What's on your Workdesk Wednesday? #639

Wednesday again, so I am linking to the Stamping Ground. 

Follow the link to find out more and maybe join in... This is my post for WOYWW #639

Here in Australia it is the first day of Spring - and we could sit out to eat lunch...

The trees and bushes are in bud or even flower...

Lockdown has been extended again - the numbers are creeping up - so I have just been to the Post Office to post off some Birthday and Birth Day gifts - not waiting any longer to meet up!!

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But what crafting have I been doing? Well, probably like many of you, I always have several things on the go at once...

On this desk you can see a couple of cards I made using a new foam stamp from ScrapFx and a journal page that has had gesso, paint and tissue printed images added - ready for the next stage....

On this desk you can see some cards I just made trying out the Creative Expressions Poinsettia die that arrived in the post today, new Dina Wakley stamps that also just arrived and the start of a mini-journal courtesy of Marjie Kemper. In the foreground on top of my Cricut is a part-done Organic Doodle a la Tracy Scott.

Most of these have not been added to yet because I have been helping Kevin with his boatbuilding:

On Sunday I did a virtual workshop and produced this:

I have booked into a couple of virtual retreats - one in September, one at the end of October - But am hoping we will be out of lockdown by then - who knows?

Hope you are all well - stay safe...

Happy WOYWW !!

Once again Effy is doing a month-long Blog Challenge on Facebook.

This will be my first share there too...

Patterned Paper Challenge September 2021

   

Here is my make as part of the Design Team of

 Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge!!

a monthly challenge to encourage crafters to use their patterned paper

Do take part as you may win a prize...

Today I am sharing a journal page...

I used Colour Blast Shimmer Dust in Passion and Sunflower to colour the paper doll and the background. The background was first formed using embossing ink through stencils and then white embossing powder. I did the same with the paper doll body. 

The paper doll is a Michelle Grant Designs image.

Before I added the paper doll I added several strips of patterned paper

 from a Tim Holtz paper pad.

I added a crown and a scrap of gold across the top of the dress using gold foiled card.

The die is a Bo Bunny die.

Finally I added 'Once upon a Time' in black letter stickers.

Hope you will join in with the Patterned Paper challenge!

Happy Crafting!

Addicted to Stamps and More - Birthday Challenge #413

Here's my Birthday project...for Challenge #413 at Addicted to Stamps and More

Recipe:

1. White card blank.
2. Stampendous stamps Rose Friend stamped with black Archival.
3. Painted with water colours.
4. Sentiment - Happy Little Stampers stamp.
5. Penwork around the edges.
6. Splatter.

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

Happy Crafting!

Steampunk Serengeti Blog Hop 2021 Post #26 August 31

  Once again Leigh is leading a hop...

LeighSBDesigns Steampunk Serengeti Blog Hop!

August 6 - 31, 2021

The hop has now been extended to September 4th.

For more details hop over to Leigh's page

Here is another ATC for my Serengeti booklet...

Trawling through the internet (again) I came across this article.

A newly identified killifish species from the iconic Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, has been named after Sir David Attenborough in recognition of his dedicated efforts to promote biophilia – an awareness of the wonders and beauty of nature.

I printed a photo of the fish and cut it out to add to an ATC.

To make the background I used an ATC sized piece of Yupo card, spun in the salad spinner with alcohol inks. I trimmed this a little and placed it on some back card.

I will link this ATC to Leigh's Linky

The reason I thought of a fish today is because of a Facebook memory.

In 2016, 5 years ago today, my daughter and I were in Kuala Lumpur visiting an aquarium - and this fish jumped out of a tank in front of us...

Happy Crafting!

Spooky Garden Flowers!

This is today's post for Oddball Art Co !

For this project I am using

Digital Stamp Creepy Cute Eyeball & Bones Flowers Spooky Garden Image No. 340

I have produced another journal page...

Step ONE

First I prepared a background.

After a layer of white gesso, I added colour using water colours, sprays and inks. The trees are stamped with black Archival using some unnamed stamps.

 

Step TWO

I printed the images and added colour with watercolours and black and white pens.

Step THREE

I cut out the various images.

Step FOUR

I then decided where I was going to place all the images and attached them with white glue.

Step FIVE

I added black distress around the edges and white coloured pencil round all the images.  The sentiment is one I had in my stash (from Karen Yates).

Finally I added more splatter.

You will see a similar post on the Oddball Blog.

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