WOYWW #417

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—our work habits, whether good, the bad and the ugly, and to meet kindred souls. 

My desk this week…the ugly.  Working on two large (out of normal comfort zone) canvas’s for the Wanderlust class.  So…if working on an A2 size card is spaciously challenging…why I thought I could do 2 of these (well, I figured while one layer is drying, move to the other) at one time is boggling.  Yes; there is now paint on the carpet…the wall, and more body parts that I care to admit. 

The piece on the left still has the stencil and mask in place, so as soon as the under layer is dry, I can put a lighter color on top…as this was last night, I’m hoping the stencil isn’t cemented to the surface.  The piece on the right…./shake head.    All the collaged papers that were to go under wrinkled big-time.  Now, your supposed to spray rubbing alcohol over pieces and rub the white paint away revealing the first colored coat….and some of the printed pages.  I’m thinking disaster is awaiting.  There are piles of stencils everywhere.  Yes, I’ve given up cleaning them unless I used Distress or Dylusion’s inks, since they will keep reactivating.  There are  a few piles of stamps hanging out, as well as ink pads, icky paper towels, and a journal sticking out under the long piece. 

And here are two ATC’s I’ve received so far, from GlitterandGlue and ShazSilverwolf!  Lovely! I still have one ATC to trade, so let me know if you’d like it.

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

WOYWW #416: Happy 8th Anniversary Deskers!!!

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.  And it is a very special one today, the 8^th Anniversary!! Congratulations and Thank You Julia!

I started following this hop just after the first year, and have met so many friends, most online, some in person.  This is such a fun way to bring the crafting community together!  So big Hugs to all!

So, on to the whole point of our hop; to share our desks and creativity, and messes, if only so we are not alone! LOL! And this is mine.  This is my mini journal project from the Wanderlust Classes by Kasia Avery.  Can you guess the theme?  What is really sad is that this was just the few butterfly themed items that were randomly piled on my side desk; I haven’t even started going through my drawers and binders for the others:  I should have made a bigger book! LOL! And since this coming week we will be working on the opposite, larger than we usually do, I really want to get this finished before Friday.   

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

WOYWW #415

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. 

Wow...I’m going for a record of bad.  Even my Christmas Card Frenzy doesn’t come close to this horrific mess!  The good news is I’ve been amazingly crafty-busy!  The bad new…is this mess.  Not only is the Wanderlust course from Everything Art keeping me hopping with the weekly lessons, but I’ve also started Dina Wakely’s Ordered Chaos at JeanneOliverDesigns.com.   Oh! And I have 9 ATC’s to swap next week!  Let me know if you would like one!

Last night I was bound and determined to finish my week 17 lesson with Kate Crane working with patchworks.  The second method calls for using scrap papers to make patches.  Yes, I have tons of Gelli printed scrapes and pages (I mean...who doesn’t if you play with a Gelli plate?) But I decided I didn’t like the ones I had, so after finishing the first method, I thought I’d make one  (ONE) print…Four are visible another 3 or 4 are on the floor drying)  The blue one is a base from the lesson that these will go on.  I was going to clean up, (really) if only so I could hit the ground running next time in, but then Dakota came in strongly indicating she needed to go out…NOW!  And it was 10:30! (I’m in bed by 10!) and I didn’t want to have to mop the floor or clean the carpet anytime soon… so downstairs we went.  I can only pray all the caps are tight on the paints!

Here is the first patchwork piece; not my style, but rather fun and freeing, as the sole goal was to play. 

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

WOYWW #414: Brace yourselves!!

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: this is beyond bad, even for me.  But, if given the choice of spending half an hour crafting, or half an hour creating; I gotta go with the creating.  And to further drive myself crazy...in addition to the Wanderlust class at EverythingArt.com, I have just signed on to Dina Wakely’s Ordered Chaos at JeanneOliverDesigns.com.  So, for the next few months..there will be nothing ordered about the chaos in my craft room!

So, my journaling desk:  2 journals with the first mark making exercises from Dina’s course, out to dry for the next step.  Scattered about are neocolor water crayons, distress crayons, Pitt pens…all for making my marks.  The green/yellow squares are the covers of my tiny journal for the Wanderlust course. Grungeboard covered with texture paste and Gelatos.  I’ve decided on butterflies as my subject.  Stay tuned for that. They are sitting on my collection of acrylic paints; which was used over the weekend.  The messy canvas is started with Liquitex Inks, but they weren’t flowing over the canvas; so then I tried adding some marks, and we’ll go from there.  The little white drawer is holding my collection of Gelatos. Some stencils are floating around, and I’ve discovered using plastic disposable paints are the best palettes for me; once the paints are dry, toss them.  I was getting worried about cleaning normal palettes into our septic. 

This is my card making desk.  I had to hide the ATC’s, but envies are started.  I’ll have 9 to trade!! Well, baring a catastrophe in the next week.  Trying to keep spill-able substances far, far away.   

And here are the two journal pages from Week #18 at Wanderlust with Dyan Reavely, working on a quote from Winston Churchill.  My friend Julie came over so we could work on the lessons together…I think the alcohol consumption helped my handwriting…or at least it didn’t hurt!

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

WOYWW #413

Welcome to Wednesday...which translates to "What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday"  the blog hop masterminded by Julia at The Stamping Ground. Where Deskers all around the world open their craft room doors to share a peek.

My desk..as of 2 hours ago...you see pieces prepped for my mini journal for this weeks Wanderlust Art Journaling class.  Not really sure where it will be going...I'm thinking Winged Things...if only to justify some of the huge butterfly and bird stamp and stencil collection. 

The two (barely visible) squares are Grungeboard, that has been gessoed, and is currently drying.  The accordion fold will be the pages.  In the background, the mess that has yet to find a place; the paper trimmer, the new iridescent Gelatos, some stamps sets that need to get put away..some scraps of paper towel and die cuts.  Yup, its a mess...but it fits in with the rest of my life currently.  Ah well.

So now go visit Julia and hop around some less-frightening desks! Have a great week everyone.