Friday Fun day

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.

Remember this?

 

Well I had a great weekend and here are a few photos to prove it.

 

 

Saturday was the Workshop day.

Not working very hard on this photo as we were on a coffee break.

 

Not mine but good examples of some of the cards we made.

 If you were around Wednesday you will have seen this already. Some examples of my projects.

 

And a close-up of the dirty pour I did on the Sunday.

And some more examples at the show on Sunday. You can see why they call it a dirty pour Lol!

 

But the end result is lovely!

Some of the ladies doing the 'Make and Take'.

And shopping too, what could be better!

 I've been a bit busy with other stuff too but also managed to do a bit more on the Hare.

 

And if that's not enough I won these on the 'That's Crafty Challenge' and they arrived this week so more fun to follow there.

So that's about it for now. 

 

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

Friday Fun Day.

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.

I had a great time at Newark last Saturday and Sunday.
On Saturday I went to a great workshop organised by Oyster Stamps.

Iliana from Sweet Petunia gave a great workshop using the Misti stamping tool, not only that but we received a free goody bag! and free stamps.
The workshops that Oyster organise are always good value and it's so nice to have other people to craft with.

So here goes a few photos from the day.

 

This is Iliana who invented the Misti.

 And the lovely Barbara.

 

My desk for the day. 

 

 

Misti in action and yes it should be pink but the sun has faded mine not that it makes any difference to the way it performs.

 

 All done and ready for colouring in.

 

This was just another way to use the Misti.

Wonder if you know who this lady is???

Some of you will know here by all the gorgeous die cuts she uses on her cards.

 

Then we went on to using the corners.

Sample cards using the techniques:

 

 On Sunday I went back for the sales day.

 

 I so love this company from Scotland, Stampers Grove.

They just sell all the stuff I love and it's well worth having a look at them on line here.

 

 

 Ooooh...Paper Artsy stamps...lovely!

 

Loving the sample cards too.

 

Hope to see them again sometime.

 

Of course I managed to buy a few things elsewhere too Lol!

Now all that has got to make you smile, it did me!

 

And this Sunday I'm off to the Doncaster Dome for another craft show, can't wait!

 

Hope you have a great weekend too and

 thanks for stopping by.

 

By the way did you guess who my crafty friend was?

Her blog is here:

If you guessed you will already know what great cards she makes and if you didn't you are in for a treat!

 

 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.

This weekend I was lucky enough to attend a great workshop with a lovely lady called Barbara who demonstrates and teaches for Oyster Stamps.
The theme of the workshop was Masterboards which you all know I love but we can all learn something new.

Here is card No.1:

 

The background is cut from the Masterboard into nine squares and the butterfly was a Tim Holtz die, cut twice once on the Masterboard and once on vellum. The vellum was embossed and then the two layered together and attached to the card. The sentiment is also stamped and embossed onto vellum.

I completed the card with pink and black gems.

 

The Masterboard was made by applying gesso through some Tim Holtz stencils then adding colour using distress inks. We applied more ink through the stencils and then rubbed away the ink from the Gesso to reveal the detail.

 

At this stage the Masterboard is ready to be cut as required.

 

Card No. 2:

So Love this. Seth Apter stamps and dies, Tim Holtz dies and stamps and finished with Prima clear pebbles.

 

 

And finally for the last twenty Five minutes Barbara asked us to make another card with the left-overs and this is what I made.

I so love those Seth Apter stamps and dies and used those for the circles. The sentiment is actually stamped on the waste piece that you get when using the circle die. Finally added brads and gems to complete the card.

 

Card No. 3:

 

So that's your lot!

Other than... Here is Barbara being her usual self.

 

 

We love you Barbara and thank you very much for a great day.

 

Angela x

 

I would like to enter in the following Challenges:

 

Cuttlebug Mania: Butterlies

Stamping Sensations: May Challenge "Anything Goes"

Country View Challenges: May - "Use a Stencil"

Mixed Media Monthly # 24 Butterflies and Blooms

 

That's Crafty Challenge Blog: "Go Figure"

 

Friday Fun Day.

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

My Friday Fun Day this week took place last weekend so I hope you don't mind that it was rather earlier in the week. It was such a good day with so many lovely people that I just have to celebrate it.

So Saturday I joined a group of ladies at the Newark Showground for a great workshop run by Oyster Stamps.

The workshop was Finnabair style and the tutor was Barbara Nicholson from Prima.

And this is what we made.
I have tried to take photographs but as I am sure you will understand I was just a bit busy Lol!

Just a few first to start of the day:

Here are the ladies and gentlemen arriving, the building looks a bit sad at the moment as they are about to give it a Make-over.

 

And here's Rob the MDF Man.

 These are the bits and pieces we started off with including the cuppa, naturally!

We started by ripping up the page from an old book and sticking this onto the canvas in a random fashion.

 

Here's Barbara doing her last minute check that everyone's got their stuff ready to start.

 

Sorry Barbara, caught her unawares that time!

 

And so to work.

 

The next stage was to add some texture paste through a stencil.

Just love the Prima stencils.

 

Next add a few embellishment such as lace, buttons, metal stuff and we also used the glue gun to make some gorgeous blobby things which you can see top left and bottom right.

Now paint all over this with Gesso.

Which then takes on to the colouring stuff.

 

I chose to use a lovely delicate lilac which is a bit difficult to see, a gorgeous red and a certain amount of black.

 

The golden colour was added by the means of mica powder.

Here we are still working away and having a lovely time!

 

And here 's my friend Elizabeth with her new friend Ann.

It's lovely how many new friends you  make at these things.

Happy smile there from Elizabeth.

 

And this is more or less where I got up to and it's all ready for the photograph to be added.

 

These are just a few of the photographs I managed to take during the workshop.

 

And now!!!!

Drum Role Please!!!!!

 

My finished piece. Taa Daaa!....

 

(Well! finished for the time being Lol!)

 

Hope you like it.

 

 

 

 

 

Hope you enjoyed looking and thanks for stopping by.

 

Happy crafting,

Angela x



If you would like to see what others have been doing this week visit Annie for "This Week's Smiles" and you can share their smiles too.