Craft Retreat 2, 2019 Post #2

I am actually on holiday in Australia at the moment so have just used anything I had to hand to make a couple of ATCoins.

 In my notebook I had these stickers that were part of Mickey Woodcock's workshop at CR2 with UK Stampers Network

The background is Distress Oxides on a self adhesive sheet of paper.

Once the backgrounds were coloured we then passed them around (What? WE have to pass our backgrounds round???) and all participants stamped a favourite sentiment on them until they returned to the beginning.

They were then ready to cut out and be used...

My first ATCoin consists of the sticker plus various rounds of coin - no punches to hand, so cut with scissors! The edge of each circle was edged with charcoal Versafine.

I added a bit of zentangling and the gems...

On my second ATCoin I just used part of the sticker

My daughter's printer will not take card - I printed this Oddball Art image by Eny Dunn on some parchment and then had a go at colouring with woodless crayons.

More to come... 

Another quick make using one of these stickers:

More details on my blog

Happy Crafting!

Places go quickly for our retreats and are limited so book your place early.
Contact us for more information about the 2020 retreats

Mickey Woodcock       ukstampnet@aol.com 

Elaine Erskine          erskineelaine@yahoo.co.uk

Or click on our link:  The UK Stampers Network Craft Retreats

Craft Retreat 2, 2019 Post #1

So CR2 is a few weeks ago now - I had intended writing up what fun we had before now, but the time has just passed me by!

Anyway here is Post #1 - and the final workshop of the weekend - mine!

<"arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The challenge was to make a peek-a-boo card - this one is one of my samples.

Ike was very kind to let us use Quirky Parrot from Ike's Art as the image - I coloured mine with Copics.

My peek-a-boo card is based on a tutorial from Splitcoaststampers but I changed it a little by printing the image and the sentiment first on the cards  used for the card parts.

The papers used to mat each section were made using distress ink in an embossing folder - an ivy design! As this is the cheap and cheerful retreat, we used recycled commercial greeting cards to make these.

Rather than using a die to cut the three windows, these were cut with a craft knife. A Tonic fuchsia window die was used to make the three frames round the three windows, also coloured with Copics.

I was delighted by all the cards made by the participants in my workshop...

Here is Netty's:

Great Fun!

Watch out for some more posts illustrating the other workshops!

Happy Crafting!

Places go quickly for our retreats and are limited so book your place early.
Contact us for more information about the 2020 retreats

Mickey Woodcock       ukstampnet@aol.com 

Elaine Erskine          erskineelaine@yahoo.co.uk

Or click on our link:  The UK Stampers Network Craft Retreats