Howdy and welcome,
Karen visited from WOYWW and told me about her giveaway! 3 chances to win!
Peace,
LuLu
Friday, September 30, 2011
'Karen's Giveaway!'
by Mary Lou 'LuLu' Haynes
Howdy and welcome,
Karen visited from WOYWW and told me about her giveaway! 3 chances to win!
Peace,
LuLu
Howdy and welcome,
Karen visited from WOYWW and told me about her giveaway! 3 chances to win!
Peace,
LuLu
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
'WOYWW - 09-28-2011 Zutterized Journal Binding!'
by Mary Lou 'LuLu' Haynes
Howdy and Welcome,
During my 60th birthday week celebration dear hubby and I've been under the weather (just my luck) and resting at home. Hubby has been super wonderful though! He even made chicken soup. But I'm keeping busy by playing with my BIA (Bind It All) machine from Zutter. I made 8 wirebound journals in two evenings while watching flicks!
Also I bought a large sheet of handmade artist paper at the Racine Art Museum on a daytrip to Racine, WI on Saturday - on left side of bottom photo below. It's a very crinkly texture so should make nice faux-leather covers for journals or handcrafted books.
From Left to Right, starting in bottom center:
1-small journal 1: glue laminated patterend scrapbooking cardstock, commercially printed transparencies, vellum, Japanes masking tapes - 20 sheets/40 pages - 3"x6" (acid-free, archival safe)
2-large journal: long recycled junk mail flyers
3-small journal 2: second half of # 1 - 25 sheets/50 pages - 3"x6" (acid-free, archival safe)
4-small journal: textured wallpaper samples (glue laminated) from hardware store
5 & 6-small journals: my postcard collection from trips of family and friends
7 & 8-small journals: recycled junk mail postcards
Two of these journals are for sale - #1 and #3. Ready for your mixed-media and journaling notes!
PRICE: $15 each - or the set of two for $25. (PayPal) Please note that I ship only to addresses in continental USA.
Please contact me if you want to purchase these one-of-a kind wirebound journals.
After I practiced binding a couple journals, it got pretty easy. I used black and silvertone O-wire in 1" and 3/4" diameters, bought at Archivers. My BIA machine is rather small, that I bought used from a TAC rep - now wish I had a larger size. But this size works well enough for my sporadic use of it.
My plan is to use these for art journals with gessos and paint and stuff - except the postcard collection journals, which I'll just use for taking a trip down memory lane...and the acid-free set for sale.
Do you have a binding machine like BIA or the Cinch? Have you tried wire binding with your machine yet?
Would love to see your comments about this post or any of my other posts. Please come back again soon. Thanks for stopping by.
Peace,
LuLu
P.S. Visit some more studios during WOYWW here.
Howdy and Welcome,
During my 60th birthday week celebration dear hubby and I've been under the weather (just my luck) and resting at home. Hubby has been super wonderful though! He even made chicken soup. But I'm keeping busy by playing with my BIA (Bind It All) machine from Zutter. I made 8 wirebound journals in two evenings while watching flicks!
Also I bought a large sheet of handmade artist paper at the Racine Art Museum on a daytrip to Racine, WI on Saturday - on left side of bottom photo below. It's a very crinkly texture so should make nice faux-leather covers for journals or handcrafted books.
8 Bound art journals Sep 25 and 26, 2011
From Left to Right, starting in bottom center:
1-small journal 1: glue laminated patterend scrapbooking cardstock, commercially printed transparencies, vellum, Japanes masking tapes - 20 sheets/40 pages - 3"x6" (acid-free, archival safe)
2-large journal: long recycled junk mail flyers
3-small journal 2: second half of # 1 - 25 sheets/50 pages - 3"x6" (acid-free, archival safe)
4-small journal: textured wallpaper samples (glue laminated) from hardware store
5 & 6-small journals: my postcard collection from trips of family and friends
7 & 8-small journals: recycled junk mail postcards
Two of these journals are for sale - #1 and #3. Ready for your mixed-media and journaling notes!
