CHA NEWS; My own Prima tool line!

COMFORT-CRAFT TOOLS 

No words can describe how excited I am to finally be able to share these news with you all! I am so proud, so happy... my dream have come true; my very first product designs, my own line, at Prima! :D
I have worked on this for a while now, so it has been so hard to not be able to share it all. To be so excited about this, but to have to keep it as a secret, has not been easy at all! But finally, finally I can share this with you! :D So please let me introduce my "babies", my own line of Prima crafting tools!

The line is called Comfort-Craft Tools, and the whole line is designed by me, for comfortable and pleasurable crafting! It's an ergonomic line, in my favorite color, with different cutting and distressing tools to work on all my favorite techniques! All tools are designed to fit both right and left handed crafters. With these tools, it will be an pleasure to cut the smallest details and hand paper cuts, and create vintage paper edges and all other distressed designs!

Here are my very first peeks of my line;

The line will be introduced at CHA now today, and will be ready for delivery this spring! Prima are ready to take orders now, so please make sure to drop by their booth if you are going to CHA! 


Comfort-Craft contains the following tools;

- Chalk Fluid Pads. These cute little pads are perfect to distress your paper edges and designs with! The chalk fluid dries quickly, and both the pad and the handle are perfectly shaped for verifiable and accurate work; very easy to hold and to work with. Will be available in a wide variety of colors!

 

 - Distressing Tools. These tools are the perfect tools for distressing techniques on your crafting projects, just what you need to create your own vintage or "used" looks! They contains rough rasps, metal brushes, files, paper edge scraper and even nail-effect edges! Replaceable rasps and files.

- Scissor. This is a scissor designed for pure comfort! Even though it is a small scissor with sharp tips, the tails on the handles makes it easy to control for even the smallest details.  The soft and ergonomically shaped handles makes sure it will be an pleasure to cut with. The blades are non-stick-able! 

- Craft knife. As a hand paper cuts-addicted girl myself, I know how important it is with a very good knife to be able to work on all the smallest details or lots of cuttings, without getting too tired in my fingers. So when I designed this knife, the special and ergonomic shape had the main focus. This craft knife will fall naturally in place in your hand, no matter if you will stand and cut straight lines or if you will sit and work on the smallest details and need a grip close to the blade. It comes with different blades for different techniques and uses, and you can very easily adjust the blade angle on the knife to the type of blade you choose to work with. Room for blade replacements in the back.

- Self Healing Mats. Useful self healing mats to protect your table when you work on your projects! This will be available in several sizes, from the small and handy ones to come with you to crops and events, to the big ones for all the space you need in your craft room! Lots of useful information on all mats, and the grid and rulers shows both inches and centimeters. A self healing mat is needed when you work with craft knifes and distressing tools.


Comfort-Craft will also of course be a part of my teaching program in the coming years!

I guess this is all I am able to share with you right now, but please check back soon for further updates and details. I will also of course share with you all some tutorials and videos on my line as soon as possible.

I really hope you enjoyed this post, and I hope you will test out some of these products yourself one day. I will be glad to hear from you with a comment about what you think of this, - which tool can become your favorite? ;O)

Thank you so much for dropping by today, and I wish you all a fantastic weekend!

hugs
Ingvild

Shabby Chic Candle holder with BRAND NEW Prima products!

Hi all my dear blog readers.

It's only "a day" away to CHA opens, and it is time to share more of my works with BRAND NEW Prima goodies on! Today I will share a candle holder I made from an old Prima tin and a decorated candle. A "go green" project in shabby chic style!

Here it is, decorated candle and candle holder;

First I cut out the clear circle window on top of the lid to make room for the candle. Then I embossed the metal colored tin with white sea foam embossing powder. Then I distressed the edges with inks in black and rusty brown, very randomly, to create a rusty metal look. On the front I stamped with one of Prima's brand new stamps, and added a beautiful Vintage Trinket together with wax and some old clock gears.  I added lots of delicate Prima flowers on top of the tin, before placing the candle into the hole on the top of the lid.

