WOYWW #334

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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!

WOYWW #330

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.

OK; things are getting out of hand!  This is my favorite time of year, and it is just flying by….somebody make it slow down!

 Doesn’t help that last week was particular bizarre; bought a new car; went to pick it up, but there was a problem with the camera/screen unit; so I had a loaner for the week; on a day-by-day basis.  Then on Tuesday my Step-son calls to say he and his fiancé are getting married…Saturday.  Yes...4 days! Very simple and nice; with no drama…so probably the best decision ever. 

So here is the desk, with the stencil’s I’ve been working with for building up the card stash, and some of the quirky sayings stamps I got at the show in June that I finally mounted on ez cling.  These came from Lost Coast Designs, with sayings like “You can’t get into the Ballet with a lacrosse stick and a bag of rats” and “Blessed be the cracked, for they shall see the light of day” Above those are my Crazy Birds, colored and all cut out and waiting to get placed on cards. And stacked everywhere are a few of my sayings stamps that I’ve been using on the card stash. 

Here is the wedding card I made for Matt and Rachel, as well as one of the Crazy Bird cards…

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 #328

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 swear I don’t know where the time is going! We’re almost through my 2^nd most favorite month…

So, a quick shot of my desk as I’m running around opening windows before work; I was busy over the weekend, trying to build up a stash of cards for the craft fair.  Unfortunately, 3 sympathy cards I’ve made I’ve needed to send out this week.

So what you see; the pink paper up front is one of the alcohol ink ombre backgrounds I’ve made; there were 10 of those; so much fun!!  Then the pile of a few card/envelope sets waiting to get put neatly in the box.  Some ink pads lying around, and my scrap paper.  Angry bird dies still out; I’m maximizing my time by water-coloring them on my lunch hours—actually very therapeutic!!  My staff thinks I’m nuts! LOL!   A few stamps that have to go back in storage…

Oh, and the glass…I can’t believe I left it behind Sunday…it is an apple-black current wine from Fly Creek Orchard--very yummy;  I know, not a wine glass; but I figured the beer glass was more stable/durable for the work desk.

And 2 quick shots I had taken of the cards I’d been working on….

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 #327

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 Wednesday almost slipped by me! It is crazy how time is flying by right now!  So a quick picture this morning (lucky I had to go shut the windows or I would not have remembered! So real quick; some cards I’m working on for the craft fair; Thank You Pinterest!!!!  I’ll try to take pictures for next week.  Some watercolor papers are under the blocks hopefully flattening out.  And the crazy Bird Dies, which will be used on the next round of craft fair cards.

I know I said I’d start Christmas; and I did…sorta…I went through my Stamp Stash, selected 8 stamps (shockingly, 5 have never been inked….well, ok, not that shockingly…but if you don’t get them when you see them, they could be gone for good!) and even with Christmas music on I just couldn’t get into the mood…I’m sure the hot humid 93 degrees had something to do with it…

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 #326

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.

Wow, work is crazy; completely missed that it was Wednesday last week, and I almost did the same today.  Nothing much on the desk; I had a real clean-up over the weekend; then just did a quick project which is scattered about.  So you see: Front and Center: my new Ground Espresso Distress items which arrived Monday.  There is a ribbon bookmark from one of the women in the Stamp Club, who sent it with the folded paper on the right, which are directions on making a box to hold 6 cards and envelopes for gift giving.  It will be a project on a club night.   The card is a sample I made for the Craftsy class: “Wild Cards: 21 techniques with favorite supplies.  This one used stencils…pretty cool…

 

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!