Last post for June. Maybe kind of different, but just a couple shots of where I craft most of the time. 

The inside of the closet includes various boxes, 12x12 paper shelves, and a couple iris carts. I have lots of mounted stamps.

This is the left side wall, with a couple white 12x12 paper racks, 2 bookshelves with stamps & dies in the binders and the extra 12x12's There are binders of wooden stamps we removed from the wood and put in themed binders. There is an old PSX display shelf with lots of small stamps, and 6x6 paper pads on the bottom. Two iris carts next to the window with dies and stamps, (mostly dies) on magnet sheets inside plastic folders in the drawers. Not perfect, but it works.

I made this large because I like it. The room is not large, but it is laid out so that I can move around on both sides of the table. I have my foil machine next to the Gemini (close to the window). The paper cutter, excess paper, and the Big shot all on the left side. On the right side is the glass matt, and the misty. Work space .... well maybe 6". H

                Second picture of the left side. More treasures on the floor

Right side of the room are cabinets that we purchased years ago from lowes. More binders of unmounts, more paper pads, & ephemera in the cabinets. Another Iris cart with ink by the window. More big binders and boxes with dies in them. Then the 8 1/2 x 11 paper shelf. Remember I did have a store & even now there are fixtures that I normally wouldn't have. Handy, but a lot of stuff. Add in two more iris carts that you can't see (ribbon, flowers, finished cards), then right back to the closet. I didn't mention the inks on the wall. Again, fixtures from a long time ago..

                     One more thing, I didn't clean up any part of this for the camera, this is what it looks like daily. 

                                Hope you enjoy the mess!

                                               Mary

Sunday June 30th

 It is good evening now!! Beautiful evening, but here I sit, inside getting ready to share another selection of cards! 

              These are dies from Alex Syberia. Fantasy flowers

          Yes, the scalloped arch from Spellbinders is 'all over' the place, from bunnies, pandas, dinosaurs and finally flowers!! 

                            Another red one..............

Thanks for looking!

Have a nice night

Mary

Lucy Lou says 'goodnight'!

                                       

Saturday June 29th

 Good Saturday morning! Thinking about doing a couple 'shares'. I doubt that I will ever really catch up with photos that need to be posted. Or more photos that need to be 'photographed or edited'.. Seems to be never ending. Today I want to share a couple dies from Pocketful of Happiness. These are just universal, versatile and all around fun to make.

                       Easy little 4x4 dies that you can vary.

    Have to say it, the editing was on a piece of white 12x12 cs. No props, no extra lighting and, yes it could be much better. The card below is sideways. ugh. The one below that is correct with the 'lily'upwards. Can't get it to delete. 

                                And the white on white is lovely

 The next two cards feature Pocketful of Happiness 'flower dies' I did just keep cutting more and more of these. The slimline card idea was from Zoska. 

          

                                 Love the flower style!

                                        Hope you enjoy!

                                                Mary

Wednesday

 Avoiding the television.... Realized I have a couple more cute cards from a couple months ago.  Spellbinders parrot & toucan. 

Playing with the streamer die and the confetti (foil) background from the Greetery. I need the 'foil' streamers too!

Hope you enjoy!

Mary

Wednesday June 19th

Today was the grocery shopping day. Oh joy. Every so often (not that often anymore). I try something new. Last week was coconut pancakes. The coconut was lovely, but the pancake was dense. Bad, so yesterday Al used a pancake mix and the toasted coconut. Perfect. My second failure was my Moms scratch biscuits. I have no idea, but I screwed them up!! Stay tuned for a wrapped 'rib' recipe I saw on Instagram. I will let you know if they turn out! 

Fon tonight I have only two cards to share. I like Sam Calcotts ideas, This time I bought a big 6x6 square Birthday die from Craft Stash. I made them into shaker... big... shaker cards. Hope you like!!

The die comes with the little 'add on' package, candle, balloons and more. Layers are easy to add. Actually it was easy. 

                                           Hope you enjoy!

                                                 Mary
 

Saturday June 15th

 Wow ! I love this set. This is a large stamp set, stencil, die, beautiful papers, and a magazine. This is from Stamps by Me through HSN. I've never ordered from HSN before, but now try to stop me! Ha! I am on the outlook for all things crafty! This was such a good buy. I will send you the link. There is so much in this set. Stamps By Me Love Inspirational Magazine Kit - 22843391 | HSN.  First there are the 'dress stamps'. One is bold, one is for overstamping.. They call it lamination, and I'm not sure what that means. 

                                                 

       Don't remember the ink used for these two. Maybe one of the new Pinkfresh studio colors??

The sentiments & the little star are in the stamp set. I used blueprint sketch oxide ink, for the first layer, I inked the stamp & sprayed the stamp with water. Dry & stamp again. Not sure what I used, (maybe the blueprint sketch a second time), but I dried between the layers. The last layer on this was versamark, then embossed in gold. 

The yellow dress is on watercolor paper & has lots of layers. It was overstamped with versafine and stamped in yellow again. Trying to soften the versafine. I like how it turned out!

Above is picked raspberry oxide, & the darker color is mulled cider from Pinkfresh studio. And the outline flower is the just another way to use the floral stamps in this set. 

Same process, inking, spraying, and then overstamping.

Penny Black sentiments

Just a quick view of some of the papers.

They really are stunning

 Also in the set, you can see the cards on the front of the magazine on the left. This is the stencil set with a die included. 

Oops, the one not finished yet.

The background papers are Elizabeth Craft designs Reminiscence in the earth tones. It is beautiful, so of course, I ordered the red, blue combo.

 What I forgot in this set is the butterfly stamp, a scenic bold stamp & papers that go with the scenic stamp. So much in this set!!

Hope you enjoy this loooong post!

Stay Cool

Mary