Wednesday 13 March 2024

WOYWW 771

Good morning deskers, another week has flown and it's WOYWW time again. - desk sharing day.

I was playing in the large kraft journal with the new stencil branches redux - I used the mask element rather than the stencil,  and the tile floor (in blue) 

bit of a muddle of a page  and it felt forced in the end!  



for the first time in a while, there was sun at Kew on Saturday!


and the magnolias were looking marvellous!  



it's hair cut and colour day after work so if I don't get to you early or at lunchtime i'll be late!  
Happy WOYWW 



Wednesday 6 March 2024

WOYWW 770

 Happy WOYWW and happy March. we find ourselves at Wednesday again.. head to Julia's for the details to share your crafty spaces..

more new goodies!  Paperartsy Mattints -  matt glazes with gorgeous colours... 

I resisted the first 4 (top row) when they were launched a while back but a fantastic Facebook live last week by Leandra with a demonstration changed all that!
it was like being back at the Ally Pally craft shows watching her demo for hours on end.. though a lot more comfortable from my sofa!

you can still catch it on Facebook in the Paperartsy People group. 

I hope I have linked the post with the session in it... 
I also stamped out the new Dina images that came last week 
and the little faces (small versions of previously releases full sized stamps) 


I had a play with them in the small white Dina journal














and then it was time to play with the Mattints


I prepped the background whilst the painted tissue (see below)  was drying.



the stripy colours are the leftover tints just added to the journal then added some stencilling (numbers) and stamping
the images I painted with the tints are from the Paperatsy printed tissue - and now I need to buy some more of those too -  the ones I have are from the original sheets that Paperartsy used to use as packaging to their suppliers before they decided to sell them!


they are now producing sheets from several of their signature designers stamp ranges and .... yes, I need them!


the tints are transparent glazes and can be layered and blended and you don't lose any of the tissue design .  I see lots of opportunities.






here's a tag I coloured as my first play with them too


you can build up layers of colour to intensify the tint - and not lose the stamped design, 



ok, I feel like I'm on a sales pitch, and I am really not; just excited! 





time to wish you happy WOYWW  and leave you to a soggy Kew at the weekend..

plenty of puddle picture opportunities...
but also signs of spring abounding! 

See you soon!  







Wednesday 28 February 2024

WOYWW 769

 Another Wednesday, another month done, just about... another Wednesday another new goodies reveal...

Happy WOYWW indeed!  head to Julia's for the link to the rest of the desks. 

Dina this time.. new stamps and stencils 
you can't really tell from the first photo what this is -  a branchy mask and stencil - a revisit on a long sold out design that is re-introduced 
YAY

Not had chance to play yet, they only just arrived. 



page in the black Dina journal from the weekend, playing with the new Dina colours again.  
and a page in the kraft journal too

I actually tore out a sheet of the Dina Collage Sparks collective  - A6 sized double sided pieces of Dina's art to spark your imagination.. I decided it was time to USE one of them... I added to it with a stamped image (right hand side of the front here), one of her male figures stamps) and some transparency (get me, using those as well!)  
the trouble with double sided pieces of art or patterned paper or whatever, is you have to either sacrifice one side, or find a way to add it to your substrate so you can see both sides...  I used a strip of the Dina sticky back canvas tape (first time using that too... what's wrong with me!)

i quite liked the colours on the kraft page (mainly the new mustard paint)  that I didn't want to totally cover that up so instead of using the Dina circles stencil that would blot out the colour, I drew round the circles instead... 


It just remains to link Saturday's trip to Kew and the orchids again 

well ok, I know this isn't an orchid, but I love the purple! 
these are orchids though!  



Have a happy desk-hop and see you soon!  

Wednesday 21 February 2024

WOYWW 768

 Wow, it's Wednesday again, must be time for WOYWW 

What have you been creating this week?  

I'm still of a bit of a card making kick

and journal play too...




the new Dina Wakley paint colours are really pretty!  




