Happy Friday! Here's A Bench Card.

 This is inside our  garage looking  towards the window at the back.  (Actually, it's out in the garden coz its nice and sunny!) I have finally added everything I think I can add to this Card and it still folds flat! It's called a Bench Card and here's Sam Calcotts YouTube Toturial on how to make it. Sam made a garden shed bench, so go watch!

I used mostly wood effect paper/card which I then drew in some brickwork and heaverly covered in Tim Holtz Distress Ink, vintage photo. I made the window, lined it with acetate and a drawing of the hedge/fence at the back of our garden. The little window handles are bits of some old earrings. (I knew they'd come in handy one day!) The bits on the bench I found in John's bin in the garage. The clock is made from stamping onto Shrink Plactic. There's bits of fussy cutting from Paper Nation, odd brads, for tools, jug and the padlock and of course stamped shelves. which actually had crafting things on them but I don't think that matters! My craft room is just as messy as John's garage! 

Back View and a place to write your message

Yep...you'll probably even find a spider's web in a corner! What wasn't there until yesterday some wire, the chain and the mice. Seeing this card kinda was the predecessor or forerunner? from the card below, it didn't have the mice as I didn't have the mice! (Lawn Fawn) But I wanted to add them as John's red tool trolly is really close by and I'm sure the mice would have just as much fun on his bench as they do running around this tool trolly! and, we've had hedgehogs and even a Blackbird's nesting in the garage! Thank you for stopping by! Later hope to add to some... 

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A Late Tea for Tuesday...on a Thurdsay.

Well, I guess Thursday begins with T too!  I used to join in with T is for Tuesday years back, but as a few of you know I disappeared into the real world for quite a long time!  Anyway, it's all about an ATC Swap. and I do love an ATC swap  (I really want to spell it as swop!! I mean?? Who said it should be spelt with an A?)  So, here's my Mug of umm....Hot Chocolate... I was really excited as some Crafter's Campanion crafty goodies arrived, so, I made a nice hot Chocolate, pushed back what was the yesterday's WOYWW desktop, scoffed down my  quadruple chocolate Cookies and then took a quick picture of what I've just made... A little Milk Carton type house, ready to fill with sweeties for the grandkiddies and my Christmas Reindeer Mug. (Which I actually bought from a charity shop for 50p!)  Be back later with the finished Milk Carton house. Thanks for popping by!

WHat's On Your Worktop Wednesday #630

It's a  WOYWW day, so hop over to Julia's Stamping Ground and join in! I've been turning my home inside out all week looking for a small white folded envelope with thirty pounds in it. I remember taking said envelope and putting in down while I very quickly nipped out to say hello to a doggy friend who'd come to visit. I then remember moving the envelope to.....Where? Haven't a clue! So, this week I have been going over and into everything in my crafty room to find this white envelope. I even searched the recycle bin in the kitchen...twice... hold that thought. As you can see there's not much happening on my bench this week. (John's finished card from the other week is HERE) and I'm still looking for a die cut letter 'A' that's mysteriously gone missing. Yep, I checked my magnets to see if it got suck there and no, it hadn't. I found some stamps without a home, so put them all together in a small Really Useful Box and will slowing put them back where they should be.  I bought Die Cutting Esentials magazine this week  coz I really liked the look of the dies. And some 12x12 papers from the Range. (first time in there for nearly two years!)  And there's this weeks freebie Robot before I changed his head! A week had passed and still no white envelope... hubby reminded me on Monday that it was garden waste day on Tuesday... So off I went to fetch the hedge cutters and the green garden waste bags. There was a bit off brown messy debris in the bottom of one of the bags. I shook it and then frowned... who put that in there, that's not garden waste! It was a bit of paper, half hidden... a white folded envelope... and inside, a bit damp....was thirty pounds. So it had been in the garden recycle bag all week... How?? I haven't a clue. Odd that my brain had been telling me to check the recycle bin in the kitchen though, Hmm? I promise more actual crafting next week... in the meantime, check out Stamping Ground and see what the other woywwers have been up to! Thank you for stopping by!

  

 

 One last picture. This is Lola, she came for a visit over the weekend. She has a cage to sleep in, but she's rather sleep on my sofa!

Wednesday's Freebie

  This is Rici the Robot. He's just had a new head and is feeling a bit wobbly, mainly because my ink pen bled into the paper, so I rubbed it out and gave him a computer square head instead...Go HERE to download! Thank you for stopping by!

