WOYWW 595

Time to assemble and report for desk duty once more.. Julia is waiting at the Stamping-Ground for us.. 

I had a little play with the crackling campfire ink pad over  some strips of collage tissue

over the tissue, I added a layer of gesso and then added some texture paste through the stencil of the faces. (stencil and tissue by Dina Wakley)

I did add some crackle paste before the faces but it's not crackled hence adding the faces.  I tried another pot of crackle paste... that had dried up....

I used the crackling campfire and picked raspberry distress oxides, spritzed with water and blotted.   Neet is right, she commented last week to say what a strong colour that orange is!  It's ok blotted off though. 

at that point I stopped,  will add more to it at some stage

Just before I went to bed on Sunday I put in an order with Stampers Grove for some more stencils (ok, so I have an addiction!)  having watched a lot of you tube videos on Sunday when I kept seeing stencils I liked... some of which I found available and some I haven't yet tracked down..

Anyhow, 10pm order submitted,  came home from work Tuesday to find...

the service from the Stampers Grove is really excellent!

and we all know, given how fast the weeks go, it will soon be the weekend and i may have time to play!

I was meant to be buying a new pot of crackle paste!!

No doubt that order will go in soon...

which just leaves me to leave you the link for Kew last Saturday - cloudy but wow the colours, I do urge you to check them out! 

Looking forward to your desks - no doubt you've all been busy making Christmas cards!  

WOYWW 594

 Another week, another desk share day... Wednesday is time for WOYWW  

I forgot to show you last week, the coaster that came from Jo's talented daughter Maxine, Tilly Tea Dance..based on one of her gorgeous sunflower designs and a pretty card with  note too.

I can't bring myself to use it yet !

There is enabling to be done, too.. 

the new Paperartsy stencils and (finally succumbed) to the new Distress oxide colours..

and another one by CraftersWorkshop, thrown in for good measure.  

I opened the leafy stencil you couldn't see last week, it;s actually a mask and stencil so you get positive and negative images

I had a quick play, (photo looks out of focus, not sure how. unless it's my eyes!)

was just trying it out, it's not meant to be anything fancy.

I think I'll use ink rather than paint next time.  

all the fronds on the leaves are quite delicate too, I can see it may tear easily if you apply paint or ink too roughly

Saturday was a Kew day of course - no sun, but no rain either (yay)  

the colours are getting better and better!

hopefully, London won't be put into more severe restrictions too soon so I can enjoy them as long as possible! 

thanks for visiting - I may be late getting back to you as work is insanely busy and I haven't been getting much of a lunch break this week 

WOYWW 593

 And here we are again.  Wednesday.  Which means the best day of the week (apart from Saturdays at Kew, sorry Julia) WOYWW  with Julia and the gang. 

I'm in enabling mode again today as my latest splurge goodies arrived...

2 more stencils and some stamps, plus a couple of stabilo all pencils (finally! been wanting these for ages)

the stencil you can't really see is a stencil and mask set - a leafy shape

I tried to take a close up 

but not sure you can see it still... you'll have to wait till I use it!

I added some more to the page from last week

in the hopes that adding to it would hide (in my eyes) the bit at the top I didn't like 

I used the faces stencil and the quote from one of the stamp sets as they seemed to go together

I also used a white posca paint pen to outline one of the sets of leaves stencilled 

I stamped one of the other images on the second page I'd started last week..  No I don't know where this page is going yet! 

I have yet another order placed too (in a bit of a spendy mood at present, can you tell!!)  hopefully that will be here for next week's desk share!

I'll leave you with the weekly link to Kew... no rain this week luckily - or very little.  Pics here   and a teaser or two

one of my favourite autumn views from Kew

and  some of several funghi patches I found on Saturday

I'm hoping for an equally enjoyable visit this Saturday coming

Making the most of it in case London joins other areas in the country under tighter COVID restrictions... if you find yourself unable to go out and mix with friends and family I feel for you.

WOYWW 592

 Morning deskers... that was a super fast soggy week!  

