First Class

I'm teaching my first class this weekend! I never thought I wanted to teach but ever since this opportunity came along, I can't wait to give it a try. My first class is an advanced ATC based on my Tuesday's Child cards. Here are the samples I made for the class.

The owner of the shop where I'll be teaching gave me some oversized playing cards to use as the base. So the samples are about 4"x6"

And, here is the class display at the shop! I had to take pictures of my first ad. Yes, I know I'm a bit of a geek. :)

Envelope Book

I haven't posted in a while so I thought I would throw something up. Here are some pictures of a little book I made out of envelopes last night. I made this for a sample for a class on image transfers I'll be teaching in a few weeks. We'll make a simplified version of this for the students to store their transfer samples in. It was tons of fun; I'm ready to make another one. :)

The closed book.

Here it is unfolded. I used 6 envelopes to make the book.

The outside of the book. The folds at the top tab of each envelope were the weakest area. I ended up adding little chunks of the paper that I lined the envelopes with to the edges of each crease. This helped strengthen them up a lot.





Some close ups of the outside. When we do this in class, we'll skip all the stamping and just color the envelopes. That way, we will have more time to play with transfer techniques. Then, after the students practice, they can add transfers to the envelope book if they want.

So the whole book will look more like the inside here. I haven't decided about the lining of the envelopes yet. It really helps make the envelopes studier but it takes a lot of time.