Monday 4 May 2015

Workshop Weekend with France Papilion

Hi Everyone,

I've had a lovely weekend at a France Papilion full weekend workshop organised by the extremely organised Sue Tucker who runs Art Workshops over on Facebook. Warning - this post has a lot of photos!!

We did two projects on the Saturday, the first was this tag book which explored various techniques and is just so cute:

Here's a little look at the internal tag pages:

Saturday afternoon saw us creating a clear stamp storage binder, but it could be used for storing loads of other stuff:

Inside it has Tim Holtz stamp holder wallets:

Then onto Sunday, this was my most challenging day as I really, really cannot sew! In the morning we created our very own journals - all decorated from scratch and bound with wax thread using the coptic binding technique, it was pretty fiddly for me but I am so happy with how my journal turned out in the end:

Here is the spine with the stitching:

Sunday afternoon we created some pages inside the journals using various techniques as directed by France. As with all journals everyone had completely different pages but here are mine:

So that was my weekend - I loved it and enjoyed it so much.

I would recommend a weekend with France to anyone and would definately book another weekend class with her if she comes back again.

Hope you enjoyed seeing my workshop creations,

Claire x

 

8 comments:

  1. Hi Claire looks like you've had a wonderful weekend and such fabulous makes - so many techniques too. Will check these workshop out.
    Avril xx

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  2. Hi Claire looks like you've had a wonderful weekend and such fabulous makes - so many techniques too. Will check these workshop out.
    Avril xx

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  3. I am even more envious now I've seen the full projects!! Hope she comes down my way to do some classes I can get to!! Thanks for sharing.

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  4. Fabulous makes Claire and love the stamps on the tag book, where are they from? You have whetted my appetite and will look out for her classes...thanks! Xx

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  5. Absolutely gorgeous Claire all of them! looks like you thoroughly enjoyed your weekend you lucky girl!! xx

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  6. Love all your projects but that tag book remains my favourIt's. You must have had a wonderful time it all looks so inspiring x

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  7. Love the tag book, right up my street and you got to meet loads of nice people too xxx

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  8. Thank you for sharing your projects from your very memorable weekend Claire! Your Tag book is stunning, your journal is awesome! Can see the rusting that France is famous for and how fantastic to learn how to add the coptic binding!

    Your weekend sounds amazing! :-) xxx


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