And here some close-ups;

I rubbed some of Prima's new and amazing rub-ons directly to the candle. Both flowers and text. These rub-ons are in so high quality that it wasn't a hard job at all to add them on the candle, even though the candle actually is very slippery. The beautiful little key is also one of the new Vintage Trinkets from Prima.

And here you can see the distressed details on back of the tin.

New Prima products used on this project;
Cute as a button - Charmed # 547561 (vintage orange textile button)
Sugar Blooms - Celebrate #549008 (Purple Rose)
Vintage Trinkets - #930004 (key) and #930011 (crystal charm in front).
Clear Stamps - # 545000 (the design on front of the tin)
Rub-ons - Reflections #545260 (Butterflies), Melody #545253 ("Be Happy" text) and Botanical #545284 (plant motives on candle).


Hope you enjoyed my post today, and I wish to thank you all for dropping by!


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Ingvild

Layout with brand new Donna Downey products!

Hi all. Having a great week so far?

Today I am going to share one of my latest layouts made with some BRAND NEW amazing Prima products from the great Donna Downey line! I really love these canvas and textile products from Donna, they are so, so fun to play with!

This layout is about my 4 year old daughter which has a really big heart. She always wish to help and to do the best she can for everyone around her. So that is what I tried to catch up with this design on this layout which I called "She has a BIG heart";

 And a close-up;

Donna Downey's canvas has a beautiful red heart on, which i used as a main base for this design. The white heart is also from Donna Downey, one of her brand new BIG foam stamps! I added white Liquid Applique on the foam and stamped on to the design, and heated up the applique to make it pop up. Then I added touches of white acrylic paint on the tops of the puffy applique with my fingers.

Prima products used on this layout;
* Reflections collection "Scribe" #842345 - paper - butterfly
* Donna Downey Screenprint Canvas - #921262 (blue with red heart on)
* Donna Downey Foam Stamp - #92115 (Big white heart) 
* Donna Downey Quilted Words - "she" #921477
* Say It In Crystal - #544713 (not 100% sure this is the right packaging for the item :S)
* New Backdrop packaging from the Vintage Trinkects
* Journaling Notepaper (behind backdrop) from Annalee #541989 (last release)


Thank you for dropping by! ;O)


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Ingvild

Altered heart with BRAND NEW Prima goodies!

Hi all dear blog readers.

It has been a bit silent in here this month, a lot more silent then I actually planned it to be. I have simply been to busy the last week, with creating for CHA on lots of other stuff. But now I am ready to start sharing some works with you all, and first up is an altered heart I did with lots of BRAND NEW Prima goodies!

 I used a polystyrene heart, and cut out a square hole in it which fitted the size of the beautiful old window from an old stamp set (Crenee) from Prima. I stamped this window on a dark brown cardstock  and embossed it with white embossing powder. I did this twice to create two windows, and cut out the whole center in one of them so I could use it as a window sill, and the 4 window squares in the other one to make holes for glass to look trough. I used a square piece of a transparent sheet and folded it and inked it where it was folded, and cut away some parts of it, to create a look as a broken window glass. Then I added this distressed transparent piece on the backside of the embossed window which still was complete.

I altered the polystyrene heart with strips of teared Prima pattern paper. I used Claudine Hellmuth's Gesso on both sites of each paper strip. This great medium works well as glue and to soften up the paper so you better can work with it to fit the shape of the heart. As soon as I have placed and shaped the strips as I want them, I use wet tissues to remove all the Gesso that's left on the heart.

Then, I mounted on the widow pieces and added embellish after desire ;o)

And some close-ups ;O)

Here you can see the broken window glass, and some old hinges. I also added a vintage old clock face and some clock gears in the "secret window room". The beautiful bird is one of Prima's new rub-ons! I rubbed it on to a transparent sheet and cut it out, like this you can use and add rub-ons wherever you wish on your craft!

Here again you can see the technique I use with rub-ons on transparent sheets. Here used on some brand new amazingly beautiful butterfly rub-ons from Prima! The little branch with leaves on in the background is also a new rub-on from Prima, added directly to the paper on the heart. I also used Ranger crackle paint (Picked Fence) around the window still to create a more vintage look.

Here you can see one of Prima's new Vintage Trinkets, the sweet little metal key lock heart! Isn't that sweet?!

