Silver Year Booklet - Signature 2 & 3 funnies

And here are the other 2 pages of humorous sayings in the Silver Year booklet...

 

 

 

Doodling Journal Bound

I finally created a cover for my doodling journal...

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Art Of The Fold #34 - School Book Wrapper - Bogus

Our challenge for our  June 13, 2023  meeting is to try the next  structure in the book... I accidentally skipped #34 last month and did #35 instead... so now I'm backtracking and doing #34 Sigh!! School Book Wrapper from Hedi Kyle's "Art Of The Fold" book.

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Carousel - SB Paper, Geli Print & Sarcasm

A friend introduced me to this Carousel structure... What fun. You flip the triangles to see the next color. I started making it with the geli print paper in the size on the directions... but I thought that was a bit large and I wanted something smaller... so did the calculations (see my website page) and created one 2"h (approx 4.5"dia) instead of 3" (approx 6.5" dia).

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Abstract - Japanese 4 Needle binding

BVCG hosted Sherrie Lovler teaching a Japanese 4 Needle binding technique and some abstract painting with Sumi ink and watercolors. Fun evening.

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Whimsical Starts Workshop 2022 - WC booklet - Do What Makes You Happy

Whimsical Starts Workshop 2022 - WC booklet - Do What Makes You Happy. I signed up for the 5 days of mini classes/1 artists hosted by Kelly & Yvonne Barone.

It's extremely rare I make something to use in the future... I'm usually someone that creates and works on the project when I think about it.. But I enjoyed making it and painting my pages and I even added 2 quotes.

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Art Of THe Fold - Blizard Pocket - Bogus

Our challenge for our September 14th meeting is to try the next  structure in the book - Blizzard Pocket #17 from Hedi Kyle's "Art Of The Fold" book.

I've never made this structure... It's nice but I don't know where I would use it.

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Art Of The Fold - Crown Book - Supercalifragalistic

I love this word and it's been a very very long time since I've used it... I thought it would make a neat page for the Art of the Fold Crown Book #15 for our August meeting.

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Art Of The Fold - #14 Blizzard Box

This month we're working on #14 "Blizzard Box" from Hedi Kyle's Art Of The Fold book. I've done a bunch of these eons ago but can't find pics or the boxes...

I made a couple regular one in a similar size as the instructions, then decided to make a couple totally oversized and undersized...

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Art Of The Fold - More #13 Wheel Of Fortune

Art Of The Fold - More #13 Wheel Of Fortune. After making my watermelon Wheel of Fortune, it's been sitting on my shelf in front of me, and I kept saying I should try a few versions of it...

#2 I really wanted to try one with calligraphy, but I'm not that pleased with the results. I think I should have made a larger version of it.

#3 Then I thought I'd try using my oriental paper. I really like that one.For that one I didn't fold the bottom points up.

#4 Then I made one like the directions - finally - except for the size of paper I used... I have a hard time doing something exactly as instructed...

#5 And my final piece is a larger version of #3. I LOVE this one. The size of paper I used was 5.5"h x 34"w. It's a misc calligraphy paper which I spliced together to get the width. I used Versafine Clair stamp pads to color both sides of the paper. Much better than using watercolors which would warp the paper. I love the way it stands so tall and proud...

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Wheel Of Fortune - Watermelon Anyone

Art of the Fold for our June meeting will be #13 from Hedi Kyle's book "Wheel Of Fortune".

I didn't like what was happening with the original design so I kept on playing and finally decided to cut the design in half lengthwise. YES!! and then after doing some basic coloring I saw a watermelon emerge... Love it. BIG GRIN

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Art Of THe Fold #23 - Diagonal Fold - Altered

Art Of The Fold #23 - Diagonal Fold - Altered. one of our members suggested making this structure, so I kept it in the back of my mind and finally created one. It was a cute structure and I was thinking it would be great to have a few of them put together to hold a bunch of stuff... Voila

There is a diagram with instructions on creating the altered aspect of this project.

