Well, my long awaited weekend is over - in Warrington. Had the usual super time with Leandra and Lin along with the added bonus of Lynne H being there as well. Great tuition as usual, wonderful help with all that we were doing - cannot begin to tell you how organised but relaxed these weekends are. You really should get yourselves booked on one - but not until I have secured my place! One word of warning though - all the snacks they provide are too yummy to resist - and the food in the hotel is super too.
I must mention the two Marks, who are there to support their spouses, run the shop, help with the hot gluing and take photographs. Can't leave the guys out!
This photograph shows the room, early on the Sunday morning when there were not many about (which is why it looks so empty)
Long shot of the room showing the tables - you can see we all have lots of room to work on.
The right side of the room - this is the shop which is at one end
The other side
It is funny but each table is colour themed and although there are four or five of you working on one colour each project turns out quite different to that of its neighbour. To begin with on Saturday morning we each sat on a table of our choice and made a book. Didn't get mine completed and to my shock horror on returning home found I had left part of it there. Must have been on the table at the side of where I was sat and I never went to that area again. Bah humbug! Not to worry, contacted Leandra and she is sending me the bits so I can redo that section and complete my work. Told you, nothing is too much trouble for these girls!
The afternoon found us making a Shadow Box. This did not set out the same colourway as my final project but they do have similarities.
This is a very dimensional piece, building up layer upon layer and I just love those curtains at the top. Could not begin to tell you what/which paints etc I used as we had so many to choose from. The materials they provide for each piece is unbelievable. Inks, sprays, different types of paint, the list just goes on and on.
The final project on Sunday was a Flower Frame. I loved how we completed the background for this project. Got a bit carried away and ended up with five layers.
Creating that background was F-U-N! We experimented with colour to our hearts content, putting this on, changing it a little with the addition of that and then some more. Could have sat there all day just playing.
Loved the stamping we did which you can see in the top right corner and part way down on the left, especially when we highlighted the flowers. I could not believe how that technique lifted the stamping. Then there was the addition of embossing powder which again lifted the whole thing.
Next we were given lots of flower die cuts in various mediums, we cut some metal ones ourselves and then began constructing them. This was great and has spurred me on to make lots of these flowers to decorate my body form (this will be a future posting) which is a project that has been in construction for far too long.
Anyhow, I digress - here are two of my flowers
Loved the way Leandra showed us how to bend the metal for this effect - and was rather surprised when I got home to find that three of my flowers all had the metal bent in that way. Wonder why? I really thought I had done at least one slightly different. Ah well!
This one is mainly tissue and it just ended up that way but I liked it so much I had to include it on my frame. Did a couple of metal leaves and placed it at the top left of my frame.
You may notice there are one or two butterflies on the finished project, these have been added since I got home along with some curls of wire.
Anyway, it was a super weekend, a great crowd - some I knew, some I didn't, and all I can say is "roll on the next one" and THANKS to the ArtsyCrafts team (including those who did not attend but who have worked so tirelessly to help get kits and boxes ready for us all).
Thanks Girls!
