July Crop

I'm excited about the July crop!!!!! We are having a little film made about us on the crop day. Because of that, we have some extra funding so I am putting together a free class for anyone who wants to do it. I have ordered some things which should come tomorrow so I can put together some samples. We will be playing with craft glassine and our Tim Holtz dies, including a new one....yay!!

Free Vintage Ephemera Downloads

Had an email newsletter from Stampington with some really cute downloads. Here's the link: www.stampington.com/artisan_avenue/2011/june/download.html

FREE COLLAGE E BOOK

Cloth Paper, Scissors has a really nice free download today. It's only takes a few seconds to download and has some great ideas in it. You need to sign up and give your email address, but I like getting emails from them anyway! They usually have something to get the creative juices flowing :D Here's the link.
www.clothpaperscissors.com/mixed-media-collage/

Art Journaling pages

These are just a few pages from my little A6 art journal, loving doing it! I will have it full in no time at this rate!

Holiday purchases

Couldn't resist a trip to Crafty Devils in Barnstaple. I also scoured the charity shops and got some little treasures. Bit of a milinery theme going on here me thinks!

Holidays and Creativity

Well, we've been in Devon since Saturday, and it's been a wonderful week. We have had 2 caravans on the North Devon coast, our 3 children and their families. The grandchildren have been such a lot of fun! They live so fully! Every moment is packed with interest, questions, enjoyment, joy. They know what it is to live 'in the moment'. We can learn so much from them. I love that they tell it like it is, even our 18 month old lets us know what she wants, and what she thinks.. So, it's been busy but I have still managed to do some art journalling. I try to make all my art meaningful, I don't want to leave a legacy of art that doesn't have a message, but that's just me. My art journal has a theme of passing on what I have learnt about enjoying life. I put together a kit, with my little travel journal, pens, mini watercolour set, glue and scissors. I scoured the charity shops in Barnstaple and found a fab old book about French artists, which has lots of great images I have been cutting out and jazzing up for my pages. I will upload some of them when I get home. I have loved being creative in this inspiring and beautiful environment. If you are going on your holls, don't forget to pack some craft things.

Saturday's workshop

Carolyn's piece- beautiful!

Ellie's lovely art. I love the colours on this one.

Ruth's work.

Ruth brought some of her wonderful pictures along for us to be inspired by. Ruth is a good teacher, very easy to listen to and she has a way of making you feel like you can do it! So many of our group did beautiful monoprints. I am putting two on here, but there were many really lovely pieces of work.