Masterboard Monday Review 2023.

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

I always like to look back at this time of the year. I like to remember what I got up to last year and yes! it gives me some ideas to get the New Year started too!

But before I start I would like to wish you all a very Happy New Year.

January is named after the Roman God Janus who had two faces, one always looks back and one always looks forward and as this is my birthday month it makes sense for me to follow his lead.

So here I am to start it off.......

This Masterboard was done with Lavinia stamps and stencils

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Retiform has always been one of my favourites for Masterboards but obviously you can do it on smaller pieces of card too.

I've also used a Lavinia stamp to create the embellishment for the front and fussy cut that before attaching it.

And if you have any bits left over don't waste them just make another card!

I'll be back soon with more while I decide how to get started with the New Year projects.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

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 this Masterboard:

I make no apologies that you are seeing this Masterboard again. 

I had some small pieces left-over from another card project and we all hate to waste card with such a great pattern so I used it to make a simple card which only needs small pieces and some form of decoration.

I had already stamped, coloured and fussy cut some of the characters which I would later use to add detail to the card.

So here goes.

• Simply cut two pieces of Masterboard and attach them to the card blank. 
• Take a piece of white card and cut to size then tear along it's length and attach over the masterboard pieces.
• Cut a narrow strip of the white card and edge with an appropriate colour of ink and add a sentiment then attach to the card.
• Colour and fussy cut your chosen character. I added Stickles Glitter Glue to the hat, buttons and created a few snow drops too.

If you look closely you will see that I've added some Goggly Eyes too which I had forgotten I even still had but I think they work really well. 

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

Masterboard Monday.

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

I am here today to show you cards made with this Masterboard:

I haven't done any Retiform for a while so thought I'd have a play.

(If you haven't done this before you can find the instructions here:)

I love it especially when you have sets of stamps and stencils, you have no excuse now for not using that odd one in the set that hasn't seen the light of day.

All finished!

This is a combination of Aall and Create stamps and stencils with Distress Oxides.

I needed some small note cards and these are the first two. 

I cut the Masterboard to size and edged it with a matching coloured ink and attached it to the card blank.

I think this looks good without anything else added other than the sentiment.

However, I decided to try something a bit different with this one and die cut some circles which I applied over the design.

Finished both of these with a Altenew sentiment stamp and some Stickles Glitter glue.

You can decide which you like best, it's up to you but I think that die could have other posibilities too.

You may get to see some more of these as I need to send out a message to some members of the family and these simply made cards are perfect.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

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 using the Retiform technique:

I love the retiform technique and use it a lot.

I often prep. the backgrounds on A3 card in different colours and then they are ready to use later to add the detail.

These stamps were free with a magazine and had lots of images relating to crafts including the sentiment so it was easy to put together.

I wanted a masculine card but needed to relate it too crafting.

I think it worked but what do you think?

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

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 today's Masterboard:

This was just the start.

Retiform design and colour nice and bright.

I don't normally work as bright as this but we'll see how it goes.

These are stamps by Kate Crane which I thought might work well to develop the background.

 

So started here continuing the Retiform style.

Next stage:

More Kate Crane stamps and stencils.

Inks are Distress Oxides by Tim Holtz.

I've also had a little play with this Masterboard on Picasa. 

It's very simple to use and is so much fun.

As I use A3 card for my Masterboards I scan both sides.

They all end up quite different and there's loads more techniques to try with it.

I used the design above to make today's card and of course it means I still have the Masterboard to play with.

When you look at the finish on this one it's difficult to believe it's the same piece.

I've used one of the stamps to cover the card blank and then added a small shaped piece of the Masterboard.

The fish is by Kate Crane and the sentiment by AALL and Create and is called 'Sharp Tongues'.

Of course I couldn't resist adding something to the inside and it's another of Kate's fish with some tiny hearts which is a stamp by Studio Light.

Hope you like it.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

WOYWW -731- 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!

Not really done much this week as I've been made up with cold but managed a bit of stamping as I'm working on a new Masterboard.

Just colour so far, more detail to follow hopefully.

I'm going to be using these Kate Crane stamps for the next stage.

Hopefully you will get to see this completed soon, maybe even a card you never know!

And finally this lovely set from Neet.

Beautiful ATCs and heartfelt words.

Hope my dear friend is feeling much better xXx

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 - 719 - 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!

 

Working on Easter cards mostly.

 

 

Lavinia Stamps used on this. Some of you will have seen this already, it's a Retiform masterboard.

 

And this was Monday's card.

 

Easy to make and only uses a small amount of the Masterboard.

 

Needed a male style card too so another Retiform Masterboard and a piece from an earlier piece to create this.

 

Please be ready for a mess next week as I feel like it's time to get my hands dirty again!

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

Review of Masterboards from 2022

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

 As my birthday is in January maybe that's why I like to look back at last year's projects while thinking about where to go in the New Year.

January is named after Janus the God of Gates and Doors who has two faces so he can look both forward and backwards. I guess I must take after him.

So I'm here again to show you some cards and Masterboards made last year. 

Hope you like them.

 

 

 

This feels to me like a very clean Masterboard with few colours.

 

 

AALL and Create stamps and stencils.

 

 The following project can be found here if you would like to see how I Made it.

 

One of my favourite techniques last year was Retiform it's so much fun to do and encourages you to get those stamps out.

 

I so love an accordion book too.

 

 You hardly need much more detail with a retiform design.

This one was done on A3 card.

There is so much you can do with a Masterboard.

 

 

I cannot resist stamping round the back of a card.

 

 

Lavinia Stamps to make an Easter Retiform Masterboard and cards.

 

I had lots of fun making these.

But we can't forget the Birthday cards too.

 

AALL and Create stamps, dies and stencils.

 

Simple embellishments for the card blank and then add the Masterboard piece.

 

 

And if you have any small pieces left over just cut them up and position on the card layering them with some matching card.

I'm sure there will be more Retiform this year but I'm thinking maybe more colour and brighter, vibrant as these are very delicate and subtle so we'll see.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

WOYWW - 669 - 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!

Not my usual desk!

This was actually Saturday but since then not been doing too much, though I have finished one card using the Masterboard I made on Saturday.

So here you can see the necessary coffee cup, stamp pads, camera case, sticky notes, blending tool and A3 card all ready for the start of the class technique and over to the left the Retiform samples. 

I did a class at the Craft Club on Saturday using this technique and this is the Masterboard I made for the sample.

And card no.1.

A small piece was used to complete the inside too.

Samples that some of the ladies made next.

So pleased they enjoyed the technique as much as I do.

And here is one of the ladies at work.

I'm sure I'll be back to my usual desk next week.

Hope you will excuse me for using a different desk today.

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