Seth Workshops - Day Two

All set up and ready for day two. Today we were making a book.

A demo to start off with so we had some idea of what we were doing.

Prepping the book to remove the covers as that's the only part we needed.

For day two I moved to this table as a couple of ladies arrived and wanted to sit together but there was only a space next to me and a space on this table. So today I sat next to Liz who had travelled over from Ireland for the two classes.

And this is Julia and Kathy who we sat opposite. They are making the spine of their books.

It was a gorgeous day and the sun was beaming through the windows.

This was the table that I was on yesterday!

Seth demoning how to make the spine stronger when attaching it to the book covers.

Our table just got messier and messier!!

Close up of our messy table!!

Some of the pages that I created.

An envelope as a page with an insert and a tab.

One of Seth's die cuts which we got in our bag of goodies to use on the pages.

Liz had brought the kitchen sink with her and very kindly let me rummage through her stuff, so I took this tag.

And this was her postcard too, but I loved it, so she let me have that as well. It's going to be the last page in my book.

And before I left Seth left his mark on the back of my postcard.

A huge thank you to the ladies in both classes, the people at Birds in the Barn doing all the hard work behind the scenes. They made sure there was tea and coffee on the go all day. We had flap jack, lemon drizzle cake and the buffet lunch was gorgeous. And of course to Seth for coming over and teaching the classes. It was a very spacious, relaxed and chilled couple of days - thanks to all.

Seth Workshops - Day One

I've just spent a lovely couple of days somewhere down Essex way in a fabulous village hall in a  place called Coggeshall organised by the ladies at Birds in the Barn.

We were all given a 9" x 12" watercolour book as the workshop was about using different paint techniques including monoprinting.  These are the two lovely ladies who I sat opposite.

Seth doing a demo, so we all crowded round his table.

This was page two.

Seth giving this lady a catch up as unfortunately she was a little late getting there.

You can't really see this page very well as for some reason my camera doesn't like purples or blues. But this was the best page as we had to go round to other people and press the pages together to see what transferred and obviously the longer it went on, the drier the paint got and the less transferred. My last transfer was a black transfer with Seth! 

And again sorry about the photo but it's mainly blue, but has lots of layers on.

Now the lady on the next table to us in the red top, I actually know through blogging. But I didn't know that until she introduced herself to me.

This was Bev, the lady I was sat next to. All the ladies on my table were only doing the one class.

There was also a pop up shop, but I didn't buy anything as it just had the staple goodies. I think it was probably in case anyone had forgotten anything or wanted to like buy PaperArtsy paints, as they are what we used in the workshop. Had there have been any stencils I may have had a purchase, but Mark forgot to bring them!!!