Dearie Me

I should just start every post with "Long time no see..." lol
There's no point in apologising, I'm sure you all realise that life gets so busy at times that you run out of time to blog, or even craft.
Since we last spoke I've moved house again, back out to the country, so it's meant a bit of upheaval for everyone, especially the kids who have all had to start at new schools. But kids are resilient creatures and they've taken it all in their stride and settled in really well - although they have had the odd wobble, and miss their old friends, they have been amazing. Even Scott has commented on what an improvement his new school is.
So we've also had a few birthdays, Faith was 9 in the summer, Scott turned 16 (I know, how the hell did that happen!!) last month and Willow was 11 just the other week and oh boy those hormones are running riot there! Graham's birthday was today, but as he's offshore we celebrated it last week when I had my day off.
We've been incredibly busy at work too, we had our Winter Craft Retreat in September, which was a huge success - so much so that we're almost fully booked for the Spring Retreat, then we had Scraptacular, which was a new venture for us and something we're hoping to develop further for next year, and various classes and wedding exhibitions too.
I have to say, I really enjoy the wedding exhibitions. Its so nice to talk to couples who are all excited about their wedding and hearing about their plans.
Anyway, now that we're pretty much caught up on all my news, I'd love to hear how all of you are in blogland.
So because it's been an age since I shared any crafting I'm going to schedule in some posts featuring the projects I created for the Winter Craft Retreat.

This was one of the first classes I taught at this year's winter retreat - back to using one of my favourite media... alcohol inks.
I used a selection of Adirondack alcohol inks and Letraset inks on a variety of surfaces including glossy card and heat resistant acetate. 
Here's a list of the supplies I used: 

Oyster Contour Card*

Kraft Card*

Black Card*

Diamond White Card*

Heat Resistant Acetate

Glossy White Card

Tim Holtz "Words For Thought" stamps

Tim Holtz "Mini Holidays 5" stamps

Tim Holtz "Paris Memoirs" stamps

Embossing folder

Buttons

Alcohol Inks

Blending Solution

Stickles

Sanding Block

Archival Inkpad

Tim Holtz Tattered Poinsettia Die

*all produced at Stoneywood Mill and sold at Papeterie Crafts

Designed by Debbi Glennie for the Papeterie Winter Craft Retreat 2015. Copyright of all designs belongs to the designer and therefore may not be replicated for class purposes without written permission.

Thanks for visiting, I appreciate any comments Debz x

Hello strangers

Hi there, long time no see :) I'm not going to bore you with apologies, I just haven't had time to do much crafting let alone have time to blog about it, but I'm back to report on the Spring craft retreat at The Papeterie - its been a lot of hard work, but it was worth every minute.
This was the first retreat where we had 3 days of classes, tiring but great fun!
On Friday, I only taught one class - the Bright Distress Box. Anyone who knows me, knows I love bright colours - I've never really been a subtle pastel kind of girl.
This is what we made...

Supplies:

Triangle paper mache box

Watercolour paper

Distress Ink inkpads: Picked Raspberries, Mustard Seed, Peacock Feathers, Gathered Twigs

Ranger Mini mister

Ranger Ink Blending Tool & Blending Foam

Tim Holtz Stencils: Rays, Splatters, Dot Fade

Distress Markers: Picked Raspberries, Peacock Feathers

Tim Holtz stamps: Paris memoirs

Tim Holtz 'writing desk' sizzix die

Distress Glitter: Black Soot

Seam Binding

and here are some pics of the ladies on the class, which I taught on Friday and again on Saturday...

Thanks for visiting,
 I appreciate any comments 
Debz x

Catch Up 3

Third catch up today, after the promarker/flexmarker in the afternoon I had a beginners water based marker class - we used Aquamarkers, Neon Markers and Metallic Markers which are all water based....

and these are the techniques we covered with the water based markers...

