WOYWW 769

 Another Wednesday, another month done, just about... another Wednesday another new goodies reveal...

Happy WOYWW indeed!  head to Julia's for the link to the rest of the desks. 

Dina this time.. new stamps and stencils 

you can't really tell from the first photo what this is -  a branchy mask and stencil - a revisit on a long sold out design that is re-introduced 

YAY

Not had chance to play yet, they only just arrived. 

page in the black Dina journal from the weekend, playing with the new Dina colours again.  

and a page in the kraft journal too

I actually tore out a sheet of the Dina Collage Sparks collective  - A6 sized double sided pieces of Dina's art to spark your imagination.. I decided it was time to USE one of them... I added to it with a stamped image (right hand side of the front here), one of her male figures stamps) and some transparency (get me, using those as well!)  

the trouble with double sided pieces of art or patterned paper or whatever, is you have to either sacrifice one side, or find a way to add it to your substrate so you can see both sides...  I used a strip of the Dina sticky back canvas tape (first time using that too... what's wrong with me!)

i quite liked the colours on the kraft page (mainly the new mustard paint)  that I didn't want to totally cover that up so instead of using the Dina circles stencil that would blot out the colour, I drew round the circles instead... 

It just remains to link Saturday's trip to Kew and the orchids again 

well ok, I know this isn't an orchid, but I love the purple! 

these are orchids though!  

Have a happy desk-hop and see you soon!  

WOYWW 768

 Wow, it's Wednesday again, must be time for WOYWW 

What have you been creating this week?  

I'm still of a bit of a card making kick

and journal play too...

the new Dina Wakley paint colours are really pretty!  

Kew on Saturday was  as usual, lovely.  Kim managed to get there as she is down to one crutch and getting mobile again, and after several long months it was great to catch up in person rather than What's App 

hopefully Mary Anne will be able to see the bigger chameleon - made from mosses and pieces of plant   .  

we found some beautiful funghi under the tree ferns in the Temperate house 

Thanks for looking, happy WOYWW  

WOYWW 767

 Here we are again, Wednesday - time for another get together with Julia at the gang at the Stamping-Ground. 

It's been a kind of card making week - well Sunday; seems to be my only crafting time these days. By the time I get home from work and eaten, all I want to do is slump in front of the tv. 

I used the new Paperartsy products mainly although the centre piece is from a previous Paperartsy release that i'd not inked before...

you can see I like that numbers stencil lots!

the dragonfly is from a Tracy Scott Paperartsy release from a year or (more) ago.. again not used before!

then I played more in the journal - the numbers stencil again!!  I stamped loads more different numbers over the page, and the new Paperartsy birds -  I don't like the way this page turned out I wish I;d left it at the numbers!  

started another couple of journal pages too... 

was quite a productive Sunday!  

Kew on Saturday was another walk round the orchids mainly but outside, lots and lots of crocuses.   

the smallest of the chameleons in the display is so cute!

had it not been so muddy from the week's rain I would so have laid down on the grass to get closer to the crocus "carpet"

I wish you all a happy WOYWW and Valentine's day if you celebrate, with your loved ones.  See you next week. 

WOYWW 766

 I have to start by talking about the tragic news about Zoe's son.  Zoe was a big part of WOYWW for a long time and we followed her son Keagan's career as a jockey with interest.  I was stunned beyond belief to see via Facebook and then on the BBC website, about his untimely death in a race at the weekend.  I cannot begin to know what Zoe and the rest of her family are going through.  

I am sure all deskers who knew Zoe will feel the same.

So, desk time then... I had another delivery in the week - the last for a while I think. (probably)

some new paints from Dina, very pretty colours!  

The blue would be right up Zoe's street (her beloved Bristol Rovers'  team colours) 

the page I didn't share last week for fear of having nothing this week, got wrecked and painted over in black gesso before adding some of the new colours, just to test them!  

I carried on in my A5 sized journal...

and made a couple of cards...

the colours on this one were whilst I was watching Liverpool (sadly losing) on Sunday, they were playing in our purple away strip....

The first weekend of Kew's Orchid Festival was fabulous  lots of colour in the Princess of Wales conservatory...

the animals the team makes always make me smile

main display.

I'll be back again this weekend.

I will be late home from work today, so if you're not a very early desk poster, I'll be round when I can! Happy WOYWW