What's On your Worktop today?WOYWW#686

Happy WOYWW!? For a minute I thought I'd missed it! I didn't start taking pictures till about five minutes ago and then I was waylaid with Lady Pam's little battery vacuum cleaner. Her little house is at last empty now and looking very sad. We've kept back the electric lawn mower too, so we can nip back at any time to have a mow and a vac. She always said we'd have a job clearing it out, and she wasn't wrong! Her two beds had to be sawn in half as there was no way they'd go down her very narrow stair case, making us all think, the bedroom walls must have been built, once the bedroom furniture was put in place. 

 So, back home and I'm still playing with those Perfect Pearls I played with last week. I've done a bit of embossing and bleaching,   played with a lovely die-set from the Memory Box Magazine and I've painted the flower pot gold....(It was there, so I painted it)  The little ginger house is a download, (pinterset) coloured on the computer and printed out.

And... I've only just realised that I can make boxes using my Adorable Scoreboard. (There's a youtube tutorial HERE) On the bottom left hand side it sez, box lid and on the right hand side it sez, box base. So you measure the lid on the left side (1.2. 3. etc) and then, measure for the base using the numbers on the right...(12. 11. 10 etc) because there's a little nic on the left hand side making that measurement a tiny bit bigger than the measurement on the left side) Genius!

Called into the Crafty Charity shop, took Lola the Chihahua with me in the puppy pram, she loves it!  Everyone wanted to fuss her. There was a bargain. A crafting trolly for £8. No I didn't get it, I thought about it though! I've been fancying one for ages and have been using Pam's shopping trolly, brand new, never used, and finding that very useful to take the odd crafty thing from my stash back to the shop for them to sell (for charity)  and when we've  been off camping or dog sitting. I can get a load of crafty things in it. And there was no way I could manage both the puppy pram and the crafting trolly. I get enough grins from people as it is! ('There's that weird bag lady!') That's it from me! The Wednesday Freebie is in the post below. See you all later over on Stamping Ground. Have a great week. Thank you for stopping by!

It's A Magical Quirky Moment!

Evening! It's time for Quirky Craft's to have another challenge!! Thank you to everyone who joined in the last one. Loved your monsters!  This time it's Diane's turn to set the theme and she wants to see something...

 Magical!

so we'd like to see, Fairies, Wizards, any Magical Creature you can think of ! AND!!  just to make it a bit harder...

 Stars, Glitter and Silver on your entries!
Very important, because if Diane can't see stars, glitter or silver on your creation, it won't be counted!!  
This week we are sponsored by...

Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps.

Here's my first card.  I've used one of my favourite  Stitchy Bear images The SteamPunk Fairy. Coloured her with mostly lilac and lavender Promarkers, Used bits of my Memory Die-cut, PinkPetticoat starry backing paper, black and silver card candi,   purple gems, mirco glitter on her wings, stickles glitter on the edges of the ribbons and the papers, black card, silver miri board and black and purple ribbon!
The Font on the front is called Spinstee and the font on the inside of the card is calledKnight Templar.

My second card, I've used a wizard cat from Stitchy bear's  Jacare's Halloween Bundle HERE 
 I'm really not too happy with how this one turned out! Everything that could go wrong went wrong. The Promarkers bled over the lines, the glue made the silver board frizzle up. The ink ran out on the pumpkin papers and I dropped the micro glitter, so it covered  the whole card! And...I should've added some black to the card at the beginning, but forgot and it really does need more black... I think I might do it again! (better!)

 I did a bit of silver embossing on black card with  stamp and ink (haven't done any stamping for ages!) for the corner embellishment, but all papers  and fonts are the same as above. I'm not here at the moment, so this is on timer. Please excuse any woobleness wobbliness and spelling mistakes. The new blogger format is really rubbish! The pictures jump all over the place! Thank you for stopping by. Hoping to add this Fairy card into a few...

Challenges 

One Stitch At A Time- Boo *WINNER!!*
Creative Craft-fun with fantasy
Catch the bug-anything goes
Challenges 4 everybody-anything-goes
Pixie Dust studio-anything goes
Craftymess-anything goes
Crafty bloggers network-anything goes
Sentimental Sundays-anything goes

Quirky Craft's is looking for some new people to join their Design Team and also fun crafters who'd love to join us for a two month slot as a guess designer. Hop over to Quirky Crafts to add your name to our Mr Linky List here or to read more HERE  You can add DT or GDT to your name.

