Wanna see mine? (WOYWW 173)

Hi.  Today is What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday and that's a fact, Jack.  It is also a fact that what is on my workdesk is a mess.  That's just how it is, Liz.



Former card blank box



The sad thing about this mess, Bess, is that it isn't a very creative one.  It is one born out of necessity, or possibly desperation.  See I have had this pile of card blanks to the left of my desk for months and months.  You may have seen it in various WOYWW photographs. I add to it when I tidy up by I never pull back out of it.  That is because it was too poorly organized and it took too long to find what I wanted out of it.  That might look like a nice smooth white card blank, but then you'd pull it out and find out it was textured, or off-white, or had a subtle pattern, or was really flimsy cover stock and few of them were scored and ready to go.  Plus the whole thing was open to the world and it often got dusty, especially since I rarely touched it.  I decided to nicely organize it by color and ditch the cover stock. 

New card blank box

 Currently I have more card blanks than will fit in the box but my goal is to have no more than will fit in the box because I'll constantly be using them instead of constantly creating new ones.  So far it has worked well.  The last several cards I've made have had bases from out of this box.  I won't be able to ditch the old box quite yet because of the overflow but I hope I will be able to fairly soon. Stay tuned as I'm sure you'll be able to track the progress during Workdesk Wednesdays.

I received this fun Dracula card from a friend.  We are doing a sketch card swap (mentioned recently when I said I said I lost something important and only found half of it--what I found was her sample card and not the actual sketch, but with the card it was easy to recreate the sketch).  The sketch is the three pieces of different paper with the diagonal piece in the middle.  It is to be broken up by something in the mid lower right corner (Dracula in this case).  The spider webbing is strictly a bonus.  We'll see what I come up with as I haven't tackled this one yet (but when I do I'll have an easily accessible card base!!!!).

The Fine Print: I'm finally onto you wily UKers there! I know what you mean when you say RUB.  I always wondered what kind of box a RUB was as they seemed so wonderful and sturdy with nice lids.  So the other day I was pulling the "Made in the UK" sticker off my Really Useful Box and the light bulb came on!  RUB = Really Useful Box.   Yeah, sometimes you can teach this old gal new tricks!