Metal embossing workshop

It's been a while since I've taught a metal embossing workshop or even played with metal, so this was so much fun. These ladies were very creative and totally inspired me. We had a busy day learning a variety of ways to emboss on metal and they each made a very unique piece by the end of the day. Metal is always a difficult thing to photograph and these do not do them justice but you'll get the idea.

Annie

Cheryl

Deb

Jane

Janice

Jill

I really should bring my metal out to play more often. Just need a few more hours in each day.

Happy Creating!

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

Metal embossing with teens.

The Ottawa Catholic School Board has a great program, that each spring brings together local artist with students from grade 7 to 12 to try new types of art that would other wise be hard to bring into the schools. For me it means sharing my love of metal embossing to a great group of creative teens. I'm always inspired by the designs they create.

Abby

Adeola

Alexia

Amelia

Christina

May

Rohan

Zach

Erica

Maddy

Melissa

Emily

Hannah

Unfortunately I didn't managed to get a photo of everyone's finished piece but you can see how wonderful they were from the ones I did get. 

Keep Creating!

Wendy

Great metal embossed mirrors

Here are some great metal embossed mirrors from my last workshop. I had great fun with this small group of ladies.

Courtney

Laurie

Leslie

Happy Creating!

Wendy

2013 update

I realized recently that there was a few exciting things that happened to me in 2013 that I hadn't shared with you here yet. So I thought I'd share them over the next few post. If you like me on facebook you may have seen or heard a bit about them already.

Early in the year a student that had taken my metal embossing book workshop asked if I would be interested in making a wedding guest book for her son's wedding in November. It wasn't hard to agree to make it since I love metal embossing and I'm always up for a new challenge. Although I'd made a few metal covered books I'd never done a wedding guest book so I did a little researching on different kinds of books and what kind of pages are used and such. It was interesting to see the array of different variations on guest books being made now. For the most part though my customer gave me a good idea as to what she wanted. Since it was going to Texas it needed to be larger than life, but since the metal only comes as large as 9" by 11" the book could only be 8" by 10" to be all metal covered. So this is the size we agreed on. Still larger than your average guest book. The outer covers were to be tan and the inside covers needed to have some purple in. And of course it was to be metal embossed like I do my usual books. So I was off to a good start. After finding just the right paper for the inside covers and pages and a lot of hours of embossing, the book finally came together. I was pretty pleased with the end result and found a little extra time and paper to make a box for this keepsake book.

Front Cover.

Back cover

Inside cover and first page. Photo under glassine frosted paper.

Inside pages

Keepsake box 

Inside box, all wrapped in dragonfly's of course. 

Looking back at the year I think this was my favourite project that I did. So glad that it worked out and they liked it.

Happy Creating!

Wendy

Back to high school with metal embossing.

I had the wonderful experience of teaching metal embossing for 3 days at St. Matthew High in Orleans/Ottawa earlier this month and wanted to share with you some of the amazing work the students did. They ranged from grade 7 to grade 12.  It's so interesting to see the designs that this age creates. Many of them used their own images and designs. Unfortunately I didn't get  photo's of all the work but these will give you an idea of just how great they were. 

Doesn't it just  make you want to get your metal out and play? Well I wish I could but I better get back to my Christmas preparing. How's yours going? All ready for the big day? Crazy me, I still have to go do some more shopping tomorrow. Wish me luck!!

Happy Creating

Wendy

One more metal embossing workshop...

This weekend, I had my last metal embossing workshop in the studio for the year. We mixed it up a bit again and had some doing the book and others doing the mirror. What great results were achieved by the end of the day! I never get tired of seeing the diversity of peoples creativity with the same medium.

Cecilia

Donna

Julie

Laurie

Miranda

Sandra

As usual I'm inspired by my students and have a few new ideas bouncing around inside my brain. 

That leaves one workshop left to do in the studio this year which is the Christmas Mega Tags next Sunday Nov. 24th.

Don't worry though the Winter Workshop schedule is already posted and ready for sign ups.

Happy Creating!

Wendy