Paper Niches February kit

Here is the February kit from Paper Niche

As usual it is filled with yummies from these different manufacturers 

Papers :

Basic Grey 7

Simple stories 5

My Minds Eye 3

TPC 1

Embellishments :

Prima flowers and hearts

Basic Grey Rub-ons and buttons

Pink Paislee Alpha

K&co Chipboards

Zva Bling

Maya Road stick pins

4.5 yards of ribbon

Yummmies from our candybar

Here is my pages and projects =)

I Gessoed, stamped and inked this canvas before I added papers and picture, 

the cute banner is a AccuCut die

Global Hobby and Pan Pastels

 The Design Team at Scrappeland was so fortunate this month, we where sponsored by Global Hobby og kunst a wholesale company selling craft and hobby supplies to craft, hobby and scrapbook stores in Norway. 

Check out their blog here Din fantasi – fra hobby til kunst!

The products they sent us to play with was Pan Pastels, these chalks are just awesome, so smooth and easy to work with. There is around 80 colors, and lots of fun tools to go along with them

I did a canvas, where I used the Pan Pastels for the background and stamped on top stamps are by Donna Downey and Dyan Reaveley, I also added tape from Tim Holtz that I colored with Pan Pastels. I used Archival ink from Ranger

Here on this card I used the pan pastels for all the coloring after I stamped the images with ink from Memento, the stamps are from Heartfelt Creations, Dyan Reaveley and Stamping up. 

Here is an article Renate has written in Scrappeland about the company and the Pan Pastels(in Norwegian)

http://scrappeland.no/forum/threads/1143-Global-Hobby

Canvas flower tutorial

This flower is really fun and easy to make and the supply list is not to long either =)



What you need is :
A piece of canvas
Tim Holtz distress reinkers
Ranger Crackle Accents
Water(I love my mini mister)
Scissors
A small paintbrush
and your blending tool with a foam pad attached.
Make sure you have a nonporous work space. I use my Ranger craft mat

Cut 3 circles in different sizes out of your canvas. Pick your colors of reinkers. Here I'm using Aged Mahogany and Peeled Paint, With your dropper drip some on to your mat and add water, the more water the lighter the color will be. I like to color the different layers in different shades(of the same color)


Using your blending tool, color the canvas front and back and let dry
When dry paint on a thick layer of Crackle Accent and place on top of each other

Using the handle part of your paint brush, gently push the edges of the circles in toward the center of the flower. You will find that the canvas with Crackle accent is very easy to work with. Squeeze a little extra using your hands. Your flower is now almost done
Remember to get all this done while the Crackle Accents is still wet.
To make leafs, cut leaf shapes out of the canvas fabric.

Color them with reinker and paint with Crackle Accents the same way as you did with the flower, I used Peeled paint reinker here. Fold along the middle of the long side and scrounge together as in picture 14, gently open and your leaf will have a nice shape. Place where wanted under the flower while Crackle accent is still wet. The Crackle Accent works perfect as glue

In the middle of the flower I used Kaiser half pearls. You can use bling or beads or anything else you like to use.

Here is some flowers I made earlier using Broken China and Mustard Seed reinkers

Have fun making the flowers, they look great on your pages, cards or other projects

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This week I'm featured on Scrappehuset a great Norwegian challenge blog, Ruffa translated my paperflower tutorial to Norwegian and it was posted there today together with lots of my heritage inspired LO's You can see it right here =)