Masterboard Monday review of 2023

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

We're coming to the end of the review of 

2023.

And here are a few cards which haven't been included so far.

Some are my favourite fold cards.

Some are made using free papers from magazines.

Some of my favourite stamps from 2023.

Couldn't go without some favourite Kate Crane stamps and these gorgeous Materboard background layers.

Floating balloon dogs.

oo0oo

And another interactive card using papers by Craft O'Clock.

These are so much fun to make and receive.

And a pop out card too.

I realised too that the only piece of assemblege art last year was this one:

Resin Octopus, bottles, light bulbs,

sea creatures and netting off my supermarket oranges.

Must sort that out this year so watch this space.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting. 

You can expect to see something new pretty soon.

Angela x

Masterboard Monday review 2023.

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

More views of what I got up to last year here today.

I love this technique for making Masterboards and will almost certainly be using it again.

I'm calling it Grid Masterboards.

This was a combination of stamping, smoching and free drawing.

I stamped directly onto the card blank before adding pieces of the Materboard as the focal image.

Just add a sentiment and you have a lots of great cards.

 I used some really old, half forgotten wood mounted stamps which is even better.

Now this technique can be used with any colours you like so I have another one here for you with much brighter colours.

And you can apply the tape in diffierent places to alter the size and shape of the finished pieces.

These were done with Kate Crane stamps and Carabelle stencils.

One of my favourite stamps by Kate has to be the Balloon Dog.

And so it appeared again and again on my cards.

I think that's enough for today but more to follow soon.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

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