WOYWW

Hi WOYWWers!

Well, despite the nice new craft room I am afraid that today there is very little crafting going on. I have had to be really strict with myself today. It is an Admin first day.I have to do my Tax return (Booooo) and then I need to tackle the Student Finance website.....I am not looking forward to that as their site is never known for running well. It is always an uphill struggle. Here is the desk

As you can see I am ready to tackle it all. Paper work everywhere! Cup of hot water at arms length....I am a bit weird like that, hate coffee and don't really like tea that much. If you look carefully there is a part made RSVP to the left of the paperwork that needs an inner...i will get that done later. Under that is a birthday card that has been ordered, again waiting for an inner to be printed. Maggie, as usual snoozing under the desk.
Well I think that is it from me today. head to Julia's blog The Stamping Ground to check out more crafter's desks....it is fun to be able to nose around!

Quirky Crafts Challenge - 10 Masculine with Blue and Brown.

Time for a new challenge again. This time it is Caro setting the Challenge and she has decided upon a Masculine theme using Blue and Brown...so quite an easy one I think this time. Our sponsor for this challenge is Paper Pretties, so there is a prize up for grabs.

I struggled to get a decent picture of this card....I don't really know why, I don't usually have any trouble. Even in this one the image looks washed out, which is a shame. It is actually coloured in with Promarkers. Marsh Green and Celedon actually, so not really feint colours....Hey Ho!
Come on over to Quirky Crafts Challenge and enter yourself.

WOYWW...I am back

I am totally sure that no one has missed me at all, but I am back and I am in the right frame of mind now to join in once more, if you will have me.
We have had some bad stuff to deal with here which has knocked me somewhat. I haven't been able to do anything other than the essentials for a while, but I am feeling more like connecting to the world again .
My Desk Today:-

I am presently reorganising my stamps. and I am fed up with not being able to find what I want. So I have decided to stamp them all onto cards so I can file them and catagorise them. Thanks for the idea Di!

Now any of you who remember me may think "that's not her desk" well yes it is. I used to be a bit squashed into the room upstairs above the garage. My Husband was having on of those "if we won the lottery" conversations, and one of the things he said he wanted to do was to extend the house to give my Son more room. He has a bedroom which takes a double bed and wardrobe, but not much else. He is 17 now and well into computers etc. He just needs more space. Well I pointed out that that was not going to happen, the best we could do would be to give him my room. My room came into being because I used to work from home, so needed office space. My craft room was squeezed in alongside that. With the business gone I no longer work from home, so thought that it was only fair to give him the room. After some thought and discussion between my Husband and my Son they came up with the idea that if he was to have the upstairs room  he could incorporate the xbox etc into it leaving what was the old dining room vacant....for ME!
After a lot of work, and an awful lot of lugging boxes up and down stairs (I honestly didn't know I had soooo much stuff!) this is what I now have.

 So there is the desk itself, with lots of shelves above for storage. Then to the left this is what I have.

 Panning round the room this massive cupboard was in the room already. It used to house all the kids boxed games. So most of those have now gone to Charity giving me masses of storage.

Panning round again...more trusty Ikea drawers and my A3 printer. In the Summer ( if it ever stops raining!) I will even be able to open the doors and have fresh air from the garden.
This move has worked out so much better than I ever thought it would and that has helped get me back into the swing of things. Thank you too anyone who has bothered to read this far. To see what is happening on everyone elses blog head to The Stamping Ground and check out Julia's blog.
See you soon!

Quirky Challenge 9 2012 - Animal Antics on a wiper card.

My turn to set the challenge again..the time between challenges seems to be going faster and faster!
We have Digital Stamps by Looby Lou sponsoring the challenge this time over at Quirky Crafts Challenge Blog.
Come and join in the challenge and you might win a digistamp vouvher.
Now the challenge itself.....
I want to see animal antics on a wiper card, scrapbook page or a 3d project linked with animals. Here is mine...

Sorry about the glare on the photo, no matter what I did I just couldn't get a photo without it. The pop up part of the wiper is a mirror card scallop oval with Best Wishes on it and some of the flowers from the image. This is my favorite digistamp at the moment, it is from Digistamp Boutique. The flower pot was my addition. The papers are Wild Roses from Pink Petticoat. When I though of animal antics this immediately came to mind because my westie does this all the time. She cant bear to see flowers in pots. She pulls them all out so she can enjoy herself running around the garden with the empty pot over her face....until she crashes into something that is!

Come and check out the challenge...

Quirky Crafts Challenge 8 - Quirky Happy Event (recipe and New Baby or Pregnancy)

New challenge time, this time set by Cazzy. Our sponsors are Stitchy Bear Stamps and we have been given some lovely stamps to work with. I have chosen Baby Cakes.

I decided that I would like to make it into a shaped card, so imported the stamp into my Studio Software and created the outline by tracing, copying, fliping and welding the images. I then printed the image several times and decoupaged it. I have included gingham ribbon ( not the right shade of blue, but all I could find as I am in the middle of a craft room relocation!) and my themed button is the giraffe on the baby cup. it was just the right size!
By the time I next get to use the computer and blog I should (fingers crossed) be properly in the new craft room, hopefully with everything in its place and a new desk built etc....we will see, with Easter and Mine and Dan's birthday this weekend we are going to be busy. Its not only the craftroom to finish, but also Dan's new media room to decorate too.I am exhausted already!
Come on over to Quirky Crafts Challenge and see the other designers examples. Then you can have a go yourself and perhaps win some lovely images?
Hope to see you there