WOYWW #487: A New Project

New projects take time, especially when one is starting from scratch. This one offered a series of challenges, and so it took months for me to design and make everything. I really enjoyed this process. Please forgive me if I am unable to leave many comments. The eyesight issue has its challenges as well, but I'll try and visit as may of you as possible this week regardless.

For anyone new to this fun and perennial Wednesday Blog Hop, please visit Ms Julia Dunnit's blog for more information by following the link HERE. 

The story of this gift I made for a friend may be seen in the pictures in this post. For more on how I made the faux sewing buttons, please follow the link HERE.

Happy WOYWW!

~Rose

WOYWW #461 : Gelli Experiments

I had wanted to do this for a very long time. I really like circles in random patterns. What I came up with was a new way of using circles on my gel plate for a different effect than a stencil could provide.

As of this writing, the left eye's been achy for hours, so sorry, but I can make no promises about either commenting or responding come Wednesday.
:(

For those who are interested, the WOYWW fun starts with our ever intrepid leader, Ms Julia Dunnit. Please follow this link HERE for the details.

I will let the photo captions tell this story.
:)

Happy WOYWW everyone!

WOYWW #453 Happy Mail from a Facebook Friend

The number of comments and visits I am likely to make this time around will be limited to whatever my eyes will tolerate.

I am looking forward to finding out what my fellow deskers have been doing recently! For those of you who are new to the wonders of this fun weekly blog hop, please visit the blog of the Queen of the Deskers, Ms Julia Dunnit. Her deskers like to meet up very Wednesday.

Eye health report: No cure yet, although I am now trying a nutritional option called Taurine.

I used to say that I would never try Facebook again. I had a dead account there for years that I never used to use. Recently, though, a number of really nice people kept urging me to try it again. So I did! I revived that dead account. Since that time, I keep meeting more and more fun and interesting people at the various Facebook groups I've joined. And I now even have a small, select group which I've given the same name as this blog, but that is in connection with my older, bigger blog, Plush Possum Studio. 

It's nice to not always need to type comments when a thumbs up, heart or emoji will often do. If the eye is having a decent day, I chat along and have a grand time at the various groups I've joined there. 

One of the people I've been getting to know at Facebook (this time via YouTube first) is one Lisa Conway. Follow the link HERE to her fun channel, where you'll find her arting using gelli printing, watercolors and many other fun, creative things.

Recently, Lisa and I began talking about one of the products she'd been using with her gel plate, a form of wrapper for sandwiches that she'd happened to run across via serendipity at a Thrift shop. I had never heard of those before, and I really enjoyed how she was using those pleated paper wrappers in the printing process.

The next thing I knew, she was offering to send some to me, free of charge, so that I might try using some myself. Of course, I was both grateful and excited at the prospect of trying the Pleatpak wrappers. But she didn't stop with the wrappers. Oh, no. Wait until you see what else she's given me!

Buttons (!), lace, colorful circles for collage or embellishments, decorated paperclips, paper flowers, and so on....

Pure treasure!

I must confess to having never used napkins in any of my work before. Perhaps it's time.

Below are the wrappers. Notice the neat pleating? Well that is the cool part of using them in the making of gel prints. I will leave it to you to imagine....

Lisa,

Thank You

for this wonderful and inspiring 

cache of pretty goodies!

I love all of it.

Mail Art + My First Paper Trade

My First Art Paper Trade!

My Partner-in-Trade is Win Dinn, who (much to my delight) has, at the same time she has been trading with me, also been in the midst of a studio purge. I am the grateful recipient of her generosity with that purge! It really made my day!
:)

The photo above has been altered by me for privacy's sake.

The fun stripey arrow is Win's.

What a clever way to upcylce that pattern's pouch!

I spent my younger years learning how to sew.

I actually like the red version of the outfit on the pattern's package photo, above.

Wow!!!

Look at that way cool tag!

Is the fuchsia bit paste paper? 

Pretty textures!

The choices seem endless!

A Smörgåsbord for the eyes!

(or, as is currently the case for me, one eye)

Very pretty papers!

So stinkin' cute!

Thanks, Paper Trade Partner Win!

Hope my mail art envelope of stuff 

arrives safely at your door very soon!

:)

P.S. Thank you again for the lovely postage 

on your cool envelope!

WOYWW #437: Leaf Prints + Happy Mail !

This week, I am still having trouble keeping up with everything, so I won't be able to comment very much. Thanks for your patience.
I'm leaving the Happy Mail for  visual "dessert," in the 2nd half of this post. There's no relevant news today about my optic nerve problem. That's just as well - let's stick with ART and friends for now.

For more WOYWW fun, please visit our Queen of the Wednesday Deskers, Ms Julia Dunnit, located HERE.

For health reasons, I will leave the pictures + their captions to tell most of the story. 
Happy WOYWW and thanks for stopping by today!

And now for the HAPPY MAIL!!!

:)

:)

WOYWW #430: Junk Journal Flip-Through

Happy WOYWW #430 and Welcome to the Flip-Through of my August Challenge Junk Journal.

If you'd like to find out more about Julia Dunnit's fun weekly Wednesday blog hop, please visit her excellent blog HERE. I may get behind in responding to comments as well as visiting the whole list early enough. Please forgive any lateness. I should be able to manage it eventually, even if I get behind. I am an irregular, sporadic desker, so you may not see me for a few weeks.

So what is on my particular workdesk this time around? A finished Junk Journal. I'm offering a "tour" of its many pages here. My guests are welcome to view as few or as many as they wish. I actually did not think that there would be enough time to finish it, but once I'd rediscovered the ease and quickness of wrap style bookbinding, I knew that I'd soon have the whole thing done and ready to be played with. This is a long post, so I will leave the rest to the photo "slide show" below. For more on the earliest stages of this project, guests may wish to follow the link HERE.

I can hardly wait to see what my fellow deskers are up to this week!