New Year, New Stamps!! HAPPY stamps!!
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Today is Valentine's Day - wishing you a 'love'ly day - show yourself some love - drink you favourite coffee, read your favourite book, eat those reeeeaaaally good chocolates while binge watching your favourite show - whatever would make you feel pampered and loved - do THAT!
Week 6's book has a lovely pretty Valentine-ish feel to it... I didn't intend for it to be like that (it started off with mushrooms!) but thats how it is - and I like it!
I was going through my dies looking for interesting small ones to use in the books and found these fun Sizzix Tim Holtz Funky Toadstools... I didn't think there was mushroom on these small pages for too many.. get it MUCHroom/MUSHroom... oh, don't worry... I'll stop now... lol cute dies aren't they.
Nothing scary about a pink, sparkly, googly-eyed skull! Bet you didn't expect that to come out of the pocket did you?!!
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In front of my desk there's a window ledge, and on that ledge there's a book - the little book that inspired & prompted the #52bitesizedbooks project. The book is roughly the same size as the 52 but has many many more pages...
If you'd like a nosey through the book here's a little video...
If you have any questions pop them in the comments.
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How are you today?
I have been getting all the details sorted for my #52bitesizedbooks project - I've loaded all the 'flick through' videos onto my 'Jo Firth-Young' YouTube channel, and in the future I'll add any bigger 'how to' videos I decide to make. Its all a learning curve, a little challenging, but fun!
If you'd like to visit my channel (and subscribe - that would be great, thanks in advance)... you can find it under 'Jo Firth-Young'.
This is all you need to get started....
Simple!
If you'd like to join me - making however many you like, whenever you like - use and follow the hashtag #52bitesizedbooks over on Instagram - I'd love to see what you fill your tiny books with!
If you have any questions please leave them in the comments.
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I've just about settled into a routine of making and uploading my #52bitesizedbooks.
This week's book has a few die-cuts. To create a quote I die cut letters from pieces of coloured card stock and used the panels on one spread ....
and then used the die cut letters on a second page - it was its own sort of anagram - very happy accident!
Here is 4/52....
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I'm really enjoying making these little books - I've had to stop myself finishing more than one a week!
I'm making little videos of each of them for the blog - these are going to be quite quick - less than 2 minutes (lol there are only 6 pages to show you!) accompanied by a nice soothing soundtrack... I was going to delete the noise of the pages turning but I actually quite liked that sound so I've kept it on... its a nice way to show the details (Instagram Reels only allows 15 seconds!!).
If you have any questions pop them in the comments.
aaanyhoo - here is book 2/52
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Well hello!!
Happy New Year!!!
New year, new project....
Each book measures approximately 2.5inches square-ish - give or take 1/2inch or so - made up of the bits and pieces that I can't seem to throw away because:
* they're interesting
* "aaw I loved this paper and don't want to throw it away"
* it looks useful
* I'd die cut extras
* I like a challenge
These 'books' - more like pamphlets really - are made of 3 pieces of paper/card (may or may not be accurately measured/folded - I'm embracing imperfection) folded in half and stapled in the middle... keeping it simple.
52 books - one for each week of the year... they are the signatures that will build up to be a book - not sure how I'll bind them together - that's a decision for further on in the project... very much depends on how big the project gets...
Well, to be honest, its been beginning to look a lot like Christmas since August when I started a 16 week project - which became known as SEASONAL SUNDAY... I decided to select one of my older Christmas stamps sets each week and demo a card made with that set - I did this for SIXTEEN WEEKS over in my JoFY Jamboree!! Facebook group. (I'm just repeating the '16 weeks' as it was quite a mammoth, but manageable, undertaking!)
I really enjoyed doing the Facebook lives each week - its been a learning curve! Sometimes they had to be rescheduled (Merry Monday, Tinseliscious Tuesday, Wassailing Wedenesday - we started with Festive Friday lol) but I made it all the way to the end! YAY for me lol
It was lovely to connect with people each week and share ideas.
For those of you not on Facebook here are the cards I made....
