WOYWW 2011

Happy New Year WOYWWers!

Thanks to our Great Leader we get to rummage around everyone's workdesk again. Hop over to her blog to leave your link if you want to take part in this madness. We're a friendly crowd, just excessively nosey!

Here's my desk this week. Not too much mess but I notice that the TV remote is visible!

There's nothing new to be seen today. I'm trying not to buy anything new this year (I tried last year and failed) so you can see my purple magnetic mat and large guillotine. There's a plastic box filled with brads and a couple of small drawers with ink pads. And the scrapbook page I made with lots of spare photos that I didn't use. 

Does anyone else always print too many? I have an idea in my head for the layout but it rarely turns out that way, hence the wasted photos. I also print the them out in different sizes too. 

Maybe that should have been my New Year's Resolution - to only print off what I will absolutely, most definitely use!

WOYWW - How Much?

Here's my desk from Saturday. A bit messy, with the evidence of a crafting session, but not the results! The cards I made are in my previous post. But you can see my box with Cuttlebug bits and bobs, small dies mostly and the embossing mat. Alongside is a Xyron for putting glue onto papers and embellishments. There's my pink scoring board, ink pads, non-stick craft sheet and magnetic cutting board.

Looking at all the stuff on my craft table, and then the wider view as well......

...with even more crafty stuff on view, it makes me wonder just how much money I've spent over the years. I have two whole wardrobes of stash. Lately I've not bought anything, trying to save cash, but I'm astonished at the number of items I have actually collected!

My father still keeps a black book itemising everything he buys for the house. It goes back to what he had when he got married and moved into a rented house, right down to the cost of his hairbrush! And he still has that hairbrush at age 86. It makes very interesting and eye-opening reading at the cost of things years ago.

I think I would definitely be shocked at what I've spent on Stash if I'd done the same thing and kept a running total. 

Out Of Fashion!

I'm not an avid follower of fashion, be it clothes or crafty stuff. So when I choose to do something new in my crafting session it usually means the technique has been around for months, maybe even years! 

And  so it was today, when I decided that I would make a new design of card for me, that the writing was on the wall for that technique. Easel cards have had their day!

I do so love stamping. It's my favourite card-making technique and I enjoyed all the stamping this card entailed this afternoon. I used a Tim Holtz Distress ink pad, Graphicus hydrangea stamp, 'Happy Birthday' stamp from I know not where (it's that old), and had a play with my Cuttlebug and Spellbinder dies.

I enjoyed making this style of card so much that I made two more.........

A paler blue version and .......

............ an in-your-face

Cranberry version.

(with another Graphicus stamp).

So, you have all been warned. It is now too late to make easel cards. They are out-of-fashion as of today!