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GLASS & MORE
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Hi there, for those of you wanting to connect to the
NEW: I now
accept payment via PayPal. After placing your order and all charges are
finalized, I will send you an invoice/e-mail via PayPal. When payment has
gone through my account item/s will be shipped.
My site is loaded with graphics. Invariably graphic pages take time to download. So I have created an Index page that is text only. The page includes Titles to every page on my web site, a brief description of each page, the date it was created and the web link to that page.
...but if you have time to really browse than please click on one of the two links above.
OR Click on one of the new or updated pages listed below
January 17, 2010 I added 3 cards to the More Cards 2010 Gallery. They all use Spellbinder's Nestabilities dies. Enjoy January 12, 2010 I got a bunch of Cuttlebug folders - the Asian series - they are just gorgeous. So I thought I'd do a technique sampler using them all. Enjoy January 10, 2010 Just finished a cute little booklet using Aluminum adhesive backed electrical/plumbers tape, a 7 gypsies Binderie punch and Spellbinder's Borderabilities die. Enjoy January 4, 2010 Well one of my cards made it's way into Just Cards issue #16 released January 2010. It deals with blowing liquid ink with a straw and coloring with Copics. Enjoy October 30, 2009 I've been published again in the November issue of Vamp Stamp News. Click on link to view card. Enjoy October 19, 2009 Two hand bound books, one using Lutradur and the other a heavily textured painted artwork. Enjoy Lutradur Memories or All in the Texture October 17, 2009 I took an embossing on pewter class taught by Elitia Hart last weekend. What a fabulous day, person and lots to learn. So I've finally uploaded what I did that day Enjoy September 26, 2009 We had such a fabulous Day of Crafts given by our Guild, that I had to share. Enjoy September 17, 2009 I made such a cute little "Bathroom" hanging booklet using Quietfire Design rubber stamp quotes. Enjoy September 7, 2009 There are a couple Punched Flower cards, and a couple hand bound journals. Enjoy
Punched
Flowers
or
Heavenly Textural
or
No
Color Aug 31, 2009 And 2
more cards using wood veneer, Cuttlebug and either a Sizzix or
Spellbinders die. Enjoy
Aug 30, 2009 And a couple more cards using my Cricut, Punched flowers from Quilling strips, and another design from Better Homes & Gardens. Enjoy Ribbon Thanks or PunchFlowerHB Aug 29, 2009 And a couple Thank You cards using my Cricut, Punched flowers from Quilling strips, and a design from Better Homes & Gardens. Enjoy Aug 29, 2009 Made a Guild Galleria piece that I really love using my Cricut Personal Cutting machine. Enjoy Aug 23, 2009 Two glorious nature journals. There's an upcoming "nature" challenge that these will be great for. Enjoy MyGardenJournal or NatureFlowerJournal Aug 14, 2009 You might like to take a gander at a very interesting flip type card. Enjoy Aug 10, 2009 Just made 2 hand bound file folder Perpetual Calendars. Cute. And a bunch of new cards in my More Cards 2 gallery. Some that were published in magazines and some made for challenges these past few weeks. Enjoy PerpetualCalendars or MoreCards2 July 24, 2009 I've been playing with my new Cricut Personal Die cutting machine, the Inkscapes vectoring program and the Sure Cuts A Lot program to down load my artwork to the Cricut. So I've done some calligraphy and using those programs, cut them out with the Cricut and made these 2 cards so far. Enjoy July 23, 2009 Just finished an Online Class using Ecoline Inks and resist techniques on the Quietfire Creations forum. All the cards I taught are in this gallery. There are 8 cards using 3 basic resist techniques with variations and lots of detail images. Enjoy July 18, 2009 Three new hand bound journals. Two are Zutter coiled, painted canvas, hard covered journals and the other is decorated with pistachio nuts. First three journals on the gallery page at the moment. Enjoy July 16, 2009 Playing with a bunch of background techniques and putting my own twist to them, using Distress stamp pads and acrylic paints. Enjoy Acrylic-Mask or If I Had a Star July 5, 2009 A bunch of crackled cardstock and distressed metal ATCs. Enjoy July 4, 2009 A couple challenge piece uploaded. Enjoy BeesWx_JulySketch or WedStampr_FlagColors June 28, 2009 I've just uploaded my two entries into this year's Stampede 2009 Contest. Enjoy June 25, 2009 Someone at American Tombow asked to have one of my cards for their wall and stuff. I initially said I don't think so... but then rethought that, and this is the card I'm sending them Enjoy June 18, 2009 Lots of gilded cards and cards for misc challenges and for CBH challenges. There are just too many to list here, so I'm giving you links to the galleries. You can link via my blog as well to all the individual pages. Enjoy Gilded or Misc Challenges or CBH Challenges June 6, 2009 Two Ritz Glitter workshops with Haroldine & Deanna from British Columbia. Fabulous classes. Here are the cards I made in those classes. Enjoy June 4, 2009 A couple of cards for on line challenges. One using Ecoline inks and another using "Flower Soft". Enjoy
