WOYWW, Spring

Hello my bloggy friends!

I have been away for 2 WOYWWs - ha, ha it seems that time is now measured in WOYWWs! I was in England visiting my DBF - it was his birthday so lots of stuff was going on - a few parties, went to London to see David Hockneys exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts and also an enjoyable evening at the Queens Theatre with Les Miserables....one day went down to Hastings for the famous fish and chips and a few trips to crafty shops! Also went through a horrible cold! Huh!

I haven't managed to do much crafting since I came back as I had to jump into full time ( rather overtime) work plus I have physiotherapy every day for the next couple of weeks - soooooo painful! But I guess if I still want to be able to walk I better be good! 

Anyway let me show you a few things on my desk.....

Yes what you see there are the TH Distress Markers - by some luck I was able to purchase them and bring them back home with me - all sorts of crafty bits and bobs on show - I was quite happy with my shopping ha, ha....

Here is another closer look...

This is a shot of my desk this morning - a bit of a mess - I made a card for a friend who was celebrating becoming an honorary professor but of course I forgot to take a picture of the card! Huh!

And now a few photos from my galavanting around England....David Hockneys exhibition.... love, love, love the colors!!!!

Les Mis.....

Fortnum and Mason....bought a jubilee tea caddy - ha, ha very turisty! Boooo say the English! I can here you.....still the stuff they have in there - I could buy the whole shop!

Hastings....... love this little girl strutting down the beach....

and a view of the burnt down pier......

and as last two cards I made before I left.....one is a Valentines card my daughter wanted me to make for her boyfriend with NO pink or red! How hard is that to make?????? Valentines and nothing red or pink??? Madness....but I did it!

And a card for one of my friends in England......it is something I will enter into the Crafty Individuals challenge - Spring!

And yes spring has come we have lovely sunshine and quite warm too - not even any frost on the car this morning!
Have a lovely day - a lovely week - enjoy the snoop around the desks - that will be my only job today when I get home - desk hoping!
Lots of hugs to everybody,
Cardarian
PS: I went to Crafty Individuals blog for the challenge and the collection is already closed - ha, ha missed that one then - never mind I knew I was late but didn't realise I was too late!

WOYWW and Culture Day!

Hello and a very good day to everybody!

We are having a cold -12 deg C morning but the sun is coming out and we will probably get up to -5 deg C during the day! My poor mom had - 20 deg C !!!! It is Cultural Day in Slovenia - I think none of the European countries celebrates culture as we do - actually having a holiday! I guess the fact that we are such a small nation (only 2 million of us) makes us very protective of our culture! There is a big up rise at the moment because the cultural ministry has been incorporated in some other ministry but I think that as long as they still support culture it doesn't matter if there is a minister there or not! What is Cultural Day? On this day our biggest poet France Prešeren died and to honor him and all the people who work and contribute to our culture we celebrate this day with free concerts, theater plays, museum and art galleries are all open free to the public today, there are lots of literature evenings with various authors and poets! So a fun holiday! And here is the man we owe it all to - France Prešeren!

So I thought I would say something about that but now we are back to the usual WOYWW business.... I think this past week should have a speeding ticket! It went so fast I just can't believe we are back on Wednesday again! Huh! I was working a lot at work but also squeezed a bit of crafting in! 

So lets start with the big mess on my desk which didn't come from me doing crafting but it came from me trying to find something that was in the deep depths of a corner on my shelf.....

All I wanted was to get that box out where I have some little ink pads which I wanted for my LIM card....

That is the desk bit now I have a few things to show....This week I have been making a sort of "liquorice allsorts"..... I have been  dabbling with different styles.....first up is my LIM card....very simple....I stamped with my small ink pad, then quickly covered the ink with clear embossing powder so I don't just have the color aqua but also the effect of aqua.....

Then I made a card for Fashionable Stamping Challenges where the challenge is Make it a guy thing! I must admit this is not much stamping - most of it is collaged from a Graphic 45 paper pad but still I like this guy....

And as last something I have put a lot of effort in .....a Valentines card for my DBF...

 I started off with the background, gessoed, painted over with red and gold GOLDEN paint...then I stamped the cages with a Prima stamp. I die cut the TH Birdcage heat embosssed with gold embossing powder - did all the jewelry bits - I also die cut a heart which you can see in the cage - I covered that with clear embossing powder to give it a bit of a shine! I added the die cut locket and a bit of bling! The sentiment is computer generated....huh - even writing about it took a while....anyway here it is....( I went out on the terrace on -12 deg C to take this picture)

  here is some detail.....

