ABC April Finale Letter Z

This has been such a fun month. I didn't think I was going to be ok after Mass Make March ended, but then the ladies collaborated on ABC April and mu world became bright again. LOL! Today, however, was our last day for this challenge. I must admit, I had no idea what I would do for Z, but following along with Margareth I made this mini book, or Zine, as she called it. I have to say, it felt like cheating a little bit as I have never called a magazine or publication a "zine" and never heard anyone else call it this either until Margareth. At any rate, I completed the project and all is right with the world. Hope you've enjoyed this ABC April! We'll have to see what happens for May to keep my crafty fingers inky! 

Day 30 Z - zine (magazine)
Made with one sheet of 8.5x11 paper.

the two inner pages are pockets....a side pocket here

...and a top pocket here. 

The back I left plain. I realize now you can see my crafty scar on my index finger. That poor finger has been cut so many times with xacto knife and rotary blade - that's what you're seeing is the huge rotary cut where I thought for sure it was cut to the bone. I wrapped it up super tight and never saw the doctor for it or I'm sure he would have stitched it. But that's old news. LOL 

Thanks for hanging out with me for this incredibly awesome ABC April challenge! Stay tuned for what's coming in May. At the moment, who knows!! hahaha

Love you all,

ABC April 2025, Day 29 Y

Tomorrow is the final challenge, can you believe it!? This challenge has made the month fly by so fast! Also, today is my youngest daughter's birthday. Happy birthday, Sally!

For today's challenge we have the letter Y. My project is Yesteryear. 

This vintage pic is my maternal grandparents, Joe and Dorothy Howe. It was taken at Point Defiance Park in Tacoma, WA in the late 40s. 

This piece of yesteryear is a piece of the 1940 census for Tacoma, Pierce County, WA. The area marked is my grandparents, mom, aunt, and uncle. Mom was 4 years old, she is the youngest of the three.

The other half of the census page. It states my grandpa's occupation as "shapeman" at a chair factory. 

Homage to my native home state, where I still reside.

ABC April 2025, Day 28 X ---???

Of course the first thing that comes to mind when thinking of prompts for the letter X would be X-ray, right? Well, I couldn't think of anything else either, so that's where I went. LOL! 

Day 28 X - xray
Let me be clear (clear.... get it?? LOL) , the xray is not my own hands. I have had some broken things that would probably show up if I used my own xray. But the message I think is pretty clear (I did it again!) ... these are the hands of a crafter. (at least, I'm pretending they are.) I found the image on the internet, so who knows!

Most of the stamps I used are Heidi Swapp with a few Crafty by Toni and a couple of Tim Holtz thrown in. Printed the xray photo on vellum sticker paper. 

ABC April, 2025 Day 25, V and Day 26 W

I've combined two days again for this one and made this mother's day card. 

Day 25 V - Vintage, Vellum, Vinyl sticker paper

This is a vintage photo of my mom with my grandmother in 1948 (mom was 12) with a vellum vintage photo slide sticker from the newest digital kit by Seven Plaza over the top. The beautiful grunge and distressing is already added so you don't have to add anything else unless you want to. If you look closely, you can also see at the bottom left the vinyl sticker boo boo tape (also a digital kit from Seven Plaza), aka cello tape.

Day 26 W - Watercolor, Washi

To the right side of the vintage slide, there is a piece of washi tape that look like it is part of the frame, and another piece of washi on the left side of the card. The floral background design is painted in watercolor using distress inks and water. 

ABC April 2025, Day 23 T, and 24 U

 As I was nearly finished with my T project, I realized I could combine it with U as I received some junk mail that worked beautifully with my travel tag. So, I have used Travel, Tag, Transparent, and Tassels for T, and for U, I Upcycled this advertisement combining it with Transparent. I love it! 

T - tassels. I don't know what made me think of tassels as it is not even on the prompt list, but I grabbed some ribbons, charms, and beads and thought I'd give it a shot. They turned out better than I expected. I like them. :)

Travel Tag with Transparent sticker paper over Upcycled junk mail. The slide film is a digital file from Seven Plaza (you can find her on ko-fi.com) printed on clear sticker paper. I love how it looks! 

U- upcycle

No need for distressing or grunging up your slide film. Margareth has added all the grunge and distress you need to the file itself. All I did was cut a piece of the ad that I wanted to use and slap the printed sticker over the top. I did add a piece of her boo boo tape (another of her amazing digital files that copies Tim Holtz cello tape) and stamped an old date on it. 

The junk mail I cut the film from. 

Can you believe we are the end of the alphabet already!? I don't know what's going to happen when May comes and there isn't a "class" to attend every day. I may be bored and lonely. LOL

ABC April - bonus post!

I know I already did the specimen slides for today's S prompts, but then I watched Toni's video and had to make more of them. :) She's so inspiring and her ideas are to die for, so here you go...a second post for Day 22 S - specimen slides

I love this long version! Having more room for decorating and adding stuff is the best. I also used my ink dyed acetate for the windows. Thanks for looking! :) See you on Insta

ABC April 2025, Day 22 S

For today's abc challenge, I have created specimen slides. This time, however, I did not use acetate for the windows. I ran across this super simple and quick technique on the youtube channel of Tina Guilbert Ideas & Embellishments and wondered why I hadn't thought of such a simple concept myself! LOL I love them. 

My slide frames are a digital file by Vibe of Vintage on Etsy. I love her digital designs and highly recommend them if you're looking for, well, a vintage vibe. LOL And for the slide windows - packing tape! My goodness, can it get any easier!?? I don't think so. 

These first few are actually stickers, though how cool would it be to add your own pressed flowers. I wish I had some for this, but these realistic paper stickers will do for now. And the moths are another digital file. I'm loving digis more and more. They are so cool because you can print as many as you want and in any size you want as well. These are by Art House Whimsy, called Moths, Moths, Moths. 

ABC April 2025, Day 21 R

Today's prompts are: Rubons, Rolodex, Ribbon, Ruffles, Reinforce 

I added a couple others to my projects. Can you see them all? Hint: rolodex, rubons, ribbon, red, roses, random, repeat. Tbh, I wasn't even going to do rolodex cards, mostly because I don't have any! LOL But I do have a punch (for adding business cards to your rolodex) from way back in my office days, so I dug it out and figured I'd just cut my own cards and punch them. So away I went. 

Hope you like. :) Thanks for visiting!.

rolodex, rubons, ribbon

rolodex, ribbon, rubons, repeat, random

rolodex, rubons, random, repeat, red, roses