Recycled at ARTastic

Time is moving on far to fast.

Not sure about you but I can't belive it is almost July

ARTastic has a great challenge with a difference this month

called "Some Environmental Inspiration"

This is what it said:
World Environment Day is celebrated June 5th, 

so in honour of this day I thought we might all participate 

in a challenge with a difference.

 Introducing Robin's Nest by environmental artist  

 Susan Schenk 

 Criteria - the use of recycled material to feature prominently 

on your work (ie minimal commercial products). 

 Hint - think ephemera and recycled items

 Here is my LO

  I have used an old Curiosity Killed the cat record

The cover is used as the bg and the record it self on top.

I used tissue paper with glue and seal to cover the record

and painted with copper acrylic and  3 matallic Distress stains

Left overs from a hexagon mesh die was glued on top and more 

 acrylic paint, distress and Cosmic shimmerz was added

 

 The gears are made of a soda can and TH  gear die, 

(thanks Yvonne for this great idea)

Pull tabs are from soda cans too, and the metall plate under 

the gears are from the old PlayStation 3 motherboard that 

Marius had replaced with a new one

 

 The metall fans are  made from  the  outside ring  on the can

and cut in to and spread out as fans.

Flower embelishments are from x-mas card and I kept them 

for a "rainy day"  and was perfect here 

Only screw brads, glue and paint was bougth for the purpose 

of scrapbooking.The rest is recycled materials.

You still have a day or so to join in on this great challenge

Thanks for stopping by today,

 I appreciate you are taking the time 

If you like something different of a challenge, why not 
visit Yvonne's blog Do More with Less 
and join on a challenge I'm hosting
Upcycling and creating with Aluminium Foil.
Would love to see what you can come up with :)

Wish you all a Happy and creative weekend :)

*****

Stencil Art at ARTastic

Hello every one, hope it's been a great week so far.

I'm a bit excited to day as this is my first sneak peak

revealing my first GD page.

It is all happening over at

ARTastic Challenge blog

 

I used 5 different stencils/mask 

Diamonds: yellow  TA Glimmer mist

Chevrons: Black Promarker

Trees: Texture paste mixed with acrylics

Chicken wire: Gesso with acrylics

Negative of Distorted Behive, on the skirt: Dylusions

Can you spot the "blingy" shoes on picture below?

The Design team has made some fantastic Pages 

for May Inspiration

 finding inspiration in this  Stencil Art picture made by

Michael Duncan with Tea Time 2012 

(a handcut 35 layer stencil).

I have  a prize as well, so why not join in on the fun

and play along.

Thanks for visiting my blog and leaving a comment, 

it is very much apreciated

x

International Scrapbooking Day

ARTastic Challeng blog

is still celebrating International scrapbooking Day with

 a fun challenge including taking a photo of

 your scrap space.

Here is mine, looking a bit untidy after still working

on LOs for my nephews album up until I left 

Friday night going to Norway. It was a last minute desition

to stay over at Gatwick airport instead of leaving early Sat

morning and be stuck in traffic.

So this is what it looked like when I left home

 late Friday evening lol ;)

It is normally tidy when I start on a new LO, but funny

enough it looks like this, a bit untidy when I'm done.

Wonder why  ;)

So When I am Scrapbooking I'm in "Scrap Mode"

dissapearing into my own little world of creativeness.

I'm sure a burglar could enter without me noticing :P

(but please don't tell them lol)

Some times my daughter (11) joins me and we have lots

of fun together with stamps, mist, stencils, acrylics

 and bits and bobs making tags, which is her favourite

craft activity.

It's been fun looking into other scrappers scrap space,

Thanks for stopping by, looking at my mess lol.

Happy Scrap to You all :)

I do appologize for not visiting all your inspiering blogs

over the last couple of days. Although being on sort of 

holiday to celebrate my nephews confirmation on Thursday,

it has been busy days helping my mom and sister preparing

for it, and making the last couple of pages for his album.

Tomorrow I have to make the cards too, so I'll have to wait until I

 get back home to England to post it all.

I do have a very exciting news, preposted,  going live 

here on  my blog tomorrow. 

Until then, a good night from me in Norway

x

April Inspiration at ARTastic

Hello everyone and Happy Sunday!

Time flies and last month I felt I was behind with 

everything all the time....

 but I have caught up with my self lol ;) 

and have managed to join in on the challenge 

at ARTastic early this time. The DT  has made some
fantastic projects to inspire you together with a GD

Here is my entry LO

.... the ART inspiration this month is this
 fantastic picture below

by the

Australian Indigenous Artist, Trevor Nickolls with his piece Warmun Mandala.

....and criteria is: Use these colours on your entry
why not pop over to have a look and join in  :)

Here are some close ups,
the photo is of Tirill with black hat and black 
and red sun glasses

I used black bazzil  and stamped with white acrylic paint with an embossing folder in the middle
at the back. I cut open a circle and folded in to the front,
 and placed the photo in opening at the back.
I love those little figures on the inspiration picture
so I made a cirkle of baking paper and cut out
 in the old fashion way so they all hold hands lol
Baking paper is good to use when you want a 
rougher finish as the pain will peel of a bit.
I used red acrylic and black pen to make 
fake stitching

Nice of you to pop around to visit my blog
and thanks for your lovely comments

Hope you had a Fab and creative weekend
:)

ARTastic March Inspiration

This month has gone by soooo fast, it's only 4 week since last 

school holiday and from tomorrow they have another 

2 weeks off

Happy Easter Everyone :)

 Inbetween they both have had  the bugs, so not

4 full weeks of school :P

Anyway  I have done another LO using

a photo as inspiration over at

ARTastic Challenge blog

There are allways great Challenges over 

there, so come and have a look and be

 inspired....

