Its Definitely WOYWW!?Day #777 I think!

 Hello WOYWWERS! First I'd like to say, sorry if I'm not getting around to you all, but I am! It's just that the comment bit, where you click on to leave your comment... has not always been working for me for some time. I even have a problem leaving one on my own blog!  So that's another blogger problem I have to add to the list.

Above is what I did with last weeks geliprint mishap, where it stuck to the gelPlate... I made these into ATC's. This week, I've been busy with dogs, so decided once they'd gone back to theirs homes, and I'd tidied up, (Long job) I'd just  potter about, sticking things to other things... Keeps my mind from going into meltdown. I needed some storage boxes... so covered these. The bigger one was once a wine bottle box, just cut in half. I've used tons of scraps and coffee stained book pages and for the first time....

I used this....and liked it. Last month I went all the way over to Hobby Craft to buy the large container at half price with my birthday coupon, only to find they didn't have any left. 😒

I don't know what the difference is between the green and the black lid, as Emma, my daughter gave me the nearly empty green lidded one... anyway, love it and must get some more! (The BIGGER one!)

This box was cut in half... and I can still make another one from the bit I cut off, and the smaller one below, was also covered in the same papers, which were darken first with TH distress Oxide,

 

  I also made...

 bag tabs, with papers from a very old crafty callender by Cardmaking and Paper Craft, over a decade ago. (I never throw anything away!)

 Tags,tabs, labels, and bookmarks made with scraps and packaging.

..Envelopes. I saw someone making an envelope journal with bigger envelopes so used up some of my 6x6 papers...hoping to turn them into a 'little envelope journal' later and...

....Just Labels, because my printer is still not printing properly, it's all fuzzy and out of focus, I can't print out any labels, so I stamped some instead.

 

Some are backed onto that brown recycled card and some are left as paper/thin card.

 

That's it I think! Pop over to Stamping Grounds 777th week of WOYWW!? Thank you for stopping by!  (Scroll down for freebies, they should still be there, if not, email me)                      

What's On Your Worktop Wednesday!!? First of 2024 #761

 

 As always, this past year I'm promising myself that I will get my Craft room workable again....Honest! Hope you all had a really great welcoming of the New Year, even if you went to bed or just played Scramble... I think at one point I put the Goonies on!  Welcome to the First post of What's On Your Worktop Wednesday 2024! No drum roll needed!

That was last night...getting a bit crazy as I have a dentist appointment, soooo! I've managed to clear a space on my worktop, first one in  about a year! Just so I can show you my covered washing tablet boxes, or one, anyway. The others are waiting in anticipation, just like my teeth are. (nervous grin) Sam Calcott has done a tuturial on how to make these, but me being lazy and needing them made now, have just covered them with papers. I've added a bit of gold paint around the edges.

The picture above shows a white A4 bit of paper/card, ready to start doing todays freebie.  Any ideas on what it might be? I'm thinking of a fairy gonk. Answers in comments please! Pop over to Stamping Ground and joint in! That's it for now, have to go!! Thank you for stopping by!! Happy New Year!!

Happy WOYWW #760!? and A Happy Christmas Tree T for Tuesday!

 Happy New Year and...Happy WOYWW #760!  And...as I did last week... Happy T for Tuesday too! I haven't opened my laptop all week, as I've been busy finishing things (or trying to) off. I think I got most of it done (or maybe not) but as they say, 'Time Waits For No one!' At the top is my advent Calender...all the chocolates have been eaten (not all my me) I do still have a few things  I want to add to the back and the sides....I was thinking, candy canes and candy and a snowy scene. I'll post a finished picture when it's none and then I can start on the one for next year! 2024.

I stayed at my daughter's for Christmas and Emma and I started Christmas Morning off with a Bucks Fizz. For Boxing day, Tom started his long journey to Deb's (my daughter in law) on his super fast bike and stopped half way for a snack....he sent us this picture. Yum!!

I loved Emma's Candle Table decoration...'specially the Christmas tree mug...

Sort and sweet this week! Lets make 2024  brillaint! Thank you for stopping by!

Happy WHat's On Your Worktop WEDNESDAY! #753

HI! It's still Wednesday, so I'm joining in with Whats On Your Worktop  over on Stamping Ground.... been a bit out of it, as not been well, and I had dogs... cleaning up takes ages! And it keeps RAINING!! I'm using radiators to dry clothes and dogs towels... (dog Tails?)...as I still can't use the Tumble drier...(or the fridge or the freezer) long story...they're in the garage, and if anything is on in there, the fuse blows...Pop!! I was going to do a bit of painting on a masterboard but somehow that didn't happen...so I watched  Ceri The Crafter, playing with his latest design using his Gel-plates most of the night, brilliant! I really MUST have a go at that! I did do a bit, but then got gerfrumbled... I'm still in the kitchen as craft room is just toooo hideous to take photos! so had a practice with making another little filo/journal booklet. I want to get that right before I use my 'nice' papers! I also cut up some tickets and stuff, and backed them using a nice caramel coloured card (which was a chocolate dessert wrapper!) 

