The Craft Room 11th June 2016 – Groovi tea lights

Its has been a while since my last post and I do apologise, but sometimes life  throws a curve ball and it takes a while to get back into things. In my case although  I kept the craft room active with our Saturday crafty aftys it has just taken a while  longer to get back

The Craft Room 17th April 2016 – playing with Clarity’s Groovi Grids

Oops, has it really been a month since my last post?  If I remember rightly Easter was in there somewhere lol and now its time for our Groovi® session again. We are a week late (normally the 2nd Saturday of the month) this time due too “having” to attend Sam Crowe’s first Clarity Mixed Media

The Craft Room 5th March 2016 – Back to basics stamping – brayered backgraounds part two

Its time to get inky again this week in the craft room so, as the group loved the brayered backgrounds we did two weeks ago, I thought I would give them a bit more brayer practice but take the stamping a step further and add  a little depth using just one colour ink pad and

The Craft Room 20th February 2016 – Back to basics stamping with brayered backgrounds

Hello again, if you have been following my blog posts you will know that this year we have gone back to the basics with stamping techniques. For some in our group it is a case of refreshing the memories of techniques tried long ago and forgotten and for others its is introducing techniques they have

The Craft Room 13th February 2016 – Groovi® pick and mix

Its the second Tuesday of the month (already?) which means it Groovi® time again. If you saw last months Groovi post you will know that the ladies  were limited to using just 2 plates – 1 nested shape plate and one character border plate to produce a lovely framed piece of work inspired by Maria

The Craft Room 9th January 2016 – Groovi® play with frames

Happy New Year and please accept my  apologies for the lack of posts during December. I was just sooo busy with making xmas cards, presents, orders and hosting work shops  on top of my actual work, work, that something had to give and I am afraid it was my blog that suffered. But that is

The Craft Room 10th October 2015 – its Groovi Time again.

Its the 2nd Saturday of the month and, going with the new format for the craft room, its time for some more Groovi practice. We are using Clarity Stamps new “Groovi”® parchment system to help us to learn the basics of parchment craft and to hopefully go onto the more skilful elements. Here is the

The Craft Room 19th September 2015 – Groovi Parchment part 2

Last Saturday saw us playing with Clarity Stamps new “Groovi”® parchment system for the first time We used the  starter kit and one or two other plates that I had acquired prior to the session and had a great time playing around and learning the basics. Here is the link to her you tube video 

The Craft Room 12th September 2015 – Back and in the “Groove”

Wow, it seems ages since I my last post but Summer is now definitely over now (though still holding out for an Indian summer lol) and we are all now back and ready to craft. This Saturday, as promised we got in the “groove” with Clarity Stamps new “Groovi”© parchment system. Barbara Gray and her

Whoo’s the Dad

There was no crafty afty today as my daughter had asked if I would drive her though to Manchester. Amongst other things (like the York races) it is the Northern Athletic Championships this weekend and Jenna was competing in the Hammer( thats the event with a 4kg metal ball on the end of a long