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.

Back to the craft Club again last Saturday. We had a lady called Elsa visiting to show us a card she had made using dies and broccoli........yes you heard me right.

We used the broccoli to pat glue onto the letters and then added the glitter and a little more on the rest of the card to represent snow drops.

These are samples made by some of the ladies.

They are a very delicate card and I think if I did them again I would add a darker colour to the die cut sentiment words so they would stand out more.

Other than that there has been lots of gardening happening.

We've been trimming the fruit trees and the weather has been kind to us too.

But still time for a walk in the park with the sun shining through thr trees.

Beautiful!

Even the swans are making the most of the warm weather.

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 - 904 - 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!

Sorry! boring desk today as I'm busy trying to sort out the Cabin. I daren't let you in there as it's  a real mess right now.

The patterned Christmas paper is really old but hoping to use it soon. 

I'm working on C. Cards using left-over card bits too and I'm sure you'll get to see some of those soon. 

The Christmas ribbon is planned for a card as are the Christmas tree dies.

 I found the little packs of playing cards when clearing out the cabin but I have a plan for those too.......hopefully and you will probably recognise the die tucked at the back as it's a Tim Holtz by Sizzix.

Sorry I've nothing very interesting to show you but that's how desks are sometimes.

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've been busy making Christmas cards, I know it may seem early but I have a class at the beginning of Novemeber to run and need to try and get ahead if I can as I know there are lots of other jobs to do at this time of the year.

Finished these now and they look like this......

Mounted onto coloured card and then onto the card blanks and of course a little Stickles Glitter Glue to finish.

I had a few that I added die cut trees on to them. Might make a few more of these. Another great way to use up that left over card.

I now have 32 Christmas cards at the ready.

Now what next? You'll have to wait and see!

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.

The weather's been lovely this week, mostly sunny and just a little rain which we need. The evening......

have arrived with the most gorgeous clouds.

These colours are quite amazing.

Christmas card making has taken up some of my time this week but also lots of gardening.

It felt like a great garden when we moved in years ago but it is hard work to keep it looking tidy.

Last week we had a day out to Rufford Park (Ollerton, Nottingham)

We've been visiting this park since they opened it in the early 70's. We started visiting it as they used to have some brilliant art exhibitions.

There still is a sculpture garden with some interesting art work....

even art work you can sit on.

This guy has got to make you smile.

This is the memory garden.

There's always something interesting to see.

And after walking round the garden you have to stop for a coffee and a bun at the cafe.

There's lots more to see but they are for next week, don't want to wear you out.

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 - 903 - 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!

Christmas cards again this week.

Thought you might like to see how I started these.

And now they look like this .......

Just about to add some Stickles glitter glue and then they will be ready to be mounted onto the card blanks.

And 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 need to get back to making some masterboards soon but there has been a lot going on here at the moment. I've been preparing a class for my friends which we do each year making Christmas cards, lots of gardening!, pond cleaning and cabin sorting.

But what I have been doing is making more Ai photos ready for next year's calendar and as the children are now back at school this seemed like the right one to make at the moment.

How cute are those faces.

If you were wondering, this was the original photograph.

Hope you like it.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x