Passed and have the certificate to prove it.
There has been no sign of a level two course happening. I am in two minds about that. It was nice meeting new people with crafty thoughts and trying a new craft that would have been expensive for a try otherwise. But going out to the class in dark nights not all that appealing and I do have plenty of projects to keep me going.
I note that the beginners sewing class that had been the other option has not made any sort of reappearance either.
due to CV19 targeting the teacher.
Now the plan for this week was either doing marbling on glass, lead by the class teacher or one of the students offered to show us how to do junk journals.
That was after "staging" our work and taking photographs for the accreditation. And completing the course paperwork.
I took along a box, a scarf, bud vase and some flowers to stage my card. However happily my resin item had turned up under some papers in a storage space so I had a bit more to take a picture of than anticipated.
ah well this was a little disappointing but also amusing on the resin side as the little heart I shared last week apparently had a small hole in the mould and it leaked so there is no heart. I was not the only one in the class with a leaking heart, very sad.
Now I also had made another resin item which I had not shared as it might potentially have become a gift.
Hooray you say!
Well maybe not as that item has vanished. There is a slim chance that it has simply been mislaid however, the tutor thinks it has been spirited away between the evening of the class and the next morning. She announced to the class that as beautiful as their resin objects were mine was quite obviously superior as it had been stolen.
I hold out hope it has just been misplaced.
I should know which by next week.
On the plus side there was the card to finish (and more paperwork for the accreditation)
Could have done with bigger flowers I think. Sizing was tricky as the card was not at home and I was guessing at the size.
Now next week there is an option of learning how to make a junk journal or trying marbling on an object.
At the moment I am undecided.
Week two..this did not go to plan on several points.
One, this course was supposed to add a bit of exercise into my crafting life due to the walk there and back.
However on the way home from work something went ping in my leg (getting home was a slow job) and the evenings walks turned into taxi rides.
Two, we were supposed to be finishing off the cards the marble effect had been placed on last week (click here for a reminder). I had prepared some things to use (yup that took up some of my BFF rollover time) and was looking forward to seeing how it would look. Sadly the teacher must of been having the same sort of week that I was having and forgot to bring our cards to the class.
So it was on to using the resin. Yes that is the thing I have not tried since I was seven, one of those craft kit things that were popular when I was a child. It came with bits to set in it and was supposed to make jewellery with findings for a ring and a broach. It was a sad failure as the bits once set did not want to come out of the hard plastic mould.
So more than a few years later and we were all aprons and gloves and masks and glasses, and pouring and adding flowers.
However, the timing was all off , and the setting too slow for the evening, so carefully placed additions to the resin floated and moved as they liked. So in this instance random was so much easier to achieve.
Not much of a picture this week.
I picked the mould and colours to go with my intentions for the card and used dried flowers provided by the teacher. Other class members brought in sea glass or watch cogs and rusted bits of stuff. So next week fingers crossed for the card and that the resin set. Mind we are on a promise to have another go if it has not.
I might get a picture or two of the alternative additions.
Art and Design week 1.
This started with a leaflet through the door listing free classes at the local College (within walking distance) and for once they were on an evening so I could maybe attend.
There were two options that appealed Art and Crafts and Beginners sewing. Of course they were both on at the same time.
As the Arts and Crafts was only four weeks that sounded worth giving it a go.
So registered and students pass around my neck (with the usual delightful ID photograph) I entered the class.
Eleven of us all together, ten women and one man, three cans of shaving foam and lots of bottles of colouring. (not counting the teacher)
Our first task to decorate card with a marble effect using shaving foam..I won't go into details there are lots of videos on You Tube you can watch. Indeed we watched a few at the start of the class.
So foam on plate, colour dotted on foam and swirled about, card popped on and let the magic begin?
Looks like an unsuccessful cooking experiment, this is the second and smaller of the two sizes of card being decorated.
I chose three pearlescent colours and on doing the large piece of card first realised it was perhaps more subtle than I had intended. Even more so than in the picture as the sheen does not show up.
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| Folded card, large piece and small piece. |
Then we had a drying break...in more ways than one...although much less drying time than those videos recommended but still it was enough.
No vending machines or other option for getting a drink...I was not thirsty till the thought of a drink was put into my mind ah well will know for next week.
Back in the class and it was time to stick the big card to the folded card (flat) and the little card to the big card with thick double sided tape.
(Oh the dipped card will be the back so I can put a hand made by stamp on, in the back of my mind I recall having a stamp)
So the card is obviously not finished. Next week the teacher is bringing mottos of salutations to use on the card. One of the students offered to bring in peel offs and then we will have to add a verse to the inside.
So of course I am mentally Deborasing what I can do to the front of the card. What things I can take in for me to use (oh stash busting) I have all sorts of thoughts. A dragon might look good in that subtle sky? A firm one is to have some coloured paper as an inner for the card. If I can decide what sort of card it is going to be then I can prepare a verse and have it in ready.
This little accredited course is we were advised based on a portfolio expected to be a card and a gift (we get to try something I have not tried since I was about seven for that and I may be able to take stash from home for that also.
So things learned from this week:
Have the container for the foam as big as the biggest piece you intend to "dip" having it smaller is more difficult and messy.
Three cans of shaving foam is not enough for 11 people who just watched a You Tube demonstration.
You can use less shaving foam than they show you in a You Tube demonstration.
You need more kitchen roll than you think you do..a lot more.
Shaving foam makes me sneeze (it has to be the ordinary foam no moisturising bits and not gel).
This method drives my parsimonious side crazy (even when all of the things we were using were free to me as the course is free), I would need to be doing quite a few , starting subtle and adding colour as I went. And I can see me still colouring card once the foam had become one uniform shade whether I wanted any that colour or not. So this may be the first and last time I try this. Unless the sisters at church want a try at some point and I can just imagine how many many plates of foam would be calling out to me to dip just one more bit of card and use up those supplies!.
I am not keen on starting something when I don't have the end product in mind. Now I am fine with changing as I got (you may have noticed) but making a card that is for a whatever occasion...makes those design decisions challenging for me. So I better have made a decision on that by next week. Also there was the suggestion that the card and the gift should be for the same intention.
Chatting with new people who all have some crafting interest or skill was fun.
What you dislike about your piece is what someone else will like about it still applies one of the other ladies had much bolder marbling in similar shades (she did not use the shimmery stuff which finished of lighter) and I liked her bold one and she my subtle. Now had we spotted that sooner maybe we could have swapped little cards and had something interesting happen. Maybe that would not have been allowed now I think of it as we did sign a sheet to go with the accreditation that it would be all our own work!
Have they met crafters? Hmm I forgot that bit when I happily drew hearts for the two ladies I was sitting with who wanted that shape from their small bits of card and did not feel confident creating the shape to cut out. Shhh we wont tell anyone about that.
Between now and then I have a wedding record book to work on.
