Monday fun with "Use it or Lose it".

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

I'm here today to show you some Christmas card ideas using a Shutter Fold Card design.

Please don't panic seeing C. cards. 

I was at the craft club on Saturday and this was the style of card that we were making so it seemed like a good chance to start some Christmas card designs.

I'm using papers by Studio Light for these cards.

This is a great card for posting as it fits well into a 

4" x 6" (A6) envelope and it's nice and thin too.

It's not easy to see here but I finished the card with Stickles Glitter Glue which helps the design to pop out rather than look flat.

Same make of papers here but the colours are completely different to give a little more idea of how it might look when added with darker shades.

I wasn't sure that I would like this type of card but it's growing on me.

Hope you like these samples.

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.

You can probably guess from this photograph what we've been up to this week, it's an endless job in the garden at the moment.

Also have a few more photos of our trip to Lake Annecy in France.

To start here we are in the restaurant having our evening meal.

If you like French food at it's best this is the place to be.

And you can't visit France without cheese and of course it has to be regional.

My favourite, the scrummy desert.

On the Monday we visited Geneva.

This is the little train that takes you around the City.

However we walked so that we could stop off at a few places of interest.

We visited this amazing shop.

And went upstairs to the cafe for a small lunch.

Great view too.

I'm sure this was drink was very healthy combining oranges and carrots.

Then we went for a walk round the city and found some interesting artifacts.

The detail on this gun was beautiful.

I wonder if you can guess what's going on here. We saw several of these at the side of the road. 

They all had large windows so you could see inside.

They are working on something quite famous to Geneva ( swiss something?) if you know what it might be please mention it in the comment and I'll give you the answer next week.

It was not supposed to rain until later but it did and we sheltered under this large umbrella next to this beautiful water fountain.

We decided to finish the visit by going to see this famous fountain.

Depending on your age you may remember it from the beginning of a TV program "The Champions":

This is hubby walking away from myself and my friend as he decided it was too wet!

And this is the photograph he took which probably gives you an idea how high this fountain goes up -

140 metres.

You can just about see myself and my friend. We're the two little figures in the distance!

That was one special day.

I think that's enough for today but of course we need a funny to finish.

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 - 851 - 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!

Not the most tidy desk ever but I am busy working on a sea theme and trying to get started with some more Christmas cards too.

However I have this card to show you.

This week's card from Monday, using up more masterboard card for the background piece.

Details can be found here if you're interested to see how it was put together:

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 "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