Wednesday, March 22, 2017

WOYWW #407

Welcome to the “What’s on Your Workdesk Wednesday” blog hop hosted by the lovely Julia at The Stamping Ground, where we open our craft rooms up to have you peak at our desks. 


Ok, not the shot I thought would be my last foray into the craft room, as this was from Sunday; but it is what it is. The light is from the window, and with the time change...and sunshine, and lack of a blizzard from earlier in the week (26 inches of snow on March 14!! Record!) I didn’t realize it was already 5:45, and I hadn’t started dinner.  Heaven forbid! At least those pieces better be dry when I get in there this weekend! LOL!  I’m just hoping I have all the lids tightened and snapped close.  I’m sure that brush is a gonner.

So this is all pieces/parts from the Wanderlust class.  This week involved soldering, wires, fabric; all of which I have none of.  So I was hoping to drop back and punt, as it were, by making grungeboard look like soldered metal.  And I’ll use tissue to wrinkle up like fabric.  And today is Wednesday, I have a board meeting/dinner tonight, and Friday has a whole new lesson.  Chance of getting this done? 0! LOL! 

The grungeboard sheets are splayed out, the Tim Holtz book, Compendium of Curiosities Vol. 3 is reacquainting me with the Eroded Metal technique.  I was watching the Wanderlust lessons on the iPad. (and as it is my work iPad, good thing I remembered it was here, as it has all my meeting materials for today and tomorrow! That would have been bad...) All the ink and paint bottles are on the cover of my art journal in an attempt to flatten the page I had been working on earlier.  The striped pages are painted backgrounds that get cut up for the painting technique the week before. 

And at the very tippy top left, the rainbow stripes, are  some water brush pens.  I was intrigued with Dyan Reaveley’s tip to fill Tim Holtz’s water brushes with her spray inks to paint with.  But his brushes are expensive.  These are from Michael’s, cost $8, but…eh.  Tried on a few different types of papers, and so far, not impressed.  And honestly, it’s not because of the limited colors!  So, time to start prowling the Michael’s with those sale coupons to acquire of Tim’s water brushes.  Unless any of you Deskers would love to share their fave brand? 

And here is what is getting flattened (I hope)…another try at the Intuitive Painting.  Still think it’s a mess, but it is pretty darn fun!


So that’s me; now go back to the Stamping Ground to portal off to other creative desks.  Stay Crafty my friends.

Wednesday, March 15, 2017

WOYWW #406

Welcome to the “What’s on Your Workdesk Wednesday” blog hop hosted by the lovely Julia at The Stamping Ground, where we open our craft rooms up to have you peak at our desks. 

The last 6 weeks have gone by in a blur, and while I’ve been really busy crafting, I’ve been too busy to get my photos on the computer to post…but because of a snow day yesterday, I was able to do both! 



While I’ve been catching up on my card making, my main focus has been on the Wanderlust 2017 art course.  This past week’s lesson was on “Intuitive Painting”.  Hmmmm, anything that requires that much practice can’t possibly be called intuitive….just sayin’.  And while I didn’t like my piece at first, it sorta grew on me yesterday, after I added some text from the poem on the Moody Blues “Day’s of Future Past” album.  Probably the only poem I know by memory.  So then I decided, and again, for practice, to try another piece.  Epic fail.  But what you see are the pages you create for the cut-out parts.  And those are kinda fun.  Distress Paints and Liquitex Inks lend themselves brilliantly to showing motion.  So they are sprawled on my journaling desk, awaiting my next foray into the craft studio.  The brushes are clean...the mug and water holder--or what ever you call your dirty brush water thingy--did get carried out as I was leaving...and the M & M's...empty...  

Oh, and here is the first piece.  And while it still looks like one hot mess, it has grown on me!


So that’s me; now go back to the Stamping Ground to portal off to other creative desks.  Stay Crafty my friends.