It's Dina time again!

One of the best things about having a Birthday in March is that I get to go on Dina's classes at Art from the Heart!  I had three classes for my Birthday, Art Journal Folio, Random by Design and Awesome Acrylics.

Day one started off with a blank Tim Holtz Idealogy folio, after adding lots of paint and stencils with a bit of Dina magic you end up with a fab folio filled with pages of journalling and images, all in a days work!

Day two was all about random, I arrived at the class with my brand spanking new Dylusions journal in hand, what's the first thing Dina says "rip four pages out of your journal"!!  After some muttering that I had a new journal I ripped them out and covered them in gesso ready for the random by design day.

Day three was all about techniques, reverse stenciling and masking, image transfer, using Vaseline as a resist, dripping paint, glazing plus others, I found this day very useful, especially for when you are stuck for something to do, just refer back to these techniques to jump start creativity.

This weekend has inspired me to try and create more in my journal and use different techniques. Here are a few of my pages completed since the weekend.  Some of the pages below are using the new Dylusions paints.

Thanks Dina for another fun and inspirational weekend.

September Calendar Pages - Just in Time!

Here I am sliding in last minute with my September Calendar page.  It was finished a while ago but only just got around to posting, and as you can see I haven't filled in the boxes just yet.  I have written down all my days entries else I would never remember what I have been doing!

I've used the Dylusions stamps and stencils.

Now to finish off October.

I went to an amazing class with Finnabair at the weekend, photos of my projects to follow......

January Calendar Page

A little late but Happy New Year everyone.

I haven't done Kate Crane's Calendar Challenge for a while now so I though it was time to give it a go again. I bought some great metallic paint which I used for the background, had to tone it down with some matt paint though!

I'm going through a bit of a Dylusions stamps phase at the moment so thought I'd use one of my new sets Doolally Dorris and stamped out the circle journal from Write between the Lines.

Now I just have to fill it up!

Christmas Bauble Challenge and other Christmas Goodies

At our last Bristol Scrappers crop at the beginning of December, Katrina set us all a challenge of decorating baubles, she'd rescued a whole bag which a neighbor was throwing out in the rubbish.  There were lots of lovely ones made and some great techniques used and Amy was the winner, she'd made a Christmas Pudding bauble.  I made one with tissue and another bauble painted black then doodled over in white.

Amy with her winning Christmas Pudding bauble - well done Amy

Emma also came along to the crop with her Stampin Up and shop goodies, we had a lovely class making this tree hanging, it was lots of folding and gluing! 

Bristol Scrappers Girls Christmas Photo

I've also been busy this year making my Christmas cards, I mainly used Dylusions Christmas stamps and spray inks for the backgrounds with the Dylusions Christmas stencils.  Here are a few of the finished ones.

Just to finish, I had a go at making a gingerbread house, I was pleased with the finished house but I think the gingerbread was a little bit over done, so might need dipping in a cuppa before eating!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE AND A HAPPY 2014