Well, that's it from me! Late again as ususal! Pop over to Stamping Ground and join in too!  Thank you for stopping by!

WHAT'S ON YOUR WORKTOP WEDNESDAY!? #748-Still in The Kitchen.Plus Video

 Morning peoples! (((wave))) Hope you're having a good day. I've started early with my WOYWW post today, but have a feeling, it'll still be late as I have sooo much to do  I get sidetracked very easily! This is my worktop this morning in the kitchen. A couple of you said something about using file folders for journals...so I thought, what better way to explain than to make a video! So I did... Not sure how to add it...let's try... this!

Ohooo it worked! (I'm doing a little jig now!) Fabulous! So I'm making more Journals whatevers, in the kitchen. Last week I linked Ceri The Crafter ...go see him for all the right instuctions! Try here. So that's what's going on in the Kitchen worktop...

This is what's going on in the living room on the ironing board worktop...Cast your mind back to an ATC swap on WOYWW a couple of years back. I made these covers to fit the ATC's in... then last week I watched CameliaCraftDesign with Julie and she was using old book papers- anything to get my mojo working! I made loads! I added washi tape to the spine, as where the pages were sewn in  was a bit weak. 

This is one of my originals (without its belly band) from a waaaay back WOYWW swap, just the two pockets, where the ones above have four smaller pockets and a back pocket.

I Added a backing to this one.

 As you can see I made quiet a few...then thought I'd line the inside with another page to make it stronger. I used an old book on 'Trees', Julia had a much nicer one on 'flowers' so I'm now hunting out old flower books in the charity shops.

And...not quite finished yet...here's my worktop in the hall....The table I keep my printer on, sometimes comes in handy... The only problem is, if the door bell rings, I have to crawl under it to answer the door! (and once I get down, it's really hard to get up again!)I was going to make a birthday card using that cake stamp... not going to happen now though- thought of something else. I told you, I get side tracked!  Hope you're having a great week. Thanks it from me! Happy Crafting. Don't forget to pop over to Stamping Ground and join in! Thank you for stopping by!

WOYWW 14th Anniversary!#728

  Sorry crafty guys, I don't think I got round anyone last week as, once more, I just can't get into Stamping Ground, where all the action is!!  I know I'm up for swapping a few ATC's with a few peoples, but can't remember who... anyway! (Helen and Tracy??) I've been really busy doing non crafty stuff all week, involving the disappearance of a paid for permit...Jabs...ouch! two motorsbikes....a mad professor, two really nice policepeople and a few dogs and hoped to get all my ATC's done, but as you can see by the pictures, taken from my kitchen crafty space (Yes, the whole bungalow is now my craft room) they aren't completely finished.  (Oh, yes....I have an issue with loading pictures now...) 

 The first set of ATC's started off being called 'Crafty Friends' as that's what was embossed on the ATC's but as I added bits, and more bits (and of course Eye Heart WOYWW) when one the Tim Holtz cats fell out of nowhere and landed on one, which gave me the idea to call them...Crafty People's Cats instead. So they are now called...One ate the mouse, one that 'rolled' with the Bigshot, one got covered in glittler, one sniffed the glue and the last one...ran with scissors...if you're squeammish...don't look at his tail! Don't forget to pop in and see what everyone else is up to over at Stamping Ground...(Sorry can't link it!) Have a great WOYWW Anniversary. Thank you for stopping by!   

***Up date. Thank you for linking me Julia!!

What's On Your Worktop!? #667

  What's on your WorkTop this week...#667 which is the same phone number as the riding stables |I used to go to every Saturday...hoping for  free ride...after working my wellies off all day, yes a three figured phone number! Who remembers them? Gosh! I MUST be old!  Here's my worktop...there's also the bathroom...the ironing board and the cooker...(and the flat bit on top of the printer in the hall) but I won't take photos of them.  I'm very late this week...the freebie's late too cos the C word, is making me feel very slee- zzzzzzzzzzz

Those stamps from Crafter's Companion I'm sure were a freebie with an order... I stamped the '|you' today but ended up not using it... The Harry Potter Book marks were freebies too... HERE  I just cut them out, covered them with sticky-back plastic and added an eyelet and the ribbon... something for the grandkiddies. My 'Adorable scoreboard' usually fits under my bench but ontop of my plastic boxes of punches... alas, there's loads of other 'things' stuffed under there at the moment.... I'm too scarrrred to look!  I made it! It's still Wednesday! Hope you all had a great day. It piddled down here, all day! Pop over to Stamping Ground and join in! Go HERE for Spyder's Birthday Challenge!

