WOYWW Fancy Evergreen Easel Card

Welcome back to the blog and WOYWW.  What's on my workdesk?  A fancy easel card that was in my PHD collection (Projects Half Done).  I finally put all of the pieces together and came up with this Evergreen Forest scene.  

I used the Evergreen Forest 3D Embossing Folder to emboss over the tree scene from the Feels Like Frost Designer Series Paper.  I sponged some Pretty Peacock ink and Champagne Mist Shimmer Ink over the embossed trees.  

I love how the ornate layers dies add a fancy finish to the matted layers of this card. I rounded the corners of the layers with the Detailed Trio Punch.  I added some wood grain pattern from the In Good Taste Designer Series paper to add some contrast to the easel stand of the card.  I colored some Clear Epoxy droplets with the dark Pretty Peacock Stampin' Blends marker to match my card.

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Card Measurements:

(2) 5 1/2 x 4 whisper white for die cutting

(2) 5 1/2 x 4 Pretty Peacock

2 1/4  6 scored at 2 and 4 Pretty Peacock to make easel

4 3/4 x 3 1/2 Pretty Peacock

4 1/2 x 3 1/4 DSP for embossing

4 3/4 x 3/12 Pretty Peacock 

4 1/4 x 7/8 DSP (woodgrain)

4 3/4 x 1 Pretty Peacock

2 1/2 x 1/2 Whisper White for Stamping

1 13/16 x 9 16 Whisper White for Stamping

11/16 x 2 Pretty Peacock

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WOYWW Wednesday

It’s Wednesday which means What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday.

What’s on my desk is several different cards using Seaside Spray. I am in love with the color and since it will retire next year, I want to use as much of it as I can. It is perfect for winter theme cards. 

Here is a card I made during Sharon Armstrong’s mystery stamping on Monday. 

Measurements:

Card Base: Purple Posy 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" scored at 4 1/4"

Seaside Spray: 3" x 3 3/4"

DSP: 3" x 3 1/2"

Whisper White:  3" x 3"

Seaside Spray and Whisper White scraps

Seaside Spray Metallic Ribbon 7"

Inside: 

Whisper White 2 7/8" x 2 3/8"

DSP 3 1/4" x 2 3/4"

Seaside Spray 3 1/2" x 3"

I have ideas all the time for future cards and pull pieces to play with later and save them as kits. One of my kits looks like this. 

I am also working on a Seaside Spray bench fold card for Fun Fold Friday.

Is Seaside Spray one of your favorite colors? Let me know your current color obsession in the comments.  

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WOYWW: Behind The Scenes

It is Wednesday and I am bringing back What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday. Consider this a behind the scenes look at what I am working on and playing around with. These are several of my in-progress projects or just experiments and attempts at trying to bring my ideas to life. 

Making my own backgrounds is my favorite thing to do so you will see a lot of that. 

Here is a quick video with What's On My Workdesk!

Let me know if there is anything you would like to see me make or a technique you would like me to try out.

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I am excited to participate in What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday this week.  I can happily say, not much is on my desk.  Finally, thanks to my Dad and my new Raskog cart, it is all clean.   It is organized and ready for a brand spanking new project.  

Here is the super scary before pic:

AACCKKK!!!  It should not be hard to imagine why I haven't made anything lately.  LOL.  But that is all about to change.  Be back soon with some Halloween cards to share.

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My desk is not too messy only a few stamps left out that need to be cleaned!

I decided to play along with Whats on Your Workdesk Wednesday this week. I hope you like my card and what's on my desk....I actually made a card this week. Woo Hoo! I am on a roll.

It is a birthday card for my manager's birthday on Friday. I made this cardbase about a year ago when I first got my Janome Sew Mini Sewing Machine.... I was cleaning up a bit over the weekend and found this and a few other cardbases so I decided to use it. I thought the colors were dark enough that I could use it for a card for a man. I hope he likes it! While making my card, I learned a little something that I never noticed before. Distress ink does not play nicely with my clear stamps! I must have tried stamping the sentiment 4 times before I realized it was the ink and not me or the stamp. I finally tried again with Memento ink and got a perfectly clear image.

Stamps: Tiddly Inks digi, Inkadinkadoo Cardstock and Paper: Stampin' Up Crushed Curry, PTI Stampers Select White, Paper and random yellow cardstock from stash... Ink and Accessories: Tim Holtz Antique Linen Distress Ink, Memento Rich Cocoa dew drop, Janome Sew Mini, Making Memories Buttons, Martha Stewart Foam Dots, Ric Rac and rhinestone from stash, Copics: BG000, BG05, BG07, E40-E43, E50-E53, Y000, Y13, Y15