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April 26, 2018

Rainbow Unicorn Give Away #1 – Yay!

By Tamara Laporte  |   in unicorngiveaways  | Tags: unicorngiveaway , willowingarts , giveaway , willowing  

Creative friends, I’m beyond excited to kick of the very first, awesomely exciting & fabulously sparkly:

Rainbow Unicorn Give Away!

Over here at Willowing Arts we love connecting our beautiful audience of mixed media and personal development enthusiasts (YOUOUOU!) with inspiring businesses, people, services and products! What better way to do this by organising some super fun GIVE AWAYS!! :D

Please check out all the wonderful people below, I am sure you will love their products, shops, sites, classes and services! And then leave a comment below for a chance to win one of the 20+ prizes! Also be sure to check out the discount codes & additional freebies that some of our sponsors are sharing with Willowing Readers Only! :D

This give away will run for one week only until: May 2nd 2018

This Give Away is now Closed!

Winners of all prizes are: 

  1. A place on Kylie’s  ‘Journal Playgound’ & a $40 gift voucher – won by Pam West
  2. A place on Kylie’s  ‘Journal Playgound’ – won by Nicola Skitt
  3. A Kylie Fowler Face Stencils 4 pack – won by Deb Brown
  4. A place on Karine Bosse’s Ladybird Class – won by Faybn Cheek
  5. A coaching sessions with Cat Caracelo – won by Lacey Hall
  6. A coaching sessions with Cat Caracelo – won by Kay Halliwell-sutton
  7. ACA scholarship with Kristina Solheim – won by Margaret Zaleski
  8. A place on Fabulous Figures with Jane Davenport – won by Tressa Clardy
  9. A free seat in Book Of Days 2018 with Effy Wild – won by Lorraine Finney
  10. A set of 5 random postcards from Tamara Laporte – won by Anya Lark
  11. A set of 10 random postcards from Tamara Laporte – won by Karen Dombroskie
  12. 2 sets of Tamara Laporte’s fun stencils – won by Jamee Romano
  13. One of Tamara Laporte’s inspiring notebooks – won by Elizabeth Boltuc
  14. One of Tamara Laporte’s inspiring notebooks – won by Marpy Hayse
  15. One of Tamara Laporte’s inspiring notebooks – won by Christy Lynn Walker
  16. A spot on Ever After 2018 – won by Marilyn Harris Mills
  17. A spot on Ever After 2018 – won by Cath Mackie
  18. A spot on Ever After 2018 – won by Janne Potter
  19. A signed copy of Tamara Laporte’s book – won by Cathy Lynn

All winners and Give Away sponsors will be emailed in due course:)

Kylie Fowler/ Lulu Art Store

Lulu Art Store is an Australian art store owned by portrait & mixed media artist Kylie Fowler, who was one of the instructors on the very first Life Book way back in 2012. Kylie also recently designed ‘face’ stencils for Artistcellar, which you can purchase from Kylie’s store or direct from Artistcellar. Lulu Art specialises in Kylie’s favourite mixed media/art journaling art supplies, such as Tim Holtz, Caran D’Arch, Dylusions, Dina Wakley Media, Jane Davenport Mixed Media, Ranger, Prima, Liquitex and Golden, to name a few; and even some of Tam’s favourites are sold here. Kylie also offers ‘Journal Playground’, an online art & journal making course, where you will learn to make various art journals, as well as protective covers and various art techniques. Visit Lulu Art Store at www.luluart.com.au or visit Kylie at www.kyliefowler.com. Kylie is Giving Away some wonderful goodies today! You can have a chance at winning any of the following gifts, by entering a comment below: 1. A place on Kylie’s online class ‘Journal Playgound’ & a $40 gift voucher from Kylie’s Art Store, Lulu Art 2. A place on Kylie’s online class ‘Journal Playgound’, 3. A Fowler Face Stencils 4 pack, designed by Kylie Fowler for Artistcellar. Willowing members use discount code: Lifebook10 to receive 10% off Mixed Media Art Supplies at Lulu Art from 26th April to 4th May.

