WOYWW 227

Morning WOYWW friends. I nearly forgot it was Wednesday this week. It surely can't be a whole week since we last desk hopped around. I'm sure someone pinches a few days each week they seem to go faster and faster. Anyway, luckily I did remember at the last minute but you'll have to excuse the brightness of my pics as it was very early when I took them and still dark!!

There's not much to see on my desk this week, I'm just revamping some old cards I discovered in a box that will be fine with a makeover so I thought I'd step back and show you my complete crammed in little space. As you can see it's totally full, although after my tidy up I have managed to get my craft trolley stored away under the desk instead of living in the doorway where I fell over it everyday. I also have to store my washing basket under there, thankfully empty which means I have done my housewifely duties for this week, phew!! As long as I still have room for my knees under the desk all's good.

This is the other side of the desk to the one you usually see. My lovely DH built me the ink storage unit out of my DD's old cabin bed, waste not want now!! The rest of it is currently holding up our porch...but that's another story!!

Before I go I can share with you now one of the DT cards I was working on last Wednesday. I'm really pleased with this. The main image is stamped with Distress inks and brushed out with water but the rest of it is done with real watercolour paints!! My WOYWW friend Sandra De does some stunning watercolour art and she inspired me to have a go, baby steps as yet but I shall definitely do more.

Right , that's me today so don't forget to join in with this wonderful world of desk hopping by visiting the lovely Julia, HERE and I'll be round to see what you've been up to later in the day.

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Crafting.

Don't You Just Love Poppies?

Evening folks. I hope your week has started well. We are being well and truly spoilt with this wonderful weather aren't we? Although it sounds like we have to make the most of the next few days judging by the weather forecast.

I spent the wet days last week cocooned in my craft room having a lovely play with some stamps I'd almost forgotten about. Sheena will be on your screens on C&C this Saturday 12th October revisiting some of her older stamps, amongst them the Poppies and Daisies and the beautiful Church. The Lakeland Silhouettes are also due to make an appearance.

I combined the Poppies with the Church for this sample. The church being stamped in Walnut stain and the colour pulled out with water. I then distressed the edges with scissors and added stamping and water blobs to age it. All the backing papers are stamped with the Ageing Beautifully set except for the embossed piece. The poppies are painted with Poppy H20, what else??

There are always so many beautiful new stamps to tempt us that we forget about the ones we already have. I have thoroughly enjoyed revisiting these and will share some more during the week.

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Crafting.

Edit-I've had a question in one of the lovely comments you've left from a lady called Annette. I can't track her blog to reply personally so hope you call back here so that I can answer your question. The poppies on this card are embossed with black embossing powder on scrap card, painted with H20's, cut out and stuck on with 3d glue. I haven't used any acetate overlays although I know Sheena did when she made her version of it. I hope that helps and thank you for your interest, I really appreciate it.

WOYWW 226

Morning lovely crafters and WOYWW friends. It was an absolute delight to be back amongst my WOYWW friends last week. Thank you so much for welcoming me back into the fold again, I hadn't realised how much I'd missed being part of this lovely desk hop each week. If you haven't discovered this amazing group of people yet, then please pop over to see our Desk Headmistress, Julia, HERE.

My desk this morning, well yesterday afternoon to be honest, but it hasn't changed any.

I have been trying a new technique using the Luminarte Primary elements. It was something recently demonstrated by Sheena Douglass and I've been dying to have a play. It's ages since I've made something just for the fun of it so this MDF cog is going to become something....watch this space. I have some vellum flowers cut and plan to use the Julie Nutting Prima doll stamp on it but I have some DT work waiting so will have to come back to this later in the week.

Here's a close up, the shimmer and shine is amazing.

Last week I mentioned I'd been tidying up my craft room to make space for a new 12x12 cabinet so here it is in it's new home.

And this is how it started life after DH had kindly sanded it down for me.

You can see what colour it was originally though, not pretty. It had been a pastel display cabinet at my local craft centre and they were selling it off at a bargain price. I'm dead chuffed with it, it's taken all the 12x12 paper I have and I have a lot!! It also houses my rubbish bin at a perfect height to my desk.

Well that's me for today so thanks for stopping by and I hope your Wednesday is a happy one. I'll be back after work to have a good nosey round some desks.

Happy Crafting.

WOYWW 225

Morning lovely crafters and WOYWW freinds. I'm back...phew it's been months since I was present for the the WOYWW register, did you miss me?? I'm afraid summer hols and the stunning weather we've had over the last few months have kept me away from all things crafty and the computer but now that autumn has arrived I'm back in residence in my craft room and enjoying playing with inks and paper again.

If you want to join in all the WOYWW fun then pop over to see Julia, HERE. 

Here is my desk this morning.

I'm making a card for my lovely neighbour who is a surrogate Grandma to my daughter and looks after us in many ways. She adores Poppies so it was a no brainer what sort of card to make her.

I spent last weekend tidying up my craft room and making some room for a new cabinet I've just acquired to keep all my 12x12 papers in although you wouldn't think it to look at this photo, why do we always surround ourselves with all the stuff we are using, I think it must be a bit like a comfort blanket.

