Tuesday's Projects

Good morning... do any of you crafty friends have projects you need to do and then sit down and make a bunch of non-related items?  Today's projects fall into that catagory, I'm suppose to be making a 50th birthday card and a dozen book themed cards, funny how none of these projects have anything to do with those commissions.

This any occasion card uses this week's Play Date Cafe colors and the current Make It Monday challenge (use leaf dies to make a flower).  This card is out of my normal box, a) no stamping, b) lots of patterend paper and b) a non-white or kraft card base.  Who knew!

My blog pal Lynn is the guest over at Retro Sketches and I sat down in my messy room with her card for the challenge (which you can spy on my desk-- thanks Lynn for sending it to me) and somehow, despite having all the pieces for a CASEd card, I made a coffee card.  Does that happen to you guys?  Many thanks to Maureen for the blog candy with the fun Verve Better With You set.  And don't you love how my mess is taking over the entire room, ha ha!!!  (And I'm going to add this to the fun WOYWD fun, haven't played along in a long time... not that I've ever been clean, and yes, I'm slightly cheating since I took these photos Tuesday morning, but....).  And one more challenge, there's a new blog called "A Blog Named Hero" and their challenge is to use one of your favorite Hero Arts stamps, seriously if anyone needs any enabling to buy the Classic Fabric background-- do it!  It's great, so versatile and useful.

 

Waltzingmouse Sketch challenge this week was the perfect sketch to test out my new Die-namics "Let's Toast" set.   I love the bright party scene in this month's Jay Gee's Nook challenge, while I'm switched ballons for banners, I'm sure my wine label and bottle of wine will be well received at this party.  There are more fun goodies in the MFT set that I'm sure will get some love in my crafty room, maybe after I finish the other cards?  Thanks for looking...  

Materials: Flower Card, PTI Rosie Posie dies, My Mind's Eye Six by Six patterned paper, PTI simply chartreuse card stock, vellum, PTI linen impression plate, Tim Holtz Distress stain antique linen, October Afternoon Farmhouse buttons

Coffee card: Verve Better With You, Lifestyle Letterpress flourish, Hero Arts classic fabric background cling, white and black card stock, vellum, blue patterend paper from stash, water color pencil, Stampendous clear embossing powder, Versafine black ink, Letterpress black ink, PTI kraft ink, PTI 1 3/4th inch limitless layers dies

Birthday Wine Label: Waltzingmouse Stamps Frame It sentiment, Paper Smooches chevron stamp, Lily Bee design banner stickers, PTI Tag It sale die, Twine, PTI kraft card stock, vellum, My Favorite Things die-namics wine label and wine glass die, water color pencils, PTI kraft ink, Versafine black ink, Stampendous clear embossing powder, Tatttered Angels black mist

life is good

Today I had a bonus morning off from work and while blog surfing I stumbled across this lovely post from Cosmo Cricket.  I decided to take to heart the idea of making a list and checking it off (next step is to follow her advice and have the kids do it too!), so I managed to get a number of projects done this morning and as a reward I went to Ben Franklin by myself and bought a mini deck of Circa 1934.  For $6 in bribery I managed to clean the house, put away 4 loads of laundry, do some yard clean up, put dinner in the slow cooker, write a work blog post and pay some bills.

Now back to the card.  I stamped the Mat Stack 4 Collection frame on a PTI coaster yesterday and left it sitting on my desk for the right occasion (good luck finding it below).  Keryn's doing a giveaway on her Facebook page to challenge people to finish a project, so I figured that was a good motivator.  And while I'm showing my messy desk, let's join in the fun over at Julia's Stamping Ground "What's On Your Workdesk." The card uses this week's sketch from Skipping Stones.  And I've used a SRM sticker for their "Big Boy" challenge.

Materials: PTI Mat Stack 4 Collection Frame, PTI All Booked Up boy with tree stamp, PTI Mat Stack 4 die, EK Success 1 3/4th inch circle punch, Fiskars tag punch, Twinery cappuccino twine, SRM Life is good sticker, PTI Kraft card stock, Cosmo Cricket Circa 1934 patterned paper, VersaMagic Jumbo Java ink, black sharpie, K  Co brown buttons, Paper Phine paper twine, PTI coaster

Sweetie

PTI's very first Make It Mondays challenge has a great video and tutorial.  My first attempt (b/c there's another in the wings) was to make a Valentine's Day card with a collection of sentiments.  I've used the Off the Wall Craftiness colors.  I've included one Hero Arts sentiment (sweetie) to make this work for their Valentine's day month long challenge.  I'm also going to enter this in Tiffany Doodle's Valentine's Day challenge.  And lastly I want to include 2 photos of my work-in-progress craft space, b/c it's been a long time since I played with the fabulous What's On Your Work Desk Wednesday gang.

