Fond Memories

This weekend gone, I spent my last creative retreat at Belstead House in Ipswich.
Due to cutbacks, the council are selling the property and no more courses will take place from 2013.
Anyway, it will not stop us from getting together, we have plans in the pipeline...its just quite sad that it wont be on our doorstep.
As a thank you to Moira for encouraging us all, a few of us decided to make something for to remember our days at Belstead. We each made a 6" piece to be sewn together into a wall hanging.
Here is my effort, and the overall collaboration.
Didn't we all do well?

Scrapbooking - November 2012

Elements that we learnt:
Making our own embellishments
-circle roses & scallop circles from patterned paper
Framing the photos with patterned paper.

Cards from class today

I made the girls work really hard this morning. We made all these in our 2 hour session today.

Exciterated

I've been spending another craftin' weekend away at Belstead House, just 2 minutes away from my own home (& went residential!)
Anyhoo, I played with my new toy & wanted to share ... for my Daddy who is now officially living in the UK... it was his buffday yesterday.
Crafty hugs,
Emma x

Scrapbooking success!

I can't quite believe we completed so many pages last class! We had 2 new ladies, Carol & Kate.

The main theme we were aiming for this session, was step further - following simple sketches & upping the 'craftiness' & taking it one step further.
The circle one us still not finished, but a chAllenge it will be .... I'll post pics once completed, honest! X

Creative Expressions Sewing

A trio of cards I made for a recent class.

Scrapbooking results!

I wanted to show some photos that Ive taken of the recent scrapbook sessions Ive taken at Craftability.
The ladies (and men) who come along are lovely and always rise to the challenges that I set.
This time we were making our own hand drawn titles, journalling as a feature (wavy lines) and zen doodling around the papers. There was very little patterned paper and the doodling really made it a more personalised layout.
Brilliant results!!