This Weeks WOYWW in Two Parts!

This is my desk this week. Messy but productive!
I spent Friday last week sorting out my Dabbers, some were ok, some were very thick and needed water, some were dried up completely! I used the end of a paint brush to stir the ones I could and being a bit thrifty I wiped the paint onto card then swooshed over it with an old credit card and made some pretty grungy backgrounds!

There are a couple of them on this closer photo, (amazing there is a little space to work on)!

The finished results are further on into the post (the second part I think).

This tag and pocket was inspired by the man himself Tim Holtz! On his blog he said that ink only dries on glassine if you heat set it and something special happens (I'll not spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it yet)!

Well I tried it and this is what I made!

This is the tag inside the pocket, cream card swooshed with distress ink stain vintage photo and tumbled glass, the white is gesso swooshed on with a credit card and overstamped with a TH stamp and lots of flowers (sprayed with cosmic shimmers) ribbon (coloured with distress stains and screwed up and dried) and a mulitude of beads! The blue bead at the top of the tag is stamped with a little bird from a Crafty Individuals stamp.

This Weeks WOYWW! Part two!

Sorry it is two parts Blogger wouldn't let me post all my photos on one post.
Tag is Tims crowded attic paper covered in distress stains. The house is Paper Artsy (stamped onto a couple of different printed background papers). Flowers are Prima sprayed with cosmic shimmers, ribbon coloured with distress stains as is the flower border.

A little 4x4 canvass still needs finishing!

This is one of the tags I made from the background papers I made when soting out my dabbers!

Not quite finished but getting there!

Another tag from background painty papers, just need a little finishing!

And another one!

Another one! This one I ran through the big shot in an embossing folder and swooshed an archival ink pad over it (the black bits). Added a couple of tickets and a game piece, not sure what else to add yet but I'm sure I'll think of something!

Here is the last tag for today! Another painty background, I toned down the colours a little with some distress ink (brushed cordroy) ran it through the BS in an embossing folder (umberella man) added archival to the raised area and quickly poured clear embossing powder and heated.

The words were done the same way.

If you are still awake after that enormous post (sorry) and you want to join in pop over to Julias blog and see whats going on!!!

Thanks for looking!

WOYWW

What happened to last week, I missed it and I'm so sorry! I wanted to be here with everyone celebrating but it was not to be, my other half had different ideas, he decided to have a few days off work as a supprise! If I had known I would have at least scheduled my post!
Here is my desk for this week, hasn't really changed much apart from a couple of finished pieces and a couple of flowers. I didn't get into my studio much last week so I am making up for it this week!

Here is the small (4x4) canvas I made yesterday, it looks fine in real life but could I capture it in a photo, it must be the matt medium and the corner has a piece of mica over it, there is a blu feather under the mica. I really need lessons on taking photos!

If you want to see more desks (with much better photograghy) pop over to Julias blog.

Thanks for looking!

Butterfly Girl and a couple of tags.

Butterfly girl.
This piece just grew from the frame, I had wanted to do something with this frame for a while and yesterday I got it out and gessoed it while I was waiting for it to dry I sort of tidied my desk a bit as you do and I found the piece of glass which is now her head (it is the front of a spotlight bulb which fell off when it blew).
Her face is part of a collage stamp (the same one which is stamped on the frame) which I stamped onto paper using black Archival and attached to the glass with Matt medium making sure there was no air bubbles.
Next I stamped the frame and blasted it with a heat gun and applied distress crackle in rock candy and left to dry.
While waiting I made a collage for the inner panel of the frame from the left over bits when I stamped the face. This I adhered when the crackle paint was dry, I applied a coat of vintage photo distress to the frame to allow the crackle to show through.
Next I cut out 5 butterflies from some TH Kraft resist paper (does anyone else have trouble cutting up paper? I am really glad there are 3 of each sheet in this book, makes it sooo much easier to cut one up!!) These were coloured with distress stains in various colours, some I added some spritzed on perfect pearls (blue).
The largest was attached to the face and the smallest to the inner frame using some acetate. The other 3 I attached to some wire I had added to the candle stick (which was painted with gesso and some tissue tape added around the middle. The flowers are a die cut from Sizzix made from scrap paper.
Everything was attached with Pinflair glue.

The background of this tag is a piece of TH crowded attic paper (the one with the paper pattern on it) the model is Tims stamp, I coloured it with disress ink.
The 'buttons' are a piece of embossed paper I have had for years (and haven't been able to cut into it before now) they look so real!

This tag isn't really finished yet it was just an experiment to see if you could use othe ink pads instead of Stayzon as I only have a black one. I think it is called the bandana technique. I used Adirondack ink pads (they look more vibrant in real life) and cut and dry foam.

Iwas quite pleased with the result cos now I don't need to buy more ink pads!

Well thats it for now, I do have lots more to show but my camera needs new batteries and of course none of the rechagable batteries are charged!

Thanks for looking.

WOYWW Wk 103

This my desk for this week I have a little bit more space to work in! I tidied and swaped things around a little so now my work area is a little wider (not any deeper though)!
Just a couple of tags I am making on there at the moment, the green one LETTERS came about because I was thinking about how long it has been since I sat and wrote a letter to someone, I really can't remember!
The background is Tims craft resist, covered in distress stains and stamped within an inch of its life with script and nibs and inkbottles!
A few pieces of tissue tape, a bottle top and a nib from Tim.
The other tags have been cut from Tims Crowded Attic and are waiting to be attacked!




Sorry about the rubbish photo I took about 10 and this is the best!
I wanted to share because the background is just some scrap paper I put on my desk when I was spraying with Adirondack colourwash sprays and some other sprays, I just added an alphabet stencil and sequin waste, (which I sprayed through too) and a couple of scraps of paper and a birdie!
Well that's me for this week to join in and see some more desks pop over to Julias blog!

3 Tags.

This tags background is the scrap paper I used to protect my desk while I was spraying some other backgrounds, it came out rather nice so I made this tag!
It had a couple of numbers on it (from cleaning a stamp) so I added more! Tissue tape, Tim bingo card, admission ticket and measuring tape oh and some grungeboard letter (painted with gesso, dried and stamped with more numbers) were addedand to finish a cotton ribbon dyed with cosmic shimmer and stamped with even MORE numbers!

This was made with one of the backgrounds I was spraying with cosmic shimmers (blue,purple and a little green) when dried I stamped a Crafty Indiviuals 'Friends' stamp on it and embossed in clear. The girls arm in arm is another CI stamp, I used vintage photo distress ink, dried with a heat gun and blended a little linen and dusty concord around it and added some messy cosmic shimmer blobs and circles. More cotton ribbon dyed with the same shimmer mist.

Silver tape adhered to card, cut into tag and embossed twice with Tims texture fades, alcohol inks in pitch and a purple one dribbled over, some script in the right corner (heat embossed). Man is CI stamped in archival. The book plate is from Tim (comes on the tag die) attached with foam tape.

That's it from me today!
Thanks for looking!

WOYWW Wk 100

Well it's Wednesday again! Happy 100th WOYWW!!!!
They come round so quickly don't they? Not sure what happened to last Wednesday!
Well as you can see my desk this week contains lots of 'stuff' half finished!
This last week has been full of only half ideas! Oh well never mind maybe the rest of the week will bring the 'other half'!

A closer look of my 'almost finished' box just one more little cubby hole to fill!
If you would like to see more workspaces pop over to Julias blog and feast your eyes on all the lovely desks there!
Hope to see you all next week!