Play Date Cafe Challeng # 35 - Sunset

Look at the picture Sarah selected as the inspiration for this weeks challenge at the Play Date Cafe Challenge. So very fun!

I loved the colors together and the streaking on the chairs. It inspired me to pull out my dye inks and a sheet of acetate.  To see if I could achieve the streaks of color.  I made around 6 different background papers but I ended up using this background. 

Recipe:

1. Start with your lightest color first, for me this was the blue ink pad. Turn the ink pad so you can drag a corner of the ink pad across the acetate. This will leave a nice streak of ink. Repeat a few more times with the same ink and leave room for other colors in between.
2. Take your next color (mine was orange) and repeat the dragging of the ink being careful to leave space between the stripes. 
3. Repeat the inking process with the remaining colors (red, brown).
4. Spritz the ink with water over the entire sheet of acetate to get the ink fluid. 
5. Lay your paper on and pull off.  You can also flip the acetate and move the ink with your fingers.
6. Let dry.
7. Stamp images and sentiment using brown pigment ink.
8. Stamp butterflies using teal pigment ink and add stickles.

This week I am sharing a few pictures of my crafty space.  My craft space is in our former office area with the family computer.  This means I have many visitors in my craft area including our two dogs (Emma and Harry). 

My craft space is in the midst of some re-work. My DH has promised me some storage which won't get created until winter. (Indoor projects as he calls them) So be prepared for some overflowing containers and a little chaos.

When you come into the room on the left wall there is a book shelf and  next to it a variety  of plastic storage containers.

The bookshelf contains my flowers, sprays, copics,  mists, re-inkers and some of my punches. The plastic containers hold cardstock, embossing powders, stamps, punches, extra inks, scraps from cards that never got completed, more stamps and misc embellishments. 

The area directly across from the doors is my main desk area and a shelving unit. 

My desk is made from a piece of countertop that is awaiting the storage my hubby will make.The plastic containers under the desk contain stamps and 12 x 12 pattern paper/cardstock.  The bins on the right contain ribbons, punches and envelopes.  Where my feet are supposed to go you will see two scrap bins, one for white scraps and the other is all different colors sorted by colors. 

On top of my desk I have an inkpad holder that my DH made and I love it! I probably could use another one. I try to keep the supplies I use all the time on the desktop. I still have plenty of room to work with.  (from this picture you can't see that. :) 

On the right side of the room the embossing/cutting station and the family computer are located.

Hope you enjoyed the tour of my crafty space. 

  Lucy Abrams  is also joining us in the challenge this week as our guest designer! Lucy is fantastic and I was so happy to find out that she was guest designing for us.

The rest of the design team also created some beautiful projects using the inspiration colors. 

Sarah Anderson

Stephanie Kraft

Ruby 2 Shoes

Savannah O'Gwynn

Julie Ranae

Lisa Somerville

Last weeks challenge entries were all wonderful and can't wait to see the entries this week.

Suzz