What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday

Been a long while since I blogged, so easing myself back in gently with and old favourite over at stamping ground blog.

A very messy desk with my attempts at starting to do a card in a box started very late a night, not a good idea.The layout is from a kit I've had for a while but not got around to finishing, will blog details later.

Whats On Your Workdesk Wednesday

Well that week has flown by, a good week with my blog candy win, see previous post.

Here's what is on my desk today, rather a lot, I am in the process of making the wedding card post box for my sister's wedding.

Wedding plaque completed that was a bargain from Dunelm Mills, I have just recovered the original wording. Now in the process of making the flowers and leaves to attach the the wedding card postbox.

Happy wednesday everyone.

BLOG CANDY WIN

This is the lovely blog candy I won over at www.getcreativewithtraci.co.uk thanks Traci, really looking forward to delving in and using, love Stampin Up products.

First Order and What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday

Been a long time since I have managed to blog, since March I believe, this is due to working hard and having no time me time. I have recently made wedding  and evening invites for my sister's wedding which is in September. The wedding announcement was a surprise to everyone and as the wedding was booked for September the invites had to be done quickly. I will blog the finished invites at a later date.

All this lead to someone on my sister's Facebook asking about if I made wedding cards, I said yes and this lead to my first paid order. The order was for the 18th August 2013, so yet again not a lot of time to complete and the colour theme was Cadbury purple and hearts. So here is the finished card photographed on my desk this morning without all the mess around it showing. I hope she likes the card.

WOYWW

If you would like to look at the craft desks of the world pop over to http://stamping-ground.blogspot.co.uk

Below is my desk in a bit of a mess, I have a couple of things on the go, at the front is a card I am making for my great nephew's second birthday at the weekend. It is from the kit of one of the classes I took with Lynn http://www.amomentintime-craftycooper.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/fun-cards-with-motion.html at the Cardinal Colours spring crop (see previous post). The card is made from Doodlebugs Designs and the birthday cake is attached with an action wobble spring.

My bunting that I am still trying to complete has been abandoned for the bundle of bunting piled up at the rear of the desk. My daughter wanted to make some 21st bunting for her roommate at university, so we have made a start on that, we have got as far as embossing every other one with a flower design, next step is to cut out some figure 21's on the cricut. Then the next project to be competed by Sunday she informs is a canvas for her 21st birthday present!

Have a good day and happy desk hopping.

Cardinal Colours Spring Crop

Last weekend I had a great relaxing time at the  Cardinal Colours Spring Crop http://acalendarofcolours.blogspot.co.uk

it took place once again at Stones Cross near Eastbourne over two days.

I took two scrapbook layout classes and two card classes, I haven't managed to finish the cards and will post them at another time. However I did manage to complete the two layouts. The first class was with Anita http://inkyblossom.blogspot.co.uk with papers from the Bo Bunny Serenade Range, I actually preferred the papers on the reverse to the ones used to do her layout, as I found these brighter. Below is my finished layout.

The second class was with Linda http://lindascards.blogspot.co.uk

with papers from the Kaisercraft Pickled Pear range and was a male theme, we also used Tim Holtz distress stains to create splats.Below is my finished layout.

Looking forward to the next crop.

Liebster Blog Award

About the Award - This award was designed to be a blog award in the pay it forward fashion. Once you've been nominated you award it to blogs that you like that have fewer than 200 followers to encourage new visitors to visit these new blogs. Rules for Acceptance - Thank the person who gave you the award and link back to their blog. Post the award onto your blog. Give the award to 5 bloggers who you appreciate that have fewer than 200 followers. Leave a comment on their blog letting them know that you have given them this awesome award. 

I would like to say a big thank you to Carol Yates http://ceebeecards.blogspot.co.uk for nominating me.

I nominate the following five blogs.

Lynn http://www.amomentintime-craftycooper.blogspot.co.uk


Linda http://lindascards.blogspot.co.uk

Anita http://inkyblossom.blogspot.co.uk

Karen http://kkfantasticplace.blogspot.co.uk

Ellie http://ellieshandmadecards.blogspot.co.uk

WOYWW

Wednesday again and if you would like to look around the craft desks of the world pop over to http://stamping-ground.blogspot.co.uk

Only a quick post today, on my desk the bunting has progressed, it has had the papers attached to it and all have been cut out  so about half way there now. Also is the card for my sisters birthday on Sunday which she shares with Mothers Day, I wish my Mum was still with me. I embossed the central panel and then coloured with inks using my stamping up blender pen and the greeting was made with my new stamping up punches.

