WOYWW 96 - the one from the kitchen table

Just a quickie from me this week, and a late one at that!

This week's WOYWW (go here to see more info and jump onto the desk bus for all stops) is brought to you from my kitchen table.

Yup.

It's my desk this week.

My normal desk is still my desk, but this week I'm working from the kitchen table on.......

Danger Flying Arrows signs.

You see, every year we have a kit weekend for Wolfshead, and every year the paintwork on the Danger signs gets tidied up a little.  Only this year (just about a month ago) the signs were touched up...... and were then not finished, and to cap it all, the paint didn't dry.

So we brought them home and have been working on them.  Trimming them all so they all match and are the same size (having been made in fits and starts over the last decade or so), sanding them down, repainting them, and varnishing them.  I have about 18 to do - none are as yet completed, and only two have all the painting done.  All of them will need a coat of varnish.

So excuse me while I disappear - my paintbrush awaits me!

Oh, and don't forget to enter into my blog candy will you!?  It's HERE

PS.  We've decided on the Panto for next year and it's The Wizard of Oz.  Yours truly is the.....drumroll please..... set designer! Woohoooo!!!!!!

WOYWW 95 - the Blog Candy one

Except it's not - I lied. The blog candy is HERE

Now that I've got your attention - Crikey, where in the heck did the week go????  And here we are, almost in April.

Just a quick one from me and I'm scheduling this to upload in the morning - but my desk won't change between now and tomorrow night cos I'm tumbling into bed in a mo.  Got matchsticks for eyes at the moment.  LOL

So here is my desk:

What have we here this week?  Well Tilda is still lurking on my WOYWW easel, waiting to be made into a card.  You can see Lil Miss B's Mother's day card (the kitten and puppy 3D decoupage) and my attempts at a nice one for my own Mum.  She has a penchant for fuschias and I found a lovely digistamp of one on.... um.... I think it was the Card Making Downloads site.  If you look really closely, you will also see the Sketch Saturday sketch I'm going to use.

So, don't forget to join in with the blog candy, and head over to Dunnit Dimensions to join in with WOYWW http://www.stamping-ground.blogspot.com/

BLOG CANDY ALERT.....

Check back later tonight for my Blogoversary Candy.....!!!!

WOYWW 94....

Hellooooo thar!

No snappy title this week - my brain is on holiday!

So, what IS on my work desk this week?  For those that are uninitiated, you really need to go to Dunnit's Desk of Delights for full info!  But be sure to come straight back before starting on your desk quest - it's addictive!  I feel positively out of sorts all week if I don't bare all for you.... hmmm.... poor choice of phraseology, but I think you get what I mean!

Now, where was I?  Oh yes, my desk...

As you can see, it's fairly mayhem-ish as is pretty much usual.  Now I should point out  the work on the right hand side that you see, which looks suspiciously like my page for the aforementioned CJ in an unfinished state.  It's not - it's actually the abandoned version that was...well, abandoned because I a) dropped an inked stamp in a stoopid place and b) stamped the background too dark.  Also this week, Lil Miss B decided to have a stab at some jewellery making (a kid's set she'd been given for her birthday last year) and very quickly announced that glitter really wasn't her.  Trouble is, it's not really me either so I'm still clearing it up.  What bright spark thought that sticking glitter on bangles was an appropriate method of jewellery creating I don't know!

However, lurking there on the front left of my desk is the below creation...

...which I'm not showing upright in it's full glory utnil it reaches its destination.  All I can say is - WTG Nic & Lucy on the birth of your beautiful little girl, even though she was WAYYY too comfy to come out and was nearly a fortnight overcooked  overdue!

As promised from last week - below is a picture of my finished page in Flo's CJ - for all the deets go here.

And that, is that.

I'm off on my own desk quest.  I might even get round more than ten desks this week.  I hope.....

Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Flo's finished CJ...

Well, I did say I'd put up a pic of her page when I'd done it.  I can't put up pictures of the whole thing because I didn't take photos of the other pages.  I believe she's going to put them up on her blog when she gets a chance.

So, here is the photograph of my page...

I've elected to show a picture of it after I'd cut it in two and re-cut the holes for the BIA holes.

So, what did I do?  first up, Flo's CJ came with the door in the stonework, one open, and one closed.  We had an option to use either one, or both.  I did a search on the web for quotes about doors (they are often inspirational, and in this case, quite inspired!) and came up with this one "Listen, there's a hell of a universe next door - let's go!" by E.E. Cummings.  Knowing my love of medieval everything, this just appealed to me, particularly in our current world and being aware of how much us re-enactors are into still having our mod cons (a couple of us carry around gas fridges to events!  LOL)  it kind of went without saying what I was going to do.  Took me a while to get to this point though, LOL!

