The Craft Barn’s 2015 Calendar Challenge – June

The Craft Barn’s Calender Challenge theme for June is Lavender and Dragonflies Full details of the challenge including rules of entry etc can be found on The Craft Barn’s new blog site thecraftbarnblog.blogspot.co.uk When I saw the prompts for this month’s challenge i was itching to get started and had lots of ideas I wanted

The Craft Barn’s 2015 Calendar Challenge – May

Yes! we are in May, we had so been looking forward to May, the 9th in particular as thanks to Jane Telford, a friend of Lisa’s,  we finally had tickets to the Happy Stampers craft fair in Port Sunlight. I picked Lisa up at 7am on Saturday morning and we were on our way, past

The Craft room 2nd may 2015 – Finishing frames

Apologies for the quick post this week but as its a lovely soggy bank holiday week end I am decorating the utility room, such fun! This week the ladies had all brought their frames  along (12″ natural box frame  6.50 from Wilkinsons, though thy may be wondering why the frames have become so popular lol) 

The Craft Barn’s 2015 Calendar Challenge – April

The Craft Barn’s Calender Challenge theme for April is Blue and Umbrella Full details of the challenge including rules of entry etc can be found on The Craft Barn’s new blog site thecraftbarnblog.blogspot.co.uk Now the “Blue” I had no problem with as I have my new Tim Holtz Mermaid Lagoon set to play with White

In The Classroom 11th April 2015 – Bleeding Tissue Canvas

The “bleeding tissue” technique is one that  we have all done when we were children apparently, if I have I’m afraid I don’t remember, but it has been fun learning it, again. My first attempt was back in January and just starting on my journalling adventure with Rae aloha Dalal. Bleeding tissue was one of

The Craft Barn’s 2015 Calendar Challenge – March

The Craft Barn’s Calender Challenge theme for March is Yellow and rabbits Full details of the challenge including rules of entry etc can be found on The Craft Barn’s new blog site thecraftbarnblog.blogspot.co.uk I have decided that my underlying theme for these calendar challenges is to use a different background technique for each month, which

The Craft Barn’s 2015 Calendar Challenge

The Craft Barn have a new challenge for 2015. “The Craft barn 2015 Calendar Challenge” This is a monthly challenge (think there was a clue in the title, lol) where 2 word prompts are given at the beginning of the of each month and by the end of the year hopefully we will have a

The Craftroom 10th Jan 2015 – Clean and simple

Welcome back to the first Craftroom crafty afty of the new year So many exciting things happening at the moment and my resolution to buy less crafty stash this year has already been broken with all the new releases and now CHA in America with more new stuff !!! A new group has also been

Our Perpetual Calendar project (saga) Showcase

Well this turned out to be a project and a half, but worth all the effort in the end.   This was when we started and one of the reasons it has taken so long is that when I first showed the ladies my idea, only 2 of them wanted to have a go as

The Craft Barn’s Q&L Challenge no 18 – Childhood and/or Easier

The  Q & L challenge  no 18 is Childhood and/or Easier. To find out more about this challenge or  would like to join in  here is the link to The Craft Barn’s Q&L Challenge blog. Sorry its a  bit of a quick post this time, luckily I found this one “easier” to find a quote