WOYWW 176

Hello everyone, but especially hello to my new found friends that I met at weekend!

Well here we are, and Saturday seems so long ago now, but I'm still smiling as I remember what a fab time we had!

For those of you who haven't seen my post about our WOYWW crop, you can read and see the pics HERE.

Right firstly apologies for not getting back to many of you last week, Hydrotherapy is fantastic, but boy did it take it out of me, so I couldn't spend as much time as I'd liked to have done visiting all of you. It took me 3 days to recover, but thankfully I was well enough for the crop!  Had my 2nd session yesterday so here's hoping each 1 gets a little easier.

Okay so my desk (taken Tues before the light faded) - 

The aftermath of Saturday really, this is my 'baby' Smash book I was showing everyone, I made a start on some pages while there, but while I was at the crop I was inspired by Kyla (Lil'pidge) with her inks and from talking to Helen (Stamping by H) about this page in particular and how I wanted to see if it would take inks. Well I don't have that many inks, but I do have Melted Chocolate and Postbox red Dylusions so I had a go and the page handled it really well - didn't even seep through. I used a mask to create the sign and more ink through the mask then drew around the design with a white pen. I cut the page out from its original place in the book to go at the back because I want to say something about going out & exploring the world in the sign as a message to Keagan. At the back of the desk is a canvas and a butterfly punch, I was inspired by Pam (Pam's Space) who made a beautiful canvas while we were there, so I got this out so I don't forget to have a go for myself!

Closer look at my inked page, the diamond background is the original design and I'm loving how the ink has picked areas out and made the diamonds brighter.

When we left on Saturday Julia and Jan very kindly gave us goody bags, which contained chocolates, a beautiful mini/pin cushion and a little bag with some stash in to create something, our instructions were to make something with the stash provided and to post it on a WOYWW post, the thoughts behind was to see how differently we all used the stash. We could add/take away from it. Here's mine - 

So I took some bits away and added a few bits too. Messed it up so had to chop the side off but hey it's okay, it's the final thing that matters!

Okay I'll stop now, those of you who met me know I like to chat!

Pop over to the Stamping Ground  to visit our super coffee-making leader Julia for the key to the gateway of the world's desks! 

Take care Zo xx