Beginning Art Clay Silver

Cindy Gonzales, Instructor
Saturday, April 20, 2012, 10:00-3:00p
Class Fee: $85.00, clay $56 + tax

Join resident artist Cindy Gonzales as she shares the fundamentals of Art Clay Silver. Once fired, Art Clay Silver contains 99.9% pure silver and is also known as fine silver being more pure than even sterling silver. Cindy will teach you how to handle, roll, shape, mold, add texture, fire and polish 20 grams of Art Clay Silver. You can choose to create several different charms as seen below. Cindy will have various molds and stamps for you to choose from, so be prepared to dive into this fun medium as you learn all you can do in this Beginning Art Clay Silver workshop.

Supplies to bring:

small metal files, 000 steel wool, Amazing Molding Putty
Optional: small rubber stamps, butane torch, fire safe brick

All class fees are prepaid, and non-refundable. Contact class manager Dede Warren at 714-757-0558 to reserve your place in this class. You may also reserve your place in person at the store by check, cash or credit card, or via phone with your credit card at 714-680-8893. Call us if you need assistance...we'll be happy to help!

Mr Hop's Easter Corsage

Cindy Gonzales, Instructor
Saturday, March 2, 2013 10:00-3:30p
Class Fee: $85.00

Cindy Gonzales has created this darling wrist corsage evocative of an old fashioned Easter Bonnet. Vintage lace, trim, crepe and more, as well as a hand-sculpted rabbit come together under Cindy's creative spirit. In this workshop Cindy will teach you to create the fiber wrist band base, which could easily be adapted as a headband as well. You will be hand sewing as well as machine sewing. From there you will embellish with various trims, as well as sculpt and paint your own Easter bunny. Seats are limited and Cindy's classes fill quickly, so please call early if you want a seat in this fun class. 

Supply List:
scissors, hot glue gun & glue sticks, 3/4 inch pretty button, ribbon, vintage flowers & leaves, small paint brushes

All class fees are prepaid, and non-refundable. Contact class manager Dede Warren at 714-757-0558 to reserve your place in this class. You may also reserve your place in person at the store by check, cash or credit card. Call us if you need assistance...we'll be happy to help!

Now She Deserves an Award!

Dede Warren, Instructor
Saturday, February 16, 2013 10:30-4:00p
Class Fee: $85.00

Dede Warren has married collage and solder to this beveled glass shield and come up with a fun mixed-media project. Come play with paper, paint, rubber stamps, pens, markers, ink, and much more and create this award shield dedicated to someone special. Hanging 6 x 10 inches this plaque will feature a personal photo, and quote so that each student walks away with a true original. Dedicate this to the one you love, someone special in your life, or celebrate yourself. We will finish our piece with a soldered edge. Dede will bring everything you need to put this together. But don't forget to bring a personal photo, and start thinking of words of inspiration as well. Dede will have soldering equipment to share for those of you who don't yet have your soldering supplies. This is the perfect size project to explore the fun of collage, as well as soldering for those of you new to these two mediums.

Supply List:
Personal photo & printed quote, scissors, white glue, pencil
If you have these items please bring them:
 Soldering iron, old cookie sheet, solderite board or fire safe soldering brick

solder, flux & flux brush, bent nose pliers, 

All class fees are prepaid, and non-refundable. Contact class manager Dede Warren at 714-757-0558 to reserve your place in this class. You may also reserve your place in person at the store by check, cash or credit card. Call us if you need assistance...we'll be happy to help!

Taking Shape

Hammered and Riveted Bangles - New Date!
Nancy Jamar, Instructor
Sunday, February 17, 2013, 10:00-3:00p Sold Out!
New Date! Sunday, February 24, 2013, 10:00-3:00p
Class Fee: $75.00

Create a trio of hand forged bangles with riveted focals starting with just raw metal and a hammer. Learn sizing equations and measuring, metal working, hammer and texture techniques, and get hands on time with the incredible Crafted Findings piercing and riveting tool. Choose from two wire colors which you will texture and age, then hammer stations for your focals, and pierce and rivet those into place. Class will cover hand finishing, tools, polishes, and sealers.

All supplies are provided for this workshop, which will include brass and silver (tinned copper) wire, selected focals in solid brass, hand cast bronze, and sterling clad pewter. 

