MARCH TRIPLE WHAMMY

 Our member from England, Margaret Beech, delivered a real triple whammy of a workshop by sharing two versions of her "Triple Whammy" book/card AND a wonderful pocket envelope that can hold several different structures. Members from multiple states, Canada, and England joined the Zoom workshop. 

After the instructional part of the workshop Dolores shared this month's exchange books that were designed using the theme "Abecedarium". Once again it is a wonderful collection of beautiful books. A link to the photos will soon be available on our flickr site.

Here are some examples of the book/cards that were made.

Jill McInerney

Jill

Jill features a WOW foldout in her wrapper.

Jill's beautiful paper enhances this wrapper.

Edge Gerring

Another side of Edge's card

Michele Kamprath

Another Triple Whammy card by Michele

Molly Millman

Second side of Molly's card

Third side of Molly's Triple Whammy card

Stephanie Weigel

Side two of Stephanie's card

Side three of Stephanie's Happy Birthday card

Mary Elizabeth Nelson

A different Whammy card by Mary Elizabeth

A different side of Mary Elizabeth's first card

This photo of Mary Elizabeth's book/cards shows why
Margaret named the structure a Triple Whammy.

Sherrill Story

Second page of above card 

Sherrill's second card

Another page of the card above

Beth McIlraith

Beth used her own eco-dyed papers with birds
and flowers cut from old books.

Another page of Beth's book

Another view of Beth's book

Thank you to Margaret for another great workshop, and to everyone who attended and sent photos of their work.

TRIPLE WHAMMY FOLD

What is a Triple Whammy Fold? Is it a card, a book, or ???  Here is a preview of what our member from the UK, Margaret Beech, will be sharing with us.

We'll call this example a book because it has signatures sewn in.

Card or book?

Book or card?

Margaret said these are pretty quick to make, so we will also make a "Pocket Wrapper," a fold that can contain a signature or explosion fold as well as having pockets on the outside. The following Triple Whammy materials list will make one (or two if you wish, see note) card/book.

Materials for Triple Whammy:

• Three (3) 6" squares of colored or white construction or multi-media paper, colored one side or both. These are your pages. Please decorate them in advance of the workshop.
• Six (6) 3 3/4" x 1 3/4" strips of construction or multi-media paper. These are the decorative strips which will be added to your pages. Decorate them on one side, in advance of the workshop. To decorate, use lettering, rubber stamps, used postage stamps, punched shapes, collage, gift wrap, but nothing with any bulk. When you are decorating your pages think about what message you might like to send--you could turn it into a Random Act of Kindness. The world needs kindness more than ever.
• One (1) piece of text weight paper, 8 1/2" square for an envelope for your book/card. This book/card stands very well and would make a good greeting for a friend, hence the envelope.
• NOTE: To make a second Whammy with pamphlet stitched signatures, please have ready another three 6" squares and six 3 3/4" squares (both sides decorated to become the signatures).

Materials for Pocket Wrapper:

• Two (2) sheets letter size (8 1/2" x 11") good weight paper - decorated on both sides
• Two (2) sheets copy paper

NOTE: To see a photo of a Wrapper, go to beeches13.skyrock.com, scroll to bottom of page, and click on page 8. Scroll down to "Congratulations for Chloe").

Tools for both projects:

New glue stick, pencil, ruler, bone folder, scissors, needle and waxed thread

When:   Saturday, March 13 at 10 a.m. PST

Where:  On your computer, tablet or smartphone via Zoom

RSVP:    To Dolores Guffey by March 5 to receive password and instructions

Workshop questions: Margaret Beech

Zoom questions: Bobbie Hayes

Contact information for everyone will be in the newsletter.