WOYWW #721

 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!

Spring is so fickle...we had, hopefully, our last blizzard-like weather, and how nice it was that none of the snow stayed! We still have patches of old snow piles here and there, but we also have bulbs starting to push their way through! How I love Spring!

Here is my desk this morning, a bit boring I'm afraid...

That's because I spent most of yesterday planning out Jasper's Quiet Book that (hopefully) I'm making her for her birthday, hence all the markers.

Have any of you ever made one of these books? I was planning on using all felt, but last night someone told me to use denim because you can wash it. I had never thought of that before, but she had wild boys...has anyone made a felt one, and how did it stand up? Any tips?

Anyway, I did work on my journal this week, and carved a couple of new stamps, a leaf and a woman:

I think I now have to work on getting my lines thinner.

Here are the pages I worked on this week:

The blue girl asked for the fox...

This was in my little journal

I added the boy to this one

I added the words to this one - all stickers

I used hand carved stamps for this border, Oxide Distress ink and embossed it all because I have found the Oxide ink takes forever to dry

The hand is a stencil from Megan Quinlan, and I think I free-handed the feather.

That's it for me for today. I did make a purchase, however I forgot to take a pic of it, a new magnifying glass on a stand with a light. It's called a "8 X Magnifying Glass Light with Stand and Holder, 3 Color Modes 10 Steps Dimmable, 2 in 1 Real Glass LED Lighted Magnifier with Adjustable Swing Arm for Handicraft Repair, Reading, Craft, Close Work"

It has made a HUGE difference! Why didn't I buy this years ago? Especially with carving stamps! Oh well, the cats are raring to go outside in the sunshine, but come running right back in because the temperatures are still hovering around 0°. Brrr!

Have a wonderful week,

PS: I try to make all my words in the largest font, and Blogger assures me that it is all largest, so I apologize if Blogger is lying...

WOYWW #720

 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!

Spring has finally arrived! Someone just needs to tell the snow to go away! The birds are chirping, which is always nice to hear.

I have been sick since the weekend, so nothing has been done since then, but here is my desk this morning, pretty quiet:

I did get a few things done last week before I got sick. Do you remember this? I really disliked this page...

And here it is now...

I like this much better!

A friend and I went to the only stamp store we have in our city last week, and I got a Dina Wakely stamp set, some blank stencil sheets, and a couple of chip board dragonflies and twigs which I am sure will come in handy one day!  

So of course I had to use the stamps right away! 

I also worked on my Fodder School 1 lesson on incorporating your handwriting into your journals, wild writing, secret writing, it's all fun, so I practiced here...

and here behind the stamped words...

and here inside a flower in my tiny art journal

I really like the effect!

Well that's it for me, I'm going to grab a muffin and some coffee and rest, hopefully this cold will be gone soon! Isn't getting sick while retired lovely! No stress on getting back to work before completely better! Love it! 

Take care, enjoy your Spring, the kitties say "meow" and they can't wait to get outside!

WOYWW #719

 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!

Hello everyone! We have a glorious sunny day today, though still  very cold at -5°C, feeling like -12°! I hope you are warming up for spring - I can't wait!

Here is my desk this morning, I'm working on a kind of star crown for the head on one of my pages that I didn't like. Hopefully this will fix it! I will show you next week if it did.

Last week I mentioned that I was going to make a few stamps of my own, and that is what I did this week! This is the most recent stamp - a fox!

And here is where I used it in my journal

Here are two more stamps I carved this week. I started with the girl, then wondered why hadn't I ever used "man" stamps, so I made one of those too

And this is how I used them in my journal

This page was a page I didn't like, it had a big orange butterfly where the man is now. I took it off and I had outlined in black around the butterfly, which was left on the page. Here is a great tip for removing things like that - use hand sanitizer! It came off easily with hand sanitizer and a Q-Tip! You can't tell at all that there was a butterfly outline behind the man! (I also carved his hat)

And this guy is just starting a new page

Here are some more pages I worked on this week:

Here is a Character Construction man stamp that I found...

I added words to this page

And to this page

The ladies open up...

Mittsy did survive her trip to the vet...apparently she is overweight. Oh well, she has a summer to run it off!

Next week it will be SPRING!!! It may not look like it, but things will be warming up, and the kitties and I can't wait! Have a great week, and "meow" from Inky and Mittsy!

WOYWW #718

 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!

Hello all! Today will be short and sweet for a change. We had company this weekend, and I am trying to rest my very sore shoulder. I did get a bunch of images painted and cut out, and I managed one page this week, hopefully I can do better next week! So here is my desk this morning. I am trying to design some stamps to carve because the stamps I want to buy are just too expensive with shipping on top. I thought I would try my hand at making my own, similar, not exact copies. Not easy!

Here is the journal page I made this week using Megan Quinlan's stencil, and the flowers are from a dollar store stencil:

March may be the bringer of Spring on the 20th, but winter is hanging on as long as it can! This was from last Saturday morning:

Mittsy was so depressed after watching the snow all night from her bedroom perch, to sitting in her hammock on my desk staring out at all the snow...I'm sure she thinks it will never go away!

Mittsy goes for her annual check-up at the vet today, she knows something is up because the travel cage is out, she just doesn't know it's for her...yet. Hopefully I will be able to find her before the appointment!

Have a wonderful week, hopefully Spring is closer to you than it is to us!

WOYWW #717

  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!

Happy March! Winter is on it's way out, Spring is on it's way in! That doesn't mean we have any less snow, we just had another big storm come through, but we do know that the weather will slowly be getting warmer and not colder!

Here is my desk this morning, I've been doing a lot of stenciling and cutting out the stencils to use on my journal pages.

These are my new stencils that I just got last week. If I could afford it I would get them all (they are from the US and shipping is as much as the stencils, and all in USD, which is considerably higher than the Canadian Dollar 😢) But anyway, I am happy to have the ones I  do have. I spent much of my week stenciling with watercolour, cutting out, and doodling on them. But before I started that I made these 2 pages:

You saw this one in it's beginning stages last week, I added some stenciled cut out flowers, I made the houses happy, and added a text that came from an Instagram post I saw, where a 3 year old said goodnight to her family, then on her way to bed was overheard saying this. I couldn't resist! We should all say this to ourselves before bed!

This one uses a fancy border stamp that I have and a couple more cutout flowers, but her face looks kind of scared!

And here are the stencil cutouts I've been working on, these are my favourites so I made a lot

I thought some ravens might be nice, I still have to doodle

And these feathers used a Dollar Store cheap stencil, I love how they came out!

This is the page I made yesterday, the fancy flap covers the lady. I still have to make her face, I will try and make it happy! The word is also one of Megan Quinlan's stencils.

My DD, DSIL, and DGD are all back safely from Costa Rica, but I love these final day photos!

DD loves her jump photos, she's so good at it!

And here is the fam all together, what a peaceful lovely photo!

And finally, an end of February gift from our Hibiscus

All the more glorious with a background of snow!

Mittsy did try to eat it yesterday as it was right on her cat perch...so I had to move it!

Have a great week! Mittsy and Inky say "meow!"