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WOYWW 348: Time to make some Valentines

This was my desk last night (Tuesday) when I decided to quit for the night. I've got small cards covered in patterned paper to the left, hedgehogs stamped on card stock just above -- that's the project in progress.

 

I made this over the weekend. I "painted" the circle with Blush Color Shine and don't adore the outcome, but it's ok.

I'm trying to make some Christmas cards throughout the year this year -- so far so good. I like the all silver better than the gold + silver, but both came out nicely with the doily stamp.

This may be the last time I put ink to this stamp. It's wood-mounted and for whatever reason I can never get it completely inked and/or completely stamped. Ah, well.

Thanks for visiting!

~ Laura

WOYWW 343: The Last One of 2015

Dear WOYWW friends and any other visitors who venture here,

I hope 2015 has been a happy fruitful year for you and that 2016 brings peace and joy and good health.

[WOYWW = What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday, a fun once-weekly blog hop]

Here's my desk yesterday afternoon before I began putting together my December Daily album (which I only do through 12/25):

And here is the completed album, approximately nine hours later:

It's one of those little 4x4 albums and I did my journaling on tags (hence all the twine). It might be a tad overstuffed? :-)

And finally, today, the messy aftermath:

WOYWW 341: A week before Christmas and all through the house . . .

Here is a picture of my table taken this morning before I left for work. I'm making some cards and have painted some inexpensive wooden ornaments from the craft store that I'm going to add to a few packages. I ordered photo cards for the majority of our list, but always end up making ten or so. This way I can have the fun of making some without the grind of making them all. Next year I should be super organized and make four dozen cards in the summer or something -- I'm sure there are people who do -- and then have them all ready when the holidays roll around. 

Here is a large close-up of the vintage sheet music I've stamped & embossed in gold. This Tim Holtz set is perfect for music teacher Christmas cards! 

And here is a cute little elf tag. He is so adorable that I think he needs to go on a package for my Mom. 

Happy WOYWW (What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday) to all, and to all a good night! 

~ Laura 

December Daily

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes, I'm going to do December Daily this year! But I've decided that I will wait to work on it when I am off of work at the end of the month. Between shopping, wrapping, Christmas cards and just the daily life things that must be done, I decided not to add DD to that mix. But I have my little 4 x 4 album and page protectors, plus some papers cut down to size and embellishments and will be trying to write down ideas for the stories. I may or may not have ordered some more embellishments from Scrapbook.com. 

If anyone visits, are you doing DD? What are your plans?

~ Laura 

October Tag, plus another made just from random stuff on my table

I'm playing along with Tim Holtz's monthly tag challenge and above is a glimpse of his tag. 

I don't have any of the new dimensional Halloween dies . . . indeed, I don't really have any dies that are large enough to be the focal point of a tag (must remedy this), so I improvised. I did have a TH holiday paper stack, one of his splatter stencils (similar to the one he used, but not the same one), and used one of his clear Halloween stamps for my jaunty skeleton. I heat embossed with white, added blue gems for eyes, and stamped & cut out a top hat from another TH stamp to dress him up a bit. The ribbon is Target Dollar spot (I think), the bats are Crate Paper After Dark confetti, and the Wicked sticker is from My Mind's Eye. 

I was in a decluttering mood and while I was sorting through a bunch of random stuff in my die cut bowl, I decided to make a tag. The background is from some Maggie Holmes packaging; I covered it with clear gesso so I could add mist to it . . . not completely in love with the result, but it's ok. 

 

A Halloween card & a challenge

The Mixed Media Monthly Challenge this month is to make a project based upon words found in this word search. Fun! My card below has: a bat, a moon, a pumpkin, a witch, the color black, and the color purple. 

WOYWW 297: Valentine's edition

Happy What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday and also, happy (early) Valentine's Day! I've had some fun making some Valentine cards, but now I'm ready to get back to scrapbooking. :) 

Here's my desk as it stands on Tuesday night:

I've got a big pile of blank cards and patterned paper here to the left, with my heat tool on top. Stamps and inks and embossing powder and embellishments and adhesive and a heart punch "decorate" the rest of the table.

Here are a couple of the cards I made:

Hope you're having a happy, crafty week!

~ Laura 

 

WOYWW 290: The Christmas Eve edition

Like many others, I'm sure, the tables where I've been creating have not been crafty tables. I've been wrapping and baking and hope to have a little time to work on December Daily either this evening or tomorrow afternoon. My actual craft table probably looks almost exactly the way it was the last time I linked up with WOYWW.

Happy WOYWW, everybody!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

December Daily: Days 1 - 4

I am going very simple with my December Daily this year. While I had the 6x6 papers in the page protectors in the album prior to December, that's all I had done until last night when I finally began to stick in pictures and write some journaling.

I'm using Pink Paislee Noel paper from last year -- some of the papers have glitter accents, which I adore for Christmas scrapbooking. I'm adding very simple gold, silver, or white embellishments & stamping.

Here is the front page of the album:

Here is Day 1:

On this page spread I've used gold glitter paper and stamping. The journaling card is from Project Life and I've stamped the date. Another year I want to buy enough stickers or Thickers to be able to number the pages more attractively.

This spread has small bits of silver foil paper and silver stamping. I've also got a stars & snowflakes thing going on. The textured side of the journaling card is beginning to make me nuts. And I'm trying not to be bothered by using a bright white card on cream-based paper. I'm just going with it.

Day 3:

I adore that tiny little bow stamp -- so cute!

Day 4:

Gold washi tape on the left, gold stamping on the right. Three guesses as to whether I've kept up with reading the Advent devotional book? (Hint: I'll be trying to catch up this week.)

Thanks for looking!

~ Laura

 

WOYWW 282: A layout in progress & a home decor item

Happy WOYWW, everyone! To find out more about this international party, visit Julia at her blog.

I've got a layout in progress in the middle of the table (seen below in closer detail). Around the left side of the table are the omnipresent paper trimmer and a new package of blank 4 x 6 Project Life cards (which I plan to use both in PL and in my December Daily album.) The rest of the loose items are for my Project Life album -- cards, stickers, etc. Next year I think I'm going to break down and buy an actual core kit, rather than trim down pieces of patterned paper to make my own. It's probably more economical, but it's time consuming.

The purple bit in the middle of the page is the side of the bag from the jewelry store, and I thought it would serve well as the title of the page. It's large, so the page design is a bit over-crowded, but I like it well enough.

I bought the paper mache witch's hat at Michael's and decorated it. It was time-consuming, but easy and I'm really pleased with it. I misted some random flowers with black Dylusions mist and others with the last drops of my orange Glimmer Mist. The leaves were die cut from glitter paper and book paper; the latter were inked with distress inks.

Sorry I'm long-winded! Happy Wednesday and happy Halloween to those who celebrate. We're hoping for no rain and absolutely no snow Friday evening. Eek!

~ Laura