WOYWW 373

Morning lovely WOYWW friends. I hope I find you well this Wednesday. It feels great to be visiting Julia again to link up, not that it wasn't a pleasure to visit Jan too. If you want to join in with this global desk hop then pop over to see Julia, HERE. 

I'm afraid my desk is a bit bare today. It was far too hot to do any crafting last week and it was Mum's 80th Birthday on Thursday so we were out and about at the weekend. Hopefully I'll get some crafting done later today. I've got a list of jobs that need doing pegged to my ink holder and not many of them have been crossed off yet!!

The postie brought a lovely bit of Happy post the other day. Elizabeth kindly sent me a lovely card and some pink Aquilegia seeds after I admired a photo she posted on Facebook a few months ago. I shall enjoy growing them and will always think of her when they flower.

I haven't any craftiness to share with you but my daughter's class had a go at henna painting on each other in the last week of term and she came home delighted with what her friend had done for her.

And just to show you I haven't been completely lazy over the last few weeks, here's how the garden's looking at the moment. I love this time of year when the roses are all at their best.

Well, that's me today. I shall be round to see what you've all been up to as soon as I've made a cup of tea.

Enjoy your Wednesday and Happy Crafting!

A Little Bit Of Sheena Douglass Inspiration

Morning. I hope I find you well this Monday morning. We have just started our 6 week summer holiday, there are advantages to working in a school sometimes, so it's a lovely feeling so have lots of time for some craftiness.

My fellow Sheena Douglass DT team mates and I, the Inkoids, will be doing some Inspirational Posts using some of Sheena's older stamps every Monday and Thursday from now on. It's great to revisit them, they come out all fresh again.

It's my turn for the inspiration today and I'm afraid I'm starting with Christmas, now don't all groan!!!!!

This card uses the stamps and dies from last Christmas but uses some new techniques I've been playing with inspired by a Dutch lady, Hermine Koster. I love the way she layers up her background with ink and stencils and then adds the stamps on top. It's quite a liberating way of working.

Here's a brief 'how to' for this card. I put Peacock Feathers and Dusty Concord Distress Inks onto my glass mat one at a time, added water and smooshed the card through, drying in between each colour. I find it's easier to control the colours doing this. I used the same colours to stencil through some of Sheena's stencils, but you can use what ever you have. I also stamped some of the words from the Christmas set in the background.

Next, I stamped the baubles in Watering Can Archival ink and painted them in with Dusty Concord, masked them off and stamped the ivy corner around them, again in Dusty Concord.

Lastly the holly was die cut, stamped with Perfect Medium and silver heat embossed and painted with Peacock Feathers. Silver gilding wax was applied around the edges of the card and I used the Dusty Concord to create my matting layer. So all in all I used 3 inks and some embossing powder. It just goes to show you don't need lots of product to create a card.

Next Monday my Inkoid teamy, Nicole, will be doing another Inspirational post, so if you want to have a look at what she's been up to, you can find her at nicolebretherickdesigns.blogspot.com.

Enjoy the rest of your Monday and Happy Crafting!

WOYWW 371

Morning lovely WOYWW friends. Sorry I've been missing for the last two weeks. I fully intended to join in last week but got involved in Wimbledon and the day was done before I realised it. Still only two more weeks to go before we break up for the summer hols so I will have no excuse to be with you every week then!!.

So here's my desk as of yesterday afternoon.

Notice that rare thing shining through the window, we haven't seen much of it lately. A changeable summer the weatherman called it!!
I have been having a lovely time experimenting with lots of new things lately and those weird looking things standing to attention are a jar and bottle that have had the Powertex treatment. I was plucking up courage to put some colour on them, which I did first thing this morning and this is how the bottle has turned out.

Not too bad for a first attempt but I've learnt loads doing this one and have lots of ideas for future projects now.

I've also had a canvas on the go inspired by an article in this month's Craft Stamper magazine where the pieces of wood you get with canvases were turned into beach huts. I have loads of these stashed away so was delighted to find a use for them. My dear hubby cut me some roof pieces for them and this is it finished.

Well, that's me this week. If you want to share your desk too, then pop over HERE and get snooping, it's great fun.

I shall be round to see what you've all been up to after work so enjoy your Wednesday and Happy Crafting!