WOYWW

It's Wednesday again and time to show how neat, messy, busy, or talented we are when we expose our workdesks for the followers of Julia Dunnit at Stamping Ground.  I'm a little late linking up today but I got a lot of crafting done this rainy afternoon.

Because my room is small and everything is close at hand, I'm a "put it right back" kind of paper crafter.  The only reason there are things on my desk, or should I say desks, since I have two layers. is that I am making three cards at a time.  Each one has Cricut cuts on them so while the machine was turned on I cut out all the pieces. All three of them are for challenges this week, so I'll get them finished tonight.  On the upper right are two finished cards, one a redo.  I posted a card I wasn't fond of so I tore it apart and remade it.  I like it much better now.

On the lower right is my challenge chart.  In order to keep the challenges and their theme or cue straight, I made a table with the day the challenge comes out, the day due, a check spot for when I have it made and one for when I've posted it.  

If you think there's something new here, you're right.  I got the black cutting board with a 1/2" grid on it.  It helps me line up my work and gives a dark background so I can see the edges of light colored cards.

Thanks for visiting my work space.  Please leave a comment and I'll try to get to your desk as soon as I can.

WOYWW #206

It's Wednesday already?  I think I lost a couple of days somewhere.  It's time for What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday over at the Stamping Ground.  We get to be a little nosy and see what other people are working on (and how neatly they keep their work spaces - or not).  Here's mine today.

Those of you who were here last week won't notice much difference. There's a card I made with my hexagon stamps in the background. That's new.  But the stamps and dies from My Craft Spot are still lying there unused next to it.  I spent Thursday and Friday cutting out  letters for my daughter.  She was asked to decorate two graduation card boxes and I told her it would be easier to cut the letters out than hand paint them. I mailed them on Friday and that's the last I've done any paper crafting. The glue gun in the foreground was used last night when I glued little flowers on a Styrofoam heart for a tree at church.  I just don't seem to have any creativity bubbling in my brain right now.  Maybe when my package from Simon Says Stamp arrives, it will inspire me.

Today my triplet grandchildren celebrate their 15th birthday.  That time went even faster than this past week.  It seems like just yesterday we were marveling over those three precious little babies.

 It is also my parent's 71st wedding anniversary.  Can you believe it?  71 years!!  They are just so cute together and I have been so blessed to have them as my parents.

Thank you for stopping by to visit.  I hope to get around to visiting other WOYWWers but it may take me a while.  I was already a week behind on my blog list when I got to them today.

WOYWW and Fusion #5

Here's my workdesk for WOYWW.  I played along for the first time last week and got a number of lovely comments.  It looks pretty clean and neat doesn't it. That's because I finished up the card on the left last night and am posting it below.

In the middle are the new stamps and die that arrived from My Craft Spot.  I'm hoping to use them soon but first I have to work on my hexagons. Two challenges this week have them as the theme and since I have the die and stamp from Simon Says Stamp, I want to use them.  You can see the set in the foreground but what you can't see is the die I cut (it's white on the white desk).  I am having so much trouble with the die.  It refuses to cut in the center.  I put it through my Cuttlebug numerous times with different shims and plates to no avail.  I ended up cutting a lot of them with my craft knife.

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My card is for the Fusion challenge.

I was going to do a blue birdcage cut from one of my Cricut cartridges but I ran out of time.  In the past I have actually done the fusion portion but today my card is from the sketch.

I got the stamp of the month set from Simon Says Stamp because I thought it was a good deal and would help me build up my stamps. I used the two roses for my focal point, stamping them with Tattered Rose Distress Ink on pink paper and hand cut them.  For the leaf, I stamped on green with Shabby Shutters.  The printed paper was part of the set and so was the sentiment, also stamped in Tattered Rose.

I am also entering this at Paper Players

and  Celebrate the Occasion #111, Happy Mother's Day.

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