Next meeting October 13th

Hope to see everyone at the next meeting Monday October 13th, 7pm. We will be exchanging ATC's made using September's technique/project with never dull.

October's project is the tissue paper technique on pages 42-43 of Bernie Berlin's book. If anyone wants to also work on the phone book paper technique on pages 34-35 please do--it's not that different from the tissue paper! Supplies to bring: white tissue paper, gel medium, small brush, acrylic paints. We will be adding at least 2 layers of tissue paper to your base cardstock with the gel medium and then painting over them. For the phone book technique: bring phone book pages, gel medium, glazing medium, acrylic paint, brayer, brushes, white opaque pen(opt). See the book for samples.

Please think about what you might like to do for exchanges for next year! We will be discussing some ideas at the next meeting. I would like to do some kind of altered book with a color theme --anyone else have some ideas? Also, Kendall would like someone else to take charge of the group next year so please think about volunteering!

Next meeting Monday September 8th

Hope to see everyone at the next meeting Monday Sept 8th at Creative Stamper. Bring an ATC to exchange using the magazine paper technique from August's project. The Sept meeting project is Never Dull on pages 32-33. Please try to adhere some magazine images to paper with gel medium or modge podge and dry them at home. This will give us more time to play on the project at the meeting. Bring gel medium, scissors, Elmer's Glue, Never Dull (if you all ready have some), water-soluble Oil Pastels and a blending stick (Q-tip, paper towel or your fingers!). I think at least 2 members have some Never Dull to share with everyone. Bring a plastic baggie to save it and take it home.

Interesting altered book link

I ran across this website today and thought you would enjoy seeing some of the altered book pages here!
http://www.ingriddijkers.com/galleryaltbookspage12.html

ATC swaps on art-e-zine

Here's an interesting website with quite a few ATC swaps--some of the backgrounds look similar to ones we have been doing from the BB book!

http://www.art-e-zine.co.uk/atc.html

August 11th meeting

Here's a picture of the ATC's exchanged (sorry they are blurry--I guess I need to use the auto focus!). And pictures of the magazine paper projects we worked on at the meeting. See you all at the Crone gallery or the next meeting!

Next meeting Monday August 11th!

Hope to see you all at the next meeting August 11th. We will exchange ATC's using last month's stencil background technique.

The project for this month will be Magazine Paper & Gesso and Magazine Images pages 24-29. Please read all of the pages before the meeting and consider doing step one at home. Keep in mind that limiting paper size allows for more play time.
Supplies: magazine/catalog images-PRECUT, scissors, adhesive(gel medium, modge podge, glue, gluestick--short drying time is desirable), wet coloring mediums (inkpads, reinkers, paint), brushes, sponges, opaque pens, black markers, fine point perm markers, gesso, acrylic paint.

Hope everyone has a great time at the Stampaway convention(Sat Aug 9 at Sharonville Convention Ctr) and will bring your favorites from classes or shopping for show and tell!

July 14th Meeting--Stencils!

Here's the last of the number tags we traded(bottom images), ATC's we traded using the Inky Layers technique from last month, and everyone's works in progress for this month's project using stencils(starting at the top). Beth really gets into her art(those are her colorful pinkies)!
See you all at Stampaway August 9th or the next meeting August 11th!