Make it On Monday.

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

I am here today to show you an old card and a new one:

I made this ages ago and then put the stamps away and forgot about them and what do you know it's here again!

The cake stamp is by Honey Doo Crafts.

I've used a Stampendous 'Streamers' for the background and added some Stickles glitter glue. I stamped this with first and second generation ink to give a faded look. I like this as it gives depth to the background.

The cake was stamped twise, once with yellow card and once with multi coloured card. 

Next I cut out the icing and added it to the second stamped image. Cut it out and position it on the background design.

Finish with a sentiment and Stickles glitter glue to the spots.

A small amount of watercolour pencil at the bottom of the cake helps to ground it.

If that's not enough I had a play with the cake colour using my Photo editing program.

What fun is that and you can make it any colour you like.

Hope you like it.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

Friday fun Day with Creative Creases.

 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.

It's a bit different today, I'm showing you my project for Creative Creases as I am their Guest Designer today.

If you don't know this Challenge group it's well worth a visit if you like making Fun Fold cards.

Hope to see you there.....

I used some lovely papers by Dreamies for this and the butterflies and sentiments are stickers.

I completed it with enamel dots and Stickles Glitter Glue.

This is so simple to make but looks great when it's opened.

You will need two pieces of thin card or paper, a sentiment, 6" x 6" or 5" x 7" blank card, enamel dots, any decoration you wish and Stickles Glitter Glue.

I love this paper as it's double sided so works well with this style of card.

So to the mechanism.

Butterfly fold card.

• 1. 6" x 6" (15.2 cm x 15.2 cm) card blank or larger.
• 2. Mechanism - Plain or patterned paper 4 1/2" x 5" (11.5 x 12.7cm)
• 3. Score centre - Valley fold, score edges - mountain fold at                        3/8" (1cm) each side, diagonal folds - mountains.   
• 4. Mechanism strips - 5" x 2 1/2" (12.7cm x 6.3cm) x 2 - fold the            centre - Valley fold
• 5. Toppers - 2 1/4" x 2 1/4" (5.7 cm x 5.7cm) x 4

    

Fold the mechanism flat and place the fold of the mechanism and card together then attach the 1cm edges to the card.

When these are fixed close the card and reposition the mechanism so that it folds outwards.

Add glue to the top and bottom triangles and attach the mechanism strips.

Finish by adding the toppers.

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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 - 896 - 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!

Been working on a birthday card.

This is it finished.

He who will receive it will not be anywhere near here so it's fine for you to see it.

I love this stamp, it's very useful. 

By Honey Doo Crafts.

The background is also a stamp but can't remember at the moment what make it is. Good for backgrounds though.

On the side an old Dylusions stamp set.....now I might just have a play with that again soon.

I have been playing with some other old stuff too. Tim Holtz papers.

Looks a bit Halloweenish but I just thought they would look good in my Grid journal.

Not sure what I will finally do with these but it's very relaxing doing them as I don't really think much just cut, rip and tear then attach the bit's, add an image and some texture and that's your lot, just about.

If I'm stuck for a card, I just cut one of the grids and mount it onto a card blank, add a sentiment and you've got it made. Love it X

So that's me done for today.

Thanks for stopping by and hope you will pop over and visit 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 - Collage Grid Journal.

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

I am here today to show you more fun with my Collage Grid journal:

I have had this collection by Tim Holtz for ages and when clearing the Craft cabin I noticed them so here goes.

These would be great for Halloween cards.

After a lot of tearing and cutting and attaching the 

pieces I went over them with a stencil and silver embossing paste.

I like it but needed a little bit of colour so added some Stickles Glitter Glue too.

Time will tell how I use this and whether I add more colour, we'll have to see.

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 was where I was last Saturday taking the class.

We were making a butterfly card not that we actually made a butterfly but the effect looks like one as it opens and shuts.

The ladies really enjoyed making this.

These are my samples.

Despite being tired after that full day we went to Heckington country show on Sunday.

Lots of fun for the children.

I went into the tents too. Beautiful flowers.

Very talented crafters.

Love these.

There are some very talented artists here.

Love the felting too.

These look like real buns but they are actually crochet.

Now these are real buns.

Nice cakes too.

It's great to see so many people getting involved.

Now these are real buns.

And to finish off for today, a great collection of vegetables.

That was one very busy couple of days.

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 -895 - 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.

This was my desk on Saturday.

And this is my display of the samples I made for the club.

These are called butterfly cards because of the way they open inside.

They are fun to open and everyone loved them.

The group were well behaved and made a great job of the project.

Such enthusiasm! but we did have time for chat too Lol!

And my desk at home looks like this.....

Not got round to tidying up since Saturday.

Sunday went to Heckington country fair so by Monday I needed a rest but there are one or two things on the desk you might like, amongst the mess.

Don't know if you've seen this before, I remembered I'd got it when sorting out some other stuff.

This is one of the cards I made for the craft club samples.

I made the papers with a stencil.

I like to scan them and then change the colours with a photo editing program.

So that's me done for today.

Thanks for stopping by and hope you will pop over and visit the other desks.

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

Have a great woyww 

and 
happy crafting,

Angela x