Showing posts with label beading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beading. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Angelina Film/Fusible Film/Fantasy Film

Yes, this particular product has a few different terms. They all mean the same thing, a sheer and shimmery product that produces an awesome effect when you glue it to either black or white card stock, chipboard, whatever....then heat it with a heat gun and watch the colours change! Comes in an array of colours and the effect will alter depending on whether you use a light or dark background. This is the upcoming class for the ATC Technique Book #4 I'm teaching over the next fortnight at Scraptivate.

Remember, this is a product that must be seen in real life to be appreciated. Sometimes it's a bit glitzy for my dark and sombre tastes but you can either use less of it (as in the frame style below - "voluptuous"), or you can give it a light dry-brush with paint (as in "chaos").

"Well behaved women"...


"Voluptuous"...

"Chaos"...

"See, speak, hear"...
"Untitled"...


The last class I taught was Stamping & Beading on Fabric. We used both hand-stitched beading as well as microbeads. Here's the last few samples from that particular class.

"Relic"... (microbeads)



"Life's Blood"... (hand beading)


Scraptivate now stocks the beautiful Smooch Inks. I'll be using these in an upcoming class and below is a sample of what can be done with them. The Smooch is the colouring on the background and the fluid embellishment around the edge is from the Faux Wax class previously taught.

"Destructionist"...

Friday, October 1, 2010

Stamping & Beading on Fabric Class

The next technique that's coming up in the ATC Technique Book #4 is Stamping & Beading on Fabric. We'll be stamping (obviously!) onto calico, then colouring using Twinkling H2O's and Lyra Watercolour Crayons AND some beautiful highlights using the delightful Smooch Inks (all available at Scraptivate of course!), then doing some hand-beading. Some of the girls find the hand-beading a little daunting as they are new to it, so I've relented this time and we'll also be using some of the wonderful Martha Stewart Microbeads as well!

Some samples....

"Fly"... (microbeads and the oft-used Dragonfly stamp from Stampers Anonymous)


"Collector"... (microbeads)

"Pose"... (microbeads and a Stampotique Stamp)


"Dark Night"... (hand-beading, swarovski crystals and smooch ink as the accents on her wings - Angel stamp from Stampotique....so glad Natalie got this range of stamps at Scraptivate, love 'em!!!)

"Glamour-puss"... (hand beading and another Stampotique girl - Prom Queen!)


Tomorrow is the final day for the Art Doll that I'm teaching at Scraptivate. Last class we did the beading and I'm hoping the girls got their homework done in the last two weeks. Tomorrow we're working on the organza burning for the flowers (yep, I said it without a shudder this time....I'm making progress...lol), they will be shabby though. Nothing like a little flame and scorching heat to sort flowers out I say! I'll take my camera so I can show in an upcoming post some of the various ones the girls have made. I'm sure they'll be wonderful!

Friday, September 3, 2010

Art Doll Class & Soot technique

Yay, I'm back online and it sure makes you realise how much you rely on the internet to keep you in touch with everyone! So I now have my art doll finished and the pics are ready to be shown......
I'm teaching this art doll at Scraptivate and I'll probably be repeating this class another couple of times - once during the day over 3 sessions and another weekend series of classes. This doll is made over 3 classes of 2-1/2 hours each. The girls will be doing everything from scratch, from tracing the pattern to freezer paper, ironing it to the fabric, stitching the body, turning, stamping, colouring then stuffing - all this on the first day! The 2nd class is beading and the third class is all about the organza decoration.















This is the back view of the "hair"...


I'm also teaching the soot technique again tomorrow morning at the ATC Technique Book class. Another of those old techniques that have been around forever but is just simply spectacular and oh so simple!

"Haunt"...



"Gaze"...

"Blossom"...

"Fragile"...
Hope the girls bring a good dose of patience with them for the art doll class tomorrow as well as their sense of humour....which I shouldn't worry about as we usually have a pretty fine time with lots of frivolity and a little naughty humour. ;-)

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Distressed Gesso

UPDATE... Linda Baldock is having a fabulous give-away on her blog... to win one of her original rings, go check it out!

