Hello WOYWW Deskers!
I can’t believe how long I’ve been gone! What started as being away for
work for 2 weeks stretched into eight missed weeks of the “What’s on Your
Workdesk Wednesday” blog hop hosted by the lovely Julia at The Stamping Ground.
At least it wasn’t eight weeks away from my craft room; actually,
I’ve spent more time in there since...well last fall when I was in full
Christmas mode. The reason: my girlfriend got us into a craft show this coming
weekend. So, I have been in a
card-making frenzy for the last 3 weeks.
Yes, I had planned to add other things, like the wine journals, maybe
some mixed media canvases, but nope; all I’ve gots is cards.
And I will only admit this to you, my WOYWW Comrades in Arms,
I think I have too much stuff. For every
evening, I’d sit down at my desk, thinking I can bang out 6-8 cards, and then
be paralyzed with all the possibilities and choices. And all the muttered “Just pick up a stamp
and start” wasn’t doing it-because which inks should I use? Oh, I want to use
the Gelatos...or maybe the crayons. Wait?
the Color Burst powders would be awesome! Grrrrr.
So what you see: A tin of Distress Crayons, which I didn’t
use for the last set of cards, but had to be moved to find my phone. A roll of
painters tape, for my attempt at keeping my Clean and Simple cards clean; didn’t
work…all those fishy cards: those are the pile of rejects. Of 8 panels, only 3
came out CAS. A new tube of Black Gesso,
because I don’t know where the other tube went.
The acrylic blocks are flattening the 3 good fishy cards. There are inky foam applicators spewed
everywhere…Oh, and the box of glue dots I was looking for—hiding in plain
sight.
So that’s me; now go back to the Stamping Ground to
portal off to other creative desks. I'll try to get some photos of the cards as I unpack them, so until next time: Stay
Crafty my friends.
Hi Kim. Oh, how I know that feeling... just sitting there and staring at everything, knowing I can produce something... and it just not happening! Was life always this complicated do you think?!
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Margaret #2
Hi Kim, one of these days I'll get round to getting proper storage for my distress crayons. Those fishy cards look fine to me even with the photo enlarged, so I wouldn't necessarily put them on the reject pile. How about trimming off the white and matting them onto another card. Happy WOYWW Sarah #13
ReplyDeleteI'm with Sarah - I wouldn't scrap your fishy cards either. Black gesso sounds lush. I may be in the market for some one day shortly. There might possibly be a way of tinting some of it brown, but of course I'd have to experiment.
ReplyDeleteI've often neglected my creative corner. Eventually inspiration did grab me. It may happen for you as it did for me one day recently when I was doing the dishes.
;)
Happy WOYWW!
Rose of Rose's Art Garden #31
Happy WOYWW have a great week xx Jan (30)
ReplyDeleteA very creative busy desk... The fishy cards look good to me... Happy WOYWW.... May #10
ReplyDeleteI think those fishy panels look great... maybe you should paint the backgrounds with the black gesso! the blue would really pop. No-one ever has too much stuff. repeat after me! Helen #1
ReplyDeleteI so agree with you, it is possible to have too much stuff which makes it difficult to get started with a project. Have a great crafty week and happy woyww, Angela x11x
ReplyDeleteHi Kim, I do agree, I think we can easily get total block from having so much stuff to choose from! Case of not knowing quite where to start. Late visiting the second half of the list, had real trouble with my shoulder. Have a lovely week, Hugs, Shaz #3 X
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