Open Studio Creative Arts Cafe
     ♥ CreativeArtsCafe ♥
providing space, tools, materials, guidance  and cleanup for your creative playtime   :~D
Discover your own creativity. Take a break at the Creative Arts Cafe
*Site still under construction - Please email us with any requests or questions *

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Everyone needs some playtime.    Come out and play. explore. experiment. create your vision.
We have some wonderful tools and toys you can use for projects - as low as $5/hr

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*Guided instruction available, preferably on Sunday afternoons.


THE STUDIO IS STOCKED!
with tools and supplies for jewelry, fabric fun, mixed media, mold making, carving and casting.

Acrylics, brushes, paper and canvas. Wood blanks. Ready to print screen designs.  Cotton, silk, velvet, grid boards, duralar, tyvek, fibres and threads. Beads, findings, chain, sewing machine, heatguns, glue guns, washable adhesives, plaster, glitter, sequins, crystals, and more.

Molds and Deckles for paper making
Vaccum Forming table (36")
Compressor (small)
Sewing machine and supplies
Table Loom (36", 4 shed)
Matte Cutter - bevelled or straight

Concrete mixer m ix & pour up to 4 bags of cement at a time, making it simple to pour/model a sculpture or create all kinds of stepping stones (yes you can use our lovely molds)

 

Screenmaking and Printing, book & paper arts, pottery and ceramics, jewelry and home decor...what do you want to do today?

The Panenka thermafax machine creates custom silkscreens up to 12" wide, in about one minute. 
No darkroom, no water, no chemicals - prints from a black and white image.
  Great for art cloth and personal quilt imagery.
Print easily onto paper, fabric, clay, ceramics, wood, metal, glass...even (Strange but true) etch on metal and glass, foam trays!

The YUDU is a self-contained exposure unit designed for standard silk screen making. Simple and fun, up to 14 x 16" designs. Also works for ezphoto screens! and on photopolymer plates to create texture plates for printng.

Some beautiful handmade papers from us and from around the world are available, or bring your own. We also have everything for journals books, and mixed media including small tools and accessories like a  laminating book binder
and the fabulous Gazelle, a digital cutter (similar to Cricut but *!* no cartridges - die cut your own designs in all kinds of paper, film, vinyl, or chipboard.

 Oh the Possibilities inceramics alone!

handbuilding, laser decals, stencilling stamping and painting with glazes & china paints.

Two kilns, large and extra large,
available for firing your personal projects
.  Cone 04 bisque/06 glazing, as well as lower temps for on-glaze decorations and glass fusing.  We guarantee the most careful personal attention in handling your pieces.

We have an assortment of Duncan underglazes for clay and ceramic work.
Our rainbow of overglazes including lustres can be painted over your glazed pieces or choose from our assortment of ready to paint preglazedtiles and tableware. Browse catalogs of bisqueware for custom decor - great prices for your pre-orders.

Visit    Northwoodstudios
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offering a mix of our favorite arts and crafts supplies.

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 Also, please visit the creative arts cafe blog for inspiration. Make these simple gift cards, with plantable butterflies on the cover:  

Instant Happy Notes :~) butterfly cards

"The world is so full of a number of things, I am sure we should all be as happy as kings" ~ r. l. stevenson