Do you believe in Angels?

Can you hear me singing Robbie William's song? You really don't want to, I am all out of key and flat as a pancake, but it is a very appropriate song for this card which is for the Something hidden challenge over on The Artistic Stamper's Creative Team blog. It is one of the cards that I made for Saturday's Christmas Cards with a Twist workshop, and we had such a great time, and some wonderful cards were created by the girls. Thank you for giving me pleasure teaching you all.



Here is a sneaky peek of the card which you can find over on the Creative Team blog, and instructions on how to make it.

Have a very Creative day

Hugs

Jingle bells.. jingle bells..

I have been busy making Christmas cards for my workshop today, and all the while I have been singing in my head Christmas songs! Santa baby is a frequent one! I love Christmas and the build up to it, and this year is no exception. I just wish that the days weren't so dark so early, and that the sun shone a bit more, but in Santa's words..hey ho!!
My ladies are in for a treat today, and if you are reading this early and want to come along, there are a couple of places left. Just come to Pickleberry Papercrafts near Faversham for 10am.
I always play with all mediums when creating for a workshop, and this one has Ten Seconds Studio metal  in pink and coloured with some Viva Decor paints for a base, some of Tim's Alterations , and an on the Edge die. The stamp used is from Tim's Holiday Wishes set.

If you would like a treat we have 15% off all orders on the website this weekend in honour of Guy Fawkes, you know the man who started fireworks, and bonfires! lol
I am off to get myself dolled up to meet my public.. that is getting on my old jeans, an old shirt and my apron, so I don't get messy!! you didn't expect me to come in my party dress, did you? rofl.
Have a very Creative and Christmassy day... she says singing Santa baby to herself!



The Play Date Cafe Challenge PDCC54

I was very honoured to be asked to sponsor this week's Play Date Cafe, and to join in too! The brief was to use colours stucco orange, celery and white



 I chose to use those colours ( well almost) on a mirror. I painted the mirror in Orange paint from the Studio range and mica sprayed it too to added a bit of glitter! The Tick Tock flowers and a butterfly were made from Basic Grey Papers that I have in my stash. I used some of the Steampunk stamps I stamped the white flowers in Studio paint gesso which if applied thick to the stamps makes a great dimensional image. Don't forget to wash your stamp thoroughly and quickly after using it to prevent the paint hardening and ruining it.

For more gorgeous artwork hop over the net to the cafe, and check it out! I would love to see what everyone creates and a very big thank you to Julie and Lisa for letting me play along. It has been a great pleasure.

 

woyww..has the tidy fairy been?

Welcome to What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday chez Jennie. This week the push it back pile it high , make enough space to prepare a workshop fairy has been! I really haven't had time to completely tidy up the mess that is my workspace but, kind of put it all in box and made enough space to work! On the desk is one of the cards for Saturday's workshop, and in truth I have reverted to my other space to work on!



 Hoping to get time to pop by your mess, sorry tidiness to see you, and if you have ever wonderd what Wednesday  are about pop over to Julia's for a look see!
Have a very Happy WoyWW!
 

A grungy time was had by all

Last Saturday I taught a class using grungepaper at Sharon's Card Crafts, and although we were a very small class.. just Kathy, Kay, Eileen and Diane, we had fun as usual, and wow! did the girls make the most brilliant pieces! Sadly there were no broken wires or exciting tales to tell you, but just a lot of mess and die cutting and metal mania!



I am teaching this weekend at Pickleberry Papercrafts near Faversham, and we are making Christmas cards with a Twist, and if you know me,not one of the cards will be normal!! There are a couple of spaces left so if you fancy a fun day call Kate at the shop, or book online.
Have a very creative Tuesday
Hugs

Winner of the Warrior Women blog hop



We had such a great response to Linda's blog hop for Sherry Goodloe's fight for cancer, and today is the day I announce the winner of my candy! I used random.org and

Sandi M ..

you are the winner! yea. Please email me so you can choose your prize :))
I absolutely loved all the entries for the blog challenge, and you can see them here and Sherry has announced the winner here!
We will be back next year championing those who fight the fight!
Hugs

Love at First Fright.!

