November meeting pictures and notes

At the November meeting we exchanged fall 6x6 art and worked on metal tape projects from BB book--pictured here!

We discussed the December Christmas meeting (Mon Dec 14th) and decided to exchange some kind of Christmas ornament or art work(Christmas decoration) of your choice.

Bring an ATC using the metal tape project from November to exchange at the Dec meeting--or maybe you want to use your metal tape on your Christmas decoration/ornament!

Carla would love to get more recipes if anyone would like to bring a copy of a favorite recipe in to pass out(bring 11 copies so everyone can have one).  

We also decided on finger food to bring and would like everyone to call Barb Bruder at Creative Stamper  344-0700 by Wed Dec 9th and let her know whether you are coming to the meeting and what food item you will bring (to keep from duplicates).  Barb will then call everyone with a total head count.

We would like everyone to bring some favorite technique books to share at the December meeting.  We can all look through them and decide on what projects we want to do for next year.  It was suggested that we only do projects for 3 months at a time instead of the whole year and everyone seemed to like this idea.  There was also a suggestion for having at least 2 all day retreats next year instead of our regular meetings--maybe more! 

Sandi brought in pictures of Bricks for Breasts from a recent art auction that she attended for the Susan G. Koman foundation and we talked about contributing our own art bricks for next year--we will discuss this again next year when we know more about a date to have them in.  

Art Retreat pictures

Here are some pictures of a few of the projects done at the art retreat in October--art dolls, watercolor monoprint, and wire wrapped/fiber earrings.  As always you can click on the images for a larger view. 

More info on the November and December meetings coming soon!

Art Retreat and Nov meeting

I hear that the art retreat was enjoyed by all! Big THANKS to Sandi and Carla for all the work they did to present fun and interesting projects.  I hope you all will bring in some of the projects you worked on for show and tell to the Nov meeting.  

Next meeting Mon Nov 9th at Creative Stamper.  We are still exchanging Fall 6x6 art and ATC's if you want to bring one to trade.  The project for the Nov meeting will be the Metal tape project in BB book pgs 80-83.  Bring supplies if you have them:  metal repair tape (wide), alcohol inks, blending solution, heat gun, brayer, scissors, rubber stamps, ink pads, stylus(dry emboss?), paint brush, black acrylic paint, paper towels.  You might also want to bring chipboard shapes and letters or leaves that you can tape over and emboss around the edges. If you have any metal working tools(such as 10 Second Studio tools--especially the wheels) to share please bring them also!  

We will be discussing ideas for the Christmas party and December exchanges and start talking about next year's projects too so bring some ideas with you!  

 

Art Retreat Info.

The supply list for the Monoprint Watercolor Class:
a) paper towels
b) blow dryer
c) paint brushes (ranging from large -small)
d) large spoon (metal)
e) small spritzing bottle for water
f) Dawn liquid dish soap
g) small containers for water
i) various materials for mark making (foil, plastic wrap, string, stencils, toothbrush, tooth picks,
etc...........) Whatever you can make a mark or design with.
j) inexpensive watercolor paints - (brand) Color & Co. - watercolors/aquarelle from
Michaels Craft Store)

Optional items: bring if you have them but not necessary to purchase:
1)watersoluble crayons (Carandache - Neocolor II Aquarelle)
2) brayer or roller
3) Arches Paper paper - hotpress (90lb) I will provide enough paper for two
small prints, but if you want to experiment, feel free to bring other paper .
Items I will provide: newspaper print sheets, printing plates, paper, some water soluble crayons.

Altere Block Art Dolls
Additional items to bring :
a) cordless drill with small drill bits
b) hammer
c) small pliers
d) If you can't find any doll parts, I will have extras with me to share
e) Heat gun
f) polymer clay
g) any type of found objects you would like to adhere to the doll

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at: www.dollartworkso5@yahoo.com

September 14th-Fused fibers and more!

Posting pictures from the Sept. meeting:  the project for the evening:  fused fibers,  the final summer 6x6 art exchanged, a few ATC's.

We discussed the October meeting which will be on Sat. Oct 17th from 9am-6pm and NOT on the Monday before as usual.  Sandy and Carla are providing several projects and I will be posting additional supplies to bring for those projects when I hear from them. Sandy is bringing everyone a small paperbag book to alter as you like and wood blocks for the block doll that Carla brought for show and tell this month.  Carla gave everyone copies of supply lists for 2 of her projects:  wired wrapped beads and the wood block doll.  More info on the water color monoprint project sometime soon! Special thanks to Carla and Sandi for all the work on the projects for October!  We will order out food for lunch unless you want to bring your own.  

Congratulations to Sandi  for her charm being published in the last Crop Paper Scissors!  

We had quite a lot of show and tell at the Sept meeting--Barb and Jean brought art from an Amy Flowers' class they took, Cindy brought her Halloween wood pieces, and Kendall brought some fused glass jewelry she made recently.  

We will be doing the metal tape project in Bernie Berlin's book pages 80-83 for the Nov. meeting.   

September 14th meeting

Here's a couple of fusible web projects I found on flickr to get you inspired--the pink inchies by grrl+dog and the ATC's by csgebhart.

First of all I want to say welcome to possible new member Angie!  Hope you will join us!

Hope to see everyone at the next meeting Monday Sept. 14th at the new Creative Stamper in Florence at 6:30pm.  

Please bring your finished laminate chip from last month's project for show and tell!  You can bring an ATC using any technique from the past for trade.  And this month will be the final summer 6x6 art to exchange.  

We will be doing the Fused Fibers project on pages 68-71 in Bernie Berlin's book.  Please bring fusible webbing(roll or sheet form), yarn or decorative fibers, assorted embossing powders, silicone craft sheet, iron, and scissors to the meeting.  Did you all watch Susan Pickering Rothamel's demo at Stampaway?  She was using dicrofibers from USArtQuest and  making some very beautiful art pieces with it.  Her website is: http://www.usartquest.com/

Or you can watch her using them on a webisode here:

http://www.artcraftcreate.com/tvweb.html

Please decide if you want to order out food or bring something to share for the October 17th retreat-we will finalize plans for the retreat at the Sept. meeting.

Please send me supply lists for any projects you might be planning to teach for the October retreat so I can get them posted here!  Carla will be teaching wrapped wire fiber jewelry and monoprint/watercolor on plexiglass using stencil type stamps.  Sandy will bring a small paperbag book for everyone at the retreat, and Beth will bring supplies for boiled babies. Maybe you all could bring some samples to the Sept meeting so we have some idea of what we will be doing at the retreat.  

ASOM August meeting

First meeting in the new store! How many people besides me started to drive to the old place and then remembered that it had moved???

We exchanged summer 6x6 art pages and 2 ATC's using last month's dimensional resin project. We also had show and tell showing off all the classes some of us took at Stampaway this year and a few other recent projects. We discussed the October retreat and decided on a few projects to work on there. Carla will be teaching a monoprint technique and also fiber/wire wrapped beads. Boiled babies were also mentioned! Sandy will bring everyone a tiny paperbag book. The retreat will start at 9am and you can come and go as you please until 9pm. Food will probably be ordered in. We will talk more about that next month.

Sandy brought the project for the night and we all appreciated so much all the hard work she put in to bringing every little thing we needed to work on altering laminate chips. Thanks Sandy!!!

Please bring your finished laminate chips to the next meeting for show and tell since I didn't get around to take pictures of works in progress.

More in a later post about the September meeting.