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.

My dear friend came to see us this week and we called in the Guest House where she was staying.

These old Victorian houses look like nothing from the outside but just wait till you see the inside.

They do tend to be long and narrow.

It's well set up for visitors.

The bedrooms are charming.

It is brilliantly clean and not a bit of dust in sight.

So many lovely things to see. None of the modern boring stuff.

These lights are just my sort of thing.

The garden is just as interesting but I'll show you that next week.

If you get the chance to visit Lincoln this would be a lovely place to stay and you can walk into the City from here too though it's not the Uphill part.

Afterwards we went to our's for lunch and my friend gave me these beautiful flowers.

It may be a while until we see her again as she's off back to France now.

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 - 888 - 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!

It's not very exciting as I'm busy in the cabin, it's time for a good sort out.

The card on the left that you can just see was one that I found when doing the clear out. It's Stampotique stamps, still got them but not used them for ages.

If you want to see more of the card there are several photos of it on my Monday post here: there's a bit more to it!

I received these gorgeous ATCs from Lyn (Syder), Joe, Annie and LLJan.

They are gorgeous thank you so much.

I'm not sure I should show you this as it's a bit scary but it has to be done. Too much stuff and not enough space.

There are some nice things in there but it's difficult to see them right now.

There's still lots to do. 

If I ever get it all sorted I'll let you know.

If I go missing send in the rescue squad!

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 a very old card!

I've been busy this week sorting out the cabin and found this card I had long forgotten about.

The stamps are by Stampotique and the die cut edge by Tim Holtz.

Maybe you can see there's someone waiting to come through the door..........

And here he is!

The faces are attached with thin strips of Acetate which is attached before the front layer of card is added.

I have always liked making cards that have some kind of movement (Kinetics) and this is a great way to do it and easy too.

And I finished with a stamp for the inside too but pale enough to write you sentiment on it.

I have always liked Stampotique stamps, they are very quirky and Gothic in style and quite different from anything else.

Hope you enjoyed looking at this card.

I must use some of these techniques again 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.

Hubby's away this week and he sent me a photo of his evening meal that he had the other day.

It looks a bit strange to me but he said it was really good. The meat is lamb and the odd looking thing is cabbage.....

Our garden continues to give lots of pleasure.

Flowers are such an amazing thing.

And so does the park. 

It's a long time since these two had so many Cygnets if ever. That's a big family.

They are doing really well all eight of them.

This duck was quite disgusted with me as I had nothing to give him/her so trotted off.

This is one of the streams that run through the park.

The bushes surrounding it are ready for a trim I think. 

Lincoln is very low, where we live it's about nine metres above sea level so it's very important that the water is looked after to prevent flooding.

 

On Saturday was the Craft Club, always a great day.

And later that day, off to my cousin to deliver some craft stuff for the Girl Guides that she looks after.

This is a small part of their very large garden where she grows her vegetables.

And here well I don't need to explain what we were going to do here!

For the rest of the week I've been in the cabin busy sorting out more stuff for her and trying to make some room on my desk.

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 - 887 - 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!

Well a bit different from usual.

This was the Craft Club on Saturday, it's not often you see punches on my desk but I got them out specially for a project one of the ladies wanted to do and of course coffee at the ready.

We made the card above first. Not really my sort of thing but I try to support the members when they are taking the class.

Then we moved onto the next one.

We were given a stencil for this one then I cut out lots of 1" squares which were placed through the stencil, once happy with the positioning you attach them in position.

Remove the stencil and snip off the waste pieces along the edges.

Finish it off by adding a sentiment and embellishments.

I think I could have fun with this style of card.

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 a card made at the Craft club on Saturday:

One of our members cut these stencils to shape and then we positioned several one inch die cuts. We used a C5 card blank.

When you're sure about the positioning of the pieces they are attached to the card blank.Trim off the waste oieces at the side. 

Add whatever embelishments you fancy.

And a sentiment and it's done.

In case you wondered I've cut these one inch square with a punch.....now that's something I've not used for a while. The images are by aall and Create and the paper by Dreamees.

I think this could be very useful for left-over pieces of card and could easily be suited to all kind of celebration depending on what papers are added.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x