Student showcase: metal embossed Japanese stab bound sketchbooks
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Student showcase: metal embossed Japanese stab bound sketchbooks

After a break for most of January, the first of this year’s workshops took place in my studio yesterday. A fabulous group made their own sketchbooks, which involved creating their designs, metal embossing the covers, covering the book board and binding the watercolour paper and covers together. It was a lovely, enthusiastic group and there…

Student showcase: metal embossed Christmas ornaments at Blanchland
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Student showcase: metal embossed Christmas ornaments at Blanchland

Yesterday saw the last of my Christmas workshops as part of Highlights Rural Touring at the beautiful Blanchland Abbey. Lots more Christmas trees will be looking festive adorned with their new hand made metal embossed ornaments this year. Beautiful work, everyone! Thanks so much to Susan at Blanchland Abbey for looking after us all so…

Student showcase: metal embossed Christmas tree ornaments at Newbrough
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Student showcase: metal embossed Christmas tree ornaments at Newbrough

Lots more wonderful Christmas tree ornaments made on today’s workshop at Newbrough Town Hall as part of Highlights Rural Touring. It was a lovely group and a very enjoyable morning with everyone. Have a scroll through the ornaments and you’ll see how well everyone took to the methods and created beautiful pieces. Fabulous work, everyone!…

Student showcase: metal embossed Christmas tree ornaments at Shilbottle
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Student showcase: metal embossed Christmas tree ornaments at Shilbottle

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…

Student showcase: metal embossed Christmas tree ornaments at Witton Gilbert
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Student showcase: metal embossed Christmas tree ornaments at Witton Gilbert

More fabulous metal embossed baubles! These were all made yesterday afternoon at the wonderful Breathing Space in Witton Gilbert. We had lots of repeat students from last year’s embossing workshop and last week’s lino printing workshop, as well as some new faces too. Brilliant work, everyone!

Student showcase: metal embossed Christmas tree ornaments at Allendale
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Student showcase: metal embossed Christmas tree ornaments at Allendale

More beautiful metal embossed Christmas tree ornaments 🎄 These were all made at Allendale Village Hall on Sunday as part of Highlights Rural Touring. It was a really lovely group, and as you can see they all took so well to the craft and made beautiful ornaments. Brilliant work, everyone! Thanks to Janet at Allendale Village…

Student showcase: lino printed Christmas cards at Penruddock
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Student showcase: lino printed Christmas cards at Penruddock

I had a really lovely afternoon at Penruddock Village Hall on Saturday, leading a lino printed Christmas card workshop as part of Highlights Rural. The Christmas tunes were playing and everyone was humming and singing along as they carved and then printed their cards. There was such a great atmosphere, and everyone experimented with the process,…

Student showcase: illuminated metal embossed monograms at South Pelaw
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Student showcase: illuminated metal embossed monograms at South Pelaw

These illuminated metal embossed monograms were made over two evenings at South Pelaw Community Hub. I took everyone through creating their own design and getting started on the embossing on the first evening, and then everyone finished their pieces on the second, and added colour if required. We had some lovely designs created, some for…