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Flag Booklet - Accordion Instr

When I created my 1st couple of flag booklets I was very upset that I couldn't see everything at a glance without having to hold the previous pages out of the way. So I mulled it over. The result is so simple it's crazy...

 To view the video click FlagBooklet_AccordionIstr

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ECS - Rainbow - Flag Booklet

I'm doing this project for 2 challenges...one for the Edmonton Calligraphy Society where the challenge for March was anything "Rainbow", and also for our Art Of The Fold Facebook group for April 6th meeting. We decided to do more flag books for our next meeting or/and plus anything you'd like to do...

I'm really pleased with the outcome of this flag booklet. All my pages finally lay flat when stretched out so everything can be read.

I'm also using some of my cherished Ruche (very heavy/thk) paper which I bought when Scrapbooker's Paradise was around... for the decorative elements. And for the main "rainbow" word I inked a Copic extra wide modified nib with 3 colors of alcohol ink.

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Art Of The Fold - 2 Sided Flag Book - Flowers

Art Of The Fold - 2 Sided Flag Book - Flowers. Our next meeting is March 9th and our project was a Flag Book or 2 Sided Flag Book. I made 1 of each...

I added quotes and a bunch of flowers and leaves from my stashes...

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Crab Claw Box

A friend introduced me to the Crab Claw Structure to hold a booklet. I was intrigued again. That's such a nice feeling... She saw the design and instructions on Roberta Lavadour's website. I must admit the instructions were a little confusing, but after trying a couple times I finally understood what I was doing wrong. BIG GRIN Maybe it will be clearer for you...

So for future reference I wrote up a diagram for the instructions. I used Clairfontaine Kraft Brown/Black 90gr paper.

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MC Sept/13 - Gelli Print Journal

Here's the journal as promised of all the samples I've been making with instructions etc. Love the way it turned out. I even used up a bunch of "rejects" to cover the covers both inside and out...

-and I'm using a sentiment stamp from Quietfire Design on the inside which I thought was quite appropriate "Creative Journeys"

Also using my Silhouette to cut out the words on the cover which I lettered with a bullet tipped marker, scanned and then cut. This machine works so well. Love it...


And it fits for these challenges:
Inspired by a book  #226 inspired by a book
Frosted Designs  add texture

Journal Pages...

So I was working in some journals this weekend. It's been AGES since I've done that. Really enjoyed playing in them.

One of the journals is a traveling journal from Anne Atkinson in BC. I wasn't scheduled to work in it, but when she mentioned it would be handed over to someone at our Guild meeting, I took the opportunity to sneak in. BIG GRIN. Her theme was Trees. And these are the spreads I did for her.

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This first one was supposed to have a coffee bean tree or branch image, but I got carried away with just coffee... but since coffee comes from trees, I think I can get away with it. I love doing quotes going round and round the page, although for readability I should have done them slightly off set. As it was I put arrows to show where the next line starts. The word "coffee" is quilled with very narrow cut cardstock quilled paper cut with my Linguini setting on my pasta machine, then the letters were filled with Beehive coils.

This next piece uses my latest alphabet I created from rubber stamps I recently saw. No exemplar or name of font, so had no choice but to make my own... (I call it "Fickle" Font) Using a Local King Background stamp of the trees with birds on one side of the page and my quote on the other. Clear embossed the image and sponged Distress blues for the sky.

These next pieces are from our Guild's "Play" Journal. Each person can put her mark anywhere she wants. She can start a page, or continue on with someone else's page. Whatever.I came across the cup page and new I had to put something in there...

Then I came across the leaf page... So did a pointed pen word and shadowed it.

And then my final entry, that square area was calling me... I had just taught a fun lettering class, so I used an eraser square for the earth letters and pressed it onto my craft mat that had Distress Stains on it. Since the lettering on the page was pressure release pencil letters, I decided to stay with the same type. I'm happy with my contributions.