Masterboard "Use it or lose it" 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:

Or actually copies of this original (Made with an Altenew stencil).

Scan the original and then you can alter the colour, I use Picasa for this and it's great fun seeing what you end up with.

I did get a bit carried away I think!

This card was made using a small piece of one colour as the background to the diecut fish die (Memory Box).

Attach the background behind the die cut image and stamp the sentiment (Free stamp by Crafty Individuals from a magazine) be sure it's dry and then emboss the netting (3D embossing folder by Spellbinders). I went over the net very gently with blue ink to help it stand out a little more.

I used a brown sheet of the paper to layer the finished design and finished with dots of blue Stickles Glitter glue and that's it.

Clean and Simple? maybe!

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.

This is actually just over a week ago but just getting round to sorting the photos. 

The one above is in the airport at Manchester.

We were on the plane here but many of you know I love clouds and this is a great photo.

We've arrived at Annecy in France and on our way to the hotel. Our dear friend Pascal came to pick us up from the airport.

Beautiful photo from our room.

And dinner, starter and dessert don't know what happened to the main course, must have eaten it and forgotten to take a photo.

Scrummy!

And a view from the dining room window.

Sunday was a lovely day so we went out with friends to their boat.

Lake Annecy is so beautiful and the cleanest lake in France being filtered all the way round.

This is my dear friend Margaret.

Here we are just setting off.

Margaret enjoying some water skiing and no we didn't join in, saving myself for the winter skiing.

And back on the boat again.

It was a lovely day.

And back for dinner.

I have lots more to show you here but they are for another day.

I'll finish now with some funnies.

This is definitely Daisy.

My two must have gone to this school for sure.

Mmmm.....my two again Lol!

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 - 850 - 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!

There's not much going on here really as I'm still catching up since we got back from France.

I have managed to aquire some new stencils which are topping up the exploding box.

Now what shall I do with these? 

They are all from one stencilled piece then scanned and recoloured.

ready to start something new.......hopefully!

I did finish my latest journal page before going away and if you want to see how it was made you can find it here on Monday's post.

My beautiful Grapes to finish.

Never had them like this before, they usually stay green and don't ripen.

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

Make it on Monday Journal Pages.

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

I am here today to show you another Ledger journal page:

This new journal page is based on 'The Sea'.

The top and bottom are done with Stencils and Distress Oxide inks and the centre is applied using a blending brush to create the background.

The bottom section is a stencil by Marianne Designs.

And the top is Altenew.

I decided I wanted this page to be full of smiles so I've put together a crab by Waffle Flower.

If you were around last week you may have seen these already.

And this is where one of them ended up. 

I just love this crab die.

And all the other dies too actually that I used to create this journal page.

The glitter parts were done with Crafters Companion Glitter paste.

The sentiment was done with a Picket Fence stamp.

A few shiny shells, some white shadow lines, spots and of course more Stickles Glitter glue to finish.

Hope you like it.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela xXx

I would like to enter this journal page in the following challenges:

"Art Journal Journey" - "Make your own Background"

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 picked a few of the grapes which are starting to ripen. 

They are very tasty though still quite tart. We have never had grapes like them before. Maybe the hot weather has some advantages.

Still picking damsons they are so gorgerous.

A friend of mine who also grows them was surprised how big they are.

We've been away for a week to visit friends in France at Lake Annecy.

I am looking forward to showing you some photos.

We got up one morning to see these setting off.

Got the best photos I could.

When you see the pics below I'm sure you'll agree my little camera did well.

Another day we visited 'Jardins Secrets'.

This beautiful place is not far from Annecy.

It's owned by a family who are continually adding to it.

There is so much to see and many members of the family have worked on it including the children.

It has a very Moroccon feel to the sculpture of the building.

When I've sorted my photos properly I'll add more here Oh! and unpacked too.

For now I'll finish with a couple of funnies.

This could be Alfie,

and this could be either of them!

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 Iris to see what our other friends have been doing this week and you can also share your  smiles too.

Angela x