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.

Quite busy this week, walking dogs, visiting the Garden centre, working on the baby journal, joining in the felting group.......it just goes on.

My garden's looking lovely.

Beautiful flowers.

And I have a new friend.

These flowers are just so beautiful too.

I saw these fungi in the park but not sure what they are  called.

But even better......

The swans in the park....

Had a surprise for us this week,

Eight babies now that was a surprise.

And this guy appeared while I was watching the swans too. Yes it's a rat.

And a squirrel.

I guess that's enough for this week so I'll finish with a few funnies.

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 - 884 - 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" on this Anniversary day.

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 still busy working on the Baby Journal.

There are more photographs and instructions for this if you want to see them, on my Monday post here: there is too much to include it here but I'll keep you in touch on how it's developing.

Mary Anne mentioned how long she had been on woyww so I thought I'd have a look back too.....

mine was the 26th Feb 2014 (247), the first week that I joined in with WOYWW and you can find the post here:

I had been directed to it the week before but this was my first real connection with everyone, intoduced by Redanne (Anne Redfern) who you may remember.

And finally some memories, ATCs sent to me by Neet.

She always was so generous.

Rest in peace sweet friend.

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 how the new project is developing. This is going to take some time to make but has to be finished before the end of this month.

Any way this is where I'm up to.

Just a reminder, this is the paper pack I'm using.

And this is the front cover of the Journal. 

The ribbon was placed underneath the paper before attaching to the front cover.

I used a Spellbinders die to decorate the front and then die cut the piece from the front of the book and attached over the die cut. "Waste not want not" as they say. 

It's perfect for the front of the journal.

I also added one of the ephemera images which are included. You will see more of these later.

I decided while decorasting the front of the journal I would do the spine too.

This ribbon and lace have been sitting around for ages waiting to be used.

The ribbon for the fastening was positioned under the lace as I attached it.

I will almost certainly come back to this later.

I'm not going into details for the next piece as it would take too long but I made a small book to be attached to the first page.

I used this technique quite a lot to create loose pockets.

Any edging die cut can be used and then add a strip of patterned paper.

There are several examples here.

Hopefully these [pockets will be useful to add notes and memories.

The book is attached under the first sheet that is attached to the inside of the cover and I included a magnet as the fastening.

The stages in making the folder itself can be found here from last week.

I think that is more than enough for one day but if there is anything you want to know just send me a message on the contact form on my blog and I'll get back to you.

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 week has been quite busy for me with more gardening.

There were a few things I needed from the garden centre but not fish but just had to have a look at what was in stock today and I found this guy.

He never took his eyes off me and gradually turned to get a better look.

Look at those eyes! 

He or She is beautiful.

Next we went for lunch.

Smoked salmon and Prawn salad.

Scrummy!

This is Brigg garden centre, a great place to visit and a lovely restaurant too.

Finally planted everything too, which we had actually gone to the garden centre for! but you have to eat right!

Thursday went to the dentist but just a check up and everything is good.....for now at least.

A walk in the park and found these.....

It's ages since we've seen pebbles in the park and I love these.

How cute is this.

Which reminds me a few dog funnies to finish.

Just a few smiles for you.

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 - 883 - What's On Your Workdesk Wednesdasy.

   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.

It brought a tear to my eyes looking back at these photos but many happy thoughts too.

Happy days.

Beautiful lady.

Smiles all round.

My real desk will be back next week but I have started work on the Baby journal which can be found here:

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 new project which I'm working on but I warn you this is going to take some time to make but has to be finished before the end of this month, you may guess why as the project develops.

So here goes........

This is the paper pad I'm using. I love it, there's a great collection of papers and decorative elements.

I first saw this style of Baby Journal by Shellie Geigle on YouTube.

So I'm starting off with the journal covers and spines.

The card for this is textured and a good weight to cover the Greyboard.

I've prepared the card ready to cover the Greyboard.

Try to attach this firmly. I like to use a combination of tape and wet glue.

 

Crease the corners well and you will get a nice neat finish.

And there we have it all neat and tidy.

Next we need to join the three pieces, front, back and spine.

I use Tyvek for this as it's strong and very difficult tp rip and a very strong double sided tape.

Finish by attaching two strips of matching card to cover the Tyvek and tape.

Pages next, white card for this.

Once the pages are attached we're ready to start decorating the journal.

Hope you like this so far there will be more to follow soon.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x