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.
It's been a quiet week as hubby has been away working so just me and the dogs.

This is Daisy in her new Ai costume.

And Alfie had to suffer too, I rather like this one he's steam powered.

On the nice days we were in the garden, done a bit more going over the raised beds to break up the soil.

The fruit trees are coming on and already starting to come into leaf.

These are not my dogs but they make me smile.

We've had a bit of this as well as Daisy decided to do a bit of digging in the garden when I wasn't looking!

Once the gardening was done we went in for a rest.....well at least I thought we had so this could easily be us.

Not really much else to tell you today other than I'm doing my best to keep blogging and visiting everyone but using hubby's laptop as mine as decided to stop working and has gone to the computer doctor. Fingers crossed it is fixable. 

Wishing you a lovely weekend and thanks for stopping by.

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

Hugs Angela x

WOYWW - 877 - 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've been working on male cards again and just finished this one which is why there is a small tidy space on the desk, very small! 

This is one made from stamped masterboard pieces that I made ages ago.

The note book that you can see is what I use to work out my cards.

Thought I'd better show you the journal page now it's finished. 

There are details about how I did this here:

And to make you smile (I hope) another Steampunk Ai photo of Daisy.

I love the little skirt they gave her to wear.

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.

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

I am here today to show you what I've been up to in my art journal:

If you were around last Wednesday you will have seen this well now it's finished.

I had been intending to do this when we got back from skiing in January but other things kept happening and I've only just got round to it.

So here is the finished page.

The background with mountains was hand drawn and painted using a combination of inks, paints and Tim Holtz watercolour pencils.

The small trees in the background were hand drawn with a black pen and the rest is stamped with a combination of stamps then a little extra shadow added with Tim Holtz watercolour pencil (I think I use these more than anything else, just love them).

I chose the stamps before starting this page so that I would be sure that the mountains would be in proportion to the stamped images when complete.

I think it worked.

I added Studio Light 'Effect Snow' on the roof and stickles glitter glue to the trees and fencing. 

And the finishing touch, splatters of white paint for snow and I think that's done!

I must not leave it so long before starting the next page, I really enjoyed making this.

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.

Daisy and Alfie are here today to welcome you.

Now how did that happen!

You turn your back and they've become Steampunk dogs.

This is the original photograph.

By now you might have guessed.....

I've been playing with Ai, completely new for me so this was a pleasant surprise as I had no idea how it would turn out.

I'm sorry dogs but there may be more of these to follow, just having fun with this.

I think it suits them but what do you think?

If you look at the photograph down the right side of my blog you will see 'Welcome Alfie' he is the smaller of the two dogs and now he's the bigger one to the left of the photograph above.

Don't be mistaken though.....Daisy's the boss!

So to the park.

Beautiful flowers.

And these little beauties popping up in my garden too.

I haven't much else to show you today so I'll finish now, I'm on my way to take the dogs to the groomer but I'll catch up with you soon.

I can relate to this one!

And whoever came up with this definitely know Schnauzers.

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 - 876 - 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've been meaning to do this since we came back from France but one thing and another and I didn't get round to it until now.

A little memory of the French Alps in my Ledger Journal.

A combination of inks, paints and Tim Holtz watercolour pencils.

I'm only half way there but it should be finished when I see you next week.

I did have a play with Ai too which was interesting.

This was the original photograph of Alfie and Daisy.

And this was the Ai edited photograph.

So that's me done for today nice and quick just how we like it.

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.

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

I am here today to show you a collage card with a rotating mechanism, now that's got to be fun!:

I made this as a sample for my dear friend Cindy.

The design was done on a 6" x 6" card blank.

It was a quick card to make as I used some printed paper to cover the card blank then diecut the Tim Holtz cog dies (Sizzix) and used those to decorate the inside.

The front has a few rub-ons by AALL and Create and I used some washi tapes too. 

The whole thing was finished with Stickles Glitter Glue to give it some sparkle.

Hope you like it short and sweet today.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x