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!

 

Funny Easter Cards

Happy Easter, everyone! ♥

It's not custom here in Norway to send out Easter cards, but I made three just for fun. It doesn't say Easter on any of the cards, though, so maybe I'll use them as birthday cards instead - especially spring birthdays.

First is this chick - obviously born with a lot of confidence! :-)

 

All the stamps are from Rubber Dance:

Tulips from Crazy Flowers #1, Chick from Textured Spring, sentiment from Adore Me, and Rascal Rooster. I drew the stem of the flower by hand before stamping the sentiment on a separate piece of paper, which I cut out and adhered on top after colouring it.

 

Stamps used, all from Rubber Dance:

Bonny Bunny, Textured Spring (chick), Flower Power, Flying ink bottle (sentiment). I drew the speech bubble by hand and also some hearts to match those on the chicken.

Stamps used, all from Rubber Dance:

Bonny Bunny, Flower Power, Textured Spring (eggs). I made the sentiment using 'Hoppy' from Bonny Bunny and 'Spring' from Four Seasons.

I stamped all three cards using black Versafine ink on watercolour paper and coloured the images in with Zig clean colour markers, sometimes direct to paper and some places combined with a waterbrush.

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 I wish you all a very Happy Easter!

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Thanks for looking!

Vinterbilde med Votter (Norwegian challenge)

The text below is not gibberish - it's my mother tongue! 😜 Since I made this for a challenge in Norway, this post is in Norwegian. You can still look at my very, very pretty winter picture and leave a sweet comment - in any language but Klingon (mine's rather rusty).

Hei på snei! Her er et vinterbilde jeg har laget til grublisen på Scrappelyst. Jeg brukte en tykk kartong på 15 x 15 cm som base og malte den først med hvit gesso, deretter fargela jeg himmelen med to blånyanser Distress-blekk, som jeg ga en liten dusj med vann for å illudere dalende snøfnugg.  Bakken dekket jeg med hvit krakkeleringsmasse. Når den var tørr, klinte jeg på litt glitterlim her og der så det ser ut som glitrende snø.

Vottene og de andre stemplene er fra Rubber Dance, som er mitt eget stempelfirma. Jeg stemplet motivene med vannfast blekk på tynt akvarellpapir og fargela dem med ZIG Clean Color-tusj. Hytta er limt rett på bakgrunnen, de andre motivene festet jeg med 3D-puter for å få litt mer dybde og liv i bildet. Legg merke til at vinterbildet mitt hviler på et par votter - måtte bare ta med denne fine julegaven, ettersom votter er temaet for grublisen.

Nedenfor er et nærbilde av de stemplede vottene og litt av gullramma rundt. Den lagde jeg ved å ha på masse embossingblekk og tjukt embossingpulver. Mens den fortsatt var varm, trykket jeg kanten av et blomsterstempel nedi den bløte embossingmassen. (NB! Dette går helt fint med gummistempler - jeg vet ikke om clearstamps tåler varmen. Noen andre som vet det?)

Nedenfor ser dere de fine vottene jeg fikk til jul av en venninne som har sydd dem selv. Snøkrystallene er av refleksfolie som hun skar ut på Silhouettemaskina si. Vottene er av ullstoff og fôret med skikkelig myk fleece, utrolig deilige å ha på når det er bikkjekaldt ute! Det har fortsatt ikke vært ordentlig vinter her i Fredrikstad; snøen og frosten kommer og går med regnet, men vintersesongen er jo ikke over ennå. Kanskje blir det litt Tiddelibomm og huttemegtu snart! (Ikke det at jeg liker å fryse, men jeg vil jo gjerne bruke de nye vottene mine).

De sydde vottene er ikke et bidrag til grublisen, de er bare fine :-)

Minna syr for det meste barnetøy, og har en egen side på Facebook: Minnasydd

 

Jeg deltar på grublisen hos Scrappelyst

Takk for at du kom innom!

Alle stemplene er fra Rubber Dance:

Votter, Hytte, Tre:  Whimsical Winter

Blomst til gullramma: Crazy Flowers #1

Dessuten har jeg brukt:

That's Crafty! - Greyboard,  Prima - White Crackle Texture Paste,

Ranger - Distressblekk, embossingblekk, EP i gull, Stickles glitter,

Canson akvareallpapir, Versafine onyx black, ZIG Clean Color Markers.

 

50 Euro Worth of Stamps Challenge

Heyyy, good people! The December challenge over at the Rubber Dance blog is one you really don't want to miss. The lucky random winner will get a 50 Euro voucher to spend in the Rubber Dance web shop, and the DT Fave pick will get €25!!

I know many of you are busy right now, but the challenge is quite easy: Either use the challenge colours, OR enter any make with glitter.

I have combined the colours and a bit of glitter on my reminder card:

 I made the background mixing three colours of Distress Oxides. For the light blue, I mixed a couple of drops of blue reinker into the texture paste. I picked a Christmassy patterned stencil (Tim Holtz) to go with the stamped tulips, which was a Christmas flower here in Norway - I don't know if that's common all over the world, but we love tulips this time of year - usually white or red, but I love tutti-frutti :-)

I stamped the tulip randomly on two backgrounds and cut them out. 

Same with the stems and leaves - all stamps from the Rubber Dance set Crazy Flowers #1.

 

I arranged the cut out images over my background till I liked it, took a photo for reference and glued them all down. Quick and easy Christmas card, if somewhat unusual perhaps.

The challenge runs till 31st of December, so there's plenty of time still.

 Thanks for looking!

New Stamps from Rubber Dance!

Hello everyone! Right now I'm over at the Rubber Dance blog, bragging about the new stamps that are being released today! All the new stamps are 20 % off until October 31st. Yooohoo! :-) You can find them in the web shop here.

So far, I've made two cards and this picture with the new flower stamps:

I cut the spiral of the flowers to make them stand up:

 

Supported by foam dots:

The snail was made from two spiral flowers:

 

I used the same idea on this card:

I also made a tulip card with the new stamps.

 

I cut the middle out of two flowers to make mini-stamps I used on the edges.

Just pop them back in next time you use the flower stamps, or use them without.

I love that you can do that so easily with un-mounted stamps!

 

...and here they are, our brand new stamps:

 plus this set of sentiments:

If you want the new stamps, pop over to the Rubber Dance web shop for a nice discount!

 

Thanks for looking!