Simply the best......

...and no, I'm not doing Tina Turner renditions here! LOL

...but it was definately better than all the rest!!!

On Friday I spent an AWESOME day in Milton Keynes

at the Artsycrafts workshop with

Lin (LB Crafts), Leandra (Paperartsy)

 and the Craft King himself...Tim Holtz

(still pinching myself here! LOL)

-oOo-

My first class of the day was with Tim.

Where our project was a configurations box.

We altered the box, and after a break, we came back to find a calico goodie bag crammed with so many neat treasures to fill our boxes.

(view finder slides, bottles, measure tape, ideaology charms, buttons, a  frozen charlotte doll (which just happened to be my fave thing), vintage car, cotton reels, bottle cap, bingo numbers, tickets, a metal birdcage, flowers, tokens, pen nibs, label, string ...)

  So then we all had fun filling our configuration boxes with such cool trinkets!

-oOo-

I didn't manage to complete my box in class, too busy dithering where to put it all!

But I have extended the fun this weekend and finished my box...

(adding some goodies from my own stash also :) )

Here is the end result...



Bottle, charms, frozen charlotte doll
The  little letters that look like 'printers blocks' we actually made in the class from grungeboard letters and grunge tiles.





cool little bottle cap and loving the bird cage!





Adored the vintage rule, which just happened to have my age on it! -Wow, did I really admit to that! LOL)
the little cherub is from my blog-buddy Margaret



Fabby view finder slides, cool vintage car and cotton reels!

  Tim is an amazing teacher, friendly, great sense of humour and so approachable.

.... It was a fantastic experience one that I will treasure.

-oOo-

After Lunch we went on to our second class with Lin and Leandra

 using some new PaperArtsy products, papers, chalk paint and metal card. 

and here is my offering from their wonderful class...

This is the first time that I've been on a work shop like this one.

So was very excited and slightly nervous,( not knowing anyone etc...)

..but needn't of worried,

... because I met some lovely crafty peeps in the bar hotel the night before

and of course in both of the classes

*Waves* to you all, and I will be round checking out your blogs/web-sites v. soon! ;)

It was a totally amazing crafting experience.

A Huge Thank you, to Lin and Leandra for organising this awesome event....to all the peeps behind the scenes for their hard work (esp. prepping all the kits!!) .. and of course to Tim, Mario and Ranger,  you all  made the day soooo special.

...and now can't wait to do it all again!

Thanks for Looking!

Jan x