Amazing Decoupage Glass Plates

On Tuesday I taught Decoupage Glass Plate at Castle In The Air to a delightful group of talented arts and crafts aficionados. First we created a collage from the plethora of images available. Then we affixed this collage behind a glass plate. During the "glue-drying" break we created little mini collages behind magnifying glass pebbles that will stick with their magnetic backing to a refrigerator. I am really happy with the interesting designs my students came up with. It is always inspiring to work in a group, because you get a multitude of creative expressions.

Printing on fabric

Class samples
My student Cleo's work place
First stamps were carved out of buttery soft rubber
The stamps were used to print on fabric:

and on card stock:

I am still catching up and try to post all the groovy things that happend in the last several months while I wasn't blogging (due to elbow issues). I taught a wonderful and fun class for The Workshop a while back. It was part of my stamp making series, but this time we stamped also on fabric. More stamp classes are actually coming up in October, November and December. Check out The Workshop website and see all the classes I and other teachers teach for them.

A lovely stamp-making afternoon

Not only for cards, but use the hand made stamps on gift bags, wrapping paper or boxes!


I took Ellen's Marbleizing Paper class and made beautiful paper, that I later used as a background under my Valentine's stamp. I love it, when you can combine different classes.


Here are some of my carved rubber stamps.


Everybody was busy, working away.

I spent a perfect afternoon at the Workshop's sun-filled studio teaching how to carve rubber stamps and use them to make Valentine cards. It was a delightful group and each student brought her own individual creativity to the process. I love the different designs that were created. It is always inspirational when the students don't follow the teacher's examples, but create their own version. Thanks to everybody, who came and took my class. I hope we can play again! Thanks to the workshop for inviting me to share my passion and specially to Ellie, who was a wonderful co-teacher.

And here is some of the student's work: