Leather Bound Book workshop

After promising a few of my students that I would have some fun colours for the Leather Bound book workshop, I was disappointed to find that my usual local leather source no longer had a good supply of scraps to chose from. So the Tin Man and I searched high and low for other sources of leather locally. The Tin Man had us searching second hand stores for previously loved leather clothes. After a few stores I found a few jackets and a pair of red pants that would work. I also had a few friends donate old jackets that they no longer used. Thanks you Lucie and Olive. And I found a wonderful local leather store Zelikovitz Leathers which had, along with other supplies, a great selection of scrap leather as well as some amazing larger pieces for good prices. So, from looking for a few small pieces for books I seem to have accumulated a good selection of leather and possible a new addiction interest in leather. My mind is a spinning with things to do with leather now. Of course teaching this great group of women yesterday just got the gears going more.

Ruth

Sharon

Cindy

Karen

My book started in class.

I even managed to work on a book while demoing in class and finished it this morning. Unfortunately I missed taking a picture of one students book. Sometimes things just get busy!

If you have any interesting things you like to do with leather please share(like I don't have enough ideas flouting around in my head).

Keep Creating!

Wendy

Mosaic ATC's

Okay I think I am finally caught up with my late posts, so to keep the momentum going here are this months ATC trade cards. The theme was Mosaic. I really liked this theme. I even had my card done a few weeks early rather than working on it the morning it's due! I really must try this more often. Well it really was an easy card to do. I just used some of my metal scraps. I ended up making a few extra for the supper swap next month.

Louise

Lucie

Marie

Olive

Peggy

Virginia

Wendy

Next months theme is metal. Hmm, I guess I'll have to think of something else to do with my metal.

Keep Creating!

Wendy

My Wings chunky book pages.

And to continue yesterdays post of this years Wings chunky book swap, here are my pages. As you can see the Wendy faerie made a reappearance. 

I think the favourite part of doing these for me was the background. They were all done with my Gelli Plate. Once I got started making pages for these backgrounds it was hard to stop. I ended up doing both sides of the pages and had lots of extras. Now I just have to figure out what to create with all the extra.

Keep Creating!

Wendy

The great Wing chunky book swap.

During last months ATC trade that I missed they also did our annual Chunky book swap. This years theme was Wings and we had 9 people participating so we had to make 9 pages. Again I was lucky enough to have some of the ladies take photos for me so I can share with you. 

Linda

Louise back

Louise front

Lucie

Lucie

Olive

Peggy

Veronica

Virginia inside

Virginia front and back outside

Lucie

Marie

How inspiring are these!! As difficult as it is to find the time to work on this project each year, I'm always glad I did. 

I will share my pages with you tomorrow.

Keep creating!

Wendy

Grungy mirror workshop

I'm still catching up on some posts that are overdue. Today is about a workshop I did last week called Grungy mirror. It was the first time teaching it and I had a hard time deciding how much to teach because there are so many things you can do on it. I hope I didn't overwhelm my students with the variety of techniques we did. I think they did a wonderful job though and they were pleased with their creations.

Cecilia

Charlotte

Laurie

Pat

The brain gears are working overtime after this one. I've started a few canvas' that may have a similar technique and design on it. I'm anxious to see how they turn out.

Keep Creating!

Wendy

Postage Stamp ATC's

Oh my, I just realized I'm behind on my posting here. I have some ATC's, chunky book pages and a workshop to share. So over the next few days I will try to get it all done.
First off is last month's ATC cards. I wasn't able to make it to the meeting but a few of the ladies sent me photo's to share with you. The theme was Postage stamp.

Louise

Olive

Virginia

Marie

Linda

Peggy

Veronica

Lucie

I do hope I got all the right names to the right ATC's. Please correct me if I didn't ladies. Between photoshop and blogger these pics sure did give me a hard time to load onto here. Hopefully I've learned something and the next ones will be a piece of cake.

Now I want to make a postage stamp ATC! Oh well I'm all ready for the next theme which is mosaic and happens to be tomorrow. I will try not to take a month to post them this time.

Happy Creating!

Wendy

All about the texture paste...

Last weekends workshop was the Grid Canvas. It's all about texture paste. I think it's my favourite workshop to teach this year. I love playing with texture paste and it's so interesting to see the creative variations that my students do. And you know how I'm always saying my students inspire me so much. Well this time was no exception and the canvas above is one I finished a few days later from some of the sample grids I did during class. It's called 'Longing for summer' because that's how I'm feeling right now.
Here are the canvas' of my students that day.

Joanne

Josee

Katherine

Laurie

Linda

Tracy

Didn't they do a great job? Just looking at them makes me want to get more paste out and play. But not today, I'm getting ready to teach a Memory Frame necklace workshop at the Goulbourn Museum tomorrow.

Now that you're inspired, the new spring/summer workshop is up on the workshop page. Take a look and let me know what you think. Anything you were hoping to do but is not on the schedule? Let me know. Also I'd love to hear from you about when you like to take workshops. Do you like weekends(Saturday or Sunday), weekday, evenings? Do you like full days, half days or just a few hours for workshops? I've been doing mostly Saturday full days but would really like to hear what you would like most. Thanks ahead for the feedback.

Keep Creating!

Wendy