This months ATC theme was another challenging one for me. The theme was your favourite Artist. I really can't say that I have a favourite artist so I chose one that has been inspiring me lately and that I wanted to try some of her techniques.

Again this month every ones cards were outstanding. It was so interesting to see what artist they chose and how they implemented them onto an ATC.

Kathy- Donna Watson

Louise- Gustav Klimt

Lucie- Zena Robinson

Marie- Lawren Harris

Olive- Clyfford Still

Veronica- Dalphina(her granddaughter) 

Virginia- Ruffus Porter

Wendy- Michelle Ward

So do you have a favourite artist?

Happy Creating!

Wendy

Self Image ATC's

Things got a little busy this month and I almost forgot to post the ATC swap we had. The theme was Self Image. It was really interesting to see the creations for each persons self image.

Kathy

Louise

Marie

Veronica

Virginia

Wendy

Happy Trading!

Wendy

Metal embossed doodles

I had a small group for the Metal Embossed Doodles class last weekend but it was great fun and so inspiring for me as usual. Since it was a smaller than usual class I was able to teach a few more techniques than I usually do for this workshop. So in the final creations they used some free-form designs and some molds. Here are a couple of the finished pieces.

Kim

Laurie

Have you been having a creative Fall so far?

My Fall schedule is up. Keep an eye on it for some additions in the next week or so.

Keep Creating!

Wendy

Baggie swap Monochromatic ATCs

Once a year our ATC group does a baggie swap. This is where everyone brings a small baggie of goodies to make cards during the meeting. These baggies are then swapped so that you have to make an ATC with someone else's goodies. This year we decided to put a bit of a theme with it and chose monochromatic. I always enjoy doing this. I think there is something very freeing about having a limited amount of supplies to work with. And to add to the fun and challenge it's someone else's goodies.

Kathy

Linda

Louise

Lucie

Marie

Olive

Peggy

Veronica

Virginia

Wendy

I was glad to get a baggie full of white items to make my card. I never get tired of working with just white. 

Happy Creating!

Wendy

Encore to Gelli Plate workshop

   I had another great group of women in for the Gelli Plate Printing workshop yesterday. Already having a Gelli Plate of their own they jumped right in and made lots of prints but still found time to put together this fun book at the end of the day.

Janice

Joanne

Manon

Susan

Have you tried the Gelli Plate yet? I will warn you it's somewhat addictive. You can't stop with just one print!

Keep Creating!

Wendy

Fun Gelli Plate day.

Yesterday I taught my first Gelli Plate workshop and we had a blast. I had a great group of creative women who were not afraid to play and experiment with colours and techniques which is what the Gelli plate is all about. At the end of the day of making prints we took some time to put together these fun and easy books.

Josee

Laurie

Lucie

Sharon

So everyone went home with a hand made book and many pages of mono prints to use for other projects. Thanks ladies you made this first off class an easy one.

Happy Creating!

Wendy

Personal Totem ATC's

We had great fun exploring what our Personal Totems were this month for our ATC cards. Some knew already what theirs was and some did some exploring to see what they might be and some still aren't sure. I decided not to over think this one and of course used the Dragonfly. So it was an easy one for me.

Kathy

Linda

Louise

Lucie

Veronica

Virginia

Wendy

How about you, do you know what your personal totem is?

Happy Creating!

Wendy

Ceramic beads challenge

Back in July I came across a chance to win some beads and participate in a challenge to use the beads from Shawna Barnes of JSB Arts. When I got the beads a few weeks ago I knew this was going to be a real challenge for me. They were definitely different from the usual beads I incorporate into my work. But I was excited to see what I could do with them. And then life got busy and they got put to the side for a while. The thought of them tumbled around in my head for a while and then came the crunch. With just a few days left before it was to be done and posted I put them on my desk and tried adding different things to see what worked.  I would leave them and come back every once in a while to see how they looked and change it up, trying a different combination. I find this method works well for me. Don't rush it just see what happens in short spurts. Then when the time comes to sit down and really work on the piece it seems to come together without too much struggle.

When I was working on the pendant I thought I had a pretty good idea as to which side was the front. The idea was to have some wire wrapped around the small donut to add some dangles to, but when I was finishing and needed to do something with the wire on the back a swirl began to form so I decided to make swirls with all the wire ends. So now I'm not sure which side I like best. I guess it's a two sided pendant!

What do you think, which would you use for the front?

I'm afraid I forgot to take a picture of the beads before I started. I think you can figure out which are Shawna's. She makes really interesting ceramic beads and components. The ones she send me were very rustic natural looking beads. I added the copper components, seed beads, wiring and dangles.

I hope you like. Check out the other people doing the challenge at JSB Art.

Keep Creating!

Wendy

Leather Bound book workshop

I'm not sure what is more fun, making books or teaching book binding. Although this book is a lot of work to make it's well worth the effort and my students this week did an amazing job.

Laurie

Louise

Maggie

Sharon

Sheila

I don't make books all that often and this sure makes me want to see what other kinds I can try.

Happy Creating!

Wendy