WOYWW #534

The desk




I did it!!
I managed to persuade PJ to drive out into the countryside ..... so I could visit Amelia's....
I needed wanted loved those cow stamps, you know the ones ...... DDN would love a card created using one of these images...

Ok..... here's the real shot of my desk!!

I haven't managed to persuade PJ to drive me over for a couple of years so one has to make the most of a visit in person!!!
Thought I would add to my Brusho colours... then a few more stamps fell into my basket .... and some stencils.... some tiny dies along with some flower dies.... and a topper pack....and then I stopped looking at the shelves!!!!
I am sure that you all understand how it goes!
I shall post my creations as and when as I hope to catch up on my blogging activity.
Have a good week everyone
My thanks again to Julia (see tab at top of page) for hosting another get together of desk.

Card Catch up - June, July and August

JUNE
Noobies Swap
Back to my Steampunk roots!   Using up some leftovers on the desk.

A really beautiful heavy card.

Thank you LindaS.

Style swap - Circles

Stamped some circles using a piece of foam.  Image from some wrapping paper.

Gorgeous embossed and coloured card.

Thank you Lucie.

Technique - Fun Fold
Swing fold using the Teddy Bear paper.

Bridge fold in super colours.

Thank you Olive

Colour - Red

Diecuts and peel offs.

Sparkly gel pens used for colouring here.

Thank you Olive

JULY
Noobies Swap

I did so enjoyed using all these stamps from Creative Expressions.

Opening this great card certainly brought a smile to my face.

Thank you Karen.

Style - Floral

Loved this card until I put on the wrong sentiment!!  Hope my partner can do something with it.

More diecuts!!  great minds and all that.

Thank you LaVerne.

Technique swap - Stitched

Still tidying up and still finding stash - this time peel offs.

Beautiful stitching on this card.

Thank you Sheila.

Colour Swap - Multi



Will have to get some more Brushos so I can repeat this card - simple but effective.

Watercoloured 'flowers', whats not to like?

Thank you LaVerne.

SlamDunk Swap - multi coloured, stitched, floral card!!



More stash being used.

Love the frames and that butterfly .... just sitting there...

Thank you Jackie.

AUGUST
Noobies swap

Using one of my Go Wild stamps on a chalk background.

Love the design of this card and superb papers used.

Thank you Lucie.

Technique swap - Make your own background

I spritzed a piece of card with yellow and copper then embossed it while it was still damp.  Very pleased with the result.

Very clever technique of using cellophane.  Love it!

Thank you Olive.

Colour swap - Gold

Shades of purple with diecut from gold card.










I didn't join in with the style card as it was Children's card...... hope to acquire some suitable stamps & dies soon.

Card catch up - March, April & May

It would appear that I haven't posted any details of my card swaps since February ..... could you stand seeing them all brought up to date here?  Nah!  Wouldn't inflict that on anyone ...... maybe a month or two at a time.
Here we go:
MARCH
Noobie swap

My card used some papers and toppers from Making Cards magazine.

A beautiful mixture of peel offs used on this pretty card.

Thank you Sheila.

Colour swap - Pastels

 My card uses some beautiful paper from my stash with peel offs.

Several embossed diecuts laid out on this card.

Thank you ChrisN.

Style Swap - Floral

Pretty and vintage.

 Lots of hard work gone on creating this card.

Thank you Olive.

I didn't join in with the Technique swap as it was Eclipse cards and I don't have any suitable dies.

APRIL

Noobies swap

I love this little piggy image!  I didn't add a sentiment but left a space for one to be added.

This is a gorgeous piece of embossing - love it.

Thank you LindaS.

Colour Swap - Grey

Grey backgrounds brought this card into the right colour.

Love this design!

Thank you Lucie.

Style Swap  - April Showers



I used one of my Lacey Sunshine images for this card.

Beautiful parchment card from the Boss Lady herself!!

Thank you Jackie.

Technique - Matting and Layering

I'm not very good at this so considered this as practice!!

Another bright and cheerful card.

Thank you Olive.

MAY

Noobie Swap

An image from my stash coloured using watercolour pencils.

A very pretty card with a tiny notecard enclosed.

Thank you LindS

Colour Swap - Brights

I found this background in my stash as I was 'tidying up'.  After adding the bright yellow embellishments I think if fitted the bill.

Now this really is bright and I think the words 'Patience' and 'Job' come to mind when looking at the background.

Thank you Lucie.

Technique swap - Peel Offs

I paper pieced this peel off and added a few butterflies around.  Simple but I think .... sweet.

This is a good idea.... peel offs added to vellum and coloured before fussy cutting.

Thank you Jackie.

I give up with Blogger ..... wish I could figure out how to make it stick with the layout I want!

WOYWW #533

Another exciting (and tiring!) week had gone by.  We have visited the same old places but did manage to find a new place to play......
First off the desk....

...it's a wonder there was time for anything here but I did have a calm and crafty Sunday.
I managed to complete the whole of September's swap ATCs and Coins on a really good day!!  (later post).  On my desk you can see this month's copy of Creative stamping has arrived, lots of C stamps, and some printouts of card folds which I intend to try out.
Then we moved into the week proper with all the typical English weather changes.
An overcast showery Wednesday saw us out at Studley

Just playing around and then we drove through the countryside to have dinner ....



.... which was followed by...

Thursday was a much brighter weather wise but we spent the time wandering through Solihull.
Friday was awful, rain was pouring but, luckily, PJ had found another soft play area so we went off on an adventure (yes, another one!!)
This one was H U G E but really good fun.

The whole place was divided up into safe areas....


....the toddler area was interesting for the older children as well!!!
....although the novelty soon wore off and we were off to our own area

GSD is the small shot of orange half way up ......



The rest of the week has been spent trying to persuade these ....

......to stay and play with these!!!

so here's to another eventful week!!!

Hope you all have some fun during the next week.
My thanks again to Julia (see tab at top of page) for hosting another get together of desk.