SundayPostcardEcoline
or
LongestJourney May 30, 2009 A ton of ATCs,
using the Tim Holtz technique from below, some embossed using a spider web
template and paper towel backgrounds, and some drinking straw art. Enjoy
THPerfectDistress
or
Straw Art
or
SpiderWeb May 24, 2009 I've done
quite a bit in the past couple of weeks and you can check out my blog for
a bunch of links. Today I saw a vid clip from Tim Holtz doing a Perfect
Distress technique that was really nice. So I tried it out and this is the
result. Enjoy
May 14, 2009 I'm in the
gilding mood and have created a bunch of gilded cards. Well besides being
in the mood, I've been creating them as samples for an upcoming gilding
class I'll be doing in August. They're the first three cards in the
gallery at the moment. Enjoy
May 6, 2009 Took a four day
workshop with Peter Thornton. Pushing the pencil, Pulling the pen and
Decorated letters - Adolf Bernd style. really enjoyed the 4 days. Hope
you enjoy the pics. Enjoy.
April 24, 2009 A few new
additions. There are several new cards in the More Gallery #2 April 18, 2009 I've done a
few things since last posting here, but I guess the gilding is the most
recent. It's the first four cards at the moment... Enjoy.
March 21, 2009 I just took
a 4 day class with Carrie Imai from California. Fabulous. Lots of pen
manipulation, ideas, using different tools, and just a wealth of
information. We learnt the Neuland hand and Big Bad Bone lettering along
with some monolines using the edge of the pen and more stuff. Enjoy.
March 4, 2009 Another card
made for the CBH Challenges. This one uses calligraphy in conjunction with
rubber stamps. Enjoy.
CBHMar3_Believe_BelieveCard Feb 13,
15, & 18, 2009 BVCG Backgrounds - I made a bunch of backgrounds for our
Guild's Galleria this month and have started to use them. The first one is
on a card and it includes a couple origami tea bag flowers. The second one
is a calligraphic broadside using Pan Pastels for the background and an
eraser for the lettering. The third is with onion skins (the real deal). A
fun project with more experimenting in the future. Enjoy.
BVCG_Bkgrds_OrigamiTeaBag
or
BVCG_Bkgrds_PanPastelsSecret Some links to 2008 pages Another 6 gilded Xmas cards uploaded. I really love gilding... Enjoy. I took a weekend class again with Betty Locke - wonderful - called "Evoking the Muse". I've uploaded a page with the exercises I did in class. Enjoy. I uploaded a couple gilded Xmas cards using some new rubber stamps I recently acquired. Also uploaded the last 3 envelopes for this year's envelope exchange I was hosting. Enjoy. I uploaded some calligraphic ATC's using a variation of the Uncial hand. Enjoy.
"Alpha
ATCs"
or
"BVCG
Gold Alpha ATCs"
I had a wonderful response
to my books and cards at a recent Xmas show I participated in.
Since then I have made a few prototypes of gilded cards. These use
composition gold leaf with the "real" gold leaf card available as a
special order. Enjoy.
I
have just finished a four day workshop with Georgia Angelopoulos.
Wonderful. I learnt variations on the Uncial hand and Gilding. I created a
gallery with a couple pages of the exemplars and broadsides done during
these classes. Enjoy.
I've been busy again and also was without internet for a over a week.
Frustrating. I've just uploaded 2 hand bound books I've made. To see all
the other things, check out my blog. Enjoy.
"Double Door Heart" or
"Not
Nuts" I've
finished another hand bound journal, this time using the Pipe Organ
binding and making it truly a musical journal. Also recently took a class
with Wendy Diedrick called Weight & Texture and I've put the two pieces I
made during that class. I also took a Mini Magenta Class and uploaded all
the cards I made there. Enjoy.
"Pipe Organ Musical"
or
"Wendy Class"
or
"Magenta Class" I've been
playing with some xmas glass ornaments and enjoying the results. I've put
them in my Nitty Gritty gallery so you can make them too. Enjoy.
I think my ego will be showing here. I just finished another Belgian
eyelet book made in the shape of a heart with fabric and lace. I think
I've surpassed myself. I'm going to be hard pressed to let this one go.
