Altered Kettle - published in Craft Stamper magazine!

I had an article about how to alter an old kettle in the April issue of the Craft Stamper magazine (which came out in March). If you have that issue, check pages 22-25 :-)

Here it is again, although without the step by step instructions - you need the magazine for that.

 

Interested in the magazine? Go to www.craftstamper.com to buy subscriptions, www.mags-uk.com for single copies, or the digital version from www.pocketmags.co.uk. 

For my kettle, I used colours that match our April challenge over at the Rubber Dance blog - as well as our theme this month; altered stuff. You may choose between the two (colours or theme), or make a combo of both:

 

You have the whole month to join.

http://rubberdance.blogspot.no/search/label/currentchallenge
See you there?

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The kettle stands on my workdesk, filled with paint brushes I use - so it's not just for decoration.

During Easter, however, I've filled it with colourful tulips and placed it on our dining table.

Stamped used on my kettle are the Crazy Flowers from Rubber Dance.

Thanks for looking!

 

Craft Stamper - Cover Girl!

Hello everyone! Just a quick post today to toot my own horn! ;-)

I knew that I would have a 4 pages article in the Feb. issue of Craft Stamper magazine, but I had no idea that one of my whimsical houses - featuring my stamp company's Textured Houses and Textured Flowers - would make the cover! Yooohooo! *happy dancing*

The DIGITAL version of this issue is already available here: https://pocketmags.com/eu/craft-stamper-magazine  and the printed issue will soon be available, too. I couldn't wait for my copy, so I bought the digital one today and I luvvv it! Craft Stamper has long been my #1 fave print magazine and every monthly issue is packed full of awesome articles, tutorials, and readers' submissions.  I think there is something for everyone here, from beginners and intermediate to the more experienced crafter. There are many tutorials with illustrated step by steps, which I find very helpful.

Anyway - I just wanted to brag, really. 

It's not every day that I can call myself a Cover Girl, is it? ;-)

 Toot-tooot!

Blue Winter, Card with Dies and Stamps

Winter is upon us here in Norway. This is what it looks like just a few kilometres from where I live, but a bit further south we don't have any snow ...yet! It'll come soon enough, though ...

 

The stars and houses are from Rubber Dance (Textured Houses), stamped on Strathmore Mixed Media paper (my new favourite) with blue Archival Ink, coloured in with Zig Clean Colour markers and a waterbrush. I made the hills in the back by drawing a line with a Zig marker, then adding water with the waterbrush. The "hills" with the tiny trees in front of the houses are made with a cool die from Your Next Stamp (Evergreen Tree Border). The bigger trees in the front are a die by Dee's Distinctively Dies (Large Snow Covered Tree). I don't use dies very often, but I wanted to join a challenge (see below) and this card was such fun to make that I think I will be making more cards with dies pretty soon!

The big trees were cut out from cardstock that I had given a coat of Gesso. They are coloured in with ZIG Clean Colour markers and a waterbrush. I added some glitter on top of some of the branches. Finally, mounted my scene on a silver cardbase and added a shiny star

I'm entering my card to these three challenges:

1) Happy Little Stampers, November Challenge: 
Anything Goes with Dies 
2) The Crafty Addicts, Challenge #28:  
Anything Goes/Winter Blues
3) Craft Stamper, T.I.M.I. November challenge:
Anything goes, just remember to stamp somewhere!

Thanks for looking!
 

Update: This card won me a place among the favourites at Happy Little Stampers!