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Wednesday, 6 May 2026

What's on your Work Desk Wednesday #883

           

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 #883

First of all I must mention Neet, who very sadly passed away in hospital. Although we never met in person, I feel I know her from her blog. I so wished she would be able to post again...my condolences to all who knew her well...
I will look for ATCs that she swapped with me for next week


Here is my workdesk:


Rather a mess as I have been busy catching up with the workshops from last week's virtual retreat.

On my desk last week was the start of a page inspired by a workshop by Kate Crane - I have finished this - this was the background:


And this is it finished:


I continued the journal pages inspired by Niamh Baly:










This is this week's Tiny piece of Art.  This month the theme is Easter/Furry Friends so this is my fifth page of May: - the theme is Furry Friends  using magazine images and tissue. I used an image from Conjurer of Dreams as the main image. this is from the Facebook group and this month's colour challenge.


This means I have done one third of the year - 8 months to go...




I have started thinking about my ATC for next week, ready to be placed on my desk. However if anyone would like to swap with me (I am in Australia) please email me



Happy WOYWW! I did manage to get round to some of you last week but I hope I do better this week.



Saturday, 2 May 2026

12 Months of Christmas Link Up May 2026

  

  


This is my DT make for the April Challenge

This month the theme is "Lantern Glow "
Our sponsor is


Décosse's Dynamite Doodles

Today I have made a simple card using the paper from this: 



I started with a white card blank, matted it with blue and then the patterned paper.
I added another strip from the paper to add to the top of the card on dimensionals.


I used the rest of this second paper and die cut the Ho Ho Ho. I used a blue fineliner to emphasise this. I then added some sparkle.



Happy Crafting!

Friday, 1 May 2026

Color Dare #702


 

   This picture shows my make for the



Do pop over to the Color Dare Challenge and take a look at my teamies' makes.

This picture shows the challenge -

I used the three colours although the pictures make the grey/blue look much bluer.


I made two cards using a mosaic technique





Inside I added a strip of mosaic to decorate the message area.




Happy Crafting!
 

Outlawz Twisted Rhymes

   

This is a new Outlawz challenge which will scroll through the themes
Colour
Greetings
Sketch
 This challenge has no sponsors, but you do have the opportunity to win a top 3/Winner badge. Also, you can still enter your card (one only) to The Outlawz Challenges for a chance at a prize from one of our sitewide sponsors!


This month it is Songs and rhymes  where your make should be inspired by this poem,

 chosen by Wendy.



 

This is my card:



I used a blue card blank followed by a piece of 'watercolour' designer paper.

I then added the image from Vintage Image Craft



Finally I added a few gems.


 

The challenge is here


If you haven’t already, please join our Outlawz Challenges Facebook Fan Page and The Outlawz Challenges Sitewide blog to stay up on all the challenges taking place!

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Happy Crafting!

Conjurer of Dreams May Challenges

          

I am sharing a little of my make for the Conjuror of Dreams DT.

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




Some journal pages:


I recently took part in a Niamh Baly workshop where she used waterfall pages in a journal:


I thought this idea would be perfect for my pool party pages!


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.
APRIL/MAY CHALLENGE - details are HERE.



and find more on the Facebook Group

Happy Crafting!