A fabulous array of hand painted ceramic baubles, made at Breathing Space yesterday. It was a couple of hours of painting and drawing and getting messy! Everyone made fantastic baubles during a couple of hours of creativity. Thanks to everyone who came along, they will look fantastic on your Christmas trees!
I had a lovely day teaching a bargello for beginners workshop. In this particular workshop we learned about the bright and fun stitching form called bargello, and in the process made a start on a mini wallhanging. The main part of the motif was created on the day, with guidance on how to create the…
I’ve had a lovely afternoon at Breathing Space in Witton Gilbert, showing everyone how to make metal embossed hearts. There was lots of creativity going on with everyone creating their own designs, and one lady decided to go completely off piste and make a plaque based on a combination of some of my sample pieces…
During the past two weeks in my community art group, we experimented with drypoint printmaking using a Sizzix machine as the printing press. A Sizzix machine is a piece of craft equipment mainly used for die-cutting cardboard shapes, or embossing designs on to cardstock. However, due to the pressure it can exert, it’s also great…
Yesterday I had two lovely beginner lino printers on my introduction to lino printing workshop, who as you can see, created beautiful lino prints! We started off the day by going through the tools and materials, and then worked on a test piece of lino, just to get used to using the tools and trying…
Thanks to everyone who came along to my metal embossed Christmas ornament workshop at the Land of Oak and Iron on Sunday. As you can see from the photos, everyone took really well to the craft and made beautiful ornaments. There will be a lot of well dressed Christmas trees in the north east of…
A look at all the wonderful ‘junk journals’ my class participants made in my workshop this week. No need for expensive art materials, these journals were all made from ‘junk’ found around the house – paper, cardboard, old magazines and wrapping paper, odds and ends of string and scraps of fabric. Journalling is a wonderful…
