Paper Cowgirl Highlights

Paper Cowgirl started off with a meet and greet at the Dove's Nest in Waxahachie on Wednesday night at 6:00pm. We had some wonderful tasty food and we celebrated Cindy's (organizer) birthday with a cake and a card. I think we surprised her! It was fun and the teachers got to meet their students and get reacquainted with old friends. We had a great discussion about Pinterest. Very insightful.

Some pictures of samples are below.

karen valentine

karla nathan

samples on table

lisa mcilvain

beth leintz

mine

Classes started Thursday morning bright and early! I taught a wool felt crown class and had a lot of fun. My students were very creative! Loved the ideas they came up with for decorating their crowns. I wish I remembered who all the crowns belonged to, so I could label them on these photos.

my class

cathi

faith's crown on a pedestal

faith's

inside of faith's

jan & cindy sewing away

jan's crown

karen & cindy

karla's bird made from scrap wool she had left



krisi & karla's crowns - back of

krisi & karla's crowns - front of

sweet tammy

terry concentrating

me & karen valentine

I want to thank all my students for signing up for the class and making it a special and memorable event!!

Class I Took

I will post more photos of Paper Cowgirl later but these are photos of what I made in the class I took while there. It was Sandra Feazel's class. Really had fun working with wax and lucious fabrics! The little photos are on cut up book covers. What a great idea! Dipped in the wax or paint it on the wax and add acrylic paint. I stamped in the wax while it was warm and it left a texture. So cool! Sandra's samples were small to be used as necklaces but I thought why not make them bigger and they can be used on a canvas or hung on these cute hangers.

I decided to use what I learned in the class for my swap project for one of my art group meetings. This is what I cane up with. The theme is white, so I used shades of the color and added a little brown in to go with the photo. Which by the way is a photo of one of my Grandfathers with his brothers.

Here are some of the students projects. There were some very creative things done. I wish I could remember whose was whose project. LOL

Sandra and Jill's (teachers)

Sandra & Jill's



Sandra's

Sandra's

Teresa's

Tammy's

Jennifer's

 

our kits, sooo cute!

These two are so fun!! Tammy is the sweetest lady and Nicki is a hoot!

This is me and Amy Boland. When I was introduced to her I kept thinking "where do I know that name from?" Then later someone ask me what the photographers name was from San Antonio, and it hit me! That's why I knew her name. She has photographed Magnolia Pearl and several other things in the stamping art world! http://www.amybolandphotography.com/

More later on the class I taught. I am still going through my photos. Have a great week.

Art & Stuff

I have been having so much fun with the Donna Downey  canvas a month class. This is my creation for February. I used modeling paste to embed the ledger paper heart on the canvas. The Golden fluid acrylics are such bright colors! Love them!

I have been taking a Terri Brush soldering class online and this box is one of the things I actually did. Well I needed a birthday gift for a friend so I thought this would be the perfect thing for her. It was a fun project. Although I was to chicken to solder the rhinestones on, so I glued them. Didn't want to take a chance and the glass crack after I had done all the work!! LOL

This is another project I did from the class. These are not that easy to wrap the tape around but boy do they make a statement when soldered. 

Thanks for stopping by. I will be teaching at Paper Cowgirl this Thursday and will post photos next week from class and some of the other events that will be going on. Have a great rest of the week! It is suppose to be beautiful outside. Students couldn't ask for a better Spring Break!!

Valentine Swaps

One of art groups met last Wednsday evening and our swap theme was hearts. I received this bunch of sewn hearts from a friend at another meeting, so I decided to try my hand at sewing my own. I have to say going around the hump is not that easy when your not a seasoned sewer. LOL

I wrapped mine up in tulle and put a tag on each of them. I had to make three sets!

They came out OK.

Here is what I received back from the swap. Check out the canvas with the heart on it. The heart is made with rolled up tubes of paper! Wonder how long that took? But it is oo cool! Love the purple and white heart with the spray of jewels coming out of the top. Very creative!

Look at these cards! The cupid one is just gorgous! Wonderful way to use the bingo card.

I had to share this. It is the saying on the inside of the bingo card. "I love you with all my butt. I would say heart, but my butt is bigger." So funny!!!

Ready For Paper Cowgirl & Fun New Decoration In Studio

I spent all day yesterday finishing up for Paper Cowgirl next month. My class is full and I am so excited!! Look at all these kits!

These are the door prizes I made and packaged up. I just need to get some tickets for the students to write their names on and me to draw from.

 These are items I have packaged to sell during or after my class. Trims and wool.

 Look what I got!! I have been looking for a vintage baby bed springs for so long. A friend and I were in McKinney on Friday and found it. My husband helped me hang it today. I added my little paper ball lights to it. It hangs over my desk in the studio.

House Mouse Card For March

This cute card would make a wonderful one for a new baby. The mouse is sleeping on a pussy willow flower branch. I added stickles to the flower centers to give the card some sparkle. Vellum is over a pattern paper and a little sheep button is attached to the ribbon. This turned out great but I will say it took some time to cut out all the mice! I had help though!! Thanks to my friend Mary!!

Canvas Art & A Glass House

I signed up for Donna Downey's Canvas Create class. It was really fun. Here is my canvas for January. Of course I copied what she did but since I am not a painter, I learned some techniques and had a great time making this. The picture really doesn't do the piece justice. Go check it out here https://www.donnadowney.com/index.php/workshops-i-teach

For my birthday in December I had ask for a container to put some of my handmade wool felt crowns in. Look what a fabulous glass house I received from two friends! I put it on my kitchen table for display.

 I decided it needed something in the bottom. So I shredded some music paper then put in the crowns.

I also included two birds, but you can hardly see them in this photo. One is cement color and the other is blue. There is a book box that one of the friends had made me along time ago, and I added it too.