Hi
there, ready to continue our catch up journey? I told you my little life had
been a little busy in my recent absence from here ;) Never fear though we are
now three quarters of the way into September!
In
the midst of the Craft Artist 2 mega launch on Create and Craft I toddled off
to Swindon to teach at the Paperarts on tour retreat
and I have to tell you I
had the best time! I only wish that I hadn’t had to leave after my second class
on the Saturday to get back to Peterborough. I could have quite happily stayed
for the rest of the weekend and scrapped to my heart’s content! The delegates
were fab, people I’ve known for a while and new friends made. The teachers were
great too and I was honoured to be alongside such talent as well as getting to
meet some in real life that I have been friends with online for a while. Sue
and Rachel did a fantastic job with it all too, the hotel was lovely, the food
great, the classrooms spacious, the crop room huge and open for as long as
people used it not to mention the shop full of too many goodies for one
scrapbooker deprived of being in a real life shop for too long! And not only
that they are lovely people with such an attention to detail to make it a
perfect weekend. I know I may be gushing a bit but trust me it was great and it
had such a happy atmosphere. I know they’re planning next year’s already so
maybe you should jump on the bus!!
These
are the classes I taught
Not
my usual colour scheme but I asked Sue to put kits together for me, I don’t
like that bit and I like a challenge too, it makes me think outside the box and I'm really pleased with the result
The
kit included viva decor inka gold paste, if you haven’t played with it yet give
it a go, something completely different! On the layout we used it on the
chipboard shapes once we had papier mached them with loo roll (classy me ;)) to
create an almost metallic look.
The second class was this one
A
snapshot of happiness
Remember
that book page I posted back in August? Can you spot it?
We
had lots of stencil and stamp paint for this layout which we stencilled with,
smeared, stamped with cups and splattered, a good messy time was had by all ;)
Now I did take my camera with me but as ever useless me forgot all about taking pics until right at the end of the last class ....I know what kind of scrapbooker am I? So all I have is this one photo of the last men standing in class (well Katy Fox and Penny alongside some other lovelies LOL)
So if you were there and you are reading this thanks for a great weekend, I had a blast!
That’s it for this post, one more catch up to get us to the end of September so until then as ever I hope you’re well and happy, thanks for stopping by and until next time
Happy
Crafting
Love
MJM x
