Make it On Monday.

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

I am here today to show you a card that I made at the Craft Club last weekend:

I've been a bit busy the rest of the week getting some Christmas cards projects ready for the class I'll be doing with some friends so not really done much else but thought you might like this.

 As I didn't have anything available for the background it's torn papers mostly with a patterned paper for the ski. The other details are die cut and stamped images.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

WOYWW - 857 - 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!

Busy getting craft stuff ready for some friends when we meet up next week. 

I usually set up some Christmas cards for them to make about this time.

These are the sentiments for one of the projects but you'll have to wait to see the finished cards.

I know I said no more sea pages this year but I just had to do this one as I found some more stamps that were waiting to be packed away so you'll see the rest of this next week.....hopefully!

And this is the results of the page I showed you last week....

My Halloween page and details can be found here:

And 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.

Oh! and happy Bonfire Night (Guy Fawkes Night), to all my UK friends.

 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 another journal page using the cloud stencils. 

I just love this Ledger journal.

I had so much fun making this:

Prep. the journal page with Washi tape and apply the clouds with a stencil and Distress Oxide inks. 

This one was a Waffle Flower stencil.

To make the rainbow all you need are circular nesting dies. Cut the circles in the different sizes with the appropriate colours and add the next smallest die to cut the card to create the rings.

These are the colours I've used.

With the largest circle (Red) I have only cut the small centre piece and then used the rest of it to attach the rings in place.
 

Once that's completed you can cut this in half.

This is such a simple way to make a rainbow without having to buy any special dies. 

I first saw it done years ago in a magazine and almost forgot all about it until I decided to make this journal page and I'm sure the technique will appear here again and the spare rainbow too.

The sentiments (Studio Light) weren't too easy to read so I've enlarged those for you.

To finish this I've added some die cut clouds cut out with Studio Light dies, stamped raindrops and added spots of Stickles Glitter Glue and that's it.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

Masterboard Monday - review of 2024

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

I am here today to show you a card made with this Masterboard:

I love these inks by Lixsa Horton but need to play with them again soon as I think they have more to offer.

Smooshed the colours on first and then added the leaf stencil.

Cut the masterboard into duitable sized pieces.

Layer up the design with suitable colours of card and attach to the card blank.

I stamped my sentiment at this stage (Woodware).

And then a diecut image by Sizzix for Tim Holtz.

If you have any left over pieces to use up this is another trick.

Choose a die that cuts into the card rather than cuts the design out.

Die cut a piece of card to fit the top of the card front, add a sentiment and gems then attach the Masterboard piece between this and the card blank.

And you have a great CAS card.

You could use other dies and replace the image when you've cut it out.
The designs are simple but effective.

Hope you like them.

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 this Masterboard:

A3 Acetate and alcohol ink.

I'm still using the acetate, not used it all up yet.

The leaf die is Die-Namics, the red border was cut using Sue Wilson Craft Dies and the dragonfly is from an old collection of 3D insects, sadly I don't know what make these are. Finished the card with some Stickles Glitter glue.

I used a piece of white card slightly smaller than the card blank and used the leaf die to cut into it then layered it over the alcohol coloured acetate and attached it to the card blank.

The red border was used to mask off the tape which was used to stick the acetate down and then mounted over the design.

I love this card and hope you do too.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

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

Allsorts challenges 'Anything Goes'.

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:

It feels like some time since I did this as I've been otherwise occupied but I'm working my way back again.

This is one of the original masterboard backgrounds that I made using washing up liquid, a straw and inks to create bubbles.

If you like this technique and would like to see how I did it then the details are here:

Couldn't help but have a little play with the originals and this one was altered on PICASA, a photo editing program. I recommend it.

So what came next?

Some new and old stamps by Kate Crane. 

I used some of the new ones to stamp directly onto the card blank and a seperate piece of card which I attached later before adding the bubble card.

The focal image are some older stamps and much loved.

I think they all work well with the bubble paper and hope you like it too.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

Masterboard Monday - What's new!

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

I am here today to show you a card made with these Masterboards:

Although the 2023 review is complete these are some older Masterboards but new cards.

These were the originals done on quite heavy weight water colour paper using real ferns for faux bleaching and stamping.

If you would like more details of this technique you can find it here:

These two are some of the scanned pieces from the original masterboards. 

I use a laser printer for this and scan it in two A4 pieces.

And now you get to see what I've made with them this time.

The Masterboards were made in 2019 and have been scanned and recoloured.

I so love these masterboards and they make a great card.

Start by stamping some fern onto the card blank and cut a piece of the masterboard to fit the card then roughly tear down the piece any size and attach in your chosen position.

The stamps are by Julie Hickey.

The leaves were done with a variety of dies.

And I finished this with a sentiment stamp and Stickles Glitter Glue.

If you like these I will be back to show you more scanned copies of these and hopefully a different way to use them.

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 this Masterboard:

Now I know it's only September but we all know how quickly the time goes so just had to start thinking Christmas cards Right!

Tape the sections with Washi tape or low tack tape on a piece of A3 card. Using a stencil mask off a few areas with Tim Holtz distress Glaze though Vaseline will do the job too. Spray on some distress stain or any other colour sprays you have.

Continue until you are happy with the colours.

Allow this to dry fully and then rub over it with a dry cloth to wipe of any loose glaze.

Take any snowflake stamp and apply these to add more detail.

When this is dry carfully remove the tape. Keep it flat and pull towards you.

On this occasion I have cut up all the individual pieces. If you use each of these individually they will make lots of cards.

However for these two cards I have only used one section per. card.

Layered everything with matching coours and matalic cord. The dark blue card helps the white sections to stand out nicely.

Finished off the cards with a die cut snowflake.

The sentiment was a freeby from a magazine.

I think this is a quick way to make some nice Christmas cards and if you're like me and send out a few this is a great way to get them ready.

I still have lots left so I'm off to see how else I can use them.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x