Gelli Note Cards

What do you do with all the prints from the Gelli plate?  Well, you make notecards with matching envelopes!  I got the idea from Patti Parrish from inkyobsessions.blogspot.com.  They will be in my Etsy shop tomorrow.

Gelli Printing

I love my Gelli printing plate.  A couple days ago, I produced 50 two sided prints for a journal to take on a trip.  I needed 100 pages to copy the drawings from the book, "100 Girls on Cheap Paper."  I collaged paper onto chipboard for the covers.  I thought the cover was a little too bright, so I Mod Podged a piece of sewing pattern tissue on top and got the exact effect I wanted.  I bound the whole thing with my Zutter Bind It all.  Here's some of the inside pages. The journal is just for practice drawing faces.

After making the journal, I just couldn't stop making prints, so I used packing tape for some image transfers:

 Sometimes the colors show up better on a black background:

 
 This morning, I decided to try something.  I did not have whole sheet laminating film, but I did have a transparency and a large Xyron machine.  So I ran the transparency through the Xyron to make a sticky back clear sheet.  It worked great - even better than the packing tape.  BTW - I use Perfect Pearls on the backs of the transfers to fill in the blank spots and neutralize the sticky surfaces.

 For lots more information on this great technique, go to http://gelliarts.blogspot.com/,

Red Haired Girl

Thought I would paint a brunette today, but she ended up with red hair and pale skin.  Oh well, it was good practice.

Another large canvas

Here the promised picture showing what I did this past weekend.  It will hang over the bed in the back guest room.

Catching up

 Here's the front of the new house, right after the landscaping went in.

 A shot of the back looking west.  The garage door is still waiting to be painted blue-gray and white.

 Here's the back looking east.  Wrought iron railings will edge the deck.

Thanksgiving, 2012, Round Rock, Texas.  Mother and Daddy drove down with us for the weekend.  We rented a house, which worked out great!

 Here's a picture of the dining room in the Enid house after a day of packing.  We lived like this, with boxes everywhere, for a week because I delayed the moving day until February 16.  

First day of "retirement"

My sewing machine and I have a renewed friendship - after making the travel organizer, I made a new knit top for the trip.  I used an Indy pattern and it turned out really cute. Here's the pattern:  http://sewliberated.com/products/paloma-top-tunic-and-dress

Getting ready for France...

Lately, I've been sewing for myself in anticipation of nearly a month in Europe.  First, my parents and I will accompany Archie on a business trip to the French Riviera.  Then, Archie and I will go to Italy on a music mission trip.  So, instead of learning the music for the second trip, I've been stretching and swimming to prepare my body and doing some sewing to cover it.  


Today, I made a travel organizer by following the instructions in this blog:  http://www.thimble.ca/?p=1443  

Of course, I had to modify mine, because I had only one zipper and I wanted to line the pockets on the left side.  So, I made a flap with Velcro to hold one of the pockets on the right closed.  If you'll notice, the zipper is metal - who knows how long I've had that!  The organizer didn't cost me anything, since I used what I had on hand.  I think it will work out well.  We'll test it in France this month.


After I took these pictures, I picked out the final top-stitching around the edges so I could get the folded papers inside easier.  It works much better that way.