WOYWW 856/76: Still Sample Making

Welcome to the weekly sharing of desks which is WOYWW (What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday?), the brainchild of Julia, who kindly entrusted it to me to continue after the first 15 years of togetherness.  Please feel free to link up your desk and visit others' - we are a friendly bunch. 

As you can see, I have progressed with the jigsaw but have now hit a roadblock.  I can only work on the remaining sections in good daylight.  So challenging, that I have divided the remaining pieces up by shape and am often resorting to trying them one by one until I find the one that fits.  There is nothing I can show you on my craft desk.  I have been working on more samples over the weekend and am now getting on with my ATC and PTC (parchment trading card) ready to swap at the beginning of November.

I am off to the theatre this evening for the 30th anniversary River Dance Tour.  I booked it over a year ago thinking it was for last October lol.  Yesterday afternoon was our regular recorder get together in Lichfield.  Friday is my weekly get together with Mum.  We are going to go to 'Spoons for a late breakfast. 

Sending gentle hugs and healing wishes to Neet.

Stay safe and Happy WOYWW.

Winter Christmas Card Ideas

 I thought I would share some ideas and inspiration for Christmas cards (and one art journal page) using the Winter Wonderland stamp sets, the Bijou Overlay Bauble stamps and the outline and miniatures stamps from Clarity Crafts.  As always, links to the projects are below each photo.

On a marbled background (see HERE).

Water Colouring Over Acrylic Paint

I decided to see how water colouring over acrylic paint would work out and used one of the Mr Painter stamps to see.  Not sure if I am entirely happy with the result and I should have matted the sticker onto something, but the concept works.

Sorry You're Leafing

 Another former colleague moved on recently and I made this card for the staff to sign for her.  I used the Elementree stamps again and the Word Chains from Clarity Crafts.

Baubles, Baubles Everywhere!

I thought I'd share some inspiration using the build a bauble stamps and the SHAC bauble stamp sets from Clarity Crafts in time for Christmas card making.  As always, links to the projects are below each photo.

Building a bauble (see HERE).

November Calendar Page

 I finally got round to making my November calendar page.  I thought I would use one of the backgrounds created in a recent online workshop with Barbara Gray.  This is how it ended up.

First Christmas Card of 2025

 I recently took part in an online workshop with Barbara Gray using alcohol inks on a gel plate.  It was fabulous fun and well worth a look.  I decided to use one of my many small background pieces to make my first Christmas card (that was not a sample) of 2025.