WOYWW 207

It's Wednesday and that means WOYWW which, I'm sure you are dying  to know, stands for .......
'What's On Your Work desk Wednesday'. If you too would like to join in the fun then, take a pic of your work desk and share it with lots of other 'nosey', I mean like minded people. Hop on over to Julia's blog
Stamping-Ground for more info. Hope to see you there.


Hello peeps,
Hope everyone is A OK!  I am very late posting today, where does the time/days go? Ah well better late than never as they say. So on my desk are the tags I've made for the friend Quote mini (yes I know I should have had it finished  by now) though the deadline is the 30th  and I have been making ATC's for the anniversary swap soooo. At the back of my desk are some stamps I have been playing with. The plastic box  full of wooden blocks are my new blending tools, I removed the rubber  from some of my wood mounted stamps and got hubby to cut them into Timmy sized blocks and once I've attached Velcro I will have a block for each of my distress inks, Yippee! I'm not bothered about a handle as I just hold the block anyway.  The First Edition papers are ready to make the pockets for the tags.
So not too much going on on my desk, but I am off to have a hop about and see what's going on your desk.

Hope you have a great WOYWWednesday
Happy Art Making
Hugs
Lottie

WOYWW 205

It's Wednesday and that means WOYWW which, I'm sure you are dying  to know, stands for .......
'What's On Your Work desk Wednesday'. If you too would like to join in the fun then, take a pic of your work desk and share it with lots of other 'nosey', I mean like minded people. Hop on over to Julia's blog
Stamping-Ground for more info. Hope to see you there.

Hello peeps,

At last I've managed to finish the mini quote album, though you might remember if you visited me last time that I've used different paper, and it's for my daughter instead of friend. I decided after hitting lots of snags (ok making lots of boo boo's) that maybe I should make a practice one first. The main problem I had apart from the daft mistakes I made, was the paper splitting on the outside edges of the spine, I had to add the lace to cover the splits. Hopefully I can now make my friends mini without the mistakes, and if any one has any tips on how to prevent the paper splitting I would be grateful.

Yay ! you made it to the end lol. Hope you have a great day desk hopping.
Happy Art Making
Hugs
Lottie

WOYWW 203

It's Wednesday and that means WOYWW which, I'm sure you are dying  to know, stands for .......
'What's On Your Work desk Wednesday'. If you too would like to join in the fun then, take a pic of your work desk and share it with lots of other 'nosey', I mean like minded people. Hop on over to Julia's blog
Stamping-Ground for more info. Hope to see you there.

Hello peeps,

Having missed the last couple of weeks while in Scotland I thought I had better make the effort to join in WOYWW this week and catch up on some work desks.

At the moment I am making a mini "friendship quotes" tag album, for a friend's birthday, so on my desk is the TH pocket envelope die that I'm using for the album. I am undecided whether to punch a fancy edge on the top of  the tags or use a die to shape them, also can't decide whether to emboss the tags or not so I'm just having a play with things really. The paper pad is First Edition Love Letters, and has some lovely papers. At the front of my desk is the hinge binding I made ready for the pockets to be attached. The scraps of paper are the friendship quotes I have collected, ready to choose from and print on the computer.

I have also been having a play with  the Radiant Rain and Cosmic Shimmer sprays and made a couple of backgrounds which are still at the back of my desk.

Hope you have a great WOYWWednesday.

Happy Art Making

Hugs

Lottie

WOYWW 199

It's Wednesday again and that means WOYWW which, if you didn't know stands for 'What's On Your Work desk Wednesday', sooo you take a pic of your work desk and share it with lots of other 'nosey', I mean like minded people. Hop on over to Julia's blog stamping-ground for more info.

 

Hello peeps,

My desk looks relatively  tidy today, but you should have seen it yesterday not one inch of table top to be seen lol. I can't believe how much mess I make. I have been making a canvas/chipboard  tag for a great lady on You Tube, Jennings644 who I follow. She does some great tutorials and is very inspiring to me. 

On my desk is the first tag I started, but only realised after I had embossed the canvas, stuck it to the chipboard and also inked it that I had forgotten to leave a flat area for my wording ( a few choice words were uttered at this point) so I am in the process of  trying to salvage it if I can. So onto tag #2, I had decided to try the double embossing technique to make the smooth area for stamping, which is fine if  you have the right size die, I did not, so I  thought I would cut my own aperture from chipboard  how difficult could it be............  eeek ! aperture too large, too small,  too high, too low, too far to the left, too far to the right, are you feeling my hopelessness yet?  'many' sheets of chipboard later I gave in and had to ask for help, thank goodness technical support was on hand, hubby comes in very handy at times lol . I am absolutely hopeless with anything technical or mathematical, and that's official, my husband says so !!!

