TV date

In all my blogging about dates I forgot to tell you guys that I have another TV date. Create and Craft Channel 36 on Tuesday 30th March at 11am. Two new products this show and neither is a stamp!!, but I know you won't be disaappointed. We are bringing you stamping card in A5 at last. I have dithered about this one for awhile, but we put A5 in the Stamping Kit and I found myself using it a lot, just that bit easier. Don't worry we still have A4 if that is what you like.
and the other new product, something else you can stamp on....a pen holder. You may have seen a black and white Clematis sample I have on a pen pot. This product is so amazing I am still finding uses for it. You don't even have to be a stamper to appreciate it. You don't have to decoarte it, but being crafters you are bound to alter it in some way.
It is 100% recycled so thats good too! a great gift for yourself or someone else. It is coming in a pack of two so you can do both. I will try and get some images up before next week.
I want to know what you would do with yours. comments please

more dates

Studio Open Day Monday 5th April 10am to 4pm.Easter Monday Art and the Farm. All 6 studios will be open. A great chance to meet the creative minds behind Calf House Studios.

Classes and Workshops

Monday 22nd March 1pm to 3pm Making Backgrounds.£10

Wednesday 7th April 10am to 12-30pm Scrapbooking Crop £5
Friday 23rd April 10am to 12-30pm Introduction to Stamping Inc starter set to take home £20
Saturday 24th April 10am to 12-30pm Introduction to Stamping Inc starter set to take home £20

May Scrapbooking Festival

Thursday 6th May Introduction to Scrapbooking 10am to 12-30pm £10
Friday 7th May ALL DAY CROP starts 9am ends 8pm £10
Saturday 8th May 10am to 1pm Little Books make 3 small scrapbooks £10
Sunday 9th May Introduction to Scrapbooking 10am to 12-30pm £10
Sunday 9th May 2pm to 4pm Open House.

All at Calf House Studios, Cold Harbour Farm, Bishop Burton Booking is essential so phone Lynnda now.
Lynnda Worsnop 0750 896 2552

Dates

This week Beverley Scrappers have a crop at the studio on Tuesday morning 9th March there is is limited space at these events please book a place if you want to come along, for more details check out

http://beverleyscrappers.blogspot.com/2010/03/crops.html

Art and the Farm Open Event this is scheduled for Easter Monday 10am to 4pm I am afraid I don't have any more details yet. If you want me to keep you informed please email me to register your interest. I am presuming I will be demonstrating for a morning session and afternoon session.

More workshops and crops are to be arranged please email me for deatils
lynnda@oakhousestudio.co.uk

quick note before I dash off again

Hi everyone, sorry not many posts but hopefully it will all be worth it in the long run. The NEC was amazing and as ever full of surprises, we didn't have long enough to talk to anyone properly and we only saw Tim and Mario in the distance, sigh! but on the stand we did see/talk to/hug all of the following Suze Weinberg, Leanndra French, Lynn Robinson Hunter, Glenda Waterworth,Princess Pinflair, Barbara Gray, Lesley and Annette, Michelle Saxon, Gwen Fletcher, Kim Sutton, Nancy Watts,..... I could go on and sorry if I missed your name off the list.
Elaine and I did each day and had some lovely compliments about our designs and display. For Monday and Tuesday we were also joined by the very talented Tracey Spurgin who is a studio mate of mine and who I will be doing some projects with this year, including a trip to the Artisan show in October.
We had some new products samples on the stand of things we are due to release over the coming months and they got a great reception, all that is going to take some time to get to market.
The big project this week is two new releases for Create and Craft, no one else has the stamps so I have had to do all the samples. The show is on tomorrow morning at 10am and they have called it Get Stamping. Hope you will all be watching and cheering me on.

stop the world

I have made myself dizzy with running around far too fast in the last 2 weeks, yesterday I felt so ill I didn't think I would make the NEC at all. Fortunately there are some amazing people in this world, they include my family, the receptionist at the doctors, Andy at the stamp makers and the rest of the gang down there, Sharon who cuts my hair and Julie who makes my whole world stop for an hour or two with the most amazing massage I have ever had. So thanks to Julie I am off to bed and if you stopped by to seeing some amazing craft project with Oak House Studio then go check out www.wavesofcreativity.blogspot.com where Elaine, who has been bailing me out of trouble since I was 6 has posted some art work for this weekend

Get Stamping

I have been busy working on projects to include in a "get stamping" kit we will be launching on Create and Craft at the end of the month. The idea has been to put together a very basic set that means you can make a few cards with just the things in the box plus a pair of scissors a glue stick and maybe a pencil and ruler. If you have the added bonus of foam pads then hey you could go mad!
I have designed the projects in the box so that could be made with nothing more than said scissors and a glue stick. The idea being it could be a first step to stamping or a stamping set for those temporarily deprived of their stash, so they get a quick fix. Ahh now your laughing but when we sold something like this before I remember it being bought my Jan who is an avid stamper with loads of kit but all her equipment had gone into store for a couple of months whilst they moved house and suddenly Christmas was coming and she still hadn't got her gear back.
The box contains stamps, flowers ( OK so I designed it bound to be flowers!) words and as Elaine would say twiddly bits. Eleven stamps in all. 10 sheets of card in 4 pastel colours, 10 sheets of white stamping card. 5 card blanks and 5 envelopes, a block and two ink pads one of which in a duo pad with purple an green in it..so three colours of ink, so like they say when they sell CDs. 11 stamps, 5 colours of card ( inc white) and 3 ink colours, that is a whopping 165 different sheets of paper you could design with just one ink colour and one stamp on each, add combinations of stamps and colours as they say WOW!#
Just think how many different cards could be made just by stamping flat papers and cutting or tearing them to fill an A6 card.
It is amazing isn't it. As I said before everything in the projects has been made with just scissors and a glue stick, it has been hard not to reach for glitter or aquash. I did give in and use a paintbrush and water as I thought that was fair and the card could be completed without doing that.
Anyway this is just one card, watch out for the rest. Oh and if you like the flowers they will be available in slightly different format without the rest of it.
Elaine has been busy making an ATC with these stamps checkout her blog
http://wavesofcreativity.blogspot.com/

and now the fun starts

OK meetings over just a few more pricing bits to sort and we should have some lovely new products very soon
I have been asked about intermediate stamping courses, well Saturday's class fits that bill. With only a small number in the workshop is is very possible to give everyone pretty close attention and move people on when they are ready. I have two places left £5 each
Hope to have some images pretty soon. So keep checking back