Karine Bossé from Kabostudio

I’m a multi-disciplinary artist always looking for different ways to create new characters. I love exploring portrait and totem, matching personality and animal spirit, creating vulnerable yet strong women portraits, bringing light to darkness.
I offer a spot in my new class Ladybird . We explore creating on a different substrate, theory of colours, composition and creation of characters. As a complement to these, we will create a soft-sculpture bird out of fabric. Learn about class here: http://bit.ly/2GGy5U7 Karine is Giving Away 1 place on her Ladybird Online Class! Class available at an additional 10% off  for Willowing members until May 15 – use code Willowing10. 

Cat Caracelo + JourneyPath Institute


Cat Caracelo is an artist, guidess, depth coach and the founder of JourneyPath Institute, offering personal and professional programs that blend expressive art, transformative process and depth work to support healing, wholeness, expression and expansion. Cat is Giving Away TWO coaching sessions. Also the Winged Spark eCourse! Inspire your life and play with visual storytelling in Winged Spark, a six lesson eCourse that is your Willowing Unicorn Gift! Explore your inner wisdom and find archetypal energies that will ignite and restore your creative flame. Art as process is a powerful way to ignite change! Get your Winged Spark.

Ever After 2018 – Fairytale & Style Development Art Course

“Ever After” is a mixed media art & style development course with a fairytale theme hosted by Tamara Laporte from Willowing Arts. Tam is joined by 14 popular mixed media art teachers who will all share beautiful fairy-tale inspired lessons with you AND, in the style development segment of the course; they will also divulge all their hints and tips on how they developed their own style and how YOU TOO can find your own unique voice as an artist! :) Yay! Tam is giving away 3 spots on Ever After 2018 for this give away, yay! :)

Artful Career Academy with Kristina Solheim

ACA is a 6-month career development program for mixed-media artists. Develop your style, set up your business, and transform from student to working artist. Click here for more info and to get on the VIP list! Kristina is giving away a scholarship for one lucky artist (valued at $1497).  DISCOUNT CODES: Use UNICORN10 for 10% off  tuition for Artful Career Academy. Code is transferrable to other offers – email Kristina Solheim at info@gettotheart.com

 

 

Jane Davenport’s latest book and a new workshop!

‘Fabulous Figures‘ my brand new book. In ‘Folkloric’ workshop I go through key lesson in the book to build a foundation for creating free-flowing figures and beautiful folk dresses. Book is out now. Online workshop starts May 21. Register today! Jane is giving away 1 place on Fabulous Figures online workshop. Enter “unicornjane” at checkout for special discount!

A signed Copy of Tam’s Book

Based on much-loved mixed-media artist Tamara Laporte’s popular, multi-year series of online classes, Create Your Life Book offers mixed-media drawing and painting projects that can raise your awareness of and help you work through personal challenges and other obstacles to creating art and achieving self-fulfillment. Tam is giving away 1 signed copy of her book today! 

 

 


Book Of Days 2018 with Effy Wild

My name is Effy, and I’m a journal artist, and on line teacher. My passion is using art as a portal to a deeper relationship with ourselves & the divine! Find me blogging over here, and socializing on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. Effy is giving away 1 free seat in Book Of Days 2018

Random Postcards by Tam!

Tam is giving away 1 set of 5 random postcards and 1 set of 10 random postcards for 2 lucky winners! :) Tam’s postcards are beautifully vibrant and high quality! They are wonderful little pieces of art you can send to friends or hang up around the house!

 


Whimsical + Inspiration Stencils by Tam

Tam is giving away 2 sets of her fun stencils! Eight 6″x6″ stencils in total!

Tam’s Inspiration Stencils: Tam’s lettering style shines through her signature inspirational sayings. Add this beautiful text in whole or parts to inspire your artwork! PLUS Tam’s Whimsy Stencil Series. Four 6″x6″ stencils. Inspired by Tam’s signature whimsical style, each design can be used whole or in part to add your own bit of whimsy to your artwork! All designs 6″ x 6″.

