Masterboard Monday.

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

Hi everyone, I am here today to show you a new paint I have been working with called Aqua Tints.

I love the way they go on and the colours are so intense for a translucent paint. 
They are concentrated liquid water colours which can be mixed and they blend beautifully and can be used for backgrounds, stencils, stamping, resist work and more.
There are six sets available, with each set containing six individual, colour-themed bottles.

For this project I have used the Pastel set but even so the colours are still very vibrant.

• I started by heat embossing the stamped images from one of my Alice stamp sets and then added the colours.
• Allowed this to dry and then added some extra stamping using colours which would blend with the background as I wanted this fairly subtle.
• Finally buffed the embossing gently to remove any paint. This brings out the embossed areas.

 

 Here I have included a close-up.

 

And a card I have made using this Masterboard.

 

 

I stamped and coloured The White Rabbit using Chameleon pens.

 

Then completed the card with a matching bow and stamped sentiment.

 

 

I have also been altering some of these Masterboards using Picasa but that is for another posting.

 

Hope you enjoyed looking and I would love it if you could leave a comment.

 

Bye for now and happy crafting,

 

Angela x

WOYWW 321 # What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday.

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

Hi Workdesk friends.
Here we are for another Wednesday at the Workdesk.
I am here again to show you:
"What's on my Workdesk this Wednesday".

If you don't know what this is all about then please visit the
Stamping Ground, our host Julia will explain.

And this is what's on my desk today...

 

It's a bit tidier than last week but I am still a bit short on space because of those boxes!

They are Aqua Tints by Spectrum Noir.

It's easier to store them in the boxes but they do take up quite a bit of room!

 

These are the stamps I have been using with the card that is still on the desk waiting to be put away.

 

 

 

Been making a new Bendy card which if you're interested you can see it here.

 

Other than that not much to show you really, it's like desk in waiting.
Been busy visiting the family and shows.
We went to Heckington Country Show at the weekend and saw these, amongst other things....

It's not often we see tortoises these days (in the UK) and these are from a charity who have a captive breeding program, they seemed to be enjoying themselves anyway.

 

 

Hope you have a great week and

happy crafting,

 

Angela x

WOYWW 271 # What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday.

                  A big welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.
 

Hi Workdesk friends.

Angela here to show you "What's on my work desk this Wednesday"(WOYWW) and if you visit Julia you will have access to desks throughout the world, so hope you will hop over to the Stamping Ground and all will be revealed.

 

Here is my desk for this week and I'm afraid I haven't got as far with the Alice journal page as I would have liked but this is where I am at the moment.

 

 

First I used a Dylusion stamp and outlined the edge of the page using the leaves stamp bottom right.

 

I have added the Cheshire cat randomly on the page as though he is hiding in the trees and some symbols from the playing cards using non secuitur Ask Alice stamps.

The sprays have coloured the lines made by the glue gun but to protect them fully, it is necessary to spray them with a fixative.

 

Not sure how well you can see the Cheshire Cat hiding in the trees and it's raining playing card symbols.

 

 

 I am using some Alice stamps from The Octopode Factory.

And the images are waiting to be painted.

 

 

There's one thing this will definitely be a quick post today so everyone should be happy Lol!

 

I have to go out but will be visiting you later today.

Have a great week and happy crafting,

Angela x

 

 

 

 

 

I love Star Books!!!

Hi Bloggers steady does it! We will get there in the end.

This is the first Star Book I made and there have been others since which I will post at some time in the future.

The stamps used for this were Non Secuitur Alice there are two sets used got these from The Stamp Man (Ask Alice and Scrabble and other Whimseys are the names of the sets). 
 

There are a few other stamps used.
The background behind Alice was completed with a brayer and Lavinia stamps.

Once again I had to use one of my favourite stamps which is the crackle stamp from Crafty Individuals. It doesn't show up so well on here but the background is really nice and very delicate.

             I love tags, pockets and things that hide.

I could not resist adding some Utee effects, so stamped into melted Utee with the sun stamp.

Couldn't resist making the door open as it fits so well with the story and the tag moves to reveal a message.

I used my own ideas for the construction of the pages and I know that people have different ideas about how to make these. My pages use four sections to complete them but if you look closely you can see that I have stamped inside these pages and there is definitely room in there for more detail which I have utilised in later samples of these books. You will have to wait and see!

Wouldn't this look great using the Steampunk papers from Graphics 45?
Must go have to get started on that one!
I might need more stash ali!