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A Year of Gratitude, #showusyourMEdia challenge 2

Wow.

To say that you all blew us away with your art is an understatement. What a true pleasure it was so see you post your artful gratitude. Please, please, please, keep sharing and posting. My life is already better because of it.

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A Year of Gratitude Challenge 2

To read more about the power of gratitude, visit my original blog post here.

How To Participate

  • Check my blog and Ranger's blog each month for the prompt.
  • Create a piece of art inspired by the prompt.
  • Post your art anytime during the month on Facebook and/or Instagram, using the hashtag #showusyourMEdia
  • Full challenge rules are at the bottom of this post.

The Second Prompt

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I am grateful for obstacles. Yes, they are hard. Yes, they can suck. But, they make me who I am. They make me better, stronger, more empathetic, more humble. Here is what I made:

Quick description of what I did: Gesso pages, let dry. Paint background with Black, Night, and White. Add stenciling (Circle Faces with Black paint and Spaced Dots with Ocean paint). Paint #8 white tag with swipes of Sand, Sedona, and Ocean. Use white and black Stabilo pencils to add desired journaling to painted pages. Cut semi-circles out of pages from the Collage Collective and sew on them, if desired. Glue shapes to tag and page with Ultra Thick gel. Write journaling on back of tag with Fudeball pen and use blank Media Tape to tape it onto the page on one side, so it opens up like a door.

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Challenge Rules Recap

I want to put the “me” back in mixed media. All art is personal, whether it be a card or an art journal page or a painting. Join me as we begin a series of monthly challenges and prompts that will fuel your creative spirit and help you delve into the ME of MEdia.

  • We will announce monthly challenges on the Ranger blog on the first Wednesday of each month.
  • Use at least one Dina Wakley Media product in your project. If your product is not obvious (like paint), please list the colors you used.
  • You can make anything you like—a card, an art journal page, a tag, a canvas, anything!
  • Interpret each challenge any way you like. You can be literal or you can use it as a springboard and see where it takes you. Let the challenge inspire you and stretch you.
  • Try to journal on your piece. Write your thoughts about each prompt. You can write a little or you can write a lot, but do your best to incorporate your thoughts and feelings into the piece.
  • When you complete a challenge, please share it on your blog and personal social media account(s) (Instagram/Facebook) with the tags #showusyourMEdia and #rangerink. When you share on your personal FB page, be sure to make the post public so that it shows up in our hashtag search. You can share in the art groups, too, but those posts don't show up in the searches if the groups are closed or private.
  • We will do two random drawings each month for a prize. We will search the hashtag #showusyourMEdia on Instagram for one winner, and then on Facebook for the second winner. To be clear, you must use the hashtag #showusyourMEdia on either Instagram or Facebook in order to show up in the search and to be eligible to win. You have until the first Tuesday of each month to complete the previous month’s challenge.
  • We will announce the previous month’s winner AND the new challenge on the first Wednesday of each month.

Note this challenge does not take the place of the monthly challenges we have in the Dina Wakley Media Tribe Facebook group. If you're not a member of the tribe, please join us! Artists in the group post lots of cool art and inspiration.

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Welcome to A Year of Gratitude, a #showusyourMEdia Challenge

 

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#showusyourMEdia is back! This time we're focusing on a theme, A Year of Gratitude.

This theme resonates with me deeply. Gratitude has power! Dr. Randy Kamen, psychologist, shared this list in his fabulous article, "The Transformative Power of Gratitude."

Benefits of Gratitude

  • Improved physical, emotional, and social well-being
  • Greater optimism and happiness,
  • Improved feelings of connection in times of loss or crises
  • Increased self-esteem
  • Heightened energy levels
  • Strengthened heart, immune system, and decreased blood pressure
  • Improved emotional and academic intelligence
  • Expanded capacity for forgiveness
  • Decreased stress, anxiety, depression, and headaches
  • Improved self-care and greater likelihood to exercise
  • Heightened spirituality — ability to see something bigger than ourselves

I can't wait to explore gratitude with you and to witness goodness as our own gratitude spreads out to those around us.

How To Participate

  • Check my blog and Ranger's blog each month for the prompt.
  • Create a piece of art inspired by the prompt.
  • Post your art anytime during the month on Facebook and/or Instagram, using the hashtag #showusyourMEdia
  • Full challenge rules are at the bottom of this post.

Timing

  • We will announce a new challenge on the first Wednesday of each month. Ranger will also announce the previous month's winners on their blog at that time.

What Should I Make?

  • You can make anything you like! It would be great to do all the challenges in one journal, though. I will be using one of my 6×6" white journal for the theme each month. By the end of the challenge, I'll have a journal bursting with art and gratitude.

The First Prompt

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Here is what I made:

Quick description of what I did: Gesso pages, let dry. Paint background with Heather and Peacock paint (lightly, with a watery brush). Let dry. Use Gel Medium to glue on tissue, let dry. Paint/color image with acyrlic (Apricot for face, Sedona and Cheddar and Umber for hair, Turquoise and Umber for clothes). Use the Stabilo All pencil to sketch in a face, if desired. Use a mini blending tool to stencil through Large Fractured Chevron stencil with Lapis paint, and through Big Squovals with White paint. Add splatters with Fuchsia Scribble Stick. Add journaling.

