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Wednesday, 8 July 2026

WOYWW #892

   

Follow the link to find out more about What's on Your Work Desk Wednesday and maybe join in... This is my post for WOYWW #892

Here is my desk today: 


You can see pages stencilled with a Visible Image stencil and purple texture paste. Alongside there are some new bottles of glue.

I have some photos of the ICADs up to the end of July:


These are blogged here

This month the theme of the Tiny Pieces of Art is weather. This is my first index card:



We have just taken Ollie home. We continued making the volcano:


We were away again for the weekend and are off again tomorrow...so hope to get around you all this week. One of the things we visited at the weekend was the Victorian State Library.


One of the exhibits was this copy of Pride and Prejudice which was quite appropriate as we went to see Pride and Prejudice (sort of) at the theatre on Saturday night.


Happy crafting -
Happy WOYWW!

Addicted to Stamps and More - make your Mark #521

 


  

This is my Make Your Mark project...for the Challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More
I actually made these for a Visible Image ATC swap - the card contained the ATC.



This is the ATC. I used two Visible Image stamp sets plus embossing.



 Hope you will enter the Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge! Do hop over to see the fabulous inspiration from my team...


Happy Crafting!


Wednesday, 1 July 2026

ICAD 2026 part 4

 


This is this year - the first month's themes and the themes for the whole 9 weeks.


I have done the next few days, following the prompts and sometimes the theme. 
This takes me up to the 30th.




Day 24 - cafe

Images from Ikes Art. Water colour.  


Day 25 - penguin

Gelli pull background. Die cut penguins.


Day 26 - parterre


Collaged image plus paint.


Day 27 - crane

Collaged plus splatter


Day 28 - coastline

Collage plus splatter.


Day 29 - pistachio or green

Collage plus paint.


Day 30 - velvet

Fabric, stitching, collage plus paint.






Conjurer of Dreams July Challenges

            

I am sharing a little of my makes for the Conjurer of Dreams DT.

You will see more of these, made with Conjurer Of Dreams images, on the 29th of the month. However the optional month's challenge is Farm Life


I have made several items of which these are two: an index card and a card
 using an image from Bessie's Sunday Best




See more on the 29th!

Have a look on the CoD site for more challenges

The current Anything Goes challenge can be found here

There are FOUR more challenges on the blog.:

FREE IMAGE CHALLENGE - details can be seen HERE.
 ATC CHALLENGE - details are HERE.
TAG CHALLENGE - details are HERE.
SEASONAL CHALLENGE - details are HERE


and find more on the Facebook Group

Happy Crafting!

Outlawz July Challenge - Greetings

   

This is a new Outlawz challenge which will scroll through the themes
Songs and Rhymes
Colour
Greetings
Sketch

This month it is Greetings  where your make should be inspired by this idea:



This is my card:



This is a funfold card that I have made before made with pieces cut from a plain 12 by 12 and matted with designer paper from my stash.

I added the image and the sentiment.


 


Happy Crafting!