Made by Karla

I'm posting this very late on tuesday evening (11pm to be exact!) because I can't post wednesday, my desk won't change at all, I don't want to miss out on WOYWW and because in UK time, it's wednesday already! I hope none of you mind :) I'm very sad this week. There is no crafty stuff on my desk so I will show you where I keep more of my stash. With work and school, I haven't had time for anything fun lately. School just started again this week and after going to class I can forsee that I will have a lot less time to create :( Just in case you're wondering, I'm working on my Master's degree in Early Education. Somewhere, I'm going to have to find time for crafting. If any of you out there have extra time, please send it this way. Lol, I'm sure none of you do, but I dare to dream! Here's my desk: I have my books and papers from school. No crafty messes today :( So I will show you more of my storage area. This shelf is behind my d...

This is my entry for the Paper Variety challenge. This week it's a recipe challenge This was my first recipe challenge and it was really fun! The movie title was already right in the picture. 'Larger than Life' is what they call the Yukon forest between Alaska and Canada. It's the most beautiful and interesting place I've ever been. There are lakes where the water is 2 different shades of blue, a dwarf forest, mountain goats and waterfalls, so many waterfalls! It's the greates place on earth for me. 'Larger than life' is also the title of a movie from way back in '96. When I was looking through my pictures to scrapbook, I saw the one of the Yukon sign and it just came to me 'hey, that's a movie too!'   I found my backgroung page in the DCWV Taj Mahal stack. I used some prima flowers and a chipboard button I bought a really long time ago in a 99cent package of chipboard shapes. I like good deals! I did my journaling in the middle ...

I think the inspiration fairy was around tonight, as I managed to finish my LO! I used the black currant stack by DCWV. I've mentioned before, I love the colors and patterns on these papers! Don't you just want to reach through the screen and touch them?! The title is a stamp from the 'coffe cake' set by TCP studios. It reads 'you're the cream in my coffee.' The cups, muffins and coffee beans are dazzles by paperwishes. I found these cool swirls with black rhinestone accents at michaels for 99cents! As soon as I saw them, I thought of my black currant papers and bought a few packs. They look so good together. I'm happy with the way the LO turned out, it's just what I had in mind!  Thanks for looking :)

Hello Everyone! I can't believe it's Wednesday again, time is flying by so fast! I'd like to show you some more of my crafting space this week. I share the room with the hubby, so I only get half of it but I guess it's better than nothing! Here you can see my shelves to the left I'm still moving stuff around. I don't think I've made the best use of the space I have. I just got this flower area put together last weekend. I'm so excited! I love flowers. The basket on the right has border punches and wood stamps but I don't like my stamps in the basket...any ideas on how else to store them in the shelf? The magazine files next to the  basket have acrylic stamp sets inside. I made the files out of cereal boxes and covered them with leftover shelf liner. Here's a close up of what's on my desk: I've been working on this page about coffee....as many of you know, I'm a big fan. So often there are pictures of me and hubby drinking j...

I've set up mobile posting. I hope it works fine. Now I can catch you guys up on anything interesting or post in a jiffy! This is a test post. Just trying it out :) Enjoy the picture! I took it this summer. Can you spot the cool little rainbow? It hasn't even rained in a while. What a nice surprise!

Hello! This is my page for The Paper Variety 's first challenge. They're a cool new weekly challenge blog with prizes and lots of other cool features. Make sure to check them out! This week it's a sketch challenge and it's a really good one that makes for an interesting layout and can be used for cards also. The picture in my LO is one DH and I took in Bordeaux on our recent trip to France. I loved the colored lighting by the street lamps as well as the view. It's not too clear in this picture, but it's the view of the Garonne river bridge lit up. We put the camera on the step behind us and hugged, it was the first time we've taken a picture from the back. It turned out interesting! (Sorry about the crooked pic, it's been a crazy weekend so far!)   Here's the sketch: I hope everyone has a great rest of the weekend!

