Some more beautiful metal embossed Christmas tree ornaments all made at Shilbottle Community Centre today, as part of Highlights Rural Touring.
It was great to see two familiar faces from a previous workshop and wonderful to meet four new people. As you can see, everyone really took to the techniques and created beautiful ornaments.
Thanks so much to Gill at Shilbottle Community Centre for looking after us so well.
After an introduction to metal embossing, my students moved on to working with copper and working on their own designs. As you can see, they had lots of fun, and really went to town and created some fantastic pieces! They worked on these over several sessions. I know some are destined for going up in…
Over the summer in my community craft group at The Lodge in Blackhill and Consett Park, we have been making raffia baskets. Here are a few of the baskets, both in progress and finished. I love how they have all turned out – amazing work, everyone! The trickiest part of raffia basket weaving is getting…
I had a fun morning showing two lovely ladies how to recycle papers, cardboard packaging, wrapping paper and fabric from around their homes in to hand bound journals that are unique to them. All three of us turned out to be keen knitters and crocheters too, so we had lots of good yarn chat, as…
I had a fantastic day at Ellingham Village Hall yesterday as part of Highlights Rural Touring showing an enthusiastic group how to create lino printed Christmas cards using collage. As you can see from the photos, everyone really took to the method and created some beautiful cards. Thank you so much to Eileen at Ellingham Village Hall for looking…
I had a great one-to-one session in my workshop today, teaching the art of metal embossing, whilst make decorative coasters. We started off by going over the tools and materials and working on a piece of scrap aluminium to get a feel for how the metal and tools worked. Then we moved on to making…
On Saturday I had a fantastic day at Soulby Village Hall, teaching a lovely group chine collé lino printing, as part of Highlights Rural Touring Scheme. The theme of the day was definitely tulips, although we did have a rose, a poppy and a wren being created too. Everyone took to the method so well, and…
