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

Metal embossed mirrors

Have I told you how much I love to teach?!! Well this past Saturday's workshop was no exception. I had two lovely ladies join me to create metal embossed mirrors. We had a great time and they did an amazing job with their creations. 

Claire

Josee

As always it inspired me to work on one of my own again. I was thinking of working in a fall theme but am struggling with working with colours outside my norm. It will get done but for nor it's going to sit and stare at me for a bit. It seems to be one of those, walk away for a while projects.

Happy Creating!

Wendy

Metal embossing workshop

Last week I participated in the Ottawa Catholic School boards annual Mosaic Art event. This is my second year teaching metal embossing to these teens from grade 7 to 12. It's wonderful to see the talent and variation in the creations of these students. Sorry for the glare on some of the photos, it's so hard to take good pics of metal without ideal lighting and my favourite camera! Enjoy and be inspired.

Alex

Torianne

Alexa

Caitlin

Cassandra

Chelsea

Gabriel

Geneveive

Jen

Jessica

Josianne

Marissa

Michaela

Rachel

Sarah

These students sure inspired me. I hope to find a little time this weekend for metal embossing!

Happy Creating.

Wendy

Students creations in metal.

Last week I had a wonderful small group of ladies in to do my metal mirror workshop. This was their first time doing metal embossing and they did a great job. Here are a couple of their finished mirrors.

Veronica

Linda

I finished a second mirror while preparing for this workshop but I was so inspired by these ladies that I've started a third. Thanks ladies for a wonderful day. You were a great group to teach.

Playing with metal scraps.

Yesterday found me pulling out my Ten Second Studio metal. I haven't played with it in a while and was really just looking for something to add to another project, but I got the inspiration to use up some of my scraps on a mirror. Once I got started I couldn't stop until it was finished. Well almost couldn't, I got called away to go out for dinner with Mom, Dad and sister Nancy. Oh yeah and the Tin Man. He was lucky he got to come with since it was too cold to be away working! What's a girl to do, I have to eat too right. So I didn't get back at it until today but finish it I did. I now have at least 2 more ideas for metal mirrors. I do that a lot. When I'm working on one piece I'll have ideas for other pieces or variations of the one I'm on. I usually want to try it in different colour or style variations. I seem to be in the altered art mode and I'm just running with it. What mode are you in this week?

Metal Exemplar

Well, I haven't taught too many workshops this year and I'm looking forward to this one in a few short weeks.

All the letters are embossed on Ten Second Studio metal and then attached to a 10 X 20" Gallery Canvas. I don't know if you can tell in the picture but the letters are different thicknesses which gives the piece a lot of depth and dimension. This is a great class if you haven't tried to use metal before as we're going to learn lots of techniques. But if you've taken some of my metal workshops before you'll like it too because I've added a few new tips and trick to this project.

The workshop will be held at The Painted Pony on Sunday, October 24 from 9:30am - 4:30pm. If you're interested their are still some spaces available in the class. Just contact Cindy at the store.

Copper flower

I've been doing some more experimenting!
I saw this flower technique over at Ink on my fingers . This is a variation on Wendy Vecchi's famous rose. Wendy uses grunge board or paper with stamps and ink. This variation is done with metal with a cardstock base for support. It was quit easy to do with her step by step instructions. The most difficult thing was to make the flower template since I didn't have a flower stamp with 6 petals. Now that I've tried it I can think of a few variations of my own. First of course is to add some colour with alcohol inks. Now what to put it on...I think I'm seeing an interesting canvas developing!!?

Now I'm off to the Originals Spring Craft show with some friends. This should be very inspiring!