Travelling light!

It has been a busy week, with lots going on...and now a lovely Bank Holiday long weekend, (as if you didn't know! lol)  I found time to make a little ATC which uses some of the new stamps from The Artistic Stamper. I distress inked the background with lots of yellows and reds, and a bit more, and stamped the workman's ticket over the map background, and sequin waste background, followed by a clock face, and an altered Bingo charm from Tim Holtz. Add 2 teeny weeny Penny Farthing Steampunk charms and you are travelling light! The words are from the new Travel Word stamp set.



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Have a great and creative weekend!
Hugs

WOYWW 103...and the 600th time!

How  do you start off the 600th post on your blog,and oh how on earth did I get to waffle so much over 600 posts???!! Well a good number of my posts, approximately  at least one a week  for the past year or more has gone on waffling about my desk space.. and showing you the same mess every week!!!! lol I mean, aren't you bored yet? Next week sees the PIF (pay it forward) 2 year anniversary of What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday from the gorgeous Julia, and I could show you a sneak peek of my piece, but it true, time honoured fashion...I can't!!( that's cos I haven't made it yet!! lol) , but never fear I will, we have another long weekend coming up, and I almost always use some of that time to create, and this will be no exception!
So here is my desk, clean , tidy, a little differently arranged....but the same space as always ...and I thought because it is not the usual pile it up, push it back, leave a little one inch space to work in... I would give away to one random blogger who comments, a little something off my desk...3 little bottles of Ranger glossy Accents, Studio Multi medium matte, and crackle glaze in honour of my 600th post!, so you can start your own pile of bottles!

I have included a WIP too! A just for me Smash book, which will always be a work in progress.. I think!
Thank you for popping by my desk.....
edited.. If you are having problems commenting (after all there is blog candy..lol )blogger wouldn't let me in to comment anywhere this morning, using my google login, so I used my name and url instead and that worked!
Have a very Happy What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday!

I am shrinking!

It's true, the older I get the more I shrink.. even my son says I am getting smaller, and I ain't that tall! But in this case this weekend, I shrunk a whole lot more! Saturday saw one of my Shrink Plastic classes at Pickleberry Papercrafts. It was a small intimate class, with lots of silence while everyone concentrated, but such fun :)) I loved every minute, thank you Rosemary, Carol, and Beth for putting up with my madness!
Everyone made bracelets using a very random technique, and then we made canvases ( no pic 'cos I forgot to take any of the canvases , which were so creative!) but I did take a "show me your hands" picture!

Love all the different bracelets, even though everyone used the same technique!
Here is my take on a shrinky bracelet using Tim's Alterations, and one stamps (the open sequin waste background) and printable shrink plastic, which is so versatile as you can use any ink on it at all even distress inks!



Have a very creative day!

Have you seen....

...our Creative Team blog lately? Over on The Artistic Stamper Creative Team blog,
we have a Mabel Lucie Attwell month going on! All of the girls have been busy creating wonderful artwork using the nostalgic Mabel Lucie Attwell images.... I often hear how these stamps give stampers that " oh it takes me back to my childhood...."
If you haven't seen any of the gorgeous artwork that the Team has done, pop over and say hi, we love comments :)) and followers :))) Don't forget to scroll down to the older posts too!
Here is a little taster for you....

I am off to teach a class in shrinking plastic today, so should get a move on or I will be late!
Have a sunny creative day!

Saving Daisy --the world's biggest raffle!

It isn't often that I read something and think ooh if that happened to me, what would I do? A facebook friend has a huge dilemma, and a very expensive one, and a friend of mine, Kirsty Wiseman has decided to help her by holding a raffle, and by a raffle I mean the biggest raffle that probably has been held in the world of crafting raffles!!! A ticket is £2 and oh what you could win, is amazing, and you can help Janey Pye and Daisy !



 All you have to do is pop over here to Kirsty's blog, get the details, and a whole load of goodies could be yours!
I am off to get my ticket...
Check it out!

woyww 102... a challenge indeed

eeek! only 2 weeks till I have to have a pif ready for the What's On Your Workdesk , hosted by the delectable Julia .. a challenge indeed for me, seeing as the state of my desk looks like I have come in, dumped everything on it, and walked away! You'd be right!!! lol... this week, been to a crop, worked (often do that!) been to France for a brief interlude ( such fun with some of the best people I know!!!) working all day today, and working on new stamp designs on Thursday! So when will I fit in the several pieces of artwork that must be done, including the PIF? I will find time, but first I think I have to tidy up my desk....lol





I hope to get round to some of your wonderfully creative desks this week (I can do it with my eyes shut, and a great deal of coffee!lol) , but if I don't please don't be disappointed , it won't be from lack of trying.
Have a very creatively woyww day!

