WOYWW, because it's still Wednesday here

Here's a peek at the whole desk. The mess that should have been posted hours ago. To most WOYWW participants it's not even Wednesday anymore but it is here so off I go.

There are papers here that I got out thinking they may work on a Christmas card. They didn't. I haven't gotten around to putting them away.

 

You can even see last week's cupcake liner experiment and if you really want a challenge you may be able to find the OO of ZOO in inked chipboard. That I was saving for the  zoo page I posted last Tuesday. Again just not right for the job.

 

The postcard with the big 8 on it is an invitation to my son's birthday party, I designed on the computer. No papers or embellishment just me and Adobe Illustrator.

 

And there on the left you see the reason I didn't get the cards done or the space cleaned up more.  I was starting to work on a hot pink Christmas card and the handle fell off my Cuttlebug. Yep. Just fell right off in my hand. Thank goodness I was able to save the pieces. But more on that later.

 

 Here is one of the cards I was working on yesterday. A couple of weeks ago I bought this cute little Winter Wishes stamp made by Unity and got a free Paper Crafts Magazine with it (wait that's supposed to be the other way around). Regardless I got them both and this is the first card I made with the stamp.  I've been busy drooling over the creations in the magazine.

 

I wanted to get the Spellbinders Shapeabilities 'Mittens' Nested Dies for my Christmas cards this year. I've wanted to make Warmest Wishes felt mitten cards for a long time. Today on Kristina Werner's blog she made an adorable card with mittens that said "Baby It's Cold Outside" which is an other great sentiment for mittens. Alas the budget doesn't allow me to purchase everything I want and these dies are a bit beyond right now. But $1? I can do $1! I found a package of felt mittens and snowflakes with the adhesive already on them for $1 at JoAnn Fabrics. They only come in these 2 colors and are a bit plain so I will be sprucing them up with glitter, ink or stitching. And they are all right handed which I have compensated for my turning one of them over. I can make 7 cards with these plus I have a snowflakes I can use too.

 

The white panel is cut using Spellbinder's Nestabilities Labels 4 and the stamp fits so perfectly in the corner. The white panel is adhered with Yasutomo Nori paste from Japan. This stuff is amazing and I plan to write more about it soon. The glitter is actually from a crystal DecoArt Craft Twinkles Writer. I haven't tried Stickles but the price for the DecoArt Craft Twinkles Writer is a lot lower and the quality suits my purposes. Wish it dried quicker though. (I feel a craft critique coming up.) The paper and ink are retired Stampin' Up!. I've decided against giving many details about retitred products, especially consumables because it'll just frustrate you.




Speaking of frustrating, back to the broken Cuttlebug. I was a bit befuddled at first. How did this happen? or was it more like WTF? Dunno but I know I was going to get this thing fixed. Today. I looked through my tool box looking for a small screwdriver to put it, wait a minute, that's not a screw head on that little piece. I'll call Provocraft and ask them what to do, or at least what I should be looking for in the tools because I'm findin' nothing.

I talked to someone immediately and she sent me to customer service.
"We are experiencing high call volume"
La, la, la, lovely music.
"If you are calling about 'xyz' then try 'abc' or check your hooziwatzit"
La la la, hey some nice smooth jazz.
"We are experiencing high call volume,"
La, la, la, Oh! a vaguely recognizable classical tune.
This went on for 40 minutes before I gave up. Thank God for speaker phones and the ability to do other things while on hold. I know things are busy some times but 40 minutes?

I took the handle and the small parts in a baggie to Menard's hardware store, walked around lost for a bit (it's a huge store) until a woman asked if I needed help. I showed her the parts and she said you need a hex key. Turns out I needed a #2 metric hex key. So if your Cuttlebug handle falls off in your hand and you can't find the tool that puts it back on go to a hardware store and ask for a #2 metric hex key. I bought a whole set for under $2. It's fixed but my craft time was shot for the day.

It's quite late now and I need sleep so I will close. Happy belated WOYWW y'all.

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Happy Crafting,
Katie