Trees

Over on the Rhedd and Rosie Challenge blog they are asking for trees/wood, their 29th challenge - I only just found it!

 I love Stampscapes - I really must do this more often!

Watch out for this guy!

 

WOYWW 251!

Not that many posts for me, but I'm sure there are some die hard WOYWW posters out there! Please check the paisley button on my sidebar for more info on WOYWW (What's on Your Workspace Wednesday)

So here it is - the messy desk, as it was this morning.

I had an idea for a project board. I have one for scrapbooking and I love it, but it's always in use. I wanted one for card planning. I found a few ideas online - one was all set to go for $30 or so, one was shown in a tutorial on a card blog. I didn't want big gaudy magnets that would take away from the card, so I used my very strong tiny magnets from my scrapbooking magnet board. I switched some round craft magnets for them, since I do Project Life scrapbooking, it doesn't matter what's holding the photos down, as long as they don't fly away.  But for planning a card, I don't want the magnets to distract from the card.

 I went looking for a magnetic white board, as the woman on the blog suggested, and found these Magnetic Die Sheets, thinking they just might work, and beside - I really NEED some of these! So for about $9.00 I bought a set of 3 (cheaper in the USA!) Well, they didn't work for the project board, buy that didn't matter at all. Then I remembered I had some new Dollar Store cookie sheets in the garage, and VOILA! A perfect planning board for my cards.

http://www.ArtBin.com 

 

 

 

 

The Art Bin sheets have a carrier to go with them if desired, so far I don't need it.

Looking forward to seeing what everyone else is up to today!

Happy First Day of Spring!!!

 

This spring piggy was too cute to pass up! Looking forward to those spring puddles to splash in!

Here is a Spring ATC for you:

 

 This was made with Distress Ink swiped onto white CS, then sprayed with water and heat dried. I stamped a Character Construction stamp on top, then stamped a feather from the same set on another piece of white CS and cut it out. The feather looks better in "person".

I'm obviously into the spring greens and yellows, because here is my Journal page from yesterday:

 


 The challenge was to use a bird on my page, so I used one I had carved myself.

Have a wonderful first day of spring!

Here We Go Again. . .

Well, here it is March, and I haven't posted since February. Hard to believe time goes by so FAST! So it's Wednesday, the day for WOYWW (see paisley button on my side bar if you want to know more!) and here is my VERY messy desk. Not that there's any room at all to do any work. First job of today will be to clean it up!

And here's my kitten, Inky, searching for something new to play with. . .

 And she brings out a bag! The other day she dragged a piece of tissue paper 5X her size down the stairs - hilarious!

 

 This is the one that brings smiles and laughter to my day!

Hopefully I will get into this room today and get something done, even if it's only to make space for tomorrow!

Hope everyone is ready for Spring tomorrow! Yay!

WOYWW - Feb 26

I think I missed the last two Wednesdays, but here I am today. When I realized it was WOYWW (see sidebar for more info) I jumped up and took pics of my Workspace. Surprisingly neat! Doesn't mean I haven't been busy, though!

Here are today's photos:

And here is my newest Journal Page for

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I hope everyone has a wonderful Wednesday today! We have a fresh 3" of snow - how about you?

Journaling!

I have changed the way I journal. Again! I have been writing a journal daily on my computer since August 2013, and found it was rather strange to just repeat and repeat by journaling my life in my art journal as well. So, now my life is private, and I have joined two journaling groups, as I think I mentioned in my last post. I am enjoying following their prompts, although I haven't followed all of them.
Here's the first one:

The prompt was -Make a flap on your flap. So, 2 flaps. OK. I had never really done this before! I found a page in an old art journal that I am actually using for the purpose of ripping out and incorporating them into journals or Project Life. That was my first flap, and i just went from there. Earlier this week I got some lovely "Happy Mail" with a tag saying "Smile" The tag was mostly blank, so I could add to it, and that was my second Flap!