Happy Halloween to you ! I had high hopes of doing a very spooky piece for you for today, but ended up with my two skeletons having a hug with a spider!! Now is she in love with the spider or her mate? lol The little charm on the tag made with Mr Holtz's embossing folder is from the girls paperie, and these are the heaviest charms I have seen in a long time.

I am having a day with DD today , so am off shopping and then dinner, and lots of spooky fun later in the dark! 

Today is also the last day for the Warrior Woman's blog challenge, and for my blog candy, I will be picking the winner later today, and posting it tomorrow :))

Happy spookiness to you

Totally wireless, and two great workshops!

I promised I would tell and show you last weekend when I taught 2 classes at It's Crafting Time near Cambridge. I taught my utee ring book on Saturday and a mixed Media class on Sunday, and it was great fun, interspersed with gorgeous cakes and giggles, and fabulous creations!

 Two of the gorgeous books created

 workshop Saturday

 Workshop Sunday

 Nina was the hostess with the mostest and invited me to stay in her lovely home. We went on a trip up the river Cam in a punt on Saturday night which was great with ghostly tales told by the man with the pole! lol



Ghostly punting

and for those of you who are wondering about the missing wire... here is the story... get up at 5am on Saturday..coffee, bath, do hair, dress, get in car , drive to Cambridge , with stop on way for Starbucks Frappucino ( just loving I can get these on the motorways now!!). Arrive at shop, set up, start to teach workshop. Nothing new in that.. normal..until ( now this is for those who wear bras ( I am certainly not a 60's girl burn your bra etc!) .. I feel that uncomfortable, think I might have a wire coming out of my bra, feeling under my arm. I am teaching here, so do I excuse myself and go and fix it, or do I carry on? I go fix it, and it isn't fixable, so out it comes! The rest of day is brilliant, and we go punting, and out to dinner, and fall into bed , sleeping instantly! do you have any idea where this is going.. no me neither, but in the morning I asked Nina for some sewing kit so I could mend my bra so at least I didn't look too bad for the next class! I couldn't get the wire back into the bra, so Nina did it for me. Looked brilliant , until I said isn't it in the wrong side? at which point I realised I didn't have one on the other side either! Now, what I really need to know is how come I didn't notice that I was missing the other wire???? I mean how can you not know???  I went totally wireless for the entire weekend!! lol  I know I am wafty at the best of times, but I now know that I have completely lost the plot, so if you are coming to one of my workshops, you can tell me with pleasure that I am completely nuts!! So do you go wired or wireless? lol
Thank you to everyone who came to the workshops, it was a pleasure to teach you , and to Nina who was a brilliant hostess., and if you would like to meet the complete wireless body, I am doing more workshops this weekend at Sharon's Card Crafts, and I will be back in Cambridge on the 14th November for a Christmas Curio box workshop.
Hugs,

Christmas is coming....

I have heard on the grapevine that there are only 57 days left till Christmas! eeek.. have you made your cards, bought your presents... well if you haven't even started then you might like these... Tim Holtz's Alterations dies and embossing folders which have almost all arrived, and are now available to buy.
I haven't decided which is my favourite yet, but love the reindeer and the carved ornaments too!

I promise I will be back tomorrow with the workshop I have been promising since the beginning of the week!
Have a great evening

woyww...missing in action

Welcome to my What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday! I certainly have been missing in action for the past week! In fact it seems like I haven't seen this page ( you know the one where you write blog posts for a while) but I have an excuse! I have been busy working away at workshops ( more of those tomorrow) and busy doing the business of running a business! lol
I did however manage to snap a picture of my desk, which has been like this since the week before last! No artwork done, no woyww last week due to a power outage :( Has my mojo gone missing ?  No, I don't think but the time has, and certainly the tidy fairy hasn't been!! Note the gothic arch ready to do a piece with, and that was yesterday morning.. not even got inked! so sad :(



I will be back tomorrow with pictures of the workshops and of my spooky ride in a punt up the river Cam.
Hope to get round to some of your desks later :)))
Happy Woywwing!

A blatant advertisement!

