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Learn how to create a collection of artworks using botanical elements and images to reflect your relationship with nature.

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Techniques taught:

• preparing textured surfaces with found papers, fabric, gesso, images, inks, pressed flowers, texture paste

• painting on fabric

• imprinting into clay

• layered fabric collages

• printing on fabric and tissue

• adding hand stitch​

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The step-by-step video tuition teaches my techniques that you can use in numerous ways!

My inspiration for Textural Reverence was the the beautiful aged, stonework found in ancient castle and churches.

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I share the techniques that I devised to create a book full of rich, aged-looking surfaces, textures and images, including:

• creating substrates using papers, fabrics, paint, plaster, thread

• my secret technique for printing on delicate fabrics and scraps

• transferring images onto textured surfaces

• drawing and painting techniques... no drawing skills required!

• creating rich, grungy textures

• using plaster to create ancient-looking surfaces

In Enfolded Memories, I show how to make beautiful little concertina books dedicated to the memory of a person, a place, an object or a moment in time.

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Techniques taught:

• basic construction using new paper and found papers

• three types of book closures

• preparing textured backgrounds with found papers, fabric, paint, clay, gold leaf, pressed flowers, plaster

• creating memory bundles

• image transfer techniques

• printing on fabric and tissue

• handmade photograph ‘buttons’

• adding hand stitch

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Follow the step-by-step video tuition to learn my techniques and then take off in your own direction!

Learn how to make beautiful collaged cubes that can tell your stories and capture memories.

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Learn about:

• using new or recycled cubes

• what to look for when selecting the best mix of photographs

• using vintage ephemera or digital downloads to create collages

• adding layers by using tissue prints

• how to create stunning effects with encaustic wax or crackle glaze when sealing the cubes

Learn how to combine beautiful old papers, fabrics, and photographs to create a unique art journal full of textures and intrigue.

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Techniques taught:

• selecting suitable ephemera

• creating pages from ephemera

• assembling pages into stitched book signatures

• creating a book body

• binding your journal

• attaching covers and spine

• how to add collage to your covers

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Follow the step-by-step tuition to learn my techniques to create a journal truly personal to you