new video...

 The other week I recorded a batch of how to videos, from my studio.

Here's the first one...Shadow stamping...





Enjoy xx

Hot new Distress colours....

Well, even though he is currently working his magic in the land down under, the wonderful Mr Tim of Holtz has released his latest in the Seasonal Distress line...

And no prizes for guessing that this is my favourite release to date...

Hot zingy colours...right up my alley..!!

Salty Ocean is a fabulous bright blue..

Mowed lawn is a really refreshing green...

And Picked Raspberry...well what can I say..?? My flabber is well and truly ghasted at how sumptious this pink is...

And where can you purchase these little beauties, I hear you ask...

Well they are on the shelves, in stock and ready to go in tomorrows post. Don't say we don't look after you all eh, lol.

They are available in the set of the three HERE...

and the set of three with reinkers HERE...

And of course...I just happened to have a set tucked away, so I decided to make a tag combining them with my Dylusions.

Here's the result...

First I blended the three colours together onto a manila tag, using the blending tool.

Then I added the Dylusions stencil Alphabet jumble, spritzed through with water and blotted. I then repeated the process with the dots stencil.

I then blended more ink through the dots stencil. Just look at all that layering.!

I inked up the solid leaf stamp with the Mowed lawn and stamped to the top of the tag.

I stamped various images from the Dylusions stamps, and coloured them with Dylusions inks in the waterbrushes.

I added the images to the tag and doodled...

Can't wait to see what you come up with..!!!

Enjoy xx

The Queens Jubilee...

Unfortunately despite all my good intentions I didn't get to see any of the celebrations today. I have had my nose to the grindstone from morning until dusk !!

Had a lovely surprise yesterday though when the lovely Ruth popped into the studio to show me her Union Jack dress I had inspired her to make. Doesn't she look fab in it. I am soooo proud of her.

She was going off to a school do and had matching shoes and pinny. Good on you Ruth.

Unfortunately my Jubilee dress isn't even cut out, lol.. Maybe tomorrow..

I did however stop all my work at about 11pm to make a Jubilee canvas.

Enjoy xx

today.....

“living eulogy.

she danced.

she sang.
.
she took.

she gave.
.
she loved.
.
she created.
.
she dissented.
.
she enlivened.
.
she saw.
.
she grew.


she sweated.

she changed.
.
she learned.


she laughed.
.
she shed her skin.
.
she bled on the pages of her days.

she walked through walls
,
she lived with intention.” 

― Mary Anne Radmacher

I am an ARTIST.....round 2

Here are more of the "I am an artist" pages...

Denise Phillips

Hanna Nilsson

Hannah Young

Lesley MacGillivray

Maggie Crawford

Marlene Moore

Carol Wheeler

I have a few more to upload from my students, so if you have one you would like featuring send it to me in an email by Sunday.

Enjoy xx

I am an ARTIST.....

...ARE YOU.????

In last months journaling classes, one of the challenges was to create a journal page with the words

I am an artist

written on it.

After much moaning and gnashing of teeth, this was completed and the feeling of self empowerment and feeling of achievement was immense.!!

I believe we are ALL artists, each and every one of us, just that somewhere along the way we have lost the confidence in our ability to be one. Ask any group of five year olds, that question and every single hand will reach for the sky. As we get older, everything in our life starts to become right or wrong, black or white, and we are constantly doubting our abilities.

But to me, ART is the journey we take, not the finished result. It is the process of picking up a pencil, a brush, a spray and actually committing to paper. It is an experience that YOU go through, for the purpose of feeding YOUR soul. 

Take yourself back to nursery school, and scribble with no thought to the outcome, paint with no concern of the colour choices and spray with no fear of making a mess. Sing or hum along to your favourite tunes, stop every now and then and twirl, take yourself back to the 5yr old child inside you who had no fear, and was confident in their ability to be an artist. 

See how it feels to be free..

See how it feels TO BE AN ARTIST.....

I belong to a little friendly group on face book. Art Journaling for women, 

thttps://www.facebook.com/groups/298327446893718/  

and a few on there were oohing and aahing over others work and completely disregarding their own. So I decided to set a challenge. 

To challenge themselves to "BE AN ARTIST".... and here are the results, in alphabetical order.

Anne Johnson

Alda Van Groen

Anneke Van Groen

Bernice Hopper

Carole Furlong

Cynthia Yeomans

Debs Mitchell

Diana Hetherington

Donna Bowman

Laura Cooper

Lesley Farrell

Louise Robertson

Marianne

Marti Wills

Nancy Chrissinger

Nicki Foster

Pauline Butcher

Sarah Cooper

Sherry Goodloe

Sue Roberts

Tina Bayfield

Trish Bee

Each and every one of them...AN ARTIST...in their own right....

Why don't you join us...??

Enjoy xx

I'm home...

I am unpacked...

I have sorted the washing...

I am almost over the jetlag...

and I am eating toffees..!!

Whilst in America everyone kept referring to the similarity between me and Lucille Ball.!! I can only take that as a compliment, can't I?

So here's my tribute to her chocolate factory skit




Enjoy xx