Heirloom Festival

Hi everyone:
As I mentioned in a previous post, I'm teaching a couple of classes at the upcoming Heirloom Festival. The dates are the 7th and 8th of March. I don't have my teaching times yet, but I put in a request to teach only on Saturday. But in the meantime, here are the class descriptions and a sample photo for each. I'll put up my times as soon as I have them! I hope to see you there.

Fragment Fun!
Clear Plastic charms are all the rage! Come and learn 5 different fun techniques for incorporating these into your paper-crafts and even turn one into a necklace!
Cost of the Class is 15$. Please bring your tool kit, including your heat gun.


Beeswax Mini-Canvas!
Beeswax is a fun and easy way to add dimension and beauty to any paper project. We'll use the melting pot to create an adorable mini-canvas (2 1/4 by 21/4) that has a subtle shimmer provided by perfect pearls. We'll try out the new Claudine Helmuth line of paints and learn about rag washing acrylic colors. Please bring your tool kit, including a pair of tweezers. Cost is 15$.

Heirloom Festival

My teaching schedules is up on the Heirloom Festival's site! You can follow the link, and scroll on down to register for classes. If you want to see photo's of the mini-technique book for both of the classes you can go on over to my flickr account (photos are labeled Perfect Pearls and Distress.) Here are the class descriptions:

Saturday, Class Area "B" 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Perfect Pearls Technique Tag Book with Wishful Thinking

Craving a little sparkle in your life? Well, Perfect Pearls are just the thing for you!
Come and explore their versatility while creating a technique tag book. We’ll learn 5 different techniques,
ranging from the basic image coloring, to the beautiful marbled metallic veins!
We’ll even get to play with the new Grunge Board as part of the process.

Cost $25.00 Supplies to bring: Craft Sheet, water bottle sprayer, heat gun, and glue pencil. Class Level: All

Saturday, Class Area "B" 1:30 –2:30 PM

Distress Technique Tag Book with Wishful Thinking

Do you love the vintage look? Wondering how to achieve it yourself?
Come and explore the wonderful world of Distress Products by Tim Holtz and learn how to achieve that well-worn vintage look
for your creations. We’ll be working with everything form the new line of Crackle paints, to his fun new texture hammer and
paper distresser, not to mention the new Grunge Board!
Learn seven different techniques all while creating a technique tag book for you to take home.

Cost $25.00 Supplies to bring Tape Runner. Class Fee includes basic tool kit. Class Level: All


I hope some of you will come and join me for lots of fun and shopping....I can hardly wait!

Crying Over Chicken

Crying Over Chicken, originally uploaded by bmandity05.

I have been super busy this week trying to get everything done for the Heirloom Festival that will be in Indianapolis the first weekend in March. I am teaching 2 classes and it's a bit more involved than my normal teaching. I had to design a seating arrangement of all things! But I've got all my samples done, my instructions typed-up, my class descriptions written, and a thousand other little things that had to be done. I'll be posting the link and the descriptions when they go up on the website.

In the meantime, I got this page done. I used paper, alcohol inks (for the eggs) and bubble wrap and acrylic paint for the orange dots.
I am hoping to have some other stuff scanned in for tomorrow--but I guess we'll see how that goes. I'm still trying to go one horrid step at a time!