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.

We had a bit of a shock this week when the electric suddenly went off and you might know it was late at night.

Hubby did the best he could in the dark and realised it was something to do with the cable going to one of the filters attached to the pond.

Nothing could be done until the follwing day and we could not have known what we would find!

I wonder if you can imagine what this little guy had to do with it?

So the following day we went to try and find out what was going on. 

Hubby opened the box where all the cables are pluged in and there it was a tiny newt that had manged to creep in through one of the holes where the cables entered the box and it had managed to cause the electrics to fuse.

He was still alive but seemed rather dozy and wasn't moving very much so I found him a nice dark and damp place under a stone in the hope he'd get over his mishap.

Having sorted that we went into the park for a walk.

We have so many interesting old trees there.

When we got back we sat in the conservatory as usual for coffee and our usual visitor arrived and of course turned away as soon as I got the camera out.

They are so cheeky!

As we are approaching Halloween I thought it was time for Daisy and Alfie to change their costumes.

That seems appropriate.

(Ai obviously)

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 - 906 - What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday.

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

Hi Workdesk friends and welcome back Julia x 
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 our host Julia and she will explain.

So here is my desk for today!

I showed you the start of this last week...

made with old playing cards.

And this is how I finished it.

I scanned the original and then altered the colours using Picasa.

I have more details relating to this here if you're interested:

I'm afraid you will have to wait to see how I use them.

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

Masterboard Monday.

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

I am here today to show you how the new Masterboard has progressed:

You may remember this from last week......

While sorting out the cabin I found these old playing cards and when I took them out of their packets they looked like this on the back.

I must say I preferred the back to the front.

The fronts of these cards might be useful to cut up but right now I've no ideas for them or maybe I was just distracted by the backs.

And this is what I did with them on an A3 sheet of card, but that's not all.....

Ink and stencils were used to start the design and yes these are snowflakes.

Once they were dry I added some white dimensional paste though stencil to complete the design.

It's a little more clearer to see here.

I've had a little extra play here using Picasa. 

If you've not seen me use this before it is a photo editing program, quite old now but it's easy to use and allows you to recolour your scanned art work.

I like to scan my designs so that I have a copy for future use.

You'll have to wait until next week to see how I use these but I will be back.

I would love to hear your comments.

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.

I have been meaning to show you a few more photographs of our visit to Rufford.

Plenty of parking which is good.

And the display of art work is amazing.

The gardens are beautiful.

And the children love visiting the Maze, well we do too!

There's so much to see and hidden surprises too.

I just had to photos these beauties.

The Abbey itself is beautriful and you can go inside too.

Of course there's been more gardening at home.

And Alfie is keeping his eye on the proceedings.

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 - 905 - 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 our host Julia and she will explain everything.

It is with much sadness that we are here today to remember one of our dear members and a lady who kept us all 'ticking over' for nearly three years by taking on the reins.

Sarah will be greatly missed.

Happy days. 

She was always smiling.

The news has left us all shocked as it was very unexpected and I've found it difficult this week to spend much time at my desk but I have started a new Masterboard with the old playing cards you may remember from last week.

The desk looks almost tidy for me but there is the start of my new Masterboard.

I've taken the old playing cards and using the back of the cards arranged them at different angles on an A3 sheet of card with some smaller pieces to fill in the gaps.

Just got to get my head round how I will complete this.

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 another Christmas card and if you've got any of the Christmas ribbons lying around this is for you:

I bought a variety of these ribbons last year and never got round to using them.

So I got out this old embossing folder and some Kraft card to create the layer for the ribbon to go on.

Then applied some brown distress inks to the surface with a blending brush and splattered white paint which matches with those on the ribbon.

These are just a few of the collection waiting to be made into cards.

I attached a piece of red card to the Kraft card blank, mounted the ribbon onto a strip of red card and applied that to the embossed piece then onto the background card.

I felt it needed a little more to finish the design so added a few white die cut snowflakes which fit well with the ribbon design.

 I think that's about it for today. 

Don't get too excited but I may have a Masterboard on the way for next week! of course using up more forgotten craft stuff.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

ABC Christmas challenge S&T are for: T is for transport. finish - 10th Oct

Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge 527 - Christmas. Finish - 13th Oct.

Creative Artiste's 131st challenge - "Anything Mixed Media Goes"  finish - 31st Oct