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.

Actually I'm not sure what I have been doing this week!

Walking the dogs (as usual), shopping,gardening and spending time with friends.

Here's Alfie helping with the pond  jobs though actually he's looking for fish food to eat, he likes it.

This beautiful butterfly came to see me the other day, so pretty. It's called the 'Orange -Tip' and apparently this is the male as females don't have the orange tip and are just white.

This is what the butterfly looks like when the wings are closed.

I'm down at the bottom of the garden here looking back towards the house.

I had to show you this, I wonder if you can see what it is? The photo was sent to me by a friend who passed it the other day. It is a massive fish tank and if you look closely you can see the Koi swimming around.

Apart from that I have been getting ready for Saturday which has taken up some time as I'm presenting the class at the Craft Club and need to make samples and instructions so everything will run smoothly, hopefully.

You'll get to see how we got on next week.

So I'll finish now with some funnies.

Dog stuff 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 - 881 - 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!

My desk is a bit boring today and the card you can see is the new one.

A better view here.

I'm sure you will remember this from last week.

Some of you were interested in this envelope card I made last week and yes it does fold flat and fits in a

6" x 6" envelope.

There were some questions about how it was put together so I've done a seperate post of how it's done but don't worry if you're not interested that's fine.

This is the new one and the instructions can be found here:

Sorry there's not much else to see but sure there will be next week.

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 with this die set:

If you were around last week you may have seen this die before but due to popular demand I'm showing you this week how the card is put together.

This was the one I made last week.

And here is the die and all the pieces cut out and ready to go together.

I decorated the front and back of the main piece but this doesn't have to be done.

The cake pieces have got their icing added, sentiment layered up and the candles are put together.

I've found that the easiest way of adding the cake section is to attach the candles first and then the cake slices.

Continue to add these pieces....

then add the bottom section of the envelope by attaching one side first, I started on the right side.

Then fold it flat and attach the other side (left). By attaching it like this you can see that the envelope will fold flat correctly.

And it stands up nicely too.

I finished the front of this with Stickles Glitter Glue.

The piece I've attached to the back can be used inside the envelope but I'm using it as a blank piece to write a sentiment on.

I have some thoughts about using this in other ways but you will have to wait until I get my head round that one Lol!

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, well last week actually.

Some of you will recognise these places.

A bit further and we'll be at Maccelesfield.

This was the view from the hotel window, had we been staying for longer I would have liked to sit out there.

The following day we all got together to meet up with old friends that used to work together, mostly teachers.

It was great to see them all again.

This week has actually been spring cleaning which I am sure you don't want to see.

However, I have been in the garden too and the Bluebells are looking so pretty.

Pink ones here.

Blue and white.

Beautiful Lilac bushes.

They have done particularly well this year.

The tulips are coming to an end but they still look pretty.

We're down the bottom of the garden here where I keep the Bonsai which are waking up right now.

This is not a view I show you very often and yes we have a large garden. 

Our house is the one behind the tree in the distance.

We need a smile to finish I think.

And here's Alfred helping with the gardening with his favourite toy 'Little dog' and a stick.

Schnauzers are so clever.

When they are not being naughty!

Though sometimes being naughty may require some help from a companion.

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 - 880 - 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!

The exploding boxes are filling up again. 

This was Monday and it didn't look like much would happen this week.

We've been away for a few days and I was just not in the mood for crafting.

However, I have this die set that I have been wanting to try out, it's an envelope card die.

So I started it on Tuesday, it's not finished yet but looking okay so far. 

It folds flat to go in an envelope and stands up really well too.

Dies are good, you don't need to think so much to produce something.

The papers are a mixture by Dreamees.

The stencil at the back is waiting to be used on my next journal page. Who knows I might be in the mood for that next week.

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 I've made based on this journal page:

I wonder if you remember this?

The mountains, clouds and some of the trees were drawn by me and the rest was added using stamps.

I liked it so much that I decided to draw another set of mountains but smaller. This is about 5" x 7".

I used the same stamps to complete the design and then decided it was a bit bigger than I wanted it to be so used Picasa (photo editing program)to size it down.

The card blank is 5" x 7" and the design was reduced to fit it. 

I added Stickles glitter glue and mounted the picture onto two shades of blue card before adding it to the card blank and a birthday sentiment.

This is a birthday card and I know you may think it would make a good Christmas card and the design may well appear like that at some time in the future but this is a birthday card for a friend who lives in the French Alps.

I know he'll love this.

And I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x