 

 

Tag #2 Finally!!! I enjoyed making this tag and I am quite pleased how it turned out, for a first attempt, ok second attempt ! lol

 

Hope your day is a happy one, and enjoy a bit of desk hopping.
Thanks for visiting me today
Happy Art Making
Hugs Lottie

WOYWW 197

Hello peeps,

It's Wednesday again and that means WOYWW which, if you didn't know stands for 'What's On Your Work desk Wednesday', sooo you take a pic of your work desk and share it with lots of other 'nosey', I mean like minded people. Hop on over to Julia's blog  Stamping Ground  for more info.

My desk is still fairly tidy from my sewing duties the other week though I did make a Mothers day card for my daughter, from her dog !! (I know, but we do these things don't we ?) or is it just me !!!! Anyway that is what the pink flower shape is, at the back of my desk. It was a bit like origami, you fold it and stick it, in a way that the flowers burst from the inside of the card when you open it, but folds flat when closed. Pic below, sorry about the quality, it was 2am Saturday night by the time I took them (as you might guess) I am a last minute person.

 My MD presents from my daughter is the HUMUNGUS Lucky Eight Doily punch, and lovely 'Mum' photo album. I was well chuffed, thank you Katie, love you ! I also received an E card from my son who is in Australia  love you too Oliver, miss you !

I  love the Postman too, as today he delivered  my order from Cuddly Buddly Crafts, 6 tubs of loveliness  aka Viva 3D stamp paint, can't wait to have a play with these tubs of  loveliness, and the TH dots stamp (half price). The other bits, vials, bird house, chalkboard birdies, and Docrafts Chronology label plates and clock faces, I bought at the weekend from the Range (20% off) I only went in for a paint brush lol. To the left are some stamps and chipboard embellishments that I had given. Finally the two wooden stamps were used for Katie's card (cleaned but not put away) yet!

So all in all  I think  my week is going pretty good so far, Hope yours is too x

                                                                       Katie's card                             

Thanks for paying me a visit today
Happy Art making
Hugs Lottie x

WOYWW 195

Hello peeps,

As it is Wednesday I thought I would take part in WOYWW which, if you didn't know stands for 'whats on your work desk Wednesday', sooo you take a pic of your work desk and share it with lots of other 'nosey', I mean like minded people. Hop on over to Julia's blog  Stamping Ground  for more info.

I think my desk could be in competition with Julia's for the most boring title this week but at least it proves I am doing 'something' on it lol. I have had to get the old sewing machine out  today to selvage the bottoms of my daughters trousers before hand sewing the hems. Also on my desk are a pair of door curtains  that also need shortening, ready to take to the caravan at the weekend. The cup (my favourite) with the polystyrene ball in, is waiting to be transformed into a pin cushion after the handle mysteriously got broken by my daughter or hubby,  neither would fess up though. lol

You can also see my A5 stamp sets that I am sorting into wallets ready for storing in a lever arch file (anybody got any other ideas how to store them ?)  The Steam punk canvas I made my hubby for valentines, I will be giving it back soon, honest. You can see it better in my previous post if you're interested.

Hope you have a fabby WOYWW.

 

Happy Art Making

Hugs lottie

STEAMPUNK BUTTERFLY

Hi peeps,

I know, its been ages since I last posted anything, I haven't really got a good reason other than a lack of self confidence in my crafting abilities and wondering who would be interested in my blog posts anyway. However I have been watching a lot of wonderful crafters on You Tube and blog hopping, as I  love all things arty. Also I recently discovered Craft Stamper magazine, I found a tutorial by Glenda Waterworth from Chocolate Baroque featuring the Steampunk Butterfly stamp set, which co-incidentally my husband had bought me in January :-) So I felt inspired enough by Glenda to have a go (as they say)

Steampunk Butterfly Canvas 

Unfortunately the Tim Holtz tissue wrap taster pack-Melange was sold out, so I had to make my own by stamping  the cogs stamp onto tissue paper. I also Googled 'Steampunk definition' and printed it out onto tissue paper, I was impressed how easy this was, though  I did get in a bit of a pickle trying to get the text straight when I glued it down, as you can see, once its on it is very difficult to move without tearing. The portion of Rose window and the Butterfly were also stamped onto tissue, Glenda says to colour the butterfly on the reverse side of the tissue, which I did, but I recommend NOT to keep turning it over to check how it looks as I managed to colour on both sides ****!!! any way it didn't smudge when I put the glue n seal on Phew.

Really enjoyed choosing and attaching all the keys and cogs, the yale key was my husbands door key from when he was a boy living with his parents I stuck the number 2 on as that was the house number  and the large key is a disabled toilet key I had from when his mum was alive, bit obscure but I liked it. The tiny cogs are watch parts and the little red heart is a brad as are on the butterfly. I like the Q I made, also from watch parts, the rest of the letters are die cut.
I made this as a gift for my hubby for Valentines, my daughter was very sceptical about sticking a load of old keys and cogs onto a canvas for a gift but she likes the finished result so much........she wants one too, only in purple lol
Thanks for stopping by
Happy Art Making
Hugs Lottie