A Birthday Treat at Ally Pally

Hello everyone and thanks for stopping by.
Today I was able to go to the craft show in London at Ally pally for my birthday treat.
London is my favourite city and I just love visiting this place.

I had a really good time at the show and able to catch up with some good friends.
Also there were some good purchases to be made.
I will post pics later in the week of my new stash which I bought.

Tommorrow is also a celebratory day for me and my husband as we celebrate our 24th wedding Anniversary !

Hope you have all had a good weekend and see you soon

catherine

Box of Ruination...

Hello again everyone and here as promised the finished box I have been working on lately.

You will remember in my last post that I had left it at the embellishing stage and last night I knew exactly how I wanted to finish it of.

The lid reminded me of so much patina metal and cast iron that I knew the idea of a cast iron garden would just suit it so well but I didn't want to cover the whole box entirely so decided to just concentrate on one side and allow the corroded effect to still be visible.

Lots of die cut flowers and leaves and here it is.

I am so pleased with what I have achieved and I just love the look of it. Well worth the workshop techniques from Andy Skinners online course.

Thanks for stopping by and see you soon

catherine

The last couple of weeks....

Hello everyone ,

This weekend I was lucky to have a workshop with the the very talented Seth Apter whose workshop was all about layers.

We covered lots of different techniques in the journal pages and then finally we all worked on our journal covers using any and all of the techniques we had been taught.

There are so many layers on here that I will say the first layer was red.

The first picture shows the cover when I thought I had finished but then I thought there was something else I could add-TEXTURE

Hence the second pic shows the cover finished and I love the textural element and how all those layers show through.

Also I have been working on an online workshop with Andy Skinner and this is the project to date- I am working on a box and this is the lid:

Again another very textural piece and loving those blends in these colours. Progress will follow as I continue to work on this.

Thank you for stopping by today and see you soon

catherine

London

Hello everyone.

I have recently been on my holidays and spent a week in London.

I am now trying to organise all my photos and scrapbook them together.

This is a layout I made today using the Papermania paper collection Portobello Road which I think work so well for this page.

I just love the road sign stamps from Paperartsy and have arranged them around the photo which look like a clock face.

The current sketch from this weeks Sketch Saturday challenge gave me the inspiration for the layout to this page:

I am joining in with challenges:

Sketch Saturday challenge #428-sketch

Alphabet challenge - N for Numbers

The Crafters Cafe challenge #156- use two patterned papers

The ABC challenge - O is for open

Crafty Creations challenge#323-use a number

Thank you for stopping by today and see you again soon

catherine