sugar and spice

You know when you just NEED one of them days....... Well today I got one of THEM days. And how lovely it was. I spent the whole day with the lovely Paula Poston making, making, making. I found an old Moleskin book that I'd had for ages and had washi taped the front, so I ripped that off, that's the joy of washi :) :) and got to work. My love of all things Paper Artsy at the moment was the inspiration and then any excuse to play with the Heidi Swapp Color Shine and I was on my way..... I stepped right out of my comfort zone for this one, as I don't normally do MESSY and certainly not random, I'm a clean and simple girl at heart. But I had such fun, spritzing and painting and masking and stamping and ....... Well, I'll let you look for yourself...... This is the front of the book, I've stamped onto tissue paper, painted it, spritzed it and stuck it :) These two pages were, spritzed, stencilled and stamped. Here's a little close up. And lastly, and this is my f...

How amazing was our Paper Artsy Demo Day !!!! We're still on a high from it and have listened to your request to follow it with a class.....so here goes:- We're on fire right now. Not only have we completely filled Barb's Secret Drawers Class (no surprise there) but we've been designing NEW classes for YOU... Marion is doing a layout class using the fabulous Paula Pascual hexagon dies from Sizzix. Here's a sneak..... She's also doing the fabulous Paper Artsy Canvas Class (shown above). And if that's not enough Marion's also working on an up coming card class and Nina is just putting the finishing touches to a gorgeous mini album. Those dates will follow shortly, but to see the deets on the above mentioned classes pop on over to the website, take a peek, get excited, call the shop..... And book YOUR place, you know they sell out quickly. You can check them out HERE - Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

We've been so looking forward to this demo day and we would have loved to have Leandra there, but it's her birthday and well, you know, it wouldn't be fair..... She has been soooooooo supportive, I can't thank her enough, I've just got back after setting things up ready for it, getting all our demos ready and then.......BAM !!!! We get a tweet from the queen herself to say she's coming along at 10am with all her demo gear. So come along and see the master at work and join in with us when we sing HAPPY BIRTHDAY to her. It's people like her that make this industry an absolute pleasure to be part of Join us from 10am Hugs Marion xxxx - Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

.......You missed the last gazillion blog posts about this......here's another LOL. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

It's AUGUST !!!!! Hugs Marion xxxx - Posted using BlogPress from my iPad