Small Art for the Faint of Heart

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In one month, my eCourse on Art & the Stars begins! Small Art for the Faint of Heart involves making matchbox shrines, ATCs triptychs, domino altars, and more, using astrology as our inspiration! Which seems like quite a unique concept to me!

The projects are small, which makes them doable, and rather adorable! You will learn what your sun sign, rising sign and moon sign are, what they mean and how they influence you! You'll discover the Sun or Zodiac signs of the significant others in your life, and make small art that celebrates them! We will have 12 months to get to know our own birthcharts, our positive and negative attributes, how we react to things, how we appear to others, our element, our power colours, and so much more!

For $2.50 a month, this 12 month eCourse will not only teach you about yourself, but also about mixed media techniques that you may not have tried yet! It will provide you with images, quotes and ideas that you can make each project with as well as giving you enough material for other projects!

All the Art will be Small!

Halfway through each month will be our GiveAway! Yay! Presents! That's right! As a student, you will be entered to win a fabulous prize from one of our friends, including Rings & Things, Mori Cupcake, HHH Enterprises, The Beadin' Path and Winged Heart Studio, among others!!!

Have you signed up for Small Art yet?

Boho Bliss Workshop Giveaway!

ATTENTION! ATTENTION! YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE!


Since Tuesday, June 15th, is Violette's actual birthday, we are going to do the giveaway then, noon my time, around 9:00 a.m. Violette's time!!! Can you wait one more day?!?! Alright, see you tomorrow!



Boho Bliss is so colourful, just like Violette, herself! The best part is that you actually learn how to build your art journal from scratch! So your new, mad skills will include book making, painting on fabric, making gratitude beads (!!!), creating a ruffle from a fabric you make...well, there's more, but you can check it out yourself!

Remember, if you commented on both my post and Violette's post from June 1, you are already in!

If you've never entered before, tell me why you would like to take the workshop. Don't forget to tell Violette, too, on her June 8 post!

Have you watched the video yet? In it you will be introduced to some of the techniques that Violette demonstrates in the workshops!

You have until Sunday, at midnight, June 13, 2010, to leave your comment! We will draw the names on Monday and announce it in the afternoon!

Win Journal Bliss by Violette!

June is Art Journal Month on Craft Dinner and we are starting it off with Craft Dinner's first Grand Giveaway!!! On a scale of 1 to 10 on the Excited Metre, I am at 10!!! If you haven't met talented Canadian, Violette Clark, yet, you will love her! I interviewed Violette earlier in May and will share that interview with you later this week.

Thanks to Violette, we are giving away Violette's On-line Workshop AND her book, Journal Bliss!

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How to enter:  You have until Midnight June 6, 2010 (Sunday) to 1. leave a comment on this post and 2. on Violette's June 1 post! 3, 4. Follow each of our blogs and Monday morning, June 7, 2010, we will use a random number generator to choose the lucky winner! I will email you!

If you have been wanting to start an art journal, this is a wonderful course and book to start with! If you have been art journaling for ages, you will love Violette's colourful and positive approach!

Good luck!

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JOURNAL BLISS WORKSHOP:

Learn how to create groovy backgrounds, bodacious borders, fanciful lettering, doodles and faces in this fun four week course with me, Violette! You'll receive a PDF file and video every week.

You'll be able to upload your art on NING and connect with others in the forum. During the once a week live chat you can get your questions answered by me. You'll be encouraged to follow your Bliss by accessing your very own Unique Creative Expression. Playing with paint, lettering and faces has never been so much fun! Let that inner child out to play and silence your Inner Critic.

Week one: Groovy Backgrounds – learn how to create backgrounds using a variety of techniques such as scrap painting, collaging, stenciling, stamping and writing.

Week two: Bodacious Borders – Create fun, exuberant borders to enhance your Journal pages

Week three: Fanciful lettering and Doodling – learn how to add your special twist to your art.

Week four: Making faces and putting it all together – learn how to create easy faces to personalize your journal pages. In week four we'll be also putting all the elements together to create exciting and vibrant pages which help you Unleash your Inner Eccentric!