Workshop Reviews

Well I have been so busy with work and workshops so I'm here now with some reviews of our recent workshops.

This was the first of our workshops at The Tree House Bookshop in Kenilworth, we looked at Distress ink techniques and this was one of our projects. To tie in with the bookshops recent Shakespeare celebrations we decided to use some his famous quotations for the plaque.

Our next class is on this Thursday at 10.30 am and we are joining in the Foodie Fortnight antics going on in Kenilworth with an Afternoon themed selection of projects. We still have a couple of spaces available if you would like to join in.

A beautiful spring day for the beginning of April

I have naughtily been neglecting my blog so I am back and have lots going on to tell everyone about.

Firstly we have joined forces with The Tree House Book Shop and their fab venue so that we can hold more Craft workshops and offer fab facilities whilst we are there.

We currently have the first 8 weeks booked in which is very exciting and these classes can all be booked via me or the bookshop with a non refundable deposit of £5.00. For more information go to our Facebook page where all the details can be found.

We are also happy to announce that we will be showcasing our goods at the New Fargo Village in Coventry in September when it opens it's doors. We will be part  Kejoe's Designs outlet called Express your shelves. We will also be running papercrafting classes within the venue on a regular basis too.

And finally we have big plans for a special wedding stationery workshop held once a month. More details to be announced.

Now I have samples to get making for the Bookshop so I will be back later to show you all what we have planned.

Tuesday already??

Well Tuesday is already here and wow the last few days have flown by. I've been crafting behind the scenes in preperation for some workshops and also some card orders.

This is one thing that I created today using Card-io products, I used Versacolor Topaz and distressed the areas and then used Dragonfly garden stamp set to add pattern to the cards and the envelopes in side to hold the cards are also stamped.

Loved making this it is so versatile and could be done in allsorts of colours.

See you all very soon

ICHF's Hobbycrafts Show - look what I got :)

Went off to the show yesterday with 2 crafty friends and spent most of the day there spending my pennies on a mixture of new crafty items, got some lovely Lavina Rubber stamps and some new card-io stamps too, so i'm sure I will be very busy this weekend creating with all the new bits and pieces.

Spring is in the air and I'm buzzzing - Challenge entry 'Plenty of embellies' Mo Manning Digi entry

Sat down today at my craft challenge class and I picked out a ticket with Buzzzzz written on it. Well I went for a nosy and came across a Mo Manning digi stamp and it was perfect for the theme. Here is what I came up with.

I started with the image and built up from there. I have taken a picture a 3 seperate stages to show you the colours that I used and what stages I did things.

 Here she is all coloured, she is just so cute. Mo Manning has an amazing website full of fab digi's and also has a lot of her work now in rubber stamps by Penny Black. You can pop to her website by following this link Mo's Digital Pencil. I have found they are also holding a blog challenge which this card will be entered into, you can go over and check it out @ Mo's Challenge blog, where you can win digi images for winning or being picked as their top 3.

Now for the card, I took a plain cream sheet of A4 and cut to make a 6"x6" card blank, I decided to create a landscape shape. Using the colours in the image i stuck to yellows and creams as my colour scheme. The backing sheets are by First Edition and from the Blank Canvas range. I drew stitch lines around the cream sheet, I distressed a yellow panel and matted the digi image on to it  and layered to the card, the border was originally white so I inked it using versacolor mini pad and the added pale yellow pearls. To finish I used vintage crochet style lace, a Yellow flower (Wild Orchid Crafts) and a few ivory pearls. The sentiment is a Stampin up one.

I had extra items left over so decided to make a gift tag to go with it as a set.

Button Pictures are my favourite

Today has consisted in making these Letter button pictures for a customer of mine for her children's bedroom. They are fun and bright coloured and great for adding a personal touch to a childs bedroom.

These are available from £10.00 each and can be made a mixture of colours. 

Pop over to Unicorn Crafts on facebook to order your sepcial picture.

Meljen's weekly Challenge Entry - Lucky You ( Green)

On a mission today for blog entries and here is the last one for today. I am entering Meljen Designs Blog Challenge ( Meljen Designs DT Challenge Blog). The theme is Lucky You ( green is the colour needed)

 I couldn't make my mind up which image to you that I have recenty coloured in green but plummed for this one a lovely Steam punk lady which then inspired the backing papers, washi tape and gold embellishment to finish the design.