Debz x

Catch Up 2

Another catch up post for you, this time it's my Promarker/Flexmarker workshop from the other week at The Papeterie....
First up was a Beginners promarker/flexmarker class - we coloured a few different images: a character stamp, a floral stamp and a teddy bear stamp. This was to give the class a feel for various different applications, how to blend and add texture.....

Debz x

Catch Up Time 1

Well I've been MIA for a month, sorry about that - so much going on at the moment that I barely get time to blow my nose nowadays.
Since the last time we spoke, so much has happened but I want to catch up with some of the classes I've done lately.
A few weeks ago a lovely man from the Discovery Awards Scotland came to The Papeterie to ask if we could supply a papercraft teacher to teach 2 x 1 hour classes for some of the delegates at their AGM which was being held in Aberdeen for the very first time. They had been let down by the origami teacher they had already booked. 
The Discovery Awards are an achievement award offering challenges to over 50's and I was lucky enough to meet the founder at the AGM who was a true inspiration.

I made up wee packs for them that included all their diecut shapes and components plus a wee flyer telling them about The Papeterie.
Here are some of the lovely ladies I was teaching...

And here are some of the ladies with their finished bags and boxes....

 Debz x

Home

Willow got home from hospital today, a couple of days sooner than expected, so hopefully we'll be back to normal soon.
I've figured out dates with the lovely Charlotte for some absolute beginners craft classes in March, so check out The Papeterie on Facebook for all the info. The classes are designed for brand new crafters and the class introduces a variety of techniques and card designs with lots if useful hints and tips along the way.
I taught 2 groups last weekend, so hopefully we've inspired them...

Good Monday Morning

Well, the holidays are over, back to school today - but it wasn't so bad getting up early today, I had a bit of practice over the weekend.
I want to say thank you to everyone who came to see me at Hobbycraft Edinburgh - I hope I answered all your questions and have inspired you to get the best out of your promarkers. I especially want to say thankyou to Cass for making a special trip especially to visit me - as always, it was lovely to see you and the family. And not forgetting Vicky and all the staff at Hobbycraft, it was such a pleasure to meet and work with you.

I have been putting together a colour combo chart for funky coloured hair - I wanted to do a whole rainbow of hair colours, so I might share that tomorrow - finally got it finished on Saturday. 
I have one more demo day to do this year at The Papeterie, and the kids school Christmas Fayre to get ready for and then I may or may not have time to do my own xmas cards. 

My mum was watching the girls for me while I was away at Edinburgh this weekend, and she brought pumpkins with her - so I'll let you see them on Wednesday when I draw my promarker giveaway - remember to enter if you haven't already here. And don't forget to also enter Enfys's fab promarker giveaway too here, she's giving away a complete set of promarkers :)

Debz x

Hobbycraft - Edinburgh

Well, I'm writing this at stupid o'clock :) Am up bright and early ready to head off on the train to demo at the Edinburgh Hobbycraft store.

So if you are in or around the Edinburgh area please pop in and say hello, I'll be showing off some colouring techniques and can answer any questions you have about Promarkers.
Debz x

Create A Flake

Here are some of the samples I was demoing at the weekend - I made all 3 of thse just slightly different but using the same Create A Flake Three die set from Spellbinders...

 Spellbinders: Create A Flake Three S4-340, 2010 Snowflake Pendant
Hero Arts: CL630 Miracle of the Holidays
Diamond White, Blue, Ice Silver card and paper from The Papeterie.
I'm entering this one into:
4 Crafty Chicks - dry embossing

  Spellbinders: Create A Flake Three S4-340, Fleur de Lis Squares S4-318
Hero Arts: CL630 Miracle of the Holidays
Diamond White, Blue, Ice Silver card and paper from The Papeterie.
I'd like to enter this one into:
Totally Papercrafts - Christmas

 Spellbinders: Create A Flake Three S4-340, 
Hero Arts: CL630 Miracle of the Holidays
Diamond White, Blue, Ice Silver card and paper from The Papeterie.
I'd like to enter this one into:
Charisma Cardz - CAS


Debz x

Spellbinders Fun

 Thank you to everyone who came to my demos and classes over the weekend, we had lots of fun with the Spellbinders dies and M-bossabilities embossing folders.
We kept things simple with 3 cards at the class, using 3 new M-bossabilities folders...
here's the first one we made using the new Garden Lattice (A4 sized) embossing folder, Moroccan Motifs and Poinsettia dies

Spellbinders: Layered Poinsettia S5-055, Moroccan Motifs S5-065, Garden Lattice EG-003
Diamond White, Iced Silver, Emerald, and Guardsmen Red papers and cards from The Papeterie.

