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What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday 155 (WOYWW)

Happy Wednesday! It's the day each week when crafty folks the world over post a picture of their workspace, share a project or two, and then go look at everyone else's. (Well, at least some of them; the list is usually around 150+!) Visit Stamping Ground and take a look. 

The only things in progress at the moment are the stack of thank you notes from kidlet's party. I typed up part of it and had her add a few words on the lines. It seems like thank you notes are going the way of the dodo bird, but I think it's a good tradition. I've got ballet pictures in a pile to the left from the recent recital and others in a pile to the right for other layouts. Hope to get a lot of scrapbooking done over the long weekend. :)

 

This layout shows off some of current favorite things: hearts & clouds washi tape, My Mind's Eye paper, and wood veneer embellishments. 

I love misting the embellishments and then stamping on top with archival ink. This stamp is actually a Hero Arts heart (from the Four Hearts set), but since it is larger than the butterfly, I can use it as a background-type image, too. 

Thanks for visiting!

~ Laura

Moxie Fab World Gingham Challenge

I made this whimsical flower by using a tag punch to make the petals. I stamped on some of the petals with a stamp from a new Doodlebug/Hampton Arts set; the sentiment is from that same set. I flicked some Glimmer Mist on the background and added some bling to the flower center (punched with a scalloped circle punch from a Hero Arts stamped flower) and within the sentiment. Finally, I rounded the lower right corner. 

Missing a friend this night

My sweet blog friend (and talented cardmaker) Janelle Hayes has gone home to be with the Lord today. We never met in person, but we commented on each other's blogs and sent emails once in a while. She and her family have been mainstays on my prayer list since last summer. Her husband posted this afternoon to say she is with God and they are rejoicing for her. Ken and his family are people of faith and I pray that their faith sustains them as they grieve and remember and celebrate Janelle's life. Praying this night for Ken, daughter Britt, son Ian, son-in-law Kenneth, as well as Janelle's mother, Ken's mother, and extended family and friends. 

[Here is a tribute post from last September, where I made a card based on a design of Janelle's.]

~ Laura

WOYWW #152 | What's on your Workdesk Wednesday

Happy Wednesday to anyone who finds their way here! If you're wondering about the WOYWW acronym and wondering why I've posted a picture of my craft table, visit Stamping Ground for a whole list of folks doing the same. 

I don't really have much of anything in progress at the moment. I'm putting away some stamps and planning to cut some flowers out of this American Crafts paper I've had forever. There's a tag near the back of the table that I've just added something to, here and there, as I've had extra puddles of paint. I'll be curious to see what it becomes when it grows up. 

I love this cut glass bowl that sits just to the right of the main table. I bought some of Studio Calico's wood veneer embellishments: butterflies, stars, and tiny birds. 

Gave this card to my Mom for her birthday.

This one is for my baby girl, who is somehow going to be eight next week. Inconceivable! Yet, also true. 

Thanks for visiting,

Laura

P.S. Edited to add that I feel like a dope -- I accidentally added my link for #152 to the end of the link list for #151 -- oops! So I've just fixed it -- on the following Monday!

WOYWW #149 | What's on your Workdesk Wednesday

I'm ignoring the fact that there are intermittent flurries in the air outside as I take this picture of my desk. The mourning dove who is "hoo hooing" out there says it won't amount to anything. :)  

If you'd like to see others' creative space and possibly share a picture of your own, visit Stamping Ground to find out the scoop. 

Here is a card I finished yesterday. I'm quite happy with this design and might make more as a set sometime.

 And the layout I'm mostly done with. I can't decide if it needs anything else, so I'll leave it here to marinate until after work.

I'm not wild about the addition of the fuchsia camera (which I balanced with the washi tape in the bottom right.) It's ok with the pinks, but clashes with the tomato red of the minigolf bit. I probably need to get over it. :)

Happy Wednesday, everyone! And for those kind souls who wondered how the button project would work out and/or the canvas project from last week, there are thumbnails in the upper right corner of the screen that will show the final versions! (5th thumbnail down in the first column is the button project; 2nd thumbnail down in the second column is the canvas)

Thanks for visiting!

~ Laura

Thinking of you card

Made with Hero Arts Hydrangea stamp and sentiment from All Occasion Messages for the "A Blog Named Hero" favorite stamp challenge. 

WOYWW #147 | What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday

I think this will be my first time participating in the weekly round-up of creative spaces this month. Visit Julia's blog to see what's on her desk and to find the link list of all the other folks as well. 

My usual table -- and I swear I didn't lay everything out so precisely for the picture -- I just like to see what's next at a glance as a motivator. One change is that the long wooden bowl just to the right of the teal stamp tin now holds things like die cuts and chipboard decorations. I decided I wasn't using the stuff up and needed it in front of me (instead of in a drawer.) 

Two cards in progress -- am sending them to family as Easter cards. Love the look of the Martha Stewart pearl paint used with the white embossed flowers. I'll definitely do that again. :)

This is a page from my version of Project Life. I wanted to do a 52 week project with absolutely no stress and this is it. Some weeks it looks a bit more pulled together than others. 

This pile includes a tag and card to be mailed to a friend, some butterflies stamped on patterned paper to be cut out, and a few things I'm just playing around with. 

Hope your Wednesday is happy. Thanks so much for visiting, especially as I'm sure I'll be near the end of a very long list by the time I get this posted!

~ Laura 

Vintage card "23"

I made this card based on some class inspiration (May Flaum's Field Guide class is ongoing over at BPC.) I used vintage music paper for the background, stamped with Versamark and white embossed the Hero Arts hydrangea and the 23 (from a Studio Calico stamp set), and finally used some Picket Fence distress stain on the left. I did that because there was a lot of empty space in the upper left and I thought it needed "something." 

What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday 142 (WOYWW)

Happy Wednesday, everyone! I so enjoy everyone's visits and try to reciprocate as much as possible, but can never seem to get around to as many as I'd wish! For the home base of WOYWW, the desk of Julia, and the list of participants to click on, go here. [Edited to add: For any blogspot blogs that don't have a separate "pop-up" page for comments, I am still unable to post comments. . . sorry.]

Here is my work table, photographed in the morning before heading off to my "real" work. The stamps in their containers do tend to live there on the left, unless I need more room and then I put them on the floor temporarily. I've got a layout in progress (more on that in a minute), and some stamps to put away on the right. You get just a glimpse of the card table in the corner that holds stickers, adhesive, etc.

I'm working on a no-photos layout here. I wish I had pictures of my husband and I attending a movie, but before I started scrapbooking, it wouldn't have occurred to me, most of the time, to take such a picture. So, I'm using our ticket stubs in lieu of a picture and took some appropriate stickers from a stationery set my sister gave me years ago. Not 100% sure about the black doily. The shape works, but I put too much gold on top of the black paint and now I'm not in love with it. 

Here are a couple of cards I made recently. I had a different pink strip to go across the first one, but lavishly applied adhesive to the wrong side of it.  Oh, well. The second one is inspired by an example by May Flaum -- I'm in her latest class at BPC -- anyone else taking it, too? 

 

 

PTI 5th Anniversary: Hearts challenge

Today's challenge over at Papertrey Ink is to make something incorporating hearts.  I'm about hearted out, having made quite a few Valentines this year, but I persevered. ha, ha

This card uses the cute Everyday Button Bits set (the balloons and the sentiment).