Creative Blog Hop

Hello Everyone,

Welcome to my blog today - I have been nominated by my lovely twitter friend, mass of hair, to participate in this creative blog hop that is doing the rounds at the moment!

Mass of Hair has a lovely blog where she regularly posts wonderful projects - if you want to learn a bit more about her pop over *HERE* to see her creative blog hop post :)

So here goes my five questions:

1) Something about myself

Well I am 31 years old and have been married for 2 1/2 years to Richard.  We moved very recently into our new home together which is near Darlington - aka up north!  We both work full time and have two cats which are like my babies :)

I went to university in Huddersfield and now work for a large pharmaceutical company in a laboratory that performs testing on tablets.  This year I will have been working there for 10 years!

Richard is pretty active and loves playing lots of sports - so when he's off doing that I spend my time creating!  I started crafting about four years ago when I met a lovely lady called Margaret at a local fair.  She was handing out leaflets about a crop group she ran - I went along and that was that, I loved it!  The scrapbooking rapidly moved into card making and that is what my main craftiness revolves around.  People love to receive handmade cards and so I think it is such a great hobby and a way to show someone you really care.  Most of my makes involve stamping, inks, paints and any other general mess that can be made!

2)What are you working on at the moment?

Recently I decided to take up art journaling as it is something I see a lot of other people do and they make it look so easy!!  Well after a few attempts it really isn't as easy at it first appears....but currently I am working on a journal page to join in Darcy's journal challenge on the Paperartsy blog.

3)Why do you create what you do?

The main reason I create is simply because I enjoy it!  I just love taking myself of to my room (yes - I have a room now since we moved house!) and just sitting peacefully and creating anything.....most of the time it doesn't matter what I'm making I just enjoy the process.

4)How does your creative process work?

Lol! I definatley do not have a creative process at all!! I sit at my desk and look at what I have around me or in my cupboard and then will just make something!  Really no forward planning involved! Sometimes I will see some challenges out there in blogland that I want to join in with so that helps me decide what I'm doing too.

5)How do you stay focused/motivated?

I'm not really very patient when I'm creating - I want to see the finished project all done and completed the same day.  So to stay focused I usually don't do long drawn out projects that go on for days.....everything I make is done in a few hours at the most.

I would like to nominate my lovely Splodgeaway design teamie Kay Foreman to carry on the creative blog hop baton!

Kay is a wonderful lady and we have met in person several times at various classes around our area so please do pop over and visit her  *HERE*

Thanks for stopping by my blog today, I hope I haven't bored you too much!!!

Claire xx

Amazing Finnabair Workshop

Hello Everyone,

Thanks for visiting my blog today. I have a very special project to share today.....last weekend I attended Finnabair's Harsh and Soft workshop and it was amazing! Finn is so talented and she is also very friendly and funny too.

The workshop was ran and organised by the wonderful Sue Tucker and was held on Wynyard Business Park.

So here is my workshop make:

We were told to bring a photo of ourselves - not something I would usually chose to put on my projects!! This is me at my wedding reception in 2012.

Here are a couple of close ups:

I want to mount it onto something a bit sturdier and hang it on the wall in my craft room I think.

Overall it was a lovely day and I hope to do another Finn class next year :-)

Thanks for looking today,

Claire xx

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Faces six and seven

To catch me up a little with the 29 faces challenge today I have two faces to share:

Pencil sketch of a boy and girl - this is my first boy face ever....think he still has a little bit of a femminne touch to him but never mind.....it's all good practice!

Thanks for looking,

Claire x

 

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Face Five

Hi Everyone,

Today I'm continuing the 29 faces September challenge with my fifth face.

Here she is:

Simple pencil sketch then decided to add just a bit of colour to her lips and eyes with spectrum noir pencils.

Thanks for visiting today,

Claire x

 

 

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Fourth Face

Well I'm running very behind on the 29 faces challenge but am going to do as many as I can!

Here is face number four.....

I think she is my favourite face so far. She was drawn with pencil and coloured using spectrum noir pencils - I haven't used these new pencils much yet but from the little I have used them I have to say I really do like them!

Thanks for stopping by today!

 

Claire x

 

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Face number three

Here is my third face for 29 faces - more info about this challenge can be found HERE

 

Pencil sketch coloured using a mixture of the neocolour II watersoluble crayons and reeves water soluble crayons.

Thanks for looking today,

Claire x

 

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Second Face for September

Hello

Here is my second face for 29 Faces for September.

I tried a pencil sketch today:

 

Thanks for looking,

Claire x

 

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