My First Class with Rowan Tree Crafts

Fairy Sparkle

Hi All

Well its still January! - what a dreary month, the last pay day seems a long way a way, the weather has been awful and I'm another year older! Three things to depress me in particular - but its not all bad!

I had my first class at Rowan Tree Crafts, and got to play with some lovely new products, we had a lovely day I hope you like the results.  Thank you for Sharon and Annie for looking after us.

The first card using the wonderful Woodware mushrooms, I coloured them with copic pens and then painted them with glue and seal to give them a sheen for a very clean and simple card.

For the second card, I created a fold back card for the Fairy New Home card using Lavinia Stamps, and the message from Lili of the Valley, also using distress inks with the glorious Jones Tones glitter.

The third card is 3 in a box from Woodware, a lovely stamp by Jane Gill. I used Brushos for the background  cobalt blue and a bit of purple, my fingers were blue for days!!! and we even dyed the ribbon to match, my advice - with hindsight - wear gloves! The embossing folder was from Sue Wilson by Creative Expressions.

Bright Shiny Mushrooms for the plain and simple one.

Lovely Lavinia Stamps with enamel accents on the flowers

Look at all that glitter

A Fairy New Home using Lavinia Stamps

Three in a box using Brushos for the background and the lovely stamp by Jane Gill from the Woodware collection.  

I hope you like them.

Lesley x

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My Mixed Media Mayhem Messy Weekend 2

My Mixed Media Mayhem Messy Weekend 2

Hi All

Recently, I went on a two-day Mixed Media Crafting weekend in Lancaster held by Rowan Tree Crafts in Carnforth, Lancashire. The tutor was Mark Gould from DecoArt.  A big thank you to all who organised this fab weekend, I had a great time I can't wait to go again next year, i'll start saving now!

This year's projects were very different to last years, we were tutored by Kate Crane on the first day creating a lovely journal cover which I still haven't finished, so I will upload it later when it is done.

The second day was with Mark Gould, and we used seven gypsies papers and lots of Deco Art products to produce six panels and the frame you see below, we just chose 3 of the six panels to go in the frame and I have 3 more to create a further project with.  The Seven Gypsies papers were fantastic to use, and so strong in texture and double sided with lovely useable images.

Here are some images of the completed project.

Distressed, crackled, antiqued and waxed.

You would never believe those stars were white to start off with

Look at the height of those stars.

It was amazing, we all started off with the same products, used the same techniques, 

but depending on the colours of paint, panel choices and stamps we used everyone's projects 

were different.

The whole weekend was great fun, I met some lovely ladies, made some great friends, got messy and had a fabulous time, and did a bit of crafty shopping and so it continues! 

I hope to go again next year.

I hope you like them.

Take care 

Lesley x

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Mixed Media Mayhem

Mixed Media Mayhem 2017

Hi All

Just to let you know earlier this year I was treated by my husband to the next Mixed Media Mayhem weekend, this time at Holiday Inn Lancaster, I am really looking forward to finding out what we do this year! Last year was fantastic and I learned how to use so many different products and had a brilliant time with all the other ladies.

Mark Gould and Kate Crane are of both teaching at #mixedmediamayhem this September, places now limited call 07590605078 to find out more.

Mixed Media Mayhem Poster

To find out what we did last year check out my mixed media page.
Lesley

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My Mixed Media Messy Weekend

My Mixed Media Mayhem Messy Weekend

Hi All

So what have I been doing recently - well for the first time I went on a two-day Mixed Media Crafting weekend held at the Crooklands Hotel held by Rowan Tree Crafts in Carnforth, Lancashire. The tutor was Mark Gould from DecoArt.  A big thank you to all who organised this fab weekend, I had a great time I can't wait to go again next year, i'll start saving now!

It was all about surfaces - On the first day we decorated a box and made small ATC cards. On the second day it was Alice in Wonderland and creating a book using stamps, painting and gilding flakes -  Hardly any ink in sight just a bit of Stazon and Archival - a bit of a trauma for me there then! There were 13 lovely ladies on the weekend and two days of intense crafting with demos continuing into the evening. It was a great weekend and I learned a lot! I also found lots of 'must have' paints and stuff I needed to be able to do it all over again at home.

Here are some images of the ATC Cards and box I made on the first day, using a range of surface techniques, chalk paints, stencils, vaseline, gilding flakes, texture paint, crackle glaze with antiquing fluid, using acrylic paints on acrylic and stamping and a whole new concept 'working from behind' - took a while to get my head around that one!

Here is the box complete with my ATC cards

Here is the box complete with my ATC cards

Here is the box complete with my ATC cards

Distressed box with ATC cards

Two of the ATC cards I created

More ATC cards

ATC card with magician

Side view of ATC card showing how its put together

ATC card showing magician and bird

Day Two
Here are some images of The Alice in Wonderland Craft Book, I made on the second day.  Mark gave us wonderful items to work with to consolidate the techniques we used on the first day.

The Cover Chalk paint in two layers then image transfer

Painted acrylic with a background paper

Back of the Acrylic Page

Stamped then crackle glaze with black antiquing

Wet paint techniques then stamped with ink to finish

Journaling page

Its all going on here, painted acrylic, with gilding flakes on the back then sprayed with paint in four colours

Just ink on paper for a journaling page

Stamped with white paint on black chalk paint

Journaling page just stamped ink on paper

Image transfer on chalk paint

Love this rabbit page

Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum painted on acrylic.

This is a lovely MDF frame

For the past month I have been busy creating a range of sample cards for a well known stamp company - but you’ll have to wait a while to see those.


That’s all for now folks - take care and see you soon.

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