WOYWW 430

Good afternoon all,

I am enjoying my WOYWW touring all your lovely desks and seeing how creative you all are.  I feel like the nursery school kid tagging along with the big kids!  Everyone has to start somewhere though 😏.  My desk has had a busy bank holiday weekend!

Last week I had die cut and stamped a lot of baby clothes ready to make into cards.  Sad to say, I binned all the girl clothes, as they didn't look right.  I did put together the bones of one card.  You can see it in the centre of the pic balancing on the keyboard.  It's not finished, as again, it doesn't look quite right.  It may be confined to the UFO box for a while!  I did manage to finish one baby boy card but nothing to do with the clothes line!

To the left of my desk is my little drawer that holds all my sticky pads, and glue dots.  Under that is a pink photo album, where I have images of all my stamps (well not quite all, it is a work-in-progress).  There are 3 white cones with some green foil, which at some point is a little project for me and my grandsons for Christmas.  To the right is the embossing folder and flower stamp I used on the retirement card, and the packet of baby clothes dies/stamps.  Next to the green mat is a new die that I bought last week when Mr M took me to Inspirations after my hospital appointment.  They have a little coffee lounge where he reads the news, while I browse to my hearts content.  I used the die cut on the pink card (close up below) which is for a lovely lady at work who is retiring tomorrow.  I haven't finished putting it all together, but you get the idea of what it should look like.  It's on pink pearlescent card, I added the black leaf scroll from the new die, and pink pearlescent flowers that I have added black glitter to the middle.  I hope she will like it.

I'll be back soon for my tour of your workspaces.  Please leave a comment when you stop by, I do love to read them.  Have a lovely afternoon. Heather x

WOYWW 429

Up bright and early today as I have to go into work! I will do my WOYWW tour this evening or on my day off tomorrow.

I bought a baby clothes line stamp and die set this week.  I am planning on making several cards ready for all the pregnant ladies at work.  So I've been practising stamping the little die cuts.  Perfect way to use up scraps. They are on top of a white scrapbooking album that I plan to use as a wedding album, when I get round to printing out our wedding photos!  I was also inspired by Shaz and a few others to clear out most of my UFO box. 3 cards finished, which can just about be seen in the top LH corner of my desk.  2 cards left in my UFO box, which are both decoupage.  All cut out ready to layer together. And I gave in and started preparing for my first few Christmas cards.  I have a few die cut toppers that are gorgeous, and some stamps i have coloured in with watercolours, but not finished yet. Last year, I left it till November time and then a mad rush, but fellow deskers, you have convinced me to start early.  I also bought a few items on eBay and they arrived this week, on the RH side of my desk, but not had time to put them away.  The tattered lace shoe looks lovely! Not sure what I will do with it!  Have a wonderful week and thanks for visiting.   Please leave a comment and I will be sure to know you stopped by. Take care, Heather xx

In my Garden "Blooms and Bees" by Heather Marshall

I love my garden, so this card was easy for me to make.  A row of plant pots, yep, I have those (in abundance), and some beautiful flowers.  Now if only it would stop raining ...

The plant pot image is digital and was on a Crafters Companion CD.  I coloured the pots in with various watercolours, and then added different flower stamps from my collections.  A cute bee and a cheery sentiment finished the card off.  I then mounted the card on to black card.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Moving Along with the Times - things beginning with letter B
Try it on Tuesday - In my Garden
The Flower Challenge #11

Blues and Greens by Heather Marshall

I had a lovely sheet of map paper, and wanted to create a masculine card.  I printed out a classic old ship picture on white card, and distress inked the edges in blue.  I then mounted this on to a dark blue metallic paper.  I mounted the square of map paper onto the same dark blue, and cut a tag out of it too.  I used a Good Luck sentiment and stuck this on to the tag, and used two green brads to attach the mounted sentiment to a contrasting strip of card.  I then attached the ship and the sentiment to the map.  A simple, but effective card.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Country View Challenges August 2017 - Blues and Greens

Catch - Heather Marshall

This month's challenge from Lavinia Stamps is a Blues and Orange Hues.  My entry is a card made on white linen, 3 inked orange squares, surrounded by faded blue which has been spritzed with water to lift some of the colour.  The fairies are all playing catch, with balls which are orange stick ons.  I stamped bluebells in the bottom corner in grey, and maple leafs in the top corner.  To jazz the card up a little I added some silver link chain edging around all the squares, and distress inked the edge of the card, before mounting on black card.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Lavinia Stamps Monthly Creative Challenge - Blues and Orange Hues

WOYWW 428

Hello all

Wednesday again?  I enjoyed my first WOYWW last week.  On my desk today I have the start of four cards that are pretty much the same - apart from the colour of the backing paper and the sentiment.  I need 4 male cards over the next couple of weeks - two birthday, one retirement and one good luck card.  As the men don't know each other, I thought might as well batch make some!  I had a nice sheet of French map paper that I wanted to use, so sat about waiting for inspiration!  I tried circular cut outs for the ship (can see them top above the cards), but although I had a nice circle die to cut the ship, the backing circle was hand cut and looked a bit rough.  I have amassed quite a few dies in the past 21 months - but nesting dies are very few and far between!  Square shapes I don't need dies for 😊  The stamps on the shelf are from my grandsons visiting at weekend.  They wanted to make cards for mummy and daddy.

I do have quite a bit of storage space - it's desk space I am short of - hence the propped up keyboard!  On my journeys around your desks, I see most people have a separate desk/table for crafting, away from the PC.  I have the perfect table in another room - it tilts up for when I am doing a jigsaw, or in a colouring/painting mood ... only problem is I'm not sure I could fit it in this room.  So my craft supplies are in one room and my perfect table in another.  Hmm - thinking cap on - I need to come up with a solution!

How many attempts did it take you lovely crafters to get your ideal craft room?  Or are you still working on it like me?

I'll start my tour after lunch.  Thanks for stopping by.
Heather x

WOYWW 427

What's on Your Workdesk? Wednesday 427

Good morning all,

Please be gentle - I am new to blogging as well as WOYWW.  I have been sneaking peaks at your workdesks since I stumbled across Julia's blog.  I don't know anyone who makes cards, so look to the internet for inspiration and kindred spirits.  I started making cards whilst I was recuperating after an operation in Nov 2015.  Now I am kind of recuperating again.  I am on a phased return to work after a long absence, and am therefore home alone every Wednesday ... and can craft and browse the internet to my heart's content.  Well not quite heart's content - my bank account doesn't appreciate crafting as much as I do :) 

My workdesk has two cards I finished making this morning - a fairy one, for my daughter (which does have a rather odd row of flowers on the bottom - but I stuck the DS tape on the wrong side of the die cut, and didn't quite know how else to fix it!).  As I said, I haven't been crafting long!  The other card with a butterfly was me trying out ink dusters to see what they looked like, and it evolved into a birthday card.

To the left is my ribbon storage box (formerly a champagne box), and behind the cards under the shelf are my butterfly box (current projects), and green studded box (rubber stamps - I don't have many).  My distress inks are on the shelf - out of reach of my young grandsons who use my craft room as their bedroom when they come for sleepovers.

I look forward to visiting all your workdesks after my lunch!

Best wishes, Heather x

PS:  I hope I got the linky thing right!  If not, I will try harder next week!

Thanks for visiting and your kind comments.  I will get round all the workdesks, but comments may take a day or two!