Workshop Photos - Saturday 29th March 2014

Good Morning Friends,

Workshop Photos

A quick post today, just to show you some photos of the cards created by my group of crafters at this week's 'Out of the Blue' workshop...I'm still feeling so blessed by all your comments and wishes over the last few days, but not surprised as I already knew what  caring, understanding and lovely people you all are and I promise this is my last word on the subject X :)

These are their gorgeous creations:

Once again some lovely 'takes' on the original design.. four of the ladies were new or nearly new to our group as well!

Thank you so much for stopping by and following my blog...I have just realised that I have a new follower, so I would like to welcome Pumpy -http://pumpy-pumpys.blogspot.co.uk
Thank you very much for choosing to follow my blog!

I'l be back tomorrow with my Mother's Day card for Tom's mum,

Love and Hugs,

Carole Z X

Workshop Photos - Friday 21st June

Good Morning Friends!

Aaah it's Friday and no work for me today..except (hopefully) in the craft room that is! First of all I'd like to say a big welcome to my new follower Hazel. Thank you so much for deciding to join me - I hope you like what you see!

This week, I had another new follow, Sharon -who is one of my group at our workshops. Sharon makes fabulous cards and she has just started her own blog, so please do take a look because I have seen the cards she makes and they are gorgeous! Sharon does 'blame' me for starting a blog...but I know she will soon be addicted!
 Her blog address is http://saffroncraftycreations.blogspot.co.uk

No card from me today, but last night we had the second of our "Out of the Blue' workshops using the Crafty Individuals Bathing Belle stamp (as used on my box yesterday)..so same stamp, same card, another group of crafters giving it their own individual touch. Last night we had some new ladies who had first joined us at the Festival workshop last week and our lovely regular crafters too!

These are their creations:

I'll be back tomorrow...Happy Friday everyone! Hope it's a crafty one!!

Love and Hugs,
Carole X

Workshop photos -Saturday 15th June

Good morning Friends,

Our Beatlemania inspired card-making workshop yesterday went really well and along with some of our lovely regular crafters, we welcomed some new ladies to the class ...a short post today, I have to go and help with a volunteer event down at the library this morning, but am hoping to get away in time for Tom & I to dash up to Chipping Sodbury for the carnival procession this afternoon!

Here are the photos from yesterday's workshop...as always I loved the way each one per her own ideas to the card...all such super cards. It wasn't an 'easy' card, there was quite a bit of stamping, embossing plus some die cutting and two of the ladies on my group were new to crafting and hadn't heat embossed before or done much stamping, but they all did a fabulous job! Like-wise with the new crafters on Amy's group.

 These are the  fab cards made by my group:

 I loved how Leanne (above) turned the topper on her card around into a diamond..

That's all for today friends, I seem to have a head filled with designs inspired by song lyrics now...so  may make it a regular feature for one post a month, who knows!

Please see yesterday's post for deets for this card!

Have a great Saturday Friends and thank you so much for stopping by!

Love and Hugs,

Carole X

Love is All You Need -Friday 14th June

Hello Friends

Well here we are on the last day of  Beatlemania week - I hope I'm forgiven for repeating a song title, but this card was made weeks ago and I just HAD to do the pet cards with words from the same song yesterday...hmm there's a song there!

I've loved reading your comments about the Beatles and memories and that seeing the lyrics has made the song repeat in your head all day..me too! Yesterday I couldn't stop humming "all you need is love..." !!!

This afternoon Amy and I have a special workshop and as the theme of the Festival is  The Beatles, we wanted to do something inspired by them, but whilst during Saturday last week the ideas for these cards popped into my head, they were easy cards and we do had to come up with cards that are more group and workshop 'friendly'...

It was when we were at the Craft and Hobby Retail Show at the NEC back in February, chatting to the lovely people at the Crafty Individuals stand and loving all the examples, that Amy spotted the wording on this stamp and I think we decided there and then that we were going to build our class project around it!

I can't tell you how many designs I played with before deciding I liked this one and this is what we decided to go with. Amy was keen that we make a mono card because that is the colour theme of her Beatlemania window display (I saw it Monday evening and it really looks FAB).

To make this Easel Card, I stamped the little stamp many times over 6x6 sized white card and heat embossed.

I matted and layered on black and white, finishing with a white layer, which was cut from the base that I'd embossed with the Lattice Hearts folder.

For the flower I again stamped the wording on thin white card, both sides and then die cut using the Tim Holz Tattered Florals die, finish off with  a button and ribbon.

For the stopper I matted and layered, finishing with the stamped wording that I heat 

embossed with white embossing powder.

I finished off by adding black and white ribbon and two little die cut hearts from Spellbinders Classic Hearts set, the very smallest dies in the set!

Well I hope you've enjoyed my themed week, I know I have - I'll have to do it again some time using songs made famous by another group or singer - any suggestions welcome!

Thanks so much for stopping by and remember - Love is All You Need!

Love and Hugs,

Carole X

Craft Workshop Photos - Friday 10th May

Good Morning Friends!

