WOYWW # 484 {Christmas}

Happy desk peeking day, if you'd like to see more spaces or play along 

the link up for this blog hop starts here at our hostess

Miss Julia's Blog.

There is also a new Instagram hashtag of #WOYWW

 So, this is a Tuesday afternoon shot. I had these Spellbinders dies arrive in the mail with some other Amazon things and set them here real quick to shoot this. ( then pushed them aside to start on the IC samples for this weekend, considering I am hosting this week I really should have something to show right? :) ) The card on the way far left is seen below and it was done with some of that stack of Chlorophyll printing onto watercolor paper ( tutorial found here) Basically you just smoosh a leaf inside two pieces of watercolor paper with some paper towels around the outside of that to catch stray drips if you pick a juicy leaf and run it through your die cutting machine. I will tell you I had better luck with thin Canson watercolor paper than the very textured Shizen paper (that sticks together so when you try to pull it apart the paper just shreds)

 So this print was done from the parts of Asparagus plants that go to seed. and it was the thing when I was trying this that I got the best and darkest prints from so, I made a stack of them ( as seen to the left of the glass mat) and I wanted to make them into Christmas cards thinking they looked like boughs so, this one turned out like this, I had originally thought when I dug out this sentiment it was going to get a tiny heart brad dangling from the "branches" but, I think this works too. that heart craft button is really thick and clunky so there is a couple of glue dots under it even though it is tied on with the hemp string. Things are quiet around here again, its such a whirlwind to get back to "normal" of being empty-nesters when your adult child comes home ( and brings his friends) yeah, so mostly I am just puttering this week and trying to catch up on some sleep. thanks for stopping by.