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

SGC #72 ~ Leaves

Hi all!

It's time for a new challenge over at the Southern Girls again. This time we want to see you use leaves in your creations. We've got some awesome sponsors yet again, so join in - and maybe you'll be one of the lucky winners!

Here's my contribution for the challenge..

The background of the tag is made by Distress Paints (Broken china, Salty ocean and Picket fence).

Background stamp is from Stampendous.

The green Jack vine is from Flourish With A Bling (FWAB). The metallic backside shining through really reflects the light beautifully.

All other embellishments used on this tag are from Retail Girl.

 The image from Delishious Doodles is called Rosalee. She's coloured with Distress reinkers.

The text on the banner is printed from my computer.

Is this a pretty flower or what?!

Adding a bling in the centre made it even more gorgeous.

That's it for now! Hope to see your creations on the Southern Girls Challenge blog!

Siv xx

Dylusions mask #2

My second Dylusions mask was finished a while back, I just haven't had the time to put it up on the blog until now.

This one is quite different from the first one, with less dimension.. This time I went for a spider theme..

 Both skull and bird have been embossed

 

Glossy Accents is added to give spiders dimension

 

 

This sleeping beauty is having "sweet" dreams about spiders... She is coloured with Dylusions inks in water brushes, and her body is embossed with clear embossing powder. The lips have got Glossy Accents on them, and I used orange Stickles to bling up the eye lashes a bit.

That's my second and last Dylusions mask, folks! What a fun project to make!

24 days to AFTH weekend!!!! Whooooohoooo!!!!!

Siv xx

Did I just do that!??!

OMG, I cannot believe what I did last night!!

I signed up for a weekend workshop with colour godess Dyan Reaveley at Art From The Heart, in Harrogate - England!

It's the 28th - 30th of June, just about a month from now. I an super duper excited!!!
Whoop whoop!!!!

Here's a pic of the lovely Dyan in action at my local craft store last December:

I guess you could call me crazy, travelling alone from Norway to England, and it's also costing me a small fortune, but hey - what the h... - It's mommy's turn now! :) Hehe..

..did I mention how excited I am?! Lol..
Let the countdown begin!
Siv xx

Dylusions mask - a fishy one..

Today I completed one of my favourite projects ever - a Dylusions mask! Such fun!!

I made this for Hobbykunst on Connie's request.

First I started off with a blank mask, made from paper mache. I had to prime it with gesso, since it was brown (kraft)..
Once dry, I started creating my water background, using Dylusions sprays Vibrant turquoise, Calypso teal and Cut grass. It took quite a few layers of ink to get the effect I wanted, because of the gesso.

I then stamped some sea weed around the bottom of the mask.
I tried colouring it with Cut Grass at first, but that didn't show very much, so I ended up with painting it with Liquid Pearls Key Lime.

Went around the edges with a black pen to make the sea weed stand out a bit more..

I then stamped, coloured and cut out more sea weed, another kind this time. This was coloured with Fresh Lime and Cut Grass, and glued to the top of the mask once dry.

Now all I had to do was stamp, colour and cut out loads of fish and creatures of the sea..

Before I glued these lovelies to the mask, they all got a dash of Glossy Accent on their eyes.

Some doodling and a lot of Glue Dots later.... the mask was done! Tadaaaaa! :)

I got the inspiration from Jim Hankins, aka The Gentleman Crafter.
He was the first one (as far as I know) to make these masks, and I would really like to thank him so much for all this fabulous work and inspiration!! Btw, did you see his Dylusions school bus? So so cool!

Can't wait to make my next mask!!!

(Just wish the day had more hours...)

Thanks for stopping by!

Siv xx

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SGC #68 - You can say that again

Hi there!
Just a super quick blog post from me today.

In this week's challenge over at the Southern Girls we would like you to use sentiments or quotes on your projects.

As many of you know, I have a thing for Dyan's Dylusions products, and hence a dylusional tag from me this time! :)

Hope you'll join our challenge!
Thanks for stopping by my place.

Siv xx

Chocolate tag

Here's another DT contribution for Hobbykunst!

I got this acetate box as a challenge. First thought that came to me was "Shoot, I have no idea what to do with this!"

But then I got to thinking about a girl's best friend - CHOCOLATE!

The result is the following chocolate tag..

I cut a patterned paper from The Girls' Paperie into strips and made a collage with them on a tag.

Then I went over the collage with some background stamps and Distress Paints.

The winged lady (from Christy Tomlinson/Unity Stamp) is coloured with Prisma Color pencils.

Seam binding is coloured with Distress Stains (Peacock feathers and Brushed pewter).

Some close ups...

"Some say that money can't buy you happiness. They've never tasted chocolate"

Sentiment stamp from Kreativ Hobby

I thought it was a good idea to make sure the box wouldn't open (some customers have a bigger sweet tooth than others...), and this SMASH! tape was perfect!

Now all I need to do is to come up with what to do with the other one (I got two boxes).. 

Stay tuned! :)