Artneko Large Cranes flying over Water, WOYWW + NBUS Challenge

Edited 13.6.14 - Julia had had keyhole surgery in Spain, hopes to be home by next week.. pray for her for great recovery.. have heard the hospital system there is very good "
Edited 11.6.14  There will not be a WOYWW link today,  Julia, she has been taken ill whilst on holiday and is in hospital. Not life threatening but she is not well. PLEASE do not email her, if you want to send a message, then do it through me.(Jan) May not be WOYWW next week either... Jan xx "
QUOTE OFF Lunch Lady Jan's Fabric Frenzy blog.. see HERE!
 Hullo there everyone..

Welcome to some new friends, to Antoinette, Angela Radford, Gran Margaret, and Louise Ellen. I cant link over to last one, have trouble doing it - is why have not done it for ages -  so sorry. I am sure links are there, but often not straight forward with Google+ etc. - if you kindly join this blog please let me know so can link over.. ta!
 First of all to my desk for WOYWW or What is on Your Workdesk Wednesday, at Julia of the Stamping Ground - do pop over, learn from all around the world!

Left to right: Seagull image ready stamped + watercoloured for card, then in CENTRE is Garfield card made for my nephew a Garfield fan.. See his other cards here . This year decided to do random strips at an angle of orange and black for mounting the comic strip on - saved from Garfield's own birthday which happens last same time each year as Michael's. (have two atc's not shown, sorry! must try and remember for next week forgot to photograph them, from Neet and Margaret - thank you!)

Gift from neighbour, an unwanted CD shelf, now storing stamps and inkpads, all coded and labelled.. Nice!

Finished Garfield card...Stamp HB is SU one + banner die, also with two embossing folders, "Happy Birthday" in blue + orange and black, it kind of looks like tyre tracks is Chevron EF, received as a RAK from our extra generous Maureen, aka Scrappy Mo! thanks dear friend.

This card is for Oriental Garden Mingle with Oriental Stamp Art Yahoo Group.

   I embossed the beautifully etched stamp {http://www.artneko.com/displayItem/A149-0007 A1490007 - Extra Large Cranes flying over Water} **(see tip below) unmounted (NBUS) rubber stamp by Artneko first with black ink with embossing powder. Then water coloured it with Distress inks. Cut it out and mounted on embossing stencil Butterflies. It is an embossing stencil (did it on CB with rubber mat). Hand cut it out (Butterflies by Marianne Design NBUS) after I had inked up with Opalite "Glacier blue". Mounted on Washi (NBUS) paper and blue card, tried to match the paper colours in water colouring of stamp.
 Over at Darnell's playhouse, she's hosting a brand new NBUS challenge. As used NBUS, three lots in fact, am going to enter this card in it.. for those who dont know Darnell's blog NBUS stands for "Never Before Used Schtuff" to encourage us to use up our stash! you have till June 27th to join in! NBUS Challenge #1"Anything Goes" Friendship Theme (card for Mingle for OSA friend so should qualify)

Well, thanks so much everyone for popping over for peek an chat.. will return visit as soon as able... am bit better :D thanks for those who popped over last week...

and may God bless your day wherever you maybe!
Shaz in Oz.x

**(tip from Annette of Artneko) and I find it works a treat:Too many unmounted stamps and not enough Ez mount to mount them?? Use a glue stick on back of plain trimmed rubber stamp, and glue it to an acrylic block (or to a taped down lid of stamp pad if you dont have an acrylic block) and stamp on a firm foam mat .. instant success! so no more Ez mount for me! yesss more money for stash!
.. then write name of stamp on back of rubber and put them in file for ready identifying and ready access after I stamp them in my folder of "What Stamp Is That?" (see here for this, must say it is a fav. tool now!).

Also want to join over with:

1. Di's Snippety challenge - Used snippets on both cards.   http://pixiescraftyworkshop.blogspot.com.au/ 
2.Word Art Wednesday - anything goes    http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com.au 

3.Stamping Sensation..  http://sirstampalotchallenge.blogspot.com.au/ 
Animal antics - second card with cranes in flight, and Garfield has stamped emobssed birthday greeting so just qualifies. :D

WOYWW, Stamp Cataloging, etc

Well, wasn't last Wednesday exciting every one and here we are with another WOYWW year ahead of us? 

And WOYWW you ask? well, it is "What is On your Workdesk Wednesday" and we are all of to peek at one another's work space. So please share, do! and join our merry band over at Julia's "Stamping Ground"!

