Make it on Monday.

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

I am here today to show you a collage card with a rotating mechanism, now that's got to be fun!:

I made this as a sample for my dear friend Cindy.

The design was done on a 6" x 6" card blank.

It was a quick card to make as I used some printed paper to cover the card blank then diecut the Tim Holtz cog dies (Sizzix) and used those to decorate the inside.

The front has a few rub-ons by AALL and Create and I used some washi tapes too. 

The whole thing was finished with Stickles Glitter Glue to give it some sparkle.

Hope you like it short and sweet today.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

Make it on Monday.

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

I am here today to show you another page in my Ledger Journal:

Autumnal page today.

I've used some more Lisa Horton inks for this project and some Tim Holtz die cut leaves.

Tim Holtz stamps, spiders and webs.

I darkened the left side of the page to create shadow for the leaves but the colour changing inks also make it glow when in the right direction to the light.

Next attached the leaves which I had coloured earlier.

I've added more diecut insects and a Halloween sentiment.

Stickles Glitter Glue along the webs and part of the insects makes the images stand out.

I've really enjoyed making this one, hope you like it too.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

WOYWW - 856 - 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 Sarah's Craft Shed and our host Sarah will explain.

So here is my desk for today!

I'm working on some C. Cards for a class I'm doing soon for some friends.

For now the desk looks a bit boring.

This is part of a sample I'm preparing for them. I'm sure you'll get to see more of these soon.

If you remember my journal page from last week, this is what it looks like now it's complete.

Details for making this can be found here:

Finally the start of my new page.

Nearly forgot, we made these at the Craft club on Saturday, so cute or what?

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 - 853 - 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 Sarah's Craft Shed and our host Sarah will explain.

So here is my desk for today!

The exploding box looks almost tidy today!

I managed to complete the Ledger Page too with some old Tim Holtz dies.

Information for this can be found here:

I'm hoping to complete this page soon.

Supplies needed for the journal page.

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

Make it on Monday.

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

I am here today to show you a  new Ledger journal page:

I made the background with two stencils, an Altenew for the water, one for the Sea Urchins and two colours of Distress Oxide inks then finished with Stickles Glitter Glue.

 It took me some time to decide what the focal image would be and then remembered some old dies by Tim Holtz.

I must have had these for ages but they work really well with this background. I think these dies are available again now as Thinlits.

I've cut the Urchins with Kraft card and then added Distress inks by smooshing and splatters then darkening the edges with a blending brush. 

The Seahorse was white card and colours of distress inks, crackle graze and Stickles Glitter Glue.

Finished with a sentiment.

I'm pleased that's finished as I have other things to come soon.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

Masterboard Monday 'Use it or Lose It'.

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

I am here today to show you some new Collage Masterboard Grids:

I have had this book for far too long and it needs to be used so today I'm creating collage grids by adding pages from the book. Some are complete pages and some are torn pieces.

Although these are not like my usual Masterboards which are normally A3 they serve the same purpose as being backgrounds for various images and sentiments. Instead of one large sheet they are divided into grids suitable sizes for the cards and journal pages.

These were Layered up with sheets from the mats and stamping, splashes of paint and stencilling.

Next I looked for something to use as the focal image. These are some old die cut frames by Seth Apter and the birds are by Tim Holtz.

To finish this I highlighted the edges of the birds a little with a Uni Ball white pen.

I love these die cut birds they just fit in so well with the style I like.

I can just imagine the birds sat there looking into the distance.

There is a likelihood that some of these will be used on cards at some time but for now they are staying in the journal.

Hope you like those as much as I do, they were fun to make and I'm sure to be back here again soon.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

WOYWW - 808 - What's On Your Workdesk Wednesdasy.

   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 Sarah's Craft Shed and our host Sarah will explain.
So here is my desk for today!

Still working on the Christmas cards.

The card above is a new Masterboard and the snowflake is by Colorado Craft Company, if you like it there are details relating to this on the monday post here:

I decided to have a little rest from the batch making cards and have been playing with this Sizzix die for a change.

There are lots of pieces to put together but it looks great when it's finished.

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

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:

A4 card today as I was only playing with some Lisa Horton Cloud 9 Interference inks to see how they looked using different techniques but you can't waste a nice piece of card right!

I've enlarged this bit of card so you can see how the colours show.

I applied the ink to my glass mat and then placed the card over it to pull the colour but the Interference didn't show with this technique but applying it with a blending tool through the stencil worked really well and you can see how the blue and brown show on the leaf. 

The blue is very shiny and I found that even though two colours don't always show with some techniques the shine certainly does.

I'm loving these inks. I added a little more interest by splattering some white spots on next and some stamping.

And so to making a card.

The next part was to decide on the focal image and I've used a sizzix die for this.

Layered this with matching coloured cards.

The sentiment was from this set by Woodware.

And I have all this left over so we'll see, I'm sure I'll find a use for it and more playing with the inks too.

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 one of these Masterboards, yes I've made three:

A4 Masterboards this week so quicker to make but just as useful.

I have taken one of these and stencilled the back too.

'Lavinia Stamps' Stencils and 'Tim Holtz' Oxide inks.

Finished this off by making a Tuxedo Card.

You may be able to see that I added a little more stamping to the outside with one of Tim Holtz stamp sets 'Grunged'.

The images I've added are quite old and have been in my storage folder for some time.

I know the butterfly is a stamp and die by Tim Holtz but not sure about the moths.

The sentiments are by Tim too.

I blended distress black ink along the edges to create shadow and definition.

Hope you like it.

Just have to dercide what to do with the other two designs.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

Masterboard Monday? It's Christmas cards!

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

I am here today to show you a card made with some left-over Masterboards:

I am determind this year to get those cards made earlier rather than let things get manic in December.

I've used a new Tim Holtz set of dies for this card and love it.

It's just perfect for these left-over inked papers.

These papers were intended to be part of some masterboards but they are perfect for these cutting dies so you can expect to see more of these soon.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x