Masterboard Monday Review of 2023.

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

I am here today to show you another project from last year made with this Masterboard:

Those of you who follow me regularly will know how much I love making Retiform designs.

It's slightly different doing this on an A3 sheet of card but if you find it too much you can do this on smaller card too but when using a technique to make cards I like to use A3 so there's plenty to play with later.

And once that's completed you're ready to add the detail using stamps and stencils.

I used some Carabelle stamps by Kate Crane here.

I think I love this stage as much as making the cards.

And when that's completed what next?

Look closely, the one on the right has different colours.

And yet more.

I scan the original Masterboard and then put it onto Picasa which is a photo editing program and allows you to alter colours too.

And when you've played with that, the card is next.

More Carabelle and Kate Crane stamps.

This was one I made for Christmas which just shows how adaptable they are.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

Masterboard Monday review 2023.

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

More views of what I got up to last year here today.

I love this technique for making Masterboards and will almost certainly be using it again.

I'm calling it Grid Masterboards.

This was a combination of stamping, smoching and free drawing.

I stamped directly onto the card blank before adding pieces of the Materboard as the focal image.

Just add a sentiment and you have a lots of great cards.

 I used some really old, half forgotten wood mounted stamps which is even better.

Now this technique can be used with any colours you like so I have another one here for you with much brighter colours.

And you can apply the tape in diffierent places to alter the size and shape of the finished pieces.

These were done with Kate Crane stamps and Carabelle stencils.

One of my favourite stamps by Kate has to be the Balloon Dog.

And so it appeared again and again on my cards.

I think that's enough for today but more to follow soon.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

WOYWW -756 - 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 the 
Stamping Ground, our host Julia will explain.

So here is my desk for today!

New stamps and stencils Yipee! and all my blending tools waiting in the background too.

I make no apologies for showing this Masterboard again but I am up to the quick cards now and this is the first one of this type I've made all using Kate Crane stamps.

I have explained how I put this together on my Monday post if you are interested.

And this was my desk on Saturday at the Craft Club and yes I actually made all these cards though I had cut everyhthing out at the ready before going.

You may notice that they are the same layout as the snowman card.

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

WOYWW - 736 - 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 the 
Stamping Ground, our host Julia will explain.

So here is my desk for today!

Hope you're all having a good week.

The exploding boxes are looking good, quite tidy for a change, other than that not much change on the desk as we've been a bit occupied with stuff for my mother.

A few more Gel plate cards that I'm planning to use next but need to add some stamped detail first.

A few new sentiment stamp collections and one stamp relating to the sea though I don't know what I will be doing with it but I noticed it when ordering the others and liked the look of it so we'll see. 

I have another card to show you.....

Kate Crane stamps. 

The balloon dogs are floating today and if you are interested there are details on my Monday Masterboard post here: this is a fun card to make.

So that's me done for today.

I'm off to the Crafting Live at Doncaster at the weekend so might have something interesting to show you next week.

 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

Use it or Lose it.

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

I am here today to show you a new journal page. Now this is the second journal page this month! I can't promise I will keep this up but we'll see.

I bought these Arteza brush pens before Christmas and this is the only second time I've got them out so I need to use them right!

I applied the colours around the page and then sprayed the surface with water to make the colours move. I love the way they blends together and leave a lovely feathery edge.

 

This must be one of the quickest journal pages I've made by using this stamp....

 

I finished the design with white scribbles and spots of Stickles Glitter glue then added the sentiment from a set by Studio Light.

 

I have several stamps like this which have hardly been used and they are perfect for journal pages so might try this technique again soon.

And that's your lot.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge - 'Water'

Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.
Hi! back again to tell you that it's time for another challenge over
at Crafty Cardmakers.

  Josephine is hosting today and our challenge is 'Water'.

As usual you can enter anything you fancy, it doesn't have to be cards, as long as it meets the challenge.

Hope you will join in.
And here is my project for the challenge:

 

I used a Michael Powell stamp with black ink and heat embossed this then coloured the images using watercolour pencils.

The background was a piece of waste card that I had stamped onto when making an earlier project and thought it might be useful as a background for this 'Water' based theme as it looks a little like bubbles.

The stamp by the way is by 'Carabelle Studio' and it's called 'Circles and

Dots'.

