Fun at Antonis Tzanidakis' mixed media workshop

2 weeks ago I travelled up to  Country View Crafts HQ to attend the Saturday workshop by Antonis Tzanidakis'

 For those of you who may not yet have heard of this incredibly talented man, he is a mixed media artist from Athens who travels the world to share his talents. For the first time I got to work with oil paints...incredibly messy but incredible fun! He really is a delightful person and like all Greeks has a very English sense of humour.

I attended both the morning and afternoon workshop. 

In the morning we made a 3D steampunk panel using some very cool techniques...I will obviously not share his teaching but these are a few of my work in progress photos. I started off with 2 completely bare boards and started to layer them up.

and this is my finished work.

with a close up

I would like to enter my mixed media wall hanging into the following challenges;

Mixed media world on Facebook May challenge
Emerald Creek Guy style
SanDee and Amelie's steampunk challenge May anything goes

In the afternoon we altered a book, mine was none less than Lady Chatterley's lover!!

 We altered a clay heart on the cover with lots of rusting techniques.

and this is my finished book; the cover...

and the inside.

I would like to enter my altered book into the following challenge
Mixed media Monthly challenge  Rust

It was a superb workshop, Susan of Country View Crafts was the perfect host. She offers lots of fab workshops..do check out the website here.

One last photo shows our group...lots of happy crafters here! Susan kindly allowed me to share this photo she took as we said our goodbyes.

Thanks for stopping by.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

Rusty love

After the heat and wall to wall hot sunshine of the weekend we are back to our more normal spring temperatures. I think it must be a good 10c cooler today but at least the sun is still shining.

 My frilly pansies have bloomed all winter and are still showing off now...they are so pretty with their rusty coloured veins. This links in quite well with my blog post today...

 I'm here today to share my 2nd DT post for Country View Challenges where our theme for the month is "Rust". If you missed my first post, where I shared a rusty birthday card you can see it here. For this project I chose another of those inky rusty off cuts and decided to turn it into a rusty heart. I drew a heart on paper

and used it as my template.

I traced round it and cut it out

and then got out my rust coloured DecorArt paints to alter it further.

I added more paint

and also added some to my other offcuts.

To add texture to my rusty heart I applied some frantage.

When it had cooled I went over areas of it with metallic Distress paint.

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For a background I stamped my old Visible Image Bronte verse script stamp and  die layered it up with some die cut card using my Mixed media die by Tim Holtz.

It was then time to put all my elements together. Here is my finished card..which has already sold in Dotty's Tearooms.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges;

Allsorts 3/3 bring on the bling
The Ribbon Girl 3/3 April any card challenge

Thanks so much for stopping by today and remember you have until 30th April to get rusty and join in with the fun over at Country View! This is the link

Back soon...yes I have not forgotten about my Ally Pally post, I will share it later this week. Thanks for all your lovely comments on yesterday's Ally Pally post and a very warm welcome to my newest followers. 

Bye for now,

Jane x