New GD every month

This month is all about portraits so I 

used a photo of Tirill taken when out in 

the snow last holiday  

Here is my entry

 Inspired by this painting

made by the Australian portrait artist 

Julia Sattout 

with her painting Girl in Pink.

I glued 2 single papers (from Panduro)

together and cut in to fragments to creat the 

foldings

Added som pattern and texture with mask,

texture paste, silver acrylic, gesso, stamps

and distress ink

 TO make the banners I used floral papers

(lots of it lol) from Laura Ashley

Finished of with flowers, chipboard,blings,

 brads and a few bits and bobs

Wish you all a great Holiday :)

Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment

x

ARTastic Febuary Challenge

ARTastic Challenge Blog

has a great piece of Art as inspiration this month with 

a very creative  Team inspiring with their own fab creation

and

New GD  every month presnting aditional inspirational work

To be inspired click on Artastic above to find out more.

Here is my interpetation  of....

Criteria  - Free choice, make of this as you will 

 ....inspired by this ART work below made by the 

artist Charles Meere

I made the background by using a TH embossing folder to

make an impression. When sanded on top the swirls

become more visible

..

Little blings was glued on and dabbed with white acrylic paint 

  I put together a collage of photos from Brigerbad in Switzerland.

Belive it or not these photos were taken 24-26 of October 2011

 I croped a photo of Tirill jumping from the cliff.

The shadow is amazing... and there were lots of

shadows on the insirational picture.. a close up below..

some details..

Added a beach ball ,as there was one in the picture.

Used the ticket from Brigerbad and it cut in 2, the bottom 

half here with the date on, and the top half with the tag on top

Thanks for stopping by....I appreciate you taking the time 

to leave a comment :)

ANGEL at ARTastic

This was a challenge I just had to give it a go at,

the  one at ARTastic challenge blog.

This is  was  it said:

Criteria – 

the use of chalk or the addition of wings on your entry

Here is my entry

 and here is the inspiration photo they have posted

There is a link to the artist at ARTastic's blog

 The photo is og my doughter who wanted to have a

go at some of my dresses  lol

I cut out the wings  after I drew them  with pencil on

cardstock and used lilac chalk to give it a bit of

colour and then a bit of silver Glimmer mist.

Some pearls were glued around the edge

I used Dylution on tags,doilies and Distress to make 

the bakground with stamps

  Papers are of different origins

Flowers are mainly from Prima, other miscellaneous like 

millners net, bandage I sprayed with Blue Dylusion, and

other bits and bobs

Thanks for stopping by and taking time to leave a comment

:) 

Geometric Paterns

ARTastic Inspirational Challenge Blog

  is having a FUN challenge in September

Criteria – Black background and solid use of geometric patterns

so i did it with a twist

Here is what I came up with 

 I used white cardstock and coloured  in  patches with oilpastels

of different colours and covered completely with 

black acrylic paint. The patern was created by scraping off

the black paint revealing the bright colours under.

 The first photo  printed of Marius ended up stripy with black

 ink so I used it and cut Marius out of the second one

and placed on top, giving it the same effect as 

the background.

 All sorts of Embelishments, some from Prima and TH,

 a piece from a wine cork and measuring tape.

I've had this  cute little spider for a while and it kind of 

fitted in on the web

 The photo is of Marius taken this summer when we were 

on holiday in Norway. My mom  wanted to visit Rjukan,

here on Gaustatoppen , 1883m.o.h on a fantastic 

clear day where it was possible to view

1/6 of Norway.

Thanks for stopping by 

Wish you a creativ week :) 

August Inspiration at ARTastic

ARTastic Inspirational Challenge Blog

is having  their CTM Helene Bogren's work as their inspiraton

this month.

She was inspired by a Sweedish painter 

Carl Otto Hulten

There was 3 options and I took the 3.

(Please find it in the blog)

.....and here is how I got inspired

This time I started with the photos. I took a A4 shrink

plastic and measured 4x4 of the dimond shaps on

the back paper, cut  2  frames and heat shrinked for

so to attached the picture at the back of them.

I guess It was the 2 big dimond shapes on 

Carl Hulten's painting that 

started me on this LO,but instead of the empty

 blackness I used  the space for happy pictures :) 

A dobble book side is dabbed  and stamped with  gesso when glued to 

back paper. I drew orange dimonds on it and some greeen cheverons.

Orange and pink fine sisal was used under the pictures.

All paterned paper are from G45 Magic of Oz,

incl. the 3 little cut out tin men,

below is one of them ..

Flowers are of different origins 

I'm not sure about the top left corner, but some buttons and a dimond shrink

plastic was added to a clock patterend paper which had a bit of gesso and

 paint on first.

....And then i couldn't help my self I doodled a creature looking 

down on the tin man, any way, it is stuck there now

 so it all has to stay :P 

Opinions and comments are very much appriciated

Thanks for stopping by :)