WOYWW 206

Holy smokes where have the weeks gone? I've been participating in WOYWW for the past seven months! Can you believe this world-wide hop has been going for FOUR YEARS! Congrats to our hostess, Julia. Please visit her blog The Stamping Ground for all the info and links to join us in our snooping desk hopping.

So my desk Tuesday night shows where I've left off working on a piece of canvas covered board. The board you may remember from last weeks WOYWW pic. This week I'll be adding a stencil design with embossing paste, stamping with distress inks and a few other goodies waiting in the wings.

I've used a photocopy of this beautiful pic taken by Kay. The minute I saw this picture card I was inspired and knew I would use it in an altered piece.

I have nine signed up to swap anniversary ATCs! I'll be emailing y'all this week for your snail mail addy, if I don't have it already.

Have a great week everyone!

Celebrate!

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Smiles!

Afternoon everyone,

This will be my second post for today. I so enjoy the Friday Smiles! courtesy of A Stitch in Time, that I had to join again today.

Today's smile is featuring Baby ....boy can cats relax and chill, hey! FYI, it's 86F degrees. :)

I hope you've enjoyed my Smile! pic today.


p.s. the new google+ where all online posted pics go with this blogger ipad app I'm using, really blurs the pic. Sorry.

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evermore. . .

I always thought it was "Nevermore quoth the Raven", well, my raven is saying 'evermore'!

My texture is an embossing folder used on the Artful Dwellings brushed with gesso and the raven has been embossed with distress embossing powder. I flicked off some to leave smooth places and brushed more gesso.  The background has various blues and black soot distress inks blended then spritzed n flick. Love this technique! My saying was stamped with brown stazon ink using a hero arts mini alphabet stamp set.

Submitting to the following challenges:

Anything But A Card - ATCs

Fun With ATCs - Texture 

We're having wonderfully warm weather again. (think hi 80s!) And everyone seems to be in a light n bright spring mood except me. Hence, a rather Goth ATC. Hope you enjoy.

Celebrate living!

supplies: 
inks-distress, stazon
dies-th/sizzx artful dwellings
stamps-hero arts; stampers anonymous
paper-from my scrap bag

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WOYWW #205!

WOYWW's 4th anniversary is speeding towards us! Mojo don't leave me now...need an idea for my ATCs to swap! For all the details about the swap and other anniversary doings visit Ms Julia at theStamping Ground .

Now on to my desk...a few projects were left last night in the drying stages. Front and center is the piece I started in Andy's Book of Ruination class. I've finally made to the 'ready for the finishing touches' stage! With some of the leftover paint I've coated an ATC with weedy die cut. Plus a few die cuts to spare. I see now I should of grabbed a white piece of card and smooched onto the negative image on the mat. Oh well, I'll peel off this leftover paint and use it for texture on something else.

On the left you'll see a canvas board covered with distress stains, drying. The colors were inspired by the cool pic of the old sewing machine. In fact, see that stack of pics under it? That's the happy mail I received from Kay at 505whimsygirl ! Thank you Kay, I love them.

Just to the left of those is my attempt at faux burnt wood....stay tuned. :)

Have a wonderful day everyone! I'm out and about shopping for new glasses so I can better see all of your amazing work!

Celebrate the life!



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Letter 'A'

Here's my entry for the Alpha/Dictionary challenge at the Craft Barn using the letter A this fortnight. I'm also linking up with Hels for her Sunday Stamper - Blue challenge.

My word using the letter A is 'ascend'. So I have attempted to give you the impression of rising up out of the water. Ah, but maybe we're still in the water? My inspiration came from the Yellow Submarine video. 

My page was swiped through distress stains; salty ocean and stormy sky. Once dry I stamped splotches uses distress metallic stain and distress metallic paint in tarnished pewter. The distress paint actually adds a bit of texture when dry. For added texture I've used a varying sized circle stencil and translucent embossing paste. Over this base I've stamped the hot air balloon from a new prima set and the rising bubbles from designs by ryn. These are so cool! I need to practice adding white to them and get a decent white pen (on order now).  Along the bottom we have the balloons rising up out of a bit of wispy seaweed.  I'm not to happy with my distressing on the edges, I should of used black. Oh well, a journal is for learning by making mistakes and so I learn.

Celebrate ... it's the weekend!

hope you can see the translucent bubbles

this shows the distress stain and paint better in the tarnished pewter.

Supplies: distress metallic stains and paint, distress ink, archival ink, stamps: prima and designs by ryn,
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A Whole New Meaning...

...to "someone's reading over my shoulder"! As I was WOYWW snooping this week T wanted to snoop too. :) Probably wanting to catch a glimpse of those handsome cats out in blog land!




Now we can't forget Baby this week on the Friday Smiles here at A Stitch in Time. Here she is all set to go shopping. :)




Have a wonderful weekend y'all.

Smile! :)


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WOYWW 204

Holy smokes! Isn't the 4th anniversary of WOYWW on week 208?! That's an amazing feat, Julia! Bet it has grown some in those years, huh?! :)  Need some insight about this phenomenon? Pop over to Julia's Stamping Ground blog for all the deets and links to crafty desks around the world.

I need to print some of the WOYWW logos for my ATCs and then get them made. Let me know in your comments if you would like to swap. I'll swap with the first twelve who leave a note in their comment. :)

On to my crafty desk....all kinds of stuff going on as I'm working on my Craft Barn Alpha/Dictionary challenge. Our letter this fortnight is 'A'.  Although I don't see the blog updated yet. One of the DTs had the info on their blog yesterday.

So on my desk, there's distress inks, metallic stains and the new metallic paint. Some new Prima stamps and other bits and bobs. I've covered my page so I don't show too much before it's posted.

Enjoy your snoop. I'll be snooping some tonight and then on Friday. Thursday is my first class for May. Is it May already? I think I lost April would someone send it back .... please!

Celebrate life!



Oh almost forgot! We went to the Leesburg Bikefest last weekend. Now this is a Bikefest! Leesburg knows how to throw a party, they close off 4 square blocks downtown for bikes only. Tried to get some pics to show the crowd and all the bikes. Main Street had three rows of bikes. A row on each side and one down the middle.

Four blocks of foot peg to foot peg...BIKES!

Still lots of tourists but fewer than at Daytona

20' of clear sidewalk! Didn't last long :)

Next is Octoberfest. :)

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