Whats On your Worktop Wednesday!? #638 and 639

 I haven't a clue what's on your Worktop this week or last weeks for that matter as I still can't link to Stamping Ground, so this is a very late week #638 and a late week #639 all in one go!  As you can see there hasn't been much tidying up going on, just a lot of heaping up and pushing sideways, as I've been trying to make a birthday card or two and was a bit distracted with hospital visits (My younger brother Michael has cancer) and taking Mr Jinx to the vets. Last week he had xrays and more pills, blood tests etc. This week it's he's normal twice a year care jabs and apart for having his hair shaved off in a few places, now appears to be back to his old self! (this is Mr Jinx of course, not Michael!) 

 

I started the birthday card as seen in the picture above, but it wasn't working right so I changed it to the picture you see below

 

 

 This is more like the card I had pictured in my mind... but my moving gnome kept catching his arm in the tree. So I made the tree higher which meant pulling everything off and starting again. The second go, was looking better but the little gnome still kept getting stuck... I did another one with no trees, only bushes...and then gave up and decided to do something else something really simple, as I was running out of time! (By this time Hubby had gone and bought a birthday card!) I remembered a tutorial by Sam Calcott making a bendy 6x6 card and knowing I had the Gnome stamps and the papers (Creative Stamping #94 Garden Gnomes by Daisy Mae Design now sold out) decided on making that instead! The only difference is,  I added the butterflies to acetate. Here it is... on youtube.

Nothing like the card I had in my head.... And there it was, the poor little half finished card with my little drawn Gnome staring up at me and saying...'finish me off Lyn.' So I did! Here's both cards together.

This is the only picture I have with my little Gnome showing off. If you want to see him moving, try HERE now! 
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 Now...this is What's On My Worktop this week. Some goodies bought from a proper crafty place and the rest bought from a Charity Craft store. (the bits of paper were left over from last week)

And on the other side of my mess is folders. I have a thing about folders. These ones (£1 for five) have plastic hook over clips, which fit inside a lever arch file, so I'm adding my original digis to them, I can get quiet a few in each folder... and talking about digis, I will add a freebie before the day is out! 

More folders, with popper top openings and punchout holes so they too can fit into the lever arch files.  From Tesco. £2 for five (If you use your Tesco Card, £2.50 if not) especialy for 'the back to school' range and will disappear never to be seen unless you pay double or more from another well known stationary shop! 

 And one more picture from the middle of my mess....I took some pictures (loads actually) of my Tim Holtzs inks so that if I see them on offer, or a bit cheaper... I know what colour I need and will stop buying the colours I already have! Well, that's it for now... If some one would like to link me to Stamping Ground I'll love you forever... if not....I'll be tidying up! Oh! forgot, did we get to the Birthday Party on time? Was the card finished!? Yes....we turned up at the Hall, birthday cards and presents... a day early!! Hubby laughed.