I'm entering this card into:

House of Gilli - embossing

Stamping Scrapping Central - embossing

The Crazy Challenge - hand made flowers

This second one is using my favourite christmassy embossing folder, although I think this side could also be used for general celebration cards...

 Spellbinders: Holiday Magic EL-014, Create A Flake Three S4-340
Diamond White, Ice Silver, Iced Black and Guardsmen Red papers and card from The Papeterie.
Hero Arts Greeting: CL630 Miracle of the holidays
I'd like to enter this one into:
Ooh La La Creations - christmas sentiment
Stamp and Create - winter wonderland
Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas - black, white and red

Spellbinders: Framed Labels One EL-018, Labels One S4-161, Create A Flake Four S4-365

Diamond White and Virtual Pearl paper and card from The Papeterie.

Hero Arts Greeting: CL630 Miracle of the holidays

I'd like to enter this one into the following challenges

Critter Sketch Challenge - embossing

HIMCR - diecuts

Debz x

All Set - Busy Weekend

I'm going to bed shortly - think it's a good idea to have an early night because of the wild weekend I'm away to have. No don't worry, I'm not out hoohaaing it up or anything, just got a busy demo and class weekend ahead.
Tomorrow I have my Spellbinders hat on and I'll be demonstrating all the latest christmas dies and embossing folders from Spellbinders, and showing you some clean-and-simple and fun ideas for christmas cards. Then in the afternoon I'm teaching a Spellbinders class, where we'll be using the same christmas dies and embossing folders to make some christmas cards.
Then on Sunday I do it all again, but this time I'll have my Letraset hat on and I'll be demoing promarkers and flexmarkers and using the wonderful Gorjuss stamps - you may have heard on the grapevine that these are no longer being manufactured, so you might want to grab these while you can. And in the afternoon I'm teaching a "next steps" promarker class.
So I'm all packed ready to take the train in the morning - definitely the way to travel :)
I'd love to see you all over the weekend, and if those demos aren't enough to tempt you then maybe the spectacular deal that Charlotte has for you will....
pop over to the Papeterie blog for details of the fantastic Big Shot deal - this weekend only!!
I'll leave you with some sneaky peeks of tomorrows cards...

 

 

 

Debz x

Playing Catch Up

I have some time to catch up on blogger today, am all up to date and finished my 2 Uni modules, just need to prep for this weekend now :) I still have 1 or 2 places left on my Spellbinders class on Saturday 20th and my next steps Promarker class on Sunday 21st. 
It's been a busy few weeks again so I thought I'd share some pics of what I've been up to...
Charlotte was off ill for a couple of weeks from the Papeterie, but Kath and I went ahead with the Papercraft Extravaganza last week. Thankfully Charlotte is feeling a bit better now and is back to work, so everything should be back to normal :)

And over the last few days I've done some Halloween classes for kids and here's a few of the things we made....

I'm off to have a nosey round blogland, then make a start on the spellbinders cards we'll be making this weekend
Debz x

1000th post and a winner

Argh, it's taking me longer than planned to get back into the swing of blogging. I have loads of work commitments at the moment, and it's not leaving me a lot of time to do things I can show on the blog. But enough of that, I have lots of news to share....
I thought you'd like to hear about some upcoming events at The Papeterie. 
Firstly, the very special, and very first Craft Retreat will be going ahead between Friday 21st and Sunday 23rd September - not long now. We're really excited about this: Kath, Erika and myself have some fab workshops lined up. If you're interested in joining us I think Charlotte just might be able to squeeze one or two more people in - there are workshop packages available with and without accommodation. 
Next I'll be teaming up with Kath and Charlotte to bring you our Christmas Papercraft Extravaganza - on Sunday 7th October. Make 3 papercraft projects during this fun day with the 3 of us - buffet lunch included. There are still places available - look out for sneak peeks coming soon here, and on Kath's and The Papeterie's blogs.