Here is the finished card.

Right, short and sweet from me as I'm off to work in a minute so I'll be round to have a good catch up with you all later.

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your Wednesday.

A Layout at Last

Afternoon folks. I've been busy in my craft room today with the radio on listening to all the fantastic weather around the country and feeling gloom as we have sat under cloud all day for the second day on the trot. Yesterday morning was fantastic but by 10am we were back in the cloud. If you've got the sunshine send a bit up North...pretty please!!!!

After all the sample making for Sheena's brilliant POW that lasted all of 4 days!! I had a pile of scraps from the gorgeous paper pad left so thought I'd use them up on a layout. I haven't scrapbooked for ages so really enjoyed creating this. The photo was from the retreat we went on up in Newcastle back in May and it brought back such happy memories.

Sheena kept whipping her camera out and Diane was insistent that she needed to put some lippy on before any photos were taken.

I stamped the background with some of the Oriental stamps and distressed the edges but everything else is from the lush paper pad.

Hopefully, fingers crossed I will be back tomorrow for WOYWW, I am having major withdrawal symptoms after missing it for months so I'll see you there.

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your Tuesday evening.

A Flurry of Blossom

Evening folks.

Just one more sleep before Sheena hits our screen with her Pick Of The Week. She showed a photo of all the demos she's got planned for the next week on her Facebook page today and it looks like we are going to be in for a treat, there is a huge pile of them.

Here's my sneaky peek for today. If you are regular visitors you'll have seen this technique before but it's my all time favourite and works with so many stamps, I love trying out new colour combinations.

H20's have been used for everything from the water sprayed background to the stamped flowers. They give an amazing shimmer.

I finished the card by black embossing the beautiful verse and Flower symbol and the edges. The blossoms build up so well you could make this as big as you wanted. I might have to try it again on a larger scale to go in a frame.

I hope you've managed to catch up with the rest of the Inkoids, their work is absolutely amazing, we have such talented crafters and artists on the team.

Thanks for stopping by.

Sneaky Peek of Sheena's Pick Of The Week!!!!

Afternoon folks. The sun's out, hurray!!! They are even promising a bit more summer next week. Happy Days.

Just popping by with some big news. Sheena's Pick of The Weekend has grown into a Pick of the Week which is very exciting. Her first shows are this Friday, 12 noon, 3pm and 5pm so I hope you can catch one.

My sneaky peek today is from another beautiful plate which has a huge weeping willow.

I stamped it in various blue distress inks and triple embossed it to make it look like a tile. The embossed water panels were painted with Rainy Days Radiant rains and have a lovely shimmer which the photo doesn't pick up unfortunately. I love this water embossing folder, it's one of those that will look good with any sort of stamp I think.

Well, that's me for today so thanks for stopping by. I hope your week is going well, only two more days until the weekend, where do the days go too?

Happy Crafting

A Bit More Oriental Peeking

Evening folks. I hope you've had a good day. It's been miserable here, cold and wet, so I've made the most of the weather and been holed up in my craft room all day trying to create some order from the chaos.

Before "Bake Off" starts on the TV though I thought I'd better share my next sneaky peek of Sheena's new Oriental collection which she will be launching as a Pick of the Weekend this Friday. The first show is 8am and there are plenty more over the three days, although I have a feeling these stamps won't hang around for long, they are gorgeous.

For this one I used Mown Grass and Salty Ocean distress inks. I love this colour combination. The flowers were bleached out with water and then re painted with pearly H20's. I rubbed a little bit of distress ink over the embossing folder to pick out the design.

The rest of the DT have created some stunning work and if you want to have a look pop over to Sheena's website HERE where you can find a link to everyones blogs.

Thanks for stopping by.

A Sheena Sneaky Peek

Morning folks. Hope you are keeping warm today. Our heating came on for the first time this morning so it must be chilly. At least the sun is shining in between the showers so it's not all bad.

Sheena has been keeping her team of Inkoids very busy lately, hence my lack of blogging activity. She has a big launch on C&C this Friday of a stunning set of new stamps, all Oriental in style, along with embossing folders and gorgeous papers. They have been an absolute joy to work with and the team have created some stunning samples.

Here's a first sneaky peek at one of mine.

I used the blossom stamp, which has become a firm favourite along with the blossom and water embossing folder and some matching paper. The background was created with a solid blossom stamp on the same plate and some H20's.

I will be back later in the week with some more so thanks for stopping by and Happy Crafting.

A Bit More Tangling

Afternoon folks.

Looks like autumn has arrived now. It's turned really chilly hasn't it? I've even had to put some soaks on.

I've been spending the last couple of weeks deep under a pile of DT work that I can't share with you yet, but after my last Zentangle attempt, Sheena asked me to do a couple more for her Create and Craft shows this Saturday, 11am and 5pm which will be featuring the gorgeous Floral stamps that were launched a few months ago.

These are what I came up with.

Still not sure I have the patience to do zentangling on a regular basis but it certainly passes the time, the hours flew!!

Rest assured I am definitely back with the inks and paints now and am a very happy girl.

Thanks for stopping by.