WOYWW 312

Hi all, Happy WOYWW, hope all goes well with the grand ATC swop.

My very, very tidy craft room, no work going on here, but greetings from Poland, by the time you are reading this we will all be meeting up and getting ready for the wedding on Friday so hopefully I'll have a few photos to show next week.

The front of the card I made, I'm quite pleased with how it turned out in the end and I even managed a few flowers too.

Also the inside, I put the sentiment on the back as there wasn't enough room on the inside panels, hopefully it will have survived the journey!!.

Have a great weekend.

Jan x

WOYWW 311

Well here we are again, another week gone by, I'm pleased to say my wedding card is finished and in its box, pictures next week.
Thanks to all who stopped by for a visit last week and thanks for your kind comments, if you thought my desk was tidy last week, well it's even tidier this week.

Actually I took this after I had tidied up, I had sheets of card all over, I managed to ruin four sheets of the pink card, the card was so thick I had to stick it to the cricut mat, it kept sliding off the mat while it was cutting, very annoying and a  shame as it was pearl shimmer but then again it has been hiding in the drawer for the past few years.
 The card is for Joey`s friends sister, Katie, it's not finished just laid out while I ponder how to attach the back and front, the white being the back, I haven't trimmed it to size yet until I decide what to do. I now have a pile of five's, all various sizes that didn't match up!
Oh and the envelope is my ATC all ready to post. 

All tidy on this side too, I have two scrap pages going on for the Scraplift Challenge over at SCS, one is my smash book on the left, that page is our day out with Joey last year in San Francisco. The other page is Joey's birthday from last year but I realised I had some photos missing so I need to ask our DIL to re send them but she's not feeling too well at the moment so it will have to wait.
I guess that's it for this week, so I'll just mosey or should that be nosy over to check out what you've all been up to, have a great week.
Jan x

WOYWW 310

Hi fellow Deskers, a lovely morning here in sunny Spain, we've had our morning constitutional, breakfast at the Marina, shopped and tried unsuccessfully to take Steve's suit to the dry cleaners, apparently they don't do clothes!!! Well that's a first, I wonder what they actually dry clean, anyway here's my desk for what it's worth.

It's not very exciting or colourful I'm afraid, I had a tidy up to make myself a space to make the box for the wedding card, you can see one lid with flowers and bits in it, that was my first attempt which was too big, I did say it usually takes me a few goes, anyway I managed to make one in the end and have attached silver ribbon around the edge and now I'm playing around with flowers etc trying to work out how to decorate it.

I haven't really worked on much else apart from card inners, I have three in the next couple of weeks so I have them all ready to post when we get home from the wedding, how organised it that!!

The other side of the room, I'm making another start on the scrap book I bought when Joey was born, he's seven this year, I had the idea to use it for birthdays but after doing two pages I lost enthusiasm for it, I've now joined the scrap challenge over on SCS and with encouragement from Sharon, Foxy Stamping so I've started another page, Joey's sixth birthday from last year, I will just have to work backwards and of course now there's Charlie too, he's three this year so I've a few to catch up on!! I'm hoping to do as much as possible so I can show them when they come over in July.

I have been working on my ATC but that's hidden under the blue card, I just have to make the back now and I think I'm done.

Thanks once again for all your comments last week, just off to see what everyone else has been up to. Take Care

Jan x

WOYWW 309

Well here we are again, how fast the weeks fly especially now we are on countdown to our sons wedding, poor things have been having building work done as well, which didn't go to plan, major stress all round but thankfully it is nearly sorted now.

My desk this week hasn't changed much from last week apart from it's a bit tidier and the wedding card is nearly finished, I just have the sentiment and finishing touches to do, oh and a box to put it in, oh joy, not my favourite things to make, usually takes me a few attempts before the card actually fits in the box!

I made quite a few flowers from different card, handmade paper etc and used the best of the bunch, added a pearl in the middle, cut silver leaves out and decided to go for it and glue it all together, always scary when you've spent weeks on it, just in case it gets spoiled at the last part, been there done that, LOL

Not sure why this photo is side ways on, I don't have a clue how to turn it on here, in my photo album it's the right way up. Last week I explained that a gift for a 44th Anniversary is groceries and my dearest husband said I could have the grocery cheque, well it arrived all 2.48 Euros of it, I've already spent it, on liquorice, how romantic is that!!

You'll be pleased to hear that our Anniversary is actually on the day of the wedding so it will be a big celebration especially as the wedding is in Poland so we will be having a mini holiday as well, we are all meeting up at a hotel in Stansted of all places!

 We fly in from Spain, eldest Son lives in London, he's collecting youngest Son from Heathrow who is flying in from San Francisco, as you can see nothing's simple in our family!

That's me for this week, have a great weekend.

