I had my workshop today with Suzanne Cannon; Niches and Drawers. I had so much fun! Most of the ladies there were about 20 years older than me, but that was fine. Many of them were scrapbookers, and brought tons of supplies. I can see how this could become addictive, and so could buying all the fun little things.
The niche was easy, I didn’t have anything 3D on me that I really wanted to put in, so I kept it fairly shallow. Island Blue had supplied some thingys for us, I put a page pebble (clear raised plastic sticker) and a fancy brad on mine, along with some ripped up bits of the pages I took out (some slightly gilded). In the niche is a picture I liked from the book, coloured in a little bit with a calligraphy marker.

The way I decided to do my drawers made everyone thing I was insane. Her instructions were to make a drawer out of cardstock, and then cut a hole to fit it. While doing this, I realised that if you cut neatly, and keep all the bits of pages together and glue them, you can cut a drawer out of the chunck of stuff you got out. You need to be really neat though, and no one there could believe I had the patience for it, or that I could actually cut that neatly. I love it.

I only did the one book, even though I brought three. I still haven’t decided what to do with the field flower guide, I either want to do a deep niche and put a little 3D butterfly in (on a suitably nice flower drawing, of course) or I had this idea about covering boxes in book pages…. who knows.

I’m just brimming with ideas for this new craft. It’s sad I’m going away next week, and won’t really be able to bring all the stuff with me. Tuesday I am going to Wells Books again, to stock up. One of the ladies there was visiting from Vancouver, and she is going home with 200lbs of books from Wells. I hope there’s still some left!