Ally Pally - in a new hall

Well, today I went to the Big Stamp and Scrapbooking Show at Ally Pally in London. It was moved into a different hall this time ('elf and safety reasons) - the Great Hall.  I got there early, (queued for an hour!) before getting through the doors at 10 am...

 the view from the top of the hill - it was a lovely clear day.

 the Palm Court entrance. it is such a beautiful building, inside and out.

inside the Palm Court area.  This is where we used to queue, but no more!!

 The queen of demos. Leandra (left) and Lin. I spent hours watching them today - they were so inspiring. Leandra has tweeted some of her fab work, but I took some pics of what she was doing too, and they're at the end.

 the old organ, high up, behind the Paperartsy stand.

Gorgeous stained glass at the other end of the hall!

my stash - bit of a splurge, but it had to be done!! I needed a treat after a tough few weeks... it's not quite as bad as it looks as the orange stickers on the Tim Holtz stuff is all half price...


Now for Leandra's demo's (I didn't take any photos of Lin's demo's not sure why!)

 Leandra was demo'ing with puff paint and spraying watered down Fresco paints - I can't wait to give this a go...

and you get this!

This was based on her and Lin's recent visit to Ireland for classes with Finnibar (sorry, don't have her web-link) but this is Leandra's blog about it

You embellish first, then spray paint and then put the accent stamping on.... back to front but SO effective.

just stunning! Can't wait to try this too!



Thanks to Lin and Leandra for some amazing demo's today, I had so much fun, and it was lovely to catch up with some other old friends and some new ones too.









This is the fabulous tag Lin made and gave me - I have such a wonderful collection of these now, one day I will frame them and put the on the wall!!