What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday 824

This was Tuesday afternoon at cuppa time. I didn't go back to it, so it's waiting. More patiently than I am, frankly. I'm doing a scrapbook 'workshop', so although the desk is cluttered, it's all stuff that's relevant to the layout I'm making. I splashed out last year and bought a 12 Days of Christmas set of kits and instructions from Bramble Fox. Beautifully put together kits and great instructions, and styles that I usually wouldn't make, so it's very enjoyable. But, it's not for just chucking in the rolling tote and taking to crop (which is kinda what I thought - save me having to think and pack for a couple of months) - each kit needs extras like paint or punches, that I have but wouldn't normally take to crop. Or indeed, think to use.  So this LO doesn't look much at the mo, but I'm keeping on. The instruction said to paint or ink three stripes which will ground the multiple photos I'm going to use. Here's a blast from the past...I used Twinkling H2Os! 

So that's my desk. Others are available and waiting to inspire, pop over to Sarah for a list of links. Join in - why not! 

Incidentally, there are a couple of Blogs that I couldn't comment on last week...they asked me to log into Google first. And of course, I was logged into Google. I think I have the solution, we'll see. 

What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday 823

Hello gentle Desker. Now don't be alarmed, the state of my desk is real time.

Real work in progress! I started last evening by clearing up a bit, and then had an idea for the monthly ATC I swap with Karen. Her choice of theme this month was ' Vintage Lady'. You can just see her ATC poking out from under the ink pad at right; I was so surprised at the speed of its arrival that I felt the need to not put off what can be done today.... Mr Dunnit has gone to the East for the day (Kent!) and had an early start so I did too and here we are. You can't tell, but I've just stamped the big foliage stamp in white onto the layered papers of the ATC and I've embossed it with clear powder. I'll photo it more closely in a minute because it made a really nice but not white image on the printed papers!

That's some strange chemistry between ink pad and paper, huh! 

The creme egg box still contains receipts but the sales have slowed now so am not so worried about keeping track of the delivery receipts, so who knows, I may ditch the box. Free up a couple of square inches, huh!

I don't know if you can see, at far right there's a bunch of foil shapes. They are my Kathy's work, she sent me a bunch of foiled balloon dog images and I'm over them enough to have cut them out and think about using them. Probably on scrapbook pages though because I may not be over them enough to give them away on cards...we'll see how the muse strikes. Now, I've really got to go and start my day properly, coffee and some chores before I can come back to the desk. 

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What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday 822

A jaunty angle to throw off the fact of the mess. Even the floor is a bit erm, busy...I haven't unpacked my rolling cart after last weekend's crop and there's a bag of cardstock that I bought at the craft show last weekend's. That's not unpacked because of course, I can't quite face teabag syndrome that another wedge of cardstock will set off. Ah well. Instead, look at one of my favourite stamps...
I'm very into paper piecing  it at the moment, and was totally inspired by Shaz in Oz to pull out some scraps and then by Helen to use a stencil...I mean, I often say in their comment sections how I'd like to do more with scraps or use one of my handful of stencils. So I did. At last you yell,not just talking the talk!

Here's how it worked out...and I'm doing more. They're all going to be slightly different of course, card fronts and boredom force change, but essentially I've made a lot of small offcuts into teeny bits of waste and I'm happy about that, Shaz and Helen, I applaud you.

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