Here you can see another new and very beautiful rub-on, the text "Memories".



New Prima items used on this project;
"Reflections" #545260 - Rub-ons; (turquoise butterflies, bird, Memories text and branches/leaves.
"Vintage Trinkets" #930004 - Metal Key Heart Lock.
Sugar Blooms "Celebrate" #549008 - largest rose
"Reflections", Scribe #842345 - vintage paper


Thank you for dropping by, and I wish you all a wonderful week! 


*hugs*
Ingvild

One of my works up for auction

Silent auction for the flood victims in Australia

Your Creative Journey are running this Silent Auction for the flood victims in Australia on Facebook, and I were so kindly invited to donate a work to this auction, which was an honor.  What has happened in Australia now is just terrible, and sure I wish to help and to donate one of my works to be auctioned away. This handmade Prima card made of two mini album sheets covered with canvas can be bidden on at the auction;

This card is ready to be written in and give away, or you can choose to embellish it inside after desire. you can also use it as a mini album cover and add more sheets in, or just have it as it is as a decorate piece standing and reminding you of how special you are, - or give away to someone special?

If you wish to bid on this work of mine, please visit the auctions Facebook site here. The auction on my card will start on PLEASE NOTE NEW TIME: Friday, january 21 at 10.00 am - 8.00 pm (Australian time).

If you wish to follow my works and updates on Facebook, please feel free to "like" my artist profile here.

Or if you wish to bid on a different work to one of all the other amazing talented artists who have so kindly donated beautiful pieces of art to this auction, please visit this Facebook site here and see all the works listed. 

I hope you will take a minute and click in on the auction and see if there is anything you can help with. Maybe you also can donate a piece of handmade work or help out in any other way? Please contact the site admin Sherry Mendoza on SilentAuction2011@live.com if you have any questions or offers, or to  get a paddle number to be able to bid.

Thank you all of you for your time and support.

*hugs*

Ingvild

A Dusty Attic layout!

Hello all dear bloggers!

In the end of 2010 I had the honor of being Dusty Attic's honored guest designer. But, the water leak I had in my studio had to put everything on hold after just one layout to I was up running with my new studio, which I'm finally am! :) So, I have just finished up another work for Dusty Attic, and I have to say; THESE CHIPBOARD DESIGNS ARE AMAZING! I had so fun creating with them, and felt like I HAD to add at least 3 large chipboard figures on this one layout, I simply couldn't resist!

And here is my result;

Magnificent Spring

And here are my close-ups;

In the upper right corner I used a "Hanging Sign" chipboard figure from Dusty attic, and added just a touch of Glimmer Mist (Black Gold) on. On the sign I added a touch of Ranger Crackle Paint (Picked Fence) and misted the edges on the sign a bit with black ink. Then I added some vintage findings as a old clock face, some large clock hands and some small clock gears to the sign. I used 7 Gypsies stamp with sweet and meaningful words instead of numbers on the layout for the clock hands to point at.

In the upper left corner, the "Beautiful Lamp Post #2" add amazing touches and are used as a "base" for other details. On the background I stamped with an old and retired Collage Clear Stamp "Brick wall" from Prima (Hard to find!) , and flowers and stamped bird from Prima.

In the bottom right corner, I added a Park Bench from Dusty Attic, and filled around it with different rub-ons, and some flowers and bird stamp from Prima. The Park Bench I painted white, and placed it a bit outside of the layout and cut off what was sticking outside. Like this I created a design that looks like it continues also outside of the layout, it can kind of "invite you" into the story that happens inside of the 12x12 inches.
I had two pictures of my daughter Iselina which I wanted to use on this layout. I kept one as it was, and cut out the other one, and places them on like it looks like she is stepping out of the picture and into the "story" on the layout.

In the bottom left corner, I added a big old iron key, which I painted a bit white paint on very randomly before I added it to the layout.

Hope you liked my work today, and thank you so much for dropping by!

I will also use this opportunity to thank Dusty Attic for having me as their guest designer, I really appreciate this opportunity, and have had lots of fun creating with these amazing products! - THANK YOU!

Hugs to all of you!
Ingvild

My last works as a Guest Designer at Melissa Frances!

