Friday Fun Day

      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.

Been to see my friend this week for some crafting fun.

She has such a pretty garden.

And so to some crafting fun.

Bubbly washing up liquid, love it.

And some acetate......

coloured with alcohol inks.

Now I need to decide what to use this for.

In the garden this week......

I've let one of the lettuce plants grow and this is what it looks like now!

I just keep taking off what I need but it's massive.

The one on the right with the yellow flowers is Rocket and behind them are Beetroot.

We had a bit of a surprise at the garden centre this week as they are already setting up for Christmas!

I bet Elizabeth will like this......

Had to show you this lovely little collection of flowers too.

I wonder if you can guess where we saw them?

Go on I'll tell you.....

they were on the footpath next to the main road on our way to the park, I'm amazed they haven't been trod on and squashed.

Just a few meaningful words to finish from man's/women's best friend.

And very clean and tidy Lol!

They are also very crafty.

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.

I may be late getting round to you all next week as we will be travelling.

Hugs Angela x

Masterboard Monday Journal Grids.

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

I am here today to show you more ideas for my Masterboard Journal Grids:

Hand made collage papers, die cuts, stickles Glitter Glue and free mark making.

I can always find some left-over die cut pieces to add on and some white dots with a white sharpy pen.

Not sure yet whether these will end up as card fronts, we'll see.

This die was a freebe from a magazine.

Not sure about this one yet! 

It still needs something to complete the design. 

You might have some ideas?

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 collection of cards made with this Masterboard as promised last week.

I have details about making this Masterboard which can be found here:

Cut out the sections and you have lots of focal images to layer onto your cards.

I've just used three here today.

You are left with a white border so all that's needed is to layer it on a piece of black card, I then layered it again on white card.

I can't resist stamping on the card blank and this one was done with a Tim Holts Distress ink.

And this one with black ink also using the second generation print too. I love this technique as it gives more depth to the imagers.

The sentiments are stamps by Cabarelle.

These were the stamps I used and yes they are wood mounted and very old.

And what a collection. 

If you need some fast cards then this is the one for you.

Better than that I've scanned the original and kept it for later, might even change the colours on the copied pieces.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge 'Get Inky and Messy'

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

Hi! back again to tell you that it's time for another challenge over
at Crafty Cardmakers.

Chanya is hosting today and our challenge is 'Get Inky and Messy'  .

As usual you can enter anything you fancy, it doesn't have to just be cards, as long as it meets the challenge.

 Hope you will join in.

And here is my project for the challenge:

 

 

I started with a sheet of mixed media paper.

 

 

Distress Oxide inks, just rub these straight onto the paper.

 

Spray lightly with water and allow it to drip down so that it blends.

If you don't want the blended effect but want to keep the colours clean then apply one ink at a time, spray, drip and dry each one before adding the next.

 
I used the following piece to dry the inks and as you can see you are left with another interesting piece which can be used for another project.

Next I used these dies to cut the coloured paper.

 

To complete the card I began by stamping on the card blank with a text stamp and then started to add the die cut pieces.

Some of the pieces on the card are those left-over sections after cutting the main pieces. I'm sure you will see that these shapes may be waste but they fit really well with the actual die cuts.

 

A little more stamping.

I especially like the faux stitching.

 

 

I took the main die cut piece and using a blending tool covered the edge with black ink. This technique will give more depth to the main image as it produces a shadow around the edge then stamped on the sentiment.

 

Then attached it to the card with 3D foam stickers after adding some coloured yarn for extra texture, and interest.

 

I finished this off with coloured sequins.

 I hope you will pop over to see what the rest of the DT have been up to and maybe join in the challenge.

I look forward to seeing what you come up with too.

 Happy crafty card making.

Angela x 

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

The Artistic Stamper - Creative Challenge#1 2018-Anything Goes.
Country View Challenges: January 2018 - Anything Goes.
Happy Little Stampers: January Anything Goes with Dies.

Fashionable Stamping Challenges - Challenge #131-Anything Goes

Back to the Craft Barn - Bokeh technique.

Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.
Hi everyone, I'm here to let you know this is another project for the Craft Barn and it's now live.

Been working on a Bokeh technique this week and here's the card I've made. Several techniques used here including, Bokeh, diecutting and stencilling but if you would like to see more details of how I made this card then pop over to The Craft Barn for full details.

 

I would love to hear what you think about my project and any comments will be gratefully received.

Happy crafting,

 

Angela xXx

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Happy Little Stampers: January 2017 Challenge-Mixed Media Layers.



Stamps and Stencils: January challenge-Swirls, Whirls and Flourishes.



The Mixed Media Monthly: Challenge 32: 'Put a Stencil on It'.


 

Ali-Craft Workshop with Hels Sheridan.

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

We had a brilliant day with Hels Sheridan at the Ali-Craft Workshop on Saturday and I have a few photos to show you.

Hels is here waiting to get started.

 And of course we all gathered round the Teacher Lol! for the first set of instructions.

 Sorry I can't give you full instructions for the making but that wouldn't be fair on Hels but I have included a good selection of photographs.

 

I decided to use a pink, purple and blue for my project.

Once this was complete we went on to the tag.

 

Hels offered us lots of gorgeous techniques to use and explained everything fully.

 Next we worked on the rose.

 Cutting and gluing the pieces in order to build up a 3D flower.

 I must say Hels is very good at giving clear and concise instructions.

 

 Butterflies were next which you can see below.

 

And these are the colours I used to decorate my butterfly.

 

Finally a few examples of what we made though some of them are not quite finished at this stage.

 

Hels example.

 

These are my efforts.

Not quite sure what else I want to add to it yet.

I think it's great how so many people can work from the same starting point and the finished pieces look so different.

Well that's it for now.

Back soon and happy crafting,

 

Angela xXx

Addendum!

All finished so here it is:

 

 

Hope you liked it.

 

Happy crafting,

Angela x