Friday 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.

Still very cold here and we've got fog instead.

 

This was the trip to mum's, very frosty.

 

But much warmer here when we visited the next garden centre.

Those guys above were rats....Christmas rats!

 

Now we could really scare the Herons off with that guy Lol!

 

How cute are these.

 

And another crazy bird. 

He was singing and reciting poetry.

 

The cafe was nice and not too busy either though I think we had just missed the busy lunch time as they were all on coffee and cake by then.

 

Very comfy seats too.

There is a lovely view through the window, actually it's a gorgeous window too.

Another Schnauzer Christmas tree to start off the funnies.

 

Now what about that for a Christmas present.

 

Very pretty wintery scene.

 

Not sure he looks very happy, maybe he doesn't like wearing that hat Lol!

More post about to be chewed up!

Well that Schnauzers for you.

  Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas 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.

Christmas hugs,

Angela xXx

WOYWW - 654 - 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!

I'm working on the Retiform technique again here. 

I realise there were a few of you that weren't familiar with this so I've made a tutorial if you're interested you can find it here: Masterboard Monday.

This is the kind of effect you should get.

I've tidied the exploding box a little but it looks as though the stuff has just moved to another space!

Just in case you noticed this, it's an ATC.

I stamped this a very long time ago and it just reappeared. The folder is stamped on felt and the ATC is stamped on silk.

And of course I can't leave you without showing my finished Christmas shadow clock.

That was fun to make.

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

Crafty Cardmakers Challenges #178 Anything but a Card.

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.

 Well what do you know! It's my turn to host the challenge for the next two weeks.
Our challenge is Anything But a Card. With Christmas rapidly approaching we feel sure that you will have created something as a decoration or a gift and would love you to share it with us. 

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!

So here is what I came up with:

Using some Left-Over Masterboard, stamped with Paper Artsy JOFY stamp set 06. I started by tearing a piece to fit the brown Craft Bag. A little bit of grunge always works for me Lol!

Next, die cut trees, tags, plants and words ready to start putting the design together.

 

I embossed the tags with a snow drift embossing folder, rubbed over this with Treasure Gold Gilding Wax in silver and edged everything with black distress ink.

 

Once everything was dry I mounted these on the bag.

 

The trees were attached with my hot glue gun to make them stand out and giving dimension to the design.

 

I completed this by adding a metal star, bows, ribbon and a small tag with Christmas tree attached.

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 project in the following challenges:

Emerald Creek Dares: "Heartfelt Freedom and Festivities" Pt2 Anything Goes.
Addicted to Stamps: Challenge 136 - Die cuts and /or Punches. (with a stamp)
Allsorts challenge blog: Week 391-Anything Christmas.
4 Crafty Chicks Challenge blog: 4CC# 326 Winter Wonderland.
Simon Says Stamp: Christmas to Die for.
That's Crafty! Challenge Blog: All Grungy Challenge.
Stamps and Stencils: Tags, Bags and Boxes.

That Craft Place Challenge.

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

And here is my new design for :
That Craft Place Challenge Blog.

As usual this fortnight's theme is:
Mixed Media Anything Goes!
So lets see what you can come up with!

But before you start here is the piece I made.

I had two oval pieces of MDF from That Craft Place and have been trying to decide how to use them. 

Now I did have a play around with them, like you do Lol!

I had an idea in mind but was just not sure about how I wanted to move forward with this one so:

I turned them this way....

And I turned them this way.....

And again...

Until I found a way that I liked them.

And this is where it took me!

I started by painting the back and edges with black paint and then attaching some spotty paper by DoCrafts to the front (available at 

That Craft Place here and here).

I lay the paper on, smooth it down and when it's well attached I sand along the top sides which leaves a nice clean edge.

Next I used a snowflake stencil and Weathered Wood Distress Ink and then the same stencil with silver embossing paste. When all this was completely dry I rubbed over it with more distress ink this time Chipped Sapphire.

 Next job was to die cut the snowflakes.

I cut some of these in more of the spotty card and some in a satin card.

And we are ready for the construction.

I used my Dremel multi tool to make holes in the MDF and then threaded in a nice stripy ribbon.

Mounted the large snowflakes together and finished them with a shiny embellishment.

Now everything is ready to put together.

Quite a grungy Christmas decoration especially as I decided there wasn't enough snow this year so I used the new Tim Holtz splatter brush to add some white paint to give the effect.

I hope you enjoyed watching me make this and it would be great if you could leave me a comment and then pop over and see what the other DT members have been making and maybe join in the challenge too at:

That Craft Place Challenge Blog.

Many thanks for your comments

and

happy crafting,

Angela x

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

Stamps and Stencils Grungy Christmas Projects.

Sunday Stamper - Week 369 - Merry Christmas Everybody.

WOYWW 290# What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday.

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

Hi Workdesk friends.
Back again for another Wednesday.

Angela here 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 and our dear host Julia will explain and all will be revealed.

So here is my desk this week.

Gosh not long now!, bet you are all busy getting ready for tomorrow.

My parents are here today so not much crafting, we are having a forced rest and here is my desk for this week.

I have to say this is a new experience for me as we have not spent Christmas in this country for about 34 years so just hoping I get it right Lol!
I'm sure my mother will be giving me suitable instructions Lol!

I have finished the box and baubles I was making last week so thought I would show you those as so many people have asked about them.

 

If you would like more detail it is here.

 

Well nice and quick I hope.

Right! now I'm off to see what everyone else has been up to.

Hope you will visit them too.

Thanks for popping round and have a great week.

Happy WOYWW Christmas to you all,

Angela x

Altered MDF Clock.

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

Hi Blogging friends, Angela here to show you what I've done with one of the Clock blanks from Tando Creative.

 

The first thing I did was to draw round the back section on Christmas paper and cut it out. I also did this with the front section too.

 

Here they are below.

 

                 

 

I used various equipment to trim and smooth the edges.

 

I also applied crackle paint to the section at the top and text embossing with texture paste.

I gently rubbed over the grunge paste when dry with gold embossing paste, not too much as I wanted some of the white to show.

 

Next I added the embellishments to complete the design.

Most of these were made using dies and were then attached with glue.

 

This is the clock with the mechanism attached,

 

and close-ups.

 

Looks great with the clock mechanism attached.

 

It also has stickles glue and glaze to finish it off and a few crystal gems.

 

Hope you will pop over to The Mirror Crack'd where you will see what my Teamies have made for this challenge.

 

Bye for now and happy crafting,

 

Angela x