Distressed Gesso is another background technique that with just a few supplies you can turn out some wonderful background papers. Gesso, Distress Ink Pads and either book paper or ugly scrapbook papers are all you need. It's a matter of splotching the gesso on thinly, drying and then layering the distress ink colours that make this background work.

First though, some more samples from the previous Transfer onto fabric and hand-beading atc class.

"untitled"...

"Allure"...

"Senseless"...


Now for the Distress Gesso atc's.

"Handle with care"...


"Serene"...

"Remember"..."Vintage Love"...


More to come....

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Transfers & hand-beading atc's, wedding pics!

Now my computer is feeling much better and I've had a chance to scan my Sheer Heaven Transfers & Hand-Beading atc's I can post them! This is my next series of classes at Scraptivate commencing this Saturday. I'm even giving the girls an extra half hour as I just KNOW that hand beading sucks the time up and before you know it, hours have passed! I know some of these were in the previous post but I think they will expand larger if you click on them so you can see the beading in more detail.

"Life"...

"Remember"...


"Cherish"... (my grandparents)

"Seduce them"...

"Mystery"...

"Flattery"...
"Enchant"...



Finally I have some wedding pics too from my son's wedding on the 10th of April, the disc just arrived yesterday so these are hot off the press!!!










Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Transfers onto Fabric & hand-beading atc's!!!

Woo-hoo!!! Just noticed this is my 200th post....and do I have a way to celebrate! My next upcoming atc technique class is transfers onto fabric and hand-beading. Hand-beading is just so relaxing and something that even a real needle-phobe can do. You only need to stitch a few beads on in a simple style or you can be as elaborate as you want with fringing, peyote (not the ingestible kind!!!....how do I even KNOW about that???) and my favourite - picot beading! So as not to freak my students out too much, we'll be sticking to fairly simple beading for this class but if they've done it before, they can just go to town if they like - I won't stop them...I'll be cheering them on!

Now as my stupid computer decided to blow a gasket and has to be hospitalised for a few days, I'm without a means of showing you the pictures of the beaded atc's...but Natalie has kindly allowed me to use the pics that she took of them for the advertising of the class at Scraptivate.


"Life"...

"Passion"...

"Cherish"...

"Enchant"... (yes, I know it's pinky/apricoty and pretty, but remember I'm a Gemini so I can swing both ways! lol)

When my computer gets better I'll upload the rest of the pictures.

Saturday, January 9, 2010

A New Beginning...Mouldy Cover

Today starts the beginning of a new ATC Technique Book. We've just received a re-stock of the fantastic Krafty Lady Moulds at Scraptivate and in conjunction with Darwi air-dry clay, these two items are perfect for atc's and other paperarts/mixed media work. Of course you can use melted utee or melted beeswax if you want a faster drying time (literally minutes!) or you can use polymer clay too. I prefer the air-dry clay, gives me time to think about what colour I want to paint it and what to do with it.



Once again the book is 8" wide x 6" high, giving enough room on each inside page for two atc samples on the right and printed instructions on the left. I used torn book pages and gauze for the cover to add extra texture.



Cover.....


Cover close-up...


Now some atc's using moulds.
"Resplendence"...

"Resplendence close-up"...


"Remnant"...


"Measure"...

"Antenato"...


I also made these beaded brooches a few years ago when I had the beading bug...
"Beaded face #1"...


"Beaded face #2"...

"Beaded face #3"...



Hope the girls have fun today playing with the clay and moulds!

Something else exciting that one of my students pointed out to me was the site where you can have your blog made into a book!!!! So I've had my 3 years worth of blogging made into 3 books, a tradition that I intend to continue to do at the end of each year. The cost was reasonable considering the books are larger than A4 format, glossy covers, beautiful colour pictures throughout and very well made. Here's the link if you're interested in having your very own book of your blog.