Art Workshop - 'Lets go on an adventure' with Tracy Easson

Hi folks!!

The day after I did Sandra's Bothams atcs class I was back at another crafting workshop but this time is was at Middlesbrough and was taught by the wonderful Tracy Easson!!!

Tracy had come down to teach several workshops in our area last year but unfortunately I had never been able to get to any of them so I was delighted to finally get a chance to meet her and to take one of her classes!!

Sue Tucker the awesome organiser for Art Workshops had arranged a new venue for us at the end of last year and I was looking forward to seeing it.

It is an amazing space to create in, very light and airy and windows all around with the view of the river!!! fab location!!

Tracy got us going by starting the background on our boards.

While we were waiting to paint to dry Tracy had us trying our hand at using our paints to create little watercolour pictures!!! Here is my little play - so fun to do!!

After lunch we got stuck straight back into our projects!

Here is my final piece.  I still want to do loads of doodling on it but I love the way its coming along. 

 I even managed to paint in a little dog! Sort off lol!! 

Thanks so much Tracy for an amazing class!! I can't wait to see what you will have for us the next time you decide to venture to our side of the border!!!  

I hope its soon hun!

Thanks Sue and the A team for your high quality organisation skills!!!

Thanks Lady's for a lovely chilled out day!!!

Happy creating everyone!!

xxxx hugs xxxx

Mini ATC Book - Sandra Botham

Hi Everyone I hope you are having a great week.  

Last month, a week after we got back from our hols, I jumped straight back into doing my workshops at AFTH. My creative year was started off wonderfully by being taught by the lovely Sandra Botham!! Go check out her blog HERE as she has today put on a great step by step showing you how to create a scrumptious Dylusion's tag!!!

the lovely book that I made and did actually add to it when I got home!!!

Sandra has our total attention...

Thanks ladies for starting my crafting off with such a fun day!!! 

Happy creating everyone!!

xxxx hugs xxxx

Regular Art Journaling with Kate Crane - January

Hi Folks just a quick post about the workshop I did with Kate Crane at AFTH the end of last month!!! 

As Kate quite rightly said this time of year can feel a bit dismal with the dark long dark nights and while waiting for spring, so she decided to get us in the mood by showing us how to create these wonderful, bright pages!!

They were great fun to do and it really did brighten up my weekend!
Thanks Kate as always for the instruction and inspiration.

Hope you all manage to add some colour to your life while waiting for spring!!

Have fun!

xxxxxx

Happy New Year!!

Hi Folks!

Belated Happy New Year to you all!!
I hope 2016 has been gentle to you so far!

I had a wonderful start to the year as we went away for the holiday of a life time for my 50th birthday!!  We went on a 2 week cruise round the Caribbean!!  It was totally amazing but coming back to British weather after being in 28+ degree heat was a bit of a shock to the system!!

Ok so holiday fun over, now Im trying to get my head back in the right place and get stuck back into the real world!! lol

I have quite a few plans which I hope implement this year and some of them do involve trying some new creative stuff so I'm really looking forward to that!!

I am going to try to be a bit better with my blogging as I realised the last time that I posted was in October!!! gulp! how does the time get away from you so quickly!!!

Through those last few months of 2015 I did a lot of fabulous workshops which I had planned to blog..... but as you can see that never quite happened! I am going to try in the next couple of weeks to do some quick snap shots of the workshops I did with some amazing tutors and then get back on track and keep you up to date with what I'm up to!!

Ok, take care everyone!!

xxx hugs xxx

Festival of thrift in Darlington

Hi Folks - hows the autumn treating you all?!

The weekend before last I had a run out to Darlington to the Festival of thrift.  This year was its 3rd year and I have to say it was amazing.  I only managed to get over on the Sunday and I had booked 4 1 hour workshops before hand.  Unfortunately as it was my first time there I hadn't realised that there would be so much going on!! So I didn't get to see much by the time that I did my workshops and grabbed a bit of lunch but I have put it in the diary for next year because I really want to do the 2 days next time.   There were so many stalls, activity's, entertainments and loads of workshops it had your head in a spin.  So if you get the chance to go next year guys, I can really recommend it - you will have an amazing time!!!!

Here are the 4 workshops I had a go at.  Check out the links to the wonderful folks facebook pages!!

Adult chocolate workshop with David and Wendy Sanderson of 'Truly Tempting Chocolate'

Needle felted animals with Geraldine of 'Bean Creative'

Collage tree with the artist Suzie Devey

drinks can jewellery with Kathryn guy 

I want to have a go at all of them again so now I just have to find a stall which sells begs of 'spare time' and 'energy' lol!!!

Have a great month everyone!!!!

hugs xxxxx

Whimsical Animals with Tracy Scott

Hi everyone!

I has a wonderful time on Sunday at a workshop taught by the wonderful Tracy Scott at AFTH,  I have been looking forward to doing this class ever since I saw the first animal that appeared in Tracy's journal!!!  I knew that I wanted some of these cute critters to appear in some of my work!!

So she got us started laying down some painty backgrounds and then we did a page of test animal sketches and then progressed to putting them into our journal.

This was the first one that appeared by the end of the morning session.

In the afternoon this little panda appeared on another page. 

 I didn't quite get it finished but came home and added the final touches.

I love them, and I have at least 2 on my sketch page which I want to add to my journal - so hopefully I will be able to blog them when they are done!!!

Now I just need the time to do them!!!

I hope all of you managed to find time this month to create something cute!!

Have a great month.

xxxxx HUGZ xxxxx

Preview day at AFTH - June

Hi everyone - I though I would do a quick post about the preview days at AFTH for those of you who have never been.

They are held every three months and they have samples of all the workshops that will be help for the next 3 months.  You get 10% discount for any classes that you book on the day and there are also 1 hour sample sessions so that you can get to meet the tutors and have a go at a small project.  These tasters are great fun and only cost £5 so are great value for money.

On the last preview day was in June and I did a taster session with the lovely Sandra Botham and we made these fab book mark!!!

Front

Back!

The next preview day is on the 3rd of October so if you fancy taking a run along and looking at the workshops and trying your hand at a taster I would strongly recommend it!!!

Oh there is also always coffee, tea and cakes to be had!!! Lol

Hope to see some of you there!! 

xxx hugz xxx