Create Chicago - ATC booklet and layered ATCs

I am teaching this class on Sunday, August 28th. Yes, you will get sewing time on the Bernina sewing machines for the booklets.

Here is the description:
This is not your average ATC class. Color, height, and texture will be built up on each ATC and accentuated with the final resin layer. So fun! You may not want to trade the final product (so make sure you make more than one of each one!) Wait, but we aren't done! We are also going to do an EZ-to-put-together folding booklet that will house several ATCs and/or tags so dazzling that you will want to make several to send to your friends.

Link to Create Art Retreat Website:
http://www.cvent.com/events/create-mixed-media-retreat-chicago-2011/custom-17-a4d0340eab2d40929f862fe0f88339c9.aspx?Refid=cre8110522

Create Chicago - Altoid tin treasures

I will be teaching this workshop on Saturday evening, August 27th. This is your chance to use the little things you have hoarded and saved but never got the chance to use.

Here is the description of the workshop:
Time to get out all those tiny treasures that you have hoarded but never knew what to do with them! Take a few treasures and create a permanent background in the candy tin that can later be filled with trinkets, treasures, charms, or whatever else you like. So, join us in transforming a plain candy tin into a resined treasure holder that family and friends will love receiving!

Link to the Create Art Retreat Website:
http://www.cvent.com/events/create-mixed-media-retreat-chicago-2011/custom-17-a4d0340eab2d40929f862fe0f88339c9.aspx?Refid=cre8110522

Create Chicago - Resin Flooding Workshop

This is the workshop that I will be teaching Saturday, August 27th. As a bonus, I will managed to get my hands on some frozen charlottes. So, if you are part of this class, you will get one to use in this class!

Here is the description of the class:
Take a configuration box, canvas and frame, shadow box, drawer, or any container of your desire and turn it into a treasure of curiosities and assemblage. Layers, layers, and more layers of paper, lace, and oddities before you add your favorite trinkets and treasures. Finish your masterpiece with resin. When cured, you won't be able to keep your eyes and hands off the wonderful texture the resin creates!

Here is a link to the Create Art Retreat website:
http://www.cvent.com/events/create-mixed-media-retreat-chicago-2011/custom-17-a4d0340eab2d40929f862fe0f88339c9.aspx?Refid=cre8110522

Hope that I will see you there. I am also hosting a charm swap, if you will be there at the retreat

Create Art Retreat Pictures

I finally got these pictures from my iPhone to my computer to my blog. Sorry, school has kept me really busy.

Here are some of my friends. We are sitting around visiting and sharing art made during our workshops.

New friends and old.