Beauty (with Prima's Fairy Belle)

Sometimes you get some products in your hands that just makes you put away everything else and only concentrate about that one line or handful, that is what happened to me when these Prima beauties arrived at the store. LOVE this picture of Amanda too, it was just perfect for the page

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Flower tag swap

It has been a long time since the last post here, have to get better at this again... and find more time to create so I have something to post. 

We did another tag swap this month with the theme ''Flowers''

This is the tag I made for the swap

and here is all the GORGEOUS tags from the girls,

 Lyn, Liz, Lucy, Jean, Mindy and me

''Not too Shabby''

Here finally is the May kit from Paper Niche "Not too Shabby''

Had a great time working with all the great papers and embellishments from Prima, Jillybean Soup. 7Gypsies,Websters pages, Pink Paislee and more. The colors and textures in this kit is just amazing. AND to totally top it off we added chipboards cut out with Tim Holtz new dies as an extra bonus.. It does not get any better than this

Here at the Paper Niche blog you can see what everyone did. The girls did an outstanding job

here are my projects

Have a great weekend =)

Yummy Prima

Finally I got to play with some of the new Prima papers, they are just sooo scrumptious, I also used one of the new Prima stamps. The flower vines are from last summers release and the chipboard alphas are a couple of years old, but it is all Prima, and all yummy.

The picture is printed on linen textured cardstock and is off Amanda some years back

I also used Rock Candy Crackle pain, Tumbled glass and Vintage Photo Distressing ink and TH's mini stapler

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

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.

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

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 =)

PaperNiche design kit

The kit at Paper Niche this month is filled with yummy stuff from American craft, Hambly and Maya road and more.

Had a lot of fun playing with all the bright colors and the cute embellishments.

You can pick up the kit at the store or order online from our on line store http://paperniche.blogspot.com/

Here is the pages I did

Love the Hambly overlay I used here and the paper from Crate papers

Made a card with some of the leftovers

Cant wait to get my hands on next months kit =)

Yummy yummy Prima

This week we got in a load of all kinds of yummy Prima products at Paper Niche...Off course I had to take some home last night and....It just so happened that today was my day of with plenty to time to play. The smaller flowers are from Zva, totally gorgeous too...

I used Tim Holtz Rock Candy crackle paint on the chipboard letters(Maya Road) and circle (Technique Tuesday) after inking and stamping them... LOVE the look of this.

On the tag I used stickers from Websters and a nice layer of Rock candy crackle paint again

The leafs under the flowers are "leaf ribbon from MayArt

Had some fun with beeswax =)

Had a fun play date with my friend Lyn, our melting pots and beeswax today, made these really fun frames. Tinkerbell is sooo cute, Lyn made this one first and I just had to copy her, I just added some bling

Papirdesign

This month the DT at ScrapbookExpress is sponsored by a Norwegian scrapbooking company "Papirdesign". Had a ton of fun with the beautiful papers. As usual we have a challenge on the board where you can win one of their beautiful stamp sets.
Here you can see all the awesome stuff DT made DT's Papirdesign gallery
Thank you so much Papirdesign, I had a blast working with your products =)