 

 

Inspiring Notebooks with Tam’s Art

Tam is giving away 3 of her inspiring notebooks! They measure approx 6″ x 8′ (15cm x 2cm) and have a full colour reproduction on the front cover of my artwork in a beautiful satin finish. They come with 48 white lined pages and are made of recycled paper.

Great little notebook that will fit in your bag and come with you whereever you go. ♥ Good for jotting down ideas and sketches for your journalling, scrap booking and/or planner! :)

 

 

 


Do you want to sponsor
the next Unicorn Give Away? You can!

These are by far the most fun sponsorship opportunities as well as very effective as give aways create excitement and drive extra traffic to the blog and therefore they also drive extra traffic to your sponsored give-away! :)

Over here at Willowing Arts we love connecting our beautiful audience of mixed media and personal development enthusiasts with inspiring businesses, people, services and products! Advertising on willowing.org is highly suitable for those who offer life enriching products & services like art products, online art courses, life coaching sessions, personal development courses/ products or any other wellness and creative products!

If you want to reach thousands of art and wellness enthusiasts through my newsletter, social media sites and website, this opportunity is for you! :)

The site gets between 75,000 to 100,000 monthly page views and approx 20,500 unique visitors per month (daily unique visitors range from 1500 – 2500). The site has over 33,200+ members (and tends to grow with 400 to 500 members each month). The newsletter currently has almost 36,000 subscribers. If you are interested in advertising, please contact Maddie on hello@willowing.org.

The Rainbow Unicorn Give Away will also be advertised on my social media sites (23,000 Facebook Biz Page/ 12,000 Personal FB page/ 15,000 instagram/ 9000 FB group members).

Thank you! <3 


 

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Mixed media artist, teacher and author. I don’t see all IG msgs. For enq pls email hello@willowing.org - Join A Year of Magic & Fairy Tales:

Bookworm Girl - In late 2014, I created a painting that became one of my favourites of all time. Not only for its cute quirky bookish girl and delicious textures in the background but because I felt it captured the pure magic of getting utterly lost in a good book really well.

As a kid, I was a ‘bookworm girl’, I read and read and read to the point my parents felt I was ‘too secluded’ and ‘should go out more’! But! I had books and friends in books and stories and excitement and adventures and wisdom and joy and humour and laughter and intrigue and mystery. Books provided so much solace for me, especially as someone who felt like an outsider who didn’t belong anywhere.

I belonged in the books with the weirdos, the heroes, the vampires & witches (hello Anne Rice!), the artists, the outcasts, the lonely ones hiding in secret gardens, the wise and wild old crones that lived in the forests with deer and cats, the seekers, the fighters, and the fierce souls who wore their hearts on their sleeves and never gave up.

I continued reading pretty much throughout my life though when smartphones entered the scene; I too became entranced by apps, games and social media and reading books got interrupted by the wave of technology. Until about 2 years ago I decided that I was no longer allowed my phone in my bedroom at night (my god the endless doom scrolling on TikTok did me no good) and so I ended up back on kindle and now I read again and I’m so so happy about it. I love disappearing into fantasy and letting the stories carry me away from the stresses of every day life for a while!

If you’re also a book lover (or recovering bookworm -haha), what stories swept you away? Which books still live inside you? Tell me your favourites, I’m always hunting for the next world to disappear into. 💫

This is day 19 of a ‘gentle return to social media’ read more about this practice here: http://bit.ly/3IHFxir 🌱

PS: I painted this before certain things came to light about J.K. Rowling and Neil Gaiman, which is why their books feature here.

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Bookworm Girl - In late 2014, I created a painting that became one of my favourites of all time. Not only for its cute quirky bookish girl and delicious textures in the background but because I felt it captured the pure magic of getting utterly lost in a good book really well. 

As a kid, I was a ‘bookworm girl’, I read and read and read to the point my parents felt I was ‘too secluded’ and ‘should go out more’! But! I had books and friends in books and stories and excitement and adventures and wisdom and joy and humour and laughter and intrigue and mystery. Books provided so much solace for me, especially as someone who felt like an outsider who didn’t belong anywhere. 

