WOYWW 17th Anniversary, Snippets, NBUS, IDEAS, Allsorts

As it's Wednesday, it's time for What is On Your Workdesk Wednesday over at Sarah's Craft Shed here! Its our Anniversary, and we are sharing if able some ATCs given us by our beloved Neet. Well, in April 2012 I met Neet for the first time - see post here and then Neet gave me my very first ATC, and a necklace with it (see photo from 2012 post). I had no idea what ATCs were. 

Alas dont have original, we met up with Doone, Jozarty and Anne of Anne's Stamp Pad, none are still blogging. Neet arranged our meet up in Manchester.  At our 2018 Sept crop in Llandudno Neet, made me an ATC Folder which I still have (as its on display in my craft room) and this is it with Neet's ATC from that crop. There are only 4 made of it by numbers on back. So privileged to have one.

  I made an ATC in memory of our Neet who loved Lavinia so I made it in Lavinia stamps and inks. It’s going to someone special. 

 To my desk - see below.   I dont know if it's just me?? but I find some die sets have ZERO instructions, and you're left to work out how to assemble as best you can! This lovely Iris set is one of those. I found by searching a post for Poppy Craft Iris die (a NBUS). 

I had some beautiful hand made purple paper, but it needed shaping + texture added in colouring. After trying loads of pencils, chose the Staedtler Fluoro pink, perfect (one borrowed from my sister's many pencils), with gold opalite ink added before pencil, gold pearls, and shaping tool. The die set actually comes with two different irises, so if you want 3 flowers you need two the same. It gave me brain strain assembling the two so thought no way I could do just one and so am doing another two. The only reason I persisted was because it was for dearest Iris, of Lincolnshire, who's now with the LORD. I wanted to send it to her daughter for first birthday without her beloved mum. So 🙏🏻🙏🏻 praying it's a blessing to Vicki (mailed it yesterday). Background is black card, double embossed front and back with EF Poppy Crafts Rustic Wood, then splattered with gold paint. Leaves in gold mirri card.

Phew, finished card! It was worth it in end. I actually made 3 more Irises as going to make one for another friend in August, who loves irises.😄

These cards below are done with the same technique used last week, see here. 

Double embossing with Poppy Crafts Rustic Wood Embossing Folder, the smooched inky colours. Sizzix Real Vibes greeting set. Same as Iris card.

 And closing here's another Lavinia card, full of NBUS, in memory of Neet. I love the ODB verse "God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The LORD is my Strength and song; He has become my salvation. " Isaiah 12:2

Now to a few Aussie photos, a red flower (cyclamen and begonia) collage from the courtyard. Followed by some recent beach views on walks when well. 

Thanks so much lasting this far!

May God bless you wherever you maybe,

Prayer hugs, 🙏🏻🤗

Shaz in Oz.x 

Thought of the Day  

"The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are  the everlasting arms:" Deut 33:27a.  

In times of stress and strife there are certain verses you cling to and this is one. I run to those everlasting arms for shelter and refuge. Our Heavenly Father understands like nobody else does,  and as He is eternal He sees  the things in the dilemma that we cannot see, and we rest in Him. 

Nothing, not a thing happens to the child of God that does not first pass through His hands, He sees the length depth and breadth of our burden and promises to supply our need.   

Sharing with the following Challenges:

1. Allsorts Challenge Monochromatic or Anything goes - yellow Lavinia card. Stamps are NBUS Lilium, Bee, think its Hum? And field grass. Verse is Disc. Stamp ODB from set 1. inks Lemon drop (NBUS) Sahara Dune on splatters, and yellow sparkly Posca in colouring.This is going to a special person. Loved these colours and stamps. 

2. Word Art Wednesday Challenge Anything  Goes - all cards here!

3. Snippets card, the iris card, teeny snippet of gold used, the handmade purple was part of a sheet, snippets left as shown.  

 4. Darnell's NBUS Never Used before Schtuff challenge  Iris die, stamps - lilium and bumble bee, plus lemon drop ink. 

5. And since I made a rare ATC I'm linking it up to the Tag and ATC Challenge. The theme is just add pink and definitely not pink here, but adding it under Anything goes 😄

6. And lastly Darnell's I.D.E.A.S challenge. Week 2 is Dies and yes there's dies! Iris card, + two birthday cards. 

 

WOYWW, Vale Neet, Snippets NBUS, Darnell's IDEAS challenge

For my WOYWW What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday post at Sarah's Craft shed here! I've altered my prepared post as I've some photos and memories to share of a beloved WOYWWer, first of all our beloved Neet. For those who dont know, our beloved Neet passed peacefully on 29/4/2026, see last post on her blog by hubby, 

Card done for Chas, Jo Rice by Lavinia (here) a great favourite of Neet. Greeting stamped with Sweet n Sassy. 

