WOYWW 181

Hello Fellow WOYWWers, Bloggers and Crafters,

Wednesday again and I hope you are all well and joining in the fun over at Julia's place - the Stamping Ground. I see that Julia has included a definition of what WOYWW is all about today, just in case you don't already know. Now, on to the state of my desk today!

Yes, it's a mess ... a mess of pretty paper. This is the leftovers, scraps and snippets I have amassed recently while I have been scrapping - you might even recognise some of the prints from previous layouts. I think I need to sort out a better method of storage, one that will work well for me and I have an idea which is why this post is going to be very brief ... I'm a woman on a mission :) I'm going shopping! Me, who hates shopping!!! I'm on the search for the perfect storage ... wish me luck :)

See you later ... hopefully with my new, improved storage solutions.

Julia will be pleased with me - the brevity of this post has got to be a first :))

Happy WOYWW to you all.

Serendipity Papers - Follow Up to WOYWW 106

Evening Everyone

Serendipity Papers

One of the benefits of playing along with WOYWW each week is the wealth of tips, wrinkle and ideas that many of the WOYWWers freely impart each week. And yesterday was no exception. While hopping round the desks of my fellow WOYWWers I landed on Mary Ann's post in which she showed her serendipity circles and explained how they are made. I had never heard of them before but they are such a brilliant (and frugal) way of using up all those strips of paper left over from various scrapbooking and cardmaking projects. Up till now the only use I've found for the strips is  the occasional trim on a card, otherwise they just linger unloved in a box gathering dust.  So I set to and, after colour sorting, I got out the Pritt and spent a relaxing couple of hours sticking them onto some thin and not so good white card - a purchase bloomer until now! I got 5 A4 size sheets altogether - not bad for something that I might have ended up tossing in the wastebasket one day.  I just have to  punch the circles out and add little embellishments as Mary Anne has done and I will have some very pretty and money-saving toppers. So thanks for a great idea Mary Anne.

Now I'm off to investigate the work of Tim Coffey as mentioned in Beatrice's post - apparently he does something interesting with a cereal box and a hot glue gun :)

Happy Crafting,