I'm teaching at the Mastering Mixed Media Expo!

Hello crafting friends!

I have very exciting news! I’m thrilled to be teaching at the Mastering Mixed Media Expo 2025, a FREE online event featuring 35+ incredible mixed media artists from around the world– and I’d love for you to join me!

During this two-week event, which is run by the amazing Tamara Laporte, you'll gain access to a wide variety of mixed media workshops, where artists (like me!) share their favourite techniques, supplies and creative inspiration. The best part? It’s completely free to attend!

This is an incredible opportunity to explore new styles, play with different materials, and connect with a vibrant art community.

When you attend Mastering Mixed Media - Expo 2025 you are able to:
• Access over 35+ free art sessions.
• Watch the sessions at your leisure in your own time.
• Join our Facebook Group with like-minded creative people from all over the world.
• Have the opportunity to enter into giveaways to win a VIP package (get life long access!)
You'll also receive free gifts from your art teachers!

Here's a sneaky peek of my project ;)

Participants in my class will receive Free ArtStacks papers!

Event Dates: 1st – 14th May 2025
Join in Here for Free: Mastering Mixed Media Expo 2025

Meet the amazing artists:

From left to right and top to bottom:
Jessica Swift, Tiffany Solorio, Amanda Trought, Melanie Rivers, Jenny Grant,
Jane Davenport, Andrea Gomoll, Dyan Reaveley, Ida Andersen Lang,
Tamara Laporte, Andrea Garvey, Eulalia Mejia, Kim Dellow, Christa Forrest,
Denise Love, Jennifer Bonneteau, Marabeth Quin, Cindy Gilstrap,
Julie Fei-Fan Balzer, Dylan Sara, Nikol Wikman, Jackie Schomburg,
Marieke Blokland, Laura Horn, Karen Campbell, Jenny Manno, Martice Smith,
Effy Wild, Melanie Bess, Kimball Davis, Heather McMahon, Kim Hamburg,
Jackie Bernardi, Seth Apter, Delight Rogers,Tamara Łuć, Carla Sonheim

There's also a VIP option! If you want to keep all the workshops forever, you can grab the VIP pass at a huge discount:
VIP Access Includes:
✅ Lifetime, downloadable access to all 35+ workshops
✅ A bonus virtual gift bag packed with art goodies (extra classes, PDFs, collage sheets & more!)
✅ A special discounted price - just £59 (normally £99)
This price is only available while the expo runs. It increases after the live event ends.
Upgrade to VIP Here: Mastering Mixed Media VIP Package

I can't wait for you to join me on this amazing mixed media adventure. Are you ready to get creative?

Join us now HERE for 35 + FREE CREATIVE SESSIONS

I hope to see you there!

Heather :D

The Love Stack - with New Releases!

Hi. I'm excited to have been playing with Birgit Koopsen's brand-new releases over at ArtStacks! Oh my - I'm so in love with the colours!

For this project I decided to focus on the Essential Elements pack. This pack contains tags, shapes, faces, words and much, much more. I decided to make a tag stack, layering three tags on top of each other.

My top tag is the smallest one with "The Love Stack" name on it. You've got "The Love Shack" running around your head now haven't you? Haha. To help separate the colours, I cut out my pieces leaving a thin strip of white around the edges. I love the effect this created. I also left a white strip around the edges of all the tags but it doesn't show up well in the photos.

I continued the love and hearts theme on the second tag.

My last tag continues the same theme. Even the tiny white hearts are from Birgit's pack.

All the papers, including the tags, hearts, circles and words are from Birgit's 'Essential Elements' pack.

You can find Birgit's pack here. 

I had so much fun making these! I hope you get to play with them soon.

Happy creating!
Heather

Yippee Ki-Yay!

Hi there! Have you been joining in the challenges over at #seekgathercreate?

Week 2's challenge is to create anything but include a playing card, a hidden message, yellow and a skull. Here's what I came up with.

I started with a playing card from Shana Bebeklis' Full Deck pack at ArtStacks. I added yellow paint and some tissue designs from ArtStacks' Tissue Backgrounds pack. You can find both of these packs here.

I had no skulls at all in my stash so I found one online. The skull image had a bit of a wild west feel to it which made me think of this quote even though it's perhaps more Die Hard than western! I added my secret saying under a stitched flap of paper.

These challenges are really fabulous and make me think outside the square which I like. I hope you can join in. There are prizes to win, including prizes from ArtStacks! You can find the challenge on Instagram at #seekgathercreateFeb2025.

Happy creating!
Heather

Full Deck Challenge 2025

Hello!
I've been having so much fun joining in the Full Deck Challenges over on Facebook. The challenges are run by the amazing Shana Bebeklis (#shanoukiart). They are so much fun!

Shana has two packs with ArtStacks and I've used gorgeous images from both packs to make all my altered cards.

Week 1: Red

Week 2: Orange

Week 3: Yellow

Week 4: Light Green

Week 5: Dark Green

Week 6: Light Blue

Will you give these challenges a go?

Head to ArtStacks here to see Shana's packs and to the Facebook group here to join in the challenge!

Happy creating!

Heather

Be Bold at ArtStacks

Hello! 

I had a long, drawn-out flu recently and I wanted to create but I didn’t have a lot of energy. I just felt like slowly doodling, so I created my background for this page entirely from painting and doodling! I found this a very relaxing thing to do.

I love this quote by Deb Weiers. The quote is printed on tissue so I layered it onto a blank space on the page and coloured some of the letters. I added a cluster on the left side of the page with one of Deb’s quirky little birds.

I used one of Deb’s amazing paintings to support the quote and finished with a few of her flowers.

Deb has four ArtStacks packs. I used three of them - Wonky Faces, Wonky Bits and Wonky Critters. You can see all four of Deb's packs here.

I think Deb Weiers is an amazing artist. I hope you love her unique style as much as I do!

Happy creating!
Heather

I'm Back With a More Than Words Project!

Hello there! I'm back from my break and ready to go!

In exciting news, there are big changes happening at More Than Words in 2025. This will be the last challenge in the existing format. Keep an eye out next year for news of the changes!

The December More Than Words challenge is about Traditions. This made me think about what Christmas traditions we have in our family and I realised that we always have a Christmas tree. Sometimes it's so tall it touches the ceiling and other times it's small enough to sit on a table but we always have one regardless.

On my page, the Christmas tree and the reindeer names are both from ArtStacks' 'Christmas Quotes' MiniStack. I stole the idea for the hanging "Christmas" word baubles from a similar design in the same pack. At only a few dollars, these little packs are a bargain!

I hope you can join us in our last challenge in this format. You could win a prize from ArtStacks!

You can find details of the challenge here.

Happy creating!
Heather

I'm Taking a Break

 

I adore creating but there are times in life where other things take priority so my socials will be taking a break. I'll still be online and ArtStacks will still be operating as usual (with exciting things happening!). I just won't be at my crafting desk for a while. :)

www.artstacks.com.au

@artstacksdesigns #artstacksdesigns

Happy scrappin'!

Heather