin. It turned out very cute. I'm still waiting for my glittered die cut machine ;)
Last but not least. Tania from WOW was the one suggesting I should go and I'm so happy I went. Here is my kind of creative space. Lots of lovely things! I kind of forgot to take pictures since everyone was so nice and I loved just looking around so much.
I stole this picture from WOW at instagram, I don't think they mind. This is me and lovely DT coordinator (among other things) Tania. It was so great to finally see her in person, she is just as sweet as she looks. I wish the days hadn't gone by so fast. I would have loved to hang around the booth a bit more. I also met Marion Emberson who designs amazing things, she is super sweet and I loved seeing her demonstrating.
And here is me, not as exciting as the other people ;)
We did have some time to do other things too. Here is me getting Starbucks coffee for the very first time. Yes, the first. I am like a century behind everyone else.
The first day we had time to visit the Bullring, a shopping centre with lots of stores and this handsome bull statue outside. I got a really nice pair of shoes that I love. I could not understand the sales clerk asking me if I wanted her to put them in a box. The accent was not what I'm used to hear. She probably thought I was a bit slow ;)
And we even went out to the pub a couple of nights. We were living pretty central and I really felt at home at this place, I think it was called the Victoria. I had to take a picture of this guy :) Fun times!
That was probably the longest post I ever made. Took forever uploading all the pictures. Hope you enjoyed it! See you soon!
I've been doing some Art journaling lately and I wasn't sure I wanted to blog it. Not that I don't like it but it's very random, just playing and the texts often is just something that is stuck in my head from some song or whatever pops up when I'm done with the background or other parts. It's more art than journaling. But I still wanted it here since I sometimes like to go back and look at what I've made through the years. I just snapped the pictures with my iPhone and edited them in the phone, nothing fancy. Here you go.
I was really happy to get published in the last issue of Inzpira Magazine with three of my creations. I made this translucent card with vellum and a transparent overlay.
Also a set of three kraft notecards to give as a gift to someone. I made a photo tutorial for these too.
And I also made a page in my Art Journal.
You can get Inzpira Magazine for your tablet in AppStore and Google Play and it's avalible in both Swedish and English versions. My creations was in the august issue. Thanks for stopping by!
It's my turn to inspire at WOW! and this months theme is Mixed Media. I made a stormy sea for a card, you can see the rest of the card over at the WOW blog today.
If you get inspired I would love for you to join the monthly challenge with a chance to win some WOW goodies. Thanks for stopping by!
I wanted to keep an art journal to mess around in and try out different things. It was a long time since I drew something by hand and I had some watercolor crayons that I haven't really used. I also used some gelatos and big brush pens, stamps and other things I had within close reach. It turned out kind of ok and I had a lot of fun while making it. I made this about a month ago and forgot about it ;)
So, I hope I'll be inspired to make some more pages. It's typically me to start a new journal/Smash album/ calendar or whatever and then just do a couple of pages and forget all about it.
Today it’s my turn to blog on the WOW! blog. I made a canvas fo this months theme that is time. Here is a sneak, hop on over to this post at WOW! to se the whole thing :)
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