Carmens Creative Creations: Anna Finnabair & France Papillon

Hi everyone!

Shall we give this blog another update hu?! Jeez, I’m really a sucker when it comes to regular posts! But hey, I’m creating in the meantime, so it’s not that I’m lazy, lol.

Where should I start… September!! The 20^th started veeeeeery early with a trip to De Craftorij in Holand to celebrate their 5^th anniversary! They had a lot of make&take’s going on (I did one with Marleen Van Meerendonk with Art Anthology products), yummy goodie-bags for the visitors and the cherry on the pie… a whole weekend filled with workshops from Finnabair! I took her “Rich and Textured” lay-out class on Sunday and boy, I had so much fun again! (I had my first classes from Finn in 2013 already, you can find a blogpost about that!) below this post you can find some pictures!

After September comes October :) Again a trip to De Craftorij for some classes with…France Papillon! Yes it crazy, going to Holland to take a workshop from a Belgian lady! Unfortunately we don’t have a lot of (good) hobby shops in Belgium, so that’s why I often go to Holland. I took 2 classes with France, the first day I made a tag-book (wishful chronicles). What an awesome way of teaching, we had like 10 minutes to stamp the whole thing, can you imagine?! But so much fun when you don’t have the time to overthink and just go with the flow! Really a technique that I will try again! The next day we made a mixed media handmade book (lost grimoire) with awesome techniques on the cover and some cool bookbinding as well! Totally love my projects I made that weekend, thanks France & Lia!

We’re in November already, and I spend the last couple of weeks on making cards for some colleagues of my mom. Some birthday cards, some random cards and yeah, my first Christmas and new year cards as well! I ‘ll continue this month with making cards, ‘cause the season is coming, lol.

And what about December? Well, then I’m heading off to De Scrapheap in Holland, to make a wonderful graphic 45 mini yearbook with Monique in 't Groen! Really looking forward to seeing Carla again, she’s such a nice lady (with such a nice store, haha)!