WOYWW 475

Happy Wednesday to one and all, yes I am overjoyed this morning after a refreshing sleep with a cool bedroom, our new air conditioning unit was installed yesterday, oh what joy, it's been just too hot to sleep, we’ve been waking up more weary than before we went to bed!
I woke up wrapped in the sheet with cold feet but what bliss, of course it’s yet another remote control for someone to play with!

Crafting wise I’ve had a productive week, made three cards, played again with my gelli plate, it was for a challenge on SCS, to use oxide inks on the plate, spray the colours with rubbing alcohol, stamp over the top of the inks and then press the card over it, although I did end up with a piece I had to re stamp the car, firstly I only have one oxide ink so used distress inks and no alcohol so had to spray with water, ha,ha no wonder it didn’t work! I was also supposed to put the gelli plate on the stamping platform to stamp on the BG piece, guess what! I forgot and it slipped!!

This is the journal I’m making, I’m starting from January when we left home for our first trip from Spain, UK, Chicago and final stop San Francisco, I’m joining the Stash busters challenge organised by Sharon, Foxy Stamping, I must say it’s working, using old papers, stamps and embellishments long forgotten, I even spent half an hour looking for my crimper, that hasn’t seen the light of day for many years, we have to incorporate certain items for the challenge! Nothing is glued down yet, I still have more photos to print, I've had to transfer photos from my iPad and phone to my computer before I could print the photos. I had to put it on the top of my cutter and card folder as it was the only spare space I had!!

The small folders on the bookcase I found in Target and Staples, one has TH clear stamp folders with my Altenew and sentiment stamps in, the second one has TH crazy birds with dies in and the third has Christmas Stamps, the large Clarity folder has a mishmash of stamps in it. At the back, my magnetic wall hanger where I keep post cards and drawings from GS's.

I've finally made the labels for the DVD cases, I kept having to go through them all looking for the one I wanted and after getting annoyed I quickly typed one for each a glued them in the spines so now I can see at a glance the one I need.

My Magnetic platform and old platform are flattening a card I made with an old BG piece I made ages ago with inks, sprays and whatever, it wouldn't lay flat after I put it on a card base!
 I've been going through the drawer to try and use all the discarded BG pieces to use for card bases, it was my New Years resolution to try and use stash and not spend toooo much this year, I actually only spent a couple of hundred dollars on my last visit to SF and that included DVD cases and my TH stamping platform and it's already July and I haven't spent anything since!!

                                                                          

Our beach at 9.30am this morning, looks pretty quiet but at 2pm  yesterday when we popped down for a quick lunch it was very busy, the lull before the storm, wait until the holiday makers all arrive from Murcia and Madrid next month, they will be cheek by jowl as they say!

Thanks once again for your kind comments last week, it's much appreciated, I'm off Julia's so I can   have a peek at other desks around the world, it's great to see the variety of crafty things everyone else is creating.
Have a great WOYWW
Jan