What a great week back in my studio 🙂  On Wednesday my weekly Art Clubs returned and it was so good to see most of my regular ladies and hear about their Summer breaks whilst painting wooden wine bottles…a fun 2 week project layering with translucent paints and embossing powders. Yesterday I held a Decorated […]
New Upcycled Vintage Bottle workshop
As my Upcycled Vintage Bottle workshop filled so quickly, I am running another one on Thursday 20th October in the afternoon.  Go to my workshops page for full details and let me know if you would like to come along. An easy way of booking a workshop is to leave a comment under the workshop you want […]
‘Happy Home’ pattern pack
If you fancy having a go at my mixed media ‘Happy Home’ project, it is now available to buy as a pattern pack via my shop .  This project is 100% whimsy goodness and great fun to do, using texture, paint layers, stamping, tissue work etc and can easily be altered with a different theme and colours. […]
Friends being creative together!
Last night I had the pleasure of teaching a private Decorated Glass workshop to a group of friends from Tewkesbury.  Everyone chose their own design from my many napkins and then learnt how to apply them to their glass piece. Yet again, beautiful pieces produced by beginners….love this class 🙂 I am running this […]
Decorated Glass class
Last night I held a Decorated Glass class and as always HAD to share the fab finished pieces 🙂 I am running another Decorated Glass class in September, pop over to my workshops page for full details about this and the other classes I am teaching…would be lovely to see you after what will hopefully be a […]
New September 2016 Workshops
Hi everyone I have some exciting news…….September workshops are now ready to book 🙂 For those of you who wanted to come to my Creative Scroll mixed media workshop in May but were unable to due to it being very popular and in the school holidays (my teacher students were very happy) I am running […]
One glass or two…workshop photos
Am feeling guilty…..we painted fab wine bottles last night but I didn’t offer a glass of the real stuff!! We layered paints to reveal shadows, embossed to give our bottles a shiny top (just like the real thing lol), blended shadows and dry-brushed highlights, and made vintage french labels too, well done girls, you did […]
Christmas Art!
I can’t believe between cooking our Christmas dinner and opening presents, I managed to add texture paste to a canvas for a mixed media project I am about to start….this girl just loves art…. and I finished on Christmas Eve, a wine bottle cutout that I have been dying to play with for ages. Â […]
Decorated Glass
It was lovely to welcome Yo (left) to my studio this week for my last workshop of 2015…Decorated Glass.  Pam and Yo decided on a festive theme for their glass dishes whilst Laura and Irene were inspired by flowers Tracey chose dogs for her dish, a present for a special relative…I’m sure she will […]
More Bottles!!
Last night I welcomed three new students to my studio for my second Upcycled Vintage Bottle workshop. Â Â Â Once again lots of fun, designing unique pieces with other happy crafters! Dawn x Â
Vintage Bottle Workshop
Some workshops just run like a dream and this was one of them! Beautiful finished pieces, everyone really chuffed with what they had created and we finished on time too! I love working with ‘vintage’ projects as you can’t really go wrong and as the pressure is off, my students often ‘go for it’ and […]
Been playing……
I had the bottle I had upcycled in my studio but felt that it needed something more so decided to try out some crackling…after all, it is an upcycled bottle so why not! Â I also fancied painting one in a different colour before antiquing and I’m really pleased with the results. Getting paint to adhere […]