A couple of our members shared projects they did over the summer:
Valerie Day shared this lovely woodland card she made.
Susan Lindsay shared cards she has been making from playing cards for a swap.
Category: paper
For our first meeting of the 2023-2024 meeting year, member Valerie Day showed us how to dye silk scarves and paper using Spectra Art Paper.
First we wetted the scarf or paper and then we arranged the Spectra Art Paper. The colors then bleed and color the scarf/paper.
We had some great items for show and tell:
Valerie Day shared her new quilt she made from a class she took this summer.
Vicki Goff shared her ikat weaving project where she played with weave structures (left). She also shared yarn she dyed (right) this summer at a dye workshop hosted by fellow member Yvonne Ellsworth.
Patty Leinweber shared her amazing cards she made over the summer.
Susan Lindsay shared some collages she has been working on using gelli plates. She plans to host a program on it in September.
Next month our program will be on Kumihimo bracelets with Shirley Pauls. See you in October!
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Valerie Day and Toni Burton brought their collections of stencils, rubbing plates, and paint sticks for us to try out.
The Shiva Oilstiks are an oil paint based crayon-like method of applying pigment to materials such as paper and fabric.
After the items have dried completely (3-5 days,) the pigment is heat set using an iron.
It’s a fun surface design medium! Thank you, Valerie and Toni, for leading this mini-workshop.
Patty Leinweber brought her cardmaking supplies and tools and we had fun with all the cool stuff!
Stamping, die-cuts, inking, and exotic papers were combined to create the cards.
Thanks for a fun workshop, Patty!
Membe Michele Murnane led us in a very fun workshop making French Lace Pins and book covers!
Here are some of her samples. She brought generous supplies of lace, buttons, ribbon, fabric, charms, etc.
and we also brought our own items to incorporate into these delightful fiber arts collages.
Shirley and Gail ponder what do next with their book covers.
Show and tell featured dyed items, some knitted entrelac pieces and other knitting, as also a gorgeous woven table runner!
We returned to our home at ArtWorks and Astrid Bear led us in a workshop on paper marbling.
We floated marbling paints on a sizing of carrageenan solution, manipulated the paint into various forms, then took prints onto paper.
We continued to meet via Zoom. Valerie Day did a demo of her airbrush system, which blows air across felt-tip markers to transfer the ink to your desired surface. The system she uses is eBrush by Craftwell.
Valerie used multiple colors of Sharpie with a stencil to create this image.
Astrid Bear led the group in making several types of mini-books, some just one piece of paper that is folded and cut in ingenious ways. For more info on these techniques, check out the book COVER TO COVER by Shereen LaPlantz, out of print, but pretty easy to find used.
The multi-talented Meredith Arnold gave a fun workshop in working with polymer clay.
We squished, rolled, cut, stamped, and painted the clay into items that can be incorporated into bookmaking, jewelry, artwork, or whatever else strikes one’s fancy.
We met via Zoom. Any organization you, the reader, were involved with probably did, too. So. Much. Zoom. Your reporter did not document our meetings, and is ready to move on from the Year of Zoom, so we will pass over the content of our meetings for the time being, and move into a new meeting year with hope in our hearts and hands ready to work.
The 2021-2022 meeting year calendar is now up here. If you’d like to join us, read the About page, for more details and pack a mask to wear during the meeting.
Seaview members Patty and Susan led us in “Paper Play,” a mini-workshop on two different techniques for adding surface design to paper.
Gelli printing use paints applied to a gel surface. Designs are created using stencils or tools, then a print is made on paper.
Embossing involves stamping a design with embossing gel, then adding embossing powders which are melted with a heat gun.
This can be done on plain or textured papers, or add additional images to an existing piece of art.
Pieces can then be incorporated into cards, collages, or other final works.
Seaview Weaving and Fiber Arts Guild 