Minibook pages, steam punk and lift of Luanna

First here is the pages from the mini album I made from the Paper Niche February kit, the pictures in the album are all of my Norwegian girlies here in Florida...Love you all =)

Luanna won the January DT challenge at Scrapbook Express so we in the DT picked a page each from Luannas gallery to lift Here you can see  the page I lifted and below here is my page

The pictures are from  2007 when some of us Scrapbook Express girls met for some scrapping and a lot of eating and chatting at Berits house near Stavanger Norway

This page came about after I was challenged (again at Scrapbook Express) to make a Steam Punk page using  distressing, the color blue, metal, rub-ons and stamps

What an awesome challenge ...Thanks girls, you really got me going here

Ouch.....☺

In all the excitement over CHA I have totally forgotten to post my pages done with the January kit from Paper Niche. Love all the papers from Bo Bunny, Basic Grey and Hambly.

The Autumn Leaves silver wings looks so awesome on this picture of Amanda

I used Claudine Helmuth paint on the chipboard letters over and the bird under..LOVE how smooth this paint goes on and the colors are so awesome. I have also used Tim Holtz Crackle accents and mini fastener

Teresa Collins friendship line

I've wanted to dig in to these papers for a while. Finally this weekend I got to them (BIG SMILE). I just totally LOVE the colors and prints here. I also used flowers and ribbon from Prima and Tim Holtz distressing ink and Crackle accents.
Everything I used here is available at the Paper Niche

Happy New Year

WoW it is 2010 already, where did 2009, 2008 and more go
We had a nice and quiet Christmas and New year week, celebrating with family and friends
I got my Maya Road calendar started. It is only the 5th and I already have January finished :lol: I have used Maya Road chipboard and acrylic calendar, Heartwarming Vintage calender cutouts, papers from 7 Gypsies, stamps from 7 gypsies and Tim Holtz, Grungeboard swirl, crackle accents and paint and distressing ink. The snowflakes are from a garland I had on one of my mini Christmas trees.

Yes I know... I love the new papers from 7 Gypsies, I also used them here on this LO I made for the January challenge at Scrapbook Express. It is my inspiration using something recycled on the page. The flowers are made out of old bookpages and the title and swirls are cut out of the back of a sketch pad. This is also my January class at The Paper Niche =)

This ATC I made for a swap at Scrapbook Express in December, using stamps ehhh again 7 Gypsies papers, stamps and tape. Tim Holtz stamps and distressing ink.I have also used Claudine Hellmuth paint LOVE to work with these. We carry them and her mediums at the Paper Niche. It was a grunge swap and all the ATC's I got back was totally awesome. Ill post a picture of them all later

The December kit from Paper Niche

Here is the awesome December kit from Paper Niche and the pages I did with the kit. I also covered a candle box with one of the papers (one of those wonderful Trapp Candles we sell in the store) I also used silver Crackle paint, Crackle accents and Distressing ink.

Here you can see what the rest of the design team did

Christmas ornament

Yes I know I'm really bad at posting here in these busy before Christmas days, and I really don't have to much time to play either. Between The PaperNiche , Willy's, the house and the kids there has not been to much time to spear. Got most of my baking done, presents are sent of to Norway, ehhh Christmas cards are next on the list. In the quiet morning hours I have had a great time following Tim Holtz's 12 days of Christmas tags and are hoping for a quiet evening or two so I can play. They where all totally awesome
This is what I spent my free minutes on :lol: playing around with skin transfer, I made this cute Christmas tree ornament. Directions are posted in Scrapbook Expresses Advent calendar day 13

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 =)

Some store samples for PaperNiche

Ups...Two weeks since I blogged..not good
I have been very busy making Christmas cards for The Norwegian seaman's church. November 21 & 22 we have a Christmas bazaar, got some over 30 cards made and are planning to double that number... I hope :lol:
I have also done some samples for the store.

Wanted with Creative Imagination and Marah Johnson papers

Determination, also with Creative Imagination and Marah Johnson papers (and stickers) My new favorite sports papers...yummy yummy, love the colors and prints here..I planned this page while looking at the papers in Orlando during the summer CHA. Love the look at Sean's face in this picture, he had hurt his hand, but would not let the coach take him out... ''I can do'' it he said, ''Just let me out there and I will show you I can'' and he did

Here I also used tons of Crackle accents and Crackle Paint

I also used Creative Imaginations super sealer...LOVE it you can seal your home printed pictures with out it disturbing the print and the colors so that you can play further with the picture. I added Crackle paint to the edges

The October kit from The Paper Niche

WoW I had so much fun playing with this months kit from The Paper Niche
All the yummy Prima papers and embellishments really inspired me. The piece of canvas was just totally fun, I used it to print pictures and to make flowers

Here is the pages I did with this months kit

The picture here is printed on the canvas and the flowers are made from the canvas, colored with distressing ink and then covered with Glossy accents

This paper was so pretty I just added some flowers and ribbon to the page, The butterfly is one of the Hambly stickers with some stickles added, The flowers are covered with Crackle accents

Here I played with the pretty stamp, the butterfly sticker got some alcohol ink and stickles, and the large rose on the paper got Crackle accents and alcohol ink

Here I just clustered up all the pretty flowers and the Prima leaves, again the paper is so pretty i want to show it of

4 pages with all new products

Not much time for blogging, but have had some nice scrapping time, and a lot of new products to play around with. All the products are from and are available at The Paper Niche

This first page I did as inspiration for the ''Inspiration challenge'' at SBE , I used the new Jenny Bowlin papers and alpha stickers

This page I did as inspiration for the monthly challenge at SBE, using the new Barcelona papers from 7 Gypsies and bunch of different embellishments and stamps.

Here is a list: Papers and ribbon from 7 Gypsies, letters from Basic Grey & Jenny Bowlin, Prima bling and flowers, envelope, tag and chipboard shapes from Maya Road. Hambly overlay, McGibbs wing punch, Stamps from Crafters secrets, alcohol inks, distressing inks and metal embellishments from Tim Holtz, Jenny Bowlin bingo card and ticket

Here I have used papers from Creative Imagination and Bazzill. The shells are covered with Crackle accents and Perfect pearls. The tag and metal starfish is from American Tag Co.

Yesterday was my baby's 10th birthday...Cant believe it is 10 years since we brought this little boundle home. Time just flies way to fast.

I snapped this picture of her at the front porch while she was waiting for her friends to come over for some fun and cake... It was as if the new Webster papers was made for it. I also used one of the new Tim Holtz stamp sets and embellishments from Maya Road, Tattered Angels and Zva.

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Marks paper company

Did a layout for Paper Niche with papers from the new company Marks Paper Company

Fun papers to work with, love the weaved look to them. The Dragonfly I have colored with alcohol inks and then covered with Crackle accents, love how it came out