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Mixed Media Stitched Journal

with Victoria Payne

Mixed Media Stitched Journal with Victoria Payne

Sign up Jan 4 through March 25, 2012, $75

Description & Sign up:  http://freedomofstitch.com/?page_id=13

Every journey should begin with a map… The Mixed Media Stitched Journal is YOUR map to beginning your own garden journey. With over 150 pages of prompts, how-to’s, inspiration, and projects, you can set your imagination free using themes such as “Nests & Trees”, “Critters & Crawlies”, “Wee Folk & Winged Things”…. and more.

Together, we’ll explore ways of working on both fabric and paper to begin your journal. Using techniques to lay a base such as coffee dye, watercolor crayon, stamping, stencils, and transfers, you’ll begin designing a surface for your creations. Using patterns, sketches, collage, and plenty of creativity, you will add life to your journal. Work at your own pace and explore the possibilities of capturing nature for your very own book!! 

All skill levels welcome

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Stitcher’s Garden Book: A mixed media embroidered journal tutorial

6 sessions/6 weeks

All levels of proficiency

For years I’ve watched artists and crafters examine their supplies with an adventurous eye. As an instructor, I’ve often heard the question, “How can I add stitching to a book project?”  A Stitcher’s Garden Book is the answer. Join me for 6 sessions over 6 weeks where, beginning with a blank sketchbook, we’ll create a treasure full of original mixed media embroidered pages.  Together, we’ll explore reality & fantasy compositions while we work with paint, stamps, collage, and mixed media alongside dimensional stitch and embellishment. As we move along, we’ll share our progress in the FAMM forum.  Additionally, with categories including Trees & Nests, Critters & Crawlies, and Wee Folk & Winged Things, we will lay the base for you to continue your mixed media stitch journey long after class is over. Like any faithful sketchbook, your book will grow along with you and your interests and skills. In the same way that so many of us plant and tend our food and flower gardens with care and excitement, we will use mixed media exercises, image and text, and hand stitching to grow something very special. If the idea of a Secret Garden, or Stepping Through a Garden Gate, or the prospect of unifying your green thumb and your stitching fingers sets your imagination loose… then this is the class for you!

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I am Victoria Crowder Payne and I teach mixed media stitch online (formerly via the Hand Embroidery Network), as well as developing projects for DMC Threads and for C&T Publishing. I also develop projects locally for JoAnn Fabric & Crafts in KCMO, USA and the KC Art Institute. You can find me atwww.FreedomofStitch.com: Where Art & Craft Meet Stitch™, and while you’re there, visit the Sinister Stitch Chronicles: an on-going documentary project. ***Don’t forget the stitchers in your life who would LOVE a stitchy gift—sign up with a friend & share the experience! A Stitcher’s Garden Book Tutorial is a book to treasure now, PLUS a lifetime of skills! Now THAT’s a bargain!! See you in the work room!!!***