I belonged in the books with the weirdos, the heroes, the vampires & witches (hello Anne Rice!), the artists, the outcasts, the lonely ones hiding in secret gardens, the wise and wild old crones that lived in the forests with deer and cats, the seekers, the fighters, and the fierce souls who wore their hearts on their sleeves and never gave up.

I continued reading pretty much throughout my life though when smartphones entered the scene; I too became entranced by apps, games and social media and reading books got interrupted by the wave of technology. Until about 2 years ago I decided that I was no longer allowed my phone in my bedroom at night (my god the endless doom scrolling on TikTok did me no good) and so I ended up back on kindle and now I read again and I’m so so happy about it. I love disappearing into fantasy and letting the stories carry me away from the stresses of every day life for a while! 

If you’re also a book lover (or recovering bookworm -haha), what stories swept you away? Which books still live inside you? Tell me your favourites, I’m always hunting for the next world to disappear into. 💫

This is day 19 of a ‘gentle return to social media’ read more about this practice here: http://bit.ly/3IHFxir 🌱

PS: I painted this before certain things came to light about J.K. Rowling and Neil Gaiman, which is why their books feature here.

I sold the previous version of this painting already but filmed a lesson for creating cuties for it so I have another version of this cute doggo visited by a butterfly. It’s for sale too. Original painting by me! 😊 Email me on hello@willowing.org if interested xxx ♥️♥️♥️ 🐶

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I sold the previous version of this painting already but filmed a lesson for creating cuties for it so I have another version of this cute doggo visited by a butterfly. It’s for sale too. Original painting by me! 😊 Email me on hello@willowing.org if interested xxx ♥️♥️♥️ 🐶

Great glittering goblins! The first 1000 places have already sold out! Thank you for all your love, enthusiasm and excitement in response to this magical new course!! I’m befuddled with joy and thrilled to have such an amazing response!
Now, if you had hoped to join for the lowest price ever, then don’t worry; we have opened up another 500 spaces at the super low price of £109 GBP. So please get in there quickly if you want to grab A Year of Magic & Fairy Tales at this hugely discounted price, as spaces are selling fast!

Do not dilly dally, my dear, adventure favours the nimble-footed!
A Year of Magic & Fairy Tales
is waiting for you!
🧚✨🦄
JOIN ‘A Year of Magic & Fairy Tales ’ NOW!:
https://bit.ly/AYOM-Tam

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Great glittering goblins! The first 1000 places have already sold out!  Thank you for all your love, enthusiasm and excitement in response to this magical new course!! I’m befuddled with joy and thrilled to have such an amazing response! 
Now, if you had hoped to join for the lowest price ever, then don’t worry; we have opened up another 500 spaces at the super low price of £109 GBP. So please get in there quickly if you want to grab A Year of Magic & Fairy Tales at this hugely discounted price, as spaces are selling fast!

Do not dilly dally, my dear, adventure favours the nimble-footed!
A Year of Magic & Fairy Tales
is waiting for you!
🧚✨🦄 
JOIN ‘A Year of Magic & Fairy Tales ’ NOW!: 
https://bit.ly/AYOM-Tam

✨ The Magic Begins! ✨

Friends, I am SO THRILLED! We’re finally opening the enchanted gates to a new amazing creative experience! ✨🙌✨

A Year of Magic & Fairy Tales is here! For a limited time, the first 1000 magical souls can join for just £109 (normally £179). Crazy good deal!! ♥️♥️♥️ Hurry though, these spaces usually go fast!!

Explore over 65+ mixed media art lessons, dive into fairy tales, myth, folklore and every day magic! Paint dragons, castles, and everyday enchantment; all with the support of 30+ beloved artists and a kind-hearted community.

Secure your spot and let’s create a year of magic & wonder together!

See you there!!

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✨ The Magic Begins! ✨ 

Friends, I am SO THRILLED! We’re finally opening the enchanted gates to a new amazing creative experience! ✨🙌✨ 

A Year of Magic & Fairy Tales is here! For a limited time, the first 1000 magical souls can join for just £109 (normally £179). Crazy good deal!! ♥️♥️♥️ Hurry though, these spaces usually go fast!! 

