Catch Up!

I have been really busy lately and haven't had a chance to update the blog. So get ready for a photo heavy post.

Firstly though a little bit of class news. On September 21st I will be teaching a beginners Art Journalling class in Dungarvan Co. Waterford. This will be an opportunity for all of you who have been tempted to start this creative journey, but have just been unsure where to start. On the day we will hopefully complete 2 pages and have lots of fun making different backgrounds for some more pages. If you are interested in coming to the class contact me here in the comments or on my Facebook page.

A second class that I will be teaching is a mixed media canvas. I will be teaching this as part of the 2 day Create with Kate event in Athlone on 5th and 6th of October.

And so to what I have been doing recently. Well my journal journey continues. I am really enjoying playing with all of my products and seeing what works together. The new distress paints from Ranger and Tim Holtz are fantastic! In the latest issue of Crafting Ireland online magazine I did a product review, so check it out here.

 

Another thing that I have been doing lately is art swaps. 
The first swap was hosted by Create with Kate and was an alphabet swap. We were each given a letter of the alphabet and had to send our artwork to the person above us on the list. I decided on a canvas. The letter I had was "R", and I had an idea based on a quote about rainbows.

Another project I have done is a commission for a 16 year old girls birthday. This is again a canvas with a lots of collage work on it.

So there you go, a little sample of some of my recent work!

The Catch-up Post

Well folks, other than the very odd post I have not blogged in ages. My camera went missing and I was convinced it had been stolen. The hubby found it last week hiding under the front seat of my car. Now I know I checked there so I really can't say where it went on holidays for the few months.


I have indeed been busy though, with a class every Monday night, some demonstrating in Cork and the new venture which I have started up with my two great friends and fellow crafters Mandy Sheridan and Betty Cumiskey. We are running crafting workshops which not only concentrate on card-making and scrap-booking, but also on a little altered art. Our first workshop was on 1st April and was a huge success.    

We will be travelling to Limerick on the 29th April and will be in Cork on Sunday 13th May. It's so exciting to do something new. If anyone is interested in attending the Cork workshop, please get in touch.

My first collage- Sort of!

I bought the beautiful Emma's Shoppe papers from Crate Paper and felt they had to be used as an art piece rather than be locked away in a scrapbook, so, I made this collage. It is quite large (about A3). I used the book spines as a shelf to start to put the toys on. I also made a higher shelf using measuring tape ribbon and trimmed the under-side of this with bunting.

Before I had it finished it was sold! The lady who bought it wanted it for a friend who had just had a little girl. I got a large unfinished frame and painted and distressed it using red. pink and white paint and put the little ladies name on the mount.

I put some lace onto the little doll's pram for some added texture, and added some buttons in various shapes and sizes.