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.

Large Zine for my Grandson

Hi everyone, thanks for stopping by.  I have made a Birthday Zine for my grandson who turned 16 a few days ago.  He loves architectural and unusual things. So instead of an $8 card, I thought this would be good.

It was made from a 12x12 piece of cardstock and I used the inside for some quotes I thought were appropriate.   So it is much larger than a zine using the 8 1/2 x 12 . If you want instructions on the folding process there are several excellent YouTube videos. 

Inside, most are from Tim Holtz stamps. Fully opened 

 Evidently I did not take a fully opened of the main zine.  Below still folded  I have 2 parts which make up the pages when folded. 

Back side

 Below is a little pocket for $$ which comes off  Grandpa wrote on oneside and I wrote on the other. 

It was really fun to make, but the photos are quite hard to see. So click and enlarge them. It's been some dark, cold days here.    Have a great week.

The "ATC" Challenge at the Frilly and Funkie

Welcome, in the process of making the "A"rtist "T"rading "C"ard   for the Guest Designer post I made several more ATC's.   Just for the fun of it all.  Visit and have fun with the challenge.


I have two  "FUNKY " ATC's I made for the Challenge over at the  Frilly and Funky Blogspot

You can see the process over at my blog  POST HERE  Mr Linky would not let me use these 2 photos from the same post. 

Frilly and Funkie Blog and ATC Coins. Challenge

Welcome  My post earlier on Coin ATC's was for being chosen as Guest Designer for this month.    This post is for the Challenge here at  Frilly and Funkie Challenge Blog.    I had so much fun I made some extra Coin ATC's.   Visit and have fun with the challenge. 

 Above the : the "Frilly"     Below the process and items used.

These are 2 "Frilly" ATC Coins on top of an old book
The first coin was cut from two toned white card stock.
The flower was made from an old purse, using golden soft vinyl and the Sizzix dies, a silhouette die cut, the butterfly is gold painted in her hair. 

The 2nd coin was cut from white packing cardboard and painted with the Inka Gold, some lace, and a piece of ephemera lady 

The  2nd set are the "Funky" ATC Coins.   The coin is from a masterboard I made sometime ago, with T.H. distress oxide inks.  A funky stamp from Dylusions,  Dyan Reaveley's  Mini Me and  a washi tape comment. 

Here's the 2nd  "Funky" one   Coin cut from My Mind's Eye paper pad,  Sizzix dies by T.H.  Hipster Goat

The next two were just random use of  Repurposed papers  Made from a Kleenex box and Corragated white  packaging cardboard          Again Sizzix die "Songbird" 

3 things from my stash I hadn't used: a die by Little B,  a Flamingo, Embossing folder a gate and washi tape of flamingo's

 

All of these are Very Mailable.  And such fun to create.  Thank you for stopping by. I was unable to post the other photo, some limit on space ??  Tech Never ceases to amaze me
Enjoy the weekend. 

Sylvia  

Frilly and Funkie ATC COIN Challenge

So happy to have you stop by. This post is for the Frilly and Funkie Challenge Blog. I was chose as Guest Designer for this month's challenge back in February for my Vintage Valentine. (HERE)

The Challenge theme this time is "Artist Trading Coins"

I am so honored to be guesting this challenge here at the Frilly and Funkie Blog. The theme could not have been more fun.  I love the challenge of the small details the ATC's  offer in creating them.  The "Coin" is a 2 1/2 Circle" base on which to create your theme. 

I have chosen to share the Vintage Steampuk design for this post as I have not used any of the stash I have for it. It is the one with the most dimension from the others I have made. 

The coin was cut from cardstock with the 2 1/2 inch Spellbinders Circle die, then embossed with the Mechanics Gear 3D embossing folder bySizzix designed by Tim Holtz  and distressed with his Vintage Photo and Walnut inks.

Some of the supplies I used. The wire going across the coin was wrapped around this bottle to have it pop out from the card 
The blue glue pen is a great product to use for such small areas.

   I used the Tim Holtz Sizzix thinlit dies Gearhead cut from his paper pad  Tattered Time, some of the Idea-ology male paper dolls and a small wooden ruler I cut to 2 1/2 inches. 

I had some fun making additional ATC Coins. Some are "Frilly" and some are "Funkie" to enter their challenge.  They were all fun, and you can stop back here on Friday to see that post.

  I thank all the people at the  "Frilly and Funkie Blog" for choosing me to do this post. Take time to visit them. They have a great design team. And they offer so much inspiration on each post. .

WOYWW #509

Hi everyone, it's 3 a m, something loud awoke me and I realized it's Wednesday.  Julia hosts our sharing of the desks over on her blog the STAMPING GROUND.  Besides just sharing our crafty hobbies, we also make comments to desk shares from the link up, when we don't have some life pressing issues. As a phone conversation is rarely possible with this many blogging friends,as we range from areas ALL over this world. 
I will visit today and try to pick up the conversations of last week as I never made many visits. It was many life issues or one of those weeks you really just don't have the UP attitude or even the time to just pop in for a quick view.   

My desk was in darkness  *click on the photos to enlarge.  The room is in total chaos  and I have several birthday cards for March to get made. The ideas just not popping out at me. 

 Lots of stamps, working on the Zine,  enjoying the challenge.  Will share at some point

 Our little winter friend who takes up shelter under this table. We are feeding him corn/vegetable peelings etc as his normal eating is totally under piles of snow. The first I noticed him there, he was nibbling on a tree branch. I cannot open this patio door as a wall of 4ft snow is pasted against it. He has 2 friends who come and go also. 

My husband puts out corn in the road lanes for the beautiful pheasants trying to survive. No warm up in sight and more snow on the way this weekend  We will drive to the city today, roads are good now, for his  medical checkup on the smashed finger.  He's doing well, so hoping maybe cast off and therapy.

Thank you to all who made comments last week.  I double up this week  as I do enjoy seeing your photos.   Have a happy WOYWW  and enjoy a good week.