WOYWW -839- 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! but before I start I've posted the instructions for making the cloud Masterboards that so many of you were asking about.

If you would like to see how they are done you can find them here as I didn't want to fill Wednesday with instructions that you don't need. 

If you are interested I hope you find them useful.

And I'm using some of them again here to make a new card.

I fear the exploding box is getting bigger again!

I shall have to watch that one.

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.

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

I am here today to show you how I make my cloud Masterboards:

Lots of people have been asking about them so I'll do my best to explain how I do this but it is easy.

So lets get started.

Choose your colours. 

I usually have two blues and some pale pink, yellow, lilac, maybe.

I also find it easier to blend the inks with these brushes rather than sponges but that's just my choice.

There are lots of companies that sell these masks, Lawn Fawn, Altenew, My Favourite Things and Waffle Flower are a few. 

You don't want a stencil that wont work for this.

I've used an A4 sheet of card but you might want to use a smaller piece until you get used to the technique. The weight of the card is up to you.

I work from the top down but I know some people start from the bottom and work upwards.

I like to use a plastic mat to smooth the ink onto before adding it to the card so it's applied lightly.

It's better not to have too much ink on the brush when you start.

Apply the brush lightly from the mask in an upward direction.

Some of the ink will stay on the mask and you can continue to push that upwards until you are satisfied with the depth of colour.

And then move to a different colour. 

I'm using yellow here and pushing the colour over the edge of the mask, blending it lightly with the blue.

Take a look at the real clouds and you will see that there can be a variety of colours mixed in, sometimes these can be very bright or just lightly visible.

When I move to the next cloud I try to match the shapes as near as possible where they join though it doesn't always work exactly.

Maybe it's just me being fussy! but it gives a cleaner finish to the design.

Continue to add your clouds, arranging them as you go making some clouds narrow, some long, some short and round and rotate the mask as the edges are different.

Keep adding your chosen colours and adding blue in between which reminds us that we are looking at the sky.

Keep going until you reach the bottom.

And you end with something like this.

All you need to do now is push the brush up from the bottom edge to colour the blank space.

And you have it.

The centre one here I have just completed and the other two I made earlier. 

I'm showing you these as they are slightly different but I've gone for quite bright colours.

This one had Glitter glue added to it.

And I sprayed it with drops of water, lifting some of the colour off.

It would look good with splashes of ink or stamped rain drops. 

You could even add the sun in there too.

This is one that I'm working on at the moment and it's noticeably lighter.

Because of how I wanted to use this I turned the A4 sheet so that I was working on the long side.

Hope you give it a go. 

I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with.

I would love to hear your comments about these instructions too.

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.

It's so good to see the schools making good use of the park. The children are so lucky to have such a great place to visit.

The Heron is waiting for his dinner. We know there are lots of fish in the lake and he obviously does too.

Friday last week we went to the garden centre for lunch. It looks quiet at the moment but soon got busy later.

Appart from that it's been quiet here as the dogs are still in the kennels and hubby is away working. 

These should be the final school visits all being well unless there is a panic when the board realises there are schools that haven't had a moderation, it does happen sometimes for all kinds of reasons.

I've got a few jobs done while he's been away but having a bit of a problem with my laptop at the moment, they just know the worst time to act up so doing this on the main computer but have limited photos to show you. 

I'm hoping I can link up with you all and get round to check what you've all been up to but if I can't you will have to forgive me this week.

I'm off to the hairdressers this morning so hoping everything is back to normal when I get back, fingers crossed!....probably wishful thinking but we can but hope!

It's felt a bit like that but my two will be back Saturday so I'm off to the craft club leaving hubby to do the dog washing as I know they will be scruffy after two weeks in the kennels.

Now that's convenient Hee! Hee! it's not planned really it's just that it's Craft Club day. Lucky me!

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 - 838 - 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 make no apologies or excuses today.........I'm obsessed!

I started making cloud background papers and now I can't stop.

I've made another card using one of these but different elements to last time.

I've been using some paper aeroplane stamps by 'Visible Image'.

Now I wonder what might be next?

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.

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

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

If you think this looks familiar you would be right as I decided to use some more of the left-over pieces.

I so love this effect and it's fun to make too and lots of ways to finish it off.

This time I'm using paper aeroplanes.

The birds and sentiments are magazine freebies.

 I've used another set of older stamps by 'Visible Image' for the main images.

Hope you like them.

I've used a smaller card blank for this card but the process is basically the same.

I have realised that I have many other stamps that would work well with the clouds so you may well see them 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.

I don't know what to show you this week as I've been stuck at home as hubby is still away visiting schools so I've been trying to catch up on a few jobs one of which has been dusting off the teddy bears.

My most favourite bears live together here.

Not sure how many of you know that I collect tedds. 

 I like to give them a good dusting now and then.

I have a variety of Steiff, Merrythought, Gund, a very old Farnell and others.

You can probably just see this guy on the right.

His Name is Alfonzo and he's a copy of the famous teddy bear owned by Princess Zenia of Russia. There is a story to this but that's for another time.

This is one of the teddy bears that I had as a child. 

He was my closest friend which is why he is so well worn. His original name was Barley Sugar but he was just Little Teddy to me.

This is the face of Bruno which my mother bought while I was only months old. He is in very good condition mostly because of his size which meant he was difficult to play with.

He has a story too about how he managed to still be here, in short my father hid him when I went to college as my mother decided to get rid of him. Thank goodness for fathers!

He is an original Alpha Farnell who were an English company.

I think that's enough for today but we'll finish with a few words from the teddys.

They always have the answer that's why we love them so much.

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