A lack of office supplies ?

Today is my second and final piece as a Guest Designer for the Craft Hoarders challenge. The theme for the next 2 weeks is "Who loves school and office supplies". Well this theme rather threw me as I left school a lifetime ago and I don't work in an office. I work for the good old NHS and the last thing that is ever spare there is office supplies! Years ago drug companies used to give us free pens and post-it notes but those days have long ended. I am also one of those very old fashioned people (as is my Hb) who writes at work with a fountain pen.

I did a lot of head scratching, rummaging through my drawers at home and searching around the house and found a few things which could be considered as office supplies. Here they are;

Rather a mixed bag eh but the fun thing I found whilst rummaging through my drawers was my old Dymo machine which has not seen the light of day for years. Can you remember the days when we put labels on everything...a label saying "switch" to tell us it was a switch! Yes I did that too.

I also wanted to use my fabulous Visible Image Eye stamp again and I thought the Tim Holtz creativity quote was very apt;

 So I put my creative hat on and first made myself an inky background using these 3 Distress inks

 I also coloured 2 of the tags with the same colours.

 I thought this stencil would also fit with the theme and added some Mown Grass DI through it.

Next it was playtime as I made my ideas into reality. I used staples to attach the quote (another office supply I had thought of)

Spot the dymo!

and here is my finished piece............

I would like to enter my creation into the following challenges;

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday tag it
Inky Chicks anything goes
Crafty boots anything goes
Crafting from the heart anything goes
We do doobadoo something masculine
A creative romance anything goes
Simon Says Stamp Monday Stamp and stencil for Stamptember
A little bit crafty distress it
Anything but a card steampunktember

Thanks to Gloria for having me as a Guest Designer for the month and thanks everyone for popping by to see what I made out of my office supplies. Do pop over to the challenge here to join the fun and remember that out of my limitations certainly did come some very unexpected creativity,

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x