WOYWW # 517

It's almost Wednesday, a scheduled post for our desk sharing day. Here at the STAMPING GROUND  Julia welcomes anyone who wants to play along or visit.

My desk

Some info on Post Office thickness of letters.  A few leaves I want to watercolor and below are a few more  Vintage Glue book collage pages.

We have cold rainy weather, both sides of our state are in terrible flooding conditions because of levy's breaking.  Our road is like slime, so I've not ventured out alone.  Was a busy week with my mother,  was not up to visiting any blogs, but hope to this week.

Have a fun WOYWW kind of day. Wishing you all the best.

WOYWW # 516

Oh happy day...Welcome. The sun is out, I've missed you all and I am almost caught up from being gone 10 days visiting my son and family

Summer made her 1st communion and the other 2 had birthdays. We toured Boston, had a magnificent lunch at "Cheers" bar. Walked a lot, rode the train and trolley's and managed to make it thru 6 lanes of busy traffic.  So fun to be with them and enjoy part of their life. Saw so many historic sights, their competition swimming, and karate. 

Besides catching up with life here at the farm we now have a Mother Cow who has a new set of twins as of yesterday.  And my husband has 1 field of corn worked, planted and sprayed.

I have been enjoying time at my desk. Making Vintage Glue Pages I joined a group on Facebook and am learning the art of Collage.  It's also where I came up with the Zine and our Post Card swap  I have a post just below this all about the Collage Works.

It's Julia our host here at the STAMPING GROUND on Wednesday that keeps me connected to all of you and the fun things you share. 

Have a wonderful week. We finally have sunshine and warm temps. I started my walking with walking with my grand daughters each day to school and I am keeping it up here at home. I've lost about 10 lbs by being gone !~!!

SHARING Vintage Glue Book Fun

A few months ago I joined a group on Facebook, Vintage gluebooks and pages  and I really have enjoyed the learning experiences.  Collage, Zines, and working at your own pace on Glue books and pages. 

My Post Cards for the swap,  theme "Birds and Bees"  Spring time  Enlarge to see a better view

 Since my return I have had some time to start with the Glue Book item #1

Required items: a map, a paint chip, something round, a form, something from the grocery store and a stamp. Our hostess gives the prompts to use for each page. 

These are the first 2 I have done for the Collage Works Assignments:

 #CW1  WHITE various shades of white

#CW2  Black & White

These are all on 4x6 Index cards I purchased 100 for 10 cents on a close out sale, so I have LOTS.

I hope you have a great week and enjoyed this post.  It has been a fun past time. Most everything with Vintage Glue Books  is from simple things you have at home  scraps of paper, anything from an old book, newspaper or magazines.  A glue stick, scissors. and a notebook to glue things to.

WOYWW # 513

Welcome, so excited to be back in action.  It's our weekly WOYWW, sharing our workspace and hosted by the lovely Julia at here STAMPING GROUND

My desk:

The start of my grandson's 11th birthday card to the right a "Lego-Harry Potter" kind of guy. 
To the left a small stack of books for a start of a "Vintage Glue Book and eventually pages.
A new group I joined on Facebook, and I am fascinated with the fun process. 

My last post for WOYWW I had a was in the process of  sorting scraps/ephemera/stickers etc.  Took me a week but I hope it will be easier to find and start "using"
Photo below is words/letters

Plastic CD holders have paper embellishments/die cuts by color  Some of the drawer containers have die cuts by flowers/occasions/ (birthday, wedding, kids etc)  

In the blue basket are clear pouches from Amazon that have a variety of ephemera

so I am happy that all is located in one place, and will be happier when I can be using them. 

In the post above is my post on the ZINE project or HERE. Have a great week and thanks for stopping by.  

A ZINE for a Swap

Welcome, it's been a while since I've had time or around to share any ideas or partake in my weekly fun.

I mentioned some time ago I was making a Zine for a swap and wanted to wait until all had submitted theirs  before I posted mine. . They  will be mailed out in a day or so by the gal  who organized this swap. I can hardly wait for them to arrive.  For the swap we kept the original and made our copies to mail in for our swap partners. So there were no raised embellishments etc on those. 

I chose to use a "Wing" theme. And this is the front cover. Page 1   These photos do not really show the tea dyed paper very well.   The original is much darker.

The back cover. Page 12

                                        The 8 1/2 x 11 copy paper before folded into pages

Pages 2 & 3

   

                                                                           4 & 5

                                                                            6 & 7

                                                                             8 & 9

                                                                           10 & 11

There are many videos on YouTube on the process of folding and cutting your paper to make a Zine.
I used  this one.  and viewed several others.  I was intrigued, and love seeing the different paper ideas.

So then, what is a zine?

A zine (pronounced zeen) is an independently or self-published booklet, often created by physically cutting and gluing text and images together onto a master flat for photocopying but it is also common to produce the master by typing and formatting pages on a computer.The publication is usually folded

A posting of a 12x12 paper is  HERE  I made this instead of a card for my grandson's 16th birthday.
He likes unusual techniques in many things. So thought it was a good project to show him.

Thanks for stopping by, have a lovely week.