New Blog!

My new Wirdpress blog is finally up and running. Visit it to see my latest projects and tutorials!

AoD Spring Blog Hop March 29-31, 2012

Welcome to my part of the Spring Blog Hop! I hope you have had fun hopping, if you have arrived to my blog first don´t forget to hop over to Anna Janise Design to get to the first blog! You don´t want to miss out on all the goodies created by the fabulous designers from Art of Digital Design (the next session starts at April 9th over at Jessica Sprague)

My kit is called "one sunny day", and will only be available through my blog. I loved creating this, and I hope you´ll share your creations with me! It is so exciting seeing projects made using my own design.

Click on this link to dowload my kit.

You are now at blog no. 17 in the hop, your next, and last stop, is passport2creativity.

1. http://ajanise.blogspot.com
2. http://www.bytheshoredesigns.com
3. http://crumpledpaperdesigns.blogspot.com
4. http://cloudychais.blogspot.com
5. http://confessionsofahomeschooler.com
6. http://scrappingdownalane.blogspot.com
7. http://elaineanjos.typepad.com
8. http://foosamoon.blogspot.com
9. http://jeaniesdesigns.blogspot.com
10. http://www.lanakoopman.com/blog
11. http://nadidesigns.blogspot.com
12. http://rosanissenbaum.blogspot.com
13. http://www.stockhopstudio.com
14. http://www.simplyshayla.com
15. http://www.threeowlsinanest.com
16. http://www.hundoghand.com
17. http://www.passport2creativity.com

new wordpress blogg

I´m working on setting up a new wordpress blog, and because of that www.sirifjortoft.com will no longer take you to this blog. I´m hoping to get it up as soon as possible (like today), but it will be a bit of a mess untill I have everything figured out :-)

Distress Stains and Sticky Back Canvas

I just signed up for May Flaums new class, "the Curios Scrapbookers Field Guide", over at BPC. Just two days in I´m already loving it :-) It is still not to late to sign up, so come join me for 12 weeks of brilliant fun!

 We were talikng about Distress Stains over at the class forum and I wrote about my Distress Stains and Sticky Back Canvas backgrounds, and promised to post some photos on my blog, so here they come!

This is the first one I made, and I´ve posted a really bad photo of it before. I was inspired by a YouTube video that I can´t find.

I started out stamping with the Distress Stains using Tim Holtz Bitty Grunge stamp set, Music Background from Hero Arts and Old French Writing from Hero Arts. I then stamped using Matt Multimedium (Claudine Hellmuth) on a Donna Downey foam stamp (Prima).

When all this was dry I used a variety of red and pink Distress Stains to color all of the canvas, spraying with water to make the colors blend better.

This is my second background. I actually won a contest with it! I used golden Shimmer Spritz on this one, so it has a lovely sheen to it.

I also used my Old French Writing stamp on the wood "paper" from Creative Imaginations and cut out letters using the Chip Block die from Tim Holtz and Sizzix.

This is my latest creation. I´ve developed it a tiny bit more, and stamped on top of the "finished" background using StazOn in black and Opaque White

The border surrounding the background is stamped using black StazOn and a border from the Romantique Stamp set from Prima.

The faint circles you can see in this photo is stamped using the Opaque White StazOn. I love how it came out!

Projects on kaBoks Blog

I would love it if you visited the kaBoks blog and comment on my digi and hybrid projects posted today!

December Daily 05.12.11

These photos clearly shows that I need to take one of the " holiday photos" classes! But that will be next year :-) I got a gorgeous vase from my sister for my birthday. It was perfect to hold my "fake" Christmas tree. In Norway we normally don´t decorate the tree until the evening of the 23rd, but I really want my flat to have some of that jolly Christmas feeling! I got some wonderful branches and decorated them with small red and silver hearts. I also got a new Advent star (a Norwegian tradition) and some lights for my kitchen window. I love it!

 

December Daily 04.12.11

On the forth day I decided to share my Spotify Christmas playlist. I have no idea what to do with the first page, I´m considering making one more photo collage from the 3rd... What do you think?

My missing page. I´ve got two options: 1. my favorit Christmas songs 2. a photo collage from the 3rd.

I love Spotify! And I love the transparent "page dividers".

December Daily 03.12.11

On the 3rd my BFFs came from Oslo to celebrate my birthday. We started out with Elise and breakfast in her brand "new" house. The day continued with a visit to the aquarium, were we got to see Santa feed the fish in the HUGE tank. After that we went to take photos in a studio. We did the same in 1997 and it was so much fun! The day ended with an amazing meal at a restaurant and home made chocolate cake at home. It was a great day!

A collage with some of the photos we took.

The brochure from the Aquarium.

A photo of the Santa diver and some journaling.