Well, I almost fell off my chair when my friend Sam proclaimed that for our next crafty meet up we were going to all do a 12x12 scrapbook layout a la Anna Dabrowska style. In all the years we've been meeting up Bibi and I have tried several times to get her to have a go at scapbooking but no way would she do!
We're each going to take turns to make up a kit and decide on a project that we all must do - no excuses - the person who's turn it is is boss! Sam put together a wonderful kit with lace, flowers, leaves, stencils, paper, masking tape, stamps and drippy ink and a photo of the three of us together at Ally Pally.
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| Layout and kit |
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Bag of goodies from Sam
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I think all our layouts turned out wonderfully, but Sam wasn't too sure about hers, but Bibi and I love it, she was so out of her comfort-zone, never mind that it was a scrapbook layout but she also used colours that are a bit more girly - not her usual greens and browns!
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| Bibi's LO |
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| Sam's LO |
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My LO
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Last week I spent an amazing 2 days at Art from the Heart in Harrogate taking classes with Dina Wakley.
Dina is so funny, inspirational and just a joy to learn from. The first day was all about textures and layering, we worked on plaster tiles and book covers using rigid wrap. The rigid wrap is like plaster impregnated bandage, as it's quite messy we all went out onto the fire escape to wet the rigid wrap and apply it to our covers. What we didn't factor in to this was that it was blowing a gale at the time - just picture plaster dust, drips from watery plaster and bookcovers being whipped out of peoples hands and ending up in the carpark! I blame Dina, she had done a snow dance earlier and although it didn't snow then I do think she's responsible for the weather - they don't have winter where she lives :)
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| plaster splattered boots |
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| Dina's fab book |
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| Rigid Wrapped covers |
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| always the sign of a good day! |
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| Incised, sketched,stamped, stenciled, wax on wax off tiles |
We worked on several tiles, incising designs into them, adding paint, adding a layer of beeswax, removing the wax, more incising, more paint. It's hard to see the lovely sheen of the beeswax on the tiles
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| Shelob? |
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| Spider on the Tower building in Harrogate |
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| Inspire |
Day 2 was a class based on Silhouettes. We learned about composition, white space, repetition, layering.
I loved this class too, playing with stencils, sprays and paint. I also bought Dina's book, which I would recommend to anyone interested in Art Journaling.
I wish I could have attended the faces and 2 day art journaling classes but they were fully booked. At least I know that AFTH isn't too hard to get to from London so I'll definitely be back.
