Membership of the Lifers club!!

As we are in a new year I have lots of new ideas for Art Of Life! The first thing I want to announce is The Lifers Club. This official membership to Art Of Life will bring you the following:


* Access to the Art Of Life Challenge Blog & Gallery. Optional challenges will be set once a month(to start with) and you will have the opportunity to display your work at Let's Talk Crop!
* Weekly journaling prompts
* Online classes and information
* A guaranteed seat at Let's Talk Crop
* Exclusive kits with stash, instructions & templates
* Membership to the Crop Gallery


If you are already a regular at Let's Talk Crop, congratulations! I have made you an honourary Lifer! Aren't you lucky? Details will follow by email...

For those of you who are considering Let's Talk Crop, drop me an email or phone me on 07841 502089. Alternatively, just come along!!

KI Memories Lace Cardstock

I have managed to get 2 of the lace cardstocks from KI Memories in the shop, if you want me to get hold of any of the others please email me and let me know!!

More Love Elsie Stash the 'Claire' range

This is the CLAIRE range from Love Elsie, I have the 12x12 papers in stock along with the chipboard book and matching alphabet. Sweet!!!

Any want to do a Doggy Book!!!

How cute is this book from Love Elsie, I'm going to fill mine with pictures of all the dogs in my family throughout the years!! The papers co-ordinate perfectly, so it makes life so much simpler saving time on finding the right papers! As usual if you want to pre-order email me!! I wouldn't want you to be disappointed!

Pretty papers from Dream Steet!

I have just had these lovely papers delivered to the shop, they are even better in the flesh- the photos don't actually do them justice!

Doodlebug Goodies!!

These 'Stick with it' adhesive transfers would be a very useful addition to your stash! They are so simple to use: They have two sides of adhesive and a white core to enable use on any colour surface with any colour coating! Just peel the alphabet stickers off the sheet onto your project then peel off the top layer, this reveals an adhesive letter (or shape )that can be sprinkled with any of the following: glitter; flock; embossing powder.

How versatile is that!! If you want to get your hands on some at the next crop then please pre-order via email at 'artoflife@hotmail.co.uk' to make sure you are not disappointed!

Heidi Swapp papers- Yummy!!!!

Just look at these beautiful Heidi Swapp papers, Scrummy aren't they!

Share & Tell Albums!

Just wanted to show you these wonderful Share & Tell albums from Pebbles Inc. They are a fab way of scrapping for those of us who want to get lots of photos into an album! The 12 x 12 album comes with page protectors that are divided into 6 individual pockets measuring 4x6". These can either be filled up with all photos or a few photos and a few journalling cards etc. These can then be combined with a traditional 12 x 12 LO as shown in the photos!

These are available at the shop: They cost £20-00 for the album and page protectors combined. You can also purchase the page protectors individually along with the journalling cards. If you would like to pre-order one of these albums then email me on artoflife@hotmail.co.uk

BOOK YOUR CLASSES!!!

Just a little note to remind you to book your classes with me at 'artoflife@hotmail.co.uk' It is essential that I know how many people I am doing the classes for! So if you wish to do the February LO class then please email me to book yourself in!!

February's Class 'A little more room'

The class I will be teaching on the 8th is this 12 x 12 page that incorporates a detatchable booklet which is neatly tucked in to little pockets! The first picture shows the booklet and the second picture shows the 12 x12 LO. It is still a work in progress but I wanted to get it on the blog to give you a sneaky peak at what we will be doing at Feb's crop! I will also be teaching you how to hand tint/ colour your photographs during this class.

I have used my LO to show off Heritage photos of my Mom & Dads wedding but this class would be suited to any topic that you have lots of photos for ! You could use it for showcasing a birthday party; a weekend away; newborn pictures; or where you have a story to tell! You will need one large sized photograph and can use from 5 to 15 photos to go inside the booklet, these can vary in size and can be added on to the LO after the class has finished!

If you would like to experiment with hand tinting bring along with you some black & white photographs that have been printed onto plain white or cream cardstock!

You will as always be given the opportunity to get together the materials for the class when you arrive, but I will also be offering pre-packaged co-ordinated kits with different themed papers for you to choose from to make life a little easier!

Happy New Year!!

So things have been a little quiet on the blog front lately! Well I've been having a little rest from Art Of Life over the xmas & new year holidays but I am now starting to get my canons firing again!! Really looking forward to a very creative and productive year with lots of new things going on here!!

CHALLENGES!
MEMBERSHIP!
BLOG CLASSES!
KITS TO PURCHASE!
JOURNALLING PROMPTS!

And as always my monthly classes & demo's at Let's Talk Crop!

I will be 'on the road' again with my mobile crop shop and workshops, the first stop being this Saturday at the wonderful Cutting Crew Crop in Brierley Hill, really looking forward to seeing Anita and the rest of the gang there. Then on the 24th I will be winging my way to the Cotswolds for my now regular 6 weekly all day crop with Sue! Can't wait to see you all ladies. Then on the 14th Feb I will be back with my Penkridge friends in Huntington!