This card is for a challenge over at spyder's corner . I got this cool digi after participating in her last challenge :) Thanks Lyn! The yellow roses are from my new stash that was on my desk on my last post , they're from Michaels. The scalloped circle is actually the packaging for some paper flowers I bought at Target years ago. I traced it and cut it out, nothing fancy there! The mouse is colored with the new markers that were on my desk wednesday too. I used the blender pen to fill in the mouse and the paper got all scratched up and linty, but I liked it because it made him look fuzzy. The background is colored with chalk inks and I inked all the edges brown. The ribbon on the edge actually works as a tie to keep the card closed. Although I decided to make a thank you card, I think this mouse is so versatile and can be used with many sentiments. It occurs to me he or she? would make a very cute 'just for you' image on a card or even an 'I'm sorry' one.....

Hello WOYWWers! Here's what's on my desk today...actually I took the pictures last night (Shhh!). To all of you who were green with envy over my clean desk- let's all go be jealous of someone else's clean desk this week! I have a cold and have been feeling horrible since sunday night. I haven't done anything else since then. I haven't even wanted to tidy up my desk. The sewing machine and thread have been there since the weekend when I was working on that harvest card on the left. The flowers and markers are new stash that I bought on tuesday....Shopping is the best medicine! lol. I finished the harvest card on monday. It will go to my sister sometime soon. She celebrates the harvest and not halloween. It's my first easel card! Here's a close up: I decided to show a little more this week....this is what's under my desk: On the far left I store my canvases and my 12x12 folder for storing big sticker sheets and such. Then we have that ...

I had some pear paper, came accross a pear stamp and decided it was too much coincidence! I chose a  picture I love and here's what I came up with. The color of the background paper was a little dark and distressed so I used a black and white picture and distressed a lot of the elements on the page. It was missing a little something, so I took out my little sewing machine and sewed on some strips of fabric. I gathered them as I went and I'm happy with how it turned out. I can't believe I had this little machine way in the back of my shelf gathering dust! I think there will be more stitching in my projects from now on! The picture is from our recent trip to france. We were in bordeaux standing close the the mirroir d'eau. It was raining that day so we decided to take b&w pictures. lol my journaling is so crooked! I need to work on that! I used perfect pearl powders on the small pears as well as the pear images on the paper. In real life, they have a s...

Wow, I'm so glad to be able to get back to christmas card challenges! I try to join in at least once a month, but lately I haven't been in a very christmassy mood. Last night, I finally got some christmas inspiration and  made this for the clean and simple challenge: I used perfect pearl powders to make the paper shiny. The sentiment is a stamped image that I cut out and the ornament is a Dazzle from paperwishes. It was a quick card too, about 20 minutes, love that!

I find myself looking forward to wednesdays so I can have a peek at what's going on on people's desk around the world! It certainly helps to have something fun to look forward to in the middle of the work week! Thanks Julia, you're a genious! Here's what's on my desk today: I finished the accordion album I was working on for my friend. It goes in this little tin can, which I managed to finish too! yay! Let's see....what else is on my desk?...Oh, my new martha stewart circle cutter, which I was trying out last night. So far it's working pretty good. The little pink container next to the green bucket wasn't visible before but it holds odds and ends like pieces of ribbon and die cuts I changed my mind about and didn't use. My starbucks cup got a new sleeve and that's it  today because I cleaned up my desk after I finished my project!   So here's the trick behind my mp3 player starbucks cup: It's called MAI coffee speaker and you plug...

So here's what I did with the digi image that was on my desk yesterday. I really enjoyed coloring this image. I used markers, colored pencils, chalk inks and perfect pearl powders. In person, you can see that the mushroom top and the little mouse have a pearly glow. I had a lot of fun making this card and I think it's just perfect for my friend's little daughter. I haven't seen her in a while and since she's reading now, I think she'll enjoy getting a card in the mail. This card is also for Spyder's House Mouse Challenge, if you want to get in on it, go over to her blog: http://spyder-spyderscorner.blogspot.com/2010/08/spyders-house-mouse-challenge.html    Have a great rest of the week!

Here's what's on my desk today: Today I'm working on coloring a digi stamp I got at http://spyder-spyderscorner.blogspot.com/ It's a little mushroom house for a mouse. It's too cute! I'm gonna try to make it shimmery with some perfect pearl powder! I have a jar to stash my chocolates now. That way I don't have to stare at them all the time. and the starbucks cup is not really coffee, it's my mp3 player in disguise! Clever, huh?! Oh..next to the digi stamp I have some dazzle stickers from paper wishes! beautiful, I just want to keep looking at them! Now I'm off to see your workdesk!...