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I can't wait to see your artwork and read about your simple pleasures!

Challenge Rules Recap

I want to put the “me” back in mixed media. All art is personal, whether it be a card or an art journal page or a painting. Join me as we begin a series of monthly challenges and prompts that will fuel your creative spirit and help you delve into the ME of MEdia.

  • We will announce monthly challenges on the Ranger blog on the first Wednesday of each month.
  • Use at least one Dina Wakley Media product in your project. If your product is not obvious (like paint), please list the colors you used.
  • You can make anything you like—a card, an art journal page, a tag, a canvas, anything!
  • Interpret each challenge any way you like. You can be literal or you can use it as a springboard and see where it takes you. Let the challenge inspire you and stretch you.
  • Try to journal on your piece. Write your thoughts about each prompt. You can write a little or you can write a lot, but do your best to incorporate your thoughts and feelings into the piece.
  • When you complete a challenge, please share it on your blog and personal social media account(s) (Instagram/Facebook) with the tags #showusyourMEdia and #rangerink. When you share on your personal FB page, be sure to make the post public so that it shows up in our hashtag search. You can share in the art groups, too, but those posts don't show up in the searches if the groups are closed or private.
  • We will do two random drawings each month for a prize. We will search the hashtag #showusyourMEdia on Instagram for one winner, and then on Facebook for the second winner. To be clear, you must use the hashtag #showusyourMEdia on either Instagram or Facebook in order to show up in the search and to be eligible to win. You have until the first Tuesday of each month to complete the previous month’s challenge.
  • We will announce the previous month’s winner AND the new challenge on the first Wednesday of each month.

Note this challenge does not take the place of the monthly challenges we have in the Dina Wakley Media Tribe Facebook group. If you're not a member of the tribe, please join us! Artists in the group post lots of cool art and inspiration.

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Back2Back UK 2019 is open for registration!

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Join us in beautiful Harrogate, England for Back2Back UK! Here are the details:

Date – 25/26/27th October – Timings are on the website
Location – Harrogate, North Yorkshire
Website – www.lovedreamcreate.co.uk
Bookings are live now!
Cost – £450 or £425 if paid in full in August, installment options are also available.
We are already 70% full with super early bird bookings for last years attendees. Limited to 36 places!

Price includes Goody Bag, Exclusive Stamp Set, Lunches, Snacks & Drinks and Dylusions & Dina Wakley Media materials to use in the workshop

There is a really useful info section on the website for travel info, hotels, how to get here, airports etc.

People traveling from USA, Sweden, The Netherlands, Spain to attend, Leeds/Bradford airport just 30 mins away from the studio.

Any questions they can email info@lovedreamcreate.co.uk

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Back to Back 2020: Dina and Dyan in Florida

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Back to Back 2020 is open for registration!

Click here for the details.

Back to Back is fun, artistic, and a little crazy. We have a blast, and we would love to have you join us. What you'll enjoy:

  • Lots of art.
  • A little silliness. Ahem.
  • The latest and greatest products.
  • Lasting friendships.
  • Soul-filling journaling.

 

Summer Release Time!!!

Hello, my friends. It's summer release time! I have stamps, stencils, and new collage tissue for you. Can I get a hallelujah?

Here are the details:

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I did the stencils this time to have larger shapes. We have hundreds of small stencil designs, and I have found myself wishing for large, open shapes. Uneven Shapes will give you the mask shapes and the stencil. As you look through my samples below, see if you can spot the stencils.

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I am releasing Holiday Scribbly Birds again, this time in red rubber. I get an email about the previous set (clear, limited edition) a few times a month. I hope you guys enjoy it! The other three stamp sets are imagery lifted straight from my journals…silhouettes and faces. Two of my favorite things.

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We have two printed collage paper/tissue sets for you. The words are funny/snarky…they are all things that make me laugh. The large set again has both black on white and white on white printing, for versatility. All the images, again, come from my journals. Some of the collage type images are from my very early journals, back in 2004/2005.

And, something that THRILLS me is now we have a package of plain collage tissue. Woo hoo! It is perfect for stamping on, layering, gluing, using with beeswax, etc.

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Here are some of my samples:

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The page above has an image from the new collage tissue. I did the black word with my Brother labeling machine. It a page from my White Journal. I also used one of my white tags.

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Stamps above are from I Spill. Stencil is Large Halves. Page is in my White Journal. I also used one of my white tags.

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Scribbly Holiday Birdies on a kraft page in my Media Journal.

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Stamp above is Stronger. Stencils is Uneven Shapes and Spaced Dots. This is a page in my White Journal.

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Scribbly Holiday Birdies for the win! White tag on a kraft page in my Media Journal.

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Stencil above is Large Fractured Chevrons, the face is from my Collage Collective. This is a page in my White Journal.

