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.

One of my favourite things last Saturday at the Craft Club.

Good turn out as usual and here you can see my desk, slightly more tidy than the one I normally use!

Packets of spare card, Tim Hpltz Watercolour pencils, scissors, trimmer and my little fabric bin bag all ready for the fun to begin oh! and a cup of coffee obviously!

We were using a stamp by Indigo Blu. 

Stamped two images and cut sections off one of them to create the depth.

I created a couple of these cards, playing around with different colours and configuration. 

we also cut a border which was raised by the use of 3D tape.

You may well see me come back to these again for another play.

I also made these on Tuesday ready for the Halloween visitors, scrummy.....

We didn't have too many visitors so hubby was happy as there were more for him!

The same day we were walking the dogs in the park and thought we saw a large brown dog walking in front of us until we got closer and realised it was a Muntjac deer.

Sadly I wasn't quick enough to photograph it before in ran off. 

If you've never seen one this is what they look like:

We are seeing these more and more around Lincoln.

Going to finish there but a bit of Schnauzer knowledge.

Here are a few famous people who have had these dogs.

Clark Gable

Errol Flynn

George W. Bush

Liza Minnelli

Mary Tyler-Moore

Simon Pegg

Just look at those faces, they know who's important in this photograph Lol!

There are lots more but think that's enough for you to see how popular schnauzers are.

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

Masterboard Monday.

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

I am here today to show you a card made with one of these Masterboards:

There are a variety of projects that I made earlier from this collection which you can see here:, here: and here: . 

When I use the Gelli plates I tend to get a bit carried away so there's always plenty to play with.

So here's a couple more cards I've made and hope you like them.

 

 I can't resist texture so I started by adding white crackle paste through a gorgeous Dina Wakley stencil onto the black card blank and the Masterboard.

The white crackle paste really pops out but you could add colour to this too if you prefered.

Then layered up a small section of the Masterboard on card and added a Birthday sentiment.

I played around with the positioning of the layered pieces before attaching them to the background.

I've not added anything else to these cards as the Masterboard detail is enough without any further embellishments.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

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

We Love 2 Create - Challenge 10 Anything Goes Mixed Media challenges.

Crafty Catz - 523 - Anthing Goes.

Sisterhood of Craftrs - Lots of layers.

Masterboard 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:

 

As Autumn is on it's way I thought something with colours to match might be nice.

 

I already had a collection of papers coloured with Distress Oxides. Whenever making Masterboards I usually colour a few extra sheets of card or paper ready for the next project or just in case I need extra but this seems like a rather large collection! So time to use some of it I think.

 

Added detail to the colour using Tim Holtz stencils and more Oxides.

Next to the stamping.

 

 

Using Paper Artsy stamps.

 And the final Masterboard ready for the next stage. This was an A4 sheet of water colour paper so plenty to go on.

 

Using Kraft Card blank and cut the Masterboard to make the background layers.

 

 

Stamping next on a sheet of this.

 

With these.

So love these stamps especially the moth.

 

And coloured with Oxides after heat embossing.

 

 

Next used another Paper Artsy stamp to decorate the front section.

I make no apologies for the mess on my Misti Lol!

 

Love these little dies which are really useful on cards.

I used some of the Kraft card to cut these and added a little Oxide ink to them using a blending tool.

 

And at last here is the finished card.

 

I glazed the shell on the snail added gems and sentiments to complete the card.

 

 I would love to hear your comments.

 

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

 

Angela x

 

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

Stamping Sensations: August challenge - 'Current Favourite Stamp'

My Time to Craft Challenge#377 More than One Fold.

Alphabet Challenge blog: Challenge 'K is for Kraft Card'

 

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge 215 - 'Dies and Punches'.

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 to use At least Two Dies/Punches or One of Each!

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:

 

Two dies? well actually I ended up using six would you believe!

 

 

I started with these three.

The border dies are by Sue Wilson and the centre image by Clarity Stamps.

 

I used an A4 sheet of watercolour paper which had been coloured earlier with Distress Oxides and then added a Bokeh design using a Dutch Doobadoo stencil.

 I used a blue card to die cut the images and borders and attached them to a square of the water coloured paper.

 

To complete the card I added a die cut butterfly and sentiment by Tim Holtz, various gems, a brad and ribbon.

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

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #180 New Beginnings.

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.

Jan is hosting our first challenge for the new Year and it's New Beginnings, which could relate to babies, relationships, resolutions, it's up to you.

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!

For this project I decided to make a New Home card as I believe I may need one soon.
I wanted to use up some pieces of Masterboards and mop up papers and card, so collected together a variety of colours and textures.

 

I then stamped on these with some house stamps from Paper Artsy.

 

Cut out the houses ready to attach them to my backing card.

And punched out some birds using black card.

 

I had this A4 piece of card which I had cleaned one of my brayers on (hate to waste good paint Lol!) and used this for the background.

 

 

I added some extra texture and details using a Tim Holts dotty stencil to add more colour and brick stencil to add cracking gel medium.

 

 

When the card was completely dry I added the details to it.

The birds and the houses were added and I cut out parts of the hose to collage the pieces and then completed the card with Stickles Glitter Glue.

 

 

 All I have to do now is wait for them to move house, I have my fingers crossed but for now:

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 and hope you like my card.

 

 Happy crafting.

Angela x

Masterboard Monday # Crafty Cardmakers Challenge 159.

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.

The theme for this challenge is 'Go Green' so here goes.
Another masterboard?....yes!

So here is the card I made.

 

Lots of green here.

 

I have used this handmade background paper before and this was a small piece I had left over which had various shades of Green. "Waste Not Want Not" as they say!

 

 The large butterfly die was Spellbinders.

The text, a Tim Holtz thin die and I used a green satin card with this.

The embossing folder is Darice.

The green ribbon was a piece I removed from a birthday cake so not only is the ribbon green but it's repurposed too.

 

I like my cards to have movement, layers and dimension but at the same time fit into an envelope and this works perfectly as the butterfly will lay flat but also stand out.

I hope you will pop over to see what my team mates have been making and also to 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:

 

Simply Create Too Challenge Blog # 104: "Use Green Only"
Eclectic Ellapu March Challenge: Flora and Fauna.
Frilly and Funky "Layer it Up" Challenge.

Masterboard Card Ideas

Hi Blogging Buddies,  following my post on Wednesday I decided to use the background paper I made using the Art Quest Mica Paints and this is the result.
This is the Masterboard as seen on Wednesday, instructions for making it are to be found on the posting.

 

I decided to stamp my chosen focal point onto Vellum and then heat embossed the image.

This stamp is from the 'Taste of India' set by Sheena Douglas.

 

You can see from above that I have highlighted sections of the flower. This is done by turning the vellum over and with a ballpoint tool, rub the area very gently as too much pressure could make a hole.

This causes the vellum to turn white which can clearly be seen on the right side.

 

I also stamped a birthday sentiment and heat embossed it.

Next, I matted and layered the flower and the background paper with blue and gold card, reflecting colours from the Masterboard which are slightly visible under the vellum.

I added ribbon, brads and gems to complete the design.

 

Just thought I would show you this.

As the background paper was so nice I have only attached the brads at the top so that the vellum lifts to reveal the colours beneath.

 

And finally a close-up of the flower which also shows the positioning of the gems.

 

 

I shall definitely be making this background effect again.

 

Hope you liked it too.

 

Happy Crafting,

Angela x