WOYWW # 371 What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday.

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

Hi Workdesk friends. 
Here we are for another Wednesday at the Workdesk. 
I am here again 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, our host Julia will explain.
However the link up will still be with Jan this week.

So here is my desk for today!

 

I'm sorry, I know it's untidy because I still haven't put the stuff away that I bought at Doncaster last week.

There were several companies with reduced price stamps so had to get some. As you can see I have a few Woodware stamps, some new stencils, Leonie stencil, Lavinia stamps and some new Tim Holts inks.
I have reduced the stuff in that box but it seemed to fill up again very quickly!

So that's me done for today, sorry it's not more exciting.

 Thank you 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

Crafty Cardmakers #168 Bling it Up.

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

Another Monday and another Masterboard project!!!!

But I am also back to tell you that it's time for another challenge over
at Crafty Cardmakers.

Mary is hosting our Bling It Up challenge, so let's see lots of gems, sparkle, glitter, anything that adds a bling quality to your creations.

As usual You can enter anything you fancy, it doesn't have to just be cards, as long as it meets the challenge, and doesn't exceed the 15 total challenges entered rule!

For my project I've been making a scrap book/journal for a friend, it's a gift for her daughter's birthday.
I  was told she liked greys but some colours too, possibly pink or green so there we go. It will have greeting cards mounted inside it so needed something with good pages weight so I used a Pink Pig watercolour sketch book.

I had thought about decorating the actual cover but wanted to keep the finish neat so I decided to make the design on card and attach it to the front cover on completion. So here goes.

Made the Masterboard first as you can see here.

 

I normally work with A3 paper and card as it gives you more to work with when complete but as this was A4 I made two similar Masterboards using Tim Holtz stencils, Distress Inks and Seth Apter stamps.

Finished, they looked like this.

 

 

The Process for completing the design:

I used a Tim Holtz die to cut away part of the Masterboard and some Seth Apter circle dies to add to the stamped images. This was mounted onto a sheet of black textured card.

 

More stamping:

Kaisercraft sentiment stamp and the butterfly is Tim Holtz.

 

 

The sentiment here was Paper Artsy.

 

And some gilding to make things pop a little.

Nothing like a bit of shiny stuff to add Bling!

I so love this Mixton Relief by Pebeo.

 

You can make tiny dots with it too.

 

Next attached the design to the cover layering it with more card. I still felt it was missing something.

 

A Bow!

Nothing like it to finish stuff off Lol!

 

 

So here is the finished journal cover.

 

Few close-ups of the butterfly mounted onto silver cord and net, finished with silver brads.

 

 

I have decorated the inner pages too very lightly so as not to detract from the cards that will be mounted inside. Just couldn't leave them blank.

 

Some of the stamps used on the pages:

 

Inkylicious Moments, Seth Apter circles and IndigoBlu swirl.

 

Visible Image sentiment.

 

 

Inkylicious sentiment stamp.

 



 

So that's your lot really and if there is anything you want to know just ask.

 

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.

 Happy crafty card making.

Angela x

 

 I would like to enter this project in the following challenges:
Country View Challenges: July: Have Fun with Circles.
Altered Eclectics: July Challenge Anything Goes.
City Crafters Challenge blog: week 319 - the Book of Love.
Stamping Sensations: July-Anything goes with a stamp and ribbons.
Love to Create challenge 14: Anything Creative / Mixed Media goes.

 

Friday Fun Day with Smiles # 177

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

Hi, Angela here again to show you what I've been up to this week.

This should make you smile my friends.

We took my mum shopping on Tuesday and went into M&S for coffee. Two ladies were just getting up to leave when my mum noticed one of them had dropped her purse on the floor, she tried to attract their attention but they didn't hear her so I got up and called to them and they came back and thanked us.
What I hadn't realised was that the whole café had stopped what they were doing and turned towards me to see what was going on. My husband thought this highly hilarious whilst I was unsure what it was he found so funny.

He said... "You were using your teacher voice, there was one guy put his hand up asking to leave the room, one was in the naughty corner crying and the others were fidgeting around trying to tidy themselves up"
I guess you never loose it Lol!.

Other than that I've spent quite a lot of time in the garden so I am going to leave you with these little beauties which are all flowering at the moment.

So that's my fun day.

 

 Thanks for stopping by.

Let me know if they make you smile.

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 if you like.

Thanks for stopping by,

Angela x

WOYWW # 370 What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday.

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

Hi Workdesk friends. 
Here we are for another Wednesday at the Workdesk. 
I am here again 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, our host Julia will explain.
However the link up will still be with Jan this week.

So here is my desk for today!
I have started using the buttons but still have some way to go so only a sneaky peak today and there it is tucked to the back.

On the centre is my Art Journal. I'm working on an idea for a birthday journal for a friend and I'm just practicing the layout for the front cover.

The box on the left is still standing and has not fallen over yet, maybe I should take a bet on when it will collapse.

To the right is a Tim Holtz die, embossing stuff, glue, blue gloves and wet ones, very important so mustn't forget those!

I think everything else is pretty much the same as usual and still in need of a tidy up but people keep finding me things to do Lol!

 So that's me done for today, sorry it's not more exciting.

 Thank you 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

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

I have a birthday card for you today that I made using up some left over Masterboard. I seem to have a collected of such paper and card so will have more of these to show you soon.

 

Here is the original Masterboard and yes you have seen this before as I am now using the left over pieces.

I have cut them up into squares with black mats on top of a silver and black panel.

 

Next I stamped several of the balloons (Stamp by Tim Holtz).

I don't need so many for this project but they may come in useful for a later project.

 

Cut one of these out and used a ball stylus tool to shape the balloon.

 

Just checking that it stands out enough.

 

Then stamped a sentiment onto cloudy velum paper.

And so for the construction.

 

I also decorated the inside by stamping the balloon down the centre of the page and adding a sentiment.

 

And there we are finished ready for my dad's birthday.

Hope he likes it and hope you do too.

Happy crafting,

Angela x

 

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

Create a Smile Challenges: Birthday

Lunagirl Moonbeams: July Challenge: Plains, Trains and Automobiles.

A Vintage Journey: July Challenge - Monochromatic.

That's Crafty Challenge Blog: Masculine Challenge.

The Sisterhood of Crafters: Create Your Own Background.

Craft Stamper: Take It Make It Challenge - July: Anything Goes with a stamp.

 

 

Friday Fun Day with Smiles # 176

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

Hi, Angela here again to show you what I've been up to this week.
Obviously lots of crafting and here is a peek of Monday's Masterboard project. If you want to see what I did with it you will have to pop back on Monday.

Lots of gardening this week too.
Apples are well on their way, we have Maypoled the trees this week as the apples are already getting too heavy for the branches and I haven't the heart to remove some of them.

 

Plums next.

 

Loads of strawberries. We have been eating these for breakfast, dinner and tea and still had to give some away but not complaining they are gorgeous. If I could be bothered I could make jam or strawberry tart but just been too busy Lol!

 

And my little friend is busy collecting grubs for the babies. Here he/she is watching me again and not, I think, impressed that I am watching him though he seems to be getting used to me as he doesn't fly off so quickly as he did or maybe he's just desperate to get the babies fed!

 

It's noticeable that his red tummy is not so smart and by the time the babies go he will probably look really raggy. It must be terrible to be so busy that you haven't time to look after your self Lol!

 

As you can see I am definitely getting the eye!

 

So that's my fun day.

 

 Thanks for stopping by.

Let me know if they make you smile.

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 if you like.

Thanks for stopping by,

Angela x