WOYWW # 403

Welcome, it's  late here in the USA, I had to stay up and watch a college basketball game, that went to Overtime and got me on a hype before bedtime.

It's time to enjoy visiting Workspaces all around the world. Our hostess Julia has the info HERE:

My desk: click the photo to enlarge.

Was wanting to work with some new Stamps, it seems my card/tag making involves everything but Stamping.  Layers, texture, color, prints,  but no stamping, so my new Mojo will focus on a change up.
Wish me luck!
Here's the card I made for my nieces' little girl, Landry.

Short and sweet tonight, 

Thanks for visiting, I'll be running late with visits this week, but will try to get to most of you. 

WOYWW #402

Welcome to our Wednesday gathering of What's On Your Workdesk, hosted by Julia. You can play along by visiting her blog STAMPING GROUND.

It's the wee hours of Wednesday here, a hungry cat awakened me. We celebrated most of the day yesterday as Valentine's Day here in the states.

 Boxes of candy, cards and while he was in town I had a cherry turnover and some great flavored coffee.

This is one of his garden heART creations. He's been out in his 40/50 degree shop creating.
We went to lunch in a nearby town and later to a little bar south of here for a few beers and shrimp.
Everywhere is overwhelmed with friends/family out and about, but this year more so than others as our snow is gone, temps are really warm  and it's fun to get out and see people. Standing room only if you arrive late. Late for us is 8pm !  We go early so get good seats at the bar to watch Wheel of Fortune or our favorite college team play basketball.

My desk  

I had plans of making flowers, so maybe will get to that later today.

A couple of Valentines for my Sisters

And one for my brother's little girl, who always sends me a Thank You...I bought, yes bought at a store Valentines for Sons, Dil's, grandkids.. just because I saw unusual, inexpensive fun cards for them this year. Some times the verse inside is necessary. This was the year for that. I refuse to pay $4, 5, 6, 7, 8 $  for cards, most throw them away anyway.

Thanks for visiting, have a fun day. I'm off to visit.

Happy Valentine's Day

Wishing You and Yours a "Happy Valentine's Day",  may your Love for Family and Friends, radiate all year long.

Two New Ideas

Good Morning, hope you have fun plans for today. Our Iowa weather has taken a turn on warming up for a few days. Almost 50 degrees, and a huge full moon last night.

I  saw a cute fish card in the store, but priced at $7 I decided to put it back in its slot. Two brother in laws do a LOT of fishing so not having a die fish, I came up with the idea of using 2 Spellbinder leaves. Here's how it turned out.

I personally like layers and more depth, but when mailing the postage sky rockets.  So tried to be more simple.

I used the bottom part of an embossing folder for the measuring design and distress inks. The sentiment of Happy February Birthday was placed inside.

Then I also saw a cute little rosette in the shape of a heart. So I checked YouTube, my favorite place to find some ideas. The first one was from scrap paper (dark red) but the paper was flimsy but the other one was a bit easier.

 The template is 6 inches, free hand and folded over to make 12 in. paper to score every 1/4 inch. Then pleat and glue to the small circle.

I used this link: Heart Rosette mainly because she also shows using Spellbinders borders to finish off the edge. I don't have these but I thought it was a cute idea.  There a several other videos  to get ideas.

Enjoy a fun weekend.

WOYWW #401

Welcome, glad you stopped by. It is another Whats On Your Workdesk Wednesday,  Our hostess Julia has all the info on her blog if you are new to this. You can visit  HERE  for the details.

My desk is the start of a New Baby Girl card for my niece in MPLS.  She has 2 sons and now Landry has joined the family in a big weigh 8lbs 2oz. All are doing well. More Valentines will be done later today. I know I'll be home, as I think I've a stomach flu.  Yuck.  And Iowa's winter has snow, cold and winds in the forecast.

In the post below this one is my STUDIO MAKEOVER , you may be able to just scroll down,  remember for real details to enlarge the photos.  I have been enjoying it.  Made it an  around the wall format, and cleared out the middle, furniture.  This use to be a guest bedroom, but I took it over and moved the bed to the small area where my sewing machine/etc was.  Space  is 22 x 11, I am fortunate and thankful.
If interested in my ATC exchange that arrived,  just go to "Older Post" and it should be the next  in line. Some gorgeous pieces of Art in our swap.

Thanks for visiting, have a wonderful week.

STUDIO UPDATES

A warm and cherry Welcome:

I had extra time when we had a snow storm and this old body was up to moving, sorting and rearranging my downstairs, crafty space.  I'd shown using the sliders in my post HERE and the disarray I had created with too much clutter between work stations.  Area is 22x11, it was a bedroom that I took over and moved the bed to the sewing area. A much smaller space. 

