Ally Pally day two

So, despite engineering works on the railways and having to get a train that took twice as long as normal to get up to London, going a long way round, off I went for day two... no nerves this time,as I was just spectating!

it was a beautiful, sunny warm morning - but very misty over London - Alexandra Palace is one of the highest spots in London (hence the siting of the television mast in the 1920's when the BBC tv started) and on a clear day you can see for miles (in fact you could by the time I left after the mist/fog had cleared)

 even in the mist, you get quite a good view, and it's a lovely one!










Today's guest demonstrators were Jo Myhill and Deborah Wainwright..

 First up, Jo, working on fabric with image transfers.. here are her BEAUTIFUL samples she brought

 here she is explaining how to do the image transfers.. I made notes but still not sure I got it all..

 layering up with lace and bits..

 and her finished result.  gorgeous, Jo!!

She did several more, during the day, which were all fabulous.

 Leandra was stencilling grunge paste through stencils to try the bistre powders

as seen here in the background, think I forgot to photograph a few stages!  The hotpick flowers on top are also on a bistre background

 then a lady was asking about the clear tar gel and if you could use it through stencils... so Leandra mixed some up with Professor Plum paint-  and had a go!

it does take a while to dry though.

then, on to more tags - demonstrating the difference between applying paint with a brayer (tag on left) and a brush (on the right)

 lots of layers of colour!

 Then it was Debs' turn

 Jo's still going, lol!

Lin watching intently!

 Debs was playing   working with gels and mediums and the bistres.

 Jo eventually cleared up  and finished her demonstration!!
never seen her workspace so tidy... (sorry Jo!)



it was great to see Cindy and Margaret too, today, even if you escaped the camera!

and I know I did say I wouldn't buy anything today..


well not much! some chipboard twiddly flourishy bits, another big heart, a couple more pots of bistres and stencils...

 aerial shot, you can probably see a bit better in this one

Chris, you wanted a close up of the wooden bits - think you probably meant the trees?  we did a make and take with Courtney, (the one on the left,  - obviously!) so I bought a couple more to make a little forest... well copse, 3 doesn't make a forest, does it!

but the hearts are gorgeous too.

Now of course the weekend is practically over and I don't have time to play.... !

Elizabeth,you mentioned in your comment hearing that this was the biggest show in England ... well, it's not really, certainly not any more, and by the time I did my demo a lot of people had gone and I was left "playing" to mostly friends!!

Julia - I wasn't serious all the time, honest... look I found some more pics of yesterday..

see, I was laughing!

Journal play - out of my comfort zone

I seem to have made this journal page in very neutral 'Jo Myhill'  colours, quite unlike me - it just developed!!

I started by using various light shades of Fresco - Hint of Mint, Concrete, something creamy, Vanilla maybe... I knew I should have made a note...

I used a piece of paper from the Prima Seashore pad, cut into pieces as shown, and cut a piece of hessian into pieces too (bought this way back at the Craft Barn in June with Lin, and only just used any of it!!)

Anyhow, I layered them up and stuck them down with matte medium.

 Added some grunge paste through a stencil and some Glass Beads texture gel , left it to dry overnight when it changed from clear...

 to this funny  brown where it overlapped the paper... hmmm not very fond of that!

so I decided to hide it - had some leftover die cut leaves from the same Seashore pad, in a blue/cream check pattern, stamped the Memory Box drift flowers on the papers using Potting Soil and orange Blossom archival, and dry brushed the grunge paste with hint of mint (over the background) and mushroom (over the paper) to lessen the white

found another little square of the check patterned paper, and stamped a drift flower on it, edged the border with walnut stain distress ink' and filled the space in the middle of the page.

Used one of the sentiments from Sara Nauman's ESN09 on some white Smoothy card, and edged it with Broken China and Walnut Stain distress ink..

Quite like this page, it's very restful, I can see why Jo likes neutrals so much!!

Thanks for looking.