WOYWW what happened to March?

Seriously, what did happen to March? Did it just up and march away?

Things remain much the same here ... a small amount of creativity amongst the chaos ...

 

 

Well, there's the chaos with the most recent and very small amount of creativity, a simple birthday card (cut and paste, cut and paste, although I did add more gold bling to the existing gold bling). Anyway, not happy with it, can do better ... will do better (by Saturday ... nothing like a deadline to get the creative juices flowing, right?)

 

I haven't been entirely at a standstill. Went to a class recently given by Rachel Greig (of Darkroom Door fame) and made some rather nice cards, using some new products and interesting techniques.
Here they are ...

 

 

Oh, and of course, you really wanted to see the most recent retail therapy, didn't you?

 

 

That's all self-explanatory, isn't it?

Except for that papery stuff at the bottom, which is GEN-U-INE American

deli paper!   What's all this about?

Why don't you visit Julia at her Stamping Ground

 

WOYWW an extra day?

As today happens to be 29 February, a once-every-four-years kinda day,

which makes this a longer year than normal, would it be possible to get more done today? No, probably not. But I'll try anyway.

Here are the fruits of my meagre creative labours ...

The open book is being "altered", pages have been removed,

(trust me, they weren't worth reading),

and some pages have been glued together,

to make a more substantial background for painting, etc.

Some of the torn out pages have been given a new lease of life already,

(right hand side, next to UK Craft Stamper). And I think those oil pastels might get a work out somewhere in the book too. See that large stamp (next to oil pastels, borrowed from Sandra ... the stamp, not the pastels), well, you know where I am going to use that now, don't you? The colourful tag (on top of the stamp) is also from Sandra. Isn't that amazing, what you can do with those oil pastels?

Why all this show and tell?

It's What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday

You knew that, didn't you?

WOYWW playing with pastels

Just "playing artist" again.

Leandra of PaperArtsy 

has some great projects and hints  for using water soluble oil pastels.

Found the oil pastels locally and had a little shopping spree.

Everything was on sale.

Both the books were less than the price of any craft magazine and one of them I had borrowed often from the library, so I figured I ought to own it.

If you have landed here by accident you might be wondering

what's happening. All will be explained by Julia at the Stamping Ground.