So, my two medieval ladies were stamped first using Memento black, and then masked using post it notes.  I followed this up with stamping and masking the two doorways.  Well, two pages, just HAD to use both stamps!  I then stamped the floor - I have a fab stamp of crazy paving.  Daft me though didn't carry it through the open door so I wound up doing that manually later... I think I worked it well though.  After that, I masked the edge of the floor off and stamped the stonework.  The stamp I used for that is pretty small, so I'm going to have a hunt and see if I can't find a decent sized background stamp that'll do the job much quicker in future.

Once I'd done that I cut out the open door way and stamped the shoes, bags and car into the "universe next door", and tried to create a bit of a landscape. I was rather constrained by the stamps I had, but I hope I achieved the end result, even if it's not perfect...

Lastly, the whole lot was coloured using copics.  As you can see, most of it was done using the grey tones W1-W7 and black 100, but I also used the skintones, and a pale orangey colour plus varieties of blue and green.  After I'd finished the main work I cut it in two, put the holes in, and then went round the edge with Black Soot DI to just take the cleaness off it.  I also printed the quote, cut it out, stuck it down and added some shadow using copics.

I personnally love the end result, and I know Flo loved it (cos she said so on UKStampers - hun, you are SO welcome, it was fun to do!).  I do look at it now and see where it could have been improved - the light coming through the open door should leave a defined shadow where the wall blocks the light coming in, but that is just something I've now learned and can improve on for next time!

So, when is the next one starting.......... ??

WOYWW 93 - the one with the sigh of relief

I has done it!!!

Yay!!!

One CJ finished, and today winging its way to its owner.  Flo, it's coming home!

Sadly, for the rest of you that is going to mean a wait of at least another 24 hours to see the finished page properly - can't publish it to here before the owner gets her mitts on it, eh?

Anyways.....

Welcome to WOYWW (for more info, visit Desk Director Dunnit here) once more, and as you can see from the picture below, there is next to nothing on my desk!  Whoopie!!!  I've finished the CJ and tidied up, and you can see it there being photographed before I cut the work in half..... ulp..... and put holes in for where Flo is going to use her BIA to bind it.  Yes, you're going to need big O wires, me dear!  

I'm not sure what my next project will be.  Probably Mother's Day cards.  I also have a load of cards to make for Mr B's staffroom.  He's in a small village school which has a post box and no shop, so the other teachers find themselves caught on the hop cardwise occasionally.  They've asked that I provide a box of cards.  I think that's pretty cool....

Other than that, not much to report.  We spent last Sunday at Corfe Castle shooting, and the weather was fab as you can see below.  What more could you want, eh?

Well, short and sweet - be sure to check back in a day or so for the full pic of the CJ!  And there's a blogoversary coming up too - with Blog Candy to come!

Catch you on the bloghop!

WOYWW 92 - the hurried one

Just a quickie from me today guys, before I dash off to work, the reason being that not a lot has changed.

If you're clueless on the WOYWW front, go and visit The Stamping Ground where all will be revealed.  Well, not quite all.  It's not a glamour photo site!!!!  Actually, lets steer our minds away from that image and the possibilities.....

Where was I?

Ah yes, my desk.

It's a muddle, to put it plainly.  The floor is getting clearer and I'm gradually finding holes to put things in, but otherwise not much has happened.  I've not made any cards this week (on account of being at the Wolfshead Kit Weekend at the weekend), and the CJ is being worked on (sorry for the delay Sarah) but has hit a glitch in that I've decided I need to buy Memento ink in a grey.  I might try using the second print on the CJ, but if that doesn't work, the grey it is.  The background makes the focal image get lost, if you can understand what I mean by that!  It's not normally a problem, but when you do what I do (and you'll see what I mean soon enough), losing an image becomes an issue.  I'm not sure if just colouring will rescue the problem.

Enough of my ramblings!

On with the hop!

WOYWW 91 - the other upside down one...

Not literally this time, I hasten to add.  The upside down-ness refers to the state my new room is in as it's taking a wee while to sort out properly.  When we moved in here, everything was hurriedly dumped in the old craft room in some vague sense of order, but I never quite got around to sorting out what I wanted where and re-labelling things.  Not so this time.  This time I am going to sort the whole caboodle out.  So at the moment, my space looks like this:

I'm no longer looking out of a window, which actually makes life easier for having things on my desk.  My drawer units are all in easy reach - I just have to spin round on my chair for all my stamps and embellies etc.

the other side of the drawer units (which will eventually be on castors so we can move them when we need to) is the office desk with the PC on.  And Mr B sat there working away marking books etc.  He's why I'm late today - I wasn't able to set up a scheduled post on there last night!  

Further away shot of my corner wall.

