Oooh lucky me!

At the weekend I did a Sheena Douglas workshop on the Sunday and I caught up with my friend She. At the end of last year I joined in her Grungebook swap, there was 12 people who joined in and we all had to choose a theme for a page and at the end the theme that you pick is the grungebook you receive back, my theme was Magical & Mystical - thank you ladies for my lovely pages I can't stop looking at them :0)

She you've done a fantastic job on the covers x

Front cover by She

She's page

Gez's page 

she's page 

Lindsay's page

Joanne's page

Mine 

Hilda's page

Cheryl's page 

Sonja's page

Zoe's page

Karen's page

Back page

back cover
Once again thank you all so so much I love it x

This is what we created at Sheena's workshop it's the first time I have tried  paint fusion  and I really enjoyed it, my Mum  already has the dvd and has done several pieces, she even did the leaves free hand! 

In the morning we did a bit of water colouring with one of Sheena's stamp  I'm quite pleased with it  my house is a little bit too pink and I need to add the daisies to the bottom of the card and then it's done. The day was filled with laughter and giggles and I wish I had my camera at one point, I looked over at she who was concentrating very hard I must say, so hard she had her tongue stuck out it would ov been a cracking photo! hehe

and as promised here is the wedding invite that I made for Paul & Jenny's wedding I used Lindsay Mason blossom stamp on the edges of the paper and stamped the inserts to match.  

Hope you've liked what you have seen, thanks for looking :)
Take care
El x

Wedding Bells

Hellooo

Hope everyone is well, thought I would share with you what I had been up to this weekend, not a bit of crafting in sight!. Gareth's cousin got married, I was a bridesmaid and Gareth was the best man. I did make the wedding invites for them, which I did enjoy doing after I had sorted out the double sided tape issue, should of bought more rolls of the red tape you can't go wrong with that! stick with what you know ;) lol!
The stamp I used was one of Lindsey Mason's stamps, unfortunately I don't have my invite at the moment as somebody is borrowing it and I didn't take a photo of the invite doh! but when I get it back I will post it on here.
So here are a few pictures of the day, shame the weather was a bit nippy, wet and windy but we all had a fantastic time and wish them all the happiness in the world.

Here we are doing our poses!

my lovely flowers, aren't they gorgeous?!

Me & Gareth 

from the left - Lisa, Becky, Jenny, me and Katie 

Paul & Jenny- don't they look lovely!

The wedding cake- the 2 dogs are off  Patch(Dalmatian) & Phoebe(lecher), Paul & Jenny's babies.

Well as you all know now Dawn has left QVC,  so I just like to say thanks to her & Jane for letting me play..oops I meant working on some of the kits for QVC, think the ranger hour I did was the best even though it was a manic 24 hours! but I got to play with all the Tim Holtz stamps and inks etc that was on the show, shame I couldn't keep them :(
 I never thought in my dreams I would ever had any work on telly, including my scrapbook pages which I know Jane loves lol! ;) My doggies and others had there few moments of fame including my Niece, Lucy which I know she loved.

Things I've made at Lindsay's workshop

Hellooo there!

Hope you all had a wonderful Bank Holiday weekend, I spent Sunday on a workshop with Lindsay Mason at Dawn Bibby Design Studios making cards, couldn't be happier! The day was filled with fun and laughter with Shelia, Lindsay, David, Jolene and my Mum of course and everybody else who was there but I don't know your names :)) 

In the morning we used Lindsay lovely new stamps

 Have to say My Mum made the yellow flower in this one, but i did do some cutting out for her too;0)

 On this one below I tried shadow stamping which can make your eyes a bit funny,as Shelia found out but i think it's effective.

 In the afternoon it was a steampunk theme, which I have to say it's not everyone cup of tea, including my mum's, "it's a bit too way out for her", as she says. I've only just started steampunk but I find you can do what you want and it works, it can be as way out as you want! 

A few weeks ago I was on another class of Lindsay's, do you get the feeling I like Lindsay's work!?!
We made a grungebook the cover and the sown in the pages (think this is my best sowing as well!) Really enjoyed making this, you can put whatever you want inside, so hopefully one day I will ;0)

              We added Tim Holtz charms onto the spine, it give a little jingle every time you pick it up hehe!

                                               Hope you like what you've seen,
                                                              Take care
                                                                   Elx

sneeky peek at Shelia's grungebook swap!

Hellloooo

Sorry it's been a wee while, but I've been a bit busy so I thought I would put some cheeky photo's on of grungebook swap that I'm doing With Shelia & co, so here you go :))

Here are the dylusion ink spray which I love playing with and have used then to create the colours on the pages with :)

Hope you liked the sneeky peeks ;)

take care Elx

In Stitches with Amy!

Hi there
Oooooh I can't believe it, I had a surprised phone call from Reena at Topaz last week asking me if I would like to go to the Stitches show at the NEC, well after one second of thought yes was the answer! my bags were packed even before I put the phone down LOL:)))
I travelled down with Amy (Shaw) and I had my first Starbucks with her, she couldn't believe it that I had never had one! On the Saturday we had a Ranger workshop booked, we made 3 canvas's - couldn't believe how well organised it was. I sat with Amy, Lindsay & Dot who was a lovely lady and funny too. The first canvas was Tim's, I still keep on admiring it- looks fab! the second one was by a Lady called Dyan Reevely and wow I do like her style very different indeed, I've started to follow her blog mmm think a trip to Harrogate is needed! and last but not least a Claudine Hellmine style by Tim, Claudine was unable to come but Tim did his best to keep it to her style not one bit ov grunge insight he did very well!
I managed to get a picture took with him and asked him to sign my canvas, it's very hard to get near him as everybody else was! then when I was able to speak to him I froze don't know why, but he probably thought who is this strange woman! lindsay did tell him I had made one of the configuration boxes for QVC it had a few bits of his range in but I tried to show that you can but anything in it- I don't think that he was convinced as it was a Tim Holtz show!
In the evening we met up with the owners of stix 2 Bryan & Ruth and their sales team. They are such lovely people and the stories they were telling they had me & Amy in stitches! Dawn had said to me that Bryan was the Vinnie Jones of the crafting world and he drinks pink champagne! they made me feel very welcome condsidering they didn't know me from Adam, thanks for looking after us.
On Sunday we spent the day walking around all the stands at the NEC,  I've got to see loads of new techniques and products that are out there. We met up with Lindsey and saw her fabulous stand, the ATC's looked fab! I've managed to take a few photos to show you :0)

Me & Sir Tim!



Mario & Dot



Amy at PI stand



Lindsey hard at work as usual lol!



Dyan Reaveley & she does have inky fingers!

One of Dyan's journaling pages

Tim's configuration box - loved this

Tim's canvas that we made at the workshop

Claudine stlyle canvas by Tim - needs a bit of something else to it and the wired smoke is missing!

Dyan's canvas - Quirky!

My baby girl Stella in her upside down world :)))

 Well that's it for now hope you are all well, take care Elx