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I love Whats on your workdesk,  if you click on the link above i am sure you will to.

Here it is

On the left is my little journal,  with some paint splats, i have seen these in other's work and liked them.  I have done some  er, i am stuck again.

My DLP2015 Journal.  The theme is "dont be afraid to cover the good stuff".   Oh yeah, course i am!

I have drawn a popart type man one one side, the other, who knows.

I had put the stars on the page "to cover them up" before i decided to do the face,  so he has ended up with one smack in the middle of his forhead!

Oh well, he is a star guy!

What to do with the other page....UMMM, shall i write on it?  I can never seem to come up with anything poetry like or prophetic like some.   I will slleep on that one.

My blog browsing is usually when the week is nearly over, so catch you soon and make the most of your crafty time.xxx

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This is whats on my work desk this week,  a mess and very little room as always
See what others look like at the above link to visit Julia Dunnit and Stamping Ground

Again it is my Dylusions Journal for the Documented Life Project 2015.   With it are all the different markers and pens i use.  I have now discovered that Sharpie pens go through the pages.....I really should have tested them before but we Live and Learn
.  I leave the border around the page to do the journaling after the photo has been taken.

I need to stop filling the room with "stuff" I can't find and then I would have more room to work in.  I am sure half the fun of this hobby is the Postman arriving with another parcel of goodies!
Since last week I have made a card as well from something that went wrong.......
It was a Brusho painting............oh what messy stuff that is, and I don't mind mess, but 1 grain of this stuff covers a room!

And another journal page, i create one each week and it seems to take all my free crafting time now.
Last week I had a lot of trouble loading the StampingGround page and then I could not get other deskers sites to load.
I am wondering if it is because I don't use Google Chrome browser.....?????

05/02/15......Just spent a lovely couple of hourse browsing peoples blogs and i have switched to Google Chrome Browser and i have had no trouble loading pages.......Good News!

WOYWDW

Its time for another weekly nosey at some worldwide crafty blogs.  Click the link above to see what other crafters are creating.....this week

A lot of stuff on here.  I have had a week when I don't know what to make.  I have found that the cues from Challenge blogs have been big prods.  But this week nothing as worked. When this happens I make myself paint some of the horses,, I have a lot that need colour
These two here are having the white markings added.   This is the worst part, I hate it with a passion.  The finish has to be totally flat, with no brush strokes showing for the model horse market and this is so hard to do.
Finding just the right brush, just the right white paint has eluded me.
Also in the picture is a craftascene page.. I could turn these out all day, I love making them. I have a 8x8 scrapbook and I store them in there.  Not quite journal pages as I don't write on them.  Not sure what to call them.  My trusty specs are in the scene, QVC specials, I am getting to the point in life now where I need them on a chain round my neck.

Close up of the horses.  The big one at the back he is traditional scale artist resin made in limited numbers, generally by American artists.  He is a quarterhorse and his name is Bogey!
The small one is a stablemate made by breyer and he is plastic and widely available.

And, I did stick at the card from last week!  Have a happy week with your crafting and all else you do xx

 

FAIRY CRAFTASCENE JOURNAL PAGE

CRAFT A SCENE Fairy Tale Scene

Shopping our Stash "Cant put it down"

Whats at the bottom of your garden?

Over at Craft a Scene this month is a theme that is right up my street.....Fairies,  I love them.  A quick look through this blog at other posts will tell you I feature them a lot.  Them or mermaids.  Putting them into scenes  for my 8x8  Scrapbook Album is another favourite of mine, when I just want to make something for the sake of it.  I do have trouble keeping fairies out of things.

This is my entry for July, it actually took very little product to come up with this scene.
The size is 8x8 and I have built the scene of glossy paper.  This was just cheap stuff I have got from the pound shop, it is not the best, very flimsy but it is cheap and it does the job.
There are some brands of paper just for this job, King James one sided glossy and Kurecote are two of them.  But as I still have no job they are well out of my price range.



I used

1. Distress ink SQUEEZED LEMONADE
2. Distress ink CRUSHED OLIVE
3. Distress ink CHIPPED SAPHIRE
4. Versafine SEPIA
5. Versafine OLYMPIA GREEN

That's all for the colouring, and then a selection of stamps, mainly LAVINIA with some random trees and that's it.  This one witll gladly go into my journal protectors.  OH AND SOME GLITTER OF COURSE

 

ONE EYED WONDER No1

Country View Challenges "Stencil it"

That's Crafty Challenge  "Mask & Stencil

Simon Says Challenge  "Face"

Anything But a Card "Anything goes"

Over at the above blogs the challenge is one of my favourite tools,  mask and stencils.  I can highly recommend the price and service of both companies for crafting goodies. 

Country View blog also is a great teaching resource too, with some very interesting articles/desingers

Here is what I came up with, not sure what to call this one eyed wonder.  She is inspired by Traci Bautista, stumbled across her work and loved it, never having done anything like this before I gave it ago and here she is.......

There is so much stuff on here, I always mean to take progress photos then launch straight in and forget. . . . .One early photo can be seen on woywdw post 9/7/14  Here is some of the stuff I  used.

 

 

Windsor & Newton Galleria Acrylic Pad..Canvas texture  14"x10"

This is what she is painted onto, tuff paper and whitstands a lot of paint/liquid without waving, because it is designed to take impasto acrylic work. Consequently it is not smooth and very heavy on the nibs of any pens you use.

 

FLOWER FRENZY  12 x 12 stencil

FRESCO PAINTS

ORCHID

ZESTY ZING

SOUTH PACIFIC

BLACK PROMARKER

RANGER WHITE PEN

SILK ART PAINTS

STICKLES GLITTER GLUE

PINFLAIR DIAMOND GLAZE

BASICALLY ANY PEN I COULD FIND

 

I will say this surface trashes promarker nibs, I have ruined my only black one.  In future I would not use them again but find a oil based paint marker.  Sharpie is the only one I can find

 

LAVINIA STAMPS CHALLENG BLOG

Loved lavinia stamps for a long while and a lot of my ATC and other work features fairies and brayer working but I have only just this day discovered there challenge blog.  Mainly because I have only discovered challenge blogs since i become jobless.

 

Here is a large 8x8 card covered in inks and things, like most things i do it has to have some glitter.

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