MIXED MEDIA MONDAY - Ephemera Folio Flip-Through

They are done!  All fourteen.  The Paperdolls took several pages and the longest to figure out.

As I put this one together, I did come up with a few tips.

My project for FRIDAY FREEBIE is to show my art tool cart completely redone. This is the cart as it looks now and where I want to keep my folios and I'm hoping my punches (at least the most often used ones)

The cart started out as tools on top, paper items on the second then Etsy paperwork on the bottom. I've since bought a cart specifically for Etsy and this became a catch-all. Time to get it cleaned up and useable.

I'm anxious to have the studio in place and being able to show actual Mixed Media projects on Monday again.

Be safe - Creative Blessings!

WOYWW #574

That's all that's on my desk this week.. and will be gone by this afternoon. Exciting stuff? For me it is.

I've spent the past week sorting all of my Tim Holtz ephemera packs from drawers into folio pockets. You can see a bit about that HERE including a video of how I created the folios.

Paper Dolls is the last of them. There are 61 different paper dolls on this table! Geez. I think I have all of his collections - at least those released in the past four years.

Here are the folios I've filled so far from his other collections - 13 in all:

I'll be doing a video flip-through next Monday showing all of the folios and including any tips I discovered a long the way.

That's it for my desk (and story) this week. Who's Miss Julia and why am I here?  When you are done visiting me in the Ozarks, please hop on over to Stamping Ground  for all the details. Miss Julia has a long list of other studios you can peek into. No standing on an up-turned milk pail to look in the window. We open the doors wide and welcome you.  Please leave your number and you'll be among the first on my list. 

Creative Blessings!

~Kelly

MIXED MEDIA MONDAY - Ephemera Storage

Good morning, everyone!

Welcome to June 1, 2020.
Are you like me in finding it hard to believe we are almsot half-way through the year?

Bob will be home a week from this Wednesday. I still haven't finished the studio. Where have the past two weeks gone?

Well, Week 1 - not sure except Friday mail arrived, leading me in to...

Week 2 - Memorial Day was a YouTube binge day for me. The postmail on Friday had me antsy to get through the holiday so I could begin making phone calls.

The postmail? I received a letter denying me unemployment benefits.
But here's the thing... I NEVER filed for unemployment.

I spent three hours on hold every day the rest of the week trying to get through to Unemployment.
I found out from one gal in dearjuliejulie's group that also (as well as several others here in MO) received the same letter. She was able to get hold of UE on Friday and was told to send them a copy of the letter.
I got mine after hours on Friday so I guess by the time I was trying to get through on the phone last week, TONS of people had received the same letter and they were overwhelmed.

Now, I hear some of you saying this was probably a scam letter. Sadly, it wasn't. The letter contained my social security number. Lovely!

So now I'm on the hunt for a reliable security form (like Lifelock) to protect my identity and creating a protection spell. If you have experience with security forms, I'd love to hear your opinion.

In the mean time, as I stated, Bob will be home a week from Wednesday. My plan is to have the studio completed a week from tomorrow. Then I can use Wednesday for general touch-up around the house and not be exhausted when Bob walks through the door.

Here is my Mixed Media cubby. About 97% of the content is Tim Holtz. Though the drawers are large items such as sheets of tissue paper, packaging paper, foam core, chip board, etc. My overall goal here was to be able to get to the little drawer units without having to move a ton of stuff out of the way first.

Part of the items that came off this shelf is at least three more of those small drawer units that were full of ephemera. You'll see in the video (linked below) why I've changed the storage process.

Here is a picture of that vintage jewelry box where I've sorted all of his hardware items:

I'm still finishing up the Ephemera Folios. If you've not seen my process, check out my video HERE from Friday Freebie. I started with each drawer, which was sorted according to Tim's packaging labels and a diagram of how my page layouts would be.

This shows how I sorted the entire Halloween pack in prep for planning out my pockets:

This shows the Christmas ephemera all sorted to a page layout so that I knew how many pockets I would need, thus how many pages I'd need:

Next week, I'll have the final flip-through of the Ephemera Folios. I will tell you, I should have about fifteen once completed. They won't store on the Mixed Media cubby. Instead, I'll be able to keep them next to my work table, accesible as I work on projects. 

Speaking of my work table, there will NOT be a card video tomorrow. I still don't have a work table. I'm not pulling anyything else out until these ephemera folios are finished.

I did not do the May Mayhem Junk Journal Challenge. Today, Julie releases the info for the June Challenge. We shall see....

What are you working on? I'd love to hear from you. Share your favorite tip for organizing ephemera or small pieces. 

Creative Blessings!

FRIDAY FREEBIE - Ephemera Folders

Good morning, everyone!

I'm still in the process of trying to get things straightened out on the personal level. I hope to have things in place so I can better focus on the creative stuff next week.

In the mean time, I've been working on putting together Ephemera Folders to house all the little bits n pieces - primarily my Tim Holtz Ephemera. 

I've put together a video of my process. Later, I'll be posting a video of how many I wound up with and a closer look inside. 

Have a safe weekend! Creative Blessings!