ONLINE: Holiday Block Printing with Lisa Thorpe

**Class registration closes November 7th!**

What’s more heartwarming than a homemade gift? In this fun workshop you’ll design and carve 3 rubber stamps to use to make your own wrapping paper, holiday cards, gift bags, wine tags, ornaments, veggi bags - you dream it you can do it. Make this holiday, home-made and personal. The stamps you create can be used again and again on fabric and paper for years to come!

Lisa will share how to design a focal point block and a repeat pattern block. She will demonstration all the techniques and tricks to designing and carving a rubber stamp that you can use again and again in fiber and paper arts. Once you have created your stamps Lisa will show lots of ways to use your stamps to create gifts and cards and embellishment.

This class will be recorded and available for students to view for 2 weeks after class.

Skill level: ✂️

This class is open to all levels.

Supplies:

A complete class kit will be mailed to you for this workshop.* Your kit includes: 

• 3 blank soft rubber blocks (one each 1.25x2”, 2.5x2.5” block, 2.5x3.75”)
• carving tool
• transfer tool, black permanent ink pad
• 12x12 square of fabric, skein of embroidery
• thread
• needle and swatch of red felt
• one 3x4” muslin bag
• sample designs to get you started if you need it

*All kits will be mailed to participants. The last day to register for this class will be November 7th to be sure the kits arrive on time. Shipping to US participants only.

About the instructor: 

About Lisa Thorpe -  As an artist I am an explorer and observer first.  I like to wander and wonder, let things percolate while I ponder.  I have numerous sketchbooks full of chicken scratch drawings and cryptic thoughts.  Over time (and often during a long hot shower) an idea will keep rising to the surface, I might even push that thought bubble below the surface, telling it I don’t have time for you, but the best ideas won’t pop and so I move on from thought to action.  I have used many mediums over the years from fabric to painting to printing and collage but the unifying thread through all these mediums is a love of the puzzle.  I like to problem solve, to piece and play with an idea until it can take shape as a visual idea. Once I solve a creative problem I have a drive to share it with others. I have been teaching art to adults and children for many years in the public schools and at art centers and retreats venues across the west. Currently I am the resident artist at The Bishop’s Ranch retreat and conference center outside of Healdsburg, California.  I have had technique articles featured in Cloth Paper Scissors, and Quilting Arts magazines and have taught surface design and art quilting workshops at Mendocino Art Center, Craft Napa, and numerous quilt guilds throughout the west.

Cancellation Policy:

Class fees are transferable to another class or to studio credit if cancellation is made at least 72 hours before class. If cancellations are made after the 72 hour advance window has passed, we will not be able to issue refunds or studio credits. You can, however transfer the class to a friend. The class kit fee of $40 is not refundable.

If a student arrives 10 minutes or more after the start of class, it is at the discretion of the teacher as to whether the student will be admitted to the Zoom meeting. No refunds or studio credit will be given for late arrivals or no-shows.