Mini-House Book

I have been busy this last week getting some design team work done for Retro Cafe Art Gallery. I've been working with a new line of products that Kris has started carrying by Coffee Break Designs--and I am just loving it! So much of the stuff that she gave me is small sized and I have to say it's been a lot of fun working on stuff that's so tiny. Here are some pictures of a mini-house book I just finished:






The bulk of the bird stamps I used were by Hero Arts and the text all came from various vintage books. I have to say, about half-way through this project I thought I'd lost my mind, sitting in my studio reading through old books looking for just the right words to cut out. But, it was worth it!

Metaphorical eyes and stomach

It's finally happened: I've turned into my mother. It was a harrowing revelation to be sure--because no matter how much you love your parents, you don't actually want to BE your parents. It snuck up on me so quietly, I didn't even hear it coming.
You see, my mother is the queen of the big, impossible to get done, to-do list. She is a firm believer that you can get all kinds of things done in a day. When I was in high school she decided to lay new floor in the back entryway and promised me that the whole thing from start to finish should not take more than an hour. (As I recall she had about 8 other projects on her to do list for that day...) well two days and one Spackle tool that was adhered to my butt latter, it was finally done. And she was aggravated because the other stuff on her list wasn't done. Her metaphorical eyes were bigger than her stomach....
And as I sat down at my art table this Friday with a list of art things as long as my arm that I planned on getting done this weekend--only to hit a snag on one of the projects that was only supposed to take "an hour at the most" I realized that my metaphorical art eyes were way bigger than my stomach.
Sigh.
I really need to learn to take my art one project at a time....
Anyway, I did manage to get my over-sized playing card book done. It's for the alcohol inks class I'm going to be teaching. I used pictures from my vegas trip. I'm really happy with the way it turned out. Take a look:



Now I get to move onto the next thing. I'm going to tell myself that I'll get it done when it's done and that's ok.
:)

The last of my mini-book photos

I am finally getting around to posting the last of my min-book photos. This week I've been super busy trying to get the last of my stuff ready for classes the next couple of months. I made another min-book which I'll post tomorrow. It's amazing that during my "down-time" I find myself still playing catch-up. The days need to be longer. That's the only solution I can come up with.


I hope everyone is having a good weekend!

Mini Book Photos

As promised here are four pages from my mini book project. On each of the pages I tried out a different distress technique for the class I'll be teaching later this winter. I think my favorite page is the teal one half-way down. But I'm also in love with these buttons on the first page. I used alcohol inks on plain white buttons to get the vintage effect.


I'll post more of my pages tomorrow.
I hope everyone is having a safe flood-free evening and is staying nice and dry.

3 focused days

The last three days I have been really focused and managed to get an entire mini-book done for a class I'll be teaching in the next couple of months. Here are some photos of the front and the back.


The class is all about distress techniques, which is something I really love, so I'm looking forward to teaching it. Not that I don't enjoy all my classes....but I am really excited about this one! I will post the class description along with the teaching dates when I have them. Hopefully I will be able to put up pictures of all my pages over the next couple of days. In the meantime I am off to try and get a Wednesday Stamper entry done....