WOYWW #746

 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! It's a beautiful chilly day here, I'm enjoying all the greenery while I can! Here is my desk this morning. My Sister-in-Law sadly passed away last Sunday, and so I am making a memorial page for her in my journal.

I am amazed all the time about my pre-made journal pages, how I always seem to find the perfect thing for each page, as if I made that page for that specific event, even though I made the page months ago. Here are my 2 newest pages finished, though I pre-made the pages months ago:

And I am still making paper dolls, hopefully it isn't too boring for you! Each one has such a unique personality, I'm really enjoying making them. I now have a pretty full cigar box of them. Soon you will be seeing them in my journal pages!

Lynne Parella image

Mushroom hat! TH tiny people.

Lynne Parella image

Character Construction image

Character Construction image

with tassels from a Lynne Parella image!

This is from a steampunk paper

 doll image but I used a different head

Well, that's it for me today! Next week I will be at my DD's playing with Jasper, who knows what we will get up to! Here are two pics of Mittsy to end this post. Have  a great week!

And watching the pouring rain...

WOYWW #745

 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!

Well, the heat wave is over, it's now chilly! Waking up to 15°C, and single digits overnight. I can deal with this! It does warm up a bit through the day, just enough to be very pleasant on the porch during wine time!

Here is my desk this morning, I was working on this page at 2am because I couldn't sleep! And then I had to come in and check on it in the morning because I couldn't remember what I did!

This is in my Donna Downey journal that I have been working in off and on for a few years now. I think I have 2 pages left. Each page has a little insert that is fun. Here are my last few pages as if you were looking at it left to right:

And of course, I'm still making paper dolls, and mermaids too! I think a lot of people are taking Megan Quillan's Paper Doll Compedium course, which is why we are seeing so many of them around. They are so much fun - and addicting!

(I think we will be seeing more of this guy!)

This one is a stamp that a friend gave me:

And last but not least I'm making some fall fodder. I think acorns would be fun to make!

No kitty pics today, but Mittsy does not like this cooler weather. She has been in and out many times this morning, I'm thinking she comes in, warms up then wants to go out again! Hope you are all having wonderful weather  wherever you are, and have a great crafty week!

PS: I LOVE Lynne Parella face stamps, but I can't get them here without paying a small fortune. Does anyone have any? If so, please contact me (don't worry I don't want to buy them off you!) Thanks in advance 

WOYWW #744

 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! We are in the midst of a heatwave, just for a few days, probably the most "summer weather" we've had all summer, so I'm happy! It's very quiet here now, with all the neighborhood kids back at school!

Here is my desk this morning. It is mostly the underpaper that I have been using, which I will use in a project someday, but if you look hard you can see a little pile of mushrooms...

I made a mushroom stencil, as I am now running low on this type of fodder, and then made a bunch of cute little mushrooms

I will probably make more today

I have also been playing with paper dolls (which I loved to do as a kid!). I bought a course from Megan Quillan called "The Comprehensive Paper Doll" and I am having a lot of fun with it! I had ben watching "The Witcher" on Netflix, and 2 of these paper dolls were inspired by a couple of the characters!

So I will probably be making more paper dolls this week as well!

And, as promised, a picture of Mittsy! She often comes to the window while I am at the computer just to see what I'm doing and to make sure I'm safe, then off she goes!

With that said, everyone have a safe and creative week this week!

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!