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've not been far this week so I'm starting here by showing you a lovely photo sent to me from my friend who lives in France.

This is a photo from their apartment.

It was her hubby's birthday so they went out for something special and she sent me this photo. Looks delicious but rather naughty!

In my garden today the moles have been having fun digging. I just wish they would find somewhere else to do it.

We did go to the fish farm for a few things and I took some photos of these gorgeous guys.

This was a particularly big boy, love the markings too.

The plants are coming along nicely despite there hasn't been any rain for weeks.

And so to the pretty part of the garden....

I don't think anything smells or looks as beautiful as the rose.

Though I do love these pretty flowers.

The water lilies are doing well too.

A few final thoughts from the Schnauzers.

Sorry that one is a bit sad but I will always keep my old dogs in my heart.

That has to be a girl Schnauzer.

That one could be male or female, they are all nosy.

And that is a rather sensible Schnauzer, some parents should read this.

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 -731- 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 the Stamping Ground, our host Julia will explain.

So here is my desk for today!

Not really done much this week as I've been made up with cold but managed a bit of stamping as I'm working on a new Masterboard.

Just colour so far, more detail to follow hopefully.

I'm going to be using these Kate Crane stamps for the next stage.

Hopefully you will get to see this completed soon, maybe even a card you never know!

And finally this lovely set from Neet.

Beautiful ATCs and heartfelt words.

Hope my dear friend is feeling much better xXx

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

Use it or Lose it Monday.

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

I am here today to show you how I've used some more of my stash:

These fun papers are by Craft O'Clock and I used some light weight Kraft card for the base cards.

You may remember seeing me use these papers before when I made them into ATCs about two weeks ago here:

This card was made using the Crealies Never Ending Card die.

These papers are just the right weight for this type of card.

I found that the card opened really well but you need to be careful not too use anything to thick. 

As you can see here I did get away with some layering with thin black card.

And so to the final turn of the card.

And this is the back. 

You could easily add your sentiment here.

You can make this card stand up by opening the bottom fold.

The sentiment at the top was done on my Dymo.

Hope you like it as much as I do.

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.

It's been very warm here up until Wednesday when it decided to rain and the flowers are looking lovely.

We don't plant these Foxgloves they just appear each year but we never know where they will be.

They arrive in lots of different colours too.

The Clematis is still doing well and the flowers seem to get bigger every day.

They are so petty.

I love the colour of this Rhododendron.

The Bonsai are doing well but everything looks better when the sun comes out.

These poppies are not mine but I passed them the other day and couldn't resist taking a photograph. It's not too clear here just how big they are.

On Wednesday we took Daisy and Alfie for a hair cut. You can't tell so much with Daisy but Alfie looks like half the dog he was.

As soon as they stand still for a while I'll post a photo of them.

And a few Schnauzer funnies to finish.

Three famous people who had Schnauzers (maybe!)

Who would have thought it.

Though I'm not sure Mini Schnauzers were around at this period in history but it's sweet anyway.

I'll be around to visit you all but still busy clearing my mum's house so it might be later in the day we'll see.

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 - 730 - 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 the 
Stamping Ground, our host Julia will explain.

So here is my desk for today!

Sorry it looks a bit empty today as I've just finished working on a card which I posted Monday but you can see it here.

I think you might like it, using Kate Crane stamps.

This ATC is from Cindy and it's gorgeous, just arrived a bit late for me to show it here last week.

 

These are some of the Kate Crane and Carabelle stamps I've been playing with.

Look at this lot! 

You can't even see the exploding box but it's there somewhere!

This is the other side and I've still got the ATC folder on show.

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 - Use it or Lose it.

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

I'm back to using up those left-over Gelli print pieces so watch out here comes the fun!

I know you have seen this before but it has to be used up and there's still plenty left so I've made another card.

I've been playing around again with some Kate Crane stamps and this left-over Gell print.

  

I've used one of Kate's stamps to decorate the background straight onto the card blank using black ink and second generation print.

I didn't want the background to over power the design so I stamped off some of the ink before applying it to the card blank.

 I layered this up adding metalic grean cord and black card. 

The bunting is by Kate too. I finished the design with Stickles Glitter glue and.......

 a small heart from also by Kate and a birthday sentiment from my stash completes the inside of the card.

I love this card and hope you like it too.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x