More Workshop Makes

I'm a little late posting these, but last Saturday saw me up early and off around the M25 to Kent again to another of Eileen's super workshops. This time canvases were on the agenda for the day. We started with the small one at the bottom, this one involved a lot of acrylic paint, some stamps and a little paste. The second (which I will admit to this one being my favourite) larger canvas at the top was made using the bleeding tissue technique. I had never tried this before and will admit I came home and ordered some of this tissue right away. As well as the tissue we used a little white acrylic paint, some stamps and the gorgeous large Daisy stencil by Designs by Georgina with black Archival ink.

The top canvas has been mounted onto some white mount board, I still have to mount the bottom one.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Another Mirror

When I posted my the other mirror I'd made, I said that I had already started another. I thought it was about time that I show this to you. This time I've gone for a silver look. The flowers were cut out using a crealies die, the hearts and butterflies were spellbinders dies and the leaves from a Marianne die. Three layers of each die have been cut before being stuck together to give them depth. In my previous post I gave links to the blogs where the inspiration for these came from, so I will link my last post here if you wish to go visit and see how these lovely mirrors are made.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Fantastic Day Out

Sunday morning my alarm clock sang out at me at 6.30 a.m. Just as I was about to turn over I remembered that I was going to Kent to attend another of Eileen Godwin's wonderful Journal Workshops.With Eileen, there we only five of us but what a fantastic day we had. I'd gone armed with my Gelli plate and a lemon, both of which Eileen said we would be using. However once there Eileen showed us two wonderful projects, one she made while attending a workshop held by the talented Karen Buckle, and one Eileen had made herself very similar but using a different technique that she found on You Tube. Both were stunning and of coarse we wanted to know how she had made them. She gave us a rough idea on Karen's method and then set about instructing us how she made the second. What better way could there have been than getting our hands dirty and trying it out for our self's. I'm not going to go into lengthy details but it involved, White Card stock, Embossing Folders, Black Gesso, Glue and Seal and Inka Gold paints, oh and some die cuts. The picture below was my result, which was done in my new larger Art Journal. Eileen has posted the other three ladies pages on her blog, we all done some thing different so do pop over and take a look and don't forget to take a look at Eileen's project that she made, or Karen's workshop photo's. Needless to say the Gelli plates were put away unused.

Thank you for taking the time to look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue