Make it On Monday.

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

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

I made the background with a stencil and Distress Oxides and then added the fish stamp. 

The circling fish are part of the Altenew stamp set and the turtle and clown fish are from the die set.

They look fiddly to make but the way the dies are arranged in the packaging gives clear instuctions of what to cut and how to build up the image.

This is probably one of the simplest die sets I've used considering the details.

The other black fish are a stencil by Funky Fossil and the background a stencil by The Crafters Workshop which I layered in different positions to get the depth to the sea.

I found some vellum and stamped a sentiment on it and added it to the design. 

It's nice as it's translucent so doesn't block out any of the detail.

I finished the design with some Stickles Glitter Glue but then you might well have expected that Lol!

Just a quick close up and then I've done. 

Hope you like it.

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 a new Ledger journal page:

Started by covering the edge with low tack tape and then used the Altenew stencil to create the background, first by applying the pale blue and then turned the stencil over and applied the darker colour.

Even more free magazine stamps and I've added some die cut pieces too.

The centre panel was coloured using Tim Holtz Oxide inks with a blending brush and left to dry then stamped on the detail. 

The sentiment was heat embossed and then I layered the panel onto white and black cardstock.

 The background stamping and some of the die cuts were attached before adding the panel so they looked as though they were coming from under the panel to give more depth.

Next attached the panel and added more diecut plants so they were spreading over it.

I have added some colour and Stickles Glitter glue to some of the shells too.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

WOYWW - 854 - 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 don't think things look much different here except that I am working on a new journal page.

This is a stencil by Inkylicious and you should get to see more of it by next week.

However I have been busy and finished another page since last week, also a sea theme.

Details related to this can be found here:

I don't mean to but think I'm a bit sea obsessed at the moment!

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 more pages in the Ledger journal:

More fun today with the Altenew stencil.

To continue with this page I've added some fish.

Stencil by Funky Fossil.

I applied  this with black ink and a blending brush.

Mermaids needed here to brighten up the page. this was a two piece die to cut the pattern in silver card and the background colour was Clarity card.

You can't have a sea page with out some bubbles so added those and ......

finished with a sentiment and Stickles Glitter glue.

That's all done! Hope you like it.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

WOYWW - 851 - 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!

Not the most tidy desk ever but I am busy working on a sea theme and trying to get started with some more Christmas cards too.

However I have this card to show you.

This week's card from Monday, using up more masterboard card for the background piece.

Details can be found here if you're interested to see how it was put together:

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 "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

Masterboard Journal Grids.

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

I am back to the Masterboard Journal Grids today:

If you've not seen it before there are other pages here:here: here: and here:

I've been playing with a stencil (Crafters Workshop 'Organic Matter') to create the look of the sea.

And next, tear and cut these to fit the grids.

And layered this with some papers to resemble the beach. 

I've added some dotty stamping to give a textured look to the sand and then added the sea. I applied some textured medium to the edge to create the Seafoam too.

I have some left over sea shells from another project and thought these might go well with it.

I've added some Stickles Glitter glue to the waves.

This is not my usual collage page but I still like the way the grids have turned out.

I found a stamp from a magazine freebe and thought that would work well with this. Stamped and heat embossed it.

The die cut net effect is by Altenew.

Now you might well see some of these grids again as they are not all completed yet so we'll see and I might use some of them as card fronts too.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

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.

Just a few more photos of our trip to Matlock Baths Derbyshire.

This is a very old bridge.

This was displayed in one of the shops which seemed unusual as Matlock is no where near the coast. Bet you can see my reflection too.

But on to this week:

Alfie having a rest after his walk.

Hope you can see this little bird on the fountain, it was enjoying a shower.

Went to see my mum on Monday, just stopped for a cup of tea on the way.

Alfie again. he was looking through the window but I distracted him.

As Tuesday was such a lovely day we took the dogs to Anderby Creek near Mablethorpe.

As you can see it was very quiet.

I took this photograph of the shop as a friend mentioned she remebered it from being a child and wondered if it was still there. It's very old and had closed before Covid started but looks like someone has opened it again.

We went round the back with the dogs and had coffee, very nice too.

This was Daisy waiting for hubby to come back with the coffee.

And if that's not enough smiles here are a few more:

And that's Schnauzers for you!

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.

Angela x

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.

The sun is bringing out the flowers of this lovely cacti.

Oh! and you can see my little snail there too.

 

He's so sweet.

I do have another one of these and this one is a lizard.

We have actually been out this week as the weather has been quite nice (at the beginning of the week) so decided to take the dogs to the Seaside for their walk.

 

It looks cloudy here but it was much brighter later.

Walking along the coast

 

with Daisy and Alfie.

 

This was the first visit to the seaside for Alfie.

 

Looks like we chose a good day to visit, it was so quiet.

 

You might just be able to see all the windmills out at sea.

 

Every coast line should have these where possible.

 

As we walked back to the car we passed the fairground.

 

I know if Elizabeth is around she will love this.

Later in the week the weather was not so good so Alfie and I went into the cabin. I did some crafting and he chewed on a paper cup that he found!

 

If that doesn't make you smile, here's a few funnies to finish.

 

 

My two would have run away by now!

 

I would love one of these.

 I like this but not sure Alfie would.

These two actually look a lot like my old dogs Maisie and Stan.

 

So I think that is it for now.

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.

Angela x