WOYWW

Better late than never!

Here is my desk today..

I am just finishing a card for my cousin, whose birthday is coming up soon, trying to get ahead of myself as I have been chasing my tail lately! You can also see a handbag card I have made for a challenge set over on the Make The Cut Forum. Angela decided it would be nice to set a challenge for the UK and Ireland users of Make The Cut Software. As it is an american based software there are not many Brits on there so we are trying to get together. The handbag was made using a template from my friend Sara's site...Cardmakingparadise. If anyone has checked her site before and has been put off by the annual membership (although it is great value) she has now decided to make her fantastic templates available singly and at a very reasonable cost too. I have been helping her by providing all the different cutting file formats she needed. 

If you zoom in and really nose around....it's ok, you are allowed....you will see my new Fiskars precision cutter/trimmer. I have to say that I have had many trimmers before, but this is by far the best I have had....just a shame it isnt big enough for 12x12"...oh well you cant have it all. I also have the new Fiskars stamp wheel, but haven't had chance to get it out of the box yet.

Oh well I think that's me for today..head on over to Julia's blog to nose at more desks.

Happy Days!

Quirky Crafts Challenge 14 - no patterned paper

Good Afternoon Everyone....time for the next challenge at Quirky Crafts. This time the challenge is to not use patterned papers and to use a digistamp.

Here is my attempt:-

As we were not to use patterned backing papers i decided to go with an embossed background. This one is a cuttlebug one. my first thought was to ink the raised areas, but then I decided I liked it the way it was. White organza ribbon done the middle with a line of silver mirri card. A nice organza bow finished it off. The image is from Stichy Digital Stamps, who are the challenge sponsors this week. This iris is lovely, I have used this before. This time I have coloured it using Inktense pencils and a waterbrush. I inked the edge of the mat with a matching chalk pad and mounted on a thin silver mat. Three sparkly stones to finish, coloured to match with a promarker.
Hope you like it, come on over to the challenge blog and show us what you have got!

WOYWW

Welcome to my blog on a very dreary and wet Wednesday.....where is Summer??????
It is my Husbands birthday today, so I have his card to show you. He and my Son have recently got quite into fishing...hence the theme. His pressies were all fishing related too.
Ok.....where's the picture I hear you cry??? Well blame Mr Blogger......is it just me, or have there been loads of problems lately?? I cant get the picture to load into the page....I get the little spinny circles (technical!) to try to fool me into thinking it is thinking about doing something....but nothing.
I shall do the British thing and carry on regardless! (an come back and edit the post another day).
Hopefully others will have had better luck and there will be something worth looking at if you head over to Julias Blog

Quirky Crafts Challenge 13- Lyn's Recipe

New challenge time again!
It's Lyn's turn this time and she has given us a recipe to follow. This is new to me, not worked to a recipe before, but its cool. At first I thought we had to include everything and I thought I would end up with a right mess, but the girls soon put me straight. Her is her recipe



And here is my card

I have managed to use 5 sections of the recipe. There is my digi stamp of course, from Robyn's Fetish, who have very kindly sponsored the challenge along with Crafty Ribbons. I have lace, I have used coffee and cream colours, 3 backing papers (the third is printed onto the mat with the stamp), and I have 5 flowers. What do you mean I can't count???? Two flowers on the card.....and three on the cup!

Come on over to the challenge blog and let us see your entry....you might win some stamps or ribbons.

WOYWW

Good Afternoon Everyone,

I tried to post this morning...but Blogger wouldn't let me. Any one else having trouble lately? Even now things are not right...my signature seems to have disappeared!
Any way, I will continue and see if I can get to the end and post. Apologies for missing the last couple of weeks, been rushed off my feet. On to business:-

My desk today.

I had a birthday card to do, which needs to be in the post tomorrow...nothing like leaving it to the last minute! I have also been working on my design team contribution for the next Quirky Crafts Challenge which I obviously can't let you see, so that is hidden under the very masculine black paper. Sorry about that, but the girls wouldn't like it! Heres a closer shot of the birthday card though...

Just a simple one for my cousin. If you like the easel, I made it from a template available at Cardmaking Paradise (see side bar). I am working with Sara to help re-organise the templates on the site. I have been using her site for years and have still come across templates I didn't know she had there.

Please pop over to Julia's blog to see loads of other workdesks preserved for prosperity today.....or just to have a good nosey around.

Please Mr Blogger...let this post?????