Masterboard Monday

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

Just thought you might like to see the Masterboard I have sent to my friend Gloria this month.

I started by swiping the distress ink onto a craft mat.

Next, spritz this with water and pick up the ink by dragging the paper across it. 

I used Nature Walk and Bird Feather stamp sets by Tim Holtz and started by stamping eggs onto the paper and heat embossing this.

I then applied more colour to the Masterboard using a blending tool.

At this stage I completed the stamping.

I will show you the resulting project when Gloria sends it back to me.

Happy crafting, 

Angela x

The Mirror Crack'd - Mixed Media Challenge 7 - Anything with Wings.

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

Here we are again for another challenge at The Mirror Crack'd and this month it's Anything with Wings(but not cards please).


After giving this much thought.... would it be birds, butterflies, bees, bats(nice and spooky)Gothic, or Steampunk style maybe, fantasy perhaps maybe fairies, Angels, aeroplanes, chickens and ducks maybe even dragons or Pterosaurs (pterodactyl being the most well known)?

So Many things have Wings!

In the end I decided on either a heart or a cloud, neither of which normally have wings but this is my blog and if I want them to have wings then they will Lol!

I also wanted to try and use some of the fabrics I have been playing with recently and this is how it developed.

Not so long ago we were out in the car and I took photographs of some lovely clouds which kind of got me thinking.

And I thought that some of the fabrics I have been working on recently would look good as clouds.

So this is what I made.

I used a Sizzix die for the heart as seen here.

This is the fabric I constructed earlier. If you are interested in seeing how I made it the link is here to the technique.

Next I outlined the shape onto the back and cut it out.

 Spraying the fabric came next.
For this I used Crafty Notions sprays.

And this is the result.

However I turned the clouds over and this is what I found !!!!

And what a surprise, I have to say I liked it better than the front and decided to work on this side..

I did however use the right side of some of the fabric to make the wings.

After spraying and drying the fabric I started the construction. First attaching the backing fabrics which I frayed to soften the edges. I inserted the stuffing, joined the clouds together and then attached the raindrops.

 I hope you enjoyed looking at my mixed media soft sculpture.

 It would be great if you could pop over to see what the rest of my team members have made this month at The Mirror Crack'd.

Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

WOYWW 300 # What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday.

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

Hi Workdesk friends. 

Back again for another Wednesday or at least it's not because this is extra special as it is the 300th WOYWW!

What an achievement Julia!

We all love you to bits girl!

I for one am sure I would never have made so many great blogging friend if it hadn't been for this weekly get-together.

So here I am to show you:
"What's on my Workdesk this Wednesday".

If you don't know what this is all about then please visit the
Stamping Ground and our dear host Julia will explain and all will be revealed.

And here is my desk this week.

First the mess Lol!

I have labelled some of it so you can see what I've been up to but you will need to click on it for a better view.

And then there was this! 

My Masterboard for February has just arrived back from Gloria.

Posted the photos of this on Monday if you want to see more.

I just seem to have had so many things going on at the same time but managed to clear it in order to work on my Tim Holtz tag.

This was rather a last minute but managed in the end to finish it and pleased I did as I got a great surprise when I found it had been included as one of the winning tags for February!!!

Hope that wasn't too long.

I'm off to look at what the others have been up to, hope you'll join me.

Happy woyww crafting, 

Angela x

Masterboard Monday.

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

I have now received the project that Gloria made with the Masterboard I sent her last month.

Just to remind you, here is the Masterboard.

And here is the February swap.

A little Journal book.

Front

Back

I will try and show you as much as I can but this little book is full of detail.

I was over the moon when I opened this, it is gorgeous.

Hope you like it as much as I do.

Happy crafting, 

Angela x

Breaking News!

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

We are very pleased to say that we did not go skiing last week or that we were going this week as there have been road blocks all weekend due to a large rock falling into the road about 9 km from the bottom of the mountain (Moutiers town).

Luckily it happened on Friday when the roads were fairly quiet so no-one was there when it happened.
It is a very large rock!!!!

Apparently it also caused problems on the Motor Way as no-one could get passed which meant the traffic was at a standstill for miles behind it and people in the resorts could not get out.

This is what it looked like:

This is the link to the Daily Mail who reported on it if you are interested.

Have a good weekend and take care.

Angela x

Tim Holtz Tag for February 2015.

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

I have been planning to join in with the tags but other things just kept getting in the way, however I have made the effort (after a little push from my friend Kelly who thought my chocolate bar would be a good layout for the tag) and managed to get it finished, though it was tight. Thanks Kelly!

This is Tim's Tag for February 2015.

And this is mine.

I decided to use some of the Tim Holtz fabrics for my interpretation of Tim's tag plus the addition of some embellishments this is what I came up with.

I started with these:

And when I was satisfied with the arrangement I stitched the pieces together before attaching it to the tag.

I quite liked the button paper that Tim had used but didn't have fabric like that so I have actually sewn on some small buttons which seem to have worked quite well.

I have made the heart in felt but sewn it to another piece of Tim's fabric so that the heart opens up revealing the patterned fabric below. 

The 14 was a small piece again cut from one of Tim's fabrics and has a small clear tag attached to give it more dimension.

Small amounts of antique lace have also been added to soften the effect.

I used a Faber-Castell artist pen for the shadow, quite like these as they come in different shades.

Just a few closeups to show you.

I have put a little bit of wadding into the globe to make it 3D but not sure how clear that is?

Altogether I am quite pleased with the finished tag and hope to join in again next month.

I have just made the deadline for joining in this month with a few hours to go. If you would like to pop over and have a look click here to see Tim's tag.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting.

Angela x