Another quick post today as I am taking a day off from my craft room to meet a friend in Bath for a mooch around the shops and lunch..the wind is howling outside and it's become a bit of a joke between us, because we hardly ever get to just meet and mooch  and when we do, the weather has been appalling! Oh well never mind, it's been ages since I last saw her so it will be great to catch up.

Last night was another of our 'Out of the Blue' craft group workshops and following on from last time, when we made a card using stamps, gilding flakes and flitterglu, this time we used gilding flakes with double-sided tape. For my group I made a card in black and another in burgundy and let my ladies choose their colour theme, so we had a lovely mixture of cards. I already posted my black and white card last week, but I'll post my burgundy one separately in a few days time.

My camera battery packed up on me last night..I knew it was going but the last time I attempted a 'tidy' of my craft room, for some reason I moved the spare and charger to somewhere that I thought was a better place, well it was certainly a good hiding place, because could I find it before going out last night? NO!!

So not so many photos as usual, but these are the ones I managed to take before the power went..aren't they lovely?

Thanks for stopping by, I have been so busy at home and work again that if I haven't visited your blog lately, many apologies..I will be having a catch up later tonight!

Love and hugs,

Carole X

Workshop Photos - Friday 15th March

Morning Friends!

After quite a 'mad' few weeks of workshops, last night's was the last one for a few weeks - time to take a bit of a breather, have a 'play' work on commissions and prepare for our next one on 4th April!

We were so busy last night that I only managed to grab some shots of the beautiful cards my group had made right at the end..and they are all fabulous and everyone of them took the basic design and created their own card, so they are all different. I love it that they are all so creative...so if amy of you read this ladies...you rock!

It's my birthday Tuesday, which is a work day, so I'm having a pre-birthday weekend! Tom has the day off and after a visit to the hairdresser for me, we are heading to Bristol to try out the newly opened River Cottage Canteen; tomorrow I'm hoping to at least start making a project for a cotton bag from a recent Craft Stamper Magazine and Sunday, weather permitting we are off to Adam Henson's farm for a lovely wander around the rare breeds and to see the little lambs. This has become an annual birthday trip for me and the last two years the weather has been perfect, but I don't think that's going to be the case this year :(

Have a great Friday all, will be back tomorrow!

Love, Carole X

Workshop Photos - Wednesday 6th March

Good Morning Friends,

First of all a big welcome to my new followers and thank you for choosing to join me! I will be checking in on your blogs (if you have them) as soon as possible - but I also need to say to all my lovely and talented friends...sorry if I haven't managed to drop in and visit you these last few days, but as you know I have hit a very busy crafting period! 

The good news is that my crafting has been quite 'prolific' so I will have quite a few projects to share over the next few weeks...it's been one of those crazy times where everything happens in the space of a week! My friend Amy and I have another of our regular workshops on Thursday, followed by another next week and I have a craft fair on Saturday!

Yesterday I took the day off work, not only because I had a lot of prepping still to do for the Fair, but also because Amy and I put on a one off workshop at the request of  a local craft group...and what a lovely group of ladies they were! The workshop had been planned for ages and had to be postponed from February when it snowed...so it had to be this week to fit in with everyone...trouble was for me, it all came at once!!!

We took along a project from one of the workshops we put on for our own classes last year, there were 12 in the group and here are some photos...

That's all for the moment, I will pop back later with a quick WOYWW post!

Love,

Carole X

Workshop Photos - Friday 22nd February

Good Morning Friends!

Just a quick post today as I want to get lots of crafting in...I'm so behind with cards I need to make!

We had another super workshop last night - 18 people is our biggest class so far and Amy and I have agreed that it is just too many, so 16 booked in for the next few and then back down to 14. Not only were we both worn out but we felt that it was harder to devote enough time to the lovely ladies who come along.

Last night we had a Mother's Day themed evening (although the finished card could be any occasion). I will share my card tomorrow, but here are some photos from last night...

Be back tomorrow!

Hugs, Carole X

Workshop photos - Friday 14th September

Hello again blog Friends!


Yes, I'm back for a second time today, with photos from last night's Out of the Blue workshop...

This time we set two Christmas projects for our groups, a card and tag that, whilst we used dies last night, can be easily replicated using any embellishments, templates or stamps.

Both groups made cards from the same designs. These were the projects for my group:

A DL Christmas card, using a simple layout sketch, a tag made from using a luggage label as a template with cream card, which was shaded at the edges with Worn Lipstick distress ink, the Spellbinders Poinsettia die, some Cosmic Shimmer PVA (Olympic Gold) for the centre, a stamped sentiment and decorative edge using a Martha Stewart punch.

We also made a tag using the 2010 Spellbinders Globe ornament and again the poinsettia die. In case anyone really didn't want to make any more 'Christmas', I also gave the option of the heart tag, using Spellbinders Classic Hearts and one of my group decided to make this instead.

 Below are photos of some of our group of crafters with there completed projects...hope you all had a good time again ladies!

Carole X