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WOYWW 207

Happy WOYWW to visitors from near and far -- this is an every Wednesday event, wherein we post a picture of our workdesk, link up to Stamping Ground, and commence to visit others' spaces in a virtual manner. 

I took my desk picture today (Tuesday) as I'm home sick from work. I've made some thank you notes for kidlet to use to say thanks for various birthday gifts. I realize it doesn't sound like those two things go together, but after spending most of the day in bed, I decided to stamp the last few cards!

And here's a close-up. I love Ranger's archival ink, but I don't think the label of the pad is a very accurate indicator of the color! (See below . . .)

I made this over the weekend for a family friend celebrating her 90th. I opted not to emphasize the number and just made something sweet and simple. 

Decided I couldn't live without these cute stamps. I don't often go "cute" but thought they'd be sweet on cards and layouts. 

And I've adopted more archival ink pads! 

WOYWW 206 | Posting late today!

Edited to add: I'm sorry if some of you tried to leave comments yesterday and never saw them show up. I tried to leave a comment myself yesterday -- tried twice -- and it never turned up in my queue to approve. It does appear to be working normally today. 

Hello, friends! This is how my table looked this morning before I left for work. I've been catching up on some Project Life pages after getting a bunch of prints made up. I printed out two free PL items -- one from Cathy Zielske and one from Ali Edwards -- and made the colors match. I'm caught up now -- just have to do last week's page. It should come together fast, since I have a bazillion pictures from Gabi's two birthday parties. :)  I'm linking up to blog hop extraordinaire: WOYWW -- come check it out, if you like virtually visiting all over the world. 

I prepped these frames for Gabi and her friends to decorate with glitter glue, sequins, and stickers. I glued the letters on, did a layer of gesso, then paint. One little girl hates pink, so did blue for her. 

This is one of the Project Life pages I finished yesterday. 

Hope you are having a good week, with time to play and plenty of your favorite snack and beverage at hand. 

~ Laura

WOYWW 205 | Quiet desk after a weekend of scrapbooking

Good morning, friends! I've got my bowls of embellishments out on the right (brads, buttons, tiny wood veneer, etc.), some punched butterflies (I got a new large butterfly punch and I love it), and all the flowers dumped out of their jar. I'm going to do something with the stencil for a page background, but since yesterday was daughter's birthday, I didn't do anything on it. (If you, too, have an insatiable need to show your workdesk and see what lots of other folks are doing, link up with Julia's WOYWW.) 

Used up some hoarded October Afternoon papers here. Fussy cutting makes me nuts, but always looks pretty in the end. :)

This layout (as with the one above) was submitted for a Big Picture Classes challenge. In this case, we were to attach a divided page protector as a second page with washi tape. The page protector was from a different manufacturer and the sizes were markedly different, so after I took this picture, I substituted one that worked better!


This one tells a favorite story.

Daughter and I made cookies for her to take to school to share with her classmates.

Thanks for visiting! 

~ Laura

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WOYWW 204

Happy Wednesday and happy WOYWW (a great excuse to show what you've made and see the work desks of lots of other folks.) Waving hello to our hostess Julia in the UK from my spot in upstate NY. The sun is out and the birds are singing. Now if I could stay home and play. . . but no.  ;-)

What you can see on my desk is my TH tag for April in the center (that needs to be flattened in a book, I'd say). You can get a closer look here. Other than that, I've got stamps, ink, spray mists, scrap paper, and another tag to play with some other time. 

Here is the layout that I was about to start on Wednesday last week: 

Thanks for visiting! 

~ Laura

WOYWW 203 | It's a nice sunny morning

My next layout is going to be about my daughter's love for horses and horse books. Misty of Chincoteague is based on a true story and the map shows the location of Chincoteague Island and other locations from the book. 

A card from over the weekend. In retrospect, I wish I would've used just shades of green on the continents (and not the slash of brown over by California) . . . but c'est la vie. :)


Short and sweet -- I've got to get to work! Happy WOYWW, friends. :-)

~ Laura

WOYWW 202 | 3 cards and an art journal page

Good morning! The sun is shining, thank goodness, after some very gloomy weather yesterday.

Here is what covers my work table -- an art journal page left open for the molding paste to dry overnight and some things to put away. I had thought of making large flowers with the triangles of patterned paper you can see lying there, but decided they were too large for the page. The subject line of this post references WOYWW (What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday) -- do click the link and check it all out. 

A close-up of the page. It is easier for me to see the things I wish I were more skilled at, but I really love the bright colors and the dimensional honeycomb. 

I had heard that you can emboss with pigment ink and clear embossing powder.  I was skeptical and still am, a bit, although the green foliage came out kind of pretty. My Mom loves hummingbirds, so this card is for her upcoming birthday. 

The butterflies were "painted" with distress inks -- I really like the bright colors. I was contemplating looking up what the actual coloring of these butterflies might be in real life . . . but then just went the simpler route. :)

I had the pink piece done already, so called it into service when I wanted to make a quick thank you card. 