A Happy time had by al!

Twice a year, we hot foot it up to the North, past Watford, to Happy Stampers North West Stamping Festival at Port Sunlight. It is probably time for me to stop driving so far in 2 days, as I am absolutely exhausted and these days it takes me so much longer to recover, but I love seeing everyone up there, and I would miss out on my pickles from Annie P!!! Thank you Annie.. yummy as always!!In defence, though we do have a great time, and I love everyone I meet :)) Hi to all the UKStampers who popped by to say hello :))  I demoed as always, my meltpot, no surprise there then? lol. I used the new Glassine papers to make roses, and covered them in clear UTEE, stunning! Here are a few of the samples that I gave away, and yes I managed to photograph them... always do that: make, give away, have no record of what I made!!



I have a very busy day catching up on Friday's work, and sorting out stock, and uploading new products to the website ( please be patient..there are a lot!) ...we have a delivery due in today of new Sizzix Alterations, and some more steampunk charms too!, oh and Wendy Vecchi Art Parts too!
Off now to return the truck... love being a white Van Man!! rofl
Have a creative day!

WOYWW 101.. a cropped edition!

Welcome to my cropping edition of What's On Your Workdesk! Last night I spent a very pleasant evening in the company of some gorgeous girls at Pickleberry Papercrafts! So, this week for the 101th edition of Julia's show us your desk, here is mine from last night! Gorgeous and tidy and not a bottle in sight!lol I took this just before I started anything! Did I finish anything? nah! but I had fun :))



If you have never taken part in this glorious phenonomen, then hop, skip and jump  to Julia's Queen of desks and show us yours!
Have a woyww of a day!

Melting,shrinking art weekend

What a fab weekend I have just had! I am totally and utterly exhausted , and today was hard going just to get through it, but always, always worth it! I taught a shrink art class on Saturday, with 4 wonderfully talented ladies, and on Sunday I indulged in meltpot, and lots of techniques with even more talented ladies and a young man as well! Thank you to Nina at It's Crafting Time for a great weekend, and to all who took part, I hope you enjoyed it :))
Here are a few snapshots of the workshops, see how inky the hands are!! lol

Love the tablecloth too! lol
Hugs

on my travels....

I am off up the M25 ( just my favourite place! not ) this morning to Cambridge, to teach at It's Crafting Time! I love it there,  a lovely airy workshop space, with lots of room to move, and the hostess with the mostest...Nina who always makes me laugh lots!! This afternoon is a shrink plastic workshop, and if we can cram it all in, a bracelet, and a canvas too.. here is a sneak peek.



 Tomorrow is my masterclass on UTEE, by far , my most favourite of all the techniques and products that I use! I have remembered my camera, and if I get time I will tweet too!
Have a very Creative weekend :))
Hugs

woyww...hanging in there!

It's that day again! you know the one where I show you my messy desk... where it seems I have done very little to it since the last time you saw it! What's on your workdesk, hosted by the Lovely Julia, happens each week, and each week, you would expect my desk to be filled with ART! this week has been as lazy as last week in that respect.. well not really as I have been busy working , and doing other stuff (like watching a certain wedding, and hosting a street party!..lol) , so I thought as the desk hasn't changed much I would show you a close up of my hanging light! Well it hangs, and is a light, and from the amount of stuff on it, I am totally surprised that it isn't lying on the desk! I sort of hang stuff on it , just in case I might use it someday, but some of it I like too much to use ( you know the touch it feel stuff!!!)



Anyways enough waffle, why don't you jump over to Julia's and say hello to a few other desk hoppers!
Happy woywwing!

Core'dinating!

I have to admit, I have some core'dination papers from way back when, and have I used them?... no! But when the new Ranger Core'dinations appeared in the office, I just had to touch and feel them , and wow what an amazing amount of colours! This long weekend, has been a very lazy one for me.. should have done stuff.. haven't.. will suffer for that..but I did get out the Vagabond, and the new Brolly man alterations die, some texture fades, and the Distress Stains and had a play with the new Core'dinations, and I am in love...!! I layered them all onto the Kraft Resist Paper. Mr mojo has kind of been taking a holiday too.. why when you stop creating do they think it is a holiday too? But this piece is more an experiment than anything else, and it definitely needs stamping down the sides, but nothing came to mind, and I didn't trust my hand to draw today!!



