July Calender

Hello! Just wanted to share a couple of art journal pages and my (late) July calender page for the challenge over at Kates blog. I had done it on time but had not had a chance to post it yet.

On this page I have used a download from Ceremony on the left hand side. On the other side I layered up some book print then stamped an image on to a single sheet of tissue paper. I used gel medium to stick it down and also over the top of it to make it see through so you can see the text underneath, mirroring the download. I used acrylic paint, distress inks and more stamps.

This page was acrylic paint, spray inks, TH masks and distress inks and stamps. The dressmaking dummy was again from ceremony. I printed butterfly wings onto blue tissue paper so they came out translucent when stuck down.

Here is my July calander page. Not as happy with it as some of my others as I didn't really have a theme for this month, still I am pleased I have kept up with it even if I always seem to be late posting!

The Wight Craft Circles 5th retreat is coming up soon and we have decided to open up a few places this year.

The dates are Fri 23rd Sept to Sun 25th Sept

Totland Bay youth hostel on the Isle of Wight

Tickets are £45 (non refundable £10 deposit required)

Arrival and check in on the Friday at 3pm, check out 2pm on Sunday.

This is a self catering event, there is use of a big kitchen and lots of take away places nearby. Because it is a youth hostel we ask that you tidy and hoover your room before departure.

Tea/coffee/ juice provided.

There are no classes at this retreat, it is just an opportunity to craft away with friendly like minded people all weekend. We normally all go for a walk on the Sat afternoon to get some group photos (weather permitting!) either to the beach or up the downs.

This will be the 5th retreat we have run and may be our last as the youth hostel is due to close next year.

To find out more please go our blog.

You can see photos of the venue and shots of previous retreats.

You can also leave a comment for me if you are intrested.

TFL

Sami x

Wight Craft Circle Retreat

The Wight craft circle held its first ever retreat at the weekend! We had 16 ladies attend and our venue was Totland Bay youth hostel on the Isle of Wight who went out of their way to accomadate us and all of our stash!It was a lot of hard work to organise but well worth it. So I would like to say a big thank you to all the nice ladies that came and made it an unforgettable weekend. New friends were made and bonds were formed and loads of wonderful crafting was enjoyed! Also a big thank you must go to Katie from Cre8tive online who came at the last minute with her shop so all of us IOW ladies could spend our hard earned stash money, you were great Katie!

Heres some pics of us all down at the beach on saturday afternoon. I am waiting to get copies of the photos paige took of the group shots.

Paige, Center front!

Faya, Anna & Nicole

Debs & Julia

Mandy & Paige

Zoe & Me

Before this weekend I had quite a naive attitude that all ladies who scrapped would be nice! Looking back I dont know why I just assumed this, Probably because everyone I have met so far in the scrapping world has been. When we started our crop new people came and have been nothing short of wonderful, when I post on UKS people are helpful, polite and willing to go out of their way to help you so I think it was a natural assumption. That theory has certainly been challenged this weekend so I would like to say again a big thank you to most of the women that attended and pulled together to make sure our weekend was not spoiled by the actions and attitudes of a few. The Wight Circle group will be looking forward to seeing you again in February at our next retreat.

I managed to catch up on SLYMI at the retreat as i was far, far behind! I did 5 of the LO's shown here and managed to make a mini book, I thought i had done quite well until Paige counted up her LO's and had done 12 plus 2 mini books!! Some of the photos are a bit blurry, sorry!

SLYMI Wk 30- scrap your independance

I chose this photo of me and my son because i think it sums up when i really became independant! I cant remember what the PP is, alphas are adornit, prima, gem and ric rac.

SLYMI Wk 31- something old, new borrowed, blue

I didnt go with the wedding theme for this one. The barn is old, the bridge is new and so is the PP (craft), the C/S is blue and the stamp was borrowed! I used a free programe called Rollip for the polaroid effect photos. The chipboard frame is MM and they were one of my purchases from the retreat!

SLYMI Wk 32- write in white

This is a photo of my dad and my son taken at a wedding a few weeks ago.PP is some left over doodlebug papers, a flower punch and thickers and doodlebug alphas.

SLYMI Wk 33- Scrap a square in a square

This pic is a bit blurry! This was a trip to a local theme park that my son won at school. I had already made a mini book but wanted to do a LO aswell. This was scraplifted from Paige! The PP's are all scraps and i have used stamps and primas aswell. The big letters are some I bought at the retreat.

SLYMI Wk 34-scrap from the sketch

This looks nothing like the sketch but i dont care!! The pp's are scraps again with a jornalling tag pinched from paige (its such a good job i was sitting next to her at the retreat!) pm alphas, riff raff chipboard and some buttons.

SLYMI Wk 35- scrap a bank holiday weekend

I did this one a while ago, just had not got round to posting it. The PP is Fancy pants rough and tough, circle stamp is stamps away and the arrow stamp is PM. The alphas are American crafts remarks which i coloured in to match the page.

SLYMI Wk 39- Scrap with your own handwriting

I had to use my new papers by My minds eye that i bought at the retreat, and thought this was the perfect photo for them. The pack is called bloom and grow and there was 36 papers for £10-bargain i thought! I have used some corragated carboard that i distressed and inked to put my title on. The little stamp at the side was by Crate paper Lillian collection but it was exactly the same design as the papers.

I have forgotten to take a photo of my mini book so will post that next time.

Thanks for looking!