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.

 

Happy Christmas, Shimmer Card

Every December I say the same; "Next year I will start much sooner, and I know I've said it before, but this time I really mean it!" And every year I believe what I say. No exception this year - but this time I really, really mean it.... (I'm so gullible, I think it's true - I honestly do!).

Anyway, I did send TWO Christmas cards this year (yay, right?). Here is one of them:

The embossed panel is Shimmer Sheetz, which is an iridescent metallic Mylar by Elizabeth Craft Design (I'm not affiliated, just love this product!). After embossing, I altered it with alcohol inks, sanded it lightly to reveal the silver core, then I added some bronze paste to the edges. I wanted to add some gold mica powder to the paste, but it flew everywhere and stuck to the alohol ink on the Shimmer Sheetz. I liked it, though - a happy accident - so I added more and set it with a fixative spray. The stamped trees are from the Whimsical Winter stamp set by Rubber Dance. I white embossed them and coloured them in with ZIG markers to match the colours of the card. I adhered the trees with some really sticky clear tabs (Power Tabs by Tombow) to raise them up from the card and make sure they stayed there.

With this card I wish you all a very merry and 

♥ ♥ ♥ Happy Christmas! ♥ ♥ ♥

Cloud Stamp Cupkake - and Prizes!

Hey everyone! Can you believe it's December already? I can't, and I'm not ready - but December hasn't asked me ;-) 

Ready or not - how about joining our challenge at Rubber Dance this month? Here's what I made with our challenge colours and theme combined:

I have used stamps from several sets to make this (all from Rubber Dance);

sentiment from You Rock, mug and cherry (actually a snowball) from Whimsical Winter, 

"cake" is the cloud from Whimsical Summer, and the crown is from Poodle Power. 

The mug and sentiment are both stamped directly on watercolour paper, whereas the cloud, crown and cherry were stamped, coloured, cut out and glued down before adding lots of glitter.

Our challenge will run the whole month of December and there are prizes to win!

 

See my fellow teamies inspiration makes over at the Rubber Dance blog.

I hope you get a chance to join our challenge!

You may use stamps from any company.

Thanks for looking!

On thin Ice with Shabby Chick!

Hello good people! I have made an attempt on a style I'm not comfortable with, it just sort of happened! I was playing with the new stamps from Rubber Dance, and I thought the ice skates would look nice if I made them vintage... and one thing just lead to another .... 

So, what is this - shabby chick or vintage? Vintage Shabby Chick? No matter what the style is called, it was fun to try something different from what I usually make. You know I love a good challenge! :-)

 

The next card is more my style, wouldn't you say? I printed the text out, but the images are from Whimsical Winter - one of the new stamp sets from Rubber Dance.

Here's another "Bibi style" card. The sentiment and penguin are both from the new stamps at Rubber Dance
(released today!).

I made the background first - sea with Distress Oxides and a spray of water, sky with regular Distress ink. All the images were stamped on watercolour paper and coloured with Zig markers, cut out and placed on top of my background. I cut a line through the "waves" and tucked half of the whale behind the waterline.  The whale and clouds are also stamps from Rubber Dance, 'case you wondered. I drew the shark fin on watercolour paper and coloured it with grey and black Zig markers. It looked better, not so flat, as if cut out of black cardstock.

Below are some tags I cut out of a background I had in my stash. Just having fun with the new sentiments stamps from Rubber Dance :-)

If you want to see more artwork with the new stamps, most made by Donna Gray who designed the new Whimsical Winter stamps for Rubber Dance, check out my post on the Rubber Dance blog.

Thanks for looking!

♥ Wishing you all a lovely and creative week ♥