 

 

I always find when working on a project rather than cleaning a stamp, it's worth stamping onto a piece of spare card. This nearly always comes in useful for another design and often will inspire a project particularly when you are stuck for an idea which I know all about Lol!.

 

I also decided to add some die cut clouds, Seagulls and a text stamp.

 

 

I've placed this final photograph slightly sideways and you can see the design is quite flat so good for posting.

 I hope you will pop over to see what the rest of the DT have been up to and maybe join in the challenge.

I look forward to seeing what you come up with too.

 Happy crafty card making.

Angela x

I would like to enter this card in the following Challenges:
Make My Monday Challenge # 68 'Things with Wings'
Allsorts Challenge blog - 'Be there or Be Square'.
 

Happy Valentine's Day.

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

Just a quick post today and a quick card too!
Been a bit busy trying to catch up with stuff and made this card in about half an hour but don't tell him that Lol!

Happy Valentine's Day to you all.

 

So love this stamp by Carabelle-studio, I thought it was time I used it as it's new but not got round to doing anything with it up to now so here goes.

Stamped it in black and then heat embossed it with clear embossing powder to make it stand out. I made the border with one of my favourite Stitches and Dots by Crescendoh Stamps.

 

The Sentiment die is by Frantic Stamper Inc.

The colour is Cosmic Shimmer Pixie Powders - Lava Red.

The heart dies are by Sara Davies and I finished it off with some yellow Stickles Glitter Glue.

 

Hope you have a lovely Valentines Day

whatever you choose to do.

 

Angela xXx

 

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Allsorts Challenge - Week 402 Hearts and/or Flowers.

That's Crafty - I Heart You Challenge.

Country View Challenges - Feb 2017 Time Challenge 30 mins or under.

Come and Get It Challenges - Love Is In the Air.

Simply Create Too Challenge - Ch. 124 Love.

SanDee and amelie's Steampunk Challenge - New Stash /Forgotten Stash.

Creative Card Blanche: February - Love is in the Air.

 

 

Back to the Craft Barn with Carabelle Studios.

Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.
Hi everyone just here to let you know this is another project for the Craft Barn and it's now live.

Been working on a greetings card using a Carabelle stamp set this week and here it is, if you would like to see details of how I made it then pop over to The Craft Barn for full details.

I would love to hear what you think about my project and any comments will be gratefully received.

Happy crafting,

 

Angela xXx

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Allsorts challenge blog: week 401 Paper Piecing (which is the technique I've used for the main image).

Crafty Cardmakers Challenges #177- Embossing Dry or Heat.

Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.
Hi! back again to tell you that it's time for another challenge over
at Crafty Cardmakers.

Jackie is hosting today and our challenge is Embossing which can be either dry or heat.

As usual you can enter anything you fancy, it doesn't have to just be cards, as long as it meets the challenge, and doesn't exceed the 15 total challenges entered rule! 

Hope you will pop over and join in.
And here is my project for the challenge:

To complete this project I used the mop up card from these Masterboards.

 

To begin with I stamped the snowflakes and the tap using stamps by Stampendous (snowflakes) and Carabelle Studio (Tap).

 

 

 

 

Coloured in lots of crazy birds as I will need more of these later

 

and used some left over paper to punch out snowflakes.

 

Preparing sentiments ready for the big push on Christmas cards.

 

Next was to do the snowflake embossing and the rubbed over this with a blending tool and distress ink.

The punch is another that I used to make the snowflakes which were added after the embossing was complete.

 

 

I edged the design with distress ink, layered it with red and green card and then mounted it onto a black card blank.

To complete the card I added the 'ho ho ho' stamp by Tim Holtz, a little ribbon, glazed the tap and gave the bird a nice Christmas hat.

 

I realise this is not your typical Christmas card so let me know what you think.

 

I hope you will pop over to see what the rest of the DT have been up to and maybe join in the challenge.

I look forward to seeing what you come up with.

 Happy crafty card making.

Angela x

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:
Allsorts weekly challenge blog: Week 389# Feature a Creature.
52 Christmas Card Throwdown: Colour challenge-Lime Green and Real Red.

Cards for Galz: Challenge # 35 A Contemporary Christmas.

Christmas at Sweet Stampin' Challenge Blog: Anything Christmas Goes.

Stamping Sensations: November - Christmas Greetings

Christmas Card Challenges: Challenge # 48.