WHAT'S ON YOUR (worktop WEdNesdaY?) #660

 Morning WOYWErs, hope you are all well and fighting fit! If you want to know more... join in  over on Stamping Ground.
Here's my bench for this week. Some Christmas Gnomes I didn't finish last year. I'm hoping to start doing at least two Christmas cards a month, so that I'll have a few ready for Christmas 2022.  (But I wouldn't bet on it!) This weeks freebie is there...odd that it started off as a cat... and turned into a cacti. Then there's some stamps and a Die-Cutting Essentials mag from waaaaay back, from the Crafty Charity shop near me, complete with the gift.

Short and sweet this week, see you all later! Thank you for stopping by!

It's What's On YOUR Worktop! #612

 

AAAAGH! It's Wednesday again!! And Welcome to WOYWW #112 My Golly-Gosh! Time is running wild! If you want to join in... Just click up there and you'll find yourself over on the Stamping Ground as if by magic. Simples!  

This week it's about winnings, lost and found things and drawers. If you look on the shelf above, you'll see a bookmark (with horses) from our freezing swimming crafter Caro... I'd just found it under my desk, where it had fallen out from the back of one of the drawers, so I feel a bit of a fraud this week, as I was doing something crafty and then, I wasn't, coz I couldn't find my bank Card and the last time I used it was by my Laptop, buying stuff from The Works; found The Works loyalty card but no bank card. Decided it MUST've fallen down the back of the desk... soooo- I should think there's just as much stuff under by desk as well as stuff that's been pushed out and fallen down the back from the drawers. No way of getting to it, so of course the whole lot had to be pulled out. (and other stuff pushed out into the hall to make way) Anyway, never found the bank card... but there's still the rest of the craft room to go through yet! 

 Won two prizes last week, (and a top three) these lovely stamps and die-cut Gnomes from Crafty Hazels Christmas Challenge and some digi's from a Promarkers Challenge!

Had jab last Friday, fine until early Saturday morning and then I was suddenly shivering!  So the weekend ended up being a bit of a 'Catch up' with what's on the box weekend... which still leaves piles of crafty stuff on my desk and the drawers on floor, while I still hunt for that Bank Card....the one with the Black Horse on it. 

 And talking of drawers, Lady Pam went on a walk about again, first she said she was going to Sainsbury's and then, changed it to, going to a funeral... at 2:30 in the morning, in the dark with her pushy wheely thing! Luckily her neighbour's son saw her and brought her back. We tell her, probably not enough, to, 'Stay in Doors and Wear Your drawers!' (she laughs!) Her lovely carer Helen, took her out in the car the next day, down to the beach to watch the waves. Pam had her hot water bottle and they had ice cream!

That's it I think! Last picture shows stuff that come in the post, freebies from mags  and some of the other stuff lost at the back of my desk! (I needed those fairy lights at Christmas!!) So, if you don't feel like crafting, go dig out your drawers... you'll never know what you might find! Then go and visit Stamping Ground! Bye For now! Stay Safe!  Thank you for stopping by!

Let's See, What's On Your Worktop Wednesday!? # 604

 

Morning! Yep..it's 4am and I should be in bed, snoring but I got hooked on watching a  steampuck tutorial, while I was drawing the freebie (scroll down) Anyway! It's WOYWW Time again. I hope you had a fabulous Christmas, even though it probably wasn't anything like you wanted, but at least we are safe and at the moment, well. Although I'm probably a little crazier than normal. Hubby, I'm pleased to say, has had his lockdown hair cut and his beard trimmed. I haven't finished anything that I planned so my desk is very much about the same as last week, only messier. I can just about get in the door!  But don't let that put you off of joining in. Nip over to Stamping Ground and have a go!  Sorry I didn't get around to every one last week. Will do better this week!

In the first picture I covered a 'broken Biscuits' box (the box was ok, it's the biscuits that were broken!) with some Christmas paper that I've had from year dot for all my 6x6 Christmas papers to go into. This should mean I'll have a bigger space to put them in somewhere! The next picture is all the things I was going to finish but didn't...

And in this picture you can see I've been using up all my nearly empty glue bottles sticking that paper on the biscuit box...(all biscuits eaten I'm affraid) Ps... the date thingy on the self, I keep forgetting to change, bet yer didn't notice that! Who spied the pussy cat Postit holder, so cute!

That's it from me...its nearly five in the morning now, so I spec I'll be late logging into Stamping Ground! See you there...scroll down for this weeks freebie!