Well, here is the messy desk again... and if you think it is fine, it is because I've done the "push and shove" method of tidying :D in best WOYWW fashion!

 Also working on another card for an 81st birthday for Iris, (hence the Iris Artneko stamp used). It is finished and will post it later, God willing.

 See my lovely stamp catalogue, in its folder? { finished, YAY!}

 I promised to show it to you. Two pages are open in two categories, it has been already wonderfully useful. Click on photos if want to see better.

Made a cover slipped inside front section. {Answer to query, the pencil notes are make, etc. and where they are stored in my collection}

I do have four of my atc's here (aren't they lovely? showed Annie's last week)Orange one below is the pIf (pass It forward) atc from Bridget Larsen from Oz, plus Neet and Jo sent a wee card or in Neet's case an envelope atc size :D.

Today my postie brought me two extras ... surprise! one from Neet, and one from Annie - so here are the four of them below. Thanks so very, very much dear friends from WOYWW!

 As Annie's and Jo have theirs, and as all went to UK, hopefully others do too, I will show mine now.

They are all different, some dont know they are coming. I made seven, but did not photograph the last one to Caro (a swap) I forgot, and to be honest dont remember what I did on it! 

I have done a post below this showing how I made them, as would make this one too long to tell you now. So if want to know do scroll down, please or click here!

The card in the middle went with an atc to Helen, who was my pIf.

 Well, enough rambling for the day. Here is my phone picture of our jetty and folk fishing when was walking down there. We are in winter here - downunder!

Thanks so very much for popping over for a peek and chat ~ and may God bless your day wherever you maybe!
Shaz in Oz.x

PS. Now have computer glasses which is just wonderful, it feels like someone cleaned the windows on my world, when I wear them. Bifocals are here soon so all back to normal. One amazing thing found in interim, I can wear comfortably one pair of glasses a prescription from about 12 years ago now work well so lit is like my eyes have been turned right back to then! God is so good!! thanks again for thoughts and prayers.

WOYWW Organising Stamps + Baby Cards

Good day one and all! a big happy WOYWW!

.. or What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday, over at Julia's "Stamping Ground" blog and please do join us all. 
Only one more week and it will be the fourth anniversary for this magnificent world wide blog hop.

I also say am thinking of all those suffering in big storms in Oklahoma, USA - praying for God's comfort and their needs to be met.

 

My desk in view - but rather on the boring side! Cataloging my 20+ years of stamps is continuing, but on the downhill run, phew!!! All wooden done, unmounted rubber-stamps folder done, just clear some sets left. Stamping all in one colour ink.

Wooden are quicker than unmounted - have a method for cleaning them, as it takes forever otherwise. I have the stamp cleaner with soapy side then drier side the old teatowel, with an old towel underneath the lot!

Have some stamped several times in a number of categories eg Seaside, Male, Scene stamps, etc. and really it is doing this which makes me frustrated as end up re-stamping some after having stamped them once, as add a category - like added "Silhouettes" yesterday! I hopefully will have them added to a loose leaf folder by next week. 

Oh, will have to find time to make some celebratory ATC's before then too!!

Here are two baby cards too with LOTV images on desk some weeks back, these were made before cataract surgery.

For those wondering, was yesterday given a good report from eye specialist - thanks LORD - thanks for prayers and kind thoughts all of you. I go for eye test tomorrow :D with corrected glasses a week after that. Recipes for cards below.

To close here the Aussie photo today -

 
Our huge red Hibiscus is flowering magnificently - called the Emperor of Japan, enjoying a drink today from our very welcome rain.

Haven't been down there lately but from last week our local beach five mins from here, so lovely, we are very blessed.

Happy WOYWW!

May God bless your day everyone, thank you so very much for popping over for a peek and chat - will try and comment as much as able, Shaz in Oz.x

Recipe:

Card 1 Folder Cuttlebug -  Small hearts from Love set, Cuttlebug Vintage Corner, LOTV image set discontinued, LOTV greetings set, Spellbinders Square set, and lace from stash

card 2 Folder Cuttlebug - Baby, LOTV image set discontinued and LOTV greetings set, Spellbinders Square set.

I would like to enter these cards in following challenges:

•  Words Art Wednesday - Anything goes card 1
• Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything goes card 2 
• Allsorts Challenge - True blue card 1 
• Simply create Too - Anything Goes card 1