 I met Neet a number of times in my visit to Manchester in 2012, I memorably met her first of all at Bootes, she was so tall, and I so short. We clicked, as one was apt to with Neet, we met up with 3 other WOYWWers who no longer blog, and visited various crafty locations in Manchester with great glee. Next rendezvous was at the famous Llandudno crop run by Margaret on Sat 8th Sept  2018. Photos from then... 

L to R: two Shaz's, Neet Hickydorums, Lunch Lady Jan. We were all so absolutely excited to meet together. This was a miracle trip for me. Next the group of lady WOYWWers, followed by husbands who graciously also came along. 

 This link takes you to the post I wrote on Crop in Oct. 2018 on my return, and you'll see Neet's ATC book she made me and Shaz Silverwolf's memory folder ofiicrip, which arrived the day before I left UK for Florida.

Next an abbreviated WOYWW post, will share the rest, God willing, next week. This is a technique by Jo Simmons on YouTube here. I didnt do it like her example. I embossed a card for ink smooshing with a textured embossing folder (Poppy Crafts Rustic Wood - a NBUS) on wrong and right side (ie double embossing, once each side). The original technique was emboss with a 3D folder, then run through on die cutting sandwich to make it more of 2D folder impression. Found I didn't like it and discovered emboss on both sides looks best- by accident on this folder.

I then smooshed ink colours on with ink smoosher AKA NB Crafts (link here) Here I'm using her mini smoosher but used both. 

      For my sister in laws birthday, in her colours.

For my sister's birthday, today! 🎂
Another May birthday. Snippets of blue embossing rescued to a card (another Poppy Craft folder, found in a snippets hunt, with various other ink coloured EF). Ink is Faded Jeans Oxide, Sweet n Sassy bible verse stamp, which I heat embossed in DI Prize Ribbon Oxides, same shade but teeny bit deeper. Love this verse!

BTW TIP: set Oxides with good hairspray or water if smooshing, or of course heat emboss, as here.  

Now to a few Aussie photos..

Not walking much, still recovering from Skin cancer excisions. Last stitches out yesterday! Yay! Am God willing here today at my sister's for her birthday 🎂, enjoying this view. (Scheduled this!)

A VERY pretty outlook, here's a couple  of others, from walks end of March...  I love these seagull reflections. Click on photo..

I'm looking forward to getting back to my longer walks, had a few shorter ones. So blessed 🙌 to live here. Thanks so much lasting this far, many birthdays in beginning of 2026, more to come!

May God bless you wherever you maybe,

Prayer hugs, 🙏🏻🤗

Shaz in Oz.x 

Thought of the Day  

 Psalm 27:14 is the verse on my Snippets card, ❤️ a real favourite from late Oct.1978, when my beloved Yorkshire nanna passed, so apt indeed with Neet's passing! God alone gives comfort and assurance at such times.

We struggle to wait on the LORD. 

Our Heavenly Father, like our earthly Father, gives us 3 answers to our requests and prayers - Yes¹, No² or Wait³. 

I speak more in depth on waiting in prayer on my recent Christian blog post - link here. 

 

Truly waiting is resting on the all wise will of our Heavenly Father. 

 

God sees what we cannot. He loves us deeply and He wants the very best for us. 

Linking up to the following Challenges:
 1.Allsorts Challenge blog Anything but Square - or Anything goes. Sympathy card, all stamps and inks are Lavinia, except sympathy greeting which are Sweet n Sassy. disc.

  
2. Snippets Playground - the snippets blue embossed piece, out of my Snippets bag of ink embossed folder card, and was actually that size, just neatened it on one end. Scallop die was from another snippet and coloured in same ink. 

 3. Word Art Wednesday is HERE!! all 4 cards. 
4. NBUS Challenge Never Before Used Schtuff.  (Poppy Crafts Rustic Wood - a NBUS) 

5. And lastly Darnell's I.D.E.A.S challenge. Week 1 is Inky.. plenty of that here. All are inky.