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The Eco-Printed Journal
Workshop
Workshop
Have you been wanting to learn how to make eco-prints?
Here's your chance!
Join me in a small group setting for a live Zoom workshop where we will meet for 2 three hour sessions, one week apart. You'll learn the basics of how to make eco-prints on paper while creating a one-of-a-kind botanical print filled journal. I'll be making it super easy for you by mailing a supply kit (to US addresses only) that includes just about everything you'll need, as well as some special surprises from my own garden.
- Discover what leaves and flowers are the best to use for eco-printing and why.
- Learn about the magic ingredient called alum that gives an extra boost to the colors you can get on your prints
- Work with 2 bundling styles, the flat layered bundle and the rolled bundle.
- Explore the technique of stitching on paper.
- Join the private FaceBook group where you can ask questions, share information with your classmates and share photos of your journal.
Day 1 - Eco-printing preparation
In the first week, I'll explain the process of eco-printing on paper and walk you through preparing the journal bundle and the Journal cover bundle. You can add extra papers to each of the bundles so you'll have additional eco-printed papers for another project of your choice.
You'll get step-by-step instructions for boiling the prepared bundles so you'll be all set to get "cooking" at your convenience once the first class is done and I'll go over the steps you'll want to take to be ready for the next weeks session
Day 2 - Making the journal
In the second week, you'll put the journal cover together by folding it, adding a closure feature and choosing from a variety of stitching styles to hold the cover flaps in place and finish the edges.
I'll show you ways to repair pages that may have ripped while unbundling them. See how these little "accidents" offer you a chance to get creative and make the journal uniquely yours and add extra interest to your pages.
In the second week, you'll put the journal cover together by folding it, adding a closure feature and choosing from a variety of stitching styles to hold the cover flaps in place and finish the edges.
I'll show you ways to repair pages that may have ripped while unbundling them. See how these little "accidents" offer you a chance to get creative and make the journal uniquely yours and add extra interest to your pages.
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Did I mention that I'll be making it super easy for you? See the list below for all the items that will be included in the supply kit that will be mailed to you.
The supply kit you'll receive includes:
- Workshop information and instruction hand out
- Journal – 8 1/8” x 5.5” with 38 pages (76 sides)
- One sheet of Canson 140lb. watercolor paper for the journal cover
- Packet of alum with instructions for mixing
- Brush - for applying the alum
- Pair of gloves
- Filler papers - 2 half sheets each of graph paper, deli paper, book page, parchment paper, sheet music and 4 full sheets of 28# office paper
- Dried flowers from my garden:
Coreopsis – flower and leaves
Red and Pink cosmos – flower and leaves
Morning glories
- Dried leaves from my garden:
Sensitive fern
Feather leaf maple
River birch
False indigo
- Onion skins
- 2 pieces of cardboard and one sheet of cooking parchment paper, to be used as outside protective covers for the bundles while they are being heated
- Rubber bands and string
- Tea bag papers - for mending pages if needed
- Sewing needle
- Large quilting pin for piercing stitching holes, if you don't have an awl
What you will need to supply:
Day 1- Eco-printing preparation
Day 2 - Making the journal
- Glass jar with lid that can hold 2 cups (16oz.)
- Protective table cover for your working area & rags or old towels for clean up
- Dowel or paper towel roll covered with plastic wrap, approx. 1.5" diameter x 9-10"
- Potholder and tongs for handling hot bundles.
- Pot or roasting pan with a lid - something that will no longer be used for cooking and is large enough to accommodate the journal bundle and rolled cover bundle
- Portable electric burner or hot plate
- An outside area where you can set up to heat your bundles
Day 2 - Making the journal
- Skein of embroidery thread, color of your choice
- Button, stick or other object to use as a closure feature
- Ruler
- Pencil
- Liquid acrylic medium, Mod Podge, or Elmer's glue
- Small flat bristle brush for gluing page repairs
- Scissors
Have a question about any of the items you will need to supply?
See the FAQ page
or
send me an email at KJohnsonCollage@gmail.com
See the FAQ page
or
send me an email at KJohnsonCollage@gmail.com
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WORKSHOP DATES
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Workshop 1 Saturday, October 17th and Saturday, October 24th 1PM - 4PM EST Registration for Workshop 1
is now closed |
Workshop 2 Tuesday, October 20th and Tuesday, October 27th 11AM - 2PM EST Registration for Workshop 2
is now closed |
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What students are saying:
Just wanted to tell you how extremely enjoyable and informative the class was yesterday! I am really impressed with the meticulousness with which you prepared all the materials and your entire presentation. I learned a lot, and I am thrilled with the results I’ve seen so far. You have really inspired me to try some new things. You are a master teacher! Thank you.
~Claudia DeSantis-Whitaker, Baltimore, MD
My class materials package just arrived and I am amazed with your attention to detail and the delightful little bits - like the neat folded envelopes for flower sprinkles and alum. And seeds from your garden!! And the dried flowers look wonderful. I really can’t say enough good things about your class supply kit. I can’t wait to play in class this Sunday.
~Susie Johnson, Knoxville, TN
Student work
Anita Collins, Waterford, CT
Denise Love, Flowery Branch, GA
Jane LaFazio, San Diego, CA
Susan Taff, Glastonbury, CT
Rita Tolcin, Streetsboro, OH
Susie Johnson, Knoxville, TN
Subscribe to my StudioNews
if you'd like to be the first to hear about eco-print workshops
as they get scheduled for the summer and fall of 2021
if you'd like to be the first to hear about eco-print workshops
as they get scheduled for the summer and fall of 2021