Lynn's Adult Ed Classes

I've been enjoying Lynn's adult ed classes. The group is quite diverse in skill levels -- beginners to expert; but she's able to make it fun for all of us. And we all leave with a nice completed project at the end of the evening. I took a few snaps last night before I realized I was disrupting her train of thought, and promised to sit down and behave myself.

 

Every week Lynn strives to teach us something new. This was last night's project. We used a circle cutter to cut the large circles and assorted punches to  create varied holes around them. We learned to make pleated flowers. We painted grungeboard letters and trimmed them in white ink. We used a stipple brush to apply ink to the white paper and flower. And we cropped photos to fit the openings. Some of it was new to me and all of it was fun. I am definitely not her star pupil though -- I completely messed up my first circle cut; and even the second try didn't come out much better. I covered the blatant mismatch with a small circle. Honestly, Lynn, I do not love your favorite circle cutter -- I like mine way better! Then I managed to over-score my pleated flowers so that two of them fell apart when folded -- which is why my LO has one flower instead of three! 

 But the class we had a couple weeks ago was the best, something entirely new to me and worth the whole price of the classes. The card is embossed, bleached, colored with twinkling powders and cut and stacked. Of course then I had to run out to Michael's and get some PearlEx with my 50% off coupon! Can't wait to try this at home; but it will have to wait for a day Jack isn't home as he is very sensitive to bleach and will be miserable all day if he smells it.

I am so glad everyone is enjoying Lynn's classes so much, and that she decided to give Adult Ed a try. I probably won't be able to sign up in January; but I hope word of mouth will net her a whole new bunch of students. Not only does she patiently teach us a lot, but she is so much fun that I once told her she could probably teach me math and I would enjoy it! From me, that's a huge compliment!