Scraps of White On White

This is my very first, very simple white on white card using a Memory Box die and a small heart punch. The pearl card has a slight shimmer. This card did have an insert but I forgot to take a picture. I printed straight onto the card using dark grey and for once my printer didn't make any other marks! The Freebie Font I used is called Abbeyline and you can download it HERE or just Google the name.
I cut the die from a scrap of card I'd cut from another card, luckily it was the same (I never throw anything away!) but there wasn't quite enough to cut out two Dies, which is why the lower one has been cut to fit the bottom of the card. I think it looks embossed, but it's been fixed on using a Quickie glue pen.
I'm nearly too late for Simply less is More, whose challenge this week is Don't Scrap it (use up your scraps) and The Secret Crafter Saturday challenge-White On White, as I've had this sitting in draft and forgot I hadn't posted it! Still worth a drop by to see their fabulous creations though. There were a few other challenges that I know I've missed and a couple I might I'll add later...off now for some hot cocoa and bed! Thanks for stopping by

Challenges

The Secret Crafter Saturday challenge- White On White
Simply less is more-don't scrap it

Freebie Paint Papers here
Zzzzzzing in the garden part one
Zzzzzing in the garden Part two

Zzzzz Wake Up! It's Quirky Well Spring!!

Hi guys, wakey wakey it's that Quirky time again! And it's officially spring here in the New Forest. (England) I thought it was about time I made my DT card and be on time too! So here it is!

It's Diane's turn to set the theme over on the Quirky Crafts Challenge Blog, and she has decided this fortnightly challenge will be....

First Signs of Spring!
using a
Double Z Fold Card!

So, TWO things for you to think about! For the card makers out there Diane would love you to make a double Z fold card. Splitcoaststampers have a great tutorial and a video to show you how to make the card if you don't already know. For the non-card makers perhaps you can create an exploding box filled with butterflies or snowdrops or a scrap page, which has a secret page that folds out revealing the first signs of spring... naughty rabbits suddenly come to mind!
The challenge this time is sponsored by The Stamping Boutique and they have very kindly offered the winner 5 Digi Stamps of their choice!
I have actually made one of these Z cards before, but didn't know what it was called! (thought I was being clever and making something new! As if!) So I decided to go along with the same idea, using two square cards~(stuck together) as I'm rubbish at measuring, so if you are too, here's a reminder how I did it...here. But I will do another 'How To' in the next post.
The backing paper's I used were a freebie 6x6 paper stack by Kate Knight called Spring Fling with CardMaking & Paper Craft Magazine Feb issue 101. They also came with matching chipboards!
I've used two digital images from our Sponsor, The Stamping Boutique, 'Tulips' and 'Spring' coloured with Promarkers. I recycled the butterfly on the front from something someone sent me, and coloured with a dark red using a Promaker, (it was blue) I've added a Memory-Box swirl, peel off corners, and inside peel off flowers, another butterfly and loads of Stickles Glitter to the flowers on the paper. It's all held closed with some dark pink spotty ribbon from my stash.
Now, this not only makes a nice card this way round, but if you turn it back to front, it also makes another nice card! I've just done this one very quickly, using papers from the same paper stack. You could add sentiments to the side panels and some extra flowers. Two cards for one!
So, that's the Challenge, make a Double Z card with a Spring Theme!
New Follower! Hi and a BIG {{wave}} to Gayle who is out the back and in the dark, you'll know her fabulous blog gaylepage-robak- A Stamping Touch. Pop over and see some of her fab creations! That's is for now, don't forget to pop over to the Challenge blog to see what everyone else has come up with and the winners of the last challenge.
I'm not here, so this is on timer! Thank you for stopping by!

Challenges

Hiding in my craft room-Bring on some spring
The Stamping Boutique- Easter/Spring-PCP Challenge (winner!)
Fairytale Challengeblog-spring
Crafts and me challenges-shades of spring
Crafty Creations-fancy folds
Crazy4challenges- 2 Layer Card
The Craftypad-Recycle it
OSAAT-Use a Digi-Spring-Easter
Delightfulsketches use pattern paper
2 Sisters-Anything goes
Allsorts-Anything goes

Let's Fly Away

Enough Doom and Gloom, look what I found sitting out in draft. Nice to find something you'd forgotten all about. The camera batteries went flat after taking just one picture, so it just stayed there. I used some paper from a freebie 6x6 pack, which came from Quick Cards Made Easy Magazine, called 'Let's Fly Away.' I used my own digi. He's only just over an inch and a half tall. I wanted to see how 'small' I could make him before all the black merged, then after making the card, wasn't very happy with it. Not sure I like his bottom! I may re-draw him, what d'you think? Re-do him and put this one up as a freebie??? He may look better bigger! I've 3D-ed him and the kite and used a Memory Box die-cut, 'Elegant Scrollwork'.

New Followers, couldn't find all your links, so hi and a big ((wave)) to Dawn, Nancy Taylor, (now, why does that remind me of Groundhog Day???!) Scrapunzel, Theresa Fredrickson, Jo Anne, and Susan! I'm soooo behind will my blog. (which keeps me sane!)
Thanks for stopping by!