Make it on Monday.

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

I am here today to show you a new Masterboard:

I think you may have seen me do something like this before, it's one of my favourite techniqus to use up strips of waste card that are too small but too good to bin.

There's just so much you can do with those small pieces.

I have plans for the finished masterboard, you'll have to wait for that as I've got a busy weekend but I'll be back soon.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

Monday fun with "Use it or Lose it".

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

I'm here today to show you some Christmas card ideas using a Shutter Fold Card design.

Please don't panic seeing C. cards. 

I was at the craft club on Saturday and this was the style of card that we were making so it seemed like a good chance to start some Christmas card designs.

I'm using papers by Studio Light for these cards.

This is a great card for posting as it fits well into a 

4" x 6" (A6) envelope and it's nice and thin too.

It's not easy to see here but I finished the card with Stickles Glitter Glue which helps the design to pop out rather than look flat.

Same make of papers here but the colours are completely different to give a little more idea of how it might look when added with darker shades.

I wasn't sure that I would like this type of card but it's growing on me.

Hope you like these samples.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

Masterboard "Use it or lose it" 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:

Or actually copies of this original (Made with an Altenew stencil).

Scan the original and then you can alter the colour, I use Picasa for this and it's great fun seeing what you end up with.

I did get a bit carried away I think!

This card was made using a small piece of one colour as the background to the diecut fish die (Memory Box).

Attach the background behind the die cut image and stamp the sentiment (Free stamp by Crafty Individuals from a magazine) be sure it's dry and then emboss the netting (3D embossing folder by Spellbinders). I went over the net very gently with blue ink to help it stand out a little more.

I used a brown sheet of the paper to layer the finished design and finished with dots of blue Stickles Glitter glue and that's it.

Clean and Simple? maybe!

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

Use it or lose it on Fold Cards.

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

I am here today to show you a card made with more long lost papers:

This is called a 'Springy Pop-Out Bow Shaped Card'.

Front

I've used some  'Crafter's Companion' papers for this a Tim Holtz die to cut the embellishments and the stamps are by.

Back

Hope these photographs and instuctions help to explain the stages in making.

More information can be found on the Pages under Card Folds above this post.

Hope you find this useful.

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 a card made with left-over Masterboards and decorative papers:

An old stamp set from Woodware.

Normally I would have finished these Christmas cards before now, I like to make a few at the beginning of the new year but been away and then had a stinker of a cold so got a bit behind with it.

I've applied colour to the card with a blending tool and splattered water over it to give the faux bleach effect then stamped the main part of the design.

These Stamp really well too.

I added some of the tiny leaf stamps around the edge and in the centre, some in matching colours to the background and some in black.

They are so pretty.

Then attached the circles which I had punched out to fit. You can get a die to match the circles but using a punch is quicker because of the number needed. 

Use a fairly large scoring tool to create a curved shape to the circle and attach them using silicone glue (Pinflair works well). 

And a sentiment which came with the set.

More of my 'Use it or Lose it' campaign as I mounted the finished design onto some Holographic card which has been in the cupboard for years!

Some stickles glitter glue to finish, well I think it's finished but we'll see.

This is just the start of these cards and there will be more ideas soon.

My tip: cut out lots of circles before starting, things move along much quicker.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

woyww - 817 - 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!

Desk looks a bit of a mess today as I've not done much since Saturday when I went to the Craft Club.

But I am starting to feel a bit more like myself as the cold is going gradually.

These are part of my theme for this year of "Use it or Lose it"

Been using some embossing folders though it's difficult to see as I left it white on the card and then added some ephemera from AALL and Create.

This is a box of their stamps which I've also got out with the intention of using them soon.

You can just see some old cord towards the back there too.

Very old decorative papers I've actually been using so made a start on the theme too.

These are new to me but given to me by a friend at the club so need to use these too before they end up in the drawer!

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 - 816 - 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!

though still not much going on as I'm still full of cold and not feeling much like doing anything. 

It's been a stinker!

But yesterday I felt a bit better and enough to plan my next move.

I am determined that this will be a year of "Use it or Lose it".

It's my birthday on the 25th of January which seems like a good time to make plans for the new year.

I've had these ephemera for ages and hardly used any so they are the first on the list for "Use it or Lose it".

I have a plan! that is when I feel in the mood to craft.

So that's me done for today.

Fingers crossed that something may have taken place here by next week.

 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

Use it or Lose it Monday.

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

I am here today to show you how I've used some more of my stash:

These fun papers are by Craft O'Clock and I used some light weight Kraft card for the base cards.

You may remember seeing me use these papers before when I made them into ATCs about two weeks ago here:

This card was made using the Crealies Never Ending Card die.

These papers are just the right weight for this type of card.

I found that the card opened really well but you need to be careful not too use anything to thick. 

As you can see here I did get away with some layering with thin black card.

And so to the final turn of the card.

And this is the back. 

You could easily add your sentiment here.

You can make this card stand up by opening the bottom fold.

The sentiment at the top was done on my Dymo.

Hope you like it as much as I do.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

Monday Fun - Use it or Lose it.

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

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

 

I have had so much fun with this one.

 

I started by embossing with this gorgeous stencil using white texture paste.

 

And then adding colour with Distress Oxide inks using a blending tool.

 

These small light bulbs have been waiting to be used again for far too long and are some very old Creative Expression stamps. I added these and some sentiments too.

 

This however is a new die but I just had to try it out and it works so well with the stamps.

I have cut it out twise with a black card and a rusty metalic card, layered them together adding Stickles Glitter glue to the filament.

 

But obviously that is not enough!

So I added some embossing with a text stencil.

 

That's more guilt for having this gorgeous stencil hardly used.

Luckily this is still workable which is good as it is several years old which proves it's worth buying quality products.

And so to the finished journal page.

 

 

This is unusual for me as I am not a lover of yellow but I love the way this looks.

 

I've added a sentiment made on my Dymo Letratag, a very useful little machine.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x