WOYWW 139

It's time for another peep at everyone's workspace hosted by the wonderful Julia - WOYWW 139.

The eagle-eyed among you will perhaps note that it's still Tuesday evening when I'm preparing this post, so, yes, the photos has been taken this evening rather than Wednesday. John has appointments up at Guy's tomorrow, so there'll be no time to do anything like this before we go. When we get back we've got to clear some stuff from this room because someone is coming at 8:00 am Thursday morning to fit a new carpet - yes, 8:00am!!

Anyway, Julia has already started the post for WOYWW 139, so it would be rude not to join in early, wouldn't it?!

I've done no crafting since the weekend, so no blogging. I decided that I needed to spend some time doing some other essential things - one of those being that I desperately need to sort out my computer - I have so much stuff on it and some that has accumulated and not been sorted into folders ... too busy crafting, I suppose ... but it's got to the stage where it's going to be worth spending time sorting it rather than be in a muddle. I have memory sticks, external hard drive, online storage in a few places ... I need to streamline this. I'm still working on it.

I needed a break yesterday, so I caught the bus over to the Nugent Retail Park in Orpington and went to Hobbycraft for a tootle around. So, in the absence of any actual crafting atm, here are the goodies I got, including some more little boxes to further sort my craft stuff - yes, that's the next job to be done after the computer is sorted. So I'm not sure whether I'll actually be able to get much crafting done this week. However, you can just about see that I've stamped and coloured the new Crafter's companion 'a little kiss' stamp (just had to have a little crafty play) - this is going to be for a card for a few challenges, so I'm hoping I'll be able to fit that in.

Enough of my waffle. Here are my photos:

I was glad that I got round to quite a few WOYWWers last week, but apologise that I didn't get round to everyone - perhaps I'll do better this week! I'll try! Thank you for everyone who left comments for me - much appreciated.

Tickling the ivories

'Tickling the ivories' is the name of the House Mouse stamp I've used for this card - I love this stamp, but haven't used it for a while, but when I saw that House mouse 111 was to make a black and white card I thought of it. It was simply stamped with memento tuxedo black and mounted on black card. The background music paper was taken printed My Craftwork Studio tinkering with steampunk CD, changing it to black and white. I then used a couple of strips of Tim Holtz tissue tape mounted on to black card across the top - this is another card for this week's Daring cardmaker's wishi washi challenge.

It's also for:

Crafts4eternity R56: clean and simple
Card and scrap 24: clean and simple
Crafters cafe blog: CAS challenge
Totally gorjuss 116: K.I.S.S.
The craft garden January: monochrome

Stamp, scrap & doodle: anything goes

Bizzy Becs January: anything goes

Victorine: anything goes

Simon says: anything goes

Inspire me Fridays 43
52 card pickup week 4

Simply thanks

This is a simple card using scraps that were still out from making previous cards - they didn't even make it into my offcuts box (although there are still some scraps left that will). Anyway, it's for the sketch for Mojo Monday 225:

 As I used scraps this is my first card of the week for Pixie's Crafty Snippets 5:

It's also for:

Take time for you 59: blue and white
Creative craft: we're talking the colour blue
Crafting for all seasons 19: blue & white
Kaboodle 103: thank you
Challenge up your life 60: thanks
Crafts4eternity R56: clean and simple
Card and scrap 24: clean and simple
Crafters cafe blog: CAS challenge
Totally gorjuss 116: K.I.S.S.
The craft garden January: monochrome

Stamp, scrap & doodle: anything goes

Bizzy Becs January: anything goes

Victorine: anything goes

Simon says: anything goes

Inspire me Fridays 43
52 card pickup week 4

In the pink for Christmas

Today's challenge on Facebook's Sunday's with Santa is to use unconventional colours for our Christmas cards. Christmas cards all year round for January are also asking for non traditional colours, so these are also for that.

Paper is DCWV plus Kanban topper, for Catered crop: print, also for Shelly's terrifically thrilling Thursday: text me :

Paper is Basic Grey eskimo kisses plus Kanban topper - colours for Dancing in pajamas TCP 193:

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These are also for:

Crafts4eternity R56: clean and simple
Card and scrap 24: clean and simple
Crafters cafe blog: CAS challenge
Totally gorjuss 116: K.I.S.S.
The craft garden January: monochrome
Dare to be sassy Thursday 109: Christmas/winter

Stamp, scrap & doodle: anything goes

Bizzy Becs January: anything goes

Victorine: anything goes

Simon says: anything goes

Inspire me Fridays 43
52 card pickup week 4

Christmas critters

It's time for a challenge among the Christmas Card Club girls and this time Pinky has asked us to include a critter on our card. Mine is a very simple card, using a Kanban topper. The background paper is another delightful one from Websters Pages (I'll be really sorry when I've used the last of these ... although it will be a good excuse to buy more).  Please click on the links on my sidebar to see what the rest of the CCC girls have been up to with this challenge.

This is also for:

Dare to be sassy Thursday 109: Christmas/winter
Dream valley 24: animals
Blog-a-doodle: include an animal
Freshly brewed 80: snow/winter
Little red wagon 117: winter wonderland
Jellypark friends: winter wonderland
Gingerloft 32: let it snow
Crafty boots: inspired by a song title: We wish you a merry Christmas
Cutie pie 20: favourite song (for Christmas)

Stamp, scrap & doodle: anything goes

Bizzy Becs January: anything goes

Victorine: anything goes

Simon says: anything goes

Inspire me Fridays 43
52 card pickup week 4

Brown and blue butterflies

This is for sketch on Stamps + fun = creativity 83:

The card blank is a dark brown. I've used a strip of scrap paper across the middle and a couple of bands of some blue/cream lace that I bought at a local market quite a while ago - this is for Pile it on 4: add lace, also for Scrappy frogs: lace and PaperPlay 4: lovely lace.

I used a Kanban stamp, stamping the butterflies again on to some blue paper, so that they were paper-pieced - this is for Paper sundaes 104. The butterflies are for Fashionable stamping 13: butterflies or bugs, also for Lollipop crafts 64: wing it.

Lots of sparkle with the blue gems on the flowers and butterflies for Deep ocean 17: sparkle.

Colours are for Sassy Cheryl 99: light blue & brown, also for Sugar creek hollow: cream, blue & brown

Male birthday card

This is for the sketch on Technostamper Monday lunchtime 205:

This is also for