And the winner is .....

Many thanks to all of you who left a comment on my give-away post to celebrate 700 followers. I am delighted to have you all on this wonderful art journey alongside me :-)

I used random.org to select a winner, and the winner is ........



....wait for it .......


TA-DA!


Effie

The stamps will be on their way to you soon Effie, and I just know you are going to love them. Can't wait to see what you make with them.

By my reckoning, I am now 74 short of 800 followers, so watch this space...........!

An ATC and a bit of journal play ...

Sweetmoves by Daniel Torrente

Splatter long and French Text by Jo Capper-Sandon

Sun Design by Maryse Carrier

Ink sprays: Poppy and Sunshine by Dylusions

I haven't made an ATC (artist trading card) for ages but it is actually where my journey into art really began. I started making and trading ATCs back in 2008 and then moved onto altered art and eventually art journaling. I still like making ATCs - the size of them (2.5 x 3.5") is still appealing to me, and it's quite a challenge to work on such a tiny scale. I created this background with two of the new ink spray colours by Dylusions - Poppy and Sunshine. These colours are gorgeous and work really well together.

'Sweetmoves' is from the new collection by Daniel Torrente for Stampotique, and is available in the UK here. She is quite a large stamp but I didn't let that put me off adding her to an ATC - as long as the main features are present I think you can afford to lose a limb or two on the ATC :-)

The words are from an English Folk song ...

Dance to your Daddy

My little Lassie

Dance to your Daddy

When the boat comes in ......

Here's a journal page I did a while ago in my small journal:

Images by Dyans Downloads (head) and Rian Designs (body)

Thank you all so much for your lovely comments and for entering my blog candy give-away. I will pick a winner on Tuesday evening at 5 pm (GMT) so it's not too late to enter  ... have a look here.

Byeee for now .......

700 followers, a give away, classes and more!

Well, who would have thought it? 700 followers woop woop! I am absolutely delighted that so many of you want to tune in and see what I have been up to. Not only that, this is my almost 300th post LOL! I tried to time it so it would be 700 followers and 300 posts, but I'm only on 299 haha! In honour of this occasion I wanted to offer a little give-away as my way of saying thanks for all your visits and lovely comments, I really do appreciate all of your feedback and comments. 

For the give-away I chose one of my favourite Dylusions stamps from the new range to give away as I love this set, it is so useful. If you would like to be in with a chance to win this set of stamps just leave a comment on this post and I'll pick a winner using random.org on Tuesday 20th Sept at 5pm GMT. And that's all there is to it, no catches :-)  Feel free to spread the word.

Here are some of the stamps from the set on a tag I made with a class at the 10th Birthday Party of Art from the Heart at the weekend.

Inks and paints by Dylusions

Now, talking of the celebrations at the weekend .... it was fab, and a very good time was had by all. I taught two full 'taster' classes. These classes are just an hour long, and it is a bit of a challenge for a class to complete something in just an hour. No time for idle chit-chat! 

Here's another tag I made for the class:

Inks and paints by Dylusions

Here I am in action teaching, and yes I am wearing feely-boppers!!

(Thanks to Sue for the photo)

And here is the lovely Dyan in action teaching ... just look at the speed her hands are moving!

(Thanks to Sue for the photo)

I did a bit of demo-ing on the day too, and started this journal page which I later finished at home.

Do you recognise the words? They are from a song ... once sung by Nina Simone, but some of you may remember this as the theme music from the 'Film' series back in the 80s. 

I part-made a tag at the weekend as part of a class, which I then decided to add to my journal page when I got home (you'll see those stamps again!)

And I used two of the new paints,  lime and lagoon, from the Dylusions new releases for the background.

All of the new classes at Art from the Heart are now ready to view and book here. Here is a taster of the classes I will be teaching  this autumn, click on the links for more info.

Wednesday 9th November - More Art Journal Inspirations

Sat 26th and Sun 27th November - A weekend of Art Journaling

Sunday 11th Dec - Calendar Journaling

Friday 7th Oct - Mini house journal in a tote bag

If you'd like to see more details about classes click here. Maybe I'll see you there!

Now, just before I go, if you haven't got my DVDs yet but are thinking about it, you may like to hop over to Carin's blog here, and read her review. Thanks Carin!

Bye for now.........

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 ;-)