After reading info below scroll down to bottom and follow instructions to book your place.

We at Stampers Grove are delighted to welcome Jo Firth-Young (aka JOFY), a long term designer for PaperArtsy, back again for a workshop in our home village of Lilliesleaf. This will be the 2nd time Jo has joined us in Lilliesleaf (most recently in September 2024).

Jo's pages of interest/socials:

https://www.instagram.com/jofyjo/
JOFY Jamboree!! Facebook Group

Our JOFY section on our website where you will find all of Jo Firth Young's PaperArtsy products.

Come and spend a fun, creative, &  festive day with Jo Firth-Young and Stampers Grove in the beautiful Scottish Borders. In this workshop we’ll be creating a wintery/festive art journal spread using paints, stamps & stencils.  Jo will show you how to create big letter stencils to spell out a word of your choice. If you’re not embracing Christmas just yet don’t worry simply choose a wintery word & include more snowflakes in your design. We’ll be using the newly released* JOFY stamps & stencils. (Product list - see further down this page.)

*Note the mini stamps aren't released until 7pm 24/9/2025. (Details here). After which the listed stamps will also appear on this page.

Date:   Saturday 25th October 2025
Place:   Currie Memorial Hall, Lilliesleaf, Near Melrose, Scottish Borders TD6 9HX
Time:   10.30am – 3.30pm
Cost: £55.00 (includes light lunch/refreshments)

(See bottom of this page for some general advice in terms of getting to Lilliesleaf)

If you would like to join us it is now time to act. 

To make our life as easy as possible and to give you peace of mind that you have a place on the workshop (without the workshop being over subscribed) you can now reserve your right to book a place. We have created a notional (zero cost) product at this stage (see below). After making sure you are happy with the workshop details outlined and the terms etc, add it to your basket (do so as a separate order i.e. don't order with anything else) and then submit your order as you would with any other order. You will receive a confirmation email. We will contact you as outlined here.

** After we have been in touch the payment of £55 will be required to confirm your booking (by payment date outlined in the email we will send you). This will include a light lunch and refreshments (Please let us know at booking stage if there are allergies or dietary requirements that we should be aware of).
**Cancellation may be made up to two weeks prior to the event (i.e. by 11 October) and a refund will be give providing your place can be sold.

**note: inevitably there may be circumstances which are out of our control which may cause us to alter the arrangements. Obviously if this was the case we would attempt to reschedule where possible. Refunds relating to the Workshop fees would then be offered if you were then unable to attend. We are sorry but we can't be held liable to any other consequential losses which may arise. We would of course give as much notice as possible where this was the case. 

James and Emma of Stampers Grove will be there with a pop-up shop* (for all the supplies you need, as well as those you don’t!)

*Note Stampers Grove don't have a physical shop anymore, so this will be a pop up shop with a selection of our crafting goodies. We have created a coupon code for those attending the class that would like to access our whole website (9000+ products) and collect their products on the day of the class (only use if you have fully paid up for the class). Use the coupon 'JOFYNOEL' (spends > £15) [Valid up until and including Thursday 23rd October] and this will remove postage and it will take 5% off all items on our website which are not currently discounted. We will have an envelope with your name on it which we will pass you before the class starts.*

Please bring your basic crafting kit and...

PaperArtsy products that Jo will be using in the workshop:
(Note we have provided links where we have named or similar items listed on our website, also shown at the bottom of the page)

Stamps: JOFY143, JOFY144, JM92*, JM96* (*Release Date 24th September) 
Stencils: PS329, PS275, PS478 (large letter stencils, provided)
Fresco Paints: Snowflake/Cloud 9, Aqua Duck Egg, Admiral, Mermaid, Gold, Pearl Glaze

Substrate: 
Stamping card (1 sheet) We have PaperArtsy smoothy card (regular and heavy)
Art Journal

Additional supplies:
Black Archival ink
WOW! Opaque Bright White Superfine embossing powder, embossing ink. (We have small and large White SF Embossing Powder pots)

Attendees will need:
Art journal – sample is created in a square Dylusions Journal
PVA glue/ glue stick
3dfoam
Sticky tape (eg Sellotape)
Coloured Pencils (We have Tim Holtz Watercolour pencils Sets 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and a 24 pack of colouring pencils from Bruynzeel)
Stamping platform (We have the Press to Impress from Crafts too)
Paint brush: 2-3cm wide flat (We have a Lavinia 4 pack Watercolour brush set)
Blending brushes/Stencil brushes (or foam for stencilling) (We have Tracy Evans 5 pack Blending Brushes and Funky Fossil 4 Pack Blending Brushes, Lavinia Stencil Brushes (large, medium, small), Royal and Langnickel 4 pack Stencil Brushes)

Note the venue has parking directly outside. There is also parking in the village and hopefully next door at the Primary School. 

If you would like any more information please get in touch.

Jo and of course us James and Emma are really looking forward to this and hope you can join us. 

How to get there? Lilliesleaf is lovely rural village however not best served by public transport. To give you an idea our nearest shop is probably about 5-6 miles away. We have run workshops here before and everyone has managed to get here fine thankfully. There is no public transport directly through the village. So the easiest way to get to Lilliesleaf would be by car.  We are about a 70 minute drive from Edinburgh. In terms of towns near by (e.g. if you were looking for accomodation). Distances as follows: Melrose (7 Miles), Selkirk (6 miles), Hawick (8 miles), Jedburgh (11 miles), Kelso (15 miles). You may of course find other accomodation nearer if you put the post code TD6 9HX into a accomodation finding website. The nearest train station is Tweedbank (near Melrose) about 7 miles away. *If you would like to vehicle share and need assistance connecting with another workshop goer let us know and we will do what we can to connect you.*