Sommerstemning med fyrtårn og vann.

Det er snart sommer og en god anledning for et lite sommerprosjekt. Her har jeg brukt et trebyggesett med fyrtårn fra Rayher.  Her er det montert diodelys med bryter i bunnen. 

 Fyrtårnet fra Rayher. er enkelt å sette sammen.

Bunnen er satt sammen med ark fra Kaisercraft: Plaster Rose - Wandering Ivy. Gresset er laget med et grønt ark fra blokken  - First Edition - Sweet Nothings. Gresset er klippet opp med saks. 

Takstenene er klippetopp med mønstersaks fra Fiskars.

Bølgene er et eget design som kuttet med Silhouette. Gjerdet som går rundt gresset er også eget design og kuttet med Silhouette.

Fjellet er bygget i papp og dekket med Kreativ Betong Paste.

Fyrtårnet er malt med hvit gesso og rød akryllmaling.

Nevelfjell - A Prima layout with stones and map lichen

This is a simple mixed media layout I created for the magazine The Papercrafting a while back. It's no secret that Prima has been one of my favourite brands for a lot of years.  Therefore, I also have a lot of Prima stuff and old collections in my craft studio. This layout was created as an article to inspire to use some of your old craft stuff that you might have in your craft room. 

The papers are Prima's Salvage District colletions - Chateau and Forever Green collection - Watch them grow and  Nature's Bounty. To create the stones with moss, I used Prima paper and painted it with Rayher kreativ concreate paste and FolkArt moss paste. To create the grass, I used car polishing yarn and coloured it with different green alcohol inks. I painted the sky with with a mixture og white gesso and blue paint with a spunge.

All the items have been mounted with 3D tape in layers, to create dimensions in the layers.

Good luck with finding old scrapping collections in your craft rooms. 

Sweet with concrete and brick

This mixed media layout/canvas has been created with one of the round wooden trays from Hobbykunst.  The background paper is from Ella & Viv: Concrete Brick Wall - Backgrounds.

Everything has been built up with 3D tape to create dimention.

I used metal from different brands in the background. The flowers has been cut out from the paper Sainte Maxime - St. Tropez fra Prima. This paper is fantastic to use as fussy cut flowers, instead of using ready made flowers.  The text in the background has been made with an old Tim Holtz stencil and Rayher's conrete paste. This paste is fantastic to use with stencils. 

Here, I have used different die cuts created with dies from Rayher: Doilie dies, wine leaf dies, flower dies and star dies. All the paper die cuts has been painted with Extreme Sheen - Metallik bronzet to create the metal bronze colour. 

Mixed media with chalk, rust and concrete paste

Hobbykunst has got some really sweet frames in MDF. This is one of the frames, decorated with chalk paint and concrete, together with a hint of rust. 

The frame was first painted in light blue chalk paint. Then I added concrete paste. This paste is soft to work with, as thick paint, and easy to spread with a sponge or paintbrush. When the concrete paste dries, it hardens, and it is good for adding other paints, mists or mixed media layers on the top. 

The background inside the frame, is a patterned paper from 

Prima's collection "French Riviera" -  Journees De Reves et Aventures. This collection is a collection I have used a lot. This was my last paper from all the piles of paper from this collection. 

I have created the mixed media picture in layers. I have used Kaisermists on the background paper, and stamped onto the misted paper with background word stamp from Kaisercraft and a ruler stamp from Technique Tuesday - Measure Up. I used Archival ink for the stamping, as it is not water soluble. 

Then I have added layers with micro beads, metal, computer parts, painted with rust and copper paint. There are also some copper buttons mixed with Prima and Mathia flowers. 

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Concrete, rust and moss paste.

Hobbykunst has got new concrete paste in the shop. It fantastic to work with, together with the moss and rust paints from Folk Art. Here, I have tested a combination of all these products. 

The frame is from a flee market. It was old and the paint peeled off it. I liked the pattern on it, and painted it with the concrete paste. I used the sponges that came with the paste, to paint the frame. Rince the sponge under cold water after use, and you can reuse it. 

The canvas used here, is 10x10cm. The canvas has been covered with the concrete paste. I have used the moss paint different places around the canvas for effect. The moss paint has been added with sponge.

The heart has been cut out from black cardboard. It has been painted with rust paint. First the dark brown paste, and then the light paste here and there. The paint has been added with a sponge. 

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