The first few pages in a travel Journal

This is a travel journal I created for my personal post this month. I promised to show some of the pages, finished decorated later, so here are some of the pages.

The first few pages of the travel journal:

The journal pages has been decorated with stamps,  collectables and wooden embellishments (colourd with Kaisercraft's ink pads)

This is a more detailed photo of the envelope in the cover. I have also used a few stripes with glitter cardstock.

Some of the pages in the album is acetate. They are also decorated on both sides.

On some of the pages, I have left space for personal notes. On some of the pages, I have used glitter cardstock for decoration.

I have also used some of Kaisercraft's lace on some of the pages. The wooden items here, are one of the wooden flowers, that I have dismanteled and coloured with Kaiserink.

Some of the pages are acetate. These have been decorated, so they look ok from both sides of the page.

I am adding some space for photos taken on the trip. These will be added after the trip.

Kaisercraft products: Just landed collection: P2097 Journal | P2096 World Map P2099 Baggage | P2101 Polaroids | P2102 Subway | P2105 Sign Posts | P2104 Flight Path | PS454 Postmarks - Gloss | PP998 Paper Pad |CT857 Collectables | DD771 Travel Word Pack | FL576 Travel | CT857 Collectabels | FL576 Flourish Pack Travel | EM928 Lace Pack Natural | LDB1055 Wooden shapes Flowers | GC105 Glitter cardstock champagne | IP719 Small ink pad Black | IP729 Small ink pad Tangello | CS257 Background Script clear stamp.

Other: Zutter  - Bind it all

Go where your dreams take you - Travel Journal

This travel journal is my last project for my blogpost for Kaisercraft this month. I created this journal to have something to work on, while I was going on a holiday. The journal is decorated on the front, and the pages are left with just the paper from the collection, ready to be decorated while I am on holiday.

I have used a Bind it all machine to create the binding of the album. The cover pages are created from card board.

I have added a few envelopes throughout the album, to give space to store the collectables for the collection, before I use them in the album.

The pages has been simply decorated with papers from the collection. The pages will be decorated further at a later stage.

Updates can be found in later blogposts, on the decoration of some of the pages of this journal.

Kaisercraft products: Just landed collection: P2097 Journal | P2096 World Map P2099 Baggage | P2101 Polaroids | P2102 Subway | P2105 Sign Posts | P2104 Flight Path | PS454 Postmarks - Gloss | PP998 Paper Pad |CT857 Collectables | DD771 Travel Word Pack | FL576 Travel | FL576 Flourish Pack Travel.

Other: Zutter  - Bind it all

What you see - Art Journal

Some time ago I started an art journal. The art journal is a Mixed Media journal with art photos.Today, StampARTic's design team are inspiring you with doodling and writing in your art journal.

The photo is taken in Noosa (Queensland - Australia).

The paper is from Prima - Stationers desk collection. I have also used chipboard, buttons, metal, resin faceted cabochons and lace.

I have used distress ink and stencils to create the background effects. The brick background is chipboard from Wycinanka.

The metal and buttons has been coloured  with alcohol ink and MetaMica. The text "It's not what you look at that matters. It's what you see" is written with black pen on the page. I have also doodles some lines along the edges and written some words randomly on the background.

I am entering these challenges:

• Prima BAP - November
• Crazy challenge - favorite technique - Stenciling
• Crafty sentiments - Anything goes
• 7 kidschallenge blog - Anything goes
• Paper creators crafts - Anything goes
• Fussy and fancy challenge - Two or pair (Double Art Journal Page)
• Cute and daisy - Layers
• Papirlosjen - Metall

Believe you can - A Mixed Media Journal page

 We are showing you Mixed Media projects at StampARTic today. Mixed Media is an art form, where you use a lot of different types of medias to create a finished product. Paper, plastic, metal and flowers are often used. Paint, stains and sprays are used to colour the background and the different medias to create shadows and different effects. There are a lot of different paperartists who create Mixed Media. Two of them are Aida Domisiewicz og Anna Dabrowska (Finnabair). 

I have created a Mixed Media Journal page. Papers and some of the embellishments are mostly from Prima. Prima is also challenging crafters to "Think Pink" this month - so I did.

The background paper is from Prima - Something Blue Collection. I have used dilution sprays on the background, and created background effects in the paper with my own stencils and gesso. The metal has been coloured with Triton acrylic markers (acrylic paint in a marker). I have also tested Primas new leaves-  and lacy flower- dies. 

The grass is made from polishing wool for cars, coloured with alcohol ink. 