Have a happy day and a happy week, friends!

~ Laura

WOYWW 201 | Knock wood, the snow is melted

Happy Wednesday and Happy WOYWW for those folks who routinely post pictures of their work tables, desk, etc. and post links over at Mrs. Dunnit's blog. You know you are hooked on this weekly tradition when you feel a bit of sadness at not participating in a given week. 

I've got a couple things going on here, which will be easier to see in closer pictures.

A partially filled Project Life page is sitting next to some photos that my husband kindly picked up for me yesterday. The top picture is of my sister-in-law and my daughter -- a nice shot. I haven't been using much ephemera this year, but this page has daughter's list of borrowed library books and clothing tags from our Easter finery mounted on some Basic Grey Kioshi paper. Underneath the PL page protector, I've pulled out some patterned paper -- I've got a two page layout I want to make, but haven't managed to begin sticking anything down yet. 

This is a quote I hope to make an art journal page with . . . hopefully opportunity and energy will collide and make this happen sometime soon. :)

Thanks for visiting!

~ Laura

WOYWW 198 | Definitely not spring here yet!

Let's not talk about how snowy it was yesterday, shall we? We'll concentrate on the bright colors inside the house? Happy What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday! Do visit Stamping Ground, from whence this esteemed tradition blooms. 

Lots of stuff laying about. I decided to make some tags for layouts and gifts, so I got out some ribbon and brads and buttons. I've moved the distress markers to a larger oblong bowl (hiding under the paper trimmer) and the die cuts into a smaller one so I can see what's there.

And here are some things I've made:

Thanks for visiting! I hope to be able to get around to more folks this week (although I know I say that a lot.) 

~ Laura

WOYWW 197

Good morning or afternoon or evening to folks visiting here as part of the weekly WOYWW festivities. After you've thoroughly perused my . . . creativity den . . . do visit our kind hostess Julia at Stamping Ground.

We've just set the clocks ahead, which is lovely in the evening and gloomy in the morning (although it's cloudy, so I can't blame everything on the time change - ha!) On my table, beginning at the lower left we have my American Crafts binder that I'm using for Project Life this year. I've got Post-it(r) notes on the pockets to help me determine what pictures I need to edit. The bin of stamps pretty much lives on that upper left corner. To the right of the bin is a wooden bowl (not that you can see it) containing mainly diecuts, doilies, etc. I've got a sheet of stickers out and some papers I've cut to 4x6 for PL. I'm fussy-cutting some flowers in the foreground. I've got three cards I need to get in the mail. I've added more Distress Markers to the collection -- Hobby Lobby sells them in five packs. On the windowsill is the usual lineup. The patterned paper jumped out of the scrap drawer and demanded I think of making a card set with them. You can see the mess larger by clicking. ;-)

A Project Life page from a few weeks ago -- I'm happy with it because it's a good balance of hybrid and digital elements and I'm using up random bits from my stash. 

The map layout that lived on the table for about three weeks -- so glad to have made it! I thought I'd *never* find a use for those chipboard houses. 

And finally, a simple get well card. I stamped the new Hero Arts Leafy Vines stamp on the front (found a distress ink that went well with what was already on the paper), put the sentiment on an October Afternoon label sticker, added the butterfly embellishment and called it good. :)


Sorry for the long post! Thanks for visiting.

~ Laura

WOYWW 195 | 3 cards and a tag

Good morning or afternoon or evening! Here is my table as it looked when I left for work this morning. (Why am I showing you this? I'm participating in What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday of course! Check it out and join in. ) Tomorrow I will have an MRI on my elbow and before the next WOYWW comes around, I should know what's up. 

Next on my agenda is a layout about all the places I've lived. I've got the part of New York State here that encompasses the places I've called home, even briefly, and punched out a square from North Carolina and Arizona as well.  I think I've finally found a use for these little chipboard houses. :)

 Over the weekend I decided to ink up this new-to-me Hero Arts floral stamp -- I think it came out last year. I clear embossed it onto two cards. On the first I used Copics to color it (I only have about six Copics -- they're expensive and I'm cheap. ;-) )

On the second one I used distress inks -- I really like the soft look here. 

This next one features a lovely paper napkin that I brought home with me from coffee hour at church -- I used PPA to adhere it and stamped Birthday Wishes with archival ink when it was dry. 

The tag was just playing . . . Hero Arts friendship definition stamp stamped in archival ink, then a swirly pattern clear embossed, colored over it with Spun Sugar distress stain (which is so pale on the manila tag that it didn't really show up) and Worn Lipstick distress ink. I topped it with bits and pieces I had lying around.

 Thanks for visiting! I'll get around to everyone who comments here for sure and as many others as I can manage. [Edited to add: I've attempted to comment back to everyone, but some of them don't seem to want to go through. All of your visits and comments are so appreciated!!!!!!!!!!!!!]

~ Laura (a/k/a Bookworm)