Ett Trykk- Catching up.

I am as i've mentioned before, 

one of the Guest Designers this 

year for the inspirational magasine 

'Ett Trykk'.

I havn't yet posted the cards that have been published so far,

and there has been a few. So without futher a do, 

here is the first one....

I'm so chuffed that they asked me to be on the team!

More to come soon.

(I see now that my photos need to have some editing 

done in photoshop, I'll swap them out for better ones soon ;O)).

Thanks for stopping by.

Nina x

More decorated tags...

As some of you may already know, 

i'm a tag bit crazy!! 

I love Tags!! and working with their size and dimentions.

They are a great way to use up paper and ribbon scraps. 

I never throw either away, and therfore I need to make alot of tags

so I don't drown in all of my scraps. 

My favorite tags are Ranger 'Craft Tags' 

They are heavy weight and can take alot of beatings with

paint, ink and all sorts of art mediums without being ruined.

(this is not a sponsered post, just want to share the quality 

I find in these tags!).

I've been quite 'nice' to these tags, 

I didn't put them through any distress ;O) 

just a randomly stamped background this time.

Unlike my tags in this post
'christmas Tag - tutorial'

 These tags and other tags and cards are for sale, 

and can found at

 Gunilla 

or you can contact me direct via

ninamac76@yahoo.no

Most of my cards and tags are one of a kind, 

so if its sold its gone.

I also make special orders.

Have a nice day :)

Art Journal Nr 4

I said I was going to post about this Art journal 

ages ago, well here it is.

I made my new Art Journal out of a old childrens 
book I picked up at a 

secondhand shop a while back.

As I tend to take my journals around with me on holiday etc

I opted to decortate the cover flat 
ie nothing sticking out that could get 

ripped of when taking it in and out of my bag.

I used different washi tapes in strips 
all over the from and back cover.

I had decided to use clear rock candy on the title part,  

to give it a glazed slightly crackled effect

over where I stamped ...

.....'ART JOURNAL'

So I stamped and painted on the rock candy

and whilst it was drying the ink from the stamp started bleeding!

Only slightly at first and then more and more!

So I quickly scraped off the rock candy before it was completly dry and hard,

and just restamped the words.

As you can see some of the rock candy had 
dryed around the edges, 

which I think gives a cool effect as

a kind of shabby frame. 

I rubbed distress ink into the cracks to make them more visible.

The last thing I did was to paint over the washi tape 

with thinned down gesso to 'dampen' the colours of the wasi tape, 

giving it an overall more uniform and shabby look.

I love the tall shape of this journal. 

It measures 13x23cm.

I'll post some of the first pages soon.

Thanks for stopping by!

Nina x

 

Vintage/shabby pink tag

I can't believe how much inspiration i'm sucking up 

through Pinterest! 

Not just tags but a whole other world of photos,

I seem to have been transported to 'Tag-mania'

Yes you guessed it, more tags to come hehe.

Heres a Vintage/shabby pink tag 

I just made....

I used MME paperscraps, Washi tape,

cracklepaint- worn lipstick & Tattered rose, 

vintage seam binding, flowers, hempstring, lace, 

distress inks- Vintage photo & Walnut stain, 

plywood bird and a used british stamp.

Love it!

Ages since I entered any challenges!

So here goes:

Totally Gorjuss - Anything goes with PINK. 9/3

Stampin for the weekend - Use lace. 14/3

Papirdokkene - Paint/mist. 25/3

Happy days

Nina

Lots more Tag fun!

A quick post this time with more of my tags,

not Art Journal pages as I mentioned in my last 

post, but they'll appear here soon though!

I'm quite enjoying making tags ;O)

Tag fun!

There is just 

sooo 

much eye candy to be found on Pinterest!!

I was drawn by an unknown force into my hobbyroom yesterday

a sheer overload of inspirational exhillaration came over me!! hehe.

Tags were to be my chosen form of expression,

One hour later and I was out of breath, covered in paint,

thinking 'WTF just happened?!'

Without further a do...fotties!
(click on them for a larger view)

An update on my Art Journal pages to come soon :O)

The Italian Job.

 I have a customer in Italy who was looking for a box 

that would hold a new house key that she planned 

to give to her boyfreind when they moved house together.
She had a special poem that she wanted to be included in Italian 

It was tres importante that the box be big enough 

to hold the key and keyring that measured 3x3cm.
I ended up choosing to transform a wooden box......

