Today

We are having lots of fun at Marks Tey today. We have just finished a Lime Twist Minds Eye layout and have a few extra cropping hours as it's National Scrapbooking Month. Here are some of our layouts:



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Hope you are all having a great day.

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Bags of Fun

Oh yes, we all had bags of fun on Saturday making this little number.

It must have been a challenging class because there were quite a few moments of absolute silence while all the ladies concentrated on making their flowers.

We were amazed at the variations that all the ladies managed to make, some added their own fancy buttons, some designed different flowers and some used inventive colour combinations but I think we all agreed that the results were fabulous.

This is one that Deb made,

a little free styling going on and that is what we like to see.


Our classes are only meant as a springboard for your creativity and this class proved what creative and talented ladies you all are. What tosh telling me you couldn't sew!

We have a few kits left over from the day in various colours which are available for purchase at £7.00, including post and packaging. If you would like one of these please email us at eclectickeepsakes@btinternet.com and we will sell them on a first come first served basis.

Karen & Karen.

The Shape Of Things To Come

Tomorrow we will be stitching and twisting and beading and gathering


and hopefully Ohhhhing and Ahhhhhing.

Ops I spy a cotton that needs snipping off!

But we wont be doing any of this because I have done it already :)


See you all tomorrow


Karen & Karen

xxx Happy Birthday To Us xxx

Thank you all you lovely ladies and businesses who have supported us over the last year. I cannot believe that a whole year has gone by since we had our first crop and we have made so many friends and learnt so much from the marvelous teachers we have had.


The day started, as it always does with tea and cupcakes.


Then there was a little birthday present for all the ladies at the crop. A super little stamp for use on projects made at our crop. I stamped the back of my lo and even my rubbish stamping looked good with this little beauty.



We did our own thing for the morning

all eagerly awaiting Denise's beautiful class (not many of our teachers bring Tom Selleck to our crop, a welcome addition he was too).


What a stunner she taught.

I loved all the different variations that people have produced - the sign of a good class, very adaptable.
What is a birthday without a cake? During the afternoon we had a tea break and a piece of the delicious Eclectic Keepsake birthday cake.


The time to pack up and go home came much too quickly for most of us but there is always next time to look forward to. A very big thank you to the ladies who stayed behind and helped me pack away.xxx

Karen M
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Are you excited yet?

We are both very, very excited about the crop next Saturday. It marks our first birthday and the year has absolutely flown by. We are delighted with how the crop has evolved and it has certainly exceeded our wildest dreams of how good it could be. We have renewed friendships and made lots of new ones and we so look forward to our days at Marks Tey.

As it is our Big Birthday Bash we have a few little surprises up our sleeves - or more to the point - in our bags for you lovely ladies. Karen C has the most stupendious little gift for you all and I am sure I can find something in the cake department for us all to share.

So on to the class.


This is the gorgeous kit that our very own Denise has chosen and the class she is going to teach is beyond beautiful. Be gentle with her girls as this is the first time she has taught a class but I know she will rise to the challenge.

I apologise for the bad photo but I wanted to get this blog post written and up today rather than have to wait for better light tomorrow evening (at least my kitchen floor is clean for once). To view the papers in their full glory please click on the links below.

MyMind's Eye
Market Street 'Happy Birthday' Tapestry

My Mind's Eye
Portobello Road 'Family' First Class

My Mind's Eye
Portobello Road 'Party' Looking Glass

My Mind's Eye
Lost and Found -Portobello Road -You and Me Accessory sheet

Fancy Pants designs
Lilac House Cards

The size of photos needed for the class are-

2 - 6x4 portrait
1 - To be cut down to fit the little frame - approximately 2" wide and 3" long

In addition to your normal crafting kit you will need to bring some brown ink and foam pads.

If you have made page or card for this month's sketch challenge please bring it along to go in the draw.

As always, we are really looking forward to Saturday and hope you are too.

Karen M

Mixing It Up

As a change from our usual format, this month we decided to have a whole month to make a card or lo using the monthly sketch. If you didn't pick up a sketch at the crop or if you weren't there this month, this is the sketch we have chosen.


I took it from one of the pages I made in January.


Bring along you finished project or a photo of it, or post a link to it, to be eligible to go into the draw for the prize. I am really looking forward to seeing what you come up with.

Also if you are up for a challenge why not visit the Chicken Soup blog for their weekly inspiration!

On another note, I have ordered the papers for next month's class by the fabulously talented Denise. As soon as they come in I will post a little peek on the blog.

Happy scrapping

Karen M

Getting us some February Love xxxxx

Love certainly was in the air at this month's crop. Just sitting and listening to all the chat and laughter that went on for the whole 8 hours made my little heart sing and makes the time it takes to organise and plan so worth it.

This month we had the very talented Ann Freeman come and teach a double page lo using Echo Park papers. There were several ladies wanting clarification that these papers were actually Echo Park as they were different to their usual style but they were oh so beautiful!

As always, Ann's class was absolutely sumptuous! Involving quite a bit of hand cutting and (EEEEk!) stamping straight onto your pages, the results were stunning.

This is Ann's double page lo. I apologise for the photos as I took them quickly just for reference, fully intending to take better ones later but forgot.


Ann also designs for the Chicken Soup blog so if your mojo is a little poorly this month why don't you pop over and try their challenge but be sure to upload it for us all to admire.

Counting down the days to the next crop xxx

Karen M