Wednesday, 25 January 2012

What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday


Good Morning everyone, thank you for your kind welcome into the super duper ever growing family that is Whats On Your WorkDesk Wednesday, Mrs Dunnit is a very charming host, and I kindly except her invite to return, but boy, I did not realise how long it would take me to get round everyone’s desks and actually leave comments, I didn’t manage all of them but it was well over 150 so I was quite pleased. (I couldn’t leave comments on some due to blogger. Honest it was he’s fault!) and I need to work out a proper system this week, I couldn't remember where I had visited and where I hadn’t!

I was wondering do you leave comments at every single desk, or do you visit the same ones every week, so only comment on those ones?

So onto my desk this week,

You will see nothing very much of interest I took this Tuesday evening before I tidying away the bits and bobs I used for making the Pink Gem Card (although it was posted after, I actually made the Magnolia card at the weekend so the pink gem one, is the last one I did, does that make sense?) the pile of stamped images, does anyone else do this??, I usually stamp and then emboss the image with clear embossing powder so I have a stamping session and stamp a load of the same images for colouring at a later date, I have a box of images, stamped and embossed all ready to colour, and when I am poorly and can’t manage to sit up at the desk, my kitchen trug’ type thing filled with markers and my box of stamped images come to the bedroom and I can colour when I am well enough, so I end up with lots of coloured images waiting to go onto cards, Usually none in the colours that i want !!!

I couldn't’ decide what image to use on the pink and green card so coloured a couple.

So while I was taking my pictures I thought I would show you my little colouring book that I have been keeping since I started using markers (copics & pro-markers)

I have CFS and my memory is very severally affected and one day I can colour an image which I like and then the next I can’t remember what colours I used, so I colour a couple of images and then record all the details in my book, I also write down other peoples tips and what colour combos they recommend, for example I think a good pro-marker combo for the forever friend bears is Vanilla, Ivory and Saffron, I have listed hair colour combo’s and skin tone combo’s, all sorts of tips and helpful hints I have found since using markers, basically it just saves me wasting card and ink and time and effort, This works well for me and is so helpful, it has all sorts written in it and stuck in it but it works and I would recommend anyone just starting out using markers to do something like this.

This is what happens when i leave my photographic lighting box (thingy) set up, so i don't use it very often which is why most of my photos are dark and dismal

Thanks for visiting and if you read the waffling and didn't just look at the piccys well done you hehehe Hope you all have a great week.

Lou x

Oh I forgot to say if there is anyone who does not know why i am showing you this and waffling on and if you have no idea what WOYWW means - Where have you been???- head on over to The Stamping Ground where lots and lots of people allow you into thier homes to snoop round their crafting area, its great!

The Crafty Pad Challenge Blog

I won At The Crafty Pad.

(My Craft Spot - Nadia's Challenge Blog - The Crafty Pad & Joanna Sheens Monthly Challenge Blog)

I was soooooo please to win last weeks challenge over at The Crafty Pad with the sparkly card I had made for my neice Chloe (here) Thank you so much ladies.
I had sooo much fun choosing my prize over at DIGITAL DOWNLOADS - which is a fabulous site, please give it a visit.

So when I saw the challenge for this week

The Crafty Pad Challenge 154 Lets See Something for the Boy's

I thought that i could enter and use a Crafty Pad Stamp 'Diggin Albert' which you can find here (not sure if he is still available as a stamp but you can get him as a digi image) but then i saw the DT cards, (which are all amazing) and they all seemed for youngster's so wasn't sure if it would be allowed so i did 2 just to be sure

This is Digging AlbertAnd this is another using the Skateboard Dude stamp by Gillian Roberts -
I told you i do lots of Boy/Male themed cards - I give lots of my cards to my Gran for some of her 60 odd grand & great grandchildren, and as there is only about 15 girls she needs lots of boy themed ones - I don't have grandchildren myself yet!!!

(I will come back and add details of design papers and copic numbers if i can find my lists!!)

I would also like to enter either of these cards into these challenges too:

Nadia's Challenge Blog Challenge #23 Theme - A Boys card, and you have to use a stamp.
My Craft Spot Monday Challenge #42 Theme - Lets Hear it for the boys
Joanna Sheen Monthly Challenge Theme - Celebration (any celebration birthday, wedding anniversary, good luck)

Thank You for Looking.

Lou x

Tuesday, 24 January 2012

Tilda Card



Whilst visiting lots of blogs this week I have noticed lots of us crafters are using up stash and our old stamps and I have lots of papers and i still love all my old stamps, so this is no hardship for me. I seem to be using all my old favorites just lately.

I would like to enter this card into TotallyPaperCrafts Make Your Own Flowers The flowers are made using x-cut punches.

Also Into Lets Ink It Up Challenge #19 Anything Goes (As long as it has stamped image) Tilda is stamped.

Thanks for Looking
Lou x

Monday, 23 January 2012

Fairy Milly

This Stamp is another that I love, I bought it ages ago from Pink Gem Designs along wth many more, and they all still please me and are just brilliant for kids cards.
I have coloured her using copics E00, E11, R20, R81, R83,R85, E33,E25, & E51 and used gold star and clear star Sakura Jelly Roll Pens on her wand and wings and added some glitter to the little stars on her dress, and bow.
I like simple cards, I love the ones that are all decorated with lots of flowers too but if i had to choose i would probably go without so I have kept this very similar to the sketch over at A Gem Of A Challenge


so would like to enter this card into this challenge.

I am also entering this card into:
Crazy For Challenges C4C120 which is asking for a Childs Birthday Card
Stamping For The Weekend Challenge 24 Out With The Old - My stamp is old and the papers were a freebie with Cardmaking & Papercraft Magazine they are Quite Contrary Summer Papers by My Minds Eye.
Colour Create Challenge #88 Pink and Green

Lisa Jane from My Makes "n" Me also pointed out that this would qualify for the challenge over at Moving Along With The Times challenge 132 which is Things with Wings so Entering this card for that one too Thank You Lisa Jane x

Thank you for looking.
Lou x

Thursday, 19 January 2012

Do You Stack Up Challenge Blog

This is one of my all time favorite stamps it's by Sarah Kay called Spring is Back , another 6x6 card (i like the square cards) and i used pro-markers to colour this one, the design paper is Dovecraft Back to Basic 1 I would like to enter this into The Do You Stack Up Challenge #55 which this week is asking for Patterened Paper

Thanks for looking
Lou x

First ATC's (in more than a year) Feel very much like a newbie crafter again


These are for a Music Themed swap, the pyramid floral is a Thank you. I think I might need to add a little 'Thank You' tag.

ATC Backing was made using The Whitewash Collection Colorcore Card stock embossed with a cuttlebug embossing folder called Allegro and then sanded and the die cut Drama masks are by Quickutz and guitar is a sizzix die and a small music note punch, the floral pyramid one is from a Nice & Easel sheet.