Kew on Saturday was  as usual, lovely.  Kim managed to get there as she is down to one crutch and getting mobile again, and after several long months it was great to catch up in person rather than What's App 

hopefully Mary Anne will be able to see the bigger chameleon - made from mosses and pieces of plant   .  
we found some beautiful funghi under the tree ferns in the Temperate house 


Thanks for looking, happy WOYWW  

Tuesday 13 February 2024

WOYWW 767

 Here we are again, Wednesday - time for another get together with Julia at the gang at the Stamping-Ground. 

It's been a kind of card making week - well Sunday; seems to be my only crafting time these days. By the time I get home from work and eaten, all I want to do is slump in front of the tv. 

I used the new Paperartsy products mainly although the centre piece is from a previous Paperartsy release that i'd not inked before...
you can see I like that numbers stencil lots!

the dragonfly is from a Tracy Scott Paperartsy release from a year or (more) ago.. again not used before!
then I played more in the journal - the numbers stencil again!!  I stamped loads more different numbers over the page, and the new Paperartsy birds -  I don't like the way this page turned out I wish I;d left it at the numbers!  
started another couple of journal pages too... 

was quite a productive Sunday!  





Kew on Saturday was another walk round the orchids mainly but outside, lots and lots of crocuses.   
the smallest of the chameleons in the display is so cute!
had it not been so muddy from the week's rain I would so have laid down on the grass to get closer to the crocus "carpet"




I wish you all a happy WOYWW and Valentine's day if you celebrate, with your loved ones.  See you next week. 

Wednesday 7 February 2024

WOYWW 766

 I have to start by talking about the tragic news about Zoe's son.  Zoe was a big part of WOYWW for a long time and we followed her son Keagan's career as a jockey with interest.  I was stunned beyond belief to see via Facebook and then on the BBC website, about his untimely death in a race at the weekend.  I cannot begin to know what Zoe and the rest of her family are going through.  

I am sure all deskers who knew Zoe will feel the same.

So, desk time then... I had another delivery in the week - the last for a while I think. (probably)

some new paints from Dina, very pretty colours!  
The blue would be right up Zoe's street (her beloved Bristol Rovers'  team colours) 

the page I didn't share last week for fear of having nothing this week, got wrecked and painted over in black gesso before adding some of the new colours, just to test them!  
I carried on in my A5 sized journal...
and made a couple of cards...

the colours on this one were whilst I was watching Liverpool (sadly losing) on Sunday, they were playing in our purple away strip....







The first weekend of Kew's Orchid Festival was fabulous  lots of colour in the Princess of Wales conservatory...

the animals the team makes always make me smile

main display.




I'll be back again this weekend.





I will be late home from work today, so if you're not a very early desk poster, I'll be round when I can! Happy WOYWW 


Wednesday 31 January 2024

WOYWW 765

 The last Wednesday of January - who stole that month?!  Welcome along for another round of WOYWW with the deskers at Julia's  

I had my new goodies come.... both on the same day, one to work (too big for the letterbox) and one at home (did fit the letterbox!)  

all courtesy of Paperarty's new releases and Stampers Grove for speedy service...


I put some of them to play straight away (well at the weekend)


a journal page
a  card (I need a birthday card for a friend but not sure she'll quite appreciated being labelled "aged to perfection" although she is the same age as me!) 
















another journal page... I was watching You Tube and saw one of the Paperartsy followers playing with the new stamps from Seth - the words particularly.

she had inked the words in (black ink) and then added some of the paint - I used the tomato and the rusty fresco you spread a bit of paint over a surface (she used an acrylic block I used my craft mat) and then stamp the stamp onto the paint before transferring it to your journal page  - only tried it on the "tortured texture" words  but like the grungy effect and will be using it again. 
then I finished the pink page from last week - added a few bits to the little tag and fixed the tag to the page. 



I did start another page but I think this is enough for one week - and besides, I might not do anything this weekend and will be forced to stage a desk next time!! 







I also had a nice morning at Kew, it turned sunny and almost felt mild!  

the witch hazel is coming out nicely


Next Saturday is the first day of the orchids festival so there will definitely be colour then!

Thanks for looking, will catch your desks very soon.  Happy WOYWW.