 I am also only using the right side of my Moleskine watercolour book, and writing how I did the page on the left side.This also allows me to be always working on a flat surface. So this is everything all closed up:

And now my small flap (the tag) is opened:

The large flap is opened to reveal 2 new pages:

The left page - about friendship and meeting one of  my BFs at Starbucks every week. The vellum quote got all wrinkled when I used Gel medium on it. Don't do that!

The page on the right is about Valentines Day! This time I used my Xyron to adhere the vellum. That's the way to go!

I really enjoy technique prompts. I really don't like writing prompts!

The other Journal prompt group is called Journal52. This week's prompt was "Found Poetry" I have seen this before, but never done it. I'm terrible at poetry. But I tried! here it is:

I realized I need an "of" for it to make sense, so I added it. Maybe it makes sense. I don't know. Poetry often doesn't make sense to me!

So that's it for today! Thanks for looking!

WOTWW-Feb 5

Another Wednesday! And this is a SPECIAL DAY for my blog - it's 9 years old today!!!!

Hard to believe! Anyway, it nicely fell on WOYWW (click the Paisley sidebar button if you don't know what this is), so here is my room as I walked into it this morning:

 A mess! At least I have been busy!

Here I am working on one of my October PL pages -oh, BTW - I started a NEW blog just for PL, if interested go here

 I opened my journal so you can see my last page - an abstract page for my Journal52 FB group (you can see the stencil I used in the first photo)

 And I turn around. . .oh joy! Another snowstorm! Aren't we lucky! (Only 42 days, 11 hours, 46 minutes and 14..13..12..10 seconds until Spring!)

So that's it for today! Thanks for looking! And if you are interested in PL, have a look at my other blog (birthday will be Feb 4 - how convenient!)

2nd Post in One day - I'm on a Roll!

This is my first post for The Documented Life Project.
The challenge was to find something on Pinterest to inspire you. I love tags, and I saw this post today, and I did it! The tutorial is by Shelly Kuck from Splitcoast Stampers. I loved how she did the collage stamping on tags, and I thought it would be great as a journal page!

I realized afterwards that I didn't do the ribbon correctly, but that's OK. Also I used Dylusions spray instead of rubbing with Distress Ink at the end. I like how it turned out!

Thanks for visiting!

 

Journal Pages

Hello! Happy Groundhog Day!! My daughter and her Dad watch "Groundhog Day" every year, whether they are together or not!  Ontario's Wiarton Willie emerged from his cozy den this morning and immediately spotted his shadow, which according to groundhog folklore means Canadians can expect six more weeks of what has already been a long, cold, snowy winter. Joy.

On that note, I have two Journal pages for you. I have slightly altered how I do my journal (I always seem to do that - I'm all over the place!) The journaling I'm doing now is following some prompts that come up in the several journaling groups I'm in.

As I mentioned in my last post, Persevere is my word for 2014:

On my Journal 52 group the prompt for 2 weeks ago was "What makes you smile?" Well, my new 6mo old kitten, Inky does! Everyday!

I'm starting a new journal prompt today from The Documented Life Project which I will post when it's done!

Thanks for looking!

WOYWW - Jan 29

January has flown by! Or maybe is just stuck in a pile of snow - which has now completely obliterated our fence. Beautiful, though very very cold!

I have been keeping to my 15 minutes a day in my stamping room, which has been very nice! Today is What's On Your Workspace Wednesday! Just click on the Paisley button on my sidebar to find out what this is! An join us too!

So here is what this morning looked like on my workspace: 


My journal page that I am currently working on:

 My finished journal page from last week:

 I "borrowed" the word Persevere as my word for 2014 from another journalist - but I can't remember her name at the moment.


My Tim Holtz stencils - I have them all clipped together

My new stamps from Michael's, thought they might work for Project Life and journaling!

Never did find my lost "E", so I just went out and bought the letter set again (It was on sale even!), so now I have an "E" and doubles of all the other letters which I am sure will come in handy.

I joined 2 FB pages this week :"Journal 52", and "A Stand For Art-Journaling"

Thanks for looking!