 Here is the chosen wooden box. 

 The tough wee magnets hold the lids tightly shut.

 The design papers are from Bo Bunny.

I dyed the vintage seam binding myself  
with a mix of Tim's distress inks, 
and painted then sanded the trinket key, so it wasn't so shiny. 
I used several small bits of different washi tapes 
under the bow to give it a bit more of a busy look.

 I used sandpaper to distress around all the edges before
distressing some more with gesso paint over the blue acrylic paint,
To give it a proper used and treasured look.
I Printed the poem out after working with it in Adobe illustrator.
After altering it to the correct size to fit the box I
chose a suitable font and colour.

....Vorrei che il sapore di thé, la mattina, fosse dovuto ad un tuo bacio.
Vorrei che il tuo odore fosse l’odore della mia casa.
Vorrei tornare tardi e trovarti lě sul divano, ad aspettarmi.
Vorrei che le tue braccia fossero le fondamenta della mia vita.....

How romantic!!

 I do hope that he likes it, 
and that they live together happily ever after...

Customers reply: I received your package today, 
I REALLY have no words, it's simply perfect!!
So beautiful and so plain, I love it!  
Truly, You are an artist =D

Wow I am thrilled that she liked it so much,
that makes it so much worthwhile!!

 

Art Journal Nr2. Timetravel

Here is a page I made in my Art Journal.

Timetravel.

I really enjoyed playing with lots of acrylic paints,

stamps, an old credit card, washi tape and my Posca pens.

The 'eye of the storm' is a lump of dry paint 

i took off my paint tube.

Its been a while since I entered any Challenges

so I decided to enter this for 

Trykkpressa's monthly challenge

Their theme for January is Time and want to see clocks

 on your project, I think this suits the bill

like a glove.

DT. Vintage challenge # 50

Hop over to the Vintage Challenge blog and

join in our new challenge!

This time we want to see Vintage projects 

made using the colour combo

Brown and Blue

For my design team project 

I have decorated a cute little birdbox,

using Macaulay Arts Design papers 

and a peice of old cardboard box,

First painted brown the dry brushed with Gesso.

and decorated a brown paper gift bag.

 

  

This is the back side.

I have used Macaulay Arts design papers 

on both sides.

Below you can see I have stamped here and there around the edges

with some Tim Holtz tickets stamps, 

to give an old scrappy look.

 

This is a real old rusty key, 

bought from 

Minne Hjørnet before it closed its doors for 

the last time this summer :O( 

 

Macaulay Arts 

is sponsering the

 Vintage challenge blog 

this month,

with our vintage digital papers!

(That are not available any where yet! 

Exciting stuff.)

So join in for the chance to win.

you have until the 

13th of November at 6pm

to link up your projects,

GO GO GO! 

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs Nina x

Panduro Hobby Christmas card Competition.

Right now Panduro Hobby is having a competition!

You have to design and make your own Christmas card.

(yup its looming, in fact only 2 months til Christmas now! 

Can't wait personally, I LOVE CHRISTMAS!)

Anyway, I thought it would be fun to enter, and the prizes are FAB.

Here is my entry:

 (I decided to make a tag, 

but with a card like place to write on the back, 

I do hope that they accept it as a card....)

The back side, showing the 'flip-up card' bit, a text stamp 

from Panduro and my personal stamp.

On the side I used a Panduro Foam stamp, 

its cool 'cos you can only see the silver ink from some angles.

I stamped straight onto the background I made 

using the new and Beautiful 'Tilda' Tissue paper

glued on using Panduro's own Decoupage glue.

Here you see a selection of Panduros Washi Tape, LOVE IT!

A vintage button sewed on with hemp string, and 

a scrap of of lace ribbon attached to the very bottom.

 In this photo i have tryed to capture the 

shine of the panduro stamp, 

embossed black Christmas tree.

Here you see the gorgeous new 'Tilda' ribbon 

attached to the top of the card.

I really enjoyed making this 

and it didn't take a whole lot of time either.

I had better skip along to Panduro with it one day soon.

(competition closing date is 11 Nov 2012)

Happy days! 

Thanks for stopping by.

Nina x