I use RX glue for most of the papers, polishing wool and ribbon and lace. I use Matte Super Heavy Gel (Liquitex) for the metal ands some of the embellishments.

The full journal page.

Creating the journal page - Tutorial

I am entering these challenges:

• Picture and scrap - Dies
• Scrappehjertet - Dies
• Sweet stamps blog - Dies
• My bestie norg - Distress, smear and tear
• The pink elephant challenge - Anything goes
• Whimsy inspires - Anything goes
• 7 kids challenge blog - Anything goes with ribbon and lace
• Incy wincy designs - Old stains and lace, new papers
• Inky impressions challenges - Anything but a card
• Crafty catz weekly challenge - Sentiment
• Fussy and fancy challenge - Lots of pink

Time is Precious - Art Journal Page

I have mad another page in my Art Journal.This is made after the Prima Build a Page sketch for September.

I have tested the Triton marker for the background and for the metal - and I must say I am really pleased with them.

The paper was first covered with Gesso, before colours and embellishment was added.

The blue colour is the Triton marker, where the colour is thinned with water.I have also used stamps and stencils to create the gray background effects.

The photo, is one I took last summer at the  Central Station in New York. I think I used about a minute shutter time.

I am entering these challenges:

• Prima - September BAP -Sketch
• Crafty sentiment - Autumn colours
• Bearly mine - Autumn colours
• Cute and daisy- Autumn colours
• Divas by design challenge  - Anything goes
• 7 kids challenge blog - Anything goes
• Hiding in my craftroom - Scraps
• A creative romance - Anything goes
• Crafting at the weekend - Anything goes
• Picture and scrap - Alt er lov
• Storyteller Norge - Alt er lov
• The mirror crack - Anything Mixed Media goes
• Art by miran challenge - Anything goes
• Lets create challenges - Anything goes
• Craft creatoins - Anything goes
• Creative fingers challenge blog - Anything goes
• 4 krafty girlz challenges - Anything goes
• Through the craft room - Anything goes
• Crafting from the hear - Anything goes - Winner
• Stamping with dragon - Anything but a card
• Scrappaloss - Orange   - Winner
• Scrappelyst  - Fargepalett
• Scrappehjertet - Bilder
• Scrap-creations - Favourite embellishment (metal embellishment)- Top 3
• My bestie Norge - Høstfarger - Top 3
• Papirlosjen - Høst
• Craft in desert divas - Fall
• Simon says stamp -  Background technique

Enjoy the Journey - An Art Journal Venture...

Today, we have a new inspirational post at StampARTic. This time, the design team have created different Art Journals and created backgrounds. I have not made a lot of Art Journal, just because I have struggled to find my own way, creating the journal. Some time ago, I found Finnabair's Family Journal online, and this was entirely my kind of journaling. I like the style, and I also like the fact that there is a theme going on through the Journal. So I got a book, and decided to have a go, but do it my own way.



The photo is one I took in New York this summer. My aim is to use my own photos and add a few good quotes, as well as creating different backgrounds, and testing out new techniques, products and Mixed Media effects, in the Journal.

I have used strips of paper, glued them to the page and covered the page in Gesso. Then, I have added dylusions spray, distress ink and strips and blocks of coloured paper I have also used different kind of metal and stencils.

The doilie has been coloured with distress ink. 

This was the start of my book, and my Art / Mixed Media Journal venture. 

I am entering these challenges:

• 7kids challenge blog - Anything goes
• Divas by design challenge - Anything goes
• A creative romance - Anything goes
• Crafting at the weekend - Anything goes
• Picture and scrap - Alt er lov
• Storyteller Norge - Alt er lov
• The mirror crack - Anything Mixed Media goes
• Cute and daisy - Autumn colours
• Art by miran challenge - Anything goes
• Lets create challenges - Anything goes
• Craft creatoins - Anything goes
• Word art wednesday - Anything goes
• Creative fingers challenge blog - Anything goes
• 4 krafty girlz challenges - Anything goes
• Through the craft room - Anything goes
• Crafting from the hear - Anything goes
• Stamping with dragon - Anything but a card
• Scrappehjertet - Bilder   - Top 3
• Scrap-creations - Favourite embellishment (metal embellishment)
• My bestie Norge - Høstfarger
• Papirlosjen - Høst - Top 3
• Scrappaloss - Farger - orange
• Craft in desert divas - Fall
• Simon says stamp -  Background technique
• Korthobby utfordring - Bildeinspirasjon (biler)

12 tags of Christmas 2013 - Art Journal and paper piecing - tag number two

This tag was number two of a series of 12 tags in the December issue of the Norwegian magazine -  "Ett trykk". I wanted to show different styles and techniques. This is an example of  Art Journaling and paper piecing.

