Workshops
Terms and Conditions
All workshops require full payment at the time of booking
Workshops are not refundable, but if cancelled 14 days or longer before the workshop we will transfer your money to another AFTH regular workshop/s.If you need to cancel a workshop place that has previously been transferred, we will have to fill your place before transferring * If booking a full weekend workshop with Dyan we will need 28 days notice if you wish to cancel. We will always try to sell on your place on a workshop if you are unable to attend and if we manage to sell on your place we will issue you with an AFTH workshop credit. We reserve the right to cancel classes, but in such instances you will receive a full refund.
Unless specified all workshops are for adults only (16yrs upwards).
When you come to the checkout and you are booking classes only please use the Class Bookings only option in the postage field. If you are booking workshops from outside the EU, there will be VAT to pay on your booking. We will contact you of the cost when processing your booking.
Tea and coffee is available at all workshops. Materials are always supplied unless specified.
Class photos are there to give you a feel of what will take place in the class. It is not an exact representative of what you will be doing in the class.
All workshops are taught at the Art from the Heart studio unless stated otherwise and workshops are for adults only (16yrs upwards).
*The class must be booked within 3 months of you cancelling your class
*Workshops for guest tutors are non refundable, however we will try to sell on your place.
Check out the workshops below from Dyan Reaveley, Kate Crane, Michelle Webb, Tracy Scott & Sandra Botham
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New workshops for November, December and January will be released from Dyan Reaveley, Kate Crane, Michelle Webb, Sandra Botham and Tracy Scott. This is the first place you will be able to book the workshops as they will be available for bookings online on the 16th October. All the new workshops will be out on display for you to browse over - the tutors have created some awesome workshops for you!
For those of you attending there is 10% off all new workshops booked on the day and we also have some special prizes for you! If you book two or more new workshops on the day you will receive a Tim Holtz tote bag, if you book five or more new workshops you will receive a Tim Holtz Apron and for everyone that books a new workshop on the day you will be entered into our free prize draw. Prizes include Signed Tim Holtz totes and also a limited edition/money can't buy duo of stencils especially made for Creative Chemistry!
We also may just have some special offers available for you on the day, but we'll be keeping them secret until the 14th October!
There is no need to book, just come along anytime between 10-4pm
Just like journaling …but on a tiny scale! Mini journaling can be done in any small notebook or sketchbook, but due to its compact size it is quick, accessible and a lot of fun! We’ll be making funky, colourful backgrounds and then adding tiny images and stamps to create glorious pages in miniature. Great for journaling on-the-go.
The Creative Dyary has proved so popular, With sell out classes, that I've decided to do a part two. Whether you have already attended a previous class or are totally new to it, there is something here for you.
We will be adding lots of new techniques and there will be a plethora of new products to play with.
I have always had a thing about cards - angel cards, tarot cards, playing cards. I think it's the fact that they are so tactile and easy to hold in the hand. They can stand alone or you can use them as embellishments in your journals. Spend the day with Dyan creating your own alphabet deck. After decorating them with various ink and paint techniques, we will be stamping and collaging. You'll be given examples of quotes or you can bring your own to create a personalised set.
We all need to escape from the real world from time to time. Although I love to craft, sometime I don't want to think, so I'm opening up the studio for Coffee (or one of our many varieties of tea), cake and colouring! Why don't you come and join me? 'Coffee, Cake & Colouring' sessions. The studio is full of colouring supplies including Dylusions Paints, Dylusions Inks, Distress Crayons, Ink, Paints, Ink Pads, Inktense pencils, Amsterdam Paint Pens, Finnabair supplies, Art Bars, Inktense Blocks and much more. If you like your own colouring supplies, please feel free to bring them along as well. Coffee, Tea & Cake is all provided Please bring along your colouring book with you to work in.
Sometimes it's just so satisfying to go back to basics and create backgrounds in our journals with no thought about a finished page !!
Come and join me for a day of creating colourful and rich background pages. We will use various mark making techniques using both handmade tools and stamps, stencils and more and just enjoy being free to explore.
Be warned though that once you start it becomes addictive !!!
Come and spend the day with me playing in our journals...
