WOYWW #599

 Another Wednesday, time to peek at each others desks and projects! If you want to know what WOYWW is, just go to http://www.stamping-ground.blogspot.ca/p/what-is-woyww.html  and all will be revealed!

Here we are at #599! Only one more week to #600! Wow.

I hope everyone is well and happy, creating away in your own unique way! I am still making Christmas cards. Who knew that on my 2020 BINGO card would be Christmas Cards! Anyway, I now have 31 cards made, a definite record for me.

Here is my desk, taken yesterday morning:

And here is the card in progress from last week's desk, finished:

The stamp is from Inkadinkadoo, (sentiment unknown) as are the next two cards:

 The dancing Santa (one of my first Christmas stamps and still my favourite) is from A Stamp In The Hand, and the background is Hero Arts.

This image is from Unity:

These I used the the Tim Holtz Bell Jar die, I think I have the hang of it now! The Nativity Stamp is unknown, the Santa Stamp is All Night Media.

Inky and Mittsy

Mittsy is in and out all day, staying out until she's cold, then comes in to warm up, then out she goes again! Inky ventures out as well, if she sees sunshine.

Here is Inky, do you know what she's sitting on and why?

That's it for today! I hope you all have a wonderful week, and "meows" from Inky and Mittsy. I hope you can meet them at the Zoom meeting! 

WOYWW #598

 Another Wednesday, time to peek at each others desks and projects! If you want to know what WOYWW is, just go to http://www.stamping-ground.blogspot.ca/p/what-is-woyww.html  and all will be revealed!

Greetings everyone! Wednesday really snuck up on me this week, I only just realized it around 9am this morning, and I often write this post on Tuesdays so I have time. So today's post will be very short and sweet!

Here is my desk this morning, I have a card in progress, which as I was lying awake last night trying to get back to sleep, I figured out what to do with! Today I just have to do it...

And here is the third card from the set I found last week and finished:

And that's all that happened this week! It was a busy week in other ways, appointments, lawyers, etc. I hope to get in my craft room more often this week.

I am looking forward to seeing many of you on Zoom! Since I can never make it to the annual crop it will be awesome to be included in this event!

Inky and Mittsy are getting used to the colder days and wanting to stay inside more, where they will grow fat and lazy over the winter...

That's it! Have a great week, and stay safe. Mittsy and Inky say "meow!"

WOYWW #597

  Another Wednesday, time to peek at each others desks and projects! If you want to know what WOYWW is, just go to http://www.stamping-ground.blogspot.ca/p/what-is-woyww.html  and all will be revealed!

Greetings everyone! It's been a crazy week in this part of the world with the elections and the toddler in chief throwing his various tantrums. I wasn't able to get to everyone who thoughtfully left comments on my blog, I read them all and appreciated them all! This week, I will try to do better next week. I wore out two of my blades on my slicer from slicing up all my papers, so I had to go to Michael's to get more, which of course meant I had to check out the sales...

My papers are now all cut, I had to move them to a bigger box! I kept several 12x12s, and if I need a 12x12 for a special project I will just go and buy it.

So this is now my patterned paper supply, which left me with a whole empty drawer! (Minus the Christmas papers which are in their own box) I filled the drawer with my Big Shot boards, my TH people, and my slicer. Very convenient!

Here is my desk:

I'm playing around with a Tim Holtz Sizzix Bigz Die of a bell jar that I have never used before. I have a certain idea in my head, but I can't quite get it to work...yet!

Here is what I picked up at Michael's (you didn't think I just bought the blades did you?)

some new additions to our Christmas Village too!

And here are the cards I've been making all week while watching the snail paced election results:

Another Tim Holtz Bigz die...and the inside of the bird card:

I believe this is a Recollections stamp

                            DeNami Stamp

Viva Las Vegas Stamp, again, one I have never used before

I found three of these in my paper stash, probably from a workshop many years ago. I don't have this embossing folder, but I like it!

I'm still working on the 3rd one.

In my paper stash I found a 12x12 page of Christmas words, kind of like the Tim Holtz books, but it wasn't TH. I cut them all out and I've used several so far! You see one on the card above this one.

Mittsy and Inky

The two rascals gave a bit of a scare last week, as I was sitting in my second floor craft room, I looked out the window and saw a big squirrel high up in the tree...but wait...it wasn't a squirrel - it was Mittsy! So I ran outside to check it out, thinking maybe the fox had chased her up the tree, and there was Inky as well! 

They were both fluffed up, so it probably was the fox, but he was nowhere in sight. Inky was about 8 feet up, higher than I could reach, and Mittsy was way up at the top. As I was wondering what to do to get them down, Mittsy fell/scrambled/ shimmied down the tree. Inky decided maybe she could as well, and shimmied down with me ready to catch her. They both spent the afternoon inside after that ordeal, but when they went back out later, Mittsy went straight to the tree to sniff around! At least I know and they know they can get way from whatever chases them by going up a tree!

We have had some gorgeous sunsets recently, here is one from the other day, overlooking Lake Ontario:

Well that's it for me! Have a wonderful week. Mittsy and Inky say "meow"!

WOYWW #596

 Another Wednesday, time to peek at each others desks and projects! If you want to know what WOYWW is, just go to http://www.stamping-ground.blogspot.ca/p/what-is-woyww.html  and all will be revealed!

 Greetings everyone! I hope everyone is well, and happy! Here is a look out my window on Nov 1 - I want to take the same picture on the 1st of every month, just to see the passage of time...

This is my desk:

The Graphics 45 pages were from a Steampunk Paper collection and an Alice in Wonderland collection. I cut them all up so that would use them. I've had these books for many years, and never used them!

I spent the weekend cutting up all of my many 12X12 scrapbook paper books to 6X6 size (I rarely use paper larger than that) and put it all in this box:

and kept some 12x12 papers that wouldn't cut in quarters well

Why did I do this you ask? Because I had a huge drawerful of books and individual papers that I NEVER used. Or very rarely anyway. 

Searching through those big books for a paper I liked was cumbersome and took a very long time, so I didn't bother. Which meant I had a ton of paper I didn't use. So now, I can flip quickly through the box of papers to find something I like and will use. I don't do 12x12 scrapbooks, so I don't need huge background papers. It was fun re-acquainting myself with every single piece of paper I have!

I kept my 8X8 books intact, as I only have a few.

I also re-discovered my Graphics 45 books, and as you saw on my desk, cut those up too. I am now much more likely to use those in my journals.

I also have 2 boxes of scraps to use, one for large and one for very small. I think I'm set!

I did make a couple of Christmas Cards:

This one used some SU paper, my new SU dies, and a die that I got for Christmas last year from hubby. The die cuts are backed by a rectangle of burlap that I found.

This one also uses SU paper and die cuts, and a stamp by Stampa Rosa

I was cleaning my office last week and found a box of treasure! Wow! It was like Christmas! I think this is where I found the burlap pieces I used on the card.

Halloween was a big success, we had more kids than usual, and everyone was doing "safe Halloween" - social distancing, masks, and there were even some candy shutes and candy "canons" at some houses! Here was our set-up: Everyone got a "hand" full of candies, and a bag of potato chips (crisps).

Hubby's pumpkin

Hubby waiting for kids with his Vodka Cooler...

It got very cold and windy and we ended up in the car!

And this is what Inky does when I let her into my craft room: Her favourite spot to find new "toys"!

So that's it for me today, Inky and Mittsy say "meow" and I say "have a great week!"

(not really Mittsy but looks almost just like her!)