Masterboard Monday Collage Grids.

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

I am here today to show you a card made with one of these Masterboard Collage Grids:

And yes you will remember seeing these before here:

I have been busy over the weekend so little time for a new Masterboard which is why I like the grids so much. 

When you need a quick card just cut one of the grids out and you have a half made card.

The sentiment is 'Art by Marlene' the image by Kate Crane and the cord from my stash.

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.

Last weekend we went to a friend's for a barbeque but was enjoying it so much that I fogot to take any photos.

On Monday we went to get parts for my old girl.

She's looking a bit sad at the moment as she's at the body shop. There are a couple of bits, a sill and wing that need work doing on them but we decided to get new parts which should ensure no further rust for a while.

This might seem a bit serious and if you've never had a 'Classic Historical Car' you may wonder why we're bothering but she is 53 years old and we have had her for about 43 years so even with this work being done it's worth it and I hope to keep her until I can't manage to get in and out of it any more! So hopefully a few years to go yet. 

It's also the only car we've ever had that's worth more now than when we bought it.

 

Later in the week my friend from France came to see us and sent me a photo of the B and B she stayed at here in Lincoln.

If you like somewhere very modern you wont want this.

But this is just the sort of place I love.

It's not more than about a mile away from where we live and never even noticed it before.

And apparently the owners are lovely too.

Later in the year we're having a week away at Annecy in France and my friend sent us this too, it's called 'Jardins-secrets' and look like an interesting place to visit so we'll see.

We also went to Downtown for some shopping and of course I came home with a few things.

Daisy and Alfie have been for a hair cut ready for their week in the kennels while Des is away, as he starts his school visits next week.

And here they are enjoying the garden.

Our swans in the park have babies but can you see how many there are?

These are some of the Geece that live in the park but the Cob swan decided he didn't want them in the lake and so they moved out for a while, think they got fed up of being chased around.

 

These are just so gorgeous, in my garden.

Who couldn't love these gorgeous flowers.

I think that's enough for today

but here are a few funnies to make you smile.

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 - 832 - 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!

Hi all, new stuff from Art by Marlene on the left, love it.

In the centre here are my ATBMs (Artist Trading Book Marks) for our 16th Anniversary.

Thought I'd do these for a change and made lots when we thought we were having the Crop so if you would like to swap there are plenty to go on.

These were all made with a couple of my Masterboards.

On the right I'm playing with some Kate Crane stamps, just love them.

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 am here today to show you a card made with this Masterboard:

Well! another one actually.

If you remember last week's Masterboard design then you will recognise the background to this card.

This is a small left over piece that I've cut up using a AALL and Create die.

The bird and the sentiment are by Kate Crane.

A feaw blobs of Stickles Glitter glue to finish it off and we're all done.

Hope you like it.

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.
More gardening, been getting the raised beds ready

and netting the fruit trees, that is the cherries and damsons as I'm fed up of the birds and squirrels taking every bit of fruit so who knows maybe this year we might be able to keep a few.

It doesn't look very pretty but I'm sure it will be worth it, we'll have to wait and see.

Bonsai looking good.

This Azalea isjust so beautiful.

I love watching these flowers coming to life.

And there you are...beautiful Alliums!

Love these too.

Fish looking good.

This time of the year is so colourful in the garden.

Other than the gardening I've been working on my felting again.

Not sure but think it's nearly finished. 

This is a Larch Bolete.

Just a few bits of good advice before I leave you.....

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 - 831 - 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!

I've not been spending much time here though I do have plans for some more projects.

Which is why these older projects are here today but you'll have to wait and see if anything comes of it.

Some new printing paper for downloaded embellishments, not used yet.

And here's the reason I've not been on the desk so much.......

as I've been working on a felted picture of the 3D mushroom I showed you last week.

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

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

I am here today to show you a card made with this Masterboard:

This is a Retiform masterboard. If you would like more details for making you can find them here.

This is a new set of dies and I decided to use these to create this week's card.

I started this card by cutting the Masterboard after applying double sided sticky tape to the back which makes it easier to attach the cut out pieces to the coloured background card. I layered this with a sheet of black card and then mounted it onto a white card blank.

To complete this card I have added some stamped and coloured Kate Crane stamped images and a sentiment.

And that's it, all done. I think I will have another play with this die set to see what else it can do.

Interestingly I found I had this waste piece too

Now that looks like another project soon for sure.

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.

Last Saturday I was at the Craft and Chat Club..... 

We were making these lovely cards.

and Sunday at the Crafterama, craft show.

Obviously had to buy a few things! These are a couple of ladies from our craft club. There were plenty of them there today of course.

Later in the week I did a little bit of gardening.

With help from my dear friend Alfie.

I love watching these plants come to life.

Tuesday was felting day but I need to get that finished before I show you what I did.

The park was busy too with one of the schools bringing their children round.

Look at these two waiting for hubby to come back and then they got distracted....

Such a cute couple but what do you think?

Wednesday we went to Brigg garden centre to pick up some plants for the raised beds.

I love the variety of things they have there.

Bet that would shock the dogs!

Not sure they'd like this one either though he's very well behaved.

Or these chaps maybe.

And of course we had to stop off to eat.

If you have children this is a great place for them too.

But watch out for wild animals!

Not sure what I'll be doing today, maybe getting the raised beds cleared of weeds if it's not too hot. 

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