Do you spend more time hunting around for supplies, or trying to decide what to use than you do playing in your art journal...yes !!... Then join me as I explain tips and tricks that I use to get me playing in my journal every day....we will create pages in less than an hour that can either be left as is or be used as a springboard for continued play. Either way you'll be filling up your journal rather than wasting time deciding what to do !!!
Come and join Kate in this new regular, monthly, art journaling class. Kate knows that the only way to maintain creativity is to keep art journaling lots, and on a regular basis, because the more you create the more creative you become! Kate will explore a different theme or technique during each session and lead you on a colourful, creative (and messy) journey!
People are always telling me they ‘can’t write’ and ‘my writing is lovely’. During this workshop we will create a booklet using a combination of papers, Distress Oxides and Dylusion paint backgrounds. We will then decorate them with various writing techniques, doodles and stamps/ The main emphasis will be on the writing, so please bring along your favourite journal pens.
Come and join Kate in this new regular, monthly, art journaling class. Kate knows that the only way to maintain creativity is to keep art journaling lots, and on a regular basis, because the more you create the more creative you become! Kate will explore a different theme or technique during each session and lead you on a colourful, creative (and messy) journey!
Lets get into the festive spirit by making your own fantastic Mixed-media Christmas Scene. We'll be painting with acrylics and using various ink types and texture mediums to make this lovely festive 3D scene. You'll get your own Tando Creative box with houses and various embellishments for you to decorate with your own art work and design. Whatever your ability you'll be able to make this box look fantastic and keep it on show all Christmas long, year after year, and tell everyone how you made it. Please bring with you a small flat brush all other supplies are provided.
Just like journaling …but on a tiny scale! Mini journaling can be done in any small notebook or sketchbook, but due to its compact size it is quick, accessible and a lot of fun! We’ll be making funky, colourful backgrounds and then adding tiny images and stamps to create glorious pages in miniature. Great for journaling on-the-go. Equipment needed: Small moleskine, mini notebook or sketchbook. Optional: Materials are provided but if you have any of the following you may find it useful to bring them along: Coloured pencils, white gel pen, fine black marker.
The new journal die by Eileen Hull for Sizzix has been a big hit in the crafting world and allows you to get creative and build your own journal completely from scratch. Kate has added her own colourful twist, and will share techniques and ideas for a fun and vibrant painted cover (including options for a Christmas journal!) and then help you to construct your journal. You will leave the workshop with a hard-back travellers’ notebook size journal, with three removable signatures.
This workshop is first of its kind as it spans 3 whole days!! Yes you heard correctly, we will be creating all day Friday as well as Sat and Sun. Wine and Pizza night has moved to Sat where we will have time to relax and journal together (optional 5-8pm)
I was going through some old old journals and came across some that were all handmade, even the pages and it got me thinking how much I miss that style. So that's what I'm doing, going back to my roots, and taking you with me!
We will start on Friday with all the prep involved in making up the pages and covers - this could get messy, so you might want to bring an apron! Saturday we will start the decorating using paint techniques, layers of stencils and borders galore! Then moving onto collage. Where to start? What to use? Where to position it etc? Sunday is all about the finishing touches, the quotes, the doodling, the putting it all together - phew!
I can't wait for you come and join me for Part 3 in my watercolour doodles series (don't worry if you missed part 1&2, these are not essential to attend this course)
In this 1 day workshop we will be laying down a bright and colourful watercolour background before hand drawing a stunning mandala design.
Never attempted a mandala before?...not a problem !!
I will take you through the process step by step, and give you all my tips and tricks for a stunning design.
This workshop is suitable for all levels
Please bring black and white journal pens in different sizes. If you have your own watercolours then please bring them with you (your own watercolours are not essential, there will be watercolours available to use in the studio)
I will be using my prima sets in tropical and classic.
Watercolour paper will be provided
So you think you can't draw faces?.... YES you can !!
Have you always wanted to learn??
Come and join me for this informative and fun filled one day workshop.
Let me share my tips and tricks for perfect feature placement, shaping, shading and detail.
We will begin by learning about facial composition and will do some practice sketches before laying down a background in our journal ready to add our painted whimsical face.
You won't believe how easy it really is when you know how !!
This workshop is suitable for all levels. Step by step instruction will be given.
