A Week in Devon - Woodcote Shopping Event 12.07.14

Hello Crafters.

We arrived back home this afternoon after spending the week in
 Devon visiting some old friends. First it was my old schoolfriend
Liz, and her husband Steve. I met up with Liz for the first time
since schooldays in June last year. We were also able to meet
their two children, four grandchildren and Liz's mum.

We also met up with
a couple of my partner's
friends, Janet and
Richard. I met them
15 years ago when
I first starting seeing
my partner. During the
week we had some
really fabulous time
with both couples.






The only downside was that
someone smacked my car while it
was in the hotel car park. Fortunately,
we have a witness, the culprit's
details - a visitor from Spain
driving an English hire car - a
copy of his hire agreement and
a copy of the CCTV film.
Although the damage isn't massive,
I still need to get it sorted
out! Grrrr!!

Never mind. I have a craft show to focus
on now. It's at one of our local high
schools - Woodcote High. It's a two hour
shopping event and it will be the first
time I have done this one. I'll let you
know how I get on.

Finally, I thought you might like to see all of this week's book
markers together.

Happy a great weekend and happy crafting.

Workshop Book Markers

Hi, Crafters.

I had a couple of hours of "me" time today and had a manicure and a

pedicure. I think everybody deserves a bit of pampering now and again, don't you?

My time in my studio today
 has seen me experimenting
making book markers. 

I used the Stampin' Up!
Scalloped Tag Topper
punch to cut out the base.
The colour I used is Hello Honey.

I used the Pleasant Poppy background stamp for the two Hello Honey book markers. It's not often that I paint - although I love doing it - once I get started, I don't like to stop! I used the Hardwood background stamp and stamped off once before stamping on the front of the base. I did the same on the back but without stamping off - hence it is much, much darker. I stamped 3 butterflies from the Papillon Potpourri stamp set using Hello Honey

 ink on Hello Honey card stock and then punched them out. I adhered

 them flat onto the poppies. I don't agree with making book markers 

3D as they are going to be crushed inside a book.

I used the same card stock and poppy stamp for the second book marker. I changed the ink for the poppies and used 

So Saffron instead.  I stayed with the Hello Honey ink for the

 En Francais background stamp I used behind the poppies. As before, 

I stamped 3 butterflies from the Papillon Potpourri  stamp set but on 

Whisper White card stock, punched them out and adhered 

them to the poppies. On the back, I stamped with the En Francais 

stamp in Hello Honey ink, stamped 3 butterflies from the Papillon Potpourri 

stamp set using Hello Honey ink on Hello Honey card stock 

and then punched them out. 

Hopefully, I'll get more time tomorrow to work on some more. 

I don't think I will use either of these book markers for my workshops 

as there is too much work involved for the amount of time we have.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend, Crafters.