WOYWW - spooky things!

Hi all, i am here and i did miss joining in last week with Julia and everyone  re'Whats on your workdesk Wednesday' but my craft room had been taken over during the week by the loft contents as it was being insulated. Luckily thats all done and after spending all day saturday putting it back was able to get back into my craft room retreat :)

Anyway this is a picture of my desk taken in the midst of making halloween tags for a swop over on Docrafts. I had made a spiders web using scal and my cricut for a stencil and used black soot distress ink over the top. You can also see my martha stewart cobweb punches (which i didnt use), diecuts cut out using the cricut,my ink pads in their named individual bags on a jump ring. The wreath is one i made at a workshop at Exeter craft show using gilded flakes and to the left hanging down is a silver spider bookmark i got from my friend Kelly who saw it and thought of me :)

So if you want to join in or find out a bit more about woyww, just pop over to see Julia at the Stamping ground . And this is the finished tag

And for those who asked about my crafting gloves from the last woyww i joined in you can find them here and they keep my hands warm and toasty.Well my old cat Mitzi decided she wanted to get our attention early this morning (5.30am!) so shall be coasting along today i reckon but will visit all blogs with the same numbers as me when i post over at Julia's blog and anyone who leaves me a comment,x

Swop tags - a little bit of johnny depp :)

Hi all, well cant believe its a week since i made and posted anything to my blog but its taken me a week to get back to normal along with working so thats my excuse and i am sticking to it....lol
So this is another of my catch up projects and is for a tag swop over on Docrafts

Ingredients used

octopode factory 'mad hatter' digi

coloured with promarkers

tag coloured with distress inks- ripe persimmon, salty ocean & squeezed lemonade

clock stamped on background - freebie from craft stamper

added glossy accents to glasses

eyelet,ribbon & gems from stash

I have managed though on saturday to move my craft room around again.....lol. And do some organising and weeding out which always helps when my mojo goes walkies. Will take some pictures to show you all another time. Off now to nosey at your blogs,x

May Swop Tags and some cat food lids!

Yes you read it right,cat food lids with the odd dog ones thrown into the mix.....lol. I follow a blog where once a week where you can nosey around peeps desk,pick up some tutorials,drool over their stash and also pick up some fab tips and one of them was to use the foil lids for embossing backgrounds.But i thought i would have a go cutting them out to make metal looking cogs and this is the result.

May swop tags

Aren't they effective,had great fun making these tags. The theme was monochrome and i was able to use my new stash ( see post here) on these tags too.Here is a close of one of the tags.

Ingredients for tags

Tim Holtz tag die

Tim Holtz gadget gears die

Distress ink - weathered wood

Mask - cogs (special touch of)

cat & dog food lids

Promarkers - cool greys range

Versamark pen and clear embossing powder

Creative expressions stamp set - steampunk dreams

gems and ruffle from stash

These have gone in the post now so hope they like them,going to have a chilling day as been a hectic week at work so shall be nosing around your blogs and hello to my new followers,x

WOYWW and new goodies :)

How naughty of me to have not posted anything between now and last woyww...tut,tut....................lol
I have a sick note so does that count!  Anyway bugs are on the way out and my crafting mojo is alive and kicking :) So you have come here via your reading list or most likely from Julia's blog 'Stamping ground' and you want a nosey at my desk so here it is

Well whats on there today,ahmm lets see,theres the start of my two tags for the tag swop over at Docrafts, along with the stash i am using and if you look closely i have my new yummy distress inks,just waiting to be used.In the pot to the right are baby wipes (ease of travel to meets),versamark pen and on top of my tim holtz dies is the last cat food lid that i have been using to make the cogs on the tags. Saw that tip on my rounds around woyww last week and need to try the embossing with them next.

Side view of my desk

 Went to the Yeovil craft meet on sunday and though i didnt finish anything apart from colouring a image(totally pooped to be honest) i had a fab time and managed to purchase some new craft goodies as we were above the craft shop :) so this is my new stash along with my new inks from oysterstamps

My new stash

Right nothing left to do but go to work now and catch up on your blogs later,thanks for taking the time to visit me  and if you want to see some other desks hop on over to here,x

WOYWW and a late night.......yawn!!

Well am rather bleary eyed this morning as stayed up late making a album to store swop tags in so excuse me if i go for a snooze soon!
Anyway this is my desk as off VERY late last night,when i remembered to take a picture before i did my normal tidying up as i am rather a neat freak ( i know how strange........lol)

I was following a tutorial which you can find here and using my new boofle papers which are rather cute. On my desk you can see my martha stewart board which i love,new ladybird scissors,uhu glue (go through it by the bucketful) and on the desks pull out board my bin,cutter and album base. You get extra marks if you can spot my homemade stamp a ma jig also made following a tutorial.