So now I am finished - I hope you all have a good snoop and be sure I will be snooping around too!

Lots of hugs to everybody

Cardarian

WOYWW, a LIM Valentine

Hello and good morning to everybody!

We are having a very cold morning - still no snow but the temperatures are about  -8 deg C and we have a very strong wind blowing from the north so cold, cold, cold! I haven't been around  much of you last week as I was busy running around doctors as I finally had my MR scan and I needed to get some answers why I am still in so much pain....well they found out 2 things are pestering me - one is the injury from when I fell into that pot hole on the pavement and the other is a degenerative disease called Osteoarthritis....together they make a lovely combination of pain and suffering! And not much can be done about it! So I haven't had very good news this week! Still I will try to stay positive and at least do some things to prevent it getting worse! I won't go on about it today but I will write a post about it some other day! Today of course we have to show our busy or not so busy desks! Well mine hasn't been too busy this week still I do have a few things to show....

Here is my messy desk.....the right hand side of it.....

and here is the left hand side.......

In the middle you can see a card I have made for Less is more (LIM) - the challenge is a sketch - I really made it simple - used 2 different washi tapes, a mini ric rac ribbon and I stamped a heart cut it out and covered some of it with Glossy accents....added a sentiment and Bobs your uncle as you English say the card was done!

 

Here are my two boxes of  tapes ......

and as last I will show you my clean desk - this is as clean as it gets - after I have taken the pictures above I tidyed up and this is the result....

Ok then I hope you enjoyed the snoop, there is much more to see at our HQ where Queen Julia is in command! 

Have a lovely day and  I will be swinging by!

Lots of hugs,

Cardarian

WOYWW, ATCs & MMM

Good morning to all my lovely bloggy friends!

I hope you are having a lovely sunny morning where you are - we have a bright, crisp, cold morning but luckily no snow so I am very happy!

I had a rather busy week, lots of work at work and I also have done a lot of crafting - I will show everything in a moment but first thing is first! My desk is in such a mess I don't remember it being like that in ages - a real push back situation! Last night I didn't even clean my stamps - ha, ha I was so exhausted from all the crafting I have been doing....I did clean them this morning though......anyway here is my desk have a look.....

turn to the right.....

here is a close up of the mess.....

and look to the left......even more junk then usual.....

and here is the middle.....

So what have I been doing??? Well ever since Sarah from La-De-Dah posted this months My Monthly Mojo I was haunted by ATCs - I have never made one and I really thought I should give it a go....So I started off  by looking at varoius websites with ATCs and I found that they can be so different - some very simple some very elaborate....so how should I start?! I know Sarah always gives a few tips and tricks but I guess your own experience is still the best! The first thing I did was cut a 2 1/2 X 3 1/2 inch piece of cardstock - for some reason I thought that would be quite big as inches are bigger then cm - cm are the measurements that live in my head....anyway when I cut it out - my God was that piece of paper small! So now what to put on it - you can't go too crazy with embellishments because there is no room...so I started out with making the background interesting....I colorwashed and crumpled up a piece of paper - also added some perfect perles spray and started off with stamping these birds (Crafty Individuals stamp) cutting them out and adding silk ribbon and gems....

After I made this one I thought well....I can do this - lets make more so I made this one with another Crafty Individuals stamp the beackground using the same method just added a bit of acylic Lumiere paint around the edges....I really like this angel.....

Next I thought I would celebrate Britain - with the Olympic Games coming up and the Queens Jubilee something British is definitly appropriate....I used stamps from a set from Indigo Blu....

Next up Steampunk ......The background is a Stampattack stamp, TH sprockets , the gentelman is from Indigo Blu....

And as last I thought I would go a bit psychedelic....I used alcohol inks on glossy card ...and the word art...

Here is my whole collection.....

I didn't make a chunky one because I couldn't find anything that I could use as a base and to be honest I was just too lazy to make some sort of box myself - maybe next time....I enjoyed making ATCs - the format is interesting and I will be making more - I might even do a swap - actually that is what ATCs are about - trading!

So there that was a long post I hope you have thoughed it out with me if not I hope you at least had a snoop around my very messy desk!

Have a lovely day!

Lots of hugs to all of you,

Cardarian

WOYWW, Valentine's Day Mania

Hello my dear bloggy friends!