It isn't often that I use the blog to advertise, but this week, has been one of busyness (lots of orders to fill, and prepping for workshops) , and of putting new products on the website! and if truth be told, I haven't had a minute to create anything!!! what has happened to the week??? I hate this weekend as the clocks go back, (ok I get an extra hour in bed), but it will be dark at 4pm!!! yuck! Anyway back to the matter in hand.. Wendy Vecchi and Claudine Hellmuth have arrived!!



They are staying with me for the forseeable future!!! (I wish!) but you can now get their stamps at The Artistic Stamper, and we have a wonderful price on some of the spooky Halloween dies and stamps from Mr Holtz too! Imagine all three of them in the same room, what fun that would be!!

I am just off , well in an hour or so.. to Shepreth nr Cambridge to teach classes all weekend at It's Crafting Time, so must get a move on, and pack my bag.. always leaving things to the last minute!! lol
See you on Monday with lots of photos.

Stop Press! now in stock Tim's Configurations!

I have just had ( literally ) a delivery of Tim's new Configurations, and stickers and the Christmas Paper pad..and the trimmings.... all just gorgeous and all available to ship today!

Now just to open one up , and get creating!
Have a fun day!



Blackout!

Yesterday I woke up to complete darkness..  No lights, no heating , no hot water, no telephone and worse of all no Internet or computer for me to post my woyww !! how could this happen???? lol .. We had a blackout or power outage , as they say in the USA for over 13 hours, and boy it was weird! Not sure I would want to endure that for too long, as I remember the brown outs in the 70's!! yes I am that old... what do you mean you thought I was only 21? rofl
It did mean that all my Internet orders went unattended yesterday, and we cooked toast over the gas flame for breakfast and boiled water in a saucepan.. thank goodness we have a gas hob!
I am absolutely a 21st century girl!
I know you are immediately, but you could have crafted, and yes I did, but I worked my journal for a while in the morning, and came up with this using my new Aquamarkers that I acquired a while ago , and the lightbulb stamps, and some Maya Road chipboard.

Journals are brilliant, as they allow you to make mistakes, and write down your inner thoughts , if you want to. Mine is slow going, and I always forget to take it with me on my travels!
The electrics are back on now, and I think we were quite lucky as apparently there was gas leak near an electric box, so they switched it off so we didn't go sky high!
I am not sure if I have introduced you to the latest member of our Creative Team, but you have to go and take a look at Sioux's gorgeous ATC on the Creative Team blog. It is stunning!



On that note I am off to pack up my orders, and prepare for my workshop weekend at It's Crafting Time near Cambridge... along with teaching I am doing a spooky punt up the river too! hope to get photos and show you next week!
Have a Creative day
Hugs

Double, double toil and trouble...

I have an affinity with witches partly because I often believe I am one.... lol you can believe that or not, but also because I love the idea of being so troublesome..hehe. Halloween is not celebrated as much here as in the USA, and often the stamps and dies that appear here are not nearly so widely used as in the USA, but I am loving all of the new Sizzix Alterations ones by Tim, and I have used them to make a card over on The Creative Team blog. If you click here , you will be transported in the eye of newt, and toe of frog to see what I have done :)))



Happy Creating!

Christmas comes early!

Yesterday at Pickleberry Papercrafts, I taught a class that was just so much fun, and mess, and full of lots of goodies. In my normal fashion, I had the most inordinate time remembering names, ( and there were only 7 ladies!! doh what am I like?) I had the pleasure of meeting Doone (Donna) , Carmen ( Miranda! lol), Lizzie, Barbara, Rosemary ,Megan, and Ann. I have actually remembered your names , girls! Hurrah!

We made a curio Christmas box full of goodies I have collected for the past few months, and we played with paint, mica sprays, Terra, UTEE, Tim's Rosette die ( thank you to Wendy Vecchi for the Christmas Tree :)), mini books, stamps and of course Crackers! Where would a workshop be without crackers?  Actually the Cracker part of it was for the final little box . ( it is empty on my sample) , and  I didn't get a picture of the final pieces as we ran late , as always!



Thank you Girls for a brilliant and busy day.

I do workshops every month at Pickleberry if you would like to come along. The next one is Christmas cards with a twist! You can book it here .

I am off to have a lie down, and a lazy day!

Have a great and Creative Sunday.