WOYWW # 351 {a timelapse}

A studio table with a mess view... (if you want to play along the link up starts here at our hostess Julia's blog)

 This is a tuesday evening shot... lets see off to the left are some art impression stamps I had on my wish list at Amazon for a while and I was putting together an order for the wider frog tape ( yellow container far right) and the post it note tape (box under that) so, I had tossed some of those has to be an add on stamps into the cart. along with an stencil of draped vine leaves. (also is anything that just got hauled up stairs from being water colored and needing to become a card)

 a closer look at the center. some unmounted stamps I have had a little while top left view that just have not been put away yet, some of the masking tape was used to do the wagon in the center view scene. and it I did use two pieces of tape to create the mask and it worked pretty well ( because, I did not stamp over the top handle part most likely) some extra flower pots for stacking consideration. Oh, I also had a new identi pen in that order too.
( I use this to write on the plastic envelopes I store the dies and clear stamps in much faster and cheaper than printing labels) The laptop computers ( Gina K ) were also water colored on the edges of them so the one card I ended up trying with that I used a gyro tool to cut out the center and put the computer on pop dots over it.

 Now, this is what happened to stall all the card making from last week until yesterday. I was in the middle of doing something totally different ( procrastinating about making a birthday card for Hubs ( whose is friday) and ds ( whose is next week) and something set me off. Oh, I got a text for a order of 8 birthday cards ( that had to say "grand son and grand daughter" on them, so I was tearing through sentiment stamps digging thinking of course I have that... ( I do not) I have some Gina K ones that I had mounted to wood years ago that are , father, grandfather, son, hahahaha... so, and they are scripty not cut up able like typewritten fonts. at any rate I have a lot of skinny one line sentiments ( this is just a drop in the bucket) and I thought well you really need to get these things better organized because, I am wandering around the room to look at wood mounted words, then foam mounted woods and I thought if you unmount them you could put them all together... and so it started. and Yes, I cut apart that whole sheet in this shot ( and two before it) and it is such a sticky nasty mess I thought how does anyone ever do this...

and then I did some more. this was the end of the sheets I had in the closet. so, then I went on line and started picking peoples brains... and the answer came back.. use a hot knife. ( check Amazon is a handy thing, I think it will be delivered today or tomorrow) now all I need is a glass cut board. so a run through the grocery store on the way home should take care of that. ( now all I have to do is hope the cord on the thing will reach the table hahaha... ) oh got more foam sheets coming too. ( this I think is going to work better in the long run. a lot of people suggested leaving them as neekid rubber and putting some glue on the backs and I thought about it but, the thing is some of these stamps are getting close to the 20 year mark and the rubber is feeling a little fragile compared to the newer ones. so, I am thinking the foam may extend its life as they age. who knows if that is true or not. and nope, I am  not going to do big images just the sentiments I think. ( the bulk of my collection is sentiments)
so, these last two sheets are off to the side out of the above photos.

ETA My grocery store does NOT carry glass cutting boards, only plastic or wood... so, if you use a hot knife, will a wood cutting board work??

PS#2: the watere colored things that have been come cards so far were all lumped together in tuesday's post... 'cept the Two Papers Diva's ones from the center... so consider your selves peeked...