A few items I made over the last months

Love this frame I made using Art parts from Wendy Vecchi, paper, stamps and a few odds and ends from Tim Holtz. All added to a dollar frame from Michaels. 

Sorry its phone pictures so not the best quality

Yes I had the hots for Copics and Magnolia Stamps for a while

Here is some of the cards I made

This was a challenge I could not resist

A customer wanted this mobile for her baby's nursery

Custom box

 Decorated this box for one of our store customers using lots of Crackle paint, Prima flowers and Zva pearls, the pictures does give it full justice. It went from being very shiny and white, to looking very antiqued, cream colored and distressed. The customer is using it in a wedding for well wishes instead of having a sign in book. Love that idea. I used Picked fence mixed with a little Antique linen and added a layer of  Rock candy on top (crackle paint colors) I also used Vintage photo distress ink

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

Home alone and.......

Hmmm... got my hands on some of the new Pink Paislee papers...They are totally awesome right?

On this first page I have used ''Sweetness''

I have also used  BG letters that I painted with crackle paint, stamped and then added rub-ons on

The Memory frame has paper that I stamped, sticker from Kelly Panachi and PP rub-on. I have also used  stick pin from Karen Foster, rub-ons from Glitz design and Prima bling

The picture is of my grandparents Anna and Nils Dahl and is taken in the early 1920's

Here I have used the ''Old school'' paper line from Pink Paislee

I have also used abc chipboards from BG and SR, chipboard circle from Technique Tuesday, abc letters from Websters, Prima bling, distress ink and crackle paint

Picture is of Amanda ready for her first day in first grade

The new ''House of three'' line is just totally gorgeous

I have added Prima and Zva flowers and bling, Hambly rub-ons and some picket fence crackle paint

My sister probably thought I was crazy when I pulled out the camera one night and started taking pictures of her Orchid in the windowsill ... It was about nine o'clock at night and i just loved the way the evening sunlight was shining on the beautiful flowers

Here is some close ups of the first page

The Girls Paperie and April sneak peeks =)

Had some fun today playing with ''Paper Girl'' line from"The Girls Paperie" used the papers, buttons and stamps. Love this new line, the colors are so pretty and the stamps where awesome to work with...and the colors are a perfect match to the new TH distressing inks Spun sugar and Tumbled glass. I also added some flowers from Prima and Tara Green, Zva bling, BG chipboard letters, and Jenny Bowlin butterfly. I used Rock candy Crackle paint and the swirly stamp is from TH and Stampers anonymous

XOXOXOXOX

Here is some sneak peek I posted on the PaperNiche blog yesterday. Look up for a totally yummy kit full of treats and goodies. I had so much fun with this one. It is released April 1st

Altered wood frames

I made these two frames with papers from Graphic 45, the decorative items are from 7 Gypsies, Tim Holtz, Tara Green and Bead landing. The frames are covered with Rock Candy crackle paint and distressing ink from Tim Holtz. The pictures are of my great grandparents

Roses anyone (Graphic45)

Love making flowers from printed paper, I made this bouquet of roses out of Graphic 45 papers, the vase is also covered in Graphic 45 paper all from the Le' Romantique line. Everything is inked with distressing ink, covered in Rock Candy crackle paint and then re-inked.

Yes I did try out for the DT there =)  Huge congrats to all the ladies that made the finals

I'm working on a tutorial for the roses, hope to have it done sometime next week.

I will post some of the other stuff I did later this week.

New Distressing Inks

Beetween my regular duties and obsessive Olympic TV watching there has not been a lot of playtime this week, but I just had to play a little with the new Tim Holtz Distressing Inks... All the colors are just totally fabulous (YES I got all 12)  I have covered them both with Rock candy crackle paint.

February inspiration

We had a wonderful weekend scrapping with Bea at the Paper Niche this week end. Three days with classes and cropping, It was a working weekend for me, but I had time to play when the store was closed for regular customers.
Here in my inspiration LO for February at Scrapbook Express, lots of stamping and inking
The background is Bazzill stamped and colored in with distressing ink and a waterpen. The stamps are mostly from Tim Holtz, but also Inkadinkadoo and Autumn leaves (on tag)
I have also used Crackle paint, grunge paper and Grunge board. Gold leafing pen, Ribbons from May art, an old music sheet(Thank you Leslie) set rhinestones and a tiny piece of 7Gypsies tape (on back of the fragment)
The pictures here is a little blah..(scanned) I will try to get a better picture later on

Here is some detail pictures. You can click on both of the pictures for a close up. LOVE how the gold leaf pen work and the coloring in of the stamping came out here =)

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOX

KristineH won the DT challenge at Scrapbook Express in December, as usual we in the DT scraplifted on of her pages. Here is the beautiful original and here is a link to her gallery at Express. This is my lift. I used papers from MME

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