Explore over 65+ mixed media art lessons, dive into fairy tales, myth, folklore and every day magic! Paint dragons, castles, and everyday enchantment; all with the support of 30+ beloved artists and a kind-hearted community.

Secure your spot and let’s create a year of magic & wonder together!

See you there!! 

(Link in comments) 

#AYearOfMagic #MixedMediaArt #ArtClass #EarlyBird

Black. 🖤

After I finished Senior School, I went to an Art Academy in Amsterdam for a year. I was massively proud to have been accepted into two art academies in Holland because it was pretty hard to get into them, only about 30/ 40 people got selected out of 100nds of applicants each year. To be accepted into two Art Academies was a huge deal. Sadly the experience was not one I enjoyed much at all.

Coming from a vibrant, colourful senior school where art classes were uplifting and fun, I was shocked to discover that at the academy, it almost seemed sport to the teachers to ‘break down their students emotionally’, supposedly to make us better artists. Even the building itself was grey, devoid of any joy or colour. It was baffling; a place meant for creativity felt so grim and dark. 😔

The professors, too, each had their own peculiar ‘rules’. I remember being told things like, “Never use black in your paintings, it’s not a colour,” or, “Don’t use purple, I hate purple.” Looking back now, it’s almost comical; if every teacher had a forbidden colour, soon we’d be left with none! The arbitrary rules piled up, until it seemed like you could break one just by picking up a brush.

But the ‘never use black’ rule really stuck with me for years. I avoided it religiously, until this painting.

Yes, black can be a tricky colour. It’s bold, sometimes harsh, and can easily overpower a piece. But, when used with intention, I think black adds a beautiful sense of depth, contrast, and harmony. In this painting, I love how the black brings weight and grounding, making the other colours sing even brighter. ✨🙌✨

I remember painting this piece in 2016 and feeling a sense of freedom. I let myself be looser and wilder; not only did I dare to bring in black, I also used fluorescent pinks, which can be just as challenging! Suddenly, all those ‘forbidden’ elements became a celebration.

I left the Art Academy after a year, feeling confused and a bit lost. For a while, they made me believe maybe art wasn’t for me after all. How sad, isn’t it, when a place meant to nurture creativity ends up clipping your wings? ... (continues in comments)

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Black. 🖤

After I finished Senior School, I went to an Art Academy in Amsterdam for a year. I was massively proud to have been accepted into two art academies in Holland because it was pretty hard to get into them, only about 30/ 40 people got selected out of 100nds of applicants each year. To be accepted into two Art Academies was a huge deal. Sadly the experience was not one I enjoyed much at all. 

Coming from a vibrant, colourful senior school where art classes were uplifting and fun, I was shocked to discover that at the academy, it almost seemed sport to the teachers to ‘break down their students emotionally’, supposedly to make us better artists. Even the building itself was grey, devoid of any joy or colour. It was baffling; a place meant for creativity felt so grim and dark. 😔 

The professors, too, each had their own peculiar ‘rules’. I remember being told things like, “Never use black in your paintings, it’s not a colour,” or, “Don’t use purple, I hate purple.” Looking back now, it’s almost comical; if every teacher had a forbidden colour, soon we’d be left with none! The arbitrary rules piled up, until it seemed like you could break one just by picking up a brush.

But the ‘never use black’ rule really stuck with me for years. I avoided it religiously, until this painting.

Yes, black can be a tricky colour. It’s bold, sometimes harsh, and can easily overpower a piece. But, when used with intention, I think black adds a beautiful sense of depth, contrast, and harmony. In this painting, I love how the black brings weight and grounding, making the other colours sing even brighter. ✨🙌✨ 

I remember painting this piece in 2016 and feeling a sense of freedom. I let myself be looser and wilder; not only did I dare to bring in black, I also used fluorescent pinks, which can be just as challenging! Suddenly, all those ‘forbidden’ elements became a celebration.

I left the Art Academy after a year, feeling confused and a bit lost. For a while, they made me believe maybe art wasn’t for me after all. How sad, isn’t it, when a place meant to nurture creativity ends up clipping your wings? ... (continues in comments)
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