Hi again all my dear blog visitors!

How are you all today?

I'm having a great day over here in Norway! It is raining and it is actually a terrible weather outside, but it doesn't matter much when I got 4 packages in my mail today with great findings from eBay and goodies from a online scrap store! :D I also bought myself a new photo Canon printer today, and a new mobile phone. On top of that, I am playing with Prima goodies for CHA! :D Could it be better then this? So who cares about the weather outside?!.. ;o) 

I promised to share more works with you all today, my last works made as a honored guest designer at Melissa Frances. And here they are, starting with my layout first. I just HAD to create a white layout! I had never done that before, and really wanted to try it out. And here is my result;

July Ice Cream

And a few close-ups;

I made the photo of my darling daughter black and white, but kept her hat original blue.

Chandelier crystals hanging under the photo and the broken photo frame. These I stitched to an old crochet tablecloth which I found at a local 2nd hand store.

And I created a card to a very special and meaningful sweet friend, and here it is;

To My Friend card

The front of the card.

And here some close-ups of the front;

I added some Prima roses to the beautiful vintage print chipboard page from Melissa Frances.

A few images showing the card opened; 

And a last one showing the card laying with the backside up;

That was all for today, hope you liked my share.

I will also use this opportunity to thank Melissa Frances for having me as their guest, I really appreciate it and it has been a big pleasure! I have truly enjoyed creating with your beautiful products! - THANK YOU!

And thank you to all of you for dropping by, wish you all a wonderful day further!

*hugs*

Ingvild

I will teach "around the world" in 2011!!!

Hi all. I promised you all to share some news today, and here it is! :)

I have trough the last years been invited to teach classes all around the world, but several things in life have forced me to put teaching on hold. But now, finally, I have opened up to start teaching classes in 2011! :D I am so happy for this and are really looking forward to it all, to meet scrappers from around the world, and to maybe meet you! ;o)

My first classes will start in September, and I have already classes booked for almost whole 2011! I even have some booked for 2012, so I will be traveling a lot the next years and who knows, maybe I will come to your country too? 

I do not have the details for my classes ready yet, but are working on them to get everything settled as soon as possible, and promise to share it all in here as soon as I know more! 

But what I can share right now of where I will be teaching in 2011, are these events;

First up

; Scraptastic 2011 in Belgium 23rd - 25th of September!

Here you can visit the events site! www.scraptasticevent-2011.blogspot.com

And the next one I can share is this event;

Your Creative Journey in Australia! 

This journey starts already in a month or so and will last all trough out 2011. But I will teach in Australia trough this amazing journey between 31st of October to the 12th of November 2011!

Please check out Creative Journeys great website and read more about this upcoming journey which you can't miss! http://yourcreativejourney.wordpress.com/

All request about these events have to go through each events manager, so please click into their sites if you have any question or wish to sign up for a class! For Your Creative Journey (Australia); please contact Sherry Mendoza on e-mail yourcreativejourney@live.com for any requests for this event - Thank you!

Except for the trip I had to Dubai, I have not teach for over a year. I am now looking forward to get started again and to travel around and get the opportunity to meet a lot of you in person! Yay! :D

Could you please update me in here if you will be going to one of my workshops in one of the events trough 2011? I will LOVE to hear from you if you will be going!!! :D 

Before Christmas I was so honored to be Melissa Frances Guest designer. But something happened with our e-mails.. they never got my works.. So they decided to redo the whole GDT post, and so will I! I will start today with sharing pics of what I did for them and have been shown before, and follow up with new works which I have not shared in here yet and post them tomorrow. 

First up here, all my altered hearts made for Melissa Frances:

This heart is inspired by very talented Danielle Flanders, who came up with roses of the crape paper! Love them!

And all of them together, home decor altered hearts and baby girl and baby boy hearts:

And here is the mini Bingo Album card with a tag i made for my dear mum. I created it to her to remind her self of how beautiful she is.

The front of the card.

Close-up of front.

On the inside of the first pages, showing a picture of my beautiful mum when she was around 1 year old.

And this shows when you pull up the tag in the card, it views a beautiful picture of my mum, telling her that she is still beautiful. And I really think she does look beautiful, on the inside and outside, at age 61!

