Monday night girls

Just a quick post to show you the delight of the girls who come to class on a Monday night. They stippled and stamped and heat embossed their way to four cards and a bookmark - good going girls! well done! and all in 2 hours and with a break for a drink and Pringles.

what a change!

Well, what a change in the weather. Today woke up to grey skies and chilly and it has rained and been generally miserable all day. Put a sweater back on....

and, checked the blogs of those I had tagged and Dyan took up the challenge so go and visit her on her blog -click on websites to visit under Dylan's blog - well worth a visit...

and they do say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery so here's a photo of some of the projects I have taught with Dyan's inspiration and Blonde Moments products. I hope you approve Dyan!

Off to have a shower now as I am going out to celebrate a friend's birthday with a meal at the restaurant my lovely Wednesday girl Ellen's parents own. You will find Ellen on this blog several times if you look! She is the one in the grey tracksuit doing some stamping.

Bye for now

hugs Sue xx

Whew! its warm today!!!

At the moment the weather is still unsure if its hot or not and so I erred on the side of caution and wore a jumper - whata mistaka to maka!!! whew! I'll probably wear a t-shirt tomorrow and freeze! ha!ha! At least my feet are happy. I only ever wear boots(winter) or flipflops(rest of the year) and the relief when my feet can breathe again is incredible. My boots (and I have quite a few pairs ) are very comfortable but oh joy! to feel the air on my toes - pure pleasure!

and what a lovely day I had in the shop today too. I was asked to show how to recreate the effect on this photoframe.

It is done with Distress inks polished with Ranger's foam applicators and then stippled over and through grungeboard flourishes. It's really good fun but very messy - hands get extremely mucky!!

These are the two cards I made

and these are the cards that Margaret (top two) and Muriel made.








andhere are Muriel and Margaret - when Margaret's husband came to reclaim her he very kindly took this photo of us. Bernard is a real sweetie and he makes the most lovely scrapbooks too. I will have to ask him to bring in the album he made of their Wedding - it's really beautiful - so I can take some photos of the pages to put on here. Bernard if you're reading this please remember next Friday or Margaret nudge him for me thanks




I am now off to check whether any of the ladies I tagged yesterday have taken the dare and put their "as you are" photos on their blogs - so bye for now

Sue xx

Tanya tagged me.....

Tanya tagged me.....I have to take a photo of me right here, right now as I am- no putting on make up, hair brushing or anything - just as!!! Grab Colin's new camera and away we go. Oh well I tried - never mind doesn't my bum look big in this - I hadn't realised how my nose has grown aaaaagghhh!!!!! and where have all those veins come from - think I'll have to go back to my own out of focus camera - I look so much better on there!!!!

Today is a fiesta (Spanish Father's Day ) so I thought I would just relax, do a little artwork for myself, take the dog for a leisurely walk etc but think I had better grab my make up bag and hairbrush before I go as I don't want to scare the locals ha!ha!

I now have to tag five others and challenge them to do the same so here goes:

Dyan, Kate, Suze, Sian and Jackie - hope you are up for it girls!

Last night I started the girls on drawing faces - to get them to really look at details of how eyes fit into the head and such like with the intention of them doing a self portrait picture next week and the week after. These are the two suziblu inspired atc's I made to give them an idea of what their finished work would look like only on a bigger scale. I have been drawing a lot of suziblu type atc's lately and I am really enjoying gettiing back to this type of art

These are the five steps I showed to the girls to get them started.

and these are five pictures I myself drew when I was at school so they would have been done in the 1960's. I found them when I was looking for something else and took them to show the girls. When you think how we agonise which products to use and on which surface - these were done on the type of paper that children were given with school type coloured pencils!!! those were the days!!

Anyway, enough reminiscences, off to walk the dog through the forest

Bye for now Sue xx

the bakers dozen

On Wednesday I did a workshop making cards to cover any number of occasions we all come across during the course of a year - wedding, happy birthday, sympathy, etc and so we made cards. Some were what I call quick lick n stick and others were more involved using techniques including brayering, Distress inking over stamping and doodling. I cracked the whip and pushed and pushed and these were the results - happy ladies. I told them we were making 12 but there were 13 if you count!!ha!ha



The ladies were pictured on Wednesday with my out of focus camera??? so today I borrowed Colin's to take a photo of the samples. Out of focus or not there was lots of laughter and smiles


Muriel did manage to make most of them even though she is only displaying three and she even came to class this morning.



Chrissie popped in with some Weight Watchers magazines to try to kick start my efforts at losing weight. Think she's fighting a losing battle with me there but we can but try! Got to list all I eat and drink - she reckons I'm not eating enough - he!he! that sounds good to me!
The sun is shining, the sky is blue and I've finished work for the day - big smile - so I'm off to play some for myself now.
Bye Sue x

Friendship badge

I received a friendship badge from my lovely friend Tanya in Belgium - check out her blog as she is one talented lady http://tanyawatts.blogspot.com/





These are the guidelines that came with the badge:"These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these kind writers."When you pass the award along please include these guidelines. I am to choose eight friends to share this with.

There are so many blogs that I follow that I will have some lunch and a think and then name names. Back soon Sue x

Worn out today

Yesterday I had a really busy day. In the shop from just after nine and not home till half past 8. Maybe not a long day for some but for little old me yes it was! I had a 5 hour workshop from 12 till 5 and then the girls arrived for kidz club as the ladies were leaving - there is supposed to be 1/2 hour for me to have a comfort break, tidy up and gather my thoughts, etc but no...not yesterday. The ladies didn't want to leave and the girls came in exitedly early so complete chaos, but hey ho! who cares - none of them did so why should I!!! Anyway, got to go and open the shop now - OH! I'm sooo tired! so will blog again later with what we did yesterday.
Hugs Sue xx