WOYWW #722

  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 April! We woke up this morning to a lovely thunderstorm, and it will probably rain all day. That's what April is for! Bring on the green!

Here is my desk this morning, I have a lovely prepared watercolour sheet to play with, all my favourite colours! 

I carved 2 new stamps this week:

And here is how I used them this week:

I love how they both turned out!

Here are a couple pages in my little mini journal that I did this week:

and some pages from my full sized journal:

On this page I added the script in the half circles - I photo copied one of my pages of script on to a round label sheet, which made them easy to add to this page!

I added the rainbow crown to this stamp! It changes her whole personality!

Well that's it for me this week, I am busy cleaning house for Easter visitors, so I'm not sure how much art will get done, but I will have pics!

Here is Inky, waiting for Spring to actually arrive so she can go out and sleep in the sunshine on the porch. Not today though!

It is so nice to watch the rain obliterate the snow that was left! Have a wonderful Easter weekend!

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 #714

 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 was all ready to write my blog last week, and couldn't download (upload?) any photos. Grrrr. So I tried again on Thursday and was successful, so I thought I would combine the two weeks into one.

Warning - long post!

Feb 1, 2023

Happy February! The longest (shortest) month of the year. It just seems to go on forever! We have had a lot of snow recently, pics to come, but first my desk:

After finishing my new art journal signatures I worked in my Donna Downy journal and my little red journal using fodder from the past week. The little cat dies were a Christmas present - so cute!

Here is the page from the little red journal, the background is underpaper from previous fodder making.

I finally (started before Christmas) finished my signatures for my new art journal from Megan Quinlan's workshop! It took a lot of practice, but after getting through 12 giant pages I think I finally got the hang of it. So I cut them and here they are piled in 3 signatures:

Next step - the cover.

And as promised...Snow!...our bird feeders...

and our front yard. The snow has pretty much buried our fence.

Here is a puzzle for today:

Can you find Inky and Mittsy?

And now for Part 2: Feb. 8, 2023

Happy 18th Blogiversary to me! As of last Sunday, I have been writing this blog for 18 years! It's hard to believe! But if it weren't for this wonderful group, I probably would have given up on it years ago, so Thank You All!!!

My desk this morning:

I had a very busy week this week working on my new journal from Megan Quinlan's JIYA workshop. Time just flew by! 

First I completed my cover, except for some text, which I'm sure will come to me at some point.

The face was made with a stencil - Jane Davenport I think? I bought these years ago and had never used them. I used the same stencil, flipped, on the page I am working on on my desk. Once I finished the cover I was excited to start working inside, and this is my first page:

Then I bounced around inside, preparing pages with Megan's prompts. This was how I did my travel journals, I don't know why I never though to do it with a regular journal! Here are the pages I did this week:

In this one I used my new mouse choir stamp from our own Tracy Easson! 

The pages are now ready to write on, or add things to as I go along, and I will continue to add more and more pages as I go with her prompts.

If you got this far you deserve a star! Thank you for hanging in!

Have a great week,

WOYWW #702

 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! I hope everyone is happy and well today! 

Here are two pics to start us off today:

Yesterday and today...it has begun. 

Here is my desk this morning:

I have been working on collage fodder all month, and finally got to put my project together! The lighting is yellowy because it is on the wall next to my bedroom lamp, which gives it the yellow glow. It took me awhile to like this, but now, after walking by it many times, it has grown on me! I do like it now!

Completed, top close up, middle close up and bottom close up. The feather fell off of a trick-or-treater's costume on Halloween, I saved it for this!

I am now working on little collages to add to journal pages, books, or maybe another collage canvas, which I have already prepared, ready to go!

This has been a fun project, next I will start on my new Art Journal from my new workshop before I delve into the next Fodder School lesson. And I will make more of the tiny collages. FUN!!

Here is Mittsy on the porch wondering what all this cold icky white stuff is, and why is it so cold????

I haven't see any kitty prints in the snow yet!

 Inky and Mittsy say "Meow" and I say "I hope everyone has a lovely week!" Until next week, stay warm!