Good morning my crafty WOYWW friends! For those of you that aren’t familiar with WOYWW (What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday), head on over to Julia’s Stamping Ground and you will find desks from all around the world for What’s on Your Workdesk Wednesday where we get to snoop on other crafter’s desks.
My goal is to try to stick to participating every other Wednesday. I have unsuccessfully attempted this in the past but I thought I would try again. So here I am.
This morning’s desk is filled with one of my new stamp set’s coordinating dies. In the past, I never bought the coordinating dies because they forced me to reach deeper into my wallet and I figured I could just fussy cut the stamped images out when needed. Fast forward to today, and I still hesitate but depending on the complexity of the shapes I will cave and buy the dies. They make the process more efficient and this year I need more efficiency with production.
In preparation, I am using my wire cutters to cut out the dies so that I can use them. I tested one out on an image I colored up on my recent crop. My old faithful Cuttlebug is on the left. The postcard in the middle of the lady reading and sipping tea is from Russia. To the right, is my first attempt at a new color combination for sunflowers with my Copic markers. The one to the left is watercolored with my new watercolor set from Altenew. My brand new coloring book that arrived yesterday is in my inbox on the far right.
Today is a shorter work day because my oldest has a half day so I am working as efficient as possible. So pardon me and I will be sure to visit some desks tomorrow.
Have a crafty day!
Belinda
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Good morning! This weekend flew by in a flash but I managed to make the most of it. Saturday, I spent the entire day with some of my crafty girlfriends. I hadn’t seen them since last spring and many since last winter so this reunion was really special. Life kind of has a way of keeping us busy and my schedule which revolves around my family and work didn’t seem to make room for fun with my friends. However, now that the boys are back in school and we are falling into routines, I will be able to make time to be with my friends.
I saw others use black and I thought that it would really make the gears and flowers pop. I didn’t dilute the paint before applying it to the page. As I was completing the painting, I realized that a second coat was necessary to hide all of the brush marks. This technique is a great way to cover a background on a page quickly and then use the black colored pencil for tiny spaces. I have to say that I love the result and I know that this might not work well in all coloring books, but the pages in the coloring book series are thick and no bleeding through occurred. I only used a blank piece of cardstock behind the page as I painted so that I wouldn’t get any on the desk or the next page. Now I am so excited to paint more pages in this book!
As part of my quarterly business purchases, I have bought quite a few new stamp sets and this fall set simply makes me happy. You all know how much I love autumn so I was eager to play with this new set. I stamped them up on Copic paper and watercolor paper to explore the different results. I absolutely love both versions. I even googled and found pink sunflowers so you know I had to take the opportunity to color up some pink sunflowers!
Hello, my friend, I hope you are having a wonderful Friday. The sun has finally come out again after some pretty gray days. I am grateful for the sun coming this weekend but not the humidity. I mean really, we are a little over a week from the first day of fall and I really want to put away my shorts.
Today I included a couple of photos of a completed coloring page I colored this summer. As many of you may know, I started playing around more seriously with my colored pencils after the new year and have been having a blast. I took the summer off from work so my Copics collected a little dust!