WOYWW - 24 August 2011

Jeepers. Where did August go? It can't be nearly September already, can it? This year seems to be flying by...

Anyhoo. It's Wednesday and time for a peek at desks the world over, as hosted by the lovely Julia at her Stamping Ground blog. Here's what's on my desk today:

Not a lot of crafting going on on the desk atm, but my stamp reorganisation project continues apace. The sheet on the desk was me stamping some of my single Sweet Pea stamps onto a sheet of paper which I can then laminate and stick them to. The stack of RUBs is my collection of ProMarkers, which have seen recent use.

I was planning to get a bunch of crafting done last night but I had a stressful day and threw caution (and diet!) to the winds and ordered in pizza for my dinner... which totally didn't agree with me and gave me a dodgy tummy so I spent the evening on the sofa feeling sorry for myself instead! On the plus side, I'm a pound lighter this morning (who knew that eating pizza could make you lose weight?! :lol:) and I will get in my craft room tonight. If nothing else, I rather urgently need to make an anniversary card... ;)

Thanks for stopping by my desk. Please do leave a comment to say hi.

On a Sugar rush!

Okay, I am blaming this one squarely on Sarah! :D

Knowing full well what a stamp addict I am, she callously pointed me in the direction of Sugar Nellie's blog. And of course I had to go have a look at the shop, and that was it... what little willpower I have (i.e. next to none!) went out the window and I ended up buying yet *more* stamps! :lol: And I really didn't need to buy any more stamps this month!

But I couldn't resist cos the designs were just so yummy. And because I am an impatient little crafter, I had to include a couple of the pretty digital images in my order, so that I had something to play with while waiting for my stamps to arrive. :)

And play I have (not the best photos - apols for that - the light in my conservatory seems particularly grey and gloomy today):

I don't know about you, but when I printed out these lovely shaded images, they just cried out to be coloured with pretty, soft watercolours. So I abandoned my beloved ProMarkers and dug out my watercolour pencils. I think the results are just so pretty and delicate.

I used the finished images to make a couple of quick cards. I kept the first one really simple because the image was just so striking, and somehow, melancholy. It made me think of the seaside, for some reason, so I inked the edges of the image with Weathered Wood Distress Ink and on a white card base I used Stampin' Up!'s Sandy Speckles Stampin' Wheel with Crumb Cake ink to make a sandy border and added a simple sentiment in blue ink.

For the second card I went with pretty, pastel pinks and blues (from a Papermania stack I've had lying around for ages) to coordinate with the colours in the image. I matted the image onto pretty pastel pink sparkly card and added pink velvet ribbon and a big layered flower in pastel colours. I haven't added a sentiment as yet.

I love playing with these images. Now I just can't wait for my stamps to arrive so I can play even more! :D In the words of the classic Def Leppard song, "Pour some sugar on me"! :lol:

Many many MANY stamps!!

Oh my. Oh me, oh my.

So some of my online crafty friends and I are considering doing a bit of a stamped image swap... so I thought to make things easier I would simply photograph all my stamps and post the pics up so that my friends can see what I have and can let me know which ones they might want stamped images of.

So. Um. Yeah. I've photographed my entire stamp collection. Um. I have a lot. A LOT. I mean, I knew I had quite a few, but somehow until you actually go through and catalogue the whole lot, you're able to convince yourself that really you haven't got all *that* many... :lol:

There's no way I can post this many photos onto the forum where I chat to these crafty friends so I decided it would be easier to just post up all the pics here on my blog where my friends can peruse as their leisure. And in fact, I have so many stamps that I think I'm going to have to split the show and tell over a few posts. So please excuse the mahoooooosive picture post spamming, folks!

I've tried to make some sense of the chaos and have decided the easiest way is to list them by brand/manufacturer. So here goes:

Alphabets (okay, so there's an exception to the brand listing system! :lol:):

Anna Griffin:

Artemio:

Autumn Leaves:

Basic Grey:

Bo Bunny:

Butterfly Kisses:

Clarity Stamps:

Crafty Individuals:

Creative Expressions:

Debbie Moore:

Dimension Fourth:

Docrafts:

Elusive Images:

FancyPantsDesigns:

Flower Fairies:

Flower Soft:

Freebies (from craft magazines):

Hampton Art:

Heidi Swapp:

Hero Arts:

HOTP:

Imagination:

Impression Obsession:

Inkadinkado:

K&Co:

Kaisercraft:

Kanban:

Kraftin Kimmie:

Making Memories:

My Minds Eye:

Octopode Factory:

Paper Artsy:

Paperbag Studios:

Papermania:

Personal Impressions:

Prima:

Stamp Addicts:

Stampavie:

Stampendous:

Stampin' Up!:

Stempelglede:

Studio G:

Sweetpea:

The pics of those last three don't show the designs very well - they're these ones:

Tabbycat:

The Girl's Paperie:

Three Bugs in a Rug:

Tim Holtz:

TPC Studio:

V&A:

We R Memory Keepers:

Woodmounted:

I couldn't be faffed taking these out of their drawers to photograph - sorry, ladies! If you see one you think you might want a swap of and want a closer look, let me know and I'll get it out and photograph it. :)

Miscellaneous:

A few stamps which I got off eBay/QVC etc and whose provenance I can't recall/don't know.



*Phew* And that's the lot. All of them. Erm... at least until the stamp I just bought off eBay arrives! :lol: