358 - WOYWW

Here we are again, another week has flown by and my desk is revealing very little.  To be fair I have been away all weekend teaching Distress Techniques to some lovely ladies and now I am putting my stuff away.  Pop along to My Stamping Ground to see what others have been up to - and what the main lady herself has been doing.  In the meantime, as promised over the past couple of weeks, here are my sample cards which I did for the Oyster Stamp Retreat held in Daventry:

This was my first card and I did it with a double mount.  Then realised I would have to cut lots of card for the ladies and also they could be a bit pushed to complete in the time allotted with two backgrounds and cutting more card.  So I went down a simpler route which enabled me to cut all the card for them, ready to Distress.

Now I am hopeless at thinking of cute sayings to put on these cards so this is the only one I came up with - I was quite proud of myself, but I don't think any of the ladies used this saying.

A card for a man!  We all struggle at times so I thought I would throw one in and here it is.  You might wonder about the blank bit at the bottom of my cards - that is for any sentiment you wish to use - Happy Birthday, Get Well Soon, Congratulations or whatever.  I often put cards in a box to be used later but don't put a sentiment on the bottom - that way it has multi uses.

So there are the first three of my six samples, done solely with Distress Inks (my faves remember). Won't carry on with any more as this is supposed to be about my workdesk, which is below, but will try to get the others uploaded at a later date, but not before too long.

Bottom left you can see a tag I made years ago with Leandra at a Stamp Camp.  Well, I used the idea again and we made tags on the Friday evening but unfortunately I was too busy to take any photographs.  Shame as there were some great tags produced.  I bought some more reinkers for my DI's and as I haven't worked out a great way of storing them I am trying to make dividers to fit in my Felix boxes - that is what is on my score board.  There is a piece of cream foam to the left of the board, that is what Liz gave me to finish my edges off when I make a box.  Thanks Liz!

As you can see Monkey and Katie Koala are sitting watching what is going on.  Monkey came via Tea Bags and Katie was a gift from my buddy, Shaz in Oz, when she visited me in Manchester. Looks as if she has lost her bow again!  That girl and her ribbons!!

See you next week ...