On Saturday 20th October I'll be demonstrating Christmas Spellbinders dies and embossing folders, and teaching a Christmas Spellbinders class in the afternoon from 1.30pm - 3.30pm.

Then on Sunday 21st October I have an intermediate Promarker/Flexmarker class from 1-3pm - this class is for people who have previously attended one of my beginner/basics promarker classes.
To book any of the classes at the Papeterie, please call 01224 802337

I have more exciting news for you.... Letraset have released 20 new colours to the Aquamarker range (there were previously 40 including the blender) Lookout for a wee tutorial from me on the Letraset blog tomorrow. 

Now you all know how I like my colour charts, so I made this one up to include all 60 aquamarkers. There is plenty of space to fill in the colours, I've made the spaces extra large because I coloured directly onto the colour chart with each colour, then used an acrylic block and a water brush to colour the other half of the space. And of course I printed the chart onto water colour paper for a true representation of the colours. A wee note of warning though - inkjet ink tends to be water based, so make sure you don't touch the lines or colour names with the water brush :)You can get the download link for the blank chart here.

Before I go, I'd better pick a winner for the Limited Edition 2012 Autumn promarker pack...... Mr Random.org selected number 11 which is Linda Simpson, congratulations Linda, please email me before noon on Friday and I'll get your prize out to you as soon as I can.   Winner will be redrawn

Don't forget to pop back tomorrow for another giveaway - it's gonna be a big one :)
Debz x

Hobbycraft, Falkirk

Yesterday was an early start - got up at dark o'clock and off to Portlethen Railway Station - where it looked quieter than usual.......

A big thank you to everyone who came to see me at the Falkirk Hobbycraft store - I hope you took away lots of hints and tips to improve your colouring :)

I had a great day - I really enjoy sharing my knowledge and helping others to enjoy their crafting. I always meet people who own at least some promarkers, but who don't use them and I love encouraging them to use them and giving them the confidence to start playing.

Something that always tickles me about Hobbycraft stores, are the slogans and artwork in the toilets...

Not exactly sure what they want me to create with in the toilet though :s lol
And it made my day to see 2 friends I've not seen in ages. My good friend Mar, who I haven't seen in a couple years came along to surprise me with her youngest son so it was great to catch up albeit briefly with them. And also a girl I went to school with and haven't seen since 1998 - she hasn't changed a bit and we definitely need to catch up more often.
So this week I'll be busy busy with prep for my demo and class this weekend at The Papeterie, and some work for the Letraset blog, hopefully I'll get some sneaky peeks up.
Hope you've all had a super weekend - roll on Friday :)
Remember to enter my promarker giveaway - theres just a day and a half left to enter.
Debz x

It's Friday!

Yup, it's Friday - the end of the week for most folk - but the start of the week for me :) Tonight I'm going to be making Father's Day cards with the local Brownies, so I've kitted up all set for that - with a bit of luck I'll have some photo's to share with you tomorrow. Then on Saturday I'm demo-ing Promarkers, Flexmarkers and the brand new Sakura colour pencils that are in stock now at The Papeterie.


So today I thought I'd share some sneaky peeks of some of the samples I've done for The Papeterie...

I'll be on hand from 10am - 12.30pm tomorrow if you'd like to join me at The Papeterie, where I can answer any of your colouring questions.


Later today my boy gets back from his school residential trip, I can't wait to see him again, we've missed him heaps. It's the first time he's ever been away from home other that going to his dad's. 


Thanks for visiting, 
I appreciate any comments 
Debz x