Wednesday, March 27, 2024

WOYWW #773

 Another Wednesday, time for a peek at each other's desks and projects! If you would like to learn more, just go HERE. Maybe you could join our little group!


Hello everyone! Today we are having some Spring Showers, which is much better than the blizzard we had on Friday!

Here is my desk this morning, nothing much on it as I just tidied it up (silly me!)

You can only see a small part of my desk in this photo, so I thought I would show the rest of my desk as well today. Directly in front of me:



To my left:


To my right:


All my pens and markers:

And here are the ATCs and 4x4's I've made this week:






This week I tried adding stickers to my 4X4s. I had a purple one as well, but I think Mittsy did something with it, it has simply disappeared! So a big clean-up of the art room may find it.

On the weekend we visited DD and Jasper. It's hard to believe she's 3 in 2 months! We brought her some Easter pressies...

Coloured some Easter eggs...

And I taught her how to use a paintbrush without scraping it across the paper...

Such a lovely weekend! I hope all of you are enjoying life, and have a crafty week! Inky and Mittsy give purrs to all their kitty cousins!


Wednesday, March 20, 2024

WOYWW #772

Another Wednesday, time for a peek at each other's desks and projects! If you would like to learn more, just go HERE. Maybe you could join our little group!


Happy Spring!🌹🌹🌷🌷Julia, you were right, the snow is still with us for awhile, it snowed yesterday all day❄️❄️ but at least it melted of the road - no shovelling!

Here is my desk this morning:


I've still been working on my ATCs, trying to make variations here and there, also tried 4x4s which I enjoyed making. Hope you don't get bored with all the ATCs!





And here are the 4x4s:


That's it for today, and here is the first full day of Spring from my office window this morning!


The cat hammock sits empty, no sun to bask in! I hope everyone enjoys their week, the kitties give purrs and meows to all their kitty cousins!






 

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

WOYWW #771

 Another Wednesday, time for a peek at each other's desks and projects! If you would like to learn more, just go HERE. Maybe you could join our little group!

Hello! We are having another beautiful sunny day today! I love to see the sun and the promises it brings for the Spring. But I'm sure there will be some more snow before that happens. Here is my desk this morning:

I'm trying to work out a journal page for the solar eclipse coming up. We are in the pathway for a great view!
This week I have been working on finishing my ATC's from Sarah Gardner's lesson in Fodder School 1. Here they are after putting the first layer on top of the backgrounds:

Then there is the second and last layer which finishes the ATC's off:





Now that these are done per instructions, I'm going to try some variations!

On Monday I sang in my women's choir for the first time in a concert. It was very exciting, there were 4 choirs together making 100 people singing! Were were fundraising, and so I made some cookies to sell on the bake table. They made $900 on just the cookies! It was fun, and a good experience for me, I will be doing the concerts from now on! I went through a terrible period where my voice was so gravelly I couldn't sing at all, but now that has mostly cleared up. 




Here we all are getting ready to sing. You can't see me in this pic though☹️I am far to the left just out of the shot.

I hope everyone is having a lovely week, the kitties send their "meows", and I say have a great week everyone!


Wednesday, March 06, 2024

WOYWW #770

 Another Wednesday, time for a peek at each other's desks and projects! If you would like to learn more, just go HERE. Maybe you could join our little group!


March is finally here! The Gateway to Spring as I call it!🌷

I know it's still a ways away, but we're getting there!

Here is my desk this morning. Not much on it, but I have been busy.


I've been working on my 100 days of using fodder in my Tiny Journal, which I finally finished, after 2 years of playing in it!

Here are my last pages:



and my very last page I used bits from my "tiny bits" box


I want to make a flip through video of this Journal soon.

After that I worked a bit in my Donna Downey Journal:




and finally I started making a book for my Foster Child in Haiti (which is why the words are in French), it is a one sheet of paper book!



I have one more page to do.

And that's it for me. Still too cold for Mittsy to go outside, but Inky doesn't seem to mind! They both send purrrrs to their kitty cousins, and I say have a wonderful week!

PS: in answer to a question from last week, yes I did look for dark parts of magazine pages to stencil on, and I stencilled with gesso and white paint. The Gesso was lighter, the paint thicker.

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

WOYWW #769

 Another Wednesday, time for a peek at each other's desks and projects! If you would like to learn more, just go HERE. Maybe you could join our little group!

Almost the last day of February! Finally! I'm looking forward to March and the ease into Spring!

Here is my desk this morning:


I have joined the #100daysofusingfodder, so I have been working in my Tiny journal everyday. I only have 3 pages left in this journal that I have been working in for a year! Here are my pages for this week:


I used this piece of fodderfrom a previous Fodder School lesson, painting on acetate for this next page, as well as the little boy from Tim Holtz



Just this little half page, words are a Dylusions sticker

I learned a new fodder method that I love, stenciling in white on magazine pages! I love the look, and used one on the page below↓



Using bits and pieces of fodder, Megan Quinlan stencil on top. The black paint bled on the flower top on the right, so I just incorporated it so it looks like it was on purpose!

This was yesterday's, using a text background that I sprayed with pink Distress Oxide Ink through a Dylusions border stencil, and used a piece of fodder from my Fodder Book on top



Well, that's it for today! Mittsy went for her annual checkup at the vet yesterday and passed with flying colours. She is now 15 lbs! She is such a big cat! Never would have known from seeing her as a kitten!

Who would have guessed this tiny cutie would be so big!

Have a wonderful week and beginning of March! Inky and Mittsy give purrrrrrs to their kitty cousins!