I thought I'd add a couple of photo's from the advanced metal art workshop we had a couple of weeks back, we made 2 canvas's & a bookmark They are'nt the best photos but some are better than none (I think ??!)



I watched the Chinese New Year special assembly at school where the kids used the dragon mask from the previous post ...& YUMMY I got a belgian chocolate egg, a fortune cookie & a Chinese New year card for my trouble ..lol :D .. didn't expect anything so it was a real surprise, but a very nice one !

I'm back again, It seems ages since I last updated but again all I seem to have been doing is making stuff I can't show you because it's for magazines ...I'm in Craft Stamper again this month with a new 'treasure box' project involving distress inks, Metal art & shrink plastic. I've done a Layout for another Scrapbook magazine & an item for a 'Handmade' magazine (these are both relatively new magazines in the UK) I've also done another project for Craft stamper so all in all a busy month, plus we've had 2 more workshops :o)
Then of course there was the Chinese dragon head mask I was asked to make for the school for one of their special assembly's
It's nice now that it's all quietened down this week, I've actually had time to make Mum her birthday card (Happy birthday Mum ..Love you xxx)
& I'm hoping that I've actually got some time to play ! (& blog about it !)
We've got new products due to come into the shop anytime so we will be able to add some new workshops to the list ..got some cool ideas so keep an eye out here : http://www.artisttradingpost.com/workshops-69-c.asp
There's a few pics I'm going to upload to share, I am loving the Ranger colour washes at the moment & I made a few tags the other night with them, there is also a picture of the 'dragon' !

Happy New Year !!

Happy new year everyone & as promised I am back to the Blog !
I have a few pictures of stuff I've been up to ...
First we had the 12 tags of Christmas .. 10 lovely peeps came to play & between the hours of 10 & 3 they created 12 beautiful tags ... all kinds of techniques & products were used, Melt pots for beeswax, Faux soldering & clear utee, Distress inks, alcohol inks, fragments, chipboard elements, maskx, stamps,embossing, paint effects .. you name it & we probably did it ! .. It was mad, totally hectic but a lot of fun.






I also made this for a friend from UKS who I finally got to meet in person at the NEC in November ... I had made a tag for her there .. but she forgot it ..so as someone else nicked it I made Leigh this :


& then finally the other day I got around to starting a new journal .. inspired by the fab Dyan at AFTH ... Thanks Dyan .. going to go off now & paint some more pages ready.. catch you all soon x

Wishing you all a very merry christmas !

I know, I know, it's ages since I last blogged, But I have a very good reason honest :). I've been working on another craft stamper project (in the magazine in March) & I've been very busy making christmas gifts ..none of which i can put on here until after christmas incase it's seen & the suprise is spoilt ! So many apologies that I haven't been around lately But I will be back with vengeance in January !
Craft Stamper have also asked me to join their design team, I shall be helping out with a new feature they will be running next year. (sooo excited !)
Hope you all have a wonderful christmas & a very crafty new year :) x

We're back from the NEC !

& here are some pictures to show you :

This is us getting ready at the start of the day




This is myself, Sharon (from Artist Trading Post) & Katy Fox editor of Craft Stamper Magazine




We had four fun filled days, met lot's of people, workshopee's, UKS'ers & new & old customers alike ... had great fun demo'ing until everything ran out lol:D
Just got to decide whether we'll do it again in March !

The Metal Art Workshop has just had a couple of Cancellations at the last minute so there are a couple of spare places going ! Find the workshop page here :
http://www.artisttradingpost.com/metal-art-for-beginners-workshop---17th-november-2009-1893-p.asp

Still waiting to sort my computer out, once it is fixed or a new one is purchased I will get back to blogging more regularly ! (promise) x

Metal Art & Workshop

Well I shall try this post again .. I first wrote it & added all the pictures on friday last week, it took ages with my daft computer playing up & then as I went to post it Blogger decided it wasn't playing & lost the lot ! ... I didn't have the time (or the inclination to be honest) to do it again then so here I am today to try & repost it all ... let's hope my computers playing today !

I had been busy last week playing with metal art & this is the little house that I altered :



And then we had a fabulous group of girls at my workshop last Thursday(Distress Ink Workshop) I taught them all 17 ways to use their distress inks & they all did a fab job of keeping up with it all :D

There are a few random photo's of this below:

Distress inks workshop

Got some lovely prep work to do for the distress inks workshop tomorrow. 17 different ways to use them, should be lot's of fun and definately a messy fingers job lol :) Got some old & some new faces coming along .. Can't wait to see them all :D
(still on a new computer hunt .. Sighhh)
will do my best to get some workshop pictures up for you on Friday x