My desk for WOYWW, followed by a Blog Hop with a Difference

This is how my desk looks ...... I have not been in my craft room since I left it like this on Sunday night! If your here for WOYWW, my desk is the first two pictures, feel free to move on to the comments after that if you wish.............

I have been tagged by  the lovely Sue ( http://suetheiron.blogspot.co.uk)  to talk part in this blog hop and tell you a little about myself. I am team mates with Sue, we are both members of the Stampotique Design Team. I am also a member of Craft Stampers, Make It Take It, design team, as of next month, which leads me into the first question

1. What are you working on Now?

Ans I have spent today in my craft room, this is how I left it an hour or so ago....

And this is it from a different angle! 

Not so tidy.... But I have been busy working on my first design team project for Craft Stamper, Make it take it. My craft room is not part of our main house, and no one else goes in here, so I can get away with it being untidy. I am actually a very tidy person and our home is tidy I promise! 

2. How is my work differ from others of the same genre?

I don't think I have a style, I'm a Jackie of all trades...... I started making cards about 25 years ago when I bought my first rubber stamp from PSX saying Happy Birthday and some embossing powder and a heat gun, I still have all three iteams! If I could only do one papercraft it would be Scrapbooking, I love it and feel you can put them away neat and tidy ( see I told you I was a tidy person really) in an album, show them to people, or give them away as gifts or just pass them on to family members. My BIG ongoing project is Scrapbooking my family history along with tracing my family history. It has been an amazing experience, I have found out so much about my family and done scrapbook layouts to go along with the stories. I wrote and three part article for Scrapbook magazine about Scrapbooking your family history. Here is a layout I did about my Great Grandmother who made a living as a dress maker. 

I have been runner up twice for Scrapbook magazine's Scrapbooker of the year, this was one of my layouts. I coloured all the flowers using pan pastels, it's a happy reminder of a day I spent at a butterfly park, with my daughter Natasha and Charlotte shown here in the photograph

As well as Scrapbooking I do a lot of journals, my big ongoing project here is a monthly baby journal of my Granddaughter Lara.

I also have a medium journal I like to do just random stuff in for fun, like this 

I make a few tags and other bits and bobs like this 

I am also doing two project life albums of baby  Lara, one for me and one for her mum! I did a project life journal of my daughter pregancy as well! 

3. Why do I create what I do?

In the early days it was a stress free hobby, I had a very full on career, so enjoyed my hobby of making cards. 

Today it's something I enjoy doing when I'm not looking after my family. I love being part of the design teams I am on and the challenges that gives me!!!!!!! The family history Scrapbooking is slightly different, I 'feel' I must record the stories I have been told or found out about so they can be passed down the generations, I hope one day my Granddaughter will enjoy my albums and the photos of her ancestors. If I don't record all this information it will be lost forever, my siblings have no children and are not very interested in our family history in the way I am.

4. How does my creative process work?

There is no process....... I have an idea in my head, and I try to produce it, that is often inspired by something though! So today everything I worked on was inspired by a photo of my Grandaughter's dress that was black and gold in a photo I took of her.

Or sometimes I just love a set of stamps and want to use them on a scrapbook layout 

Or a birdhouse!!!

And sometimes it's just wanting to use something I think is lovely

Like the white fabric in this layout which will be published on the 12 th in Scrap 365.

Sometimes it's a challenge or template that inspires me like the template in Stampers Sampler, I made a set of cards using the template and they published all three! 

Sometimes it just a fun challenge ! 

So that's me.... Now instead of me nominating the next person I would like to ASK if there is anyone who would like to do this, like I have, and share with us there answers to these questions?

If you would like to be next, and do this next Monday, leave a comment and I will send you all the info you require and I will do a link so everyone knows to come and visit you !

So it's a big thank you to my teamate Sue for the nomination and I look forward to your comments!