WOYWW #243

Good morning, I've been "missing in action" for a couple of weeks, I've had the "lurgy", so haven't felt like crafting, feeling a lot more human now so have actually made a card, only one though, ...little steps

Here is my desk for today:

As you can see I am still playing with my new Lavinia stamps. The background to the right is a bit of playing with my Luminarte Silks acrylic glazes

Here is a close up of the card:

Really loving these stamps, just used a few distress inks, and a bit of sparkle:

bit blurred, but you get the idea.....

That's all for today. Off to Julias blog to look at all the other desks

bye for now

Donna x

Whats on Your Workdesk? Wednesday #240

Normal service has resumed...I would like to say I did loads of crafting over the Christmas holidays (I had nearly 2 weeks off) but I didn't do any, unless you count trying out my lovely new Pebeo gilding wax on my Jack Daniels bottle whilst sat in bed on Christmas morning. Both items were a pressie from hubby (why else would a bottle of Jack Daniels be upstairs?), I say both, but I actually received all 3 colours of the gilding wax, I was only expecting just one (aren't I the lucky girl?) also had the new underwater Sheena stamps (they are in the photo of my desk - as yet still unopened - told you I hadn't done any crafting). Anyway this is last nights desk as I don't have time in the morning to take photos as back to work already...

....and a closer look:

As you can see I also had some had some Lavinia stamps for Christmas form my mom, love these stamps so ordered a few more, hopefully they will be arriving this week. Here are a few close ups:

You can just about see the sparkly bit on this photo

This one isn't quite finished yet, just waiting for the other stamps to arrive so I can add a bit more sparkle.

The other card is actually one of my caught in crystal cards, I loved it so much that I didn't add anything else, just left it as a piece of modern art

and a close up, you can see the gold flakes, this would make a nice background for my new underwater stamps, hmmm...that's a thought...

That's all for now, off to Julias blog to look at all the other desks



Donna x

Whats on Your Workdesk? Wednesday #237

Good morning WOYWWers, now I've not been WOYWWing long but I'm presuming this will be the last one before Christmas, or am I totally wrong and there are those of you out there that are so dedicated you are posting on Christmas day?? Anyway this will be my last until the New Year ( I will be posting on New Years day, presuming its not too late a night the night before!)

So firstly I would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and for those of you "across the pond" Happy Holidays.

Now for my desk this week, its in "full production" mode and in the process of more caught on crystal backgrounds, this is my desk last night, hence the empty glass of wine

This is the back of a caught in crystal as it is still drying

Here is the other desk, with my new stamp from last week and the start of my batch Christmas cards, with another background waiting to be used

I don't have any finished Christmas cards to show you as some of the recipients read this blog. But I do have a finished project for an order at work

and when you open it.......

Hope the recipient likes it.

Thanks for looking, off to Julias blog to look at the other desks.

Have a good holidays, see you all in the new year

Donna x

Only 9 days to go....

That's right, only nine days till the big day, and am I ready...noooooooooooooo...not at all, I have an order for a exploding box that needs to be completed tonight, made the box and covered it but still got to do the "exploding bit" also haven't made any more Christmas cards except the ones left over from the various craft fairs, going to busy tonight.

You may ask if she is so busy why is she writing on her blog??? Well I'm sat in the kitchen waiting for my dinner, really having a gourmet meal tonight... cheese on toast! Not my normal Monday night meal but had a big meal at lunchtime, went out for work Christmas lunch, it was Ok (ish) but nice to get together with everyone outside work. Another reason I'm writing my blog when I should be crafting is I'm trying to not just limit myself to writing once a week on WOYWW.

Anyway on with the crafting, nothing very exciting but here are a couple of cards I made a few weeks ago using my Gelli plate and stencils

Gelli background made with a leaf stencil and bubble wrap

The distress ink background on this one has the image added using the stencil the good old way - by just inking through

The Gelli background on this one is just made using screwed up paper, reminds me of water ripples (must try it in blue and use my fish stamps)

That's all for today, must get on with my exploding box (I'll remember to take photos this time) and also need to do some "quick" Christmas cards, however, mine are never quick so it may be a late night!

Donna x

Whats on Your Workesk? Wednesday #236

Well another year has passed, I know what you're thinking, she means a "week" not a "year", no I mean  year, its my birthday! I had a lovely weekend, shopping at a papercraft fair at the weekend followed by a lovely late lunch with my crafty group of friends and family, so of course, lots of handmade cards and crafty goodies. So this week its not WOYWW but WOYDTW (whats on your dinning table Wednesday), here are all my goodies, some are pressies and some are bought with money that hubby gave me for my birthday

I went a bit mad at the Sweet poppy stencil stand, can you tell???

Also I have another post - WOYMW (whats on your mantelpiece Wednesday), these are all the lovely cards I had from the weekend

Aren't they fab? As well as by birthday this week it is also my sisters, and she has a special birthday (with a "0" at the end), I did make her a lovely card but forgot to take a piccie (don't worry I'll get one soon), so instead you can see what I made with the sweet poppy stencils

Made with a "caught in crystal" background

Just a distress ink and twinkling H2O background (not much "twinkling" in the photo though!)

Anyway must go, already running late after opening my pressies this morning. Off to Julias blog to look around all the other desks.

Bye for now

Donna x

Whats on Your Workdesk? Wednesday 235#

Good morning, its that time again, and if you're not sure what I'm talking about visit Julias blog to see what I'm talking about. Another busy week, the usual stuff, work, sleep, work, sleep....... and if I'm lucky a bit of crafting in-between, I even managed to get an extra blog post in (you can see it here).

Anyway, here is my desk for this week

Just a few "caught in crystal" backgrounds waiting to be made into cards. The big box is full of black card blanks, started buying them in bulk as it works out a bit cheaper. Problem is where to put it all. Don't tell hubby but I've started to store stuff under the bed! He'll never notice!

Here is a close up of the work in progress:

Trying to be a bit more controlled with the alcohol inks on the backgrounds. The far one is supposed to be a landscape. Here is the first attempt:

Not as good as I had hoped (plus the photo is a bit blurry), the second one turned out a bit better after putting white card behind it

Really pleased how it turned out.

Just before I go for a nosey around the other desks, a quick extra piccie of Jess, because she saw the camera and instantly sat to pose, plus the fact she's just cute!

Bye for now

Donna x

Its beginning to look a lot like christmas............

I'm starting to feel a bit Christmassy now, I have received two Christmas cards today and everywhere I look there are now Christmas lights.......however, hubby won't let me put the tree up until after my birthday, yes I'm one of those unfortunate people that has a birthday close to the festive season (11th December if you're interested) it has its disadvantages.....joint birthday/Christmas presents, going out for a meal to celebrate my birthday and having crackers on the table, could be worst though I think I arrived earlier than expected... anyway enough wittering on, you don't want to listen to me, you want to see some cards.....

Sheena stamp, distress inks and acetate

More Sheena stamps with distress ink and H2O background

Caught in crystal background

 This one was done by making a heart mask and stamping all around with various snowflake stamps, took a while but I like the effect

All the following have been done using Imagination Crafts stencils:

Gelli plate background using the same stencil

That's all for now, hope you like them. Hubby off to play darts......you know what that means.....I can craft till late into the night without feeling guilty!

Thanks for looking

Donna x