Happy desk peeking day,
I came across some painted wooden fences a while back and thought, how cool is that. ( ours are stained cedar color) and although I would be highly unlikely to do such a thing at home it has had me stopping to admire buildings and things down town that have done murals on them. And I started a pinterest board ( found here ) to gather some of them together. I really love the painted old doors. and the reclaimed/ recycled shots. And then the reality kicked in and right now, I am working on adding to my Christmas cards stash so, I settled on this white washed tree painted scene in this pin here.
My Actual desk on Wed am. I am one of those people who plays with the scraps when I am putting things away and the other day I had made a sample for the Inspiration challenge which I am hosting that goes live this week and I had wanted a second generation deer on the project so, this deer is the first generation of ink and I seen these Waffle flower dome dies and thought this could be a little scene if you play with them and fun thing I found was the bases that come in this set cut the woodgrain pattern into that piece. ( fun stuff, this is very preliminary and will get inked and such as I go along I am sure) the paper glaze and Impression Obsession sentiments are new ones that are waiting a turn to be played with too.
that mountain in the background, it disappears from the view on days the valley fills with smoke, so the rain was nice, it really knocked a lot of that down.
This week we are taking a look at Allen Designs where I found this waves vase that had really cool movement and colors and then I started poking around in my new to me stamps basket and pulled out this set to add another one to my done pile for this year.
The perfect bow gnomes is from Stamping Bella and was stamped on some Strathmore watercolor paper (twice) and I die cut the one that became the bottom layer with a Simon Says Stamp stitched square die, the top layer was cut out with scissors and paper pieced back into the design. ( except the balls and string at the ends of the hats) I almost did not use this stamp because, when I first bought it I did not notice that the mouths and smiles are over the tops of the beards. strange I thought and set it aside. the funny thing is I have not seen any other comments about that either so, I guess it does not look that bad. I pulled this foiled printed paper out of a scrap bin to mimic the movement of the waves on the vase and then found some silver ribbon for a little extra shine. This card is 6" square in real life and headed to the booth in November.
You can find this vase here inside their site. And you can find this challenge here at SCS to play along with us. I hope you are all doing well. Thanks for stopping by. 
