Stamps Ahead

Yesterday, the time had come to welcome 10 ladies to my Creative Canvas workshop. Please enjoy their beautiful and colourful work.  Rather than compress the photos I am giving them to you in all their glory.   I want to thank Laly Mille for her Art Soul Retreat back in July that has inspired me greatly. I have sent a thank you to her for this inspiration.  Want to know more about Laly why not check out her website   A big thank you also to the ladies who attended - for all this was a new creative experience - I hope that you enjoyed it as much as I did putting it all together for you.  Margaret and to quote Albert Einstein Creativity is intelligence having fun.

It is 12.32am here on East Coast of New South Wales and later today I will be leading a workshop with some local ladies on the Central Coast.  They will be creating a mixed media collage/abstract art canvas.  More on that later in another post.  Here are some of the items I have prepared for them..                                                       For each participant I created this little folder of goodies and a name tag.  Each person was asked their favourite colour and I have prepared a kit for them in that colour.  Each kit contains papers (including some tea dyed papers I made), fabric and lace pieces, bits and pieces. Inside also includes a small vellum envelope I madethat holds the lace and smaller surprise items. The back holds more 'yumminess". The folder is held together with a tea dyed torn calico tie. The folders grouped together. I also made them each a small notebook so they could make notes during the workshop.  To create the covers I made two masterboards o