Catching up...................

Catching up on recent weeks at the shop  -   we did a very intense workshop using Graphic 45 Birdsong papers to make a mini album, with lots of fine cutting ,those that didn't finish during the day finished the work at home and all were pleased with the results.



The two cards with Metal toppers are from a ' working with craft metal' workshop held on a friday evening, the third item  was to cover a Tando Hexagonal mini album with metal that was embossed and like the cards  distressed with black acrylic paint. - another fun workshop.

I'll try to be back sooner than last time - maureen 

Two future workshops............

We have two exciting workshops coming up, if you are interested in either please contact the shop to book a place.

• Saturday 13^th April – A day with Andy Skinner  10am to 4pm     Cost - £30
• An innovative workshop with the brilliant Andy Skinner.
• A Distress ink pad included in the price.

• Saturday 15^th June   -  Molly Bloom Workshop    10am to 4pm   Cost - £35
• Clare Rowlands, the designer of Molly Bloom stamps will be with us to take this workshop.
• A Molly Bloom stamp is included in the price of the workshop. Please bring your colouring medium of choice – Promarkers, Spectrum Noir etc.

Cuckoo........

We had some new Kaisercraft beyond the page kits in and I was given this Cuckoo Clock to make up, I used Graphic 45 paper for the front and a script paper for the clock face and flowers , the two birds were punched with an EK success punch.- I'm happy with the result! - maureen .

Saturday Workshop

We had a Tando clock workshop on saturday and the ladies were told to choose their own way of decorating the clocks but they stuck pretty well to the samples we had made, between them they chose the Carriage clock decorated in Graphic 45 'Ladies Diary ' paper and the Cuckoo Clock decorated steampunk style with Kanban papers, Sue chose the cuckoo clock with a bird paper. After the clocks were finished we gave them a large tag each to decorate with the scraps they had left, the pics show both these and the clocks

A good time was certainly had by all - Maureen

New Year....New Clock....

I've just finished decorating this Kaisercraft cuckoo clock, I used two 12x12 scrapbook papers, some acrylic paint , added a couple of punched out birds , a spellbinder flower and some Tim Holtz chain for the pendulum - i think i'm pleased with the final result  - Barry has a place for it in the shop window (i think!). Sorry about the shadows but the sun went away before I could get the photo taken!!

Maureen

Love came down at Christmas

The shop has sponsored a tree at the village Baptist Church tree festival, for the theme Barry chose the carol - Love came down at Christmas -we and  the ladies of the crafty natter group made hearts to decorate the tree as the photos show,Barry decorated the tree and I'm looking forward to seeing it some time soon! 
maureen.

Come fly with me.....

We had a workshop on saturday using the Tando kit with hot air balloons etc, the ladies (and Barry) each made a wall hanging and chose their own papers and colours and chipboard arrangement, sorry the pic is a little blurred.

Happy Birthday Barjanb..............

What a great weekend long celebration for our first birthday, it started last thursday with a make and take day then went on to a demo morning and afternoon workshop with the brilliant Andy Skinner, the pictures are from the morning session, everyone mesmerised by Andy's various techniques.
Saturday was to have been an all day workshop with Clare Rowlands of Molly Bloom fame but infortunately she was ill so Barry and Julia put together a half day workshop ,still on the molly bloom theme, and everyone was happy.
Finally sunday and a full workshop for John Glossop and the ' Post Industrial Clock' i'm not even going to attempt to describe it  but I do know there are some photo's somewhere around so hopefully will post pics later.
In between all of the above we had a craft fair in the Baptist church hall, the switching on of the village christmas tree lights and a cheese and wine party in our 'workshop' with a beautiful celebration cake that was cut by Robert Adams of Create and Craft fame and Monica Winfield from Radio Leicester who had both 'opened' the shop one year ago.
So that's it a busy busy celebration weekend that was enjoyed by all.
 Bye for now.... Maureen

It's beginning to look like Christmas......

We've got the Santa's in the window surrounding the lovely new Stampers Annonymous stamps we just had in , funny thing is people keep wanting to buy the santa's etc.

There wasn't a workshop yesterday so two of the regular crafters came in and under Barry's eagle eye decorated the christmas tree in the workshop and a lovely job they made of it!!
                                                                  Maureen

We're back................

Apologies people for not having blogged for some time but Life and Holidays have rather got in the way, at BarjanB crafts we are busy preparing for our first birthday, in about three weeks, we have make and take days and workshops over three days then we take part in the village christmas festivities as soon as all that is over. I'm posting a card made using the lovely Indigo Blu christmas tree stamp - it  begs for glitter embossing powder to be used and really stands out well .
                                                                     Maureen

Tando Birthday Blog Hop

This lovely Tando print tray Christmas Tree was made by Barry using Graphic45 papers, distress inks and ribbons and tiny Tando embellishments

Anne made up this Mini Print tray using Craftwork cards papers and various sewing items from her stash - a lovely gift for a stitcher!!

This one is mine (Maureen), I used a 10x10 frame, the Tall Houses,Works of Parts Come Fly with me and flowers from the Grab Bag, most of the pieces are covered with old book pages, I also used Coredinations card, and promarkers for colouring, the fram was painted, distress inked and crackle glazed.
I hope you are enjoying the blog hop and that you arrived here from Crafty Individuals, your next stop is here, if you need to start at the beginning here is the link.
Happy Birthday Tando!!!!!!

A lovely Topper...............

This fantastic 'Mad Hatters' hat was made by Barry using a Tando Kit which he covered in black felt and added  various embellishments

Days til..............

This is one of the first Tando Creative samples that we displayed in the shop , a lovely project to do and can be brought out every christmas.

The Team............

This is the BarjanB team showing off our winter sweatshirts in the newly arranged shop, I have to say that today, 9 months on, the arrangement is totally different and far more stock is on show but  'from little acorns................'
Anyway this is an introduction to Barry, maureen, Anne and Julia (front)  we three 'girls' don't actually work there but just keep turning up to share in Barry's dream !!