Masterboard Review of 2024

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

I am here today to show you some cards that I had fun with last year with a mechanism:

I've had these papers for ages by Craft O'clock.

They are great fun cards to make.

These papers are by Stamperia.

The mechanism can be done length or width ways.

These papers are a magazine freebie.

I have done some mixed media and resin projects this year too.

That was so much fun to make.

Caught up with some older craft kits too.

And a large collection of Artist trading cards.

I'm hoping that this will be the last of the reviews and there will be new stuff next week but it's good to look back.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting.

Angela x

Masterboard Monday well not today!

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

I am here today to show you another catch up Mixed Media project from Anna Hersom:

Another canvas project, gorgeous resin and Snipart pieces too.

The raised strips at the back are stencilled strips of card which give a nice lift to the design.

Normally I paint over the resin but this time left it cream and finished it by rubbing over it with wax to give an aged effect then applied the flowers, a great way to soften the design. The butterfly was covered glazed with Glossy Accents. 

Hope you like it.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

WOYWW -774 - 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 the 
Stamping Ground, our host Julia will explain.

So here is my desk for today!

Finished this glorious box, an old project from Anna Hersom, other than that the desk is quite tidy.

Lots of MDF, resin and ephemera.

The sides are covered in Rice paper.

I've painted the inside too and really love this colour of paint.

This was a pleasure to work on.

Hope you like it too.

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 - 772 - 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 the Stamping Ground, our host Julia will explain.

So here is my desk for today!

Back to the collage journal this time using my less favourite colour which is yellow but I'm trying to be brave and play with it.

The only other stuff on the desk is probably a variety of glues but mostly I tend to use Prit stick and a Ranger collage glue for this.

I try not to think too much when putting these together so I just take about three papers, cut and tear them to fit and attach. 

I do tend to arrange them differently on each grid.

I finished these collages with some paper napkins that I've had for ages, they are not real ten pound notes so please don't worry, I haven't lost my mind yet or won on the Lottery! Finally added some gold stencil paste which is lovely and shiny. 

I will probably add a sentiment at some stage when I decide what to use the grids for.

Anyway that's what I've been playing with and I quite like the finished collages even though they are yellow Lol!

So that's me done for today, nice and quick just how you like it.

However, I have been working on a new Mixed Media piece and if you would like to see details you can see it below this post here:

 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 - 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

WOYWW - 747 - 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 the 
Stamping Ground, our host Julia will explain.

So here is my desk for today!

I've moved on a bit since you were here last week, adding more colour.

The netting is standing out more now and the octopus too.

I'm starting to like it more now.

Not much to say really but I'm sure you would sooner jusy look at the project so I'll leave you to it.

Been working on the inside too.

And a better view of the octopus.

I am really pleased with that mould, got it from Amazon.

Hoping to have it finished next week as I have other things I want to get on with including more MDF projects.

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 - 746 - What's On your Workdesk Wednsday.

   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 the 
Stamping Ground, our host Julia will explain.

So here is my desk for today!

Still in the cabin.

I'm showing you this though I think it's the worst stage when you start to build up the colours.

But don't worry there's a long way to go and it probably wont look anything like this when it's finished.....I hope Hee! Hee!

Anyway at least it's a quick post today as there's not much else to see other than bottles of paint, texture paste, powders, water and a pair of rubber gloves!

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

Review of 2021- Mixed Media.

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

I am here today to show you some of last year's favourite assemblage art. 

I started this January review some years ago as we would normally have been away at this time but obviously this has not happened for reasons I'm sure you will guess but decided to continue with it as it's a relaxing start to the new year.

Hope you enjoy sharing these memories with me.

These kits are by the:

Creative Craft Accedemy

some are slightly adapted as I've added some additions to them.

Her Secret Wish

I so love the Crystal Souffles which are whipped texture paste with sparkling pieces.

Mermaid

Blue Box

I've used the Souffle again here but a different colour this time.

Details - Here.

This is just a few of the great projects on offer.

Hope you like them.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

Creative Artiste.

  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.

I was so pleased to have been asked to be a visiting designer for the Creative Artiste Challenge blog and I've been working on this project.

Here's what I've made.

I decided to use an old Hessian canvas that's been sitting around for ages as part of my plan to "Use it or Lose it".

To get started I used a stencil to add some detail and then a little crackle paste and the fun begins.

Adding texture next in the form of some pieces of dyed silk, muslin and cords. More fun and more texture.

It's difficult to see it but I've added some old lace just above and below the first layers of fabric as I've also covered it fairly lightly with white Gesso.

It all looks a bit messy at this stage but I promise it will get better!

Acrylic paint to pull everything together.

Somewhere among my collection of odds and ends I found this window and one of my favourite Finnabair stencils (Hobbilicious).

After adding the detail with Gel paste I went over it with the Rust Effect Paste. This is part of the set of three by Finnabair and also has some light texture added. You can get this at Hobbilicious.

I've also used a SnipArt (Craft Box) piece and coloured that with two other pastes from the set.

And everything's ready for the next stage.

I attached the the SnipArt, and the window and added some Art stones too, rubbing them with silver wax.

The moulded pieces were coloured first with Gesso and then acrylic paint and waxes.

I wont keep you waiting any longer, here is the finished piece.

I love this Dragon mould which is by Prosvet available from Hobbilicious. I have to say I have become obsessed with their moulds, they are so good and the designs are beautiful.

The pipe work is MDF and the sentiment by Finnabair.

And that's about it really.

Hope you like it.

I would love to hear your comments.

Happy creating, 

Angela xXx