Gee Gee's Book Club

Canvas Swap VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL

This is the 2nd month of swapping canvases.  View the slide show to see how we are progressing.

 

Sheila created this lovely dress form using pink materials to represent Cancer awareness month.

 

Glenna did some more work on her beautiful blue canvas.  She added modeling paste to the wings.  She also used paraffin wax to give her painting an interesting encaustic look. 

How clever is that!!

Terri created this colorful painting on Lutradur.  Here is an interesting tutorial on Lutradur.  Here's a video.

Terri also made this adorable teddy bear.  He is felted and so soft.  We all found him to be quite intriguing.

       

Many of our members love to scrapbook.  Here are some wonderful layouts created by Nanci and Glenna

 

This fun scrapbook, made by Lola, is just waiting for some great pictures to grace it's pages.

 

Kristal is an amazing artist and this beautiful page proves it.  It's a scrapbook paper that already had the pattern.  Kristal added the gorgeous color and shading by using colored pencils and Gum Arabic.

 

 

Look at this adorable pumpkin headed character.  I think Lola used everything but the kitchen sink to make this fun Halloween decoration.  So crafty and so incredibly imaginative!

 

Kat put this Tim Holtz Ideology Configurations box together after taking a class from Carol Murphy.  It's oh so scary!  You can't look away.  You might miss something.

Go here to find lots of different pictures of Configurations.

 

 

		Make and Takes VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL

We worked on our little encaustic, fairy wall hangings.  Here's a few examples our spontaneous artwork.

 

This month's kit consisted of a doll and some fun items to help us create an apron for her.  We also received a lace pack by Kaisercraft, several pieces of mica, a few button packs by Blumenthal Lansing Co., and a DecoFabric marker by Marvy Uchida.   It's a fun collection of inspiring pieces to stimulate the imagination. 

 

Gentle Reminder of items you may want to bring next month:

• Canvas for the Canvas Swap
• Tags are due and should include a picture of you and a little known detail about you. (10 tags) Do 11 tags if you want to donate one to Charity Wings.
• Projects you've been working on to share
• Current book is Mixed and Stitched by Jen Osborn
• Tool kit, including scissors, glue,  a pen or pencil.
• A snack to share
• Camera

Things to remember:

• November is the 3rd month of a 4-month cycle and the meeting is Thursday, November 3rd, at Gee Gee's Stamp 'n' Stuff. 
• Tags are due at this meeting.
• Crop on October 23, 11:00-5:30 at Cool Scrapbook Stuff.  Potluck!

3.  White Elephant Gift Exchange.  Christmas is in 2 months. You might want to start working on your Gift.  It must be something wonderful, that you created, and would want to keep for yourself.  Put your best foot forward.  We will exchange gifts at our December meeting. 

 

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Cool Scrapbook Stuff Book Club

Circle Journal Swap VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL

Creating Outside the Book Circle Journals are complete.  Everyone had a blast with this project.  We started the journals in January, and each month thereafter, a member from book club created a new page in another member's book.  There isn't a single page that is the same. 

I love my journal and am so happy to finally be able to take it home and really look at it.  It's a wonderful keepsake that will always remind me of my fabulous friends in our Book Club.

 

Look what our fearless leader, Elena made for us.  It's a personalized Book Club tote bag.  We each received one of these adorable bag.  It's a wonderful way for us to save the planet one plastic bag at a time.  No more shopping bags for our kits.  Bring your tote bag to Book Club every month.

 

 

 

We spent a much of our evening playing with the make and take.  Lots of fabric scraps, some trim...pick a color pallet, or theme, layer it together and you have an adorable embellishment for another project. 

 

Denise gave us the idea of adding them to our new Book Club totes.

 

 

 

The make and take design was taken from an article in the Somerset Memories magazine, which is our inspiration book for this cycle.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cynthia is hard at work making a pretty fabric embellishment from her scraps.

 

 

 

Gaye, Alma and Elena having fun creating.

 

Fabric Embellishments VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL

Here are some of the finished embellies.

 

Here's Fern showing her adorable altered dress form and matching changing screen.  Kitties galore!

 

 

This sophisticated dress form was created by Alicia.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elena's canvas is so cute.  She beautified a Suzi Blu stamp for the pretty girl and then added the flying piggy and the background.

 

 

Kat made a collage picture with a Girl in a garden of butterflies.

A few months ago, we had a button stack swap.  Everyone made button stacks and we each ended up with fourteen different button stack charms.  Elena brought us bracelets and Gaye quickly turned her stacks into this whimsical bracelet.

 

 

Gentle Reminder of items you may wish to bring next month:

• Tags are due
• Your book - Somerset Life (Can be purchased at CSS)
• Projects you would like to share
• Finished project from Book Club kit
• Tool kit, including scissors, glue and a pen or pencil
• Camera
• A snack to share

Things to remember:

• DATE AND LOCATION CHANGE IN DECEMBER TO DECEMBER 14TH, AT ALICIA'S HOUSE IN RANCHO PENASQUITOS.
• October is the third month of this cycle.  Our meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, October 19, at 6:30, at Cool Scrapbook Stuff. 
• Crop is October 23rd, from 11:00 to 5:30 at Cool Scrapbook Stuff.  Free for Book Club members and one guest.  Be sure you reserve your spots.  Potluck!

Tag swap.  The tags are about you.

• Due in October
• Make tags that include a picture of you.  
• Add some little know fact or facts about yourself.
• Make 13

White Elephant Gift Exchange.  The holidays are around the corner.  Start thinking about and working on your Gift.  It must be something wonderful, that you created, and would want to keep for yourself.  Put your best foot forward.  Party will be at Alicia's home, on December 14th, 6:30-8:30 p.m.  Potluck!  More details to come.

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Gee Gee's Book Club Welcome's Lisa Fulmer

 

Lisa says, "One very important thing to remember about needle felting is to avoid poking your finger with the needle because it will seriously hurt."

What a fun night that started with a special guest appearance from Lisa Fulmer from C&T Publishing.  Lisa is a well known artist in the crafting industry and would love for you to FB friend her at Lisa Liza Lou Designs.  Lisa came to our meeting armed with her friend, and fellow crafter, Andrea Currie, and a demonstration of Needle Felting techniques and Needle Felting with Lutradur.  We had lots of giggles.

If that wasn't enough excitement for one night, we also had the pleasure of skyping with the one and only Jen Osborn, author of our current book, Mixed and Stitched.  Each of us had an opportunity to spend a few minutes talking with this wonderful lady as she hung out in her home in Michigan.

Glenna, Nanci, Ally, Gayle (Owner of Gee Gee's), Kristal, Cynthia, Pam, Terri

Awwe!  Here are some of our fabulous, artsy, Creating Outside the Book ladies waiting expectantly for Elena to tell us what to do next. 

 

		Dress Form Swap VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL

Dress Forms Swap.  Check out all the beautifully embellished dress forms we swapped.  The rules were simply to use the Tim Holtz Dress Form Die Cut and embellish.  Everyone went home with a stack of these to use on future projects. It's amazing what 12 different minds will come up with.

 

 

Canvas Swap VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL

This is our newest swap.  It's a canvas swap.  The only rule was to start your canvas.  As you can see everyone had different ideas on what it means to start a canvas.  We then passed our canvas to another book club member who will add embellishments, paint, fabric, or whatever they want to add.  Then next month each canvas will be passed to the next person for further embellishing.  In the end we will get back the canvas we started with.  The fun is that it will include a compilation of artistic ideas from each one of our members. 

 

Lola created this beautiful Life is Love banner from the letters that we all created in our recent letter swap.  She added dangles to each letter and then attached the letters to a yardstick. 

 

It clear that Glenna spent some happy time on this lovely layout of she and her Grandma.  It's amazing what happens with our art when we have such a beautiful inspiration.

Here is another example of Glenna's wonderful artistic ability. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These adorable little collages are examples of what we worked on for our make and take.  They are miniature pieces of art collaged or sewed on fabric. 

This one also included bees wax.

 

This idea was taken from Jen Osborn's book, Mixed and Stitched.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gentle Reminder of items you may want to bring next month:

• Canvas for the Canvas Swap -  Ladies who have committed to the canvas swap so far are:
  • Ally Evers
  • Glenna Ruoff
  • Sheila Goldsberry
  • Kat Baker
  • Cynthia Ellis
  • Elena Etcheverry
  • Lola Finklestein
  • Nanci Ishii
  • Terri Kinjo
  • Kristal Lemke
  • Pam Rothberg
• Projects you've been working on
• Current book is Mixed and Stitched by Jen Osborn
• Tool kit, including scissors, glue,  a pen or pencil.
• A snack to share
• Camera

Things to remember:

• October is the 2nd month of a 4-month cycle and the meeting is Thursday, October 6th at Gee Gee's.

Swaps

1. Canvas Swap.  

• Due Month to Month
• For protection to your canvas, bring it in a shopping bag with your name on it.

 

2.  Tag swap. 

• Due in November
• Make tags that include a picture of you.  
• Add some little know facts about yourself.
• Make 14

3.  White Elephant Gift Exchange.  Christmas is around the corner.  Start thinking about and working on your Gift.  It must be something wonderful, that you created, and would want to keep for yourself.  Put your best foot forward. 

 

 

 

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