Our April meeting took place on Saturday 26th on Zoom and it was lovely to see and hear about the wide variety of 'crafty' things people had been up to during the spring, especially Margaret's 'Open Studio' days and Judi and Janet's adventures with Gateshead Art Diamonds.
Our swap theme was 'Stamp Book' which lent itself to a variety of unique interpretations. Both Margaret and Judi had created books which were an homage to the humble 'definitive' postage stamp. Margaret's was inspired by a Christmas card design to use stamps she had gathered across the years to create a postie's round of houses, wrapped by a 'Jane Austen' envelope fold.
Judi's postage stamp book was accompanied by a second book of prints she'd made using the Japanese technique of tatakizome - which, roughly translated, means 'flower pounding' or 'plant bashing'!
Ruth had been inspired by Harry Potter postage stamps to make her book and bookmark:
Janet B had used Royal Mail postcards of British Wildlife postage stamps to inspire an envelope concertina book, and created haiku to accompany each of the cards:
Pat and Jo had rummaged through their joint collection of rubber stamps rather than postal ones and found a lot of things they'd forgotten about! Pat's book took the seasons as inspiration:
Jo made an 'ABC' book, the concertina structure earning its nickname of 'the exploding pie book'!
Janet A also used rubber stamps with paint to create a lovely effect on the front cover of her book of birds - photos to follow!
It was lovely to see Jill and Karenna as well. Our next meeting will be in person on Wednesday August 6th at Newcastle Cathedral where we'll have our annual lunchtime get-together and a book swap on the theme of 'Word Play'.
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