Happy Wednesday everyone.

WOYWW

Wednesday again and so soon, cannot believe that it will also be March on Friday.

So it is time for WOYWW over at http://stamping-ground.blogspot.co.uk

where you can visit other peoples desks at your leisure.

Sorry about the quality of the photograph but it was taken late last night. So are you thinking why has she got a triangle on her desk. My daughter has requested that I make some bunting for her room in Bournemouth where she is away at university. She wanted pink and blue  but out of the hundreds and hundreds of sheets of papers and card in my stash could not find a lot of blue so we have gone for a pink and brown theme. The triangular bunting was purchased from Hobbycraft and I have just started the process of sticking the bunting on to the coloured papers and that is as far as it has got at the moment, hopefully by next week the finished product will be on the desk before it goes on it's travels down to Bournemouth.

Hope everyone is having a good wednesday.

Nearly forget to mention my new notice board which I treated myself to from Sainsburys as it was reduced, you may just be able to make out my To Do list on it. Ignore the red walls and the white patch which is the bottom of an England flag from when I decorated the room in the England theme when it was my sons bedroom in his younger days.

Baby Cards

Well I managed to be prepared for a change and made two Baby cards in preparation for the birth of my niece Emma's baby.

This was my first real attempt at embossing on my new Big Shot machine, with some embossing folders I purchased from E bay.

Emma gave birth to a beautiful baby girl called Ava on the 12th February 2013.

So the pink card was duly sent off to her. I have two more awaited babies but we already know they are girls, just my luck when I have a baby boy card already prepared.

What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday

Its that time of week again when you can pop over to http://stamping-ground.blogspot.co.uk to see desks from around the world.

My desk is very tidy for a change as I have just finished my scrapbook layout for the February challenge over at http://scrapology-adventuresinscrapbooking.blogspot.co.uk

The layout is of myself and my Daughter Beth at a wedding last year. I love the papers and the colours, the papers used can be found over at the Scrapology site.

I am sure that my desk will not stay tidy for long!

Have a good Wednesday everyone.

WOYWW

SECOND ATTEMPT LINKED A PREVIOUS WEEK BY MISTAKE!


Time for WOYWW again over at http://stamping-ground.blogspot.co.uk where you can visit different blogs and have a nosy around their workspace.

I didn't make it last week, but thank you to all those that left comments the week before.

Here is my desk this week, sorry about the quality of the photograph. Still on the owl theme as the stamps are so easy to use. This is a birthday card for my niece Emma who is due to give birth any day now, so hopefully next week there will be a new baby card on my desk!

Have a good Wednesday everyone.

WOYWW

Wednesday again, it comes round so quickly, hope you all have been safe and warm with all this snow.

My desk has not changed much since last week but I have been busy.

I have finished the card for Hollie who will be one on the 2nd February, apart from I want to put some bling on the butterfly.

I have also made a couple of birthday cards. I was going to go on an economy drive and not buy anymore card making magazines but when I saw the free Woodware owl stamps I had to buy the magazine as these were the stamps that were used in a recent card making class I attended taught by Linda http://lindascards.blogspot.co.uk

The cards were made with the stamps and free papers and the ideas given and I stamped the owls on the back of the mistakes I made last week, so a bit of recycling took place.

Anyway here is a photograph of my desk for WOYWW at http://stamping-ground.blogspot.co.uk

and a couple of photographs of the owl cards.

Have a good day everyone.

WOYWW

What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday

For the last few wednesdays I have been popping over to

http://stamping-ground.blogspot.co.uk

and having a nose round everybody desks, so this week I thought I would make the effort and join in.

Only a small workspace, but today I have the cricut machine out and am in the process of making my grandaughter's first birthday card, you can just about make out the stamped and coloured image I am going to use as well as all the ones that went wrong! Also there are a couple of craftwork cards pads that I got for Christmas.