Materials: Sweetie- Hero Arts, Be mine/Love you/sweet heart- PTI Daily Designs sentiment, I love you- PTI Mailbox Greetings, You warm my heart- PTI Warm happiness Too, Hearts- PTI Mailbox Greetings, Copic marker R85, My Mind's Eye Love Me Do patterned paper, Stampin Up red card stock, 2 pink buttons from stash, white string, Spellbinders Nestabilities Label 4

WOYWD and Children's Corner Challenge

I haven't played along with Julia's What's On Your Work Desk Wednesday for ages, but I have always loved the idea that there are other crafty folks out there that thrive in pure chaos.  If you read my earlier post you'll see that we're on a road trip, so this photo was taken at a friend's house, where we had a crafty pit stop.  My boys are on the left and my girlfriend's sons (who she prefers not to name on her blog) are on the right.  The boys made cards for the current Children's Challenge Corner, which is to use at least one piece of patterned paper.

WOYWD 

Mr. 11 year old

Ben's card

Mr. 8 year old

WOYWD

Julia at Stamping Ground helps celebrate messy desks week after week. I love seeing other people's crafting space. I am not neat and my work space will never be clean. These two photos are of the dining room table, a place I try not to craft at very often. I left the craft goodies out after a card making date and of course the boys decided that they wanted to play too. I should've known better.

What's On Your Work Desk Wednesday

I have joined in on the fun at Julia's Stamping Ground What's On Your Work Desk Wednesday in the past, and while I skipped last week I thought I'd come back and join the crew this week. The above photo was taken the other week, I was on a scrap organization mission. The reality is that the desk currently looks like the photo below. But at least now we all know that there is indeed a desk underneath the mess. The scraps are a bit more organized, but since I keep making lots and lots of cards I haven't been very good at keeping up with the organization (surprise, surprise!).

Ben's WOYWD

I have taken photos of my craft table for Julia's What's On Your Work Desk Wednesday the last couple of weeks over at Stamping Ground. I will admit that I took photos of my desk yesterday, but then got side tracked trying to tackle the overwhelming mess that I didn't post them. This morning my son wanted to make a thank you card for a girlfriend of mine (who recently sent him some books). I thought his work station on the dining room table was far more interesting then my overflowing chaos. I love that my children are so interested in cards and I love that Ben remembered that he needed to make a thank you card, I've got this boy well trained.

Materials: card stock from stash, googley eyes, Hero Arts Friends digital sentiment, Stampin Up square scallop cutter, Vellum cut into a star, Paper Source trailer stamp, Melissa & Doug ink, pink polka dot patterened paper, red circle scrap, ballpoint pen

What's On Your Work Desk Wednesday #55

Every week I think I'll clean my desk and every week it stays a mess. Mind you I've obviously been busy, as my blog will show, but the mess stays... These photos are for Julia's What's On Your Work Desk Wednesday Challenge over at Stamping Ground.

And for those of you who have visited in weeks past- don't worry the bed looks just as bad as usual. I didn't bother to take a photo, same ol same ol, "what bed? All I see is paper."

What's On Your Work Desk Wednesday #54

Another week, another messy desk & bed, nothing new to report here! I continue to make and make and make cards, so no real point in cleaning up? I had a moment of clarity over the weekend where I started to organize my scraps- both card stock and stamped images. But me, being me, I didn't finish the project, I was too busy making cards. These photos are for What's On Your Work Desk Wednesday over at Stamping Ground. I'm trying to get the date line/time zone sorted this week- bit more on top of it then the previous 2 weeks.

The photo above was the work-in-progress step for the card above. Read this post to see what I was up to, getting creative over here, even with the mess.

What's On Your Desk Wednesday Challenge #53

Last week I stumbled upon Stamping Ground's What's On Your Work Desk Wednesday Challenge, just in time for their 1st birthday. Thank you to all those lovely people who posted comments, who would've thought there was such a great group of people out there that enjoy looking at other people's messy desks. I am not a neat freak, by any stretch, and I love that I have a dedicated space (okay, I admit, I take over the whole room). I included another shot with my stamp storage- got some great feedback on those. My husband built them for me, so fun to be able to see the stamps instead of digging through the plastic bin that they use to live in.

What's On Your Desk Wednesday Challenge #52

I have just discovered the blog Stamping Ground and her lovely What's On Your Work Desk Wednesday challenge. I didn't even have to make a card, just show you my work space (which got cleaned up this afternoon!). I have drooled over some of the amazing craft spaces I have seen online, while I am happy that I have a dedicated space- I obviously need some help. My husband said I could take a picture, but only if I promised to show the bed. Hopefully we don't have any house guests soon!