Please bring a journal, black and white journal pens and coloured pencils if you have them (I will be using prismacolor)
always have something on me, for those unexpected times when I get the urge to doodle.
We will be making our own notebooks with black, kraft and mixed media paper and I will be starting the doodling process off for you
These notebooks will be housed in a refillable canvas cover, stamped painted and stencilled within an inch if it's life.
No excuses now, for when the doodling urge hits!
I love love love doing backgrounds but why confine them to a journal?
We are going to take those paint techniques and combined with some eclectic patchwork, totally transform a plain apron. Some canvas here, a frill there, add a couple of buttons and voila, a work of art, ready to wear!!
Includes a set of Ranger paint brushes
Come and join Kate in this new regular, monthly, art journaling class. Kate knows that the only way to maintain creativity is to keep art journaling lots, and on a regular basis, because the more you create the more creative you become! Kate will explore a different theme or technique during each session and lead you on a colourful, creative (and messy) journey!
Please bring your journal and journaling pens
Full details to be released nearer the time
Come and step inside Dyan’s world of journaling and find out whats new in the Dylusions world of art journaling. Includes tips, techniques and plenty of art journaling! Please bring your journal and journaling pens.
This weekend is recommended for those of you who have taken a journaling weekend with Dyan before, specifically learning her background techniques (Attending previously Dylusions 101 or Beginner Journaling Weekend are a must). So that you all start with that bit more knowledge and understanding of the products. We will spend less time on learning the techniques and more time on creating finished pages in the square journal. A blend of inks, paints, collage, writing, doodling, imagery, a touch of sparkle and a pinch of oomph!!! Get a few good nights sleep before as it will be a whirl of creativity.
Come along and join Kate on the continued messy, creative and colourful printing adventure! Kate will share further techniques and creative ideas on how to get the best out of your gel plate. We’ll avoid the temptation to pull of 100s of prints that we don’t know what to do with, but make each of our prints look beautiful, funky and vibrant. We’ll make tags, and journal pages, all experimenting with different techniques and wild colour combinations.
Come and join Kate in this new regular, monthly, art journaling class. Kate knows that the only way to maintain creativity is to keep art journaling lots, and on a regular basis, because the more you create the more creative you become! Kate will explore a different theme or technique during each session and lead you on a colourful, creative (and messy) journey!
Tags are a fabulous way of creating and experimenting with new techniques. During this workshop we will be using different size tags and learning different techniques to create lots of different looks for your tags.
Stunning wether you put them into journals, create scenes or simply decorate a simple tag. This workshop will ignite a passion for tags within you!!
Please bring along your favourite journaling pens
Come and spend the day with me playing in our journals...
Do you spend more time hunting around for supplies, or trying to decide what to use than you do playing in your art journal...yes !!... Then join me as I explain tips and tricks that I use to get me playing in my journal every day....we will create pages in less than an hour that can either be left as is or be used as a springboard for continued play. Either way you'll be filling up your journal rather than wasting time deciding what to do !!!
Cute and whimsy animals are the perfect addition to any journal page !!
Let me show you how to draw and colour these little critters in this one day workshop.
We will do some practice sketches before laying down a background in our journal ready to add our gorgeous painted whimsical animal.
This workshop is suitable for all levels. Step by step instruction will be given.
Please bring a journal, black and white journal pens and coloured pencils if you have them (I will be using prismacolor)
Come and spend a day with me as we play in our art journals!!
If you've ever taken my fast and fabulous journal class I can promise the same colour injection but at a slower and more relaxed pace.
This class is suitable for all abilities and full step by step guidance will be given.
'm just loving experimenting with my watercolours and all the design possibilities that they bring to my art.
Please join me for part 4 of my watercolour doodle series (attendance of parts 1.2&3 is not necessary to attend this lesson)
In this lesson I will show you how to incorporate your favourite stamps into your doodles and make them blend with your hand drawn images seamlessly!!
Fabulous colour and relaxing doodling...what could possibly be better??
This workshop is suitable for all levels.
Please bring black and white journal pens in different sizes. If you have your own watercolours then please bring them with you (your own watercolours are not essential, there will be watercolours available to use in the studio)
I will be using my prima sets in tropical and classic.
Watercolour paper will be provided