Layered Lino Printing

Today did not get off to a good start at all! I had made some delicious soup yesterday which I tried to transport to Betty Makes HQ this morning and it all ended in disaster as my slow cooker tipped over in the back of my car sending the contents all over the back seats!! Why I did not secure it or put it in the footwell I'll never begin to fathom!!

So I had to dash into Tesco to get some lunch but upon arriving at BMHQ a jar of pickled onions leapt out from the boot and landed on my toe! OUCH! I now have a purple toe and it's very painful!

But the show must go on as they say and all I could do was laugh at my eventful morning and look forward to greeting the ladies coming to the workshop this morning. 

Today I wanted to show the ladies an overprint and to make a design using one or more stamps layered on top of each other. This was my example I made on Friday:

So the lovely Emma, Michaela and Collette set to with their designs - and dare I mention that Christmas was involved! Michaela wanted to see what she could create with her beautiful fox design she already uses on cards that she sells on Etsy, Collette was thinking Christmas and has an obsession with deers and Emma, who also had an eventful morning involving a runaway Boxer, had teapots and teacups in mind!

They all had wonderful ideas and the final prints were absolutely beautiful - 

Michaela sells these beautiful cards and other wares over in her Etsy store!

What would you design with a lino print?

I am away on holiday now with a relaxing holiday in Cornwall! The next workshop after that will be Learn To Sew where you can get to grips with a sewing machine and make a tote bag! 

Thank you for reading! Hope to see you at a workshop soon!  

Jean-Mary Xx

Lino Printing and some really gorgeous tea-towels!

Last night saw the first Lino Printing on Fabric workshop!

I had been really looking forward to this workshop as people bring their own unique ideas and come up with different ways to be creative here and I was excited to see what they would design!

And they certainly didn't disappoint - I loved every one of their designs and once they got into it their imaginations were ticking over and we ended up with multi-coloured and multi-layered designs. Some commented after that they were now thinking of more designs and couldn't wait to make some more!

It was also lovely to meet some more Twitter people - @knitnrun4sanity, @notsogranny and @sparklyboa!

In future I will be making up kits to sell if people want to carry on at home.

So here is the evening in pictures -

All set to go!

Tea and coffee at the ready!

Completely absorbed by the cutting out process.

More industriousness!

@knitnrun4sanity

@sparklyboa

@notsogranny

And of course my stamp design!! 

Beautiful!

I am now very much looking forward to the next Lino Printing workshop where we will be layer stamping on a set of cards! Sunday 14th July - click here to book!

Jean-Mary

First Workshop!

Betty Makes has seen it's first workshop!

Last night I had five lovely ladies in to learn how to crochet, they were so engrossed I found it hard to tempt them up with tea and battenburg! 

I am so proud of them as they all picked it up much quicker than I had expected (judging from when I first learnt!) and some of them have already booked onto the next two workshops so they can learn more crochet techniques!

I thoroughly enjoyed myself and when they weren't concentrating hard we chatted away and one even had uncontrollable giggles so we had a fun night! 

I have spent the last 3 weeks getting together all the furniture together, painting it all and getting everything prepared and so I have now got lots of photos to show you all finally and some from last night too! 

Do take a look at the website as I am adding more workshops weekly - I have joined forces with Jenny Tidman to offer you all wet felting and needle felting workshops and I highly recommend them as she is so talented and a great teacher!

I have also added gift vouchers as an option for you to buy gifts for people! 

You can also sign up to the newsletter to find out all the Betty Makes workshop news too! 

Here are some pictures of the studio and the first workshop!

These beautiful chairs were painted by Michelle of Snickerdoodles Unique and Shabby Chic - go check out her furniture for sale!

My freebie filing cabinet - was dark green, now very pleasing on the eye!

The counselling end - my day job!

All set for the crochet workshop

Concentrating very hard!

These two lovelies have stepped over from knitting to crochet in one evening!

Managed to get them to stop briefly for this lovely snapshot!