Project 162: WOYWW and the letter Z

Happy Wednesday everyone!

I haven't been able to play What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday for a little while with crazy work commitments but I was determined to get involved this week. My desk looks staged but I promise it's genuine!

My big letter Z is something I'm making for the dog - Zippy - who sleeps in the kitchen and I thought I could make a big magnetic Z to hang on the back door above his bed. I haven't finished trimming it but it's a start!

On the right is a spare fashion girl stamp I colored and decided not to use in this set I made for a friend. I may make a one-off with it, we'll see. On the left is the set all finished and ready to be packaged up.

All around are the scraps from both projects, still haven't cleaned those up yet!

And then if you can make it out is a bunch of stamps I'm purposely leaving out as I want to use them - a set of hot air balloons, a big heart, and some chevrons.

All the usuals are left - promarkers, candi/bits and bobs storage, pencil box (with UHU sticking out the top) and just in shot in the far left is my ATG.

Because I can't help showing him off, here is Zippy:

Can't wait to see what you all have on your desks this week!

Project 149: WOYWW and flower girl thank you card

It's been a while since I've been able to join What's on your Workstation Wednesday but I was doing a fair bit of crafting this weekend so I thought I would stop by and have a snoop around!

I am cheating a bit with the main photo - this is what I took originally and was so ashamed by the mess I cleaned it so I could take another photo. Whatever gets the job done I say.

In fairness, I just had a big order come in from Craft Superstore so that accounts for the chaos but that's a lazy excuse, no?

Featured here I have a list from a big order, a few stamped pages I am trying out new techniques from a stamp course I am doing, my candy caddy and pro-markers and of course a pile of scraps that I haven't done anything with for ages. So precious about throwing out paper - why!?

You can also see my little cupcake (which has nothing in it - I just like it and think it looks fun and fits the chaos and have unfulfilled plans to use it some how) and J hanging on the wall which is a relatively new addition.

And then like a Where's Waldo/Where's Wally challenge (for the yanks/brits): spot the almost invisbile wine glass! 

The cards on the desk are part of a bigger order I am filling for my sister's wedding thank yous. She is having a cherry blossom theme and asked if I could personalise some of the cards for people in the wedding party. Here is a closer view of the one for her little flower girl, our cousin's 6 year old daughter:

I used a digi stamp of a little girl and made her all pink (my cousin's daughter is definitely a little pink girl) and die cut a scallop circle in a pink cherry blossom paper to match the theme. I topped hre with some glitter and bling and added a thank you over some washy tape (pink, natch). Simple and sweet.

To see a few other designs from the set, pop over to my post from this weekend for the grown up cards.

Can't wait to see what everyone else has on their desks - will definitely pop by!

Project 140: WOYWW and shower materials

Hello and happy Wednesday!

The headline shot here is of my desk for What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday - a challenge run by Julia on her Stamping Ground blog.

What you can see is all the makings of my sister's bridal shower materials - which is SATURDAY. GAH!

In the folder are pink menus, game response cards (like how well do you know the bride answer sheets) and some other bits and bobs. Around the folder are some border and corner punches as well as a heart punch, two boxes of bling and some ribbon - trying to work out how I'm going to jazz these up.

The yellow tin is my little tool box of necessities (corner rounder punch, craft knife, that kind of thing) and next to it are some stamps that I went through to see if I have anything that will work for the shower. Short answer is not really so I'm going to stick to punches and bling!

And then everything else are fixed features: my caddy of bling, ProMarkers, pencil/scissor/glue box and ATG.

Finally - last time I played WOYWW I revealed that I had my first celebrity endorsement as a friend was going to a baby shower for someone on Strictly Come Dancing, the UK's Dancing with the Stars. I can now reveal that the card was for the beautiful Erin Boag!

Plenty of the other dancers were there and I was thrilled that my card stood out from the pack. I loved it so much, here it is again:

Thanks for stopping by, I can't wait to see what you all have going on! x

Project 137: WOYWW 248 First entry

I have been following Claire's submissions to What's on your workdesk Wednesday for months, and I have always wanted to enter. But I never had a workstation! Whenever I wanted to craft I would get my little buckets, boxes and bags of craft things and sit on the floor, or couch, or table and make the thing and then clear it all away. For years this is how I did it.

When we moved into our condo recently I asked (nay, insisted) that I have a craft desk in our spare bedroom and here I am, finally ready to play along!

So my headline photo is my long-awaited desk. I have my ProMarkers in little cups (until I work out my long term solution), two little plastic caddies full of bits and bobs, a pencil container, cutting mat, ATG just out of shot, and then the interesteing bits: some paper scraps, some Little Claire stamps I'm coloring in and then the sample of papers that come with the Little Clair subscription Claire subscribed me to for my birthday.

I wanted to share the rest of my little craft station as well as I'm just so excited:

To the left is my wall sticker, my paper storage unit, paper cutter and bit box of bling. To the right is a shelving unit that has everything that doesn't fit in the desk: stamps, inks, ribbons, bows and other tools. It's the first time I've ever had an area that is really my own and I'm excited to have done a few projects there already.

I thought I would share the first card I made after assembling my desk last week, a card my colleague commissioned for her neighbor's baby shower. Her neighbor, I should mention, is a professional dancer from the UK's version of Dancing with the Stars - I've purposely not put her name in this as my friend didn't want my blog to get picked up by search before the shower - but afterwards I'm definitely going to ask her to get a picture of her holding the card. My first celebrity endoresment!

 

The brief was to make it as blingy and fabulous as possible and so when I was in doubt, I added more bling. Purple leopard paper is from Claire, the flowers are from a Papermania collection and the image is one I've used before, on a previous "Knocked up" and fabulous card.

All in all, I'm so excited to be a part of the WOYWW crew, can't wait to have a nosy around your workstations! xJT