Fodder School with Sarah Gardner

It's no secret that I adore Fodder School and last month's lessons were with Sarah Gardner. She is a fabulously inspiring teacher. Check out her tag book tutorial in her Stencil girl post. 

See her post about this month's fodder school lessons HERE. 

I talked about this podcast in a previous post. 

I decided I wanted to try out many of Sarah's techniques but not create so much fodder. I'm very happy with what happened. I swatched my acrylics including metallic paints and found that time very well spent. The binding rings contain each side of the colour wheel, neutrals and metallics. When I swatched the metallics I did it 3 times : one on white card for the appropriate colour ring, and again on white and black for the metallic ring

I used my gelli plate

Created layered papers with lots of stencils (my happy place)

and what Sarah calls Micro Fodder

The project made with the fodder was Artist Trading Cards. While that isn't my jam, making unique cards and handmade books is. I used her technique for one of the Journal 52 prompts  upsized to fit my journal page (4.5"x 7")

I loved Sarah's tag book above, and decided to create my own celebrating my word of the year {still going since 2017} SHINE. The words I chose included my acronym words Self-care, Home, Intentional, Notice, Ease, and a few extras that importantly underpin these : Presence, Gratitude, Joy 

These are the backs - I used a lovely gold star washi tape on many of the pages so that is an extra element of shine and so enjoyed adding some extra elements of collage fodder from previous lesson

And here's the book put together with fabric hinges and stitched edges

And a flip through

You can still join us in fodder school and there will be another Free Fodder Challenge for 2022 from July 5-13, AND a new season of fodder school after we finish this 12 months at the end of September 💜