Will try and visit as many of the woyww blogs in-between trying to get some work done as I am in the office.

Have a good day everyone.

January Scrapology Challenge

Had to change my craft space back into a bedroom for the Christmas period as my niece and her children came to stay again. All changed back to a craft space now so going to try and make time to actually do some crafting.

The January challenge over at http://scrapology-adventuresinscrapbooking.blogspot.co.uk is

T is for Tags.

This is Lynn's one of the design team at Scrapology layout
and this is my version.

This is a photo of Hollie on Christmas Day cannot believe how quickly time flies and that she will be a year old in February.

Also over at http://scrapology-adventuresinscrapbooking.blogspot.co.uk there is a great candy giveaway so why not pop over and have a look.

Reclaimed Space!

I know it does not look a lot, but for about two years for various reasons I have not been able to use my box room. Last week whilst in my shed I rediscovered an old small fold down table which belonged to my friends mother that she gave me about twenty five years ago, my friends mother passed away a few weeks ago, but I am sure she would be pleased it has been found a use again. So at the weekend I made a space for it upstairs and now have a space I can call my own to craft and be able to leave all my bits out. The next mammoth task is to sort out all my craft stash and label up with my new Brother label machine and then I actually may be able to know what I have actually got and where to find it.

Here is the first card I have made at my new craft space, it is for the wedding of my niece this coming Friday. The figures and sentiment are wooden buttons which I coloured with pro markers, they were purchased at the recent craft show at the Glow Bluewater, and the hearts are a punch from Stampin Up.

  

The above five cards were recently made at a Stampin Up day class by http://kimfeecrafter.blogspot.co.uk

the class was very good value a £40 which included a stamp set, blender pen and all the card and papers for the above cards together with lunch, my favourite is the bird one which was done with a punch. I am off to another Christmas class this saturday so will try and blog my efforts next week

Hollie is now seven months old and is having a manicure by Mummy here, she has now started nursery as her Mummy has started college.

A Catch Up

Nearly the end of July already and I haven't blogged since April!

Have been keeping up to date with other peoples blogs who are much better at it than me.

So just going to make this a heavy photo post of the craft projects that I have managed in the last few months.

The two layouts above are done with kits from scrapology-adventuresinscrapbooking.blogspot.co.uk the pink one is my niece with her son Ethan her friend did a photo shoot for her with an old sheet as the backdrop, you would never guess though.


The second layout was a jubilee theme but as I had no jubilee photographs I used photographs of my border collie who just happens to be called Blue.


Below are recent cards that I have made.

Thank you cards for Ethan and Brookes teachers made with my new Stamping Up owl punch.

Birthday card for Josie made from the kit from the cardinal colours retreat 2011.


And last but not least the gorgeous Hollie.

Scrapology April Challenge

Just a quick post.

Scrapologyhttp://scrapology-adventuresinscrapbooking.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/l-is-for-lace.html

have their April Challenge up which is L is for Lace.

Here is my page that I did at the monthly Scrapology crop.

Enjoyed doing this page and guess who the little cutie is the photo.

For papers and equipment used see the Scrapology blog for details

Will certainly use this layout again.

And the latest photo of Hollie who is now becoming a proper little person.

That Time Of Year Again

Cannot believe that a whole year has gone by already, and that it will shortly be Easter again.

As my sister was coming up from Luton last Sunday for dinner, on Saturday evening at about 10.30pm I thought I had better make a start on Ethan and Brookes Easter bonnets for school so that she could take them back with her, so I knew they had them in case I cannot get up there before Easter.

Ethans was made using my doodlebug cartridge on the cricut machine with stars and a ladybird from my stash.

Brookes was made with some of the bunnies, flowers, brads and ladybirds from my stash and the pink bunny ears from good old Poundland.

The above photograph of my layout completed at the Scrapology monthly crop is not the best, but as always in a rush. The photograph is of my daughter Beth and her friends as they left their secondary school a couple of years ago. I love the colours of the papers, which are layered up to give dimension but this cannot really be seen from the photograph.

For details of the papers used visit http://scrapology-adventuresinscrapbooking.blogspot.com/

and to see details of their latest monthly challenges.

Hollie update my little munchkin is now six weeks old!