What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday #191

It's that time again!!! Time to have a world-wide nosy through other people's craft desks!! LOVE IT!! This has been a tough month for me craft-wise because it's been a tough month for me SLEEP-WISE, lol! But things seem to be getting back to "normal" after our transatlantic trip to Florida. Be sure to link up with Julia, on Stamping Ground, to see some incredible art and wonderful, creative desks!!! You won't be disappointed!

Yesterday I spent nearly the entire day in my Stamping Studio! Lots to clean, organize, move around, rediscover, lol! And the final product of my efforts was this...

 

TA DA!!!!!

I moved everything off the third shelf on the left, to the new cubby, so then I shifted all my clear mount cases over, creating more room in my Work Box. The cases you see here are about half of my collection!

Notice that the little table has NOTHING on it, or under it!! A miracle!!!!

If you listen closely, you can hear the angels singing at this newly organized space!

I built the new IKEA cubby, MYSELF!, on Sunday. So now I have a Big Shot/Magnolia station!

Oh right! The desk!!! So what's on my desk this morning? New Magnolia stamps!!! I got the last of them last night in the mail. Oh happy day!!! Some of these are from the newest collection, and some are much older. I finally found some that I've been looking for, for a while now. I also bought some scor-tape since so many crafters use it and I wanted to try it out. Do you use it???

AND....Remember when I promised (again!) to make something crafty??

 

Well I did!!! I made this adorable Valentine gift for my oldest daughter. (She hardly ever reads my blog, so I think I'm safe!) I used Dangling Tilda for this, and colored her with my beloved Copics. I even fussy cut it, which I hardly ever do!!!

Back side

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WINNER, WINNER - CHICKEN DINNER!!!

The winner of last week's giveaway is....

Scrappy Sticky Inky Mess!!

Congratulations!!!

Because that was so much fun, I'm doing it again this week!!

Up for grabs is this...

...packet of black rhinestones and a mini Maggie stamp!

Just leave your comment here on this post, and you will be entered to WIN!! You do not have to be a follower of my blog, but I do so love to have new bloggy friends. (*waves* to all the new ones from last week!!!) Good luck and thank you for visiting!!

A fabulous idea for Convention...

Alana Jean-Louis, a first time attendee at Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah this past July, came up with a brilliant idea! Her profile picture on Stampin Connection (Demo only site) shows her with a clown nose and she was sort of "known" for it. So...she brought a huge bag full of clown noses to Convention to share and take pictures with!! There's a huge thread over on the Demo site with everyone "picking their noses" and it's been great fun reading all the stories and looking at all the pictures.

Seriously? What could be more fun???

They were also having a garden hat something-or-other too, lol!

Love it!!!

I thought, I have to do something like this too!! But, with something original!!!!

A new stamp set in our catalog is called Many Mustaches (see pic below). I placed two orders from the new, big catalog and wasn't initially impressed with it. Thomas, however, thought it was great fun and encouraged me to add it. Well, as luck would have it, I have this set coming to me in my Holiday Mini order!!

I will be making up mustaches for us to wear in Paris!!! I'll attach a mini cocktail straw to one side, so you can hold up your 'stache for photos! And I'll heat emboss them so they'll hold up longer and make them in various "hair" colors. How fun is that?????

Stamp Club Cards

These are the cards we made for February's Stamp Club!

Happy Birthday Card

Recipe:
Stamps: Take a Spin, Curly Cute
Paper: Garden Green, Wild Wasabi, Whisper White
Ink: Garden Green

Accessories: spinner hand, dimensionals

Anniversary Card

Recipe:
Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes
Paper: Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White, Basic Black
Ink: Cherry Cobbler

Accessories: C.C. seam binding, word window punch, modern label punch, heart punch, scalloped heart die, loop frame embossing folder, vintage wallpaper embossing folder, 1/8" black ribbon, rhinestones, pearls, dimensionals

Friendship Card

Recipe:
Stamps: Spring Song, Bird on a Branch
Paper: Concord Crush, Almost Amethyst, C.C. DSP, Whisper White
Ink: Concord Crush, Chocolate Chip

Accessories: fuschia Flower Soft, MS border punch, Dazzlin' Diamonds glitter

close up of the Flower Soft area

I love you friend card
Recipe:
Stamps: Punch Bunch, Valentine Defined
Paper: Real Red, Whisper White, red glitter paper
Ink: Real Red

Accessories: Polka dot ribbon, dimensionals, googley eyes, 1" circle punch, top note die

Coffee Humor Card

Recipe:

Stamps: Morning Cup, Take a Sip (wheel)
Paper: Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Whisper White
Ink: Crumb Cake, Early Espresso

Accessories: scalloped corner punch, C.C. seam binding

Stamp Club!

I had my monthly Stamp Club last Saturday!
It was fabulous!!

Just Because Card

Recipe:
Stamps: Notably Ornate, Punch Potpourri
Paper: Wild Wasabi, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla
Ink: Crumb Cake, Garden Green
Accessories: heart punch, bird punch, top note die, dimensionals, sq lattice embossing folder, sponge dauber

**I have four of these for sale if you're interested!**
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Thank You Card

Recipe:
Stamps: Build A Blossom, Occasional Quotes (inside), Baby Blossoms, Whimsical Words
Paper: Blushing Bride, Whisper White
Ink: Blushing Bride, Pear Pizzazz
Accessories: SU ribbon, Dazzling Diamonds, polka dot embossing folder, blossom punch, slot punch, ticket corner punch, SU rhinestones, dimensionals

**I have five of these for sale, if you're interested!**
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Chocolate Valentine Card

Recipe:
Stamps: Eat Chocolate, Teeny Tiny Wishes, Choc Chip wheel
Paper: Real Red, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White
Ink: Real Red, Chocolate Chip
Accessories: SU ribbon, spiral border punch, 1" circle punch, 1 1/4" circle punch, top note die, word window punch, modern label punch, dimensionals

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Love You Valentine Card

Recipe:
Stamps: Valentine Defined
Paper: Real Red, RR DSP, Pretty In Pink, Whisper White
Ink: Real Red
Accessories: Lg scallop circle punch, 1 3/4" circle punch, circle coluzzle, SU ribbon, dimensionals

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Happy Birthday Card

Recipe:
Stamps: Create A Cupckae, Circle Circus, Alphabet Soup
Paper: Daffodil Delight, Whisper White, Creamy Caramel
Ink: Creamy Caramel, Choc Chip, Daffodil Delight
Accessories: SU ribbons, lacey circle nestie, Lg scallop circle punch, cupcake punch, Pumpkin Pie marker

**I have five of these for sale, if you're interested!**

Stamp Club!

I had my first Stamp Club here in Italy this past Saturday morning! It was fantastic and hopefully, we'll have some new Vicenza stampin' addicts, lol! I'm going to do my best anyway! Thanks so much for coming over Cassie, Beth and Heidi!! Hopefully we'll grow our little group, and I'm looking forward to making Valentine goodies with you all next month.

Here are the cards we made:

This is the card I also made for the Paper Players!

Pretty cute, huh??
I LOVE STAMPING!!!!!!!!!