As much as I enjoy browsing through craft books, I seldom attempt any of the techniques or projects without taking a class first. In most things, I'm a visual learner, but when it comes to crafting, I need hands-on instruction. Traci Bautista's Collage Unleashed was no exception. I really admired the colorful freedom of the techniques and projects in her book, but I didn't try a single one of them until I took two classes from her last weekend at Las Vegas Art Stamps. This first project from the FIBERlicious aRt book class includes several paper painting techniques from Collage Unleashed using acrylics and gesso, foam stamps and materials from Traci's "texture toolbox" -- including sequin waste, lace, die-cuts and silk flowers. 
Using the processes described in Collage Unleashed we painted papers, created signatures (pp. 82-85) from a variety of papers -- kids' lined writing paper is my favorite! -- and bound them using the knotted fabric binding (p. 88). I first read about Commonplace Books in Shareen LaPlantz's The Art and Craft of Handmade Books. With all the pockets, envelopes and bags bound into my FIBERlicious art book, it will be a perfect place for storing all those tibdits of quotations that I'm always gathering to use in my altered books and visual journals.
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Your class was my pleasure and my joy. I'm looking forward to taking another one of your classes the next time you're in town. Thanks for the inspiration!
Posted by: Angela | Friday, November 17, 2006 at 12:42 PM
beautiful WORK!!! Thanks for coming out to PLAY in VEGAS.
Live artfully...Traci
Posted by: Traci Bautista | Friday, November 17, 2006 at 09:30 AM