And this new piece of fab storage to hold my acrylic blocks and inks pads cost me the grand sum of 50p at a car boot sale. It has also freed up some more desk space :)

Just need to add some decoration to my album once i have woken up and then i will post it to my blog. I have the week of so shall enjoy it looking at your blogs as missed joining in last week but thanks for all the kind words re the death of my cat Otiz,x

Tag album finally finished!!

Hello everyone and hope you are having a fab Easter. Would like to say thanks so much for your kind words and hugs re the loss of my white cat Otiz,still finding it strange without him but know hes not suffering now. My other cat Mitzi is almost 18 and Sam the dog will be 11 this year are also missing him but have been spoiling them with lots of fuss and treats so am sure they will be ok.
Anyway been playing around with this album for a while and struggling with some of the pages so had put it away but after help from Kelly at the last Bristol craft meet made the elusive last pages and all that was left to do was decorate it,which is the fun part :).

front of cover

charms from primark

grunge board cut out using tim holtz die and added fastner

all pages are interactive,have pockets and flaps

some of my fave papers

I used First Edition 'Desert bloom' papers,recycled dog biscuit box for the covers, 7gypsies cable ties(donated by kelly), Tim holtz 'hardware findings' die. Grungeboard,pearlised card for mats, pearls, flowers, butterflies and dress form from stash and the charms were £1 from primark.

Now i need to just fill it up either with tags or photos,or maybe just admire, big decision..........lol

Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog and if you leave a comment i will happily return the visit,x


UPDATE- blogger being naughty and i cant change the last bit of font to the same size as above and could only add writing as a caption so hope you can all read it ok,x



Mini album finally finished :)

Hi all,well this is a project i started at the last Bristol craft meet and was awaiting some finishing touches.Have decided to use it as a photo album of this year and aim to use my camera more and not just for taking pictures for here or my docrafts gallery.

front cover



The album is double sided and has pockets for tags and loads of mat for photos so i have no excuse not to use it.

I used First Edition Isabelle paperpack for all the mats,tabs and even on the butterflies.

The butterflies are from my favourite punch (EK success butterfly layering punch) and you have the option of cutting out 3 butterflies which you can use on your own or layer up.

Tags for inside were cut out on my cricut and i then added tabs which were made with the stampin up tag punch which i nabbed off sue......lol. Its on the top of my wish list at the moment along with a hundred other items i would love!

Well i have finished it just in time as tomorrow i am off to this months meet......lol
Off to catch up on your blogs and thanks for taking the time to visit me,x

Tim Holtz 12 days of Xmas tags - day three tag

Hi all,well i am still behind with my tags but intend to catch up eventually...lol so here is tag 3 for you to look at.
i diecut the bird using the tim holtz caged bird die and music paper i had got from a charity shop and then coloured used barndoor distress ink,added rock candy stickles and left to dry. i didnt have the tree stamp so drew my own but dont look too closely!,inked tag using green distress inks and walnut stain around the edges and distressed using scissors.had to do water droplets but mine ended up as more of a flood...lol,used stampin up script stamp and green distress ink to go on background and added a printed xmas picture and flowers with some glamour dust on and added 3 different green ribbon to finish off,thanks for taking the time to look,x

Tim Holtz 12 days of Xmas tags - day 2

Hi all,well i am already behind on this challenge....lol but aim to catch up. Well afraid not as happy with this tag as the last one but enjoyed the process.You can find Tim's tags here.
i have stamped,embossed and made my own reinker pad using felt also!Had to adapt some items but thats part of the fun,see you soon,x

Tim Holtz 12 days of Christmas tags - day one

Hi all,bet you thought i had disappered...lol but been too busy to blog.Have joined the tag challenge hosted by sue aka playingwithpaperover at Docrafts to recreate the Tim Holtz 12 days of Christmas tags and this is my attempt at day one. You can find the original challenge over at Tim's blog. I have tweaked mine slightly to allow for materials etc and i got really messy but had great fun. My list of ingrediants for this tag are
Tim Holtz tag die and rickety house die and a sizzex fence die
brushed courduroy,walnut stain,old paper,barn door, faded jeans and tumbled glass distress inks
grunge paper,snow cap dabber, glamour dust (which is my new addiction), mini mister and perfect pearls,snowflake stamp,star brad,wreath topper,cottonwool bud,ticket which you can get here at the lovely lisa's blog.
First i diecut my house and then used brushed courduroy and walnut stain on house,added snowcap dabber and glamour dust,used my secret ingrediant for the glass(quality street wrappers) and added a wreath topper,diecut tag and then stamped blue ink pads onto my mats and added some perfect pearls mixed in water and dried,repeated this 3 times and then stamped snowflakes using faded jeans distress ink.added my star brad and glued house to tag and added smoke and ticket,diecut fence and added snow by using the snowcap dabber and glamour dust and then glued into place.

Sorry that was such a long post and i hope you have stayed to the end,see you tomorrow