Finn weekend part two....

Hello dear visitors, so glad you are here, it is lovely to have you drop by.
Today I am sharing the remaining projects I created last weekend under the guidance of the wonderful Finnabair. And for UK visitors, I wanted to let you know that Finn is doing further workshops, the next one being in Glasgow at Damselfly Crafts, information on these classes can be found HERE
As far as I know there are still a few places available on the Sunday for sure, but maybe even on the Saturday also. These classes will be worth every penny!!

Anyway, onto my projects: The first class we did was a LO, using Finn's wonderful papers, her mechanicals line, some sprays and plain and ordinary tea!
I'll show you two photos, one before and one after the spraying and splatting process:

To be honest, this was probably my least favourite project, I am just not a scrapbooker, it was also a class that was similar to one I did last year, but hey ho, it's always good to be reminded of techniques.

The second project was the canvas I showed in the post below this one, the 3rd was a journal. In the morning Finn guided us in making the cover and in the afternoon we created two journal spreads in different styles, the first one more vintage, the second more free style. Even though that was totally out of my comfort zone, it was probably the one I enjoyed most. I loved the kind of free flowing artyness of it.
Here are the covers, full of Finnabair style embellies:

 We did the front and the back at the same time and were meant to have put less embellishments on the back, but me being me, I got totally carried away, so there is not much difference between the two.

 This is meant to be the front, - the beautiful Prima mixed media album was part of our kit, as was all the other stuff used. The only thing we had to provide ourselves was some glue!

The back cover

All right, now for the inside pages, again, we created them two at the time which I thought was a brilliant idea:

 I had stupidly forgotten to bring photos, so used a Crafty Individuals image for the page above and a vintage image which the generous Jools provided for the one below.

Finally the arty pages:

 This handsome gentleman was also provided by Jools, I just noticed she used the same one for her spread, - great minds lol.

The word on the page above came from an older Finnabair collection I still had in my stash. I added it when I got home.

I am really looking forward to creating some more pages for this journal, if and when I have time. I'll leave you with a final photo of the journal when I put it together with the bookrings we received.
Thanks for visiting like always and for all your lovely comments, they are very much appreciated!!

Post Script: A face book friend just pointed out to me that the gentleman in the second journal spread is a youth photo of Joseph Stalin. I'm afraid I did not realize that, I just thought he was any odd handsome fellow. Had I known, I probably would not have honoured him with a journal spread.... Glad I added the word emotion rather than love lol. This man who killed thousands of innocents, must have had something wrong with his emotions that's for sure.....