We had a surprise workshop with Suzie Beringer in June. It all just worked out, Suzie was available and there were enough eager students to fill a class!
We did Playful & Pressurized Letterforms, with what else? Pencil!
Monday, September 12, 2016
In Loving Memory of Win
In the early morning of March 9, 2016, we lost one of our long time members, Win Searle.
January 2016 a Homework Journal
Cyndi did an excellent job providing each member with pre-assembled kits that held all the basics to made a handmade journal. The supplies included 2 binder rings and a variety of papers that could be hole punched as is or folded. An assortment of decorative, handmade paste paper and photo calendar pages were available to choose from for the front and back covers. The Big Shot machine was available for anyone to use who wanted to emboss some of their pages.
Now we just have to get everyone on board to do their homework!!
Cyndi did an excellent job providing each member with pre-assembled kits that held all the basics to made a handmade journal. The supplies included 2 binder rings and a variety of papers that could be hole punched as is or folded. An assortment of decorative, handmade paste paper and photo calendar pages were available to choose from for the front and back covers. The Big Shot machine was available for anyone to use who wanted to emboss some of their pages.
Now we just have to get everyone on board to do their homework!!
Study Sessions 2016
For the past several months, we have been trying something new. Every other month, we meet for a study session rather than a regular meeting which involves a business meeting. A study session enables us to have a whole day to study something special.
In FEBRUARY we enjoyed making a coptic book with Jane. Everyone who attended loved the session and would like to do more! With so many journalling now, it is great to have the expertise to make your own book!
Any one who attends the study sessions, enjoys them immensely. To be able to work the full day, have the room to spread out and concentrate on studying together is wonderful! Makes many of us wish that we could do it every month and let the business take care of itself!!
For the past several months, we have been trying something new. Every other month, we meet for a study session rather than a regular meeting which involves a business meeting. A study session enables us to have a whole day to study something special.
In FEBRUARY we enjoyed making a coptic book with Jane. Everyone who attended loved the session and would like to do more! With so many journalling now, it is great to have the expertise to make your own book!
Any one who attends the study sessions, enjoys them immensely. To be able to work the full day, have the room to spread out and concentrate on studying together is wonderful! Makes many of us wish that we could do it every month and let the business take care of itself!!
November 2015 - Workshop with Amity!
Yes! three workshops in November! It is just how it worked out and for us, it was magical.
Who doesn't love pencil?! and who knew there were that many different pencils to work with? and erasers? and sharpeners?! Between us, I think we have them all now. Everyone went away with an excitement to continue exploring what the pencil could create.
Participants at the workshop had a wonderful weekend, filled with many great exercises.
Thank you Amity!
Yes! three workshops in November! It is just how it worked out and for us, it was magical.
Who doesn't love pencil?! and who knew there were that many different pencils to work with? and erasers? and sharpeners?! Between us, I think we have them all now. Everyone went away with an excitement to continue exploring what the pencil could create.
Thank you Amity!
November 2015 - workshop with Heather!
We had the pleasure of hosting Heather Victoria Held for two workshops in November. Artful Flourishing one day and The Poetic Pen for the weekend. Is there a better way to spend a three day weekend?!
Heather's website
We had the pleasure of hosting Heather Victoria Held for two workshops in November. Artful Flourishing one day and The Poetic Pen for the weekend. Is there a better way to spend a three day weekend?!
Heather's website
November 2015
An Old Fashioned Sharing Day
A concept originally from Judi Dampier, we have often tried to duplicate those wonderful days many of us shared years ago.
Our guild owns a BIG SHOT machine now and that seemed to be a hit at the meeting with many members lining up to emboss card stock to be used at a future time on cards or maybe even their Christmas cards!
Another table was set up to try our hand at painting abstract flowers. No rules! just fun! Basically just add a blob of colour to your paper and then pull the colour around. This is what we were going for (see photo below), some had amazing success! I regret that I cannot remember the artist's name who created the first flowers and wrote a book.......
We also made Weathergrams. Originally from Lloyd Reynolds at Reed College in Portland, OR, a take on the Japanese art form, weathergrams have now been made by artists worldwide. You need a 10"X2½" strip of kraft paper, preferably from a heavy brown paper bag, some biodegradable string or twine, a hole punch, vermilion coloured ink for the versal and some waterproof black ink to write your poem or message. In the beginning Haiku were what was used but I think as calligraphers we have used anything we wanted to write. I have even gilded in my message with ok success. When your ink is dry, the idea is to hang weathergrams outside in the elements from solstice to equinox or vice versa and allow them to weather.
And the final table was seeing just what TYVEK will do when coloured with paint and heated with an iron - but don't touch the iron to the tyvek! it is plastic and melts with heat. It would coat an iron quite disastrously! We sandwiched the tyvek between two sheets of cooking parchment paper.
A fun day!
An Old Fashioned Sharing Day
A concept originally from Judi Dampier, we have often tried to duplicate those wonderful days many of us shared years ago.
Our guild owns a BIG SHOT machine now and that seemed to be a hit at the meeting with many members lining up to emboss card stock to be used at a future time on cards or maybe even their Christmas cards!
Another table was set up to try our hand at painting abstract flowers. No rules! just fun! Basically just add a blob of colour to your paper and then pull the colour around. This is what we were going for (see photo below), some had amazing success! I regret that I cannot remember the artist's name who created the first flowers and wrote a book.......
We also made Weathergrams. Originally from Lloyd Reynolds at Reed College in Portland, OR, a take on the Japanese art form, weathergrams have now been made by artists worldwide. You need a 10"X2½" strip of kraft paper, preferably from a heavy brown paper bag, some biodegradable string or twine, a hole punch, vermilion coloured ink for the versal and some waterproof black ink to write your poem or message. In the beginning Haiku were what was used but I think as calligraphers we have used anything we wanted to write. I have even gilded in my message with ok success. When your ink is dry, the idea is to hang weathergrams outside in the elements from solstice to equinox or vice versa and allow them to weather.
And the final table was seeing just what TYVEK will do when coloured with paint and heated with an iron - but don't touch the iron to the tyvek! it is plastic and melts with heat. It would coat an iron quite disastrously! We sandwiched the tyvek between two sheets of cooking parchment paper.
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