UK Stampers Network: Craft Retreat 2, 2019 Post #3 Mickey Woodcock's Workshop

You may know that I am in my third week of a 9 week trip to Australia -
that's why I am 'on hold' at the moment, and will not be sending out any happy post!

I am finding it pretty difficult to catch up on my blogging... so I apologise for the lateness of these posts about our recent craft retreat.

Anyway here is post #3 about CR2.

Hopefully you have seen the first two posts - but they didn't really start at the beginning...

We started gathering on the Friday evening and met for dinner - lovely to meet up with friends old and new!

The next morning we arrived at the Wendlebury Village Hall in time to set up for the day...

We were welcomed by Mickey Woodcock

and then started with Mickey's Workshop... part of this was making the stickers that I mentioned in the previous post, but mainly it was to decorate a notebook. This was the brief:

In this workshop we will be making a small mixed media Gratitude journal. Mickey Woodcock will be taking you through different mixed media techniques to create a small journal that you can write in the big and the small things we have in our lives to be grateful for. You’ll be creating some inspirational handcrafted “stickers” and have the options of decorating your pages with washi tape. This will be a journal you’ll just love to write in.

I personally always love Mickey's workshops as they can be messy!

'Grateful' was made using three die cut words, sticking them together to make a 'chipboard'.

The covers involved a variety of paints and inks, stencils and texture paste.

This was mine...

What is really great about the retreats is the spin off crafting we do after the event.
Recently Sue Tossell and Karen Dunleavey got together and Karen decorated this notebook: