Making Zen is Back and Kate Ward over at Zen Stitching is holding another Making Zen Online Retreat this November, and I’m going to be a presenting artist!
If you haven’t taken part in Making Zen before, this is a textile-arts-focused retreat gathers 20 talented artists to host one workshop each over the course of five days, and those 20 workshops are totally free for anyone to watch. It’s an incredible opportunity to get inspired, connect with new friends and artists, and improve your craft!
With all these artists, you can be sure that a wide range of topics will be covered - I’m particularly excited for Kiala Givehand and Agy Lees session . My own workshop will be about creating stitched words for your wall hangings, art journals or other creative projects.
If you’d like to learn more about the retreat (and save your free seat!), check out the Making Zen website HERE. You’ll be able to get all the schedule details there and find out more about all the other artists in the retreat.
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I am so looking forward to sharing my lesson, here is another sneak peek of what we will be creating to fit into your junk journal:
We will start our journey together making an altered book journal, using what we have on hand to create something wonderful and fun to hold our thoughts, our ephemera, our joy and gratitude!
Each day you'll be challenged to dig into your own gratitude with a question to answer, something to think about or do and/or something to create. You'll find a little joy in each day. You'll leave this workshop with a warm smile, some extra love and a JOY-filled heart.
In today's video I share my most recent Material Musings video, where I look to continue working on the 'Choices' Slow stitched project. If you want to see what the project looked like before you can check out the previous video below:
It is nice to have a smaller project to work on in-between larger projects as it enables you to take a breather, but still keep your hand in. I also worked on a new project known as Bargello. I had all the supplies, but had used them for other things. I check out Kiala Givehands monthly meetups and saw a presentation by Bonnie Natko and was able to create with it.
This is how the projects eventually turned out which was quite pleasing. I just have a few other things to do with the stitched project and also decide how I want to use the completed Bargello - who knows maybe try some others.
Before You Go....
Creative Gardener Today
Here is what I share in the garden today. You can check out the video below.
There has been a lot of other growth in the garden, and I will do a garden tour towards the end of the month.
Gratitude Junk Journal - Early Bird 20% Off
We have an early bird rate (until 31st October) on our Gratitude Junk Journal, which I am teaching in. If you would like to get 20% off then enter the code AMORE24 at the checkout.
I am excited to share that Monday 7th October is my day for sharing my lesson on Fodder Challenge. I am working with dried leaves, and I share how you can alter them and create mini pieces of art.
You will see how I paint, stitch, stamp and use a range of different supplies on the leaves.
Here are some of my painted leaves. I will be sharing on Instagram over the next few days the work that the students create, so be prepared to be inspired. Join us HERE or check out the #fodderchallenge
Here are leaves that have been painting and circles cut in them as decoration.
If you are not part of the Fodder challenge, why not do some experimenting on some leaves and see how you get on. I do love slow stitching on the leaves and depending on the kind of leaf you select you will find that some are thicker than others, so they are sturdier and handle better, see what you can find, there is a wide selection to choose from.
You can also check out my new course that is available at the Early Bird price, all about Leaf Arts and what you can do on them. We go into detail about working with them and I share additional techniques for working with them.
Well October is here, and it has brought with it a lot of creative projects that I hope you will be able to take part in some. You can dip in and out as you choose with the main focus of doing something creative each and every day. Check out the most recent Material Musings, we will be sharing a new one in the next few days, an update of the stitched project.
Fodder Challenge
Today also kicked off the start of the Fodder Challenge - With a lesson given by Tracey Wozniak, you can get all the information about joining Fodder School HERE
I had great fun creating the watercolor mushrooms and made quite a few varieties of mushrooms, will need to add them to my creative projects. The techniques learnt were also fun.
I will be sharing as many projects that I can do for the month and I am also excited to share the project that I created which you will be able to catch next week.
Creative Gardener
As it is Tuesday my Creative Gardening post normally comes out and I recently did an update on my Aloe plants, that seem to be growing at an alarming rate. You can check out the video below.
There has been a lot of other growth in the garden, and I will do a garden tour towards the end of the month.
Gratitude Junk Journal - Early Bird
We have an early bird rate on our Gratitude Junk Journal, which I am teaching in. If you would like to get 20% off then enter the code AMORE24 at the checkout.
Every month in the Art Resource Hub I share a FREE digital Download, for your creative projects, here is the one for October:
Blog Challenge
Finally, I am part of the Ultimate Blog Challenge, and so will be sharing with you about all the wonderful creative adventures I find myself on for the month of October (just what have I let myself in for I ask myself) We are going to be pushed to another creative level, I think.
Realityarts - Creativity Book Shop - Some really great titles for you to dive in
Creative Resources
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