classes: written down

Just wanted to let you know that registration is now open for two new classes : Done & Dusted and Our House.

Done & Dusted is more scrapbook oriented than the last few classes—it’s 21 days to 3 completed albums. Everyone’s project will look unique because you choose the colour & accent scheme, but simply daily instructions take away the need for hours of overthinking if the page would look better with three accents or four. :)

Our House is a discussion group class with 15 prompts – Monday to Friday for three weeks. Each prompt will lead you to a place in your house with your digital camera. No pressure to photograph whole rooms or perfectly clean homes—we’re looking at little ways creative types can put an artistic stamp on their homestead. The group environment will let you celebrate your favourite spots and fix the ones that aren’t quite right.

Just click for more details and to sign up.

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registration is open for the Oklahoma Scrapbook Convention and Written Down will be there!

Join me for quirky hands-on classes. Choose from:

Tied with Pretty Ribbons
Guide Words
Written Down: The Link between Scrapbooks and Journals
Stick it on the Wall

The convention runs Thursday the 11th to Saturday the 13th of August in Tulsa. Make sure to say hello!

Can’t do Oklahoma? How about…Kansas City in August? Nottingham in September? Seattle in October?

Or you know…tell me where to go. Within reason.

See you there!

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this class ran for the first time in april. due to the exchange part of the group, it has a maximum of forty available spaces per session, so due to popular demand it will run again!

i don’t know an artsy girl who doesn’t love real mail. not junk mail, not bills, not those odd leaflets begging you to sell your house but not really giving you any idea of where you to move. real mail. mail address to you. by hand. with someone actually wanting to communicate with you just because. now that’s real mail.

perhaps the only thing that makes real mail even more exciting is the idea that someone has taken the time to art up. when the envelope itself is worth saving, that’s impressive mail.

if you’re a real mail fan, join in our collaborative mail art course, it’s in the post. the course is US$20 and includes 15 emailed lessons, membership in an email group to discuss your ideas and share your work, and a bunch of different opportunities to make, send and receive pretty stuff in the mail. we’ll cover envelope decoration, handmade envelopes, letters that become their own envelopes, faux postage, non-traditional things you can send in the post, deco books and rediscovering the art of writing to friends and family. don’t worry—you don’t have to be someone who loves writing letters. a love of real mail is all you need!

as with all the collaborative classes, we welcome participants from all over the globe, so don’t let an international address scare you away. why do you think they invented airmail?

the course runs for six weeks, but is not six weeks intensive. you’ll receive class emails Monday through Friday for one week, then have a week for making and mailing, then we repeat. class emails will go out on the 30 May-3 June, 13-17 June and 27 June-1 July. The gap weeks allow you to send and receive before we go on.

It is possible to participate in this class without being an active mailer. Just let me know you’d like to be a reader rather than a participant and you won’t be included in the exchange of real mail…but you know you wanna. go on.

SIGN UP NOW

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The art journal challenge…a longer class with one lesson and challenge per week rather than the pressure of a daily assignment.

It doesn’t matter if you’ve kept an art journal for ages, always wanted to keep one or never kept one at all. It doesn’t matter if you already love to write or want to write more often or really don’t want to write much at all. And it doesn’t matter if your loves as an artist take the form of paint, collage, sketching or doodling. It’s not about preconceived notions or one perfect end product. It’s about keeping a book for the next twenty weeks, making at least one entry each week. That’s pretty much the deal.

Each week, you’ll receive one ‘lesson’ email that discusses some sort of idea. It will challenge you to think about one particular topic during that week. At some point, record your thoughts in a journal. you might use just a few words. you might use plenty. you might include lots of art. you might not. you might include photographs, found items or your own drawing. you might do just one entry during the week. you might feel inspired or frustrated and do more. you might decide to share your work with the group, either anonymously or signed. you might prefer to keep your journal to yourself. you might be chatty with others in the group. you might just read the class emails and be happy with that. you might look through what others are creating and use it as the proverbial kick into trying something new.

Are you getting the idea that this class is pretty much up to your own style? Cuz that’s the deal. I’ll provide topics to think about, ideas to try, and guidance for those who feel scared about this whole idea of art journaling. What you do with all that is up to you…and that’s the entire point.

The challenge runs for twenty weeks—participate as much or as little as you like—and starts the first week of May. You can join in late and receive the emails from previous weeks. You can go on holiday in the middle and not throw the whole thing off its rocker. You can have busy weeks at work and go MIA until you have more time. You’ll also get short little creativity prods from me through the week just to give you a bit of energy when you’re feeling lost or stuck or just plain tired.

SIGN UP HERE

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