I'm going, are you?

Don't forget, it's all happening at Art from the Heart starting tomorrow..... mini-classes, demos, previews of the autumn classes and ... wait for it .... the launch of the new Dylusions range! More fab colours of paints and inks, you want them, you know you do! All to celebrate 10 years of artylicious goodness, and the one and only creative whirlwind that is Dyan Reaveley :-)

See all the details here, and maybe I'll see you there?! I'll be the one with inky fingers, and paint in my hair ;-) 

Tiddly Inks!

Image: Always the flower girl by Tiddly Inks

Paints, inks and background stamps by Dylusions

I was delighted and honoured when Christy, the amazing Tiddly Inks designer, asked me to be a guest designer at Tiddly Inks this month. I am playing along with their challenge of Goodbye Summer, Hello Fall (although some of us in the UK might argue that summer never arrived in the first place this year LOL! We only have to mention the word 'barbeque' in our house and it clouds over!)

I searched for 'end of summer' quotes on the web and found these two, which I thought were perfect.

Especially this one LOL!

And as the challenge was about saying goodbye to summer I thought I should include some end-of-season flowers losing a few petals, so I hand drew a few circles and added petals with a Sharpie pen.

Of course, one of the great things about digi images is that they can be re-sized and printed out as large or small as you want, so I printed 'always the flower girl' out large so that she would fit comfortably on a page in my A4 (12 x 8") Moleskine journal. I coloured her with distress inks and then a touch of oil pastel but if I am being really honest, then I will admit to be a little challenged in 'colouring in'! 

If you want to see some more Tiddly Inks images have a look here at the fabulous array of designs where you will find everything from cute to gothic to steampunk. And if you feel like playing along with the challenge have a look at the challenge blog here.

Thanks for asking me Tiddly peeps ;-)

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!