This is what I've been up to this weekend

I've had a fantastic weekend doing a character painting workshop with Dyan at afth There were 5 of us doing the workshop and everyone produced a unique and totally different character.  As usual I liked everybody else's better than my own :-/ But as I can't paint or draw I don't think it's too bad, I am happy with it - she's Miss Goody Two Shoes and she's got a really big head; that wasn't intentional!  There is more colour on the background than is showing here.  We all had a wonderful time, Dyan is marvellous I love the stuff she produces and her workshops are ace!  Dyan has brought out her own range of dye-based colour wash sprays, they're fab colours so if you like the Adirondak colour washes check out Dyan's.
Not sure about the crown, may take if off and make her a tiara.

Fabby Dabby weekend

Blogger was playing up yesterday so I couldn't upload my pics.   I did the Fabby Dabby workshop with Dyan at Art From the Heart in Harroagte.  I stayed over 2 nights 'cos I didn't want to get up early to travel and also it made it a mini break which was great.  We learned how to draw vines 'cos this was going to be part of the canvas we did we had lots of practice on paper first, then before committing to canvas we painted some card and drew a couple of vines.
We scrunched some tissue paper and stuck it onto the canvas then painted the canvas with Claudine Hellmuth's paints using a babywipe.  The dress (also legs and shoes, which are hidden by the flora and fauna) were stamped onto Claudine's sticky back canvas then coloured.  The wings are Grungeboard.  We stamped the flowers and butterflys onto some of Dyan's 'Blonde Moments' papers.  I've used a pic of DD in her Halloween costume on the canvas.  The wig was red as were the horns, but I decided to use monochrome.

The tin was covered with 7Gypsies papers and stickers.  The 2 tags were made using 7 Gypsies rubons and Dyan's downloads after colouring with DIs and using the faux bleach effect.  On the tag with 'Joy' I used the letters from the download sheet and outlined them but using an unbroken line (on the 'life' I used a dotted line) but for some reason the pen developed a mind of it's own and went too far round the 'y' which I wasn't happy about, it looked a mess.  So I took the letters off and filled in with some doodling.  We did quite a bit of doodling over the weekend; it seems to be very popular just now.  The little book was a zig-zag book but we stuck the pages together at the back and covered the spine with some paper.  We did other bits and pieces including UTEE.  We did make another book which we painted, sprayed using stencils/masks and stamped, then stamped and cut out some Stampotique images to use.  But mine just looks a mess so I'm leaving it out!

This is the stash I bought hehe. In case you can't make it out, that's Grungepaper at the top left of the pic.
xx