WOYWW 592: All's Well At Home

 Welcome to my weekly contribution to one of the world's longest running blog hops; WOYWW hosted by Julia at Stamping Ground.  First of all thanks for all the good wishes last week.  #1 son's test result came back negative so we were all back to work the following day.

My desk today shows my #Inktober pouch and contents.  I last took part in 2018 and missed it altogether last year.  So far I have kept up this year by keeping my drawings very quick and simple, although I do an under drawing in pencil first.

Nothing on the other side of the desk.  We have had a confirmed case of Coronavirus at our school and although I do not need to self isolate, one of the year groups are being taught at home.  I spent yesterday getting my head around Google Classrooms so that I will be able to teach the missing classes online and live today and until the end of next week.  Hopefully all will be well by then and back to normal in school.

Here are my #Intober2020 contributions up to this morning.

Stay safe and happy WOYWW.  I'll be round to visit tomorrow morning.

A Tree Frame Christmas Card

Be A Rainbow...

I used one of the words in this Maya Angelou quote to inspire me when creating this card.

Christmas Card with Row of Winter Trees

I created a pattern using just one of the Trees and Mantel stamps on this rustic Christmas card.

Man's Best Friend: A Tag

My latest contribution to the Tag It Tuesday challenge.  The four prompts for September are: 1) Collage with your wipe up paper towels and/or baby wipes. 2) Add a paper clip. 3) Build up texture with a palette knife and any medium. 4) Add a dog image. I included prompts 1,2 and 4.

I started by adding the top layer of a paper towel that had been used to clean up stencils to a #8 manilla tag. I used matte medium to glue and seal the paper towel and then dried thoroughly and trimmed the excess.(Prompt 1)

Next, I stamped the Labradors (Clarity NDC #124) in Pinecone Versafine Clair and heat embossed with clear powder. (Prompt 4)

I used Faber-Castell Big brush markers blended out with a Pergamano blending pen and nibs to add shading to the image.

For prompt 2, I die cut a paperclip from black pearlescent card using one of the XCut dies.

I also die cut a notice out of Clarity stencil card using the 2.5” nested square die. I added a little Old Paper Distress Ink around the edges of the notice and used the Clarity Tall Letterbox Infill stamps to add Man’s Best Friend in Pinecone Versafine Clair.

To finish, I added the die cut paper clip to the notice and glued the whole thing to the tag.

Doodleology Designer Paper Mix

Combining the Doodleology Retro Circles stamps designed by Cherry Green and Clarity Indian Summer Designer card produced this card.  Toning in the colours with the Polychromos finished things off.

While Shepherds watched: A Christmas Card

Once again I coordinated the Christmas Window stamp and die to produce this card.  This time I threw in a Christmas carol too.

Trim a piece of Amazonia designer paper to 6.75” x6.75”.

Stamp the music from the While Shepherd’s Watched stamp set at the top in Onyx Black Versafine ink.

Die cut the Shepherd Window with the smallest nested frame from black pearlescent card.

Add the shepherd Christmas window stamp either side in the same ink as before.

Lay the die cut over the designer paper and mark in pencil where it overlaps the stamped images.

Use a craft knife to cut along the edges of the stamped images where they overlap, slide the die cut underneath and glue it to the front of the designer paper.

Add some highlights with a white gel pen.

Edge the topper with a black Sharpie pen and add it to the front of a 7” x 7” white card blank.

To finish, add one of the Christmas and Celebrations word stickers.