Look What I Recieved In The Post Today!!!

I won this amazing piece of art from Dyan Reavely called Beetle Crusher Tim! How lucky am I?!!
Thank you so much Dyan!
To have a look at Dyans blog click on the link at the left hand side!

WOYWW Wk 93

Hi WOYWWers! Not much been going on on my desk for the last couple of weeks, I have been feeling poorly, (sinus trouble and really bad migraines) but I am feeling much better and yesterday was the first day I felt like doing anything (shame it HAD to be sorting out and doing all the HW I hadn't been able to do).
The odd half hour I did sit at my desk I only managed a couple of things (none of them finished),
I did try a couple of image transfers (the skulls), stamped on a domino, and painted a few birds, oh and started a few ATC's but other than that nothing.

A close up of the pile of painted birds. I say painted they are coloured with Aquatone pencils and watered.

Dominoes, alcohol inked and stamped and the image transfered skull.

The skull domino and an atc with another image transfer skull.

A pile of unfinished atcs and a little book made from 1 sheet of 12x12 paper, instructions on Tim Holtz's blog (valentines book).

So that is it for this week, if you want to see more desks which are much more interesting than mine pop over to Julias Stamping Ground and feast your eyes on loads more!

WOYWW Wk 91

Well it's Wednesday again so it is time for WOYWW! Pop over to Julia's to see what it is all about!
On my desk today is, well as you can see just a few un finished things that have been there a few weeks as I have to find my mojo again! It has gone awol! So another day of chores if I can't find it! (Any sugestions? All these chore days are getting me down!)
I usually just make a few background pages but I have so many I really need to do something with them!
Oh well, I hope you all have your mojos attached firmly to you and are creating wonderful art!
Hopefully I might have something to show next week!

A Tag

I made this tag yesterday. I had one of those days. You know the ones. When you just can't think of anything to make. I just sat there in my room and stared at my desk for what seemed like hours. I reached for a tag, pushed play on my dvd player (it has the new Take That cd in it) turned it up loud and this is what came out!
Along the bottom is sticky backed silver tape which I ran through the Big Shot in one of Tims folders,then inked with a swoosh of black Archival, the left side has text paper (from an old book) which I gessoed and inked and stamped and masked and spritzed.
The diamond border is a free stamp from a Craft Stamper a long time ago, the stamped text is La Blanche.
The flowers are prima.
I am quite pleased with how it turned out!

WOYWW 88

It's Wednesday! So time for WOYWW! On my desk this week is my unfinished page for a journal page challenge on UK Stampers. It is nearly finished now (I had a little play while I was waiting for my silly internet to sort its self out so I could post this) I still need to put a photo on it but the only one I have is blured and in a scrapbook so I am thinking of scanning it and 'doing something' to it but not sure quite what yet!

A closer look at the page, the background was inspired by Liesbeth Fidder in this months Craft Stamper (pg 46), as we had to include masks/stencils I used sequin waste and the backing from a border sticker I kept cos I thought it would 'come in handy sometime'.

Hopefully I will finish it today and blog it tomorrow!

If you want to see more pop HERE to Julia's blog and see whats going on!

Journal Challenge.

This weeks journal challenge on UK Stampers is Perfect Day.
The ingredients this week are 1 What is/ would be your perfect day?2 Include a picture on your page.3 Use some stamping on your page.
The background is the one from the post below.
The 'music tissue tape' I made by stamping onto tissue and ripping into strips and randomly pleating as I glued it down, the birds were stamped onto an old book page and coloured with distress ink and pencils, the moon I stamped onto card which I had painted with pearl dabber.
This is my page minus the picture as I don't have any ink left in my Picture Mate so I can't print the pic I wanted to use (and I know I won't be able to print it for a couple of weeks) so I thought I would share it unfinished rather than very late.
I also wanted to add some words in white pen (about my family) but my white pen didn't like the background at all, so they will have to wait too!

WOYWW 87

Just a few things on my desk this week! A bit of mess and some backgrounds. I have really been in to making background this last week!

A bit of a closer look.

An almost finished tag, (just needs a few ribbons and a hole punched in the top).

This is the rest of the background from the tag above. I was inspired by this months Craft Stamper, Mixed Media Masterboard by Rachel Jackson (pg 74) to make a background on water colour paper!

This piece is going to be the background for this weeks Journal challenge on UK Stampers. I will blog later, when it is finished!

Another one inspired by Dyan Reavely (but this time I used stamps spritzed with water to stamp with instead of stencils) The white journey and the feathery bits are stamped with white ink.

This one is all stamped with water and water spritzed through sequin waste.

If you want to see more desks or join in go over to see Julia on her wonderful blog!