Over the weekend, The Memphis Calligraphy Guild hosted incredible teacher, Rosie Kelly, for two workshops. Saturday and Sunday we learned how to use up our “stash” of old papers. All of us brought in paper scraps we have been saving, and old calligraphy practice sheets. By the end of the first day, we all realized that we had enough stash to create books for the rest of our lives!
This is one of the beautiful books that Rosie brought:
Here are a few photos of the first books we made:
Above: book by Debe Slocum
Above: book by Mary Lou Sherman
Above: book by Ann Rabinovitz
On Monday, we created small accordion fold books, mostly in black and white, using tiny pieces we created by making marks on black and white papers. These books took all day to create and assemble. When we were done, we shared the books, and surprisingly, each one was unique.
Here are some samples that Rosie brought:
Here are the books that we made:
Above: 2 photos of my book
At the end of class Rosie received a huge round of applause. It was one of the best workshops that we have had in a long time.
The Calligraphy Guild of Birmingham had me in to teach Neuland on Saturday. There were 16 students who worked hard all day. Here are some samples:
I will be back next month (April 30th) to teach Beyond Bookhand.
This week’s project uses dies designed by Brenda Pinnick. We all received the shapes pre-cut. I used some of mine as templates for ornaments. The rest I used as a book of Christmas greetings, using calligraphy that I scanned in and printed onto scrapbooking paper.
The two stamps that I used on the ornaments are still available in my Etsy store.
Welcome to week 4 of the Triple Play Blog Hop! This week’s project is the Frame and Frame Back with Stand designed by Eileen Hull.
Materials used:
My Thanksgiving stamp in calligraphy
Solid papers and marbelled paper from Mohawk Fine Papers
Decorative papers from Paper Palette Collage Pad – Earth Tones by Provo Craft
Autumn Leaves stamp by Hero Arts
Inks: Brilliance Dew Drops – Pearl Rust and Cream Copper
Gold Embossing Powder from Stampin’ Up
Best wishes to everyone for a happy Thanksgiving! Enjoy all the other frames created by the talented designers in this hop.
Thanks for looking!
This week’s Sizzix die is a cube that can be flattened to fit into a card, or left as a cube. My pieces were on black paper, and since I am the queen of using sparkly things on black, I decided to go with my strength. The cube is decorated with different techniques from the Black Magic class that I teach, and topped with a small pre-fab frame.
Materials used:
Sailor glue pen
Jones Tones foil
Twinkling H2Os
Two kinds of double-sided tape
As you navigate through the hop, you will see how versatile this die is. Just hit “forward” on the Sizzix icon to the right at the top of this post - it’ll take you through the loop of participating designers and you can see more wonderful twist cube creations!
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