This weekend seemed busier than usual for me! Although most of it was spent indoors, I felt like I was constantly creating or organizing. Did you have a productive weekend?
One super fun thing I worked on this weekend was a zine! The amazingly awesome company I work for puts out a zine for the employees every quarter. I’ve submitted pages to the zine but, this quarter, I’m lucky enough to be part of the team! Everyone in the company are welcome to submit whatever they want to the zine, and the zine team makes the submissions pretty and puts the entire zine together. I had 4 submissions to work on! This is one of them. I decided to do all the pages digitally, as I have my entire collection of images scanned into the computer, and it’s so much easier to work that way. I had a ton of fun doing each page. It inspired me to get started on another zine!
Envelopes, envelopes, envelopes! I learned a new trick that makes my lift 1000 times easier when it comes to making envelopes: getting the larger sized envelopes, painting/collaging the entire front, and then folding it in half to make a normal-sized envelope. It’s a bit of a waste but I’ve always had so much trouble coming up with something to put on the back of an envelope. Now they are more cohesive and it saves me so much time!
ATCs! When I’m waiting for paint to dry on envelopes, I typically start making an ATC. I switch back and forth while I’m waiting for things to dry. Stephanie inspired me to start doing these little guys. When I was active on Swap-bot, I always wanted to make one but, for whatever reason, they always intimidated me. Anything other than an envelope intimidates me, really. I’m starting to branch out a bit! I have a bunch of little images that are perfectly sized for ATCs.
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Sounds like you’ve been working on great creative projects! I used to write zines too. Aren’t they fun? Will you shate your ATCs on here?
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Zines are the best! Do you have any of the ones you used to do? I’ve only officially made one zine but it was so much fun.
My ATCs are in the last picture! Just two little guys 🙂
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I only kep one copy of each of my zines when I quit writing them. Some of them were pretty teenage and angsty haha.
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Haha! I bet that is fun to look back on, though 🙂 I have a bunch of old journals like that.
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Your company puts out a zine? How cool is that? And I love that first library one…..
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Yes! I work for a really awesome company. It probably helps that we are in Portland, which has a huge zine community!
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Your ATCs look awesome!
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Thanks!
PS: I got your ATC bits! I’ll make something with them this weekend 🙂
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Oooo awesome! I’ve thought for a while now that it would be super cool to produce a zine. Or be part of one. You make the coolest envelopes & ATCs!
❤ Kelsea | Kels Shark
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Yes! Make a zine. It’s kind of intimidating at first. Despite writing letters, and a blog, I really don’t consider myself a writer so my first zine was mostly made up of lists!
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