Friday Fun Day with Smiles.

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.
And I have been very busy with Country fairs, one on Sunday and another one on Thursday and here are a few pics. to show you how much fun we had.

Heckington Village Show on Sunday (Lincolnshire).

This show is the largest village show in the Country.
It's quite different from the usual County Shows and the displays tend to demonstrate this. There tends to be more showing the history of village life whereas the big County shows seem more interested in sales of new machinery.

 

This was actually in the photograph competition but I thought it was so lovely that you might like to see it.

 

Tug of war.

 

Re-enactments.

 

Oh! and we have Indians too!

 

And of course sheep.

 

Bulls.

I believe this may be a Lincolnshire Red.

 

Birds.

This is a baby Barn Owl.

 

And of course All The Fun of The Fair.

Bakewell Agricultural Show (Derbyshire) was our Thursday Visit.

Sheep...again! Quite liked these they are lovely and woolly!

 

Had to spend a little time round the cars particularly the MGs as I have an old MGB GT 72 so we like to have a look at those.... well he does anyway! I just like driving it!

 

This is a bit more like the one I have but mine is British Racing Green, naturally! and one year older.

 

 This little number is a Frog Eyed Sprite and a real sweetie of a car.

Slightly older MG.

 

Then I went into the Flower tent.

Beautiful!

For all my foreign visitors, these are traditional Horse Drawn Brewery Wagons. Some have survived and are often seen at shows like this.

 

So that's my fun day or days actually.

 

 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 # 374 - 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.

So here is my desk today.

 

Another 'Peekaboo'! Can you see it hiding?

And here is some stamping for the next card I am working on, early days yet.

 Do you remember a couple of weeks ago I had this piece of Masterboard covered up, well now I can show you what I was making. If you want to know why I made it, you can find out here.

So that's me done for today.

 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

Guest Designer for Try It On Tuesday.

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

I was pleased to be chosen as one of the top five for the June challenge at Try It On Tuesday.
I was asked if I would be  a guest designer for their August challenge and naturally I accepted.
The challenge this month is to 'Use Your Leftovers' which I have no problem with as I seem to have lots of those, it's more difficult to let them go than keep them Lol!

So here is what I made.

Most of the materials I used to make this came from my folder of leftovers..... some of you may even recognise some of the Masterboards.

 

So I started with this,

 

 

 which was originally used on the card below.

 

 

I added stencilling over the top before completing the card.

 

 

For this project I decided to use a tag which I prepared by painting the back. This can be done with Gesso or White acrylic paint.

 

 

Next draw round the tag and cut out the piece which will cover the tag.

 

Don't worry if the paper is overlapping the edge as this can be sanded away.

When that was complete I prepared the smaller tags which were cut out using the Tim Holtz Thinlits Dies.

The card I used to make these was leftover from some testing I did with some texture pastes. I rubbed over the texture with treasure gold to highlight it. The large tag was edged with distress ink 'Peacock Feathers' and I added more colour to the tag using the other three colours, Wild Honey, Mustard Seed and Evergreen Bough to mix it up a bit. The Wild Honey is a great complement for the greens and makes the design pop.

 

 

 

I felt that the small tags needed more detail so I added text using a stencil and then splattered white paint over the top using the Pebeo Artist Marker.

 

 

I added detail to the edge of the tag using the following stamps to create a frame.

 

And a piece of leftover Velum across the top and bottom of the tag, again leftover from an earlier card. This was originally stamped with Seth Apter stamps.

 

 

At this stage I started putting the whole thing together.

 

• I used some Seth Apter dies to cut out the circles and frames, again from leftovers which I used to embellish parts of the tag.
• Even the ticket strips were leftover from another project.
• I added some ribbon and net which were small pieces cut from other projects.
• The small fabric panel had been a selection that I made about three years ago but wasn't needed and is stamped with a Paper Artsy stamp by Lynne Perrella Collection 004. I backed this and added machine stitching. 
• Finally completed the tag with a Tim Holtz sentiment die and some Stickles glitter glue for the all important sparkle.

 

 

So here it is complete and a few close-ups of the tag.

 

 Hope you enjoyed looking, I would love a comment if you have time and you may like to pop over and join in the challenge at  Try It On Tuesday.

 

Bye for now and happy crafting,

 

Angela x

 

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

Things to Alter: August Challenge-Anything goes.

Paper Artsy Challenge # 14 Colour Mixing.

Altered Eclectics - August Challenge: Anything Goes.

Allsorts challenge blog - Week 374 : A Touch of Sparkle.

Love to Create Challenge 16: Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes

 

Masterboard Monday

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

Here are the cards I've made this week using my leftover Masterboards:

Simple and quick to make!

Sometimes they are just what's needed.

 

If you were here last week you may remember seeing me using some leftover Masterboard.
Recently I have found myself with quite a lot of 'leftovers' I generally make the Masterboards on A3 card or paper. I often only use half of this and then file the rest away as you can see here.

Though this is only one of the folders Lol!

This seems rather a waste so I have decided it's time to do something with them especially as I am running out of space in there!

So to get the ball rolling I have made the cards above.

These were the Masterboards I used for this project.

 

Original on A3 card.

 

Copies from the scanned original altered in Picasa.

Stamped.

 

 

 

 

Cut out.

 

 

Next layer them together and mount onto card.

I finished mine with Stickles glitter glue and Tim Holtz sentiment dies.

 

 You can expect to see more of this in the future. In some cases there will only be small pieces to use up and in others much bigger pieces so it should be fun finding ways of using it.

Hope you find it useful too.

Happy crafty week,

 

Angela x

I would like to enter these cards in the following challenges:
Allsorts challenge blog: week 374- 'A Touch of Sparkle'
 

Friday Fun Day With Smiles.

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.

Not really done anything much different this week just the usual.... Gym, taking mum out, walking, shopping and gardening....... lots of things to smile about in the garden though.

Gorgeous flowers:

Hydrangeas. We have several different ones, really like these.

 

 

Passion flower.

Such amazing flowers.

 

Red hot Pokers.

They've been a bit slow this year.

 

 

 

Daisy things, not sure of their actual name is but they spread like mad.

 

Sweet Peas.

 

There are more but will save them for another time.

I am going to finish with these photos of the dogs.

I couldn't think of an appropriate caption but if you can by all means include it in your comment, something's going on here but I don't know what Lol!

 

 

 

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