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.

Happy days in the garden.

Always a great time of the year when the fish are active and the pond is full of life.

A nice surprise arrived on the doorstep.

 Full of goodies from decoart.

How much fun I am going to have with these.

They are a prize that I won on-line.

It's a great collection.

I have to say they are very generous.

I know that some of you liked my little MG pebble

and this is where the idea came from.

Meet the real Mustard.

 This is her 40th year with us.
She is beautiful to drive but there is no power steering so I have good muscle tone in my arms Lol!
It could have been changed but we've tried to keep her as close as possible to the original spec.

Of course I can't leave you without a little walk round the garden.

The wisteria is flowering again.

The Hydrangea are looking good.

And the beautiful roses.

  I like these but  not sure what they are called.

Apples doing well.

Looks like we will have pears this year now I've netted them.

 Found a few damsons too.

In the park the cygnets are getting bigger everyday though rather ugly at this stage.

Look closely, what does this remind you off?
I'll tell you what I think next week.

 So that's how they do it!

Back again soon.

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

Favourite Steampunk Projects from 2016

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

Hi all.
Over at SanDee and amelie's, Claudia has started the new challenge for us to show off our favourite Steampunk projects from 2016 so just had to enter some of mine and it's nice to look back at your favourite projects so here goes.

 

The steampunk perambulator  can be found here:

 

My favourite Steampunk shrine was made here:

 

Steampunk canvas here.

 

I know that many of my friends will remember seeing these before but it's nice to look back too.

 

Thanks for looking and happy crafting.

 

Angela xXx

 

I would like to enter these projects in the following challenges:

 

SanDee and amelie's Steampunk Challenges: January "My 3 Personal Favourite from 2016" - Steampunk Industrial

That Craft Place Challenge.

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

And here is my fifth design for :
That Craft Place Challenge Blog.

As usual this fortnight's theme is:
Mixed Media Anything Goes!
So can't go wrong there!

And I chose this time to work with tags to make a 3Dimensional wall plaque... at least that was my idea!
I started with these four tags which are available from That Craft Place.

 

And played around for a while with the arrangement as I had decided to stack them.

Next I started the process of decorating the tags.

 

 

I applied grunge paste through a stencil (Cogs-That Craft Place).
I can't resist those Steampunk stencils.

I wanted to try different techniques with the same stencil and here are the results.

The smallest stencil on the left was done using Viva Ferro Golden Green Metalic Effect Colour. 

The next was using sticky embossing powder to which I added Clear Micro Beads and the third one was done with Viva crackle glaze.

The largest tag at the bottom was the one I completed with the Grunge paste.

 

The colours don't matter as I will be painting over these which I have done here with white Gesso.

And then applied metallic paints to the tags.

 This is basically how I plan the finished arrangement should look.

 

So many combinations!

 

Here are some of the mediums I used to make this project.

 

 I added further crackle paste to the design and a little stamping .

 

They all looked so nice that it was very difficult to stack them, covering all that gorgeousness! but plans are plans Lol! so here goes.......

 

Coloured a few embellishments.

 And then set about putting it all together and this is how it looks completed.

 

 

Still not sure about the Angel, she may end up more brassy but she kind of softens the Steampunk theme.

Let me know what you think.

 

 

Hope you enjoyed looking and will pop over and join in the challenge over at

That Craft Place.

 

 

Happy crafting,

 

Angela x

 I will be entering this project in the following challenges:

Sandee and Amelie's Steampunk Challenges - "Tag It"

Altered Eclectics - September Challenge Anything Goes Mixed Media/Altered Art.

Rhedd's Creative Spirit - September's Challenge.

Crafting With Friends - September 7.

Creative Fingers  - Challenge#94
 

Steampunk Challenge for June.

 A big welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.

Hi all my Bloggy friends I am a bit late with this but I have been working on it whilst doing other things but it's finished at last, just in time.
The theme for this month at SanDee and Amelie's is a colour scheme of Blue, Grey and Rust which is why my bird is blue.
I changed my mind completely about what to make half way through the month which slowed me down a bit.
Any way here it is.

 

He started off as a Paper Mache bird and I painted him with Gesso and then added the texture by means of stencils and moulding paste.

The cogs were Tim Holtz dies and these were glued on and paper lace, more Gesso was then added.

 

 

The ball at the base was done in the same way as the top and the stand was covered with masking tape pieces to create the texture.

I painted the ball and base with acrylic paint to begin with and then sprayed it all over with cosmic shimmer sprays.

 

 

 

 

When the bird was dry, I went over it with grey gilding wax to bring out the detail of the cogs and other stencilled shapes.

In some of the lighter areas I dry brushed some of the darker stain on to bring out the detail.

 

I decided it needed something on the head so it has become a cockatiel.

I completed the bird by adding rust coloured skeleton leaves, buttons, metal brads, flowers etc.

Hope you like my little Steampunk birdie.

I think he turned out quite well.

 

I am going to enter him in SanDee and Amelie's Steampunk Challenge for June.

As he also has metal on him I am also going to enter him in Left of Centre Use Metal, Challenge #34.

 

Happy crafting,

Angela x