I have used Tim Holtz Sizzix: Movers & Shapers Base Die - Tag & Bookplates to create the basis for the tag. To create the background, I used Dylusions spray – Postbox red, squeezed orange and Cherry Pie. Heidi Swap – Color shine – Chartreuse. Then I stamped with Penny Black: Winter Scroll and  Inkadinkado; Christmas Holiday sentiments and Christmas tree. I made the white effects by using a white pen. 

The teddy is a free digital stamp from Dustin Pike, coloured with promarkers. The underwear has been made with paper piecing. Paper piecing is a technique where you stamp the image onto several different papers, cut the different pieces out and glue them together to create the image. On this teddy, the underwear was printed onto blue card stock, cut out and glued onto the coloured teddy.

Envelope / package art

I must admit, that sending a plain box in the post can be a bit boring. Some time ago a friend of mine sent me a package through the post. She had decorated it with buttons - old buttons. I thought this was so funny. So, when this friend of mine and me was going to send a package together - the box got decorated :) We did one side each - and this is how my side turned out.

The page is about the size of A3. I have used watercolour paper as a base. The colour is a mixture of two dylusions sprays - squeezed orange and cherry pie. The sprays have been put into a separate spray bottle - and diluted with water.

The background stamps are from Tim Holtz. The gears and the key hole are cut from cardboard with Tim Holtz dies. I have coloured the diecuts with Gesso, MetaMica and Distress paint. The butterflies are from Graphics 45. The stencil in the background is a silhouette file - cut from a thin plastic film.

The wings and crone are stamps from Kort og Godt. The Aussie road signs, are stickers bought in Sydney. 

The box was taped with clear tape to prevent the package art from being destroyed on its way to the recipient. 

Altered distress ink storage

I have altered a box, and made a distress ink storage out of it. The box was painted black. Then I used aquarelle paper for the panels, sprayed with dylusions spray.

I have made individual shelves tor the distress ink pads inside the box. The shelves have been made from black chipboard. I have also marked each pad with the right colour on the side. This box has room for 10 ink pads.

So for all of you who wants to know where you can get a box like this from....

This is the box, and I found it at a flea Market last weekend. I think it originally was a box for a wine bottle.

The outside panels were sprayed with dylusions spray. Then I added pattern using gesso and handmade stencils. The text is from Tim Holtz - Stuff 2 say. The gears are also from Tim Holtz - Mini Blueprint 3.

The man with the umbrella is a dies from Tim Holtz - Umbrella man. I have cut the man in craft foam and stamped with it. I have used acrylic paint to stamp with. The gears are cut from gold paper with a silhouette.

I have also cut some gears with a Gear dies from Tim Holtz, coloured them with my distress inks and named them. 

Because the dylusions sprays are water soluble - it will give colour quite easily  Therefore, I have spray coated the finished box with clear lacquer.

 I am entering these challenges:

• Ety trykk - jubileumsutfordringer uke-3 - utfordring 7 - Skumstempler
• Simon says stamp and show - Background stamp
• Inky impressions 105 - Punches/dies
• Crafts and me challenges - Challenge 129 - Bling it up
• 7kids challenge blog - Challenge 71 - Anything goes
• Crafty boots challenges - Recycle
• Anonyme scrapper - Minst en hjemmelaget mønsterark og en gjennbruksgjenstand - Top 3
• Papirdokkene - Utfordring 46 - Alt er lov

A bottle tag

I have made a bottle tag in an Art Journal - Collage style. The tag was cut in aquarelle paper and was sprayed with dylusions sprays and color shine. Then I sprayed it with water and added salt. I left the tag to dry. Then I drew the fishes and cut them out of different left over papers. The sea weeds are cut from green bazzill and painted with Metal Mica. The white leaves where stamped on, then painted with gesso and the black lines were drawn back on leaves. 

I am entering these challenges:

• Ett trykk - Jubileumsutfordringer uke 2 - Utfordring 6 - Collage
• Inky impressions challenges - Paper piecing
• Aud sentiments challenge - For a guy - Top 5
• The sisterhood of crafters - Animals

Kort o Mania challenge and my first Art Journal

This time I have tried something new - Art Journaling. The background is made by using Caran d'Ache Water-soluble Artists' Pastels and water. I have also used Gesso. The stamp is a digital stamp from Lillidigi.com. coloured with promarkers.

For information about the challenge see Kort O Mania