Enjoy.
I've
finally bought a couple book binding kits from Quietfire Design. They were
such a breeze to make with well written instructions, diagrams and
templates. Enjoy.
I've finally made my elephant books, which I've been wanting to do for
quite some time. I made a pair, Mother and her baby. Enjoy.
Made several
more journals. One is a hidden Zutter bound journal in a hard cover, one
is circular journal (a little dotty) and one is called Treasure Trove
using Grungeboard hinges. And I just added a Piano Hinge one using
knitting needles. I'm just putting the two main gallery links. Enjoy.
A twist on one of Tim Holtz's techniques that he's got posted on his blog for August. I used glass I cut myself in a similar size to microscope glass. sandwiched the art technique and did some decorative soldering and then suspended it in an ATC format. Enjoy. I've made a bunch of mini booklets. Most are necklaces and one is a stand alone booklet in a box. They are very addictive and I will be making more (which I have now done). I'm only giving the main mini booklet gallery link. Too many pages... Enjoy. I've finally made a hand bound book using some covers I made a couple years ago. Enjoy. I've made a lot of cards using the Pan Pastels as well as adding them to my Nitty Gritty section where I explain what I did. I'm only putting the gallery link since there are about 15+ cards. Enjoy. I uploaded the 2 pieces I entered into the Calgary Stampede Contest this year. Both won a second place ribbon and both done on black paper with gold ink. One is a watercolor decorated letter the other uses Pan pastels for the bamboo shoots. Enjoy. I took a four day workshop with Thomas Hoyer from Germany last weekend using a Ruling Pen, Ruling Writer, doing Flourishes and creating watercolor letters. Fabulous. I've uploaded the samples I made during these classes. Enjoy. I haven't been idle. Using the alcohol inks I created 35+ ATC's. Also have a page with samples of the backgrounds and their color schemes. And finally I've uploaded my Graceful Envelope I entered this year. Enjoy. "GracefulEnv08" or "Alcohol Ink" Again I was playing, but this time with Alcohol Inks and using a different application technique than I usually do. Created the Thanks card using the backgrounds. Enjoy. Two Guild Galleria pieces and something I was playing with. Enjoy. "Color" or "Forget" or "Letters" A couple more cards uploaded. One a Condolence card and the other a House Warming Card.Enjoy. "ConnieCondolence" or "ElsHouseWarming"
A friend's mom just passed away and I made this card hoping to cheer her up. It also uses on of my latest Calligraphic Peel Off designs. Enjoy. Another batch of envelopes are uploaded. We're in our 4th month in our envelope exchanges, and I'm loving what everyone has been creating. Every month I upload 3 new envelopes, so check often on this page. Enjoy. I finished 2 calligraphy, 2 day workshops with Roann Mathias. The first one was Beyond Bookhand and the second one was Neuland with the Parallel Pen. I enjoyed them both and came away with some beautiful accordion books filled with what I made during those classes. Enjoy. T hree more "spreads" have been added to the journal round robin gallery which was started in December of 2007. Each month there will be a new spread entered. I've only given the gallery link, so you can either enjoy all the pages I've done so far, or go to the last pic to see the latest journal I've worked in. Enjoy.Just added two cards, a Birthday & a Graduation card. Guy cards are very hard for me to do, but I'm happy with the results. This particular person is into snowboarding and wakeboarding. I created a gate folded card to mimic a cupboard door. The Grad card is a very oversized multi paged card with cut out lettering and using scrapbook papers. They are the first 2 cards in the gallery at the moment. Enjoy.This week's Created By Hand Challenge uses a House Template which I used to create a hand bound book which I absolutely love. I will be continuing to put quotes and artwork into it. Enjoy. I took a 2 day workshop with Lynn Slevinsky. Intensive and fabulous. Made a whole pile of greeting cards. Enjoy. If you're as curious as I am, you might want to take a peek into my world (room in 2005, has definitely changed over the years and more recent pics to come soon) where I spend most of my time creating, thinking and just being me. A look into my art workshop with lots of storage ideas. Enjoy
INTRODUCTION: My name is Yogi and I am currently living and pursuing my art in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. I have been a stained glass artist for over 20 years and I work primarily in the copper foil technique. My work has graced the homes and businesses all over the world, mainly in North America, but also in Europe, Australia and South America. All my stained glass pieces are "one of a kind" (no two are the same unless specifically requested by the client), they are signed and serialized and all are original designs.
If you wish to view some of my private work that are not for sale Click here Or my blog "Click Here"
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