WOYWW 247

Morning dear crafters and lovely WOYWW friends. I've been missing in action for a couple of weeks. For the first time ever the last time I joined in WOYWW I managed to visit every desk although only managed to leave comments on most!!! I think I wore myself out as I've had to lie down in a darkened room for a while. Only kidding!! I've actually been busy with life stuff and last week was away with some crafty mates.

So....here is my desk this morning...look it's light..and sunny!!!!! Yay that must mean we are heading in a springlike direction at last.

Most importantly I have a cuppa on the go. Santa brought me some distress paints for Christmas that were still sealed up so I have been having a play, not totally successfully, but I've now had a look round the internet and am ready for further experimentations!!!  I will share the results next week. You can see the pile of papers building up on my mat.

Last time I was playing with the Faux Leather technique with kraft card and here is one of the little notebooks that I've made up.

I taught my group at craft club how to do this and they loved it. We are having a "part 2" next time as we only got as far as making the covers last week. The lining and pages still need to be added.  

Right that's me and my desk. If you want to share yours, then pop over to see the lovely Julia, HERE.

Enjoy your Wednesday and I'll be round to see what you've been up too after work.

Happy Crafting.

A cuppa anyone??

Afternoon lovely Bloggers. I hope your week is going along smoothly.

I'm just popping by with another peek from Sheena's new stamps. This time it's cake and a cuppa!! Well I've got the cuppa but forgot the cake!!

I went pretty with this card, something that doesn't come naturally. The images are coloured with promarkers and I made the flowers from uncompressed paper. It's a waste product that my DH brings home from work and I love making flowers with it. It's soft and feels like felt but takes ink and cuts like paper, fab stuff.

Can you believe it's after 5pm and still light. I like these signs of spring!!

Thanks for popping by and happy Crafting!!

A Village Mystery

Afternoon Bloggers. It's been another beautiful day here in Yorkshire. So much so I had to make myself stay in my craft room instead of heading for the garden!! Maybe tomorrow!!

I'm just popping by today with a Sneaky Peek of the new stamps Sheena will be launching on C&C this Thursday at 9am, She has gone down the route of Miss Marple this time with some gorgeous stamps inspired by period mystery stories.

This is one of my favourites.

The background is brushed out Distress ink, hope you are not getting bored of this style, I hadn't realised how much I do it!! The car has been black heat embossed and painted with Poppy red H20, triple clear embossed and decoupaged to make it stand out.

The rest of the Inkoids have created some stunning samples so pop over to have a look if you get a minute. The link to their blogs is HERE.

I'll be back tomorrow with another one so enjoy your Monday evening and thanks for popping by.

Happy Crafting.

A Little Bit Magical!

Afternoon Bloggers. I hope your weekend is going well. Thank goodness the weather seems to have calmed down a bit. It was positively springlike here in Yorkshire yesterday and I actually managed to spend a few hours in the garden and got some washing dry in the breeze too. Can't be bad!

Sorry I've been missing in action for a while. We had an Inkoids Retreat with Sheena last week in Newcastle which was great fun. We tried out some new goodies that will hopefully be coming your way soon and generally had a right laugh. It was lovely to be able to craft in fantastic company in a lovely location. I'm looking forward to the next one already.

So today I thought I'd share a card I made for the last show Sheena did on C&C a week or so ago which she demoed, a great honour indeed.

The stamps are from the "Little Bit Magical" set and I used Walnut Stain and Forest Moss Distress ink for the background and brushed the inked lines out with water and coloured the mushrooms with promarkers.

Well that's me today. I'm off to try out my new Distress Paints. I'll be back to share the results if things go well!
Thanks for stopping by and Happy Crafting!!

WOYWW 244

Morning lovely crafters and dear WOYWW friends. Wednesday again. I hope all my friends in the South have survived the awful weather of yesterday and last night unscathed. It's been very calm here in the North but we keep seeing the pictures on the news. Stay safe.
I have a day off today, yay!!!!!! More desk snooping time. If you want to join in the WOYWW fun then pop over to see the lovely Julia, HERE.

Here is my desk this morning.

Back on the dining table again and two things going on at once! I am playing with the faux leather technique that Sheena demoed on C&C last week using Kraft card and Glycerine. Love it. I've made loads of plain ones but have painted some too. These are all going to be turned into little books ready for pressies when I need one. I've got some lovely fabric to line the insides with.
Here's a close up of the painted ones. I'll share the finished books once they are done.

I am also in the process of making new vertical blind slats from the leftovers from the originals. They have been up for some time and are looking a bit grubby so I thought I'd freshen them up and have enough in the box of leftovers. I just need to make turn ups for the weights to go into!