Thank you so much for dropping by everyone, I appreciate every single visit of yours! 

And I hope you will check back tomorrow and see my next post with Melissa Frances works ;o)

And yes, of course; I HOPE TO SEE YOU IN ONE OF MY CLASSES IN 2011!!! ;O)

Take care!

*hugs*

Ingvild

Goodbye 2010

Hi all

Today I want to share a post with a bit from 2010, an amazing year with amazing experiences and lots of great memories!

It has been a busy year. I have been so honored to be a part of Prima's and Onirie's design team trough the whole year, and in April I was invited to The Color Room's DT, and of course accepted this honoring invitation.  As a mum to a sweet and very active 3-4 year old girl and a DT member for three DT's, it is a very busy life, but so fun! ;o) And my life went even more busy in August when I went back to school to study Graphic Design. As a student and a mum, life just went too busy, and I didn't manage to meet all deadlines anymore on all my DT's. So it was with a heavy heart i had to make a decision to step down from The Color Room's DT in November 2010. It has been an amazing place to be a part of, an amazing DT with so many talented and sweet ladies from all around the world! And The Color Room is a truly great site, so inspiring, not only for those of you who visit the site to find inspiration, but also for us who has been so honored to be a part of the team. It inspire all of us!
So THANK YOU to the girls at The Color Room who gave me this honoring opportunity, I really appreciate it and will look back on the months I were on the DT with happiness and lots of lots of great memories! I will miss you all!!!

In June I was in Dubai, and it was the most amazing trip I ever have been on! It filled my heart with so many amazing moments and memories, even though I was there for just 3 days. When I came back home it  felt like I had been on a month long trip, that many amazing experiences I had with me back home in my luggage! Everything was  more then I could ever dream of... First of all the all the people was so welcoming and sweet, they had so big hearts and truly made sure my trip was extra special. The classes was so amazing too, all the ladies were so sweet and so talented! And their country is more then I can describe with words, Dubai is just too amazing! Thank you to Mr. and Mrs. Bin Haider and Family for inviting me to your home country and to bring such amazing moments into my life! I will never forget you or this weekend in amazing Dubai, and I hope I will see you all again one day soon!

Here is my window view from my great hotel room;

And here is Paper Lane's store front, the amazing store I teached at!

I have also had the honor to work on designs for Prima's first book which was released at CHA in July. And there has been monthly works for magazines around the world, like Scrap Pour Tous in France to Scrapbooking Memories in Australia and Scrap-Info in Russia, and so on... You can see lots of my published works and the pages they are on in my gallery here in my left menu called "Published". I will upload more in the next days, and some pages still have to wait... ;o)
It all makes me feel so unbelievable privileged, to be so lucky to be able to work with what I love the most and to share my works with all of you. I wish to thank all of you who invited me to design for you in 2010, I truly appreciate it, thank you so much!

Scrap Pour Tous is a great French Magazine which I have worked a bit for in 2010. On issue Autumn 2010, you can see one of my works on the cover (on the left), and more works inside, with lots of lots of flowers! Scrap Pour Tous is an truly inspiring magazine, so if you can get your hands on it, I really recommend you to check it out!

And here, on the Winter issue, you can also see one of my works on the cover (on the left) and more inside! This time for the theme "Bollywood" and more!























I have also been so honored to guest design for several brands who all are so amazing and have such wonderful products! Melissa Frances, Dusty Attic, ScrapWare, 3ndy Papir and Layers of Color, - thank you to all of you for these great opportunities!

And for 2011 I have lots of exciting things going on, lots of big secrets are coming up! ;o) I can't share anything yet, but will share some news already tomorrow ;o)

Thank you again to all of you who have made 2010 to an amazing year! - to all my dear blog readers, to all the amazing DT's I have been on, for the magazines and books I have been so honored to work with, and most of all; to my amazing and very sweet family who makes all of this possible for me and who always support me, and thank you to ALL of you who have made 2010 so special to me! BIG HUGS!

Please check back again tomorrow to see my news for 2011! ;o)

Take care everyone! ;o)
*hugs*
Ingvild