Journal Love

Luvvly jubbly day, today at Art Journaling. I love it and the people there, it is so relaxing. The lovely Olive baked a cake as usual, this time it was chocolate orange with extra thick cream, and Kate brought after dinner treats, so it was a bit of a choc fest..!!!

This is the lovely Olive.

Olive brought me a beautiful gift, it is a journal, called The Poets Notebook. Each page has a quote or prompt on it and I cant wait to start. I now have 11 journals on the go, lol. Thanks babe. xxx Nip over to her blog, she is quite new to Art from the Heart, but it feels like she's been with us forever.

Bezzie Su brought along some Christmas cards she has been making, I just love them.

She covered the card in Distress ink, spritzed a stamp with pearly solution and stamped onto the card leaving a gorgeously subtle effect. She then shrank my house downloads and popped them on with a star. How cool
is that ..???

Today in class we started on our round robin journals. I gave everyone an A5 book and their mission was to decorate the covers, create a sign in page, and do a double spread about themselves. We had a great time doing them, and I loved what they have done sofar. Biggest surprise of the day was newcomer Pat, who created stunning pages, despite having no previous experience.

Heres my double spread. I just need to find a picture of my boat race and its done.

I did the front and back covers of it with my  ephemera downloads and the white souffle pen.

They are all bringing them back in January, ready for the swap to begin. Can't wait...Still havent got my Round the World one back, 14 months later. I have an awful feeling that its got lost...

Just like to point out that the gorgeous tea tonight of Cajun Beef and noodles was cooked by the one and only, yours truly. Yes you heard that correctly. I ventured into the kitchen and cooked. Well it is nearly Christmas, lmao...

Enjoy xx

Heres a puzzle for you... Can you tell what Our Ben had me doing this afternoon...??

Bet you cant guess, can you..???  It is the rugby club Christmas do tonight and Our Ben is organising it. The theme this year is Ho down. Yup a cowboy inspired event. The telephone call went like this.

Ben  " can you do me a favour..?"

Me  "course I can babe, what is it..?"

Ben " I need 5 cactus, a cockerel and a saloon sign"

Me  " you winding me up..??"

Ben "No I,m serious and the lovely Katie will pick them up at 6"

Hilarious yeah..??? Anyway here they are in all their glory.

And here's the lovely Katie picking them up.

It was a painting class today, and the girlies were fab.

Heres Chris and Theresa

Giddy and giddier (Denny and Sue) and Clare.

Heres the finished result, I am soooooooo impressed. I just hope they realise how fabulous they are....!!!

Talking about fabulous, you need to pop over to Dee's blog where she has made some ace candles using the Blonde Moments stamps. I think I will be purloining that idea for pressies. She has also done some fabby things with my embossing powders and baubles. Now I would never have thought of doing that with them.
Nice one babe..xx

Need to dash now as this is what he's cooked for me tonight.. Aww might keep him..lmao

Right I,ll be back tomorrow with some amazing news.
 Clue -
1. first time teaching in this country,
2. beeswax  and collage,
3.  Ranger Signature Designer

Woop woop de f**king woop...!!!!!

Enjoy xx

Yup I know I'm in big trouble for not blogging, so I am going to make you all a priority over the weekend, honest.  Have to spend the day sorting out Mum's house as completion is any day now. Not looking forward to it as you can imagine and have been putting it off for ever, but today's the day..!!!
Didnt get to Lily Allen last night, the traffic on the motorway was soooooo bad, think there must have been an accident. After sitting in it for ages, I went off the idea and abndoned ship. But I did stick her on the Ipod and sang along very badly, much to James's disgust, lmao. Really want to get the Chrissy Decs out and sorted but I've got a really busy weekend. Snowman painting class tomorrow, and on Sunday it's my fave , Art Journaling... We are starting the Round Robin so get yourself there..Right gonna get my arse into gear and sieze the day..!!! Well mebbes I'll have a cuppa first, lmao.

See you later today,

Enjoy xx

PS. Mary - Notice the effort I made with apostrophes instead of commas, just for you..lol. Come to class tomorrow if you want to do the sleigh..

One flew over....!!!

What...??  Noooo..!!! Cant be..???? How did that happen...???

Oops, seems its right, I havent blogged since Sunday. I am slapping my wrist extremely hard, Ben is tut, tutting at me, and the emails of complaint are piling up, lol.

Its this sleeping lark that is buggering things up, you know. 3 hrs sleep a night left plenty of time for blogging, twittering, Facebook, journaling etc...But now I am having at least 8 I am fast lagging behind.. Not sure what the solution is really..lmao....

But I have had an extremeley busy week as well. Heres some sneaks of a magazine article, way over due, surprise, surprise..!!!

Heres the Tues night tag.

Just look how the kids sleighs are coming on. How fab are they..???

Todays class is  bright Atc,s, and we are having a ball as usual.
These are made using images from http://www.lisasalteredart.com/ .

And these are made using my Downloads.

Heres the girlies...Sue, Janet and Sandra.

Karen and Liz.

The gorgeous Sandra brought me a gorgeous gift. It is a hanging decoration in a box and I just love it. She is such a sweetie and I love her loads, especially when she uses my Chtistmas Papers, lmao..

Sooooo excited because at long last the new printers trays have arrived in the studio. They are flying out
again, so dont leave it too late..

These are the Atc trays. 

and these are the Photo trays..Both are available HERE

Ok need to fly, finish the class, sam it all up, fly home get changed and motor on down to Nottingham to see Lily Allen. Our Tom bought us tickets for Christmas and they just happened to fall on my busiest week, always the same yeah..?? 

Enjoy xx

Ladies, you did good...!!!!

Thats it, Techniques 2 is over, and what a laugh we have had... They have been a fabby bunch and it was sad to see them go.As you can see I worked them really hard..!!!!!

Ha ha Steph was actually drying out here not taking it easy.....

We finished off the Ultra thick techniques and worked our way through the Melt Pot. This is faux soldering.

And one of my faves, Beeswax techniques.

Here they are hard at work. Sarah, Sharon, Steff and Pam.

Steph, Anneliese and Sue.

We finished the day by making canvas's . Heres some of the finished ones.

Cool arent they...???

And as promised , here is the winner of the download challenge. Unfortunately I can't remember whose it is, oops, sorry about that. Please let me know and send me your address so I can get your prize out to you..

Thats it from me tonight. If you havent done so already hop over to Tim's blog and check out his 12 days of Christmas. He has excelled himself sooooo much this year. I will be doing some tags when his have finished so look out for them.

Enjoy xx