The Artistic Stamper: January 2014

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

An inspiring Workshop

Last Saturday I taught a workshop at The Artistic Stamper, which had been planned for ages, but actually took inspiration from one of the classes I did at CHA, with Seth Apter , whose work is inspiring, and is such a lovely person too! Check him out here.
It involved loads of paint and different techniques, including a take on an Andy Skinner technique and I actually did 3 canvases,

one in Seth's class at CHA,

one as a sample,

and the one that evolved throughout the class...

it was a fun day and definitely going to be worth repeating!
Check out these gorgeous creations from the class too!

Hope you like...
Have a creative day
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Monday, January 20, 2014

CHA Inspiration

This is part 2 of my CHA Inspiration blog post. I just had to show you some of the creativeness that I cam e across at CHA this year... some of it just lovely :) My mind is buzzing with ideas :)

Idea-ology

Graphic 45

Idea-ology

Loving these new stencils by Crafter's Workshop

Spellbinders

Prima

Idea-ology

Fabulous Knitted Tower of Pisa!

Spellbinders ( I think!)

Back tomorrow with the last of my photos :)
Have a creative day
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Friday, January 17, 2014

CHA 2014

I have definitely been awol from this dear blog :( but I have an excuse! I have been away hobnobbing with the stars in Los Angeles! It was definitely a case of do I, don't I go, last week, and finally at the last minute, DH decided I should go, and one packed, almost empty suitcase ( with space for bringing back all those goodies!!) , and a pair of sunglasses later , I was on a plane to Anaheim, to spend time with the stars! LOL I got back Wednesday and today is Friday, jet lag is almost non existent (I am lucky I don't really suffer from it), and it's back to work!
I had such a brilliant time, and met lots of new crafting folk, caught up with old friends, and saw masses of new goodies for you!
I did 9 workshops, all of them fabulous , and all of them different. The Ranger one with Tim Holtz used the new mini distress inks and tool, and we even got to try the new Distress Marker Spritzer! I took classes with Joanne Sharpe learning how to do my own lettering, a fabulous canvas class with Seth Apter, ( some of which I will be teaching next weekend). I also did a class with Candy Rosenberg, using Graphic 45 papers, and Printers Tray! One of my favourite classes was, of course, Graphc 45, and we made a gorgeous Book Box, which will be available as a workshop very soon :)
No CHA would be complete without photos, and my camera skills do need to be honed, but here are the first of my pictures, with more to come in the next couple of days! Here are a few of my favourite people...

Enjoy!