WOYWW 276

This is my first time joining in WOYWW, but have always enjoyed reading through the blogs. I am showing you today pictures of my new craft room. I am still trying to sort out where I am going to put everything, think I need to buy some more storage.

 Above and to the right are my workbenches for
crafting and my sewing machine. It already looks messey and I haven't even done any crafting.

This is one of the bookcases that I am filling with stamps & inks. I still have lots of stamps to put out so that is why I need more storage.



To the left is my collection of Fresco paints from Paper Artsy.



This workbench is my cutting/ die cutting station and is at a height at which I can stand at.

I am going to stop off at Ikea on the way home from Ally Pally on Saturday to buy some more bookcases.

Thanks for visiting

Jo

New craft space

Hi,

I haven't posted anything for an age, sorry. We moved in April and all my craft stuff has been packed up since before then :(.

I have a nice new workshop in the garden, which we have had to take the floor up and replace due to damp. This has meant delays in seting up my new space. Well we are nearly there so I thought I would show some photos.

 One of my cats, Mille decided to have a look at why I was so excited.

 New storage units - Think I may need to get some more.

The last is photo shows most of my craft stuff that needs to be unpacked. This week the worktops are going to be built, so I should be up & running soon, and hopefully have something to share with you all.

Thanks for looking

Jo

Inspired by Ellen - Paperartsy

Hi,

This week over on the Paperartsy blog, Ellen has been giving inspiration using her own stamps. Unfortunatley I have not yet received the sets that I have ordered (should be Thursday), so I have had to improvise.

I started by creating a background using the new JoFY paints and the brayer techinque that Ellen used.

I then cut into four pieces. I liked this way of making backgrounds and can see myself using this again and again.

For the first two cards I used two different Lin Brown stamps. One 

 directly on to the background and the other onto blackcard using the die that goes with the stamp. I have only put the sentiment on one card as I am still deciding on what to use the other on for.

 The other two backgrounds I have used the new stencils over the top one a Lin Brown & the other a JoFY. One I have left at this stage as I am not sure what to do with it. The other I have used a new JoFY stamp set to stamp ou some flowers.

Really enjoyed making these, and can't wait to get my Ellen stamps to have another go.

I have entered this project into Country view crafts Feb challenge which you can see here.

Thanks for looking

Jo

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Paperartsy inspired post

Hi,

A last minute inspired entry into the paperartsy competion. It was inspired by a post that Leandra posted a video for last week. I am not entirly please with my project so may go back and change it.I wanted to make a heart but I couldn't find any in my stash, so used a mirror that I picked up for 50p instead.

Jo
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Paperartsy Xmas cards- part 3

Hi,

I was on a roll earlier today making xmas cards. This one uses another of JoFo stamps from Paperartsy and a sentiment from Dylusions. I might give this to my Husband as he is always bah humbug around xmas time!

Stamped with Archival ink and coloured with watercolour pencils.

I'll be back soon to show the clock I made in an Andy Skinner workshop last week.

Thanks for visiting

Jo
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Paperartsy Xmas cards - Part 2

Following on from my earlier post, this card uses the same techinque but with a different stamp. The background is blue, but you cannot see that very well. I can see me using this techinque a lot on cards in the furture. Sorry for the bad photo. By the time I had finished it was getting dark. Thank you Joanne for the inspiration.



Thank you for looking

Jo
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Paperartsy Xmas cards - Part 1

Hi,

This week over on the Papersrtsy blog Joanne have been making Xmas cards that are quick to make in batches.

As I am a bit behind in my card making I decided to have a go making some.

This one is a copy of one of Joanne's cards, for details on how to make please go to the paperartsy blog here.

I really love the look of this card and have made another using different stamps, which I will post later tonight.

Thanks for looking

Jo
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