{"id":518,"date":"2015-04-22T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T14:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepaintpalette.co.uk\/blog\/welcome-swag-workshop\/"},"modified":"2016-01-02T18:11:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T18:11:06","slug":"welcome-swag-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepaintpalette.co.uk\/static\/blog\/welcome-swag-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Welcome’ Swag Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday the sun was shining and the Paint Palette door was open whilst we painted beautiful distressed ‘Welcome’ swags….a design by Tracy Bormann.<\/span>
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Everyone started with seven hearts cut out of mdf with holes\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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We basecoated them in one of my favourite Jo Sonja colours…Island Sand<\/span><\/div>\n
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distressed and painted letters<\/span><\/div>\n
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\u00a0learnt how to paint miniature roses<\/span><\/div>\n
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added extra blossoms to the background<\/span><\/div>\n
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and finally splattered paint to age each heart.<\/span><\/div>\n
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I kept everyone going with home-made cake!<\/span><\/div>\n
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and cuddles with Hugo were top of Sue’s list!!<\/span><\/div>\n
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It was great to have Helen and Linda back in the studio…<\/span><\/div>\n

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and lovely to welcome Sue to my studio for the first time.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Happy painting…<\/span><\/div>\n
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Yesterday the sun was shining and the Paint Palette door was open whilst we painted beautiful distressed ‘Welcome’ swags….a design by Tracy Bormann. Everyone started with seven hearts cut out of mdf with holes\u00a0 drilled\u00a0for string. \u00a0 We basecoated them in one of my favourite Jo Sonja colours…Island Sand   distressed and painted letters \u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepaintpalette.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_6800-scaled.jpg?fit=3264%2C2448&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71bqO-8m","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2643,"url":"https:\/\/www.thepaintpalette.co.uk\/static\/blog\/latest-workshop-photos\/","url_meta":{"origin":518,"position":0},"title":"Latest workshop photos…..","date":"2nd December 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"It was lovely to welcome Shirley and her team from work for a private workshop on Tuesday where we decorated glass pieces with napkins After choosing a design we loved from my extensive collection of napkins (I can't believe I now have over 100 designs!!) we layered them onto our\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Uncategorised"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepaintpalette.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/glass-finished.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":70,"url":"https:\/\/www.thepaintpalette.co.uk\/static\/blog\/may-news\/","url_meta":{"origin":518,"position":1},"title":"May News","date":"5th May 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Welcome to 'May News' from the Paint Palette studio..... 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