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A Step Back In Time Bangle Bracelet
Sunday, May 22, 9am – 5pm
Caroline McFarlane
$120
Create this beautiful sterling silver and clay bracelet in no time flat. You
will create your own focal bead using polymer clay and Lazertran Silk. The body and other components of the bracelet are made with sterling silver wire. You will learn basic wire working techniques to
create your own clasp and accent beads. Even if you have never made a piece of jewelry before, I know that you will enjoy making this bracelet. And, if time allows, you will also be taught to make
another type of clasp and components that you can use in other types of art. This class is suitable for all skill levels.
Student Supply List:
- 2 ounce each of Premo black, white, and gold clay (Please pre-condition your clay prior to coming to class. If you don't know how to do this
please email me and I will send you instructions.)
- slicing/tissue blade used for polymer clay *
- Bring several items that when pressed into the clay it will give it texture (Ex: rubber stamps, texture sheets, buttons, lace, etc.)
- A needle tool *
- A 1-5/8" or a 1-7/8" cookie cutter (oval, square or round shape)
- A tube of Zap-a-Gap glue or similar glue for polymer clay (brush-on kind is preferred)
- scissors
- eXacto knife
- flush wire cutters
- short round nose pliers
- long round nose pliers
- flat nose pliers
- crimp bead pliers
- chasing hammer *
- rawhide or rubber hammer *
- steel bench block or small anvil *
* The instructor will have a few of these tools available to use in class. However, it is advisable to bring your own – if you
have them.
Optional Supply List:
- pasta machine
- drill (hand or electric)
Class Kit Fee:
$20 The kit includes all the Sterling Silver Wire needed for this project (16, 18, 20, 22 and 24 gauge wire), brass and copper wire, Lazertran Silk Images, powders, paint, seed beads and more. The kit fee is payable directly to the instructor at the beginning of the class.
Helpful links for tools: www.thunderbirdsupply.com, www.rings-things.com, www.metalliferous.com
If you have any questions, feel free to email the instructor at stampinc@hotmail.com.
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Friendship Journal
Sunday, May 22, 9am – 4pm
Roben-Marie Smith
$120
Remember joy and cherish laughter is the theme of this Friendship Journal. This special journal is 8 x 8 in size and features unique covers made of vintage
rusted tin tiles. The book is a hinge structure which allows the book to open and lay flat. Among several clever features, this book utilizes chicken wire, everyday screws, hex nuts and washers to
fashion an eye-catching cover. In addition, a funky metal screen is painted, embellished and attached to the inside cover. Four signatures of quality Bristol multi-media paper are sewn into the spine and
secured to the book with the help of additional hex nuts which makes for an interesting combination. Each signature section features a painted tab with dymo word which peeks out from the outer edge of
the book. Each reads ... REMEMBER, JOY, CHERISH, LAUGHTER. Painted corrugated paper is also attached to the first page of each signature under the tab for added interest and texture. The finished journal
is the perfect place to hold cherished memories, mementos and thoughts about friendship. Students are encouraged to bring personal images or mementos to add to their journal if time allows.
Student Supply List:
- Scissors
- 2 glue sticks
- ruler
- bone folder
- pencil
- SMALL book awl/paper piercer
- cutting mat
- oil pastels (cheap brand like Loew Corell)
- phillips head screw driver
- 2 small foam paint brushes
- 1/8" hole punch
- 30-35 small binder clips
- heat gun and extension cord
- a washcloth in a zip lock baggie
- scrap paper
- glue brush.
Optional Supply List:
- Small personal paper cutter
- Japanese Screw Punch with 1/8" tip
The instructor will provide all necessary papers, and embellishments
Class Kit Fee: $15 which will cover all necessary paints and adhesives. This fee is payable directly to the instructor at the beginning of the class.
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Magician's Notebook
Sunday, May 22, 9am – 5pm
Karen Michel
$120
The book every creative person needs to store their magical formulas & recipes for creativity and sources of inspiration. Consider it a proper home for
all your notes, learned techniques and discoveries.
In this class we will construct a book out of lightweight wood, using a basic binding for the spine, and embellish the cover with metal, fabric
& more!
This class is open to artists of all levels.
Student Supply List:
- Stylus (a ball point pen will also work just as well)
- Small jar of gel medium
- medium sized paintbrush (1/2" to 1")
- 1/8" eyelets (shape & color are up to you- these will be used on the spine to finish the signature holes)
Optional Supply List:
- A Charm to hang from the inner bookmark
- If you have specific fabric you would like to use for the binding, please feel free to bring it along.
- If you have specific imagery you would like to use for your cover, please feel free to bring it along.
- Japanese Screw Punch (I'll be bringing mine, so if you do not have one, don't worry! But it is a great tool & highly suggested. I bought mine from Dick Blick's website
- Embellishments for the cover (for example, metal label holders, charms, beads, wire, etc)
The instructor will provide all the foundation supplies available to students: sandpaper, sewing needles, drill, acrylic paints, wire, India ink, beads, and
various other fun materials.
