Recently I was lucky enough to be one of the 288 crafters who attended the PaperArtsy Event with my crafting hero, Tim Holtz!
I was a dope and forgot to take my camera but Mario who organises the kits and goodies for Tim took some piccies for his Twitter page which I have used here:
We each had a kit that consisted one of Tim's 'Configurations' an alterable shadow box, papers and inks.
we also had LOTS of tissue tape to play with:
Our first job was to decorate the Configurations boxes- we used papers from the Lost and Found paper stack. Inking and paint daubing followed, to add an aged look!
The tissue tape was added to the edges of the boxes to hold the boxes together and to neaten the edges- it's great stuff!
Tim was all over the room and guided us all through the construction stage!
After a short breat we came back to find canvas baggies on our tables which were full of GORGEOUSNESS:
There were loads of genuine vintage efemera and lots of metal goodies from Tim's idea-ology range, plus several bottles of different sizes- wonderful!
So we started to fill those lil shelves!
It was so fun and therapeutic to sit and create little pieces of art on the shelves. The room was quite quiet for the next couple of hours with much concentrated art making going on!
We used Claudine Helmuth Matte Medium to stick everything in place- it works like a dream even on lumpy and heavy stuff!
Tim gave us some amazing ideas to fill the shelves- one of my favourite things I played with were Tim's Fractured Dolls based on the Frozen Charlotte dolls of the 19th Century.
I made mine into a Freaky Fairy:
After Tim's 4 hour class we had a 3 hour class with Leandra of PaperArtsy and Lin of LB Crafts where we played with metal, embossing and spray inks- WONDERFUL!!!
Here's what we made:
....perty isn't it??!
So after 6 hours of solid crafting I was pooped but I was one Happy Crafter!!
I've continued to play with my Configurations shelves, adding to them and I'm ALMOST finished! It's a great way to keep efemera, record a journey or an event or just use it as a chance to create some art!
If you want to see what I've done with my shelves then pop over to my Blog and have a look see!
Happy Crafting!!
love GlitteryKatie xxxxXxxxx
Wow.... Looks like a fab day!
Posted by: Roman | March 06, 2011 at 09:55 AM
Wow yours is the second box I have seen I just love them.
Its great the way everyone adds their own stamp and they are all different. x
Posted by: Debbie Roberts | March 06, 2011 at 05:32 PM
super dooper!
lucky you-but you're talanted enough already!
Posted by: ali | March 06, 2011 at 06:26 PM
What a great day out. Lovely projects.
Posted by: Joy | March 06, 2011 at 07:25 PM
I know a close friend that went too. Did i miss your photos of your box ... off for a hunt after.
Love these boxes. Not sure about the spooky doll thing but adding wings made it less spooky ...maybe counter balanced back to spooky with net over the head :)
Brill tho TFS
Posted by: jayne | March 06, 2011 at 10:36 PM
Beautiful.
I couldn't use the doll in mine, I found it to creepy.
One lady on my session hung hers!
Thanks for sharing, wish I'd known you were going Kate we could have met up.
Posted by: Lynne V | March 07, 2011 at 09:54 AM
Wow, what an amazing day! How glorious to make such lovely things ... Off to visit your blog!
Posted by: alexa | March 07, 2011 at 10:42 PM