Tools

If you have the following, please bring them with you:

2 ounce ball peen hammer  *

Larger chasing hammer  *

Steel bench block

Bracelet bending pliers  *

Wire cutters  *

Metal files  *

Rivet tool, vise, 1/16" rivets  *

We have several bench blocks and hammers in the studio, as well as cutters, pliers and files which students can share. Larger hammers can be passed around; items marked with an asterisk (*) will be available for purchase. We will have two rivet stations set up for the class, as well as rivet tools, vises, and supplies for sale. Additional wire and focals will also be available for purchase after class. We'll also have samples of other riveting projects on display so you can see the scope of use for this revolutionary little tool. Hope you can join us!

All class fees are prepaid, and non-refundable. Contact class manager Dede Warren at 714-757-0558 to reserve your place in this class. You may also reserve your place in person at the store by check, cash or credit card. Call us if you need assistance...we'll be happy to help!

Olde Soul Dolls

Joanna Pierotti, Instructor
Saturday, April 6, 2013, 10:00-5:00p
Class Fee: $110.00, $25 kit fee

We are so excited to have Joanna Pierotti with us teaching her beautiful Olde Soul Dolls. Joanna created and began selling these stunning dolls years ago. Clothed with found objects, metal and tattered cloth comes together with hand painted bisque ware, vintage ephemera, rhinestone, chains and more to make up these Olde Souls. In this full day workshop Joanna will teach you her painting techniques and patina process on new bisque ware doll parts. You will then learn how to build the body, create a ruffled petticoat, and add layers of fabric and lace all done with simple hand stitching. You will decorate her dress in whatever embellishments you bring... think chain, charms, buttons, and more. In order to allow your doll to fly, Joanna will share her secrets for creating layered, fibrous wings.

Supply List:

¼ inch flat paintbrush, scissors (one for fabric and another to cut mesh), remnants of soft vintage lace, trims and fabric, vintage buttons (at least one an inch wide) acrylic paints ~ color for her boots, red/pink/green for roses, white, black, and a color for her hair Optional: heat gun, chain, rusty safety pins, soft silk ribbons, vintage flowers, found objects, vintage rhinestones 

All class fees are prepaid, and non-refundable. Contact class manager Dede Warren at 714-757-0558 to reserve your place in this class. You may also reserve your place in person at the store by check, cash or credit card. Call us if you need assistance...we'll be happy to help!

Diva Delicious

Riki Schumacher, Instructor
Saturday, March 23, 2013, 10:00-4:00p
Class Fee: $110.00

These aren’t your mothers or grandmother’s rhinestones anymore! Here is a workshop designed to give those cherished vintage rhinestone necklaces a complete make over, modernizing that elegance of the past. Bring collectible found objects and parts you have been gathering up, and those beautiful rhinestone necklaces handed down from generation to generation, or uncovered at an antique show, so you can transform them into a modern classics. You will disassemble these beauties, and re-attach, adding pieces of found objects and chain, working through the design like a jigsaw puzzle. The result is astonishingly beautiful, rich and eloquent, yet casual enough to wear with jeans. These are so much fun to make, you won’t believe the flexibility you have when redesigning with vintage rhinestone necklaces. Bring treasures like large old buttons, watch cases, old brooches, antique buttons, pearls, some chain, vintage pictures/tintypes, frame stampings, vintage and glass pearls, bead caps, maybe gems, whatever makes your heart beat faster! You can work almost anything in to the design. Riki likes to mix metal colors if possible with my found objects, but this is entirely up to you. The fun begins when narrowing down your selected items, then working through how to attach and where to put the objects, completely gratifying when done! Riki will be right along side, helping you with your vision. Then later throw on your jeans and wear your revitalized beauty to dinner. Dig out your buried trinkets and keepsakes, bring your diva to class, and let’s have some fun!

Supply List:

Vintage rhinestone necklace (as fancy as you like), Items to attach to necklace, old hardware, found objects, Items for connectors, like old buttons, bling, 1-2 feet of chain, 2-4 feet of 20ga brass or sterling wire, flush wire cutters, round nose pliers, needle nose pliers, Pearls, glass pearls, crystals or gems to add, 1-2 ft of decorative chains, for necklace (great to layer these) Optional: Bead caps, stampings, small personal lamp for additional lighting & extension cord

All class fees are prepaid, and non-refundable. Contact class manager Dede Warren at 714-757-0558 to reserve your place in this class. You may also reserve your place in person at the store by check, cash or credit card. Call us if you need assistance...we'll be happy to help!