Saturday, November 18, 2023

November 2023 Meeting

Meeting Minutes 14 Nov 23

Bleached Letters- Cecelia Harris

19 were in attendance

Welcome & Announcements:

**We were encouraged to start our Christmas cards (30) if we haven’t already.

**There was a terrific turn out for the Family Fall Crawl sponsored by the Pioneer Museum at the Evergreen Cemetery. Several members lettered bookmarks, which was a huge hit!

**The DC Guild has announced their Annual Graceful Envelope contest. The theme for 2024 is ‘Mapping the World’s Cities’. All are encouraged to participate. The deadline to submit is 24 March 2024.

**Candy asked for suggestions for next year’s demos. Lynn F’s decorated letter got rave reviews. Julie Wilder and Peter Thornton were mentioned for future workshops. Lonnie agreed to do brush lettering in Jan.

**We will do another envelope exchange with members who want to participate. Slips of paper were passed out and partners were drawn. We will ask that they be brought to show at our Jan meeting.

**Karen Mc informed us that Creative Impressions is open in a warehouse in town. She brought 3 catalogues full of paper embellishments etc to look through.

Show & Share:

**TJ brought a page of French Roundhand practice work.

**Cecelia brought 3 pages of bold/funky lettering she did in Brody on-line class. She’s also taken classes from Mike Gold and Yves Leterme.

**Kimmi had 3 pages from the class as well, one she colored black in and around the letters.

**Kristi L brought 2 fine pieces of French Roundhand decorated with leaves.

**Members who participated in the envelope exchange

Evening Presentation:

**First of all, Cecelia let us know ‘old’ bleach won’t work well to bleach colored papers. She brought small containers of fresh bleach for each of us. She passed around a number of examples for us to get an idea of how the bleach reacts with different kinds of papers, and let us loose to make marks or letters and experiment with the colored card stock and wide nibbed/cola/coit pens we brought with us. It was a freeing, and less than messy exercise! Thank you, Cecelia!