Jan x

WOYWW 308

Happy WOYWW from sunny Spain, at last, can't believe its Wednesday again, how time flies when you are having fun!! We've had our morning constitutional, breakfast on the Marina, I've been trying to get a photo of our little bird, he actually sat on my hand to take the croissant last week, unfortunately we couldn't take a photo quick enough to catch him. 

Still working on the Wedding card, I've done quite a bit more since last week but nothing glued down until I've got all the pieces finished. I still have almost four weeks so plenty of time I hope, I'm still messing with the roses so I might try a few of the larger ones but I did find something I bought long ago, can't even remember why, white ribbons and silk roses, with tiny pearl strings attached, I bought it from the little shop in the market, an old fashioned Haberdashery, what I'd give to spend an hour rummaging in there, it's a little treasure trove but sadly all kept in the store room out of sight.

Not sure I mentioned that the date of the wedding is also our 44th Wedding anniversary, well my dearest husband thought he would have a look what he could buy me for 44 years, he's still laughing now as its says groceries!  He kindly told me that he will give me our Consum check when it comes next month, it's usually about 2 euros, I'm still wondering what I'll spend it on.
 I will get my own back next year though as its purple Sapphire so I've told him to start saving.

 The other side of the room, what can I say, I've been trying to do a challenge to use glue and glitter through a stencil, after four attempts I've given up, I've used plenty of glitter but only the flower looks presentable and I really don't have a clue what to use it for!!

Not much else happening here so I'll just say bye until next time, hope you all have great plans for this Bank holiday weekend and have some sunny weather.

Thanks for all your lovely comments last week and for visiting my desk, its lovely to hear from you all.

Jan x

WOYWW 307

Good Afternoon fellow Deskers, another week gone by, last week the rain was so heavy I couldn't get upstairs to my craft room without getting a soaking, fortunately the sun is out now, thank goodness, it started off cloudy and spitting with rain but by the time we had walked, shopped and had breakfast it had cheered up, we've had very strange weather this year, normally our first swim in the pool is St Georges Day, the way it's going it could July by the time the pool is warm enough.

My desk this week, well one of them, I'm trying to get ahead with a wedding card for DS1 and GF for next month, hence all the bits and pieces hanging around, I keep cutting, embossing, fiddling about with it and I'm still not happy so I'm just leaving it for a couple of days before having another look.  
You might spot on the shelf all the roses I've cut out ready to make, not something I'm very good at, especially the small ones, I've watched all the videos, they make it look so easy, I think its lack of patience as they are quite fiddly. The plastic container has some die cuts in, wedding items ready cut but they all seem too big for the card so I'm not sure they will get used after all.

I mentioned before I had been collecting all my glitters together and storing them in the box you can see on the shelf, there's also quite a few small packets behind the tubs with various colours in them, soooo

When I saw a challenge on SCS to use the negative part of the die with glitter behind it, I made this card, I ended up making four altogether as it was so easy, well it was after the first one , I used glitter that had big flakes which didn't work too well, it really needs fine glitter, the best part was that I managed to use up quite a bit of my stash which is always pleasing.
 Not much else happening here apart from practising making ATC's, I've never made one before so I'm playing around at the moment, I can't seem to get my head round working on something so small but I'm sure I'll get there eventually.

Hope you all have a great week, thanks for popping over and leaving a comment
Jan x

WOYWW 305

Happy WOYWW, sounds like many of you are having or have had better weather than Spain, Easter was cloudy and windy but thankfully not the rain that had been threatened.
Today my washing is pegged down well as its very gusty,I keep nipping outside every time I hear a peg ping off, it's even worse on the Seafront. Typical , I put all the jeans and jumpers away before Easter and had to dig them out again as its too cold for summer clothes at the moment with the wind.

 I'm pleased to say I finished Our Son and DIL's Anniversary card,  I did eventually manage to follow the instructions and even though it is nothing like the one I started I'm quite pleased with it. The flowers are actually a Sizzix Stamp and Die set, only inked up once but never used.

I thought you might like to see my newly tidied drawer, I did mention I keep all plastic containers, even bringing them home from San Francisco, sad I know but cheaper than buying them, anyway they are all filled now with Bling, die cuts, silk flowers, etc, but also bits of card fronts started and never finished, I've decided to look through them before I start a new card to see if any fit the bill, otherwise they have to go. 

You'll see on my desk there's not much action, lots of things just laying around, paints, Gesso, inks and bits of card, I've been having a play and also cutting out some card to practice making ATC's, I've never made one before and I didn't realise how small they are, makes me admire the ones I've seen even more knowing that.

I've been covering some silk flowers with Gesso and distress paints, not sure where I'm going with them now though but I didn't like the colours anyway so no great loss if they end up in the bin.

You might just see a couple of Christmas images, I know, sorry but I always do the Christmas Card Challenge over on SCS and I'm running behind already.

Nothing more of interest over here so I must go and dust off my ironing board so have a great week.

Jan x