WOYWW #743

 Another Wednesday, time for a peek at each other's desks and projects! If you would like to learn more, just go to http://www.stamping-ground.blogspot.ca/p/what-is-woyww.html. Maybe you could join our little group!

It's almost September! August has FLOWN by with not a lot to show for it, but last week I decided that I was finally going to learn how to use my Cricut Joy to make stencils (I've only had it for 3 months!)

and I did! 

First, here's my desk this morning:

I just finished cutting out some leaves because I was running out of them, you can see some stencil images I'm working on designing, some quotes I was trying for a journal page, my sponges I use for Distress Inks, dirty watercolour water, and lots of paint pens and markers.

But on to the stencils. My first try was direct from Cricut Design Space, A sugar skull. This was very easy and lends itself to decorating

Then I needed hearts, so I made a heart stencil

Then I wanted to see if I could create a design from an existing image, so this happened

I was quite pleased with it! Then I got very brave, and made a whole alphabet and numbers using the Rialto font (which took ages to find)

And finally, why I wanted to make my own stencils in the first place, I made a stencil of Jasper!

This is the first impression I made, and I put it on the cover of her art book that she writes in when she's here. I couldn't stop at that though!

I made a page in my JIYA Journal, and another page in my tiny book

I am currently working on making stencils from my own drawings, Hopefully will have something to show you next week!

I also discovered that I could buy, very cheaply, SVGs from Etsy, so I bought this one (from Citra Graphics) which was in a huge package of SVGs. It's a whole new world out there!

I didn't manage to get a Mittsy pic this week, but I will try for next week. Have a wonderful week, and if you are starting school next week, have a wonderful year! ( we start the day after Labour Day here, which is the 4th, so school starts on the 5th of September)

 

WOYWW #742

 Another Wednesday, time for a peek at each other's desks and projects! If you would like to learn more, just go to http://www.stamping-ground.blogspot.ca/p/what-is-woyww.html. Maybe you could join our little group!

I have missed a few weeks, a holiday in Niagara Falls took one of those weeks, and I got a new phone where I couldn't figure out how to get my photos onto my computer anymore, it's so frustrating getting a new phone! And I switched from an iPhone to a Google 6a, just to make things more complicated. So I finally figured out an easy way to get photos from my phone to my computer, and here I am!

Here is my desk this morning:

I'm working on a stenciled flower, yet to be fussy cut. I am having a lot of fun lately with watercoloured stencils. I cleaned off my desk a week ago, and got yet more storage, and a little basket to put things that I am working on, that need drying, etc, before storing them away somewhere else.

My latest project has been Fodder School 1, February, taught by Megan Quinlan, one of my favourite artists. We made little collages, or assemblages, or clusters, all the same thing. You start with a background and pile things onto it, like this: This was one of my first ones, I think I got better the more I made!

I made a lot of them! This I one used a house stencil that I cut up into squares for the background, and built them all at once

Here are some more:

I have already used a few on journal pages here and there. Makes for a nice and quick journal page!

Hopefully by next week I will have a book to show you from Fodder School 2, July, also by Meagan Quinlan! I am also trying to figure out how to use the Cricut Design Space so I can make my own stencils, looking forward to that!

Well, here's Jasper, enjoying the summer!

She's growing up so fast! And here's Inky, who hasn't shown up on my blog recently, but she is still around!

Mittsy is around somewhere too!  We all wish you a wonderful and crafty week!