I moved 1 bookcase where the big hutch of fabric was sitting and another 2 piece set of chests upstairs, so that gave me a free wall to place the hutch  and open up the room somewhat.

This is the start of my space on the west wall.  This little wooden card table is kind of a cutting space next to the sewing machine. To the right is part of a sofa, where kids sleep, part of the family room down here.

 by the large picture is my regular sewing machine, a small table with a machine I use for paper stitching, and will use for paint, watercolor, gesso etc

Underneath this table is good storage for all those items.

This is another table from my mothers cleanout, it has a metal top, one drawer and 2 pullout leaves on each end.  I will use this for my computer

This old chest was mine as a little girl, now my storage for flowers, leaves, tassels,misc.The top is my scoring mats, rotary cutter etc. The little garage sale shelves store buttons, the pink painted spice racks hold misc tinys. 

 A great way to hold my Sizzix dies, and old card display being disgarded

A really old foldable table with a bench on top for display of many items. My big kick, paper cutter, underneath many of the plastic drawer crates. Contents, rubber stamps, chipboard, clear stamps, etc.

Same table head on, bench holds lot of goodies, I HAVE to SEE things to use them, I don't like looking for things, even if they are labeled. I hung magnetic strips to hold small dies and I love this idea. The table also has many of my Sizzix, Spellbinder, and Tim Holtz, dies and embossing folders. 

Rounding the corner, on the south wall is my grandmothers wall shelf, displaying wooden stamps, on top of a bookcase home to more stamps, misc,  all my tags, and a garage sale find, painted pink little chest  for storage of some glass items in the drawers.  Next to it is a way I display part of my Spellbinder dies, when I shop I always look for display pieces that might be for sale.

This table is on the east wall and the only window I have is above the wire display piece. 

  The table here is my main work area right be side the one above,  seen on WOYWW mostly

 A little space between the desk and an open table to layout ideas  I guess

This is an old table I repainted this spring, more storage beneath.

 A buffet of his dad's I repainted and store ribbon, gifts, misc, underneath I have 12x12 plastic boxes for papers, embellishments for Sympathy, Patriotic, Easter, Valentines, Spring, Fall, Children, sorted out for card or tag making. 

This table was in the middle of the room and made it too close of quarters so putting it at the end, angled has given me so much more space. It has fold out leaves and has great storage underneath,  paper products in the drawers and the other side has lots of cumbersome items that just need to be hidden !   I love the little green chest on top, a real steal at the hospital gift shop. I keep a lot of my ATC items stashed in this. 

 The front of this table and the wall to the left of the 1st photo, the little pink cupboard holds lots of tin ware and my CD player and CD's  which are setting on top of a gutted out old TV Behind the lace  I put in a shelf and it holds more of my paper stash.

 And this is where the big hutch has ended up, it holds all my fabric and felt. The end of this area is a queen bed for guests.  And at some point I'll take photos of that wall and under the steps. Surprise, Surprise.

That's about it for my studio. I have been enjoying this arrangement so much. Definitely more organized. Now if I can find time to watch the cd on the sewing machine I can get a few more things completed.   I've yet to finish the North wall which is part of the family/sleeping area.  Knowing me it will happen when I get a call someone is coming to visit! 

Thanks for stopping by, and if you have any ideas or suggestions please feel free to comment. 

HAPPY MAIL - ATC's Arrived

Happy Sunday. It's always a great day for mail when the ATC Swap mail arrives.
Kim at ArtJoyStuff (click on) was our host for the "Pretty and Pink" Valentine swap. We make three and received 3.  Make the visit as she shows a variety of at least 14 submissions and  Here: are the 3 she created. ALL are just beautiful. Such fun "Little Treasures".  THANK YOU dear Kim for having the best swaps and keeping us motivated.

These are the ones I made and sent in.  You can visit my post on them HERE:

This is one Kim sent to me:

This is one from Amy

This one is from Lisa...she had an adorable back side,

You can click the photo to enlarge. It's amazing what one can fit in the tiny space on an ATC card:
Artist Trading Cards are 2 ¹⁄₂ by 3 ¹⁄₂ inches (64 mm × 89 mm) in size

Thanks to all of the above for such beautiful Little Treasures.  I will add them to my collection and enjoy them for many years.  

It's a busy "Game" day here ....Iowa Hawkeye basketball at 1 pm ... vs Nebraska and later the Super Bowl  Football Championship, New England vs Atlanta.    Last night Iowa State Univ.   my son's Alma mater,  won over Kansas in OT what a joyful win ! 

Have a great Sunday. Thanks for visiting.