Masterboard Monday.

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

I am here today to show you a card made with this Masterboard:

Used two of these Matstack pages which I ripped up and arranges on some fairly heavy weight paper.

Back again with this as you may have seen it here:

Then added stamping, Washi tape, embossing paste through a stencil and some splatters.

I am making something special with this which you will get to see soon but had a few pieces left which I used to make two cards.

I used some bookmark dies to cut three pieces for each card with matching colours.

Then attached these to a coloured card blank. 

To finish them off I added some die cut flowers that had been sitting around for ages and some sentiment tags.

These are quite busy designs.

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 though I don't have many photographs to show you.

• It's been a busy week here as I went to the hospital on Sunday to have a small lump on my arm removed ( I'm sure you don't want to see that!) and later that evening a very large filling dropped out from one of my teeth, I can't believe it. 
• Monday I had to book an emergency appointment to go to the dentist. 
• Tuesday went and got the filling replaced and then off to see about some work that needs doing on my car. 
• Took her over there in the afternoon. You cannot have a car that's 53 years old and not expect she may need a little touching up occasionally. It's a bit of welding needed and then went and booked her in for the paint spraying ready for when the welding's finished. It's only Tuesday and I'm shattered already Lol!
• Tuesday was the Felting Club in the evening and we made some 'Winter Chanterelle'

These are the real thing...

and these are samples that were made.

Wednesday we took the dogs for their haircut and Alfie was definitely ready. He looked like a woolly bear.

The lady who cuts their hair has been away and it's surprising how an extra week or so turns him into a shaggy dog. He can't even see properly though he still knows where to find the dinner.

Daisy's coat is different so she doesn't go woolly.

Here we are fetching them home but they don't look that pleased. Alfie likes going to the trimmer as she has a beautiful golden labradoodle girl dog called Dora and Alfie really likes her.

Thursday we took the dogs to the kennels as hubby is going away for a few days. He's getting ready for the school Art exams as he checks the teachers marks. 

The GCSE exams may seem a while away but the exam boards start now to get ready for the visits they have to do as the Art exams are marked before the written exams. 

This means I will have a long peaceful weekend to do my own thing and I can tell you I'm ready for it!

Started off by having a good clean round as he left but there's always more that could be done....think that's enough of that!

• And so to Friday, I'm sure I'll  find something to keep me busy after I've had a good rest Lol! 

Wishing you a great weekend everyone and

 thanks for stopping by.

And if you would like some more smiles you just need to pop over to see what our other friends have been doing this week at Annie's for
"This Week's Smiles" and you can also share your  smiles too.

Angela x

woyww - 824 - 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!

I'm die cutting some Masterboards here.

Which looked like this .....

Made with free papers from a magazine and the addition of stamping, ink splashes and stencilling.

I'm using this mat book to create the next Masterboard.

But you will have to wait to see what it's used for.

I also used the Mats to create the collage grids below. 

There are more details here if you're interested.

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

Masterboard Monday 'Use it or Lose It'.

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

I am here today to show you some new Collage Masterboard Grids:

I have had this book for far too long and it needs to be used so today I'm creating collage grids by adding pages from the book. Some are complete pages and some are torn pieces.

Although these are not like my usual Masterboards which are normally A3 they serve the same purpose as being backgrounds for various images and sentiments. Instead of one large sheet they are divided into grids suitable sizes for the cards and journal pages.

These were Layered up with sheets from the mats and stamping, splashes of paint and stencilling.

Next I looked for something to use as the focal image. These are some old die cut frames by Seth Apter and the birds are by Tim Holtz.

To finish this I highlighted the edges of the birds a little with a Uni Ball white pen.

I love these die cut birds they just fit in so well with the style I like.

I can just imagine the birds sat there looking into the distance.

There is a likelihood that some of these will be used on cards at some time but for now they are staying in the journal.

Hope you like those as much as I do, they were fun to make and I'm sure to be back here again soon.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

Friday Fun Day

 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.

I had a nice couple of hours on Tuesday at the Online felting group making an Orange Peel fungus and I 'm still working on the mouse.

 Been over to my friend's for a Chinese meal as it was her birthday this week.

Another friend who lives in France sent me some more photos.

This is the festival at Annecy from last week.

The Venetian Festival Annecy.

The costumes are amazing.

And they light up when it goes dark.

The weather has been all over the place here in Lincoln and we even had hail on Wednesday and Thursday.

And it was cold!

And then the sun came out again.

Had lots of walks with the dogs as usual and on Wednesday we saw this but no idea yet why they are putting a fence up and wondering how long it will stay there!

And that's it really. 

I'll be at the hairdressers today so please forgive me if I'm a bit late getting round.

I'll leave you with a few ideas of how to exercise your schnauzer.

This looks like fun for everybody.

Very useful!

I think they are very useful ways to exercise your dogs and they seem to enjoy it too.

Have a great weekend everyone and

 thanks for stopping by.

And if you would like some more smiles you just need to pop over to see what our other friends have been doing this week at Annie's for
"This Week's Smiles" and you can also share your  smiles too.

Angela x

woyww - 823 - 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 still looks tidy. 

There's nothing really new here apart from the masterboard I've been working on.

The punch and the circular dies on the right are what I used to cut out the circles for the C. Cards.

On the far left are some dies I've not used and had for far too long without using so got those out. I hope seeing them will make me feel guilty and then I'll do something with them!

Just behind them are yet more unused embossing folders. They are 'embossing diffusers'. 

I think Sizzix have just brought out some new ones which reminded me that I have some that have never been used so we'll see.

Not sure what will happen to this next, I'll probably scan it first before moving on but if you would like to see how it was put together there are details here from Monday's post:

I've had enough of C. Cards for now but thought you might like to see a small collection of the colours and patterns I've used.

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