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!"

WOYWW #716

  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 warm and happy, I know Julia is! As she is soaking up the sun, we are awaiting yet another big storm, freezing rain and snow. Can't wait! (NOT!)

Here is my desk this morning:

My little project yesterday was making these little houses from underpapers and scraps. It was fun! As you can see I'm still working on my journal and have been all week, adding some new pages and working on some older pages.

Here are some of the little houses, with a little pile of pieces to put together. I made these from a Pinterest tutorial by dianesmixedmediaart called Happy House Tutorial. I still have some finishing touches to do to make them "happy"!

Here are the pages I have worked on this week. Some have had embellishments added to them, so you may have seen them before.

I used a Jane Davenport face stencil for this page. I've had these a long time but never used them before. I think I need some practise! Hopefully I will be able to fix this page...

I added the lines to this one

The bird is my own stencil

I added the leaves to this one

I tried another Jane Davenport stencil, it looks a bit better this time

And a couple of pages I have filled in - a list of the pile of "to read" books in my bedroom...

and...

That's all my pages so far for today. Next week I should be getting some more stencils from Meghan, so I will have more to play with!

I envy all those who can sit in the sun on holiday right now, it is cold and miserable here, February seems so long because of the dreary weather we get. My Granddaughter Jasper has it made though!

Here she is in her parent's happy place - Costa Rica!

Hope everyone has a lovely week wherever you are!

WOYWW #715

  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! Happy Day-After-Valentines-Day! I hope everyone had a lovely day yesterday, I know we did! We went for lunch out, with a promise for a nice Valentines Day dinner on Saturday.

And on the 12th, it was my Mother's 88th birthday!

You'd never know it though, she doesn't look a day over 70! And still as busy as ever!

So now to my desk this morning. 

Still working on my journal pages every day - so much fun! And making bits and pieces from stencils and stamps along the way to add to my pages. These 3 stencil shapes are from Meghan Quinlan, as are many of my stencil shapes. The bird is one I made a few years ago.

So here are the pages I made this week, or added to from last week:

All the stencil shapes are Megan's, except for the wave. Many of these pages will probably have more added to them as I go along. 

This one is all Lavinia stamps, I love this one! I did put 2 phrases on this page, maybe it will show up again later.

Here's a kitty pic for you, after buying who knows how many toys for these two - what is their favourite? (PS-it's a clean one!)

I think Inky finally let Mittsy have it...

Well that's it for me! The kitties say "meow, when is Spring coming?" and I say have a great week!

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,