A journal page and a thank you

Image by Crowabout Studio B

Paints and inks by Dylusions

Rub-on by 7gypsies

Just a quickie journal page from my small art journal to share with you today....

And I wanted to say an enormous thank you to everyone who visited as part of the birthday celebration blog hop for Art from the Heart. It was wonderful to have so many visits and so many comments - thank you all very much :-)  It's not too late to join the blog hop and there are prizes to be won so have a look at my post here, and Art from the Heart here.

Byee for now .....

Dylusions Blog Hop!

Further round the edge DS015

Curious Corrin DS009

Write between the lines DS018

Basic backgrounds DS020

Bags of bunting DS017

Quintessential quotes DS013

Birds on a wire DS014

All stamps, paints and inks by Dylusions

Welcome to a very exciting blog hop in Celebration of 10 years of Art from the Heart!

There will be lots of exciting things happening at Art from the Heart next weekend where the big birthday bash is happening. If you want to know more then do click here.

In Celebration we are having 5 birthday blog hops. You should have reached my blog from Sam and you are on the Dylusions blog hop. Before you move on - you will need to collect a letter from me which is 

L 

This is part of an anagram of a Dylusions product. 

Now you need to go to Dyan's blog here and once you get back to Dy's blog please email your answer to Ben.

Here are a few pics of my large A4 (12 x 8) journal page in progress. It started like this.... I painted the background with Dylusions, added a bit of texture with the basic backgrounds stamps, I stamped Corrin and coloured her with Distress inks, then stamped some vines. I coloured some of the vine leaves with Dylusions ink spray in Peridot.

I wanted some of the vine leaves a different colour, so I sprayed Lemon, Burnt Orange and Postbox Red onto a scrap of paper. I stamped the leaves onto this and then stamped some text over the top so that the leaves would pick up the text.

I'm going to journal on this page so I added some journaling lines from 'Write between the Lines'.

I decided the background needed a little more texture and colour so I added some numbers in Dylusions acrylic paint in white, and a few extra splats etc

I added some bunting along the top and added a number to each flag by stamping the numbers from 'Bags of bunting' and cutting them out:

I gave Corrin a scrap of vintage text as something to stand on:

And then I added a bird to her head LOL!

Huge congratulations to Dyan and the team, on 10 years of artylicious loveliness and inspiration at Art from the Heart :-)

Have fun blog hopping!

Calendar TIme!

Heart Shirt and Clover By Stampotique

Birds on a Wire by Dylusions

Inks and paints by Dylusions

How did it get to the end of August already?! My August calendar is shown here as a work in progress ... September is ..... ahem...... on the way!

I love this combination of Clover's big head on Heart Shirt's body. And these fabulous birds are from the new range at Dylusions.

I know some of you are up-to-date and ready to go, and chomping at the the bit to link up to your new September pages so you will find the link below. Don't forget though, that the link will stay open all month and you can link up at any time. Well done if you are still in! We are now 8/12  completed woop woop!

Stampotique Blog Hop

Lovely wings, and Mela by Daniel Torrente

Welcome to Wednesday!  

Have you been chomping at the bit waiting for Stampotique Originals to release some more of your favorite stamps?  Well, you have stopped in at the right place today!  Stampotique are thrilled to announce their newest release. Yay!
There are new images from Jo Capper-Sandon, Maryse Carrier, Janet Klein and Daniel Torrente and Jill Penney.  There's a great mix of Halloween images, nature images, some winter images and some cute kid images.  There are even some ....wings!!
If  you want to see some of these creepy, crawly, cute and furry friends then join the design team and our special guest for our new release blog hop today starting here.  Make sure to leave a comments along the way and randomly chosen commented will win some of these new stamps.
If you arrived here from Kaz then you are in the right place.  If not, you will want to go back and start the hop at the Stampotique Designer's Challenge.  From here you will want to visit Kim.  Below is a complete list in case you go off the beaten path and need some redirection.

• Stampotique Designer's Challenge
• Gez Butterworth
• Jane Wetzel
• Joanne Wardle
• Karen (Kaz) Boughton 
• Kate Crane
• Kim Howard
• Maria Sabina Raita
• Monique Verbeek
• Nellie vanLeeuwen
• Sue Roddis
• Valerie Wilson
• Vicki Garrett
• Willy Anderson
• Jo Capper-Sandon

You can check out the complete new range here.

This and that...

Quote from Quintessential Quotes by Dylusions

Paints and inks by Dylusions

Large Bee Wings by Jo Capper-Sandon for Stampotique Originals

Sometimes, especially during the school holidays, there just aren't enough hours in the day for art journaling but I did manage to find a little time when I was on holiday recently. 

I drew this figure onto paper (I have been wanting to draw more in my journal for ages but never quite got round to it) coloured her with Prismas, and then added her to my very grungy background. The wings are from Large Bee by Jo Capper-Sandon which were stamped onto acetate:

I absolutely LOVE this quote, and it came from one of the many new stamp ranges by Dylusions at Art from the Heart.

I created the grungy background in my large A4 (12 x 8) Moleskine by first collaging torn squares of text all over the page and covering with a layer of gel medium. I painted over this with Dylusions paints in blue, orange and white, and the paint settled into the gaps of the collaged background giving lots of texture. I then added a few squirts of ink and a few splatters:

I'm pleased with how this page turned out. Doing the collaged background was a bit time-consuming but I love the final effect and will definitely do this again.

Yesterday I taught a full and busy art journaling class at Art from the Heart to a group of entertaining, enthusiastic, like-minded arty ladies. It was Sheila aka Crafty She's birthday and here she is misbehaving:

She had a birthday balloon tied to her chair, had to wear a birthday girl badge all day, and then we all celebrated by eating cake :-) She left with very inky painty hands at the end of the day so she must have had a good time!

You can read more about the class and see some fab examples if you visit Anne's blog here, but be warned, Anne's pages are of an adult nature! Ha ha! Some of these naughty peeps are leading me astray ....

 Here they all are hard at work. Don't you think they are a little .... er ... messy?!

But it was a very productive mess! Just look at the gorgeous, colourful, vibrant pages on display here:

Well done ladies, and thanks for your fabulous and entertaining company all day :-)