10 Year Anniversary WOYWW #520

Congratulations to Julia for reaching a milestone of keeping WOYWW alive and well.  She is celebrating at her STAMPING GROUND blog so give her a shout out.  Thanks so much Julia.

I did some research and I joined up Jan 19th 2011, it was #85 for WOYWW and 169 desk sharers.
Thanks to ALL of you partaking in our weekly gathering, sharing and supporting event. I appreciate you all, enjoy my visits to your work space and love the comments you share with me. 

My desk today, (1st starting out was a neat little area) I've accumulated too much stuff !!!! WOW started with lots of card challenges, now more mixed media, some fabric work in between, ATC's throughout.  Just a great way to retire ! 

Bits and pieces of a birthday card for my granddaughter, turnng 14 ! Wow she'll be getting a driving permit.  It was a wild week in real life and weather related. But I got several ATC's made and will put them in the mail later today if our road is passable. 

I have several more, but no photos to post right now. 

May you all have a "Happy 10th WOYWW" kind of day. 

WOYWW #519

Welcome, fellow deskers and any new visitors.  Only one more week and we can celebrate #10. If you want to partake in the yearly ATC exchange, hop over to Julia's blog at the STAMPING GROUND, plenty of time to join up. 

It's been a wild week. My desk is overwhelming a mess. Way to many projects going on.  I hope the ATC's are buried. 

 I found some new napkins for collaging  just haven't had time to use them.  And below is the "drop" it here spot. Craziness.

Thank all of you for the support from last weeks post.  As of Monday Mother is in the hospital with pneumonia, My brother and family came up for Mother's day so we had a great day visiting her. And later having meal together.  Visited her today with my sister and she seems much better with the oxygen. The sun was out and it finally has warmed up here.  
Thanks for stopping by, enjoy a great WOYWW kind of day. 

WOYWW #518

Welcome to our Wednesday gathering. Again doing a scheduled post, our weather is suppose to be heavy rains and high winds, so while I have electricity wanted to post. You can check in here at the Stamping Ground for more information.

I've had much really quiet, personal time,  My hub is working fearlessly trying to beat the weather, planting corn and beans. Spraying when there is no wind and when it's windy he prepares the ground by disking and checking what ponds are still impassable.  And I have to be available to transport at any given moment.

My desk has had many change of events. Not many interruptions for meals when he's working.

  Worked on a few ATC's for our 10th anniversary exchange.  It you would like to exchange let me know and I'll be happy to.   The old book there will have a post of its own shortly. I took it apart and will be using it as a journal. The post HERE  I've reconstructed a book to use for my Vintage Glue Book.

Here I am working with a new leaf die and trying out some different methods of watercolor.
I really liked the green pencil the best.  But need to watch a you tube.  I've watched a lot of them this past week.

I have prayed a lot this week. Tragedy hit my niece's  husbands family. Not far from here was a drive by shooting. The young girl  (25) was killed, her boy friend injured. The bullet went thru her neck and went into his face.  No one yet found.  A few years ago she was a star athlete on a college softball team.  Some wonderful people and such a senseless act.   Several people I know are having health issues and it all seems so serious.


Wishing you all well, thank you for all who commented. I hope to do better this week.

Re Constructing an Old Book for use as a Vintage Glue Book

Welcome, not to long ago I joined a facebook group called "Vintage Glue Book and Pages". It's been a fun experience, following prompts at leisure to create Vintage Collage Pages.
I've always loved my ATC exchanges and working on little spaces, so I started the prompts on 4x6 white index cards, as I have an abundance of them.  But I had no place to put them. I needed a journal/book and felt using an actual page would work better.

I found a good size book, I can glue my 6 already made pieces into and continue using it as I create.

First I deconstructed this book:  And I kept the pages, for maybe using here and there in this book.

 I found red bias tape to finish off the edges  (I thought about the red masking tape and lace, but did not like either as well as the bias tape)

 And I used clothes pins to hold the bias tape until the glue dried.

 I decided against a spine and re read use of my big bite crop a dile. I had red rings and eyelets and the process worked so well.   I then made a white template to use for making the holes for the soon to be added pages.

 My little book is complete.  I will be choosing papers and filling it over my "leisure" time !!

.  This is the group, I have created the Zines for exchange, the "Birds and Bees" post card exchange  just recently.   It's been relaxing and helped me get thru some of life's chaos.
Thanks for stopping by,   You enjoy a wonderful day and enjoy some sunshine.

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.

WOYWW # 510

It's What's On Your Workspace Wednesday.   Our hostess at the STAMPING GROUND would welcome you to visit and play along if you want.

My desk today:

I have been sorting scraps/ephemera/stickers etc. down to this...some jewelry to repair
If any one has ideas for easy access of these items let me know. Scraps I've sorted by color in file folders but the rest I am at a loss for.

A card I made for my sister's birthday:

and in the post below is a large ZINE  12x12 paper was used to make a birthday card for my grandson's 16th birthday.  Some were wondering about Zines  YouTube has several great helps, usually 8 1/2 x 11 paper is used, but  the 12 x 12 made a great card. Had fun making it.

My zine for the swap will be post sometime this next week.   You would not believe how much time it took me to load these 3 photos.  So kind of delay somewhere. But once I located them I re saved them and it worked.

And the following post has several ATC's  I made for the Guest Designer and some for the challenge. They were so fun. 

Thanks for stopping by, I hope your week is wonderful.  We are still buried in snow, but travel is good and it is now raining.  Our nephew saw robins in his yard 50 miles south so just maybe SPRING will arrive.