Class Kit Fee:
$8 This book kit will contain paper for the book, wood covers and spine (books will measure about 11 ¾" x 5 ½" on completion), metal tape, fabric and waxed linen thread for binding. This fee is payable directly to the instructor at the beginning of the class.
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Another Fine Mesh
Sunday, May 22, 9am – 5pm
Linda & Opie O'Brien
$120
In this innovative workshop, you will create two dual-sided, copper metal mesh pages, accentuated in brass mesh, that can be used as book covers, journal
pages, wall hangings or even a complete book!
We will take familiar materials of mesh, cloth, tin, copper and more and transform them into layered collages. One page might have a hinged flap and fanciful folds guarding a secret Muse windowed in mica. While the reverse side may be a framed mica collage perched above a storage pocket that is further accented with an attached mini purse. Another page might have a hinged door guarding a delicious secret and pockets within pockets! Each 6" x 9" page will have its own unique qualities and there will be no limits as far as embellishment, so bring lots of your favorites! Techniques will abound and even include creating custom hinges and closures to attach and join multiple pages.
Student Supply List:
- either a Japanese screw punch (recommended) with 1/8" & 3/32" tips or a mini punch set (like a craft store leather punch set )
- one package of copper .80 woven wire mesh
- a pack of: mini brads
- 1/8" long eyelets and washers (any color)
- an eyelet setter
- mat or setting block
- small hammer
- metal ruler with a cork back
- an awl
- metal stylus
- bone folder
- glue stick
- Xacto knife
- ultra-fine black sharpie
- small spool of 20 gauge wire in any color
- tin shears for detail cutting
- jewelry pliers: one round nose - two flat or chain nose
- light wire cutters
- and lots of your favorite embellishments
Optional Supply List:
- a few rubber stamps and a permanent ink pad.
Please visit our website at www.burntofferings.com or email us with any questions to gourdart@burntofferings.com.
Class Kit Fee:
$15 The material/kit fee includes the brass mesh, door hinges, mica, cloth and paper images, tin pieces, some vintage embellishments, copper foil in various sizes, patina solutions, odd-sized eyelets, butane and more. This fee is payable directly to the instructor at the beginning of the class.
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Luminescent Table Screens
Sunday, May 22, 9am – 5pm
Dayle Doroshow
$120
The beauty of translucent polymer clay is, not only the fun of pigmenting the clay with inclusions (spices, herbs, colored sand, flowers and on and on) but
also its ability to "glow" when lit from behind. We will construct a two or three part screen, using several translucent polymer clay techniques, which can stand on its own and will be illuminated
with tea or votive candles. This luminary will feature transferred, carved and impressed designs in combination with millefiore colored clay designs. Create a wonderful gift for yourself and
friends while exploring the exquisite qualities of translucent clay.
Student Supply List:
- Work Surface (ex: piece of smooth tile)
- Something to roll out clay (acrylic rod, brayer or pasta machine)
- eXacto knife
- Needle tool or long needle
- Scissors
- Small pack of baby wipes for cleanup
- Polymer Clay Cutting Blade
- Small black/white photocopy imagery- carbon toner not inkjet
- Objects for impressions and molds-rubber stamps,jewelry,buttons,charms etc
- Speedball Linoleum carving tool (or woodcarving tool) - small "v" tip
- Pearlex powders or eyeshadows
- Polymer Clay: Two 2-ounce blocks of translucent, one 2-ounce block of white,tan,and 3-5 colors of your choice
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Fantastic Fabric Faces
Sunday, May 22, 9am – 5pm
Pamela Allen
$120
Here's a unique way to use those fabrics with large prints in small art quilts. Pamela will demonstrate a fabric collage technique that uses the shapes in
large prints - such as those from sarong batiks or floral fantasy fabrics - as components of a portrait face. A curling vine becomes an eye; a circle becomes a chin.
Pamela also provides fabrics that have been bubble jet printed with eyes, mouths etc to help in the creation. Emphasis in this class will be on the creative process with less fussing about sewing techniques and traditional quilting methods.
Student Supply List:
- Fat quarters or any fabric suitable for background and backing a small quilt
- A selection of scrap fabrics all types all colors, prints and plains. Include some fabrics with large bold prints and designs.
No particular criteria is necessary...just fabrics that have eye and tactile appeal as well as special ones like sheers, velvets and voiles for transparent and textural effects.
- Spray basting or other spray adhesive (optional). Safety mask
- Wonder Under fine fusible in lieu of spray, Stitch Witchery works too as does plain ol' glue sticks!
- Selection of embroidery floss...lots of colors! Thread of your choice
- Scissors, beading, embroidery and tapestry sized needles, thimble, other basic sewing regalia
- Polyester batting suitable in size for small quilt. Faster even is fusible batting either cotton or poly.
- Sewing machine is optional. This method can be done quite nicely WITHOUT a machine except for the final quilting.
Embellishments of all kinds.
This means thinking about unlikely but interesting additions such as found objects, manufactured items and hand made items such as copper tooled shapes (Pamela will demonstrate) etc. There is always a way of attaching such items either by drilling small holes (Pamela will bring a Dremel tool) or by capturing the shape with floss. Of course more conventional beads, buttons, lace etc is also useful.