So that's me today so thanks for stopping by and I'll see you at a desk near you as soon as I've got a fresh cuppa.

Happy Crafting.

WOYWW 243

Morning lovely crafters and dear WOYWW friends. Wednesday again and I find myself a year older this week after my birthday on Monday!!!!

I have lots of lovely new crafty goodies to play with but at the minute my desk is full of Valentine's Day. I need to get some cards made quick sharp for the baskets I have of cards to sell.

I am keeping things simple so there is not really much to see this week. Apologies for the dark state of the photo, it doesn't seem to get light around here often at the minute.

This is one of the finished cards, again the photo is terrible due to the darkness of the day but you get the idea.

Short and sweet from me this morning as I'm flying out the door so I'll see you at a desk near you later on.

If you want to join in with this lovely weekly desk hop that is WOYWW then pop over to see the lovely Julia, HERE.

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Crafting!

Sheena's 4 Day Deal...Gone!!!

Afternoon lovely crafters. Another dark, wet cold day here in Yorkshire. I hope you have managed to find a bit of sunshine somewhere.

I have been enjoying Sheena's 4 day deal programmes on Create and Craft this week and am not surprised that it has sold out so quickly, they really are gorgeous folders. That faux leather technique that she demonstrated yesterday with the glycerine is a must...I've been out for my bottle today so will be playing later!

Anyway, I thought I'd share a couple more cards I made for the shows.

This first one is using the A4 ivy folder and I used the bleaching technique with distress inks and then swiped a versamark pad over the top and gold embossed the raised areas.

And with this one I used the versamark over the embossed card first and black heat embossed and then applied the distress inks over the top before spraying it all with a pearlescent mica spray.

Thanks for stopping by and I'll see you tomorrow for WOYWW, the highlight of the week.

Happy Crafting.

Another Sheena Douglass Sneaky Embossing Peek

Afternoon lovely crafters. I hope you are enjoying your Saturday. It's a great crafting day here with some wild weather outside.

I'm just popping by with another Sheena sneaky peek as promised.

This one is embossed acetate using the Beautiful Arches folder.

I swiped Black Stazon over the embossed area and splodged some silks on the reverse before backing it onto black card and then colouring in some of the detail with a black promarker.

Thanks for stopping by and for all the lovely comments you leave. I so appreciate it.

Happy Crafting.

Sheena's New Embossing Folders

Morning lovely crafters. How is your Friday going? We actually had a quick flurry of the white stuff yesterday afternoon. DD got all excited but it was only a shower but enough to turn the hills white. It's flippin cold out there today again but so far dry.

I'm just popping by to share with you what I've been playing with since Christmas. Sheena has a 4 Day Deal starting on C&C on Monday 27th January. It's my birthday so I shall be able to put my feet up and enjoy all her demos without feeling guilty at not doing something more important for once.

She will be featuring lots of new Embossing Folders that compliment lots of her past stamp sets and they are a joy. I hadn't realised there was so much you could do with an embossing folder until you are challenged to make them the focal point and not the stamps.

Here is my first sneaky peek.

I've used two folders on this one. The pink background is coordinations card that has been sanded but the white panel is more interesting. I embossed the card with the flowers folder, coloured the flowers with alcohol markers and then painted the whole lot with white acrylic paint. You have to let the paint dry thoroughly but I then sanded the paint back to reveal some of the colour. The whole card is then triple embossed. It's a technique I discovered on Pinterest and love.

The flower embellishments are from the big florals set and have been black heat embossed and painted with set 5 of the Luminarte silks.

I hope you like it. I have some more up my sleeve but you'll have to wait until tomorrow.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend.

Happy Crafting.

WOYWW 242

Morning crafters and lovely WOYWW friends. Is it that time of the week again??

Here's my desk this morning, yes still at the dining table. My craft room is still full of DT stuff which needs to be in the post tomorrow so I've been spending as much time as possible in there but on an evening it's lovely to get back to my Project Life for a bit of relaxation when my creativity has maxed out.

The photos are printed out and I have a pile of notes that need to be journalled properly so it just needs putting together.

I would like to point out that Toblerone in the background isn't mine if you were wondering. I'm trying to be really good and have even given up sugar in my tea, not sure what I think to it at the minute but I'm into my second week with only the odd lapse so will try and stick it out.

I also finished the 12x12 scrapbook layout I'd started last week if you want to have a look.

Well, that's me this week. If you want to join in WOYWW and share your desk with lots of lovely people, then pop over to see Julia, HERE.

Thanks for stopping by and I'll see you at a desk near you later in the day.

Happy Crafting!