Busy Wednesday!

Well it has certainly been a busy week so far. What with one of the labs moving at work, and two students needing to be taught new techniques I seem to have been running round in ever decreasing circles and not getting a lot of my own paperwork done. Never mind, I will get there in the end, and at least Alex has been well enough to go to nursery, although he is still coughing quite a lot. In the meantime I thought I would show you my desk as part of WOYWW. Sadly today my desk is missing the all important mug of tea...not quite sure why I haven’t got round to making one, but I am parched and will go and get one any minute now! My desk is in the process of making a scrapbook page. As I only have a relatively small area of flat surface on which to actually craft once I decided on the papers I was using for the layout I put the rest away so what you can see is the layout with the cut out pieces of paper, some lovely photos of Alex in the background, curls of dst backing, my craft knife, cutting mat, a few stamps which need to be put away and a stiff old paintbrush I use for stippling effects.

Here is the finished layout (now I really do need tea!) which followed this weeks sketch from Creative scrappers. The layout also fits with the Scrap and Stamp challenge to use up old supplies and at least one stamp (I used tiny leaf stamps and all the papers on this layout are old scraps from previous layouts). I also followed the Kaboodle Doodles ‘tic tac toe’ challenge choosing to use brads, ribbon (the autumn leaf ribbon) and punches (tiny leaf punch). Finally I am also entering this for the Tuesday Throwdown ‘child’ challenge as it is about my son.

I also had to make a card for a friend who has just lost their Dad after a long illness so decided to make another Less is More card following the one layer embossing challenge. This time I printed out a sentiment on the computer then embossed around it adding a simple black flower for the final effect. I am also entering this card into the Crafty Cardmakers ‘embossing’, CCC ‘in the garden’, PTW ‘bloom and grow’ and Delightful challenges ‘flowers’ challenges.
Are you all ready for the PIF that is happening as part of WOYWW...only 2 weeks to go!  I managed to make my creation over the weekend and am really excited about it, although I am being mean and not showing even a sneaky peak before time! That is all from me for now. Have a great rest of the week everyone.
Love,
Caro
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