Welcome to an extremely sunny What's On Your Work Desk Wednesday!

Morning,

 

Greetings from the sunny warmth at the Purple Palace ... talking of purple, did you know it was my favourite colour? (lol!!!) Wanted to use this in a dramatic way with this project as I think it is (esp when combined with and equally sumptuous gold) such a celebratory colour - IMHO! I received some great news from a pal over the weekend and wanted to acknowledge the baby news in card form! And, NO, this does NOT mean that the Duchess of Cambridge e-mailed me directly!!!!

 

My card

And the co-ordinating insert and envelope

 

The two panels before matting

A close up of the panels

The materials used

Materials used:

• A6 white, 300gsm, card blank and matching sized envelope
• Snippets of white card (14 x 10½cm, 13½  x 10cm, 8 x 5cm) and gold (DCWV, linen effect) card
• Stamplorations feather image stamped on to the larger white card panel using Versamark ink
• Pan Pastels in gold and silver applied to the 13½ x 10cm panel using a cotton wool ball (Hey, it's what I had to hand!) and sealed with hairspray
• Distress Ink in dusty concorde applied to the 14 x 10½cm panel using a Tim Holtz blending tool
• Stamplorations background image (Bottom right in the background set in the photo) stamped around the edge using versamark ink and then gold pan pastel applied and sealed with hairspray
• Distress Ink in dusty concorde applied to the smallest white card panel using the blending tool.
• Water flicked from fingers, allowed to develop and then the excess blotted off
• Stamplorations feather and background images stamped using versamark ink before applying gold pan pastels and sealed with hairspray after buffing
• Clearly Wordsworth sentiment stamped using Ranger Archival watering can ink

 

I'll be entering this for the following challenges:

1. Pan Pastels - challenge No. 9 - ANYTHING MIXED MEDIA
2. Opus-Gluei - FEATHERS
3. Cards in Envy - WHEN NATURE CALLS (card size specified as A2 U.S. - 4.24" x 5.5" which is A6 in the U.K.) ..... and this is to celebrate a baby (nature calling) AND features a feather (again with the nature) so I'm hoping it will fit the brief!
4. Crafting from the heart - challenge No. 58 - ANYTHING GOES

 

Yesterday was a funny old day ... we decided that we were in need of a new patio table - you would NOT think it would be that difficult now, would you? We headed north up the 27 to just north of Clermont and in to one store where they did indeed have what we were looking for but we just wanted to check whether this was the best price. The likes of Walmart, KMart, Target, Lowes and Home Depot had nothing like what we were looking for so it was onwards and upwards. We found ourselves heading for Tavares an I just KNEW that Mount Dora was only a hop, skip and a jump away and also blessed with a fab crafting store known as The Stamping Station! Yee Haa. Off we went .... not only did we find Mount Dora but we also found a parking spot - a remarkable feat (the parking spot not the finding of Mount Dora - it's hard to miss) - several of the roads in historic downtown Mount Dora have the most enormous holes dug in them right now! Now this section of Mt Dora is not too big so, once we'd been around once we were starting to doubt our sanity so I nipped in to a store and found two extremely helpful ladies who whipped out the store guide they keep for tourists - guess what? NO SIGN of the Stamping Station so I guess it is no more - such a shame. Especially since it was only this past week I discovered that Newbury Artstamps is no more and I know that the Wantage store Stamp Addicts is closing at the end of May too - definitely not a dry blackthorn month for me!

Still, all rounded off with a yummy shrimp and scallop linguine here, so not all bad!

Would you like to visit Mount Dora in the virtual World?

They run steam train trips - but this was the only train at the station as I passed

The Mount Dora Station

See what I mean about those roadworks??

We THINK the Stamping Station MAY have been the pink building on the left

Mount Dora's lovely isn't it?

Hope you enjoyed that ..... and now, since it IS What's On Your Work Desk Wednesday, I suppose you would like a peek at the mayhem that is the work space at the purple palace?

 

 

My work space

Supplies available to me!

 

Happy Wednesday ....oh, and in case you're wondering - YES, we did find a new patio table too!