WOYWW #334

Welcome to WOYWW…the “What’s on Your Workdesk Wednesday”  blog hop created by Julia at the StampingGround,  so hop over there to join the fun.

Despite having a week’s vacation, I squeaked in a pitifully few hours in the craft room.  (Lots of drinking in the Finger Lakes Region/wine country of central NY…but that’s another story!) We did find a stamp store there… Inky Hot Mess in Geneva, NY; opened in July; small, has a few different stamp companies, but shows great promise as she grows.  We helped her along as best as we were able with our funds much depleted from grapey goodness! 

So what we have is the Hand bell Stamp by Inkadinkado I purchased last year, and never had a chance to use.  I’ve colored it with Perfect Pearls and a water brush; just the holly berries, leaves and bells.., so they are just a bit shimmery and they are hopefully drying nicely. They will get die cut into an oval/rectangular shape, and then layered with the red paper up by the inks.  Honestly haven’t gotten much further with thoughts of the finishing touches…

So there is my mess for the week.  Now go visit Julia’s and see what the rest of the Desker’s are up to!  Have a great week everyone.

WOYWW #322

Welcome to WOYWW…the “What’s on Your Workdesk Wednesday”  blog hop created by Julia at the StampingGround,  so hop over there to join the fun.

I had minimal time to craft this week; so I did get to start making all the pieces-parts of one of the cards for the year…design courtesy of Impression Obsession...as they are their dies! (Gotta love the samples at the show booths!) The Peace is from Tim Holtz’s set (as is the Joy..but I keep losing the dot..which is a good reason to get small pearls...).  Now I feel it needs a bit of sparkle...so there it sits waiting for inspiration...or some serious stash-delving time.  I know I have red pearls or gems somewhere!!

The dies are all ones I’m planning on using…so no sense putting them away.  And the list…I think it is the list of Distress Spray Stains I needed…if I were to take advantage of the Simon Says Stamp sale (25%!)  which I wasn’t going to (first new car payment due: Yikes!)…but since I went to the trouble…and I had to go to the site to see if they had red gems…or sequins…and since I received an email saying my order was shipped…I’m guessing my good judgement left me for an hour…

So that’s my desk, now go say Hello to Julia and see what this WOYWW phenom is all about!  Have a great week everyone!

WOYWW #331

Welcome to WOYWW…the “What’s on Your Workdesk Wednesday”  blog hop created by Julia at the StampingGround,  so hop over there to join the fun.

Another crazy week has flown by!  The good news, is with the computers still down (3 more weeks until we get broadband!! Yippee!)  and football season upon us, I have had lots of crafting time.  (not to say I don’t enjoy football; but a certain Carolina team has been winning since I stopped watching…..just sayin’) (and if that jinxed it…any anyone tells my husband why…you’ll be on my list….just sayin’!)

So the desk; more of those crazy birds…I just love them; and the dies (top left) just came through for their crazy things, so more to play with!  And it is official; I have started the Christmas cards; so I have the snowflake and ornament dies out and ran them through to get an idea of what’s what.  And one of the Tim Holtz Christmas Blueprints sets is out, with the tree and snowman being my choice for this year. 

Oh, and one of the girls in our Stamp Club (all 3 of us! LOL!)  shared a template to make a box to hold 5 sets of cards/envies out of one piece of paper, and it took 3 tries, but now I’m pretty happy with the results; so here it is…and I’ll make up a few of these with cards and stamps as gifts for some of my Mom’s friends. 

So that’s my desk, now go say Hello to Julia and see what this WOYWW phenom is all about!  Have a great week everyone!