What's On Your Workdesk? Week 120

I don't usually play along with WOYWW as I go out early on a Wednesday

but hubby is on leave this week so I have a different routine

and can reveal my desk today!

Above photo is the long shot - you can see the fun bunting

I made at the weekend hanging from the bottom shelf.

All details and more pics are on the previous post if you're interested.

Here's a closer shot of what I'm working on at the moment.

The tin I've just covered in Decopatch papers as the first stage

in altering it for the

 'Fall In Love With Buttons Swap'.

I'm not exactly sure of the next step yet, I just make it up

as I go along sort of thing!  I've sorted out the autumn coloured

buttons that will go into though, they're in a little white tub

at the back of the photo.

What else?  Five ATCs in really bright colours -

again just the first stage, they'll be quite a lot different when

they're finished.

They are for a swap I joined yesterday being hosted by Penny

A Penny For Your Thoughts

which sounds really interesting as she will collect together

five ATCs from different participants and send them out in the

form of a concertina book. 

Finally I'll show you a close up of another tin.

I bought this in a charity shop last week.

I was intrigued by the tin as it was so old and rusty,

and when I looked inside it was full of old buttons!

Unfortunately, I didn't take a pic of the buttons

first, and have now sorted and merged them

into my collection.

I'm not sure what to do with the tin now though - any ideas?

That's about it really,

If you want to see more workdesks,

hop along over to Julia's blog

Stamping Ground

where you're find links to loads!

Have a great day, and thanks for looking :)

There'll Always Be An England ......

.... or in my case, there'll always be a copycat!!

Yes, I must admit to a bit of blatant copying here.

As soon as I saw some Union Jack bunting made with the stamp

from the Artistic Outpost set, I just had to make some of my own!

The bunting is so easy to make - I love it!!!

Full credit to

Stamptramp

for this wonderful idea!

I used faded denim from some old jeans of mine to back the little flags on.

I rubber stamped the image onto white cotton fabric

using acrylic paint directly onto the stamp and spritzing with a little

water just before stamping.

I machine stitched the flags onto the denim backing fabric

and used seam binding to stitch them together.

It couldn't be easier!

I made some more in girly colours and added buttons to the centres.

Here's a peek at the back.

All I need now is another Royal Wedding,

I'd really go bunting mad then - LOL.

Thanks for looking :)

Stampotique Designer's Challenge: BOOKMARK

The current challenge over on the

Stampotique's Designers Challenge

blog is to create a bookmark, any kind of bookmark using one of the fabulous Stampotique images.

I'd never heard of a corner bookmark before, but had a look on YouTube

and found a good tutorial here on which I based my bookmark.

The tutorial also shows how to incorporate the bookmark into a birthday card - what a 

great idea! 

The Stampotique rubber stamp I used is one of my favourites

'Moth Fab' by Daniel Torrente.

The back of the bookmark isn't as pretty, but you can see more clearly how it's made if I show you.

Here's the bookmark in action!

Peek-a-boo!!

... and last photo

I'd better go and link this to the Stampotique blog asap

as the challenge ends today!

Thanks for looking :)

Charms from Charm Swap and a Birthday Card

A while ago I took part in a charm swap hosted by

Roni of Ink Stains

I made five charms and received 5 back together

with the silver charm pin as shown above.

The charms I received were made by

(from left to right)

Candy Colwell, Hecate Leigh,

Roni (the hostess),

Helen Cleary and Cheryl L.

A big thank you to all the above as I love the charms

and it's always so interesting to see the different techniques used.

Here's the charms I made for the swap.

If you click on the photo it should take you to my blog post

about how I made the charms.

Thanks again Roni for a great swap!

If you want to see all the different charms made

Roni has photographed them all on her blog

here, here and here.

Now for something completely different

(are you humming the Monty Python theme tune now....)

It's nothing at all to do with Monty Python (lol),

but a birthday card I made for my sister-in-law.

The background is a combination of stamps

from

Very Vintage Set 2 La Couture by Katy Fox

and

Vintage Sewing by Sam Poole for Creative Expressions.

The die cut shape is from

'The Sewing Room'

by Tim Holtz/Alterations range from Sizzix.

I embossed it, painted it and added a couple of embellishments.

Thanks for looking :)

I'm back and catching up!

I've been home for a week now and the holiday seems so long ago!

  Here's a few random photos - the location was Protaras in Cyprus.

This was at the Monastery in Ayia Napa. 

This is the villa we stayed in.

The table secretly decorated for my sister's 40th birthday -

lucky she went to bed early the night before and it was awaiting her

 in the morning!

One of her birthday treats was a Fish Pedicure!

Well, I had to have a go too of course.

Those little Garra Rufa fish sure did tickle!!

     

Well I did say they were random photos!

Back home and it was my birthday at the weekend.

Thank you again to those of you who kindly sent me lovely cards.

Want to see a photo of me?

  No, I didn't think so, but I'm going to show you anyway

...... gasp, horror, whatever next - LOL

I'm the little one on the left (I wish!!).

Sorry Chloe xx