WOYWW 903 - With An Important Message - Link Added

 Good morning, crafty friends!

A short post today.

The remnants of filming this morning's video. I'm adding lace/ trims to most of the pages. If you're curious, the video will be available this afternoon on my YouTube channel. LINK

Good news is, we think the leak in the studio is fixed. Just in time for me to be able to move back to the filming table for my 31 Days of Halloween series and my Tim Holtz class in October. My kit hasn't arrived yet but should be any time now.

One last thing. Most of you know I am a member of the Spectrum Art Creations FB group. About four months ago, Madi's account was shut down. We still have the group but she can't do a thing with it. She is not the only one. She did a video this week about the experience and things all of us need to keep in mind, but especially anyone using FB. If you have family photos/ memories, NOW is the time to move them to an external hard drive. You could lose access to them at any time. 

I'll leave you with Madi's video:

That's it for my desk (and story) this week. Who's Miss Sarah and why am I here?  When you are done visiting me in the Ozarks, please hop on over to Sarah’sCraft Shed for all the details. Miss Sarah has a long list of other studios you can peek into. No standing on an up-turned milk pail to look in the window. We open the doors wide and welcome you.  Please leave your number and you'll be among the first on my list. 

Creative Blessings!

~ Kelly

#TAGTUESDAY - Sort of - Featuring Fabrika Decoru

 Good morning, crafty friends!

I'm still working on the Spectrum Art Creations challenges, thinking ahead to the October line up and working amongst the chaos. Good news is, the chaos may get reigned in over the next few weeks. We had rain in the wee hours of the morning. Good news is, the spot affecting my office may be fixed, but we still have the leak in the dining room. We're getting closer.

I worked frantically to complete a couple of projects yesterday. I'm trying to work through the challenges systematically so when I've completed/ filmed all of the projects for one challenge, I can put the contents away and move to the next. I'm still working on the Fabrika Decoru journal. Today, you'll see the 'tag' is actually a Super Tag (journaling spot) made from junk mail. Then I'll be back tomorrow to show you all the frills.

In the mean time, please check out the video:

Creative Blessings!

~ Kelly

BUSY WEEKEND OF CRAFTING!

 Happy Monday!

I hadn't meant to be so late today but Blogger has been off-balance all morning. I think we're back on track.

I've continued work on the Fabrika Decoru album but nothing to show until tomorrow.

In the mean time, I finished the G45 Halloween album as well as a first project with the Simple Stories, Simply Vintage Halloween. Let's take a look!

I love how the cover came together. I'll have a full flip-through video next week and will post a link in a blog post on that day.

Next, I got the Simple Stories kit in and decided before I did anything else, I wanted to make a Pocket Letter.

A Full video walk-through is HERE.

I'll have another batch of tags for the Fabrika Decoru journal tomorrow then I think I'm winding that up in a Flip-through Frida. At least that's my plan.

Are you starting to play with your Halloween crafting goodies? If not, what about Thankful/ Gratitude.

Let me know in the comments, please.

Creative Blessings!

 ~ Kelly

#TAGTUESDAY

Good afternoon, crafy friends!

I woke up this morning feeling really tired. I went back to bed instead of posting.

I did four ore tags for the Fabrika Decoru journal using the 'quilting' method. They resemble a patchwork crazy quilt. I was only going to make two but four or more works better with this technique. I learned this from DearJulieJulie several years ago. She usually has four or more tags in a challenge so this is perfect.

Welcome to still not having the best lighting for filming/ photos. I tried to chance the lighting a bit.

I used four different papers and/ or sides for the tags, cut into four pieces. Click on the video below to see the process. I'll be back tomorrow with WOYWW and pockets/ tucks for this journal in progress.

Creative Blessings!

~ Kelly

HALLOWEEN JOURNAL - Cover

 Good morning, crafty friends!

I'm keeping up with the pieces to Madi's various challenges in our Spectrum Art Creations Friends, FB group.

Last week, I talked about my plans for the Halloween Journal using Graphic 45 Bootiful Wishes and Midnight Tales. I'm really loving how this journal is turing out. 

So far I've done the front/ back covers, including decorating the front cover. I also cut out the letters spelling Halloween to go on each of the 9 pages. I used the Tim Holtz Vault Coffin dies for the letters.

SIMON SAYS STAMP

Here's where the journal is at so far:

Check out the video below to see how this came together. Tomorrow, I'll be back for #tagtuesday with another set of tags for the Fabrika Dacoru journal.

Creative Blessings!

~ Kelly

WOYWW 901

 Good morning, crafty friends!

What a week of celebration we had. I didn't get 'round to everyone but it was great seeing familiar faces at the party.

Here's my ironing platform/ desk this week:

Exciting stuff, eh? Those are the 2 signatures for the Fabrika Decoru journal for a challenge I'm doing with the SpectrumArtCreationsFriends facebook group. I made tags yesterday. That video is already up or  you can back up to yesterday's post.

We're to have rain this week. Maybe I'll be able to put things back to rights by the weekend. Crossing fingers.

