Friday Fun Day with Smiles.

Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.

Angela here again to show you what I've been up to this week.

This was actually the last Saturday in September but forgot to post it.

One of the members having their birthday so we had cake today.

And some card making obviously.

We all did the same style of card but decorated them differently.

This one was mine, need to get started with those C. cards.

This weekend saw more crafting at the Lincolnshire 

Showground, Crafterama.

Great day!

More gardening but I'm not going to bore you with more pics of that so we'll finish with:

a few crafting funnies......

If you're a crafter you'll be able to relate to these.

Have a great weekend everyone and

 thanks for stopping by.

Leave me a comment and I'll pop over to see what you've been up to this week too.

Angela x

woyww - 853 - What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday.

       Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.

Hi Workdesk friends. 
We are here for another Wednesday at the Workdesk and here is:
"What's on my Workdesk this Wednesday".

If you don't know what this is all about then please visit Sarah's Craft Shed and our host Sarah will explain.

So here is my desk for today!

The exploding box looks almost tidy today!

I managed to complete the Ledger Page too with some old Tim Holtz dies.

Information for this can be found here:

I'm hoping to complete this page soon.

Supplies needed for the journal page.

So that's me done for today.

 Thanks for stopping by and hope you will pop over and join in the visits around the other desks.

 I'm off now to see what everyone else is up to.

Have a great woyww 

and 
happy crafting,

Angela x

Make it on Monday.

       Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.

I am here today to show you a  new Ledger journal page:

I made the background with two stencils, an Altenew for the water, one for the Sea Urchins and two colours of Distress Oxide inks then finished with Stickles Glitter Glue.

 It took me some time to decide what the focal image would be and then remembered some old dies by Tim Holtz.

I must have had these for ages but they work really well with this background. I think these dies are available again now as Thinlits.

I've cut the Urchins with Kraft card and then added Distress inks by smooshing and splatters then darkening the edges with a blending brush. 

The Seahorse was white card and colours of distress inks, crackle graze and Stickles Glitter Glue.

Finished with a sentiment.

I'm pleased that's finished as I have other things to come soon.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

Friday Fun Day with Smiles.

Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.
Angela here again to show you what I've been up to this week.

This week has been mostly gardening and lots of it. 

We have been lucky and had some good days so been able to get stuff done.

Having a big garden seemed like a good idea when we bought the house but there is a lot of work to do.

This is hubby trimming the Wisteria, they take ages to get going when planted but once they start they don't know when to stop!

There will be a lot more when he's done trimming.

Oh! and he cleaned the pond filter sponges too.

Remember this from last week, some people working on a swiss made product in Geneva. 

They are of course watches.

I've still got photos from our France visit.

These are from the Jardins Secrets which is not far from Annecy.

It is the most gorgeous place to visit.

Have a great weekend everyone and

 thanks for stopping by.

Leave me a comment and I'll pop over to see what you've been up to this week too.

Angela x

woyww - 852 - What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday.

       Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.

Hi Workdesk friends. 
We are here for another Wednesday at the Workdesk and here is:
"What's on my Workdesk this Wednesday".

If you don't know what this is all about then please visit Sarah's Craft Shed and our host Sarah will explain.

So here is my desk for today!

The exploding box continues to wobble a bit more each week!

I've been working on this journal page for at least two weeks as I just can't decide how to finish it.

You can probably see better here that I've used two stencils. 

One created the Sea Urchins and one for the water effect which was added over the top of the first stencil which gives the effect of it being below the Sea Urchins.

I finished these by adding two colours of Stickles Glitter glue.

The difficult part for me now is whether to add anything else.

Guess you'll have to wait and see!

So that's me done for today.

 Thanks for stopping by and hope you will pop over and join in the visits around the other desks.

 I'm off now to see what everyone else is up to.

Have a great woyww 

and 
happy crafting,

Angela x

Monday fun with "Use it or Lose it".

       Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.

I'm here today to show you some Christmas card ideas using a Shutter Fold Card design.

Please don't panic seeing C. cards. 

I was at the craft club on Saturday and this was the style of card that we were making so it seemed like a good chance to start some Christmas card designs.

I'm using papers by Studio Light for these cards.

This is a great card for posting as it fits well into a 

4" x 6" (A6) envelope and it's nice and thin too.

It's not easy to see here but I finished the card with Stickles Glitter Glue which helps the design to pop out rather than look flat.

Same make of papers here but the colours are completely different to give a little more idea of how it might look when added with darker shades.

I wasn't sure that I would like this type of card but it's growing on me.

Hope you like these samples.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x