Needle Felted Valentine Mimosa Make & Take

What a great way to spend a Sunday afternoon! Crafting, friends and wine... Margaret Hluch taught us how to make a Needle Felted Postcard! She showed us how to do a photo transfer onto a felt background.
We got to choose from a variety of beautiful hand dyed fleece to needle felt with! It was hard to pick from them all! The process was easy so everyone caught on quickly.
To finish off our postcard we added stitching. Again, Margaret had so many gorgeous threads to use. Check out this stash... Here's Laura putting some finishing touches on her postcard with stitching...

Our results looked great! Here they are...

Patterned Metal Bracelet Wine & Cheese Craft Party

Two weeks in a row we held the very popular class, "Patterned Metal Charm Bracelet" taught by Chrissy Gemmill. In this class we learned jewelry making basics and got to personalize our very own bracelet!

We started out by learning the basics and how hard to hit the metal stamps...

The hardest part was figuring out what we wanted our bracelets to say...

Everyone was really happy with their finished results! Here are some of the finished bracelets and happy class takers...

Mimosa Make & Take "Green Ornament"

We got into the holiday spirit by creating Green Ornaments with Courtney Prahl! And enjoyed some mimosas- yum! We all created a bird (or a star- Cecelia!) with foil and wire...

Not as easy as it looks... A little messy and sometimes hard to manipulate but someohow we all got it!

Next we gathered our desired decorations for our bird. There were choices of tissue, junk mail and old magazines.

Here are our drying birds (and star). They are so colorful and different!

Craft Party Open House

Wednesday night we had our Craft Party Open House! Three of our teachers donated their time and supplies to teach mini make & takes to show what our classes are all about! We had a great turnout and were happy to have it all benefit the Frederick Humane Society. Below is a picture of Traci's table... she taught scrappy style art tags! Just in time for gift giving!
Chrissy Gemmill is a popular jewelry teacher. She had everyone create copper charms! Some people did dog charms and others wrote out their favorite sayings or a personal message.

Fiber artist, Margaret Hluch taught needle felting. This table was extremely popular and people seemed to really get hooked on this craft! The attendees created birds that were needle felted and used as ornaments and pins!

Marble & Paste Paper Mimosa Make & Take

Linda Harrison-Parsons came to the studio to teach us how to create marble and paste papers! Linda is a wildlife artistwith a background in printmaking and paper making. She brought in a bunch of her beautiful samples for us to get inspired...




Linda showed us several techniques; india ink on water, paints on water, a thickened method using sea weed, and paste papers. After a few demonstrations we got to work on our own papers!
Here Linda created tree trunk rings by adding a watercolor medium to the india ink in alternating drops...
I think Lori has found a new hobby in paste paper surface design...

Needle Felted Denim Wine & Cheese Craft Party

Last evening was our Wine & Cheese Craft Party, Needle Felted Jeans. Margaret Hluch taught everyone how to easily transform their boring clothes into colorful and unique wearable art! Some people brought jean jackets, jeans, and skirts.

Margaret showed us a demonstration and we picked our designs. Some people used a book for inspiration and others designed their own patterns.

After drawing it out, we picked our fleece...There were so many gorgeous colors of dyed fleece to choose from!

Needle felting was fun! Everyone seemed very happy to learn that this is an easy craft to master! Many said they were going to needle felt other wardrobe items at home! Here are the results...