It's been a bit quiet on my blog for a few days but there is a reason, I spent a weekend in Warrington at Artsy Crafts. Having taken part in Lin and Leandras workshops before I just couldnt miss this one, it had a special guest - Lynne Perrella.
I must say I had not really been familar with her work before but liked what saw on her website and I like to learn new things and venture out into different angles of crafting and so I just booked myself 2 day workshops with her. As always it was well organized and I met a lot of lovely people. The projects we did with Lynne still need some finishing touches and I will share them with you when they are ready. In the meantime check out this You Tube video to see everyone's work.
But the main inspiration I took away from this weekend was Lynne's love for oil pastels. She gave us a quick demo on a tag how she layered pastels with paints and stencils and I am totally in love.
The tag on the left is one Lynne did or me using an old photo of me and my sister. The next one is one I made using the same technique. And then the other two are ones I did at home yesterday. I also created a whole mirror in that style - I'll share that some time this week.
So overall a fab weekend, the venue was nice, the people were even nicer and I have taken away loads of inspiration. Thanks Lin and Leandra and everyone involved and especially thanks to Lynne - you are amazing!
I must say I had not really been familar with her work before but liked what saw on her website and I like to learn new things and venture out into different angles of crafting and so I just booked myself 2 day workshops with her. As always it was well organized and I met a lot of lovely people. The projects we did with Lynne still need some finishing touches and I will share them with you when they are ready. In the meantime check out this You Tube video to see everyone's work.
But the main inspiration I took away from this weekend was Lynne's love for oil pastels. She gave us a quick demo on a tag how she layered pastels with paints and stencils and I am totally in love.
The tag on the left is one Lynne did or me using an old photo of me and my sister. The next one is one I made using the same technique. And then the other two are ones I did at home yesterday. I also created a whole mirror in that style - I'll share that some time this week.
So overall a fab weekend, the venue was nice, the people were even nicer and I have taken away loads of inspiration. Thanks Lin and Leandra and everyone involved and especially thanks to Lynne - you are amazing!
The Disco-Tag (get it?!?!) will be entered into the Tag Challenge at The Stampotique Designers Challenge.
Brilliant stuff - haven't used my oil pastels in years, so must get them out. You were in Warrington? I could have come to say Hi because I live really close to Warrington and almost came to 'catch up' with Leandra because it's such a long time since I've seen her. Glad you learned so much and I'm envious of you getting to do a class with the great Lynne P!
ReplyDeleteFab tags! And thanks for the Youtube link.....I did the Friday class so it was nice to see what went on on the other days!
ReplyDeletewonderful tags!!!!
ReplyDeleteFabulous tags! Thanks for joining us at Stampotique Designers Challenge # 40.
ReplyDeleteFabby tags! Sounds like you had a fun time! I'm not all that far away from Warrington too!
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Fabulous tags. I love the colours an great use of stamps. Thanks for joining the Stampotique designer's challenge
ReplyDeleteLove the tags and the colors you have used on them. Glad you enjoyed the classes and happy you were able to join us at Stampotique Designer's Challenge this week!
ReplyDeleteSounds like you had a wonderful time Anika! These tags are fabulous!
ReplyDeleteAlison x
Brilliant tags-sounds like a great class!
ReplyDeleteReally lovely set of tags here. It sounds like you had a great time at the workshop. Thanks for joining us at Stampotique.
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