That's it for my desk (and story) this week. Who's Miss Sarah and why am I here?  When you are done visiting me in the Ozarks, please hop on over to Sarah’sCraft Shed for all the details. Miss Sarah has a long list of other studios you can peek into. No standing on an up-turned milk pail to look in the window. We open the doors wide and welcome you.  Please leave your number and you'll be among the first on my list. 

Creative Blessings!

~ Kelly

TAG TUESDAY - Fabrika Decoru - Part 1

 Good morning, crafty friends!

Today's #tagtuesday is the first in multiple parts of the Fabrika Decoru Challenge with Spectrum Art Creations.

Here's a shot of the papers I'm working with. The collection is called Sentimental Story

I fell in love with the peach and black tones of the collection and instantly thought of a Shabby Chic style album.

Here are the first set of tags for the album:

Want to see how the tags came together? Check out today's video HERE.

I'll be back tomorrow for another week of What's On You Workdesk Wednesday  aka WOYWW.

Let me know what you're working on.

Creative Blessings!

~ Kelly

FUTURE PROJECTS SHOWCASE!

 Good afternoon!

Bob took me to brunch this morning so I'm late coming in. I should have typed this up yesterday. However, I am right on time. As I opened the window, the time was 1:11 AND I saw that I have 1,111 posts. 

I study numerology and the 111 stands for - New Beginnings:  It signals a fresh start, a new cycle, or an open door in your life path. That's what this post is all about. New challenges for the month.

I'm needing to get back into Spectrum Art Creations challenges to try and win gift certificates. Social Security puts a crimp in my spending. 

If you'll go to my video from Saturday you'll see a flip-through of the Fabrika Decoru kit I'll be working with as well as the G45 papers I bought.

Here's a list of the challenges I'll be playing with this month:

Fabrika Decoru collection

Simply Stories

Halloween

Abstract

Aside from the themed challenge, there are the on-going Video Challenges:

Haul video- showing what we've purchased

Comment video - Whenever her videos reach a minimum of 20 comments on each one, the names go into a drawing.

I've made a list of what I need to do for each one: 

FABRIKA DECORU 

Tag Tuesday's (5)

Wednesday Album Progress (4)

SIMPLY STORIES

Sundays (3)

G45 HALLOWEEN

Friday Freebies (3)

ABSTRACT is the word prompt for this month. I hope to take at least an afternoon to play with Metallic Gilding Pastes

I want to get all the videos/ blog posts set up in the next two weeks, then I can start on the 31 Days of Halloween for October. I have decided those are all going to be Index Cards so if you want to play along next month, collect your October themed items (Halloween/ Gratitude/ Fall) and a stack of index cards in a size of your choice. Those will begin October 1.

All videos will be short so I can upload within my bandwidth restrictions. 

I'll be back tomorrow to show you our first Fabrika Decoru tag.

Creative Blessings!

~ Kelly

WOYWW 900 - Happy Anniversary!!!

 We made it!!!! 

When you think about it, Week 1000 isn't that far away.

I was introduced to the group by the late ShazSilverWolf. We connected on Splitcoast Stampers and she suggested I come play. At the time, my craft/ writing space was in a 10x10 ft. space in our basement. Bob said I needed out of the dungeon. I think he was planning for his man cave.  My first WOYWW was week #196. As you'll see from my '00' post, I was still new to the group. 

Here is my first '00' post with WOYWW:

WOYWW- 200

It's Wednesday! That means we get to spend the day cruising blogs all over the world to see what everyone's been up to this week. We call it WOYWW. To see what all the FUN is about, check out our fearless leader's, Julia, blog at Stamping Ground for all the deets.

I am the opposite of Julia. I HAVE to have a clean space to work. When I'm in project mode, I'm usually good about putting my stuff away when I'm done. One time while attending a Make & Take at a local stamping store the visiting company rep said she needed me to travel with her just to clean up. Yep, I hung around after the M&T to clear the table in prep for the next round LOL  So that explains my desk today.

You can see the book box coming along. I've cut the center out of the pages away. That took about two hours on Sunday while enjoying my traditional Easter viewing of The Easter Parade with Fred Estair and Judy Garland. I've put the first step of the cover (front and back) in place. I need to glue the edges down then put in the inside mats. The card in the middle is one in progress for next week's Teapot Tuesday. I have an in on this one because I've nominated our next recipient. You'll be able to see it next Tuesday. The other card was this week's Teapot Tuesday card. You can see it in the previous post.

I won't get much more crafting done this week. I head out on Sat. or Sun. for a 9-day writing retreat. If I leave Sat. I can catch the final 4 or 5 hours of the CK Convention in Collinsville IL. Not sure I want to spend an extra hotel night to have to rush through convention. I'm still in decision mode on that one.

Hubby comes home tonight so I have lots to get done before he rolls in. But I'll have time to cruise blogs over the next several days. So show me what you've been up to!

Creative Blessings for a great week!

Kelly

Blessings
Kelly