Hope you have had a good holiday weekend, back to work for me today!!
Have a Creative one!

I am Shrinking!

One of my favourite products of all time , excluding UTEE, Alcohol inks, distress inks..lol is Shrink Plastic! It has been around ever since I can remember and I often forget about it. It is a brilliant medium to use for embellishments, and jewellery. I have a couple of workshops using it, one coming this next weekend at It's Crafting Time near Cambridge, and one later in the month at Pickleberry Papercrafts, near Faversham kent.  Here is a little snippet of one of the projects we will be making....

If you fancy creating with Shrink Plastic please contact Nina at It's Crafting Time  on 01763 262417, and Kate at Pickleberry on 01795 597757
Have a fun and Creative day!

Up my Street!

Wasn't the Royal Wedding glorious?, and even though I couldn't be there in person..my invitation got lost in the post! lol, I watched it all on tv, and then we had a Street Party in our road! The road was supposed to be free of cars ( and was only 1 of 2 roads in our town with permission to close!), but you know people read signs, then lock up their cars and wander off, never to be seen again, so we had one stationary parked car , which kind of made it a bit sad, but it was fun nevertheless,with lots of bunting, and flag waving, and a lot of Pimms and cupcakes were drunk and eaten!!



We celebrated here at The Artistic Stamper with a whopping 20% off your shopping, and I have extended this offer to tomorrow at 8am for those of you who are not subscribers to our newsletter. If you would like to take advantage of it, then just add the words royalwedding to the discount code box.
Have a Creative Saturday
Hugs

WOYWW...a flash in the pan!

It has been a very long, lovely, week this week as we have had a four day holiday with Easter, and suddenly what happened, Wednesday has appeared again, and it is time to show you my desk again! Now don't gasp, or swear, but I tidied! gone are the bottles, gone is the push it back, pile it high , heap of crafty stuff!  I was very chuffed with my tidying...it meant I could prep some workshops, make some Art, play with new goodies....
I mean look at all this tidiness...

then look sideways, and ..well...this is what happens when you tidy up, and go to look for something... oh the power of photo cropping! ROFL!



So one half is tidy, and the other still needs tidying.. that's next week's job! Still I should be grateful, I have a clear space to create in, and tidying up is good for the soul!!
Now if you have just landed on my blog from outer Mongolia, and haven't a clue what on earth I am on about, then leap into hyperspace to the Queen of desks, and have a wander around a couple of hundred other desks, that are much neater than mine!
Happy What's on Your Workdesk!

Buttoned!

Over on Simon Says Stamp and Show, the theme this week  is buttons! I have hundreds of buttons, and often use them in workshops, or just to decorate, and when I grabbed this little configurations insert box, I thought I would add a piece of the new Crowded Attic paper, and Tims new Haberdashery stamps, and make a little dressmaking configuration! So, empty the button box, looking for the tiniest buttons.. could I find any.. no, not one...:((( why is it when we NEED something we haven't got it , and on a Bank Holiday Monday when the shops are shut ( or supposed to be..lol) So no teeny tiny buttons, so I just added other buttons! How many of the word button can you get in  one paragraph? lol
Here is my entry to the Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge including some buttons!



It is a back to work day today, sadly, I could quite get used to this holiday lark, but there is another long weekend on Friday, so am happy to wait till then!
Have a very Creative Day!
 

1234...time to myself....

One thing I love about the long bank holiday weekends, is that I am not technically working, that I can please myself, that the sun shines, and that I can fiddle with *stuff*. This weekend has gone by in a flash, and I have fiddled on my desk, tidied up my shed, and spent some time relaxing....haha.. me relax?... that's falling asleep on the sofa!
This little piece is one the smallest of the mini canvases, and I have distress stained it, stamped on tissue paper, added watch pieces, and the numbers are a find from eBay that are slot together numbers for prices ( remember them?) that I cut the backs off with Tim's magic scissors, and the whole lot is multi mediumed together.. oh what did we do before it?!!!





I have another day sorting out the stuff found in the shed for eBay.. lots of goodies.. ( may be in 2/3/4 lots ..email me for details) and trying to tidy up the bottle filled desk before cracking open the Pimms! First BBQ of the year later!! lol please don't rain!
Hope you having a Creative day..
Hugs