No rain - no flowers

 Hi,

I`ve been enjoying myself with some Copic coloring again, and this time I colored up sweet Marci with an umbrella from La la land crafts. I`m eagerly waiting for spring to arrive, so I chose to color her up in fun bright colors.

My card is 6*6 inches and on the front of my card I scored around the edges 1/8 inch in from the inside of my card. That way you get your score line indent out on your card front. The sky pattern paper that I used is a leftover piece from the Ciao Bella summer breeze paper pad. I lightly went around the edges with Distress ink in blue jeans before I backed it with a medium bright blue cardstock. I used the two biggest circles in the Spellbinders nestabilities Triple Tear S4-490 that is a favourite at the moment adding foam dots for dimention. I also backed Marci up on foam dots to make her stand out even more.

I was so happy with how Marci turned out and the colors I used are:

Face: E000-00-04-11-21

Hair: E15-18-95-97

Outfit: B21-24-28-29

Umbrella: Y11-13-15

               YR00-12-15

               R20-22-24

               G00-02

               B21-24

               T1-3

This stamp is from an old club kit that also comes with some dies and sentiments to go with. I ran a raindrop border die through my machine and placed most of the raindrops back in place, securing them with a tape in order to use it as a tiny stencil. I decided to only go with a few drops and placed my DIY stencil just under the umbrella using a small spatula with the jummy Ranger distress Stickles in moon dust to add some sparkly raindrops. The "enjoy life" sentiment is from the same kit.                              To finish off my card I added some clear enamel drops from Simple and Basic, and I love how the fit the theme as they kind of look like little water drops.

I love how this card turned out and hope you like it too. 

I`m entering this to:

Simon Says: Whatever The Weather | (simonsaysstampblog.com)

Worldwide Crafters and Colorists Challenge: Worldwide Crafters and Colorists Challenge #15 (worldwidecrafterscoloristschallenge.blogspot.com)

fourseasons: April 2024 - Anything Goes SPRING Challenge (thefourseasonschallenge.blogspot.com)

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Thank you so much for stopping by!

Hugs,

-Christine💮 

Stairway to heaven

 Hi,

The Mixed media Art journal page I`m sharing today was actually finished ower a week ago but since the screen on my phone is broken and I forgot the charger to my laptop on the cabin I had to wait to upload it until we came back here. 

So on the 25th of June it was 8 years since Tim passed away and I wanted to make an Art journal page about the loss of a loved family member and also my best friend. 

For my background I used acrylic paint in two shades of blue, a touch of purple and some white applied with a dry flat brush. I used some modeling paste and this beautiful stencil from Tim Holtz called Crossed on the top and bottom of my page. Next I used a script and a circle stamp from Stamperia and stamped randomly around the page to add some interest to my background. I used a more muted mat black ink pad, I think its called midnight sky or something. I will check when I get home. I love the muted effect this ink has and how it was perfect for my heavenly sky. I also darkened the edges on my page as to frame it and make my focalpoint pop more.

My first idea to this Art journal page was to print out the girl letting go of the red balloon from Banksy`s street art and having her stand on top of a stairway to heavnen. When Stamperia came out with the Vintage library collection and I saw the page with this stair I knew this was perfect for my page. But no laptop no printing so I decided to do things a bit different and used a La la Land Wings die that I cut out in a blue-grey cardstock and a bling white one and placed them on top of each other.

The flowers are from Stamperias Blue dream Ephemera pack and the sentiment is a mix of hand writing and for the word heaven i used an alphabet stamp from Papirdesign and just stamped it on a yellow post it note and teared the edges. I used Stickles from Ranger on the flowers and on the dots in the middle of the stencil to add som bling and sparkle to my page.

In loving memory :                          Tim Nandrup-Johansen 

                                                 23th. May 1964 to 25th. June 2015

I`m really happy about how this Art journal page turned out, this page means so much to me 💗         So I`m glad I was able to get it up here even if it got uploaded a little late.

Thank you for stopping by,

-Christine

Reach for the moon - Mixed media art journal

 Hi,

Today I have a mixed media art journal page to share with you.

This last week Simon Says Stamp monday challenge was Sun, moon and stars and that is a theme right up my alley as I love all three of them, and most of all the stars. ⭐

I wanted to play with my new to me Dylusions ink sprays for my background. I then spritzt on some water through a star stencil and blotted off the excess water with a paper towel. I also did the same with a  compass stencil but that didn`t show up as much at the end. I wanted to darken the edges and some parts of my page aswell to make it darker and more like a night sky. I used Distress Ink in Faded jeans and also a bit of Black soot. Then I added some white splashes to mimic the stars. I totally love how my background turned out this time.

For my focal point I used this sweet stamp from La La Land crafts that I colored with my Copic markers. The dies are also from La La Land and I got them in a club set years ago. The sentiments is from the same stamp set and I just cut it apart into strips to add them how I wanted them on my page.

The Copic colores I used are : Skin E 000-00-11-13 R20

                                                 Hair T1-3-5-9 and V09-06(or 05?)-01-000 and a bit of light yellow for  

                                                 the reflection from the stars but I cant remember wich one, sorry :)

                                                 Dress E21-23-25 and I went over with E02 to add more of a pink tone.

                                                 I used V91-93-95-99 for the rest of the dress.

I used Wink of Stella over the cut out stars and the star on her headband but you cant really see it on the photos. Added some details with a black pen and my white Sakura gelpen.

I so happy with how this page turned out and I hope you got inspired to create yourself a happy day crafting too. Its so giving to just enjoy the prosess of creating something.

Im entering this to :Simon Says: Sun, Moon, Stars | (simonsaysstampblog.com)

Simon Says: Anything Goes | (simonsaysstampblog.com)

Thank you for stopping by,

-Christine

Art journal - She designed the life she wanted to live

Hi everyone,

I am having so much fun creating pages in my art journal, and today I am sharing a fun page from my art journal with lots of fun details. I really want to get a bigger size journal and one that is suited for two pages layouts aswell but for now I`m just enjoying creating with what I have. 

I started out with acrylic paints and I also went lightly over a stencil, dot fading, from Tim Holtz with the darkest of the three shades I used for coloring my background. I`m so pleased with the colors and the happy feel they give, especially since the weather here in Norway turned really cold and it started to snow again. Where did spring go to? :)

The scissors and the buttons are dies from an old La La Land craft club kit, the rest I sketched and cut out on black cardstock and embellished it with a flower. I dabbed the buttons with some of the same acrylic paint from the background to make it match the page. Strips of papers from old Prima paper.

To me the buttons just screamed for some thread so I sawed a couple of them with pink and black thread and just taped down the thread on the backside. This was not a problem since I`m working on watercolorpaper and glue down my page it in my journal.

Im entering this:

Simon Says Stamp: Stencil it https://fresh.inlinkz.com/party/5e0ec84d356e4656981b36da30e85255

Thank you for stopping by, I hope you liked it and that you got inspired to create yourself a happy day crafting. :)

-Christine

La-La-Land October Marci

Hi,

I´ve been so busy lately so this is the first time I´ve had the chance to colour up Marci from the October club kit. She is just so cute! Used her on a birthday card to a colleague. Sorry for the poor photo quality. Took these last night with my phone. (literally :) )

Copic colours:

Skin: E000-00-21-11-04

Hair: E21-23-25-29

Clothes: B000-00-02-05-0,

W0-1-3-5-7-9 and

E41-42-43-44

Bird: W3-5-7, C1- E08, R05

 I used papers from Authentique. Dies are from La-La-Land 

and the beautiful flowers from WOC.

Hope you like my card,

thank´s for stopping by. :)