Hello Friends!
Firstly, I must apologies if I have not visited you, I have had two very busy and wonderful crafty weekends away, lucky me!
This weekend I visited That's Crafty in London for the first leg of AALL & Create's World Tour and what a fabulous weekend it was too! I just wish I could have continued on to day 3 too! It was worth the seven hour journey there....
Out of respect to the individual designers I cannot share any of the details with you but I hope you enjoy seeing the creations we made.
My first class was with the hugely talented Tracy Evans who taught us some amazing techniques (with her own wonderful range of stamps and stencils) to create a beautiful textured tag. I am totally in love with this tag! Tracy's enthusiasm is very infectious!
The afternoon class, also with Tracy saw us using beautiful bold colours to make two different styles of accordion cards. Lots of inky, painty and stamping goodness!
Day two was spent with Aida Domisiewicz (also the owner of 13Arts) using lots of Aida's exclusive 13Arts products and Aida's AALL&Create stamps and stencils. I was totally out of my comfort zone making this beautiful project but I loved every minute of it!
As well as meeting up again with the adorable
Autour De Mwa (Abs), it was so lovely to meet more of the AALLandCreate Designers, Aida, Olga Heldwein and Fiona Paltridge and of course my dear friend Tracy Evans. I felt like I was in the presence of Crafting Royalty - thank you to each and every one of them for making the weekend lots of fun, I have not laughed so much for ages!!
Along with learning new techniques, meeting up with crafty idols, it was incredible to meet wonderful new friends too - Gayna Hurst, Donna (Ragdoll), Tina Thompson-Theis and so many others.
Laura Holland and Graham ensured that the whole weekend ran smoothly and of course the shop was a huge temptation! Huge thanks to Laura and Graham!
AALLandCreate stamps and stencils are available worldwide, you can see a full list of stockists
HERE.
I am adding project 1 to The Mixed Media Monthly challenge (sadly it is their last one). Project 1 has thread wrapped around the butterfly and string wrapped around the wire at the top.
Thanks so much for your visit, I hope to see you again soon with a new
Eileen Hull project!
Hugs, Anne xx