Altered Art class 22nd Aug

Good Evening, just a quick note to say this is the sample for the next Altered Art workshop. Giant jigsaw piece hanging, with Banana Frog stamps, textures, Blonde Moments pearly paints and powders, and flowery layering. Apologies for the bad pictures; the light wasn't too good, the jigsaw piece backgrounds are actually black, not the brown that my camera came up with!















P.S If you want to book on this class, email
craftyhearts.shop@btinternet.com asap!
The class is £15 all materials included (except lunch) and it starts at 11am, sat 22nd aug.

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Our Online shop is up and running!

Shock horror, pinch myself, at last our website is all shipshape and Bristol fashion, you can order from it and everything! It has taken much faffing, and altering, and avoiding (making cards and scrapbooking is much easier than figuring out a website, call me old-fashioned), but at last it is up...phew.
It hasn't got nearly so much items in it as our physical shop in Preston, Lancs, has, but bare with me: I shall add a little bit each day! So keep looking, you never know what you might find.

Happy shopping,

Leanne......a Craftybirrrd
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Dust off that sewing machine

My photos for last Sunday were of a card I made for my cousin, for his birthday.

I haven't used my sewing machine in ages, such a shame.

But it came out from its hiding place this week. For my cousin I stitched a bike and made a little newspaper bag (as he delivers these :P). Also, I used my machine to make Fabric ATCs for the swap I joined on UKScrappers. But I won't put a piccie on yet of those, I'll wait a tad longer and put a post up next week :)

Hello Hello

Wow, can't believe how long it has been since my last post! I have been so disorganised, and what with classes, then general hecticness, lots of hot weather (I feel bad being on computer on sunny days as British sun seems so elusive!), lots of birthdays, and last week I was ill ; blog seems to have been neglected!

Lots of projects that are unfinished I do not post, as I think they ought to be finished before I take a piccie of them, but finally decided to do the 365 photo-a-day challenge that so many UKScrappers members seem to be doing. I love taking photos, even though many are rather amateurish, but at least now I have an excuse for the photos I take of my journey to work, new goodies that arrive at work, and all my UFO's i.e. unfinished objects!

I have been doing this photo challenge for 2 weeks now, and some are not brilliant, and sometimes I forget, so aim is to have taken at least 7 by end of each week :)

So here goes, here are bits from my first week of photos.

I bought a red vintage suitcase from Oxfam Vintage. So excited by it, probably sounds quite sad, but I like vintage things :) I had to then carry it round as I went shopping, but proudly carried it.

An unknown flower that has sprung up at my family's allotment. The flowers look so pretty; maybe would like nice in stitch.

I keep taking photos of the daisies in the back garden, before they suffer the weekly mow.

In the week I started this photo-taking promise, twas my birthday. Guess my age, can you guess?!

Altered Art workshop 6th June

Our next Altered Art workshop is 6th June 2009, 10.30am till 2pm, £15 all materials included except lunch.

First half of the workshop is Distress techniques tags (for those who attended our first class, these tags have new, interesting media techniques - not the same as the first ones).

Second half of the workshop is an acrylic frame, which you decorate with mixed media on the insides before sticking together. Frame could be hung up, or could be threaded to

other media items of your choice - art is very flexible o' course :)

Here is an example, but as always, if you attend the course, the colours and images can be whatever you choose! If you're interested, please email me (address on the right) or PM me on UkScrappers (my name is Craftybird)

Hurry up as places are being booked up quickly!

Happy altering x x

Recipe Book

Been making a Recipe book this week - was simply dying to use some of the Jenni Bowlin' papers we got in not long ago, and when I saw the Cherry Pie paper, with cute cherries all over it, I thought of food! My plan is to make it into a journal, but instead of daily occurrences, t'will be filled with recipes that I use often, that friends use, or that customers have mentioned...so if anybody has a recipe they want to contribute, when you're next in the shop bring a copy o' the recipe in, and maybe a piccie of what the recipe turns into, or a memory that goes with it!

First page...flapjack :) And a few customers have mentioned recipes they like doing...I'm hungry already :)

Happy crafting x x x

Crafty Hearts on Etsy.com coming soon

Hopefully by the end of this week I should have written the boring terms and conditions for our shop profile on Etsy.com and it will be up and running to buy from! Seeing as our own website is still under construction :(

We're planning to do kits via the Etsy shop profile, or little groups of items with themes. Just to make it interesting. For the first kit (Enchanted Wood), I've made an example, hooray! Twas a way of getting myself into the swing of this online shop lark...

Below is what will be in our very first kit on Etsy - the list of what's actually in the kit will be in our Etsy shop. www.craftyhearts.etsy.com fingers crossed ready by end of this week!

Craftybird x x