WOYWW 521

Oh my word, someone call the Time Police - it really can't be Wednesday again so soon!  It is, and that means a desk hop around the world courtesy of Julia at The Stamping Ground and WOYWW.

Main desk has the start of Father's Day cards for me to take into work and sell.  First idea for a card, so I die cut 7 sets of shapes, might as well do some bulk creating.  I have the idea for design no. 2 but won't be starting on that until later this week.  I received a few ATCs in the post - thank you very much ladies, but my photo doesn't show them - they are just to the left, past my Gold Sparkly Book - close up of that below the desk shot.  I will take a pic of all ATCs after the Crop.

Close up of the Gold Sparkly Book.  It originally had a clear cover but I kept misplacing it.  Now it has a cover that I can spot a mile off!  It's the book where I keep lists of the stamps, Inks, Promarkers, stencil pastes, distress oxide sprays, etc that I have, together with glitter card coloured in with the Promarkers (as featured many moons ago by our "Chief Enabler").  I just stock up on the silver glittercard now, and colour it accordingly.  Plus other useful bits and pieces.

A couple of people asked about the inside of my embossing sample thingy.  So a couple of shots of that.

No side desk shot today, as it is full of a little extra something I have made to bring to the Crop.  Does anyone know how many ladies are going to the Crop?  I hope I've made enough!!

And finally .... a sort of garden shot, but really a pic of our visitor yesterday!    Couldn't believe that he just wandered down the embankment for a munch!  

Have a lovely week, and I'm really looking forward to seeing many of you on Saturday at the Crop!  Heather xx

WOYWW 520 - 10TH BIRTHDAY

Happy birthday to WOYWW - 10 Years old! Thanks to Julia at The Stamping Ground for this marvellous blog link up, and to all the other deskers who make it so enjoyable every week!  For anyone reading who wants to join in, please do so, it's great fun.  I joined in at WOYWW 427 ... and I was made very welcome - (they don't bite).

I took my photos yesterday afternoon, as my craft room is always quite dark in the morning.  I spent the morning having a proper spring clean - polished my main desk as well.  It has never looked this clean since Mr M built it last year!

And a close up of my finished embossing sample thingy.  It looks better in real life:

Side desk, would you believe a little more colouring practice. Some hair styles are too difficult for me to shade correctly, but I like this one ...

I have plenty of ATCs to exchange.  Many will be exchanged at the Crop, but if you want to exchange and you are not going to the Crop, please can you email me your postal address, and I will put yours in the post.  Use the email gadget in the right hand side bar of my blog.

Have a lovely, crafty week.  Please leave a comment so I know you stopped by, Heather xx

Summer is coming ...

Entered in Passion for Promarkers Challenge 493 - Summer is coming

WOYWW 519

I really can't believe another week has gone by so quickly, but here we are on a Wednesday again and time for another tour of crafty desks courtesy of Julia and The Stamping Ground aka WOYWW.

Lots of goodies purchased on Saturday at Happy Stampers - although I was struggling to spend my hard earned cash at first.  But not to worry, like a proper trooper I walked round again and again until my little shopping bag was full of goodies!  And when I got home, I did a bit of online shopping for good measure.  It was great to meet up with Neet, Shaz & Doug and Sarah.  Sarah had one of her cards displayed on the Clarity Stall, so naturally I had to buy the stencil she had used, plus a few others - natural saleswoman our Sarah!   I can't show a pic of all my goodies as I put them all away ready for a crafty session on Sunday.

Desk pic is what we are here for, so ... first up is my side desk - play time with Brushos and Clarity Stencil.  Not to be used for anything, just having a play.  I still couldn't find a guitar stamp, so I used a digital one to finish 2 cards off ready for Fathers Day next month, as I'm having another card sale at work for charity.  The lilac orchids are to finish off some other layered cards I had started.  There is also a shiny new glass mat - for some reason I woke up on Sunday and decided I couldn't live without one, so ordered it online and it arrived Monday!  Now ... what did I need it for??!?

Main desk has another 'experiment'.  I bought a stamp from Inkylicious on Saturday, and tried a few different ways to colour it - Promarkers top left, watercolour pencils top right, and Brushos both bottom pics.  It's the right card for Promarkers, but not for watercolours or Brushos - but I live and learn!  I wouldn't mind but I have 3 pads of watercolour card/paper so I really don't have an excuse for messing up the watercolour sample.  I also thought it about time I put together some colour combinations for hair colouring with Promarkers.  Believe it or not I'm still short of a few colours, so that's next on my shopping list.  However, the shading is coming along nicely.  I also got two cover/card/rings sets on Saturday.  I've used one to make samples of my really big (about 20) collection of embossing folders, which hopefully will prompt me to use them.  My plan during the week is to colour half of each sample with distress oxides so I can see how they look.  Oh, and do something really arty/crafty with the covers.  The beach house card is another trial of a different card.  This one is a smooth coated card from Rymans.  I only did this last night,  but early indications are it looks good, and no bleeding of colours ... I may have found my "go to" card for Promarkers!   Trouble is I now have too much white card for my storage drawers.  I wonder if Mr M would mind if I started encroaching on his office??

Aside from that, I've finished my anniversary ATCs.  Hopefully I've made enough, but if not I have plenty of time to make more as I have a week off work next week - woohoot!  Thanks for stopping by, and please do leave a comment - then I can be sure to stop by your blog.  My visiting will be after work as usual.  Have a lovely week, Heather xx

WOYWW 518

Wednesday again, so time for a trip to WOYWW hosted by Julia at The Stamping Ground.  Now on the one hand my desk has seen some crafting action this week, but on the other hand it's all hidden as I had an idea for ATCs for the anniversary swap, and that idea got converted into a bit of crafting ... and well, what can I say, they are almost finished!   If you would like to exchange ATCs (either by post or at the Crop) please leave a comment and mention this, then I can make sure I have enough.  So, my desk shot ... side desk has the ATCs, so cannot be shown at present. 

Main desk has my first ever attempt at a masterboard ... just an A4 one whilst I am playing, a couple of colouring books and my graphix coloured pens.

Thanks for stopping by.  Please do leave a comment as I love to read them.  As usual, I'll be round visiting afted work today.  Have a lovely week Heather x

WOYWW 517

Good morning all.  Time for another whirlwind tour of desks, courtesy of Julia and WOYWW.

My IT consultant (Mr M) looked into my issues with leaving comments, and he suggested I use a different browser, and that appears to have resolved the problem, so I shall be round to comment on all those desks where my comments were gobbled up by gremlins!  Unfortunately, I am on a team building event today, so will be orienteering and crate stacking amongst other things, and won't be home till late, so my desk hopping will be Thursday.

My side desk has what I am working on at present.  I've been having problems with promarkers bleeding and wanted to work out the best card and ink combination.  I cut pieces of each card type I have, stamped them each with different inks, so ended up with 5 cards x 4 inks- 20 card/ink combinations to try.  Oooh, I felt like a proper crafter like Shaz when she does her reviews of inks and things!  I'm not writing any reviews, just keeping notes of what works best.

I bought quite a few stamps in a sale and embossing folders, and they arrived on Friday, but not yet had a play, apart from using a couple of them on the card/ink samples above. These are on my main desk waiting to be put away.  I love the dotty numbers!

I've been busy writing my list of things I want to buy at Happy Stampers, dreading adding up the costs though!

Please leave a comment so I know you stopped by, and this week I will be visiting as many desks as I can tomorrow.  Have a lovely week Heather x