Phoenix Inspirations

I had to cancel a lot of my workshops last month but as you know they started back up today and as a little thank you for their patience (and for coming back!) I made all my ladies a little gift (everyone who attends one of my workshops in September will get one too). These are little 2" x 2" pads of post it notes that I have covered with card stock, some scraps of decorative papers and then a punched Blossom flower. Boho Blossoms punch was also called into action together with a bit of bling and a keyring. If you live in and around the Malvern area and would like to come along to one of my workshops (the next one is on Sept 18th) e-mail me on deezinesart@gmail.com for details and you too could get one of these pretty keyrings. See you soon - Jacqueline xx

Hi folks - hope you had a good weekend and didn't get too much rain. I managed to dodge in and out of the showers and I got quite a bit of weeding done. Managed to get some crafting in too - making something special for my big family lunch tomorrow. And also squeezed in a bit of time to make this - I needed a new keyring for my keys and thought that my Grungepaper would fit the bill perfectly. So I drew around some chipboard flower shapes onto the Grungepaper, cut them out and coloured them with my distress ink pads. I then punched holes in the middle of the flowers and put them all together on a jumbo eyelet (Stampin' Up). Before closing the eyelet I used a piece of Grungepaper to make a loop through which I inserted a ring binder clippy thingy (will change that though as soon as I get my Tim Holtz Idea-ology D-Rings through the post). Thing is - now I have made it, I don't want to put it in my handbag with all the rubbish that accumulates in there. Think I will have to ca...