Altered wooden box

Hi there everyone!

Hope you are all having a great day. The winter has finally arrived here in Trondheim....brrrrr. It`s cold but it looks so much britghter and cleaner outside now. So much better than the pooring rain. But, it won`t stay for long. The first snow never does.

Today i want to show you a wooden box i altered as a present to my eldest daughter.

In the top of this box is a small canvas which i primed with white gesso and decoupaged the image onto. 

Next i adhered all my chosen embellishments and gessoed it all.

On the sides i used some different stencils and put on some texture paste blended with sand to get this rough look on them.

Before i glued the canvas to the box, i sprayed it several times with sprays from Lindy`s Stamp Gang. And i just love how it turned out. 

Just look at all this yummy gorgeous shimmer. Looove it!

That`s it for today. Thanks for visiting me and hope to see you soon back again.

Shabby chic candy jar

Hi there everyone!

Today i want to show you a candy jar i have altered. My oldest daughter came to me wondering if i could help her make a birthday present for her best friend. And i just couldn`t say no. She has never asked me to create something for her, so the pressure to make something extraordinary layed heavy on my shoulders, lol. But i was very proud to be asked. So i just had to get started.

She had this empty candy jar she wanted med to turn into something nice. I`m sorry byt i forgot to take pics before i started but i have LOTS of pics of the end result, lol. So i just have to warn you that this is a picture heavy post. 

A while back i purchased some vintage ephemera print outs on Etsy from a company called By Digital Paper. She has a lot of gorgeous ephemera. And for this jar i used the Sweet Angel bookmarks. 

 I decoupaged the paper to the jar and glued on the bling strips in between the sheets.

Aren`t these totally adorable? I just looove these images. 

On the top of the jar i cut out the centre of a doily to make place for the handle. I then adhered it to the top. 

Next i put on a lot of trims around the jar and the top. 

To finish it off i put on a lot of different flowers, a resin element and a charm.

As a last touch i gave the flowers a little touch with some glitter glue.

Thanks for visiting me today. Hope to see you back here soon.

WSBT - Round 2

Hey everyone!

Ok i know....i`m late posting this. I have no other excuse than i totally forgot. Sooorrrryyyy :-) But at least you`ll get 2 creations for the price of 1, lol.

So here i am with my next creations for the World Scrap Battle and Tournament round 2. And first up is my card.

I`ve created a vintage card in white for a communion. I`m not sure but i think the image i used is from a cuttingsheet from Kort & Godt. Please don`t arrest me if i`m wrong, lol.

I`ve used several kinds of flowers. They are from Kort & Godt and Wild Orchid Crafts.

Next up is my mask for the Alter category.

This is what it looked like before i started.

And here is the end result. I just loooove how it turned out. 

This is actually a candlelight decoration i have had for ages. I found it at Nille a few years ago, thinking it was so beautiful. I didn`t have the slightest idea of what i was gonna use it for though, lol. It was just one of those things you just HAVE to have. But this project is absolutely what it was ment for. I totally see it now, lol. 

I love how the blue shimmery look turned out. It is a blend of pearlescent sky blue ink from Tsukineko and Blue Hawaian blue starburst from Lindy`s Stamp gang. Topped with gems from Marianne Design over the eyes.

The chipboard piece from Dusty Attic is covered with shabby blue embossing enamel from Stampendous and the flowers are from Prima, WOC and Papirloftet. I believe the gems are also from WOC. The feathers are from Nille as well.

If you have any questions as to how the process was, i`ll be happy to answer.

Thanks for visiting me.

Final entry in round 1 of the World Scrap Battle and Tournament - Mixed Media

Hi there!

This last entry in round 1 is a small ring binder from BoBunny of which i have altered the front cover. But before i start i just want to warn you that this is a picture heavy post :-) 

I liked the look of the spine, so i left it the way it was. I started gluing on the mesh tape and used modelling paste from Prima with stencils from Prima and The Crafters Workshop. Next i adhered the chipboard pieces. The leaf chippie is from Joanna Sheen and the big one on the left, is Blue Fern Studio.

Next i adhered all the metal pieces. The dragonflie in the right upper corner, the cogwheels in the middle of the page and the clockpiece with the bee on top. and some other small pieces.

Next i gessoed the whole thing with white gesso. 

I then sprayed the cover with sprays from Lindy`s Stamp Gang and from Shimmerz Paints. I also used some H2O for the red spots. To make the stenciled patterns pop a bit more i used my finger to lightly rub some gesso on top of some pieces.

I just love the shimmery look of this. Sadly the pics doesn`t do it justice. 

To finish it off i added some small bling crystals, here and there, and paper letters to complete the words. I couldn`t find small letters in the right size though, so i had to use my Dymo and make some myself.

Well that`s it. Round 2 is allready in progress and next sunday i will be ready with more creations from the World Scrap Battle and Tournament.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Entering the World Scrap Battle & Tournament

Hey peeps!

Finally i can reveal the creations i made for The World Scrap Battle and Tournament. 

There are 5 categories in the tournament and i have entered in 4 of them. Layout, card, alter and mixed media. I will post the creations one at a time over the next four days. Starting with my alteration.

The inspiration we were given for the first challenge is this picture:

I have altered a large clothespin

I was inspired by the colours of the banner of the photo. Since this happening is going on in Sweden i decided to go for the colours of the Swedish flag, blue and yellow as you also can find in the pic.

I started with gessoing the whole thing. Then i covered both sides with washitape. Then i coloured the whole thing in blue and a spot of yellow. I have used Tim Holtz`s Mustard Seed yellow distress ink for the yellow spec and Twinkeling H2O Autumn skies for the blue hue.

I also used the H2O to colour the Prima flower which started out completely black. I just loooove how it turned out. The seam binding is also coloured with Mustard seed Distress ink. 

I have also used a stencil from The Crafters Workshop using one of the butterflies. Created the texture with modelling paste from Prima`s Finnabair collection. I coloured it with Mustard seed and topped it with some Golden sleighbells Magicals from Lindy`s Stamp Gang. Just a tiny dash to get the shimmery look.

To finish it off i have used bling from Marianne Design, a friendship sticker from Authentic, a butterfly chipboard piece from Make it Crafty. This one i just heat embossed with white embossing and glued on some clear class beads from Prima Finnabair. Also some tiny blue specs of H2O. A metal piece under the flower, some lace and a paper clip from my stash. Oh and i almost forgot. All the edges are smeared with Black soot distress ink.

With this creation i made it through to round 2 on walk over. Later today we will get the new task for round 2. I`m so excited, lol . Hope you come back and visit me tomorrow. I will show you the card i created for round 1.

Thanks for the visit.

Canvas using stamp from Visible Image

Hi everyone!

I haven`t had the chance to post this earlier. Don`t actually know why, but here it is anyway.

A little while ago, Visible Image had a design team call and i created a canvas for my application. Obviously i didn`t make the team but i had so much fun doing it. Just looove their stamps. They are perfect for mixed media, which i`m totally into, at the moment.

For this canvas i used a special kind of technique to create the texture around the image. Which i will share with you all at a later time. I was thinking about making a tutorial for it. It`s a great technique for building layers and i think it makes great dimension to a project.

All flowers i`ve used are from Prima. Chipboard are from Dusty Attic. All embellies are primed with gesso before spraying them with inks from Lindy`s Stamp Gang, which i looove. They are so shimmery and beautiful. 

The metal pieces is from a norwegian shop called Kort Hobby.

To finish off my canvas i`ve used some bling pieces placed randomly.

Butterfly Inkognito is available here.

Hope you like my creation. Thanks for visiting me.