WOYWW

Alrighty then.  Everyone complained about the new blogger template but, I had no problem navigating it but... this is different from a day ago.  WTF? (pardon my explicative) I'm sure a lot of you are saying the same thing under your breath (so to speak).  Is this supposed to be simpler, better?  If so, why don't they give us an option to upgrade or at the very least a warning of a change to come.  Darn it all. We all love blogger for a lot of reasons just wish they would improve their customer service.  If there were another free blog site we would jump Blogger Ship and swim to them.   Blogger decides what is best but... they must not know their demographics.  I venture to say that a large percentage of us are in the 40+ age group, have sufficient to above average computer skills and are mostly hands-on creative types.  Basically it has to make sense to us.  So, Dear Blogger, Love you but, give us a heads up for changes coming.  Okay?
Okay.  Enough soap box.

Here is my desk.  What happened to the tidiness?  Yeah, well that was two weeks ago.  Life happens.

 

Fallout from recent projects.  A Marie Antoinette ACT (see close ups below)

 Vintage blue bead trim I used on the card.

 

I bought the blue bead trim at the same time that I bought these.  The brown trim has rotted thread and is very fragile, so I can only use the beads (those are the ones I used to trim the Gingersnap ATC from an earlier post).

So, here is my first Marie Antoinette ATC.  I got her image from Magic Moonlight (see button on my sidebar) and the jewelry images are from Kristin at Retro Cafe Art (see her button on my sidebar).

I dyed the paper and satin flowers with glimmer mists then "gilded" them in gold with Smooch paint.  I dyed the stick pins with slate alcohol ink and touched them with the gold Smooch.

The background began with mica watercolors (USArtQuest) then stamped and heat embossed in gold.

Trimmed in the vintage blue beaded trim, paper leaves punched from MS border punch and some "found" pearl bead sprays.  It all began with her dress.

For those of you that visited me the last time (two weeks ago!!!)  This is what became of the girl in pink...

I call her "The Flower Girl"  Her image is from Kristin at  Retro Cafe Art.

Again I added magnet strips to the back.  Doesn't she just have the sweetest face?!?!

Toddle over to Julia's site and find a lot more inspiration from fabulous women and their work desks here:

http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com/

Happy Wednesday, Y'all!!!!

Hugs!

kat