PRICE: $15 each - or the set of two for $25. (PayPal) Please note that I ship only to addresses in continental USA.
Please contact me if you want to purchase these one-of-a kind wirebound journals.
After I practiced binding a couple journals, it got pretty easy. I used black and silvertone O-wire in 1" and 3/4" diameters, bought at Archivers. My BIA machine is rather small, that I bought used from a TAC rep - now wish I had a larger size. But this size works well enough for my sporadic use of it.
My plan is to use these for art journals with gessos and paint and stuff - except the postcard collection journals, which I'll just use for taking a trip down memory lane...and the acid-free set for sale.
Do you have a binding machine like BIA or the Cinch? Have you tried wire binding with your machine yet?
Would love to see your comments about this post or any of my other posts. Please come back again soon. Thanks for stopping by.
Peace,
LuLu
P.S. Visit some more studios during WOYWW here.
Saturday, September 17, 2011
'Deep in the throes...' Thank you, Sting and George Lucas!
by Mary Lou 'LuLu' Haynes
Howdy and welcome!
I'm deep in the throes of re-organizing and purging in my 'winter' craft studio. Not much fun, but I'll sure be happy when I can focus on making art. While I'm busy with that task and up to my neck in errant art supplies, here's a spread I created in an altered book art journal - from last fall.
My 60th birthday is rapidly approaching and the sentiment on the left page reflects my feeling perfectly this year. (Sting and I are nearly twins - his 60th birthday is a few days after mine! I'm a big Sting fan - and going with another couple to his concert in November. Sting is releasing his 25th anniversay CD collection on my birthday. I'm also a huge Star Wars fan - and George Lucas is releasing his Blu-ray collection of the Star Wars saga on on my birthday. Isn't that so nice of those guys to give such great 60th birthday presents? :-)
The past few weeks I've been assembling a list of 60 items (places to go, things to buy) - one item for each year on planet Earth! I'm also adding ideas to the back half of an altered book art journal that I started in May of this year - to chronicle our 35th wedding anniversary celebration.
What do you do on your milestone birthdays? Do you plan to do anything special to celebrate your milestone birthdays? I'd love to hear what you've done for your milestone birthdays.
Thanks for stopping by. Please take some time to look around my blog - there are all sorts of neat things to see - and come back again soon.
Peace,
LuLu
Howdy and welcome!
I'm deep in the throes of re-organizing and purging in my 'winter' craft studio. Not much fun, but I'll sure be happy when I can focus on making art. While I'm busy with that task and up to my neck in errant art supplies, here's a spread I created in an altered book art journal - from last fall.
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| "...growing up is optional!' Inkjet transfer/transparency, gel medium, Acrylic wash, gel pen, colored pencil, vellum, rub on, custom embossed foil tape with acrylic paint |
My 60th birthday is rapidly approaching and the sentiment on the left page reflects my feeling perfectly this year. (Sting and I are nearly twins - his 60th birthday is a few days after mine! I'm a big Sting fan - and going with another couple to his concert in November. Sting is releasing his 25th anniversay CD collection on my birthday. I'm also a huge Star Wars fan - and George Lucas is releasing his Blu-ray collection of the Star Wars saga on on my birthday. Isn't that so nice of those guys to give such great 60th birthday presents? :-)
The past few weeks I've been assembling a list of 60 items (places to go, things to buy) - one item for each year on planet Earth! I'm also adding ideas to the back half of an altered book art journal that I started in May of this year - to chronicle our 35th wedding anniversary celebration.
What do you do on your milestone birthdays? Do you plan to do anything special to celebrate your milestone birthdays? I'd love to hear what you've done for your milestone birthdays.
Thanks for stopping by. Please take some time to look around my blog - there are all sorts of neat things to see - and come back again soon.
Peace,
LuLu
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