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Stamps above is from I Spill. Stencils are Spaced Dots and Uneven Shapes. This is a page in my White Journal.

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Stamps above are from I Spill, with some printed tissue as well. This is a page in my Media Journal.

 

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This page isn't necessarily finished but I included it to show you how I love to journal in the large stencil shapes. I used Large Halves and Large Medieval Crosses. This is a page in my White Journal.

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The piece above is an abstract painting, and I used Uneven Shapes masks to create the composition. I did this on a loose piece of my cotton rag watercolor paper.

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Tags above have imagery from the new printed tissue.

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Stamp on the white tag above is from Stronger, stencils are from Uneven Shapes.

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Stamp above is from Stronger (the border). The image is from my Collage Collective. This is on a kraft page from my Media Journal.

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Stamp above is from Refuse to Be Ordinary. Page in my White Journal.

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Imagery on the white tag above is from the printed tissue. I put the tag on a burlap page in my Media Journal.

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Stamp above is from Stronger. I stamped it on the new blank tissue and then glued it onto the tag with gel medium. Stencils are Large Halves and Large Fractured Chevrons.

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Stencils above are Large Fractured Chevron. Page is in my White Journal. The flower is a print I made off my craft sheet.

 

Dive Into Art! Join me in Cozumel, June 2020

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Join Dina Wakley and Phoenix Scuba

on the beautiful island of Cozumel, Mexico, to

Dive Into Art!

June 10-17, 2020

 

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I am beyond thrilled to offer the first ever combined scuba and art retreat! I love to dive, I love art, so we're going to experience both in the paradise of Cozumel.

Click here for all of the info!

 

Scribble Stick Set 3: Pastels & Metallics…..Released Today!

Hello, friends! A question I get asked a lot is, "Will there ever be any more Scribble Sticks?" At long last, let me introduce you to Scribble Stick Set #3. It has the six new pastel colors that came out in January, as well as the six metallics. Can I get a HUZZAH?!! This collection adds the lighter values that are missing in the other sets. I think you'll love working with them!

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I did the face below with mostly the metallic sticks. I added Mineral stick around the face, and a few details with the Stabilo All pencil. The metallic colors don't photograph well…I promise they are shimmery.

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Just had to share a few more pouring pics….

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Did you know that you can pour on Media Board, and when it is dry, separate the canvas from the cardboard by simply pulling it off? Kathy from Ranger figured this out, and I love it. It's hard to pour on plain canvas because the pour changes as the canvas material absorbs the moisture of the pour. But if you pour on Media Board, you have a rigid surface. Then you can separate the canvas from the board and use it in as many was as you like–as a flexible book cover, as collage, cut shapes out of it, sew on it, etc.

Here are a couple of collages I did with some canvas pieces I separated from the cardboard.

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It’s Release Time!! Jan 2019 Dina Wakley Media Release

It's time, it's time! I'm thrilled to show you my product release for January 2019!

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First up, we have two assorted packs of pure white tags. These are uncoated, so you can paint and scribble and stamp to your heart's content. You all know how much I love white space, so I'm thrilled to have white tags!

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Next, we continue with the Designer Bags series with this adorable canvas pencil case! Mine is covered in abstract florals. I don't know why I love things in which you put other things, lol, but I will forever be obsessed with bags and pouches.

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I'm so excited about these….chipboard shapes! We have three packages with different themes: Basic Shapes, Botanicals, and Persona (figures and faces). You can paint them, pour on them, use them as masks. I've even been sewing on them.

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I am thrilled that we could make this happen, too….elastic printed Journal Bands for your journals! We have one set for each journal size, Large, Original and Small.

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Ha, did you catch that? Yep, I said SMALL journal. WOO HOO. Let me introduce you to my new 6×6" journal, full of HEAVY cotton paper!! It's fun to play in and I can't wait to see how you fill these up.

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I am so happy to have SIX new acrylic paint colors for you! I was inspired by succulent colors here in the desert, so these are light and pale and lovely. They are a great addition to the line, which was missing lighter shades. We have Mineral (a greyish blue), Aloe (a warm green), Heather (a light lavender), Sand (a wonderful tan), Apricot (a light orangey yellow), and Carnation (a very pale pink).

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Here are my stencils for the release. KITTY MASK!!!! Plus I did a botanical mask/stencil set that matches the stamp set.

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For stamps, I have all new faces for you. We did them BIGGER for journal pages, and I have loved working with them. Plus Branches and Flowers that are so versatile and fun to color with Scribble Sticks.

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Ok, hold on to your seats. THIS, THIS is thrilling to me. I have printed papers for you!! They are my Collage Collective, and they are a blast to play with. You get 60 double-sided sheets, two of each type. One set is printed on lightweight paper, one on heavyweight. You can cut and collage with these and they are great for quick tags and pages.

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I have dozens and dozens of samples…here are a few. Be sure you follow me on Instagram, because I will be sharing TONS more from Creativation, too.

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I hope your creative juices are on FIRE!! I can't wait to see the magic you make with this release.