I hope you had a good crafty week, spent a lot of money on crafty sales and are now happily crafting away using your all new stash! Well I haven't been buying much, but I have been crafting! I made a nice birthday card for my mom - huh didn't take a picture and I have been making Valentines Day Tags for a dinner I am hosting and the theme will be Valentine's Day....actually the group should have met for Christmas but we couldn't find the right date that would suit all of us so Christmas has passed and we are now closer to Valentine's Day! 

This will be short and sweet as I am a bit busy at the moment ....have a look at my very messy desk...

As you can see most of the stuff is in "love" red......here is a close up of my first tag (have to make 6!!! Huh)

I sprayed the backgrounds - the cherubs are Tumble Fish Studio downloads and all the rest are varios embellies - these tags will be used to cheer up the dinner table!...

Here is another all around photo of my desk.....you can see the ready sprayed and stamped tags in the background - also MS punches I am using and some fibres I bought from Rayher - very good value for money!

Well that is me done for today - have a good snoop around all the worlds desks under the command of our Queen Julia. and be sure I will be coming around to see you - not tonight though because I am hosting this dinner but I will be with you tomorrow and all the rest of the week...

Have a lovely day....

Lots of hugs,

Cardarian

WOYWW, is it really 136???

Hello all my lovely bloggers!

I have been missing from the game for a while due to holidays, visitors and complete lack of creativness! I think I haven't had such a bad spell in ages! I didn't even feel like going into my craft room! But I think it is over now - I have these ideas flashing in my head and I have also put some into reality which I will show in a minute! 

I hope you all had lovely holidays and enjoyed your time with family and friends! I had a good time and I would like to say ( a bit late I know) that I do wish you all a healthy, happy and successful most of all very crafty 2012!

So let me show you my desk and my last making and then I will just show you a few photos from my 3 day getaway over the new year!

First up my desk of this morning  - nothing exciting but I am showing off my new stuff !Here is a card I am making and my new stamps - they are from Papermania and they are called Urban stamps - lots of stamps in each package - definitly worth the money! 

Next up is my brand new paper crimper - love it! My DBF gave me two very nice new crafty tools for Christmas - one is the paper crimper...

and the other is this lovely case full of tools for making jewelry - not that I am going to make a big crafty change but I am using more and more of it on my cards so this will be handy! Right Jo?????? 

Next up is my usual mess on the left hand side.....

Here is what I created the other day....finally made something - used my new stamps and crimper......

Ok and now a few photos from my short holiday - here is a view from my hotel room - looking over the gardens and the bay....

Here is a picture of the actual bay of Strunjan with the mountains in the background.....

This is me on News Years Eve - all shiny ha, ha....

and another picture from Portorož - the Nice of our seaside.....

So there that is all from me today !

Have a lovely day and enjoy the snooping - I will be round to see you !

Lots of hugs to all of you

Cardarian

Jingle bells, jingle bells.....

My dear bloggy friends!

We are here - 3 days before Christmas - I bet you have all decorated your trees, sent off your cards and wrapped up your presents! Well I am almost there....I have made all my cards and sent them off and I have decorated my tree but I haven't wrapped up my presents....I am doing that this afternoon! First time ever I have so much work done before Christmas eve!!! Does that mean I am more organised??? No not really - well it did help that I was at home for almost 3 months and did most of my cards during that time! Also my daughter was a big help with the tree decorating !

Anyway our weekly meetings most go on and here is my desk of this week.......nothing much going on, one of my last cards on display! A peek on the right...

A peek on the left.....

 The card up close and personal - I love this Inkadinkado stamp - sooo cute!

A last word about making cards - I did make a lot this year and some were complicated some  had a very modern tone, some were vintage, grungy even - some I like more then the others! I think that although I have never been to any cardmaking course or workshop I have learned a lot - thanks to so many ladies who put tutorials on their blogs ( for free) and give us all a chance to learn! Here is an example of a card I made recently and like very much! The background is one of the new Hero Arts stamps, what I really like about this card are the trees -  they are made with washi tape - just love the simplicity of the design! So cool!

 And with this card I wish you all peace, love and happiness! I thank every one of you WOYWW-ERS that have visited my blog this year and commented on my blog - when I started I never thought anybody would be interested - now I have 72 followers - amazing!

Have a very merry Christmas! 

Lots of hugs to all of you,

Cardarian