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Hello and thank you for visiting my workdesk this week. As you can see, not a lot going on as have just completed an ATC swap for Quirky Crafts, sorted and posted back to the recipients yesterday.

Coaster now in use with coffee cup in place. What else? New Penny Black stamps, trusty craft knife, DST and palette for using watercolour crayons (bottom left) and my new best friend - Stone Gray Stazon. I do use black but have always preferred timber brown until I tried Pippa's gray the other week and really like the effect that wasn't too harsh. There in the centre is a mini canvas that I painted cream and stamped in a tulip pattern in red as a trial of some artwork for our newly decorated bedroom. Although I filled the back it still didn't print too well - I'm sure I can add a few other bits and change it's purpose!

Please note Julia that the tidy up didn't last too long and I have gone back to the push aside method again!

Thank you for all your lovely comments last week especially about my coaster and I hope you enjoy visiting again.


I have just taken a close up of this decoration that some of you have mentioned in the past. It is a bookring onto which I am attaching some of my favourite larger stamps as shrink plastics - this week I have added a couple of pandora style beads as spacers too - all looking rather pink and pretty!

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Hi all. After my last posting for WOYWW I did tidy my desk before Pippa came but it got untidy again so I have tidied it up before I took this pic!

So what have I got on there, well bottom right is a card I have made last night for Sunday Sketch and Stamp with my new Penny Black stamps - I'm not a big fan of cutesy stamps but I do love these hedgehogs.

To the left is a crackle stamp I borrowed from Pippa and some stamped images I took from her stamps whilst she was here. The red bit in the middle of the pic is a Crafty Individuals stamp I won from a mag (see an earlier post) on alcohol inks.

And behind my workmat is the coaster I have finally finished, it is a off cut of ply-wood that I was determined to do something with and have been adding bits as and when inspiration struck, I finally finished it last week and am really pleased with it, have added a close up pic of it below.

Well thank you for visiting and I look forward to having a nose around your workdesks too.

Sir Stampalot Challenge

I hae just come across a fab monthly challenge at Sir Stampalot with some beautiful DT creations and a scrummy prize, the theme this month is blossoms and butterflies. I have an old piece of plywood which I have been altering into a coaster and which I finished this week which I think fits the theme nicely:

Sunday Sketch & Stamp #28

There is a lovely sketch over at Sunday Sketch and Stamp that inspired me so much I threw together a card really quickly using my lovely new stamps.

Hope you like, sorry I haven't joined in much recently, but great sketch this time Maggie.

Latest Quirky Crafts Challenge

Quirky Crafts Challenge No 28

Our latest challenge has gone live this evening and it's Deanne's choice this week: Chocolate and Cream mmmmm - sounds scrummy! Here is my card in which I have used one of my new Crafty Individual stamps and all the papers are from Craftwork Cards which I bought from their stand at Stamperama last year. The delish 'chocolate heaven' ribbon is from Crafty Ribbons - when they announced they were going to be one of our sponsors earlier in the year I had a peek on their site - Oops!

Blog candy from Passion for Crafts

Now I'm not one for blog candy, as I don't have the time for entering and keeping my blog that up to date. However I was visiting Debbie's blog, Passion for Crafts as she had entered out blog challenge at Quirky Crafts and fell in love with all she is offering for her birthday blog, I don't stand a hope of winning with over 600 comments! but if you don't try ..........................

So Happy Birthday Debbie and ooooh please let me be the winner!

Look what I won............

I often enter the prize draws and competitions in my favourite magazine Craft Stamper, as they always have some excellent goodies to give away. In the past I have won a couple of prizes including the whole range of Cute Companions when they first came out. But last Friday I had an envelope arrive full of Crafty Individual stamps. I adore their stamps they are so classical, so useful and such a change from the popular cutesy stamps.

Here is a pic of all the stamps I have been lucky enough to win, I'm chuffed to bits and can't wait to get using them.

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On my desk today is the card I have just finished for a friend, I got the idea from a small Denami stamp with a three tier cupcake stand and thought I can make one of those from my gorgeous and well used Hero Arts stamps.

The second shot is of the rest of my desk - you don't usually get to see this but my friend is coming tomorrow to do some crafting here and I am trying to shame myself into clearing it so she has somewhere to work too!!

My mug says "Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world" - bought for me by a friend who knows me very well.

Last time I was able to post I was working on a tractor card for my 3-year old Godson, some of you were kind enough to be interested in the finished creation, if you scroll down my blog you will see it, along with all the other family birthdays I had in April.