Mixed Media Loft Art Retreat..

Hey,

So I had a super fun weekend, as JT was here for the weekend and we went to Providence to Jenn's last loft art retreat - she is moving, so I believe there will be Art Retreats, but no more Loft.

We had so much fun and it was great to spend QT together that is not work related :) We managed to lose JT's phone on the way to Providence, but all credit to JT, she just waved it off and got on with the weekend. Bill the super helpful Amtrak guy helped to make it all feel a bit better too, so a big shout out to Bill where ever you are, you are the hero of the weekend.

The collage, shows us getting inky, Mister Harley, our tags mid way through and some of the food that we ate - we ate and drank a lot, none of it was good for us and I am having to eat a LOT of vegetables to balance out the badness of the 3 days.

It was great to do the mixed media loft art retreat together because we were both a teeny bit out of our comfort zone and it was good to have my all time fave craft person with me, JT knows me so well, she just laughs when I get all weird...

JT used stencils for the first time ever and I managed not to freak out too much about my fingers being so dirty / inky..it was hard, but my new Ranger craft scrubby is going to help me deal with this moving forward.

It was a lot of fun, our table was a hoot. We learnt so many new techniques, which I'll be showing over the next couple of weeks, as I had a post class play at my desk on Monday - seeing if I had retained all that we learnt.

My fave new technique is the one where you create a blended distress ink panel, spritz a stamp with water and lay the tag onto it. It reacts and kind of bleaches it, like this -

I put my canvas together on Monday, because I didn't want it to get damaged on the train and I love how it looks -

I can't wait to hang it and visit JT and see her's hanging up too.

JT and I were lucky enough to win prizes in the raffle - I am very pleased with mine -

Fun times.

I just want to say to JT - thank you for coming all that way, you made me so very happy, hanging with you is always awesome and playdates are the most fun, especially when they involve Fried Pickles and Flower Monkey Sliders...

Love you man.

Cx

It's playdate time...

Hey,

Happy Friday.

I am super happy.

A) JT arrives today
B) We are off to Providence to do the Mixed Media Loft Art Retreat, hosted and taught by the wonderful Jenn Shurkus.
C) I have 2 days off
D) JT arrives today

I wanted to show you my card for last week's Unity Stamp Co. Show and Tell challenge on Facebook.

I just bought the great lemonade stamp - I am already in love.

This time the challenge was a sketch -

Super simple sketch - the best kind.

I used Lawn Fawn heart paper, from 'Let's Polka in the Meadow', the Unity Stamp and sentiment, 2 dies (MFT and SSS) and distress inks.

The lemonade panel looked a bit bland, so I added some tiny yellow stars - much better.

Have a great weekend everyone.

Cx

Birdie Birthday....

Hey,

Happy weekend..

I am in Providence and today Cheiron and I will be making 16 cards!!! At Jenn's loft art retreat.

I thought I'd share a kooky card I made using a Tim Holtz bird stamp.

Because the bird is kind of kooky, I thought the card should be too.

I stamped the bird and die-cut out the panel first, then I added the sentiment, running the birthday in a random direction felt like it worked here because of the odd birdy!

I then stenciled in some red polka dots, but I didn't reink my dauber, because I wanted some of the dots to be a bit faded.

I need to play with this stamp more, it's a lot of fun.

I'll tell you all about the retreat at some point next week.

Cx