WOYWW - 662 - 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!

Been working with resin recently so I'm in the cabin today which is why you're seeing a different desk.

This is without doubt my peaceful space.

In case you're wondering the suitcase holds large sheets of cardboard saved from the bin.

I've been making Geode style Coasters among other things.

These are a few of the finished ones so we're back on my usual desk again.

A couple of examples. 

These will need time to cure completely before they can be used to hold hot cups.

I so enjoy playing with the resin.

I have finished the concertina book.

and details can be found here: with lots more photographs.

Lots to see but hope that was quick enough as you have lots of others to visit.

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

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.

Back to the Craft Club last Saturday. 

As you can see we are still ensuring a good distance between the tables.

I decided this was a good chance to finish the concertina book that I'd been working on.

Details will follow on Monday.

Walks in the park obviously and the path around the fountain is back in use again.

The crazy paving is much safer now and looking good.

However this made me smile a bit but not in a good way.

I couldn't understand why they had put these picnic tables in a hollow where the land sinks down and this week they came and dug them out again.

It took all this lot to do it.

I don't understand why they didn't do the job right in the first place.

Quick update on the Amaryllis.

Looks like we'll have some flowers soon.

Other than that Stan went to the vet's Thursday for a scan and we are waiting for some results of some other tests but so far everything is clear.

And of course I've spent some time in the cabin, been busy making resin Geodes and Paper Weights, photos to follow soon.

Any way dog funnies next.

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 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.

Angela x

The Artistic Stamper Guest Designer.

Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.
So pleased to have been asked to be a guest designer for one month over at The Artistic Stamper and to show you the project I've made.
The Challenge theme for this month is Retro and I hope you will pop over and join in.

Lots of lovely Artistic Stamper stamps.

For this project I've made a Concertina Book.

Here you can see the front and back covers.

And just in case the recipient wants to add a few notes I've made some journaling pages for the back.

And lots of fun pages for the inside. 

As a retired Textiles teacher I really enjoyed using these stamps.

Added a little pocket and journaling tag.

Couldn't resist having a play with the stitches too.

And so to the process of making the Masterboards. 

No.1

Smooshed some colour on to an A3 sheet of card.

Love this lacy stamp to add interest to the design.

I just added it by dabbing it in places. If you roll up the edges and then stamp you wont get any lines appearing.

I stamped and heat embossed some of the button stamps then carried on adding colour and more lace stamping to complete the design.

NO. 2

I used a ghosting technique for this masterboard by stamping and heat embossing the sewing machine stamp and then adding colour with a blending tool.

As you add more colour and stamping it becomes easier to see the images.

When it's complete iron off the embossing and the design comes to life.

At this stage I joined the envelopes together to make the concertina.

I've used some real lace on the design which I grunged up a little with ink.

The small pages which were cut up from an A3 sheet started as the mop up card and I've used it as part of the layering process. 

And the finished book again all layered up.

The stamps used for this project are:

Tick Tock

Stitches

Journaling Words Set2

Lace Background

Button Border

Dressmaking

Thanks for stopping by and wishing you a happy creative week.
Don't forget to pop over to The Artistic Stamper, I look forward to seeing your designs. 

Angela xXx

Country View Crafts Guest Designer.

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

I am here today to show you a Concertina Book made with.....Yes it's a  Masterboard though I realise it's not Monday! 
This is a little extra this week as I have been asked by Susan at Country View Crafts to be one of their Guest Designers and of course I said yes.

The theme for this month is Texture and I'm sure you will want to pop over and see what the Design Team have come up with and maybe join in the Challenge but first of all I would like to show you what I've made and here it is.

A Concertina Book.

I started with this pretty awful looking mop up card. I can never resist taking a piece of spare card to any left over ink on my craft mat.

So believe me this is not just a piece of mucky paper Lol!

I added more layers of Distress Oxides Sprays to start building up the colours.

And using the same colours in the Distress Ink range I started stamping using text stamps and the base of my glue stick.

More stamping with the circle stamp but keeping the colours within the range because there will be more fun to add later!

This close-up gives you a better idea of the detail so far.

All that lovely Masterboard and what does she do but chops it all up Lol!

 Now the fun begins as I am about to add some Texture you can really feel and see.

I so love this and if you've used Vilene interfacing it's basically the same thing.

Paint it first and then apply heat with your heat gun and watch the magic. 

So much gorgeous bubbling but don't forget to stop before it disintegrates. 

The next type of texture is simple too, just apply crackle glaze through a stencil and leave to dry, love it.

Gorgeous texture!

A few die cut plants and spiders. Some of the ferns were decorated with Nail Art beads which are quite small and very useful.

And a cobweb, love this die. 

Add some embossing ink and powder to the die cut piece then heat it up. I love the finish which is much nicer than just having die cut card.

Now we're ready to start putting everything together.
You may have wondered what the puffy fabric was going to be used for well that's the stone around the edge of my pond and I've applied a gilding sheet to resemble the water fall.

With the inner pages I added some stamping before adding the die cuts. The stamps used here are by Lavinia Stamps.

Then it's just a matter of adding any little extras to complete the design. I included some Glitter glue in places.

At this stage I also added some sentiments which were stamped in black Archival ink and then heat embossed.

For the inner page sentiments I used several Paper Artsy stamp sets.

And the front page, this woodblock stamp by Dovecraft.

I also added some small copper brads along the top of the front page and a small butterfly which I made by stamping a Chocolate Baroque stamp onto shrink plastic, coloured it with felt tip pens and then heated to shrink it.

Just a quick look now at the inner pages where I added little extras to complete the design such as Glitter glue and some more shrink plastic charms. 

My dear friend Diana Taylor made some ATCs with a similar theme and it tempted me to make this concertina book.

If you've never seen her blog you are missing a treat and can find her here.

I hope you've enjoyed watching me make this and please do pop over to see what the DT have come up with for this challenge.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x