Once more it's Wednesday and time to share our crafty spaces with Julia... 

I managed to use some of the new stencils although I made a bit of a hash on the first page...

but it's only paint on a page and there's always next time...

the face is a piece of a previous purchase never used before, some of Dina Wakley's faces collage tissue.

the second play with the flourish stencil was more successful... 

I gave in and ordered some of Dina's new stamps from Art From the Heart and am waiting for them to send them ... hopefully will be hear for next week..

I spent a wet couple of hours at Kew on Saturday - in fact the rain wasn't as bad as I had expected (good job I didn't go Sunday.. a friend at work's husband was running the London virtual marathon in all that rain... )

but,even in the rain, Kew is beautiful!  

there is a new exhibition on called Paradise Lost by Dutch artist Jan Hendrix which I am going to spend more time exploring over the weeks to come..

I bought a scarf (I am addicted to Kew's scarves)  as a souvenir...

I am so tempted to buy another and hang it on the wall!

I'll catch you up and see what you've been creating soon ..

WOYWW 591

 Back to enabling for this week's WOYWW  desk fest... the link can be found here 

I have been keeping my eye on the new Dina Wakley products hitting the stores and found a few so...

a couple of new stencils (one is a {Prima one)  and some of the new scripty collage tissue..  and some more of her paints..

I'd have got some of the new stamps but only saw them at Art From the Heart and they were having a few days off so I wasn't willing to wait, lol!  

I also did some stamping over some leftover paint on a journal page..

scripty circles by France Papillon for Paperartsy.

3 different sizes... 

just needs a focal point so a WIP for now!

Can anyone believe it is the end of September already?

the year is 3/4 over for goodness sake!!  

I will leave you with the link to last weekend's  - very cold  - trip to Kew - cold but beautiful (am hoping that this week coming won't be as wet as it might appear to be from the forecast..)  

at least I won't have to get up at 5.30 this week as it's back to winter opening hours 

WOYWW 590

It's Wednesday... it must be WOYWW  - again...  already...  week 590.  Julia as always has the link at the stamping-ground  join in. link up and we'll all come to visit you soon.  

I was writing this on Tuesday evening whilst watching Great British Bake Off which I love and at the same time finishing a journal page  that I started at the weekend - 

I love this flower stencil from Donna Downey,  and think I've used it over a stencilled brick wall before... 

shortly before Bake Off started, there was a broadcast by PM Boris (not going to be rude although I feel like it) pronouncing on COVID restrictions and knew I had some stencils that could add to my page (Stencil Girl designs by Seth Apter)

so added some sentiments and then the arrows were a last minute addition in  keeping with the words.

It feels we are going round and round in circles (there's an idea for the next page!!)  and the number of people you see who appear to think the rules don't apply to them... don't get me started! 

Link to last weekend's trip to Kew for you as we all missed not having one last week!!  

it is definitely becoming autumnal

I have slots booked for the next few weeks (so here's hoping they don't have to impose further restrictions on our freedom! 

Catch you at your desk soon.  Happy WOYWW  

 

WOYWW 589

 It's happy desk day again - WOYWW 589 - time to share your crafty spaces - head to Julia's for all the info 

With not having a morning at Kew I thought I'd have lots of time at the weekend to get some crafting done... 

I had a couple of birthday cards to make.... 

I used the new "crazy waves" stencil I got last week, and the dancing hares die (Tim Holtz)

for the first one 

and the Dina Wakley stamp set for the second one

Then I turned my attention to my journal 

my new Kew membership card arrived at the weekend and was in a lovely envelope covered in pictures of allium beds at Kew and other images - sadly the Palm House on the front cover was on the reverse of the alliums and I couldn't work out how to use both

the alliums won and I repeated the crazy waves stencilling in the background and then added some flowers stencilled over the top

the green flaps were used for the hares in the birthday card 

I still haven't rectified the journal page from last week... maybe next week!  

so although i didn't get to go toKew last week, you still get a glimpse!