October Harston Club Swap

Great swap this month, though only between Annie and I.

We also caught up with our crafty chat

I stamped and painted santa hats to use on my cards.

 

I have had no time to craft during September as my darling daughter

was admitted to critical care unit with pneumonia and blood

poisoning. Within hours into an induced coma, then dialysis. They treated

her for Legionnaires Disease.  For two weeks it was critical, but am happy to

say she is home now and slowly recovering.

 

This closely followed with my dear husband going into hospital a week

ago for a hip replacement, he too is doing well and needing a lot of TLC xx

 

Here is my door hanger (made a while back and lucky to have it to hand for this swap).

 I stamped the main image onto tissue

paper and glued it to the background.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Annie decorated this tiny Paper Mache suitcase, with wonderful flowers

and framed image. Finished inside with decorative papers.  Smashing Annie!

 

 

 

 

 

 

We meet for the final time next month (this year) when I will run

a Christmas Canvas Workshop, so will take lots of photos

of the busy crafting ladies and their finished pieces.

Until next time....

 

 



September Harston Craft Swaps

Well our crafty members certainly rose to the challenge

this month, using just a small box frame

they have produced creative fabulous altered art pieces.

 

This is my swap, all the elementsI used are formed

from air dry clay, painted brown and

highlighted with acrylic silks.

 

 

Liz has mounted the box onto a board,

so much to look at. Each section papered with

decorative papers, absolutely smashing creative art work.

 

 

 

Pamela has decorated the background of each section

with lovely tiles using air dry clay.  Adding

her decorative embossed elements, gorgeous!

 

 

 

 

 

Annie has used the box as a base to add

all the wonderful coloured flowers, butterflies and die cuts as

embellishments to go beyond the base, fabulous!

 

 

 

 

Fabulous swaps, now looking forward to next month, these

are the items I provided to choose from I

took the pic looking into the bag they were in.

 

 

Until next time...

 

 

 

 



 



August Harston Swaps and Mixed Media Heart Workshop

The swap this month was in fact a delayed

swap from the previous month between

Liz and Jane who were unable to attend in July. 

We did not have a general swap as we

had the Heart workshop plus I did not provide

items for the swap last month, very naughty of me to forget.

The first swap is a fabulous box that Liz decorated

using her own stamp (Elizabeth Borer) designs.

 

also decorated on the inside with gorgeous papers.

 

 

Here is a Extra Large Peg that Jane decorated

with a wonderful image. Both sides have the same lovely image.

Now onto our heart workshop, using the same methods as in the June workshop

we covered the canvas with white gesso, adding strips of lace and

random areas of embossing paste through stencils. 

 

A template was provided for the heart shape, Liz decided to use an oval shape

for hers. I provided all the supplies such as metal flowers, beads, charms,

wooden and clay embellishments and die cuts plus a host of extras if required

though I would guess that everyone had enough supplies to make another canvas.

 

Annie and Linda have finished their canvases,

more work to do on the others.

 

 

 

Annie
 

 

Liz

 

Linda

 

 

Below are the items I provided for the September swap.

They are just a few of the trays that I have accumulated when

purchasing the small wooden embellishments for workshops mostly.

Looking forward to seeing how everyone fills these mini trays.



June Meet Up with Cardmaking Paradise Forum Friends

A rather belated post to share our Mixed Media Heart Canvas Workshop that

I ran in June for a group of ladies on the

Cardmaking Paradise forum

Sara led our second day with several craft techniques.

We enjoyed two days of crafting helped by wedges

of scrummy home made cakes (thanks ladies)

lashings of lunchtime food along with my home made Soda Bread

that seemed to go down well. 

Not forgetting relaxing in the evening over lovely meals

to enable us to recover.

We had great fun with a canvas, junk and lots of embellishments.

Looking forward to doing it all again next year!!!!

 

 

This is my completed work to use as a guide for everyone.

 

now residing in my grand daughter Amber's bedroom

 

 

Everyone working hard and concentrating

 

 

 

Here are other canvases I finished using the Heart theme.

 

Given to my grandson Jay

Hanging in our dining room

 

For my daughter Allison

 

 

 

More coming up on Harston Club August swap and our own

Heart Canvas Workshop.

 

 



July Harston Club Swap

Enjoy the few swaps from this month, several members were

on holiday and obviously did not take part.

 

I painted the 5" square box with black gesso, glued all the buttons

on top of the lid, painted again with black gesso. 

 

 

The edges and sides are decorated I then added

a Tim Holtz layered butterfly.

 

 

 

For the butterfly body I used tyvek (painted) to form a paper

bead around a spoon, then heated

it to make it curl with a touch of Treasure Gold.

 

 

There are a few embossed butterflies inside.

 

 

 

Pamela created this mini canvas and easel.

 

 

 

Here you can see the detail of the flowers, fabulous!

 

 

 

Pamela used a memory box die to cut this butterfly

from a tin can and filled with tissue and glossy accents.

 



Annie covered this heart box with stamped

tissue. Painted with crackle paint. Smashing.

 

Take a look at the plain Kraft carrier that Annie

decorated with her favourite flower stamp, painted

and covered with gel medium.

 



 

Nothing to show for next months swap as I forgot to provide them but will

be taking a few items along at our August meeting.

 

Will be back to share photos of a great workshop with fellow

Cardmaking Paradise forum members last month. Until next time...

 

 

 

June Harston Club Swap

More fabulous swaps this month,

from an array of goodies supplied by Annie

 

I decorated this door hanger with

wooden cogs, painted with black gesso

and highlighted with Treasure Gold gilding paste

 

 

.

Liz has covered this bird box

with a lovely collection of

flowers, birds, lace and butterflies

 

 

 

 

 

Jane covered this small book with a

sheet of her fantastic felting skills with

machine stitched design.

 

 

 

Tanya decorated her little birdhouse with

papers, adding a lovely butterfly.

 

 

 

 

Annie covered a small box with papers

finished with flowers on the top.

Inside she had decorated a domino

adding pearl beading around the edge.

 

 

 

Last but not least here is Pamela's bird house

covered in tiny flowers

and little blue birds.

 

 

 

 

 

We have had such fun so far this year with a wide range of  goodies to decorate

some of us trying out new ideas and techniques. 

Looking forward to the rest of our year.

 

Below are the lovely goodies that Pamela

has kindly supplied, I have a box to decorate.

 

 

Until next time...

 



Harston Club Swaps - May

Another super swap this month

not all that attended remembered to bring theirs,

so they can swap next month.

 

Here is my bird.  I painted a small canvas

board to mount the mdf bird on

then had a good excuse to use a stamp

from Tim Holtz Bird Crazy stamp set

I love them all so it was hard to choose which one.

 

 

 

Liz went wild with this oblong round

tin, gorgeous lace and pretty decorative details.

 

 

Here is a close up of the lid decoration, .

 

 

 

Pamela decorated this tiny altoid tin with flowers

and a butterfly, even adding tiny decorated feet

underneath. The butterfly is a die cut from a drink can

filled with glossy accents and tissue -

amazing - and I was the lucky recipient.

 

 

When I opened the tin, I found Pamela had filled it

with small clay pieces, a lovely surprise!

 

 

 

Annie mounted her altered bird onto a

painted canvas board with a little flower for the eye,

take a look at that cheeky owl hiding behind the flowers, so cute.

 

 

 

Here were the items Tanya provided

before we altered them.

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Linda, Pamela and Annie busy crafting away.

 

 

Tanya is busy working on Fred,

adding sprays to wings and things.

 

 

 

 

Lastly here are the items that Annie

has provided for us to alter for the June swap.

 

 

 

Until next time..