Dyan, Tim and Dina - all in one year!

So, I know I’ve been away for a long time.. But I have been keeping busy. During this last year I’ve been fortunate enough to meet and take classes with all of my favourite designers from Ranger.

Dyan and I, June 2017

Tim and I, September 2017

And of course the lovely Mario


And last, but not least, Dina and I, this March (2018)

I feel so blessed to have met all these lovely and taken people all in one year! I’ll see Dyan again this summer (yay!) and I hope that I’ll be able to see the others too, in the future!

❤️ Siv x

Square page in my journal

Hi!

Just a quick post tonight.

Here's a page I did a while back in my square Dylusions journal. 

Wishing you all a wonderful Christmas. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Siv xxx

I love you, but I love me more

Hi there!

Sharing another tag with you today, inspired by the lovely Dyan, queen of Dylusions. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Siv xxx

Art Journal in black/white

Hi lovelies!
Here's my latest page in my black Dylusions journal.

I've used one of the girls from the Surrender set from Dylusions.

I've found a great white marker! The Triton Acrylic Paint Marker. Love it!

 A little tip: If you write your text with a pencil first, you can plan your page better.

When the marker is dry, gentely remove any left over graphite from the pencil, and no one will ever know you "cheated"!

Have a wonderful day!

Siv xxx

Black 'n white Dylusions page

So I'm in beautiful Harrogate, back at my hotel from a busy preview day at AFTH. I had so much fun catching up with old friends, making new and being creative. 

Yesterday I was in Dyan's class for regular artjournalers (I'm one of her regulars now, how cool is that?!) and we played with black and white. I wanted to share with you a page I finished later that day, which is in my small Dylusions journal. 

I've used Dylusions paint, stamps, stencil and journal block. The rest is doodling done with a white pen. 

Dyan has posted a tutourial on making a b/w page on her blog. Be sure to check it out!

Siv xx

May we be strong women

Hi!

It's time for a new challenge over at Mixed Media Mojo, and this is my first contribution as a design team member. 

Our May challenge is this tic tac toe board:

I chose the top left diagonal; the word "May", stencil, stamp, and ended up with this Dyan Reavley inspired art journal page.

I've used Dylusions sprays, paints (well, just the black), stencils and stamp block, Dina Wakley Media Line stamps and stencil and my trusted white UniBall Signo Broad pen.

Here's what I did:

 I took one of the many premade background pages from my Dylusions journal

 used a mask and black paint to create "windows"

 doodled around the windows, first with a black pen, then white

 stamped images through co-ordinating stencil

 used the Dylusions block to draw a frame

took another stencil and doodled inside

 added some more doodling

and..

DONE!

Now all that remains, is to put the page back in my journal. 

Here are some close ups..

Now pop on over to the Mixed Media Mojo site and join our challenge!

Siv x

Nautical themed birthday card

Hello darlings!

It's been too long since I last posted, but sometimes life gets in the way.

Here's a birthday card I made for a former collegue who's son turned 30 earlier this month. He's got two big tattoos with ships, so a nautical theme was natural.. Not the easiest theme for me personally, but I do love a challenge! This is what I came up with:

 Front

 Detail

  Inside

In six days I'm putting my travelling shoes on and will be on my way to Harrogate!

I went for a weekend workshop with Dyan Reaveley at Art From the Heart last year, and this summer I'm doing it again! Not the same workshop obviously.. It will be so awesome!!

Also, another thing I'm really excited about, is that I've signed up for three workshops with Dina Wakley at Hobbykunst Megastore in October! There are still places available, why don't you join me?! :)

Wishing you lots of joy and sunshine

Siv

x

A weekend with Dyan Reaveley

The last weekend this June I was fortunate enough to attend a weekend workshop with her majesty Dyan Reaveley at Art From The Heart. The workshop was called "Homemade books and journals".

Here's my little recap..

Friday I left for Manchester Airport from Oslo-Gardermoen via Sola-Stavanger.

 The flights were pleasant, but when I went to collect my luggage at Manchester, my suitcase was missing. It turned out it was still at Stavanger.. Typical, just my luck! Oh well...

From Manchester Airport I went by train to Leeds and from there to Harrogate. Finally, after ten hours of travelling, I was there!!

About 45 minutes after arriving, I got a taxi (missed the train - typical!) to Art From The Heart. I was super excited!!!!!

 Yaaaayyyy!!! I'm in the Queen's palace!!!

Here are some sneek peeks into the studio, with all the lovelies playing along with Dyan.

And the Queen herself in action!

 Make big puddles!!

 Blend..

 Put another paper on top...

Here's a couple of the pages for my sown book.

 Inky fingers!

On Saturday, my luggage had arrived the hotel, and I finally had my journaling stuff at hand. So after having dinner with a couple of really lovely ladies, I went to my very own studio - lol!

 There was of course a desk in my bedroom, but the lighting there was rubbish. So the bathroom was the next best thing! If there's a will, there's a way... lol

 There's nothing like journaling in your PJs!!

 And here's as far as I got with the page. Love the colours!!!

Now let me present the three journals I made during the weekend:

 Ta-daaaaaa!!

And here are all the lovelies who attended the workshop

 A great group of girls!!! I hope I can meet them again!

Of course, when you're at AFTH, some shopping is manditory... lol! Here's what I got:

I also had time for about 15 minutes of shopping in town as well.. Love the bracelets I got for myself!

While waiting for various trains and planes on my way home to Norway, I had time to finish two pages in my smallest journal. I absolutely love the stamps from Stampotique! They're really hard to get in Norway, so I stamped away as much as I could when I borrowed Dyan's.. hehe...

So that was my weekend at Art From The Heart. I must say, Dyan really impresses me. She is a wonderful artist, a loving mother and such a wonderful person! I loved being at her studio - the atmosphere was so relaxed and natural - not "stiff" like it sometimes tends to be at workshops back home.

I sure hope Dyan will arrange another weekend workshop, or workshops in two-three days in a row next summer as well! If so, I will be there!!!!! :)

Thanks to all the wonderful ladies who were at AFTH, to Ali who made delicious food for us, and a huge hug and MWAH to her colourful majesty, Queen Dyan!

Siv xx