Method:
Students should be able to finish a small quilt over the course of the day.
After collaging a variety of fabrics and prints to approximate a head and shoulder image, the quilt will be batted and backed BEFORE any stitching occurs. This makes for a very stable surface to work on and adds dimension to the appliquing work. Changes, additions and subtractions can be made to the image at any stage of development so the outcome is always open ended and flexible. There are NO quilt police in this class and anything that can be attached to fabric in any way that is permanent is grist for the mill! If time permits, Pamela students can machine quilt using Pamela's free motion techniques that she will demonstrate. Easy peasy!
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Etched Metal Jewelry
Sunday, May 22, 9am – 1pm
Jacqueline Sullivan
$85
You'll be amazed when you find out how easy it is to etch a design in metal! We'll work with rubber stamps and laser copies and Xeroxes on brass and copper
to create etched metal pieces that are works of art in themselves! In addition, you can draw or letter on the metal and then etch it to create something completely original. We will combine some of our
etched metal pieces with other hardware to make a copper brooch or pendant.
Other panels that you make will be good for cards and collages. We'll do some simple patinas on the metal to enhance the designs. You'll be able to complete several pieces in class. The supplies are simple and readily available and so you will be able to continue your metal play on your own at home.
Student Supply List:
- Your favorite Rubber stamps that will fit inside a 2" square
- Water container the size of a one lb. cottage cheese container
- Small travel iron if you have one
- Rubber gloves
- Apron
- Black "Stazon" stamp pad
- Bead Wire
- Beads for necklace (some will be provided but you may prefer your own colors and styles)
- Glue - EF 6000 or other glue that will hold together heavy metal
Class Kit Fee:
$20 Supply fee will pay for Metals, Transfer sheets, Etching solution, Patina solutions. This fee is payable directly to the instructor at the beginning of class.
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Creative Correspondence:
Mail Art and Beyond
Sunday May 22, 1 pm - 5 pm
Mindy Carpenter
$85
Who doesn't love that moment when, in between white standard envelopes otherwise known as bills, junk mail and the latest Pottery Barn catalogue,
you see that little piece of perfection--someone's handwriting on a real envelope. A letter, a note, a piece of mail art--suddenly the day is so sweet.
This class will focus on making handmade envelopes out of old Cavallini art calendars, papers "too good" to use, old documents, batik and marbelized paper...whatever strikes your fancy. I will provide templates to use and copy, explore lining, postage, rubber stamps, and ideas to make your correspondence extraordinary.You'll not only leave not only with many envelopes, but ideas on how to package them as gifts. Come join the mail art revolution!
Student Supply List:
- Single sheets of paper (This is a perfect class to finally use that paper you bought at that great art store but aren't exactly sure what to use it
for...you know the one.)
- Scissors
- double-sided tape
- bone folder
Note: The instructor will bring enough Cavallini calendars to share, plus sheets from her own well-loved, massive collection of art
paper. (Mindy is the Creative Art Director for Cavallini Papers & Co. Visit their site at www.cavallini.com.
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Vacation Romance Mosaic Frame
Sunday May 22, 9 am - 5 pm
Janette Schuster
$85
WANTED: Arm chair travelers and hopeless romantics for an adventure that won't break your heart, only your dishes! Come learn an ancient art form
with a contemporary twist and create a mosaic mirror or picture frame using broken china, tiles, vintage images, and found objects. Learn how to assemble and grout a mosaic, as well as how to make your
own custom tiles with words and images of your choice.
Student Supply List:
- eye protection (safety glasses)
- paint brushes (1 small, 1 medium)
- colored pencils
- a few cotton swabs
- photocopies (toner) of black and white clip art*, color images, and words
- small sharp paper scissors
- paper adhesive such as white glue or gel medium
- sanding block (or sand paper and wood block)
- pencil
- acrylic paint (1-3 background colors of your choice)
- hammer
- large paper bag (grocery)
- kitchen sponge
- thick rubber gloves (for dishwashing)
- leather gloves (garden)
- dishes/tiles to break: I suggest you bring at least 2 pieces of colorful china or dishes (such as saucers, tea cups, and plates) and1-3 ceramic wall
tiles (Home Depot sells individual tiles in a few colors.)**
Optional Student Supply List:
- tile nippers (available at hardware stores—I'll have a few pairs you can share, but you will be really glad if you have your own pair.)
- found objects such as squashed glass marbles, wood rulers, small ceramic figurines, beads, buttons, game pieces, keys, etc.
alphabet or image rubber
stamps and permanent ink (like Stazon or Archival)
- colored paper to stamp on ephemera like old dictionary pages, maps, postage stamps, etc.
Class Kit Fee:
$5 covers wood frame, tile adhesive, sealant, grout, paint, precut glass, and miscellaneous supplies. This fee is payable directly to the instructor at the beginning of the class.
Note: There is a copy store on the premises. I will have clip art books available for you to photocopy.
**I often use souvenir state plates and tile trivets from antique shops, flea markets, and thrift stores. I will try to have a few for
sale. I'll also have a free pile of dishes and tiles you can help yourself to.
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