John's Birthday Card, finished At Last! + Up Date Link to freebie Papers

 This is Hubby/John's Birthday card. Flowers? Gnomes? A mouse? No! Well, yes but this is the back of the card, in my potting shed, which he built for me. His workshop/garage (far too small for a car to fit in!) shares a wall, this is my side of the wall  outside in the garden where the potty shed is.... and...

...this is the inside of the garage where John keeps all his tools and bikes and things. The tall red tool box, with it's drawers and pull down lid, was  my inspiration for the card. So I've added, wires, gas bottles, cogs,  nuts, bolts, saws, hammers,  scissors and goggles. The card tells a story. John's spent the best part of the last eighteen months rebuilding his dad's (and Uncle's old bike) which, he rescued from a field some thirty odd years ago and stored in the little shed attached to his Office (Man Cave) where it stayed. It was covered in rust and rat poo...in the artical he wrote mice, thinking they sounded cuter than rats!

 He always wanted to rebuild the bike but years passed and every time he looked at it, the task seemed an impossible one! And then we had a pandemic and lockdown happened. That became the perfect time! He took pictures of the bike's slow recovery and wrote an artical for a members only bike magazine where it was published. It was a bit like "Trevor's Broom" as so much of the bike was just rust!  But he finshed it! 

John off for a day trip around The Isle of Wight.

When I first made the card it had a BIG mouse on it, but it didn't look right, then.... my Lawn Fawn order arrived, so I whipped off the big mouse and added lots of little mice from the Bubbles of Joy set and they were just perfect. I even managed to fix a thread from the rag to the little mouse's paw! 

   And on the other side, made it look like the little mouse was having a drink from the dripping watering can. To go with this, I've also made a bench card, which I'll add later.

This type of card is called a Chalk Board Card, although I have added lots of things around the bottom so you can't really see the legs and because it was double sided I didn't make the window box stick out. The idea came from Sam Calcott, her YouTube Tutorial is here. 

Well, I hope you liked it and will have a go at making one too! Hoping to add this to a few challenges later. Thank you for stopping by!

PS Forgot. Because I couldn't write inside or on the back of the card, I downloaded a freebie Bike and turned that into a pull out card that just fits inside. To download this decoupage bike and 96 freebie Debbie Moore papers go to Crafts Beautiful. You may have to sign in.

#chalkboardcard #funfoldcards #mixedupcraft

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Daisy The Donkey.This Weeks Wednesday Freebie on a Thursday.

Sorry I'm late. I had some goodies arrive and I had to play! This is Daisy. I drew her sometime ago so, you may have seen her already, but, she is a bit different...and last time there was no background and I think she was a he! Anyone not wanting the background or the wording can fiddle with it or just email me! GO HERE (with any luck!) to download her without the watermark. No sharing please but a link back here is always welcome as are comments! They make me happy! Thank you for stopping by!

What's On YOUR WorkTop Wednesday? #629

 

  It's Wednesday! So what's on your worktop today!?  Go and link up with Julia's Stamping Ground and show us your crafty space! I love my little Gemini mini (it arrived last week) but the plates are already bending waaaaay out of shape. Yes I know there's a mess and not much creative stuff going on (that will be shown in the next post) and I have tried to tidy, but it takes sooo long to put things away that there's never any time left to craft! There's about three- no four different die-sets all mixed up and some colouring going on here and below....

  ...More Happy mail arrived. ATC's from Neet and all the way from Melbourne, from Sue! Fabulous, thank you! I've still got one (rabbit) spare, I've sent all mine off but some still seem to be missing, so let me know if yours hasn't arrived yet. Then, the next day more happy mail arrived...

...this amazing Silverwolf tribute/keepsake from  Debbie (Tattered Rocks)! (You forgot to send me your addy Debbie! Please send! Short post from me today as I'm feeding cats and gardens and watering fish at three different places for the next few weeks (and Lola the little tiny dog is coming over this week too) and Boudie Boo and Jess called in to say hello! (dogs I used to look after) and, I'm waaaay behind with card making! (and there's a pile on ironing in the corner, but we won't mention that!...the ironing board has the bigshot plus on it anyway...poor thing's legs are bowing, BigShots are really heavy!)  Crash!!! Oh no, just popped back to add links and a shelf has just fallen down! Luckily it's a bottom one, so not too bad! (oh, is that where that stamp set got to!!) So!! That's it for now (freebie will be late! Sorry.... it's either going to be a weird dragon or an odd looking donkey... or something else! Now, nip over to Stamping Ground and join in! Catch you all later, thank you for stopping by!