Letterboxing with AdventurousAcorn

We are almost a week out from the first of December, and it means that Carve December is quickly approaching. It seems like the perfect opportunity to revisit the product of Carve December in 2021. Carve December is hosted by Julie Fei-Fan Balzer @balzerdesigns on Instagram. Every day, you carve a stamp based on a prompt and share it on Instagram. It's an excellent way for the stamp carving community to gather and carve together. It's kind of funny how different everyone's brains work, and it really shows when you look back at what everyone's made. Last year was the first year I participated, and I'm looking forward to playing again this year. You can see last year's prompts by clicking on this link.  The images below are my final product in order of the day for 2021. My favorite of the carves would probably be day 9's carve: Jovial. It's a rather simple image, but it fits the prompt well. It's a beautiful flower and every time I look at it, I feel ...

  My mom is a second-grade teacher in the Stafford County Public School System. She loves teaching, even though parents and some kids can be difficult. I've made her a stamp before with a Monarch butterfly that read "Loveday" above it. That used to be her last name, but last year, she remarried, and her last name changed to "Bowles." She uses the stamps for her classroom books, and to mark items in her class as hers. It prevents confusion, especially at the end of the school year when she has to pack. She requested I make her a new Bowles stamp a few weeks ago, and I'm ready to share the final result! Though she only requested one, I decided to deliver two. The first, of course, is the Monarch butterfly. This image is different, however from the previous one because the name is displayed in the middle of the butterfly and not the top. It's much more elegant compared to the previous one (which was my first time seriously attempting lettering, by the way.)...

I've recently started my fifth logbook! and it means it's time to make the next logbook so that it is available when I need it. My current logbook is a resin, color-shift dragon eye cover book that I made myself using mold, resin, and mica powder. I bound the pages together using a Coptic stitch and green waxed thread. I'm going to be using the same stitch on a Flamingo Party Logbook that I'll be making but will be making a different style cover than I had used for the Dragon Eye Logbook. For this project I will be using the following materials: 65lb Cardstock Paper (doesn't have to be white);  for the signatures Waxed Cotton Round Cord for Bookbinding; for the Coptic stitch Bone Folding Tool, optional; can make folding the papers easier Decorative Paper at least 7x10 and Flexible Enough to Fold Cooperatively; for the cover ThunderBolt 5.5 x 8.5-inch Chip Board;  To make the cover sturdy  Single Piece of Decorative Paper, optional; for the book spine decoration Tack...