Ah yes - it's Grandma B's birthday tomorrow, so Lil Miss B and I made cards last night.  Here's hers - made with some Dufex delight (sic) that Mr B bought her so she could have her "own" craft stuff and feel independent.  LOL. 

And here's my effort for Ma B - I would like to thank the Great Miss Dunnit for the inspiration on this - regular WOYWWers will remember her aqua coloured effort of this.  I loved it so much, I paid a visit to Shopkeeper Gal and got the same stamp, and have had a go at it myself.  I love it - such a simple idea, yet so very very effective and attractive.

As I'm at work at the moment, I'll come back on here later and put up the info about which stamps, inks etc I used.

In the meantime, enjoy your WOYWW bloghop - full deets are HERE for those in the dark about it!  Catch you around!

Sketch Saturday 143

I've joined in again, yes yes ye-es!

Except maybe this time I'll actually link up, as it appears that last week I epically failed in that department....ROFLMAO.

This week's sketch on Sketch Saturday is as follows:

and this is my entry for it.

Image is by Mo Manning, best wishes stamp is a Papermania one, as are the papers I think.  I've added some card candy, some Prima flowers, three lengths of peeloff and some punched fronds which are done with the McGill pine branch punch. 

Hope you like it!

WOYWW #90 – the one with all the cards

Here we are again! Greetings and salutations my fellow WOYWWers! And how are we all this fine Wednesday morning?

For those random individuals who’ve landed here totally by accident or out of general curiosity, and who haven’t got a CLUE what I’m on about, please go to the dazzling Mrs Dunnit’s page HERE to get more info and start the magical mystery tour. After you’ve read my entry, of course…. LOL….. mwahahahahah….

My desk this week is looking a trifle….sad…. There’s a lonely CJ on it, still awaiting my undivided attention. Mainly because my mojo is geared towards cards at the mo, but also because the idea I have is fermenting and I REALLY don’t want to screw up the final entry into Sarah’s CJ. And a fabulous one it is too, there’s so many brilliant entries! It’s unlikely to get done until the weekend, too, but more on that at the end of this thread.

This week has been all about the cards, and I have managed to turn out three. Three fab cards for three fab ladies in my world.

First up is a card for my bud Debs who is just amazing and has had a tough year and still come out smiling. I have a problem though – I cannot, for the life of me, remember who the stamp is by. But at any rate, it’s a tree of life (came with a set that said Goddess, if anyone can help me out!) and I’ve stamped it with Versamark and used one of the Moonglow embossing powders on it. Imperial purple I think. I really ought to make a note of these! I did also use a sketch from someone other than Sketch Saturday (shock horror!) but stoopid me also failed to note down which one. So, not only can I not tell you who, I cannot enter it into their list of participants. Definitely a Doh!-head-smacking moment. Oh well.

Second card was made for my gorgeous god-daughter Steph. I hope she liked it. In case you can’t tell, Steph is a bit of an emo/goth/rock chick. Image is one of Kenny K’s fabulous creations “Star” (coloured with Copics, and I know it’s not brilliant but I can live with it), and the “You Rock” is from the Inkadinkadoo Rock Star set. Papers were a free download from somewhere, punch is MS, plus some card candy. And a peel-off. See, judicious use of peel-offs CAN be acceptable. I really like this card, and Lil' Miss B is peeved that she’s not getting it herself.

 

Finally, a card for my buddy Jayne. I’ve know Jayne a LOOOONGGGG time. Long enough to remember when she was like the little girl on the card. Not that she ever did Irish dancing to my knowledge, but she was definitely “perky”. She is also Irish, so I kinda got a link/relevance thing going here. ROFL. The gorgeous little girl is by Mo Manning, papers by Papermania. Best Wishes is either Papermania or Inkadinkadoo or similar. My bad, I know…. More peel-offs, more card candy, some prima flowers, a little bit of bling, and the punch is a McGill one – pine branch.

 

Now all I need to do is work out how to convert my PSP watermark into one I can use with Photoshop Elements. Answers on a postcard to…..

Oh, sorry, I nearly forgot to say. This is my craft room.

Say goodbye….. This week (today and tomorrow) it’s being moved. We’ve booted Lil’ Miss B out of her big bedroom, and are shoving her into this little single bedroom, to give us more space for work. It’s not a bad thing – other than costing us a load for new furniture as the double bed she’s using will have to go into the loft, and we’ve bought a Cabin bed off eBay (she’s also going to need a wardrobe, desk, chest of drawers and a bookcase…. Ouch……and we will need to buy a sofa bed for guests. But it will mean we’re not cramped and can make better use of the space. We’ll also have more natural light as the room we’re going into has a BEEEG window. Hurrah.

See you next week from the new room!