WOYWW 376 # 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 for today!

 

Fairly tidy for me as I have just finished a big project for the Deco Art challenge and I'm back on to birthday cards using leftover masterboards other than that the desk is pretty much the same except that box which seems to be filling up again so maybe I should sort it before it explodes!

DecoArt project.

 

The tutorial is available here if you would like to see it.

 

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

Masterboard Monday.

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

Back again with another Masterboard card which I made for my parents wedding anniversary using even more leftovers!

 

This is the original masterboard which I used on an earlier project.

 

 

I prepared the card in stages as seen below. Spellbinders dies for the base sections.

 

 I also cut out some of the moths and applied those with 3D dots.

 

 

I Used one of the Crealies Patchwork dies to cut the top sections.

Then mounted everything together as you can see here. The sentiments are Tim Holtz Thinlit dies and finished the card with small turquoise gems and matching bow.

 

This is an unusual card for me as it's very pretty which I don't often do but I think it worked okay but what do you think?

 

I would love to hear your comments.

 

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

 

Angela x

 

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

The Craft Barn : Two weekly Challenges - Blue or Blues which I have plenty of in this card.

The Artisitic Stamper: August Creative Challenge: Anything Goes.
CCC Digi Creations Challenge: 55 Shades of Blue.
Bastel Dream Challenge blog:# 44 Mask/Stencil/Die.

DecoArt Under the Sea Challenge.

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

Hi All,
DecoArt have got an interesting challenge on at the moment and I really thought it was something I might like to join in with but time and other stuff have continually got in the way but finally I've managed to finish this piece.

I have to warn you this is quite a photo heavy post but better than lots of written instruction, I'm sure you will agree. So off we go, sit back and enjoy the ride!

 

I had great fun making this piece using the following DecoArt products.

 

 

Their crackle paint gives the most fantastic effect and not only does it crack well but it adheres well too, brilliant!

 

 So here goes...

Stages in making.

 

Started with a Paper Mache boat from Hobbycrafts.

 

 

And covered the bottom section in scrunched up tissue paper.

 

A good coverage of Gesso all round and a coat of white crackle paint on the top of the boat.

 

These MDF sea creatures are from Calico Craft Parts, love them.

 

Then I applied some handmade shells which I had create with moulds and paper clay.

 

And so to the colour using the DecoArt acrylic paint.

 

You can see here that even with a coloured coat of acrylic the crackles still show.

 

More colour

 

including some dry brushing.

 

I added further colours to the sea creatures and finished them off with the the Interference colours and when dry added Liquid Glass, scrummy!

 

You can probably see here that I also added the crackle paint to some of the creatures too. I finished the shells off with the Interference paints which really makes them glow.

 

I added some small dewdrops to give the effect of bubbles rising which I think gives quite a nice effect.

 

The darker colour on the starfish is gilding wax.

 

This photograph shows the shine on the shells really well.

 

So that's it, just a look at the finished piece.

 

I applied a little darker dry brushing on the sails too giving some shadow and a more realistic effect to them.

 Hope you enjoyed watching me make this piece and happy crafting,

 

Angela x 

 

 

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

 

DecoArt Mixed Media Blog: Under The Sea Challenge.

 

 

Altered Eclectics: August Challenge - Over Here Anything Goes.

Rhedd's Creative Spirit: August Challenge.

 The Mixed Media Monthly Challenge Blog: Challenge 27 Travel.

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

More Mixed Media Challenge-Anything Goes.

Things to Alter: August Challenge - Anything Goes.

 

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.

Nothing really special this week but I do have a couple of photos of my other friend across the road.

In case you haven't met him before, this is Tiger.
He is quite a big boy and likes to sit on my wall outside so the dogs can see him through the window, he seems to think that's good for a laugh.

 

I look after him when his family are away.

He is very fussy and likes to drink out of a glass.

 

And when he's not tormenting the dogs, he likes to get comfy on the stool......... in some rather odd positions! but I guess that's cats for you.

 

Now that's got to make you smile.

Warning!

Do not try this at home Lol!

 

 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.

Happy weekend,

Angela xXx

WOYWW # 375 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.

 

Just in the middle of making a card for my parents wedding anniversary.

The roll on the left is canvas which I saw in the Range but not sure how I will use it yet. Also on the left is my box of stuff! can't really explain it any other way but it's filling up again. To the right is my old iron, a black pan scrubber thing that I have been cutting up to make cobwebs, some drawing fluid, Pebeo white ink which is great for splattering (great creative word, splattering!).

Everything else is about the same as usual just glues, scissors and brushes.

Oh Boy! New stamps gorgeous though they are not actually on my desk at the moment but soon will be! I've ordered the dies to go with these too.

 

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

Crafty cardmakers # 170 Time

Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.
Hi! back again to tell you that it's time for another challenge over
at Crafty Cardmakers.

Lin is hosting the challenge this time. Our theme is 'Time'.
You can interpret that how you like as long as it relates to time in some way, and if it is NOT obvious you must tell us how it matches the theme please.

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

Here is the card I've made for this challenge.
I call it 'Time Flies' (Tempus Fugit).

I'm still working with some 'Leftovers', Masterboards mostly but also paper and card like the one below which I had sprayed with ink and then not used.
I stamped onto half of this with Stampendous 'Time Flies' sentiment stamps.

 

To go with this paper I stamped onto a blank card with Tim Holtz inks:

Peacock Feathers, Seedless Preserves and Evergreen Bough.

I stamped a few more of these ready to use later.

 

I used a stamp by Sam Poole called 'Clock'.

 

 

For the toppers I used some paper which had originally been used to mop over some stamping and it looked like this: 'waste not , want not' as the saying goes.

 

 

The stamp that I used was by 'Pinkpaislee' and is from a set called 'Daily Junque'.

I heat embossed these before cutting them out.

 

Here is the finished card.

 

Once again I have used three images to decorate this card as I love odd numbers they have a way of making a design more interesting and altering the angle of the clocks encourages the eye to move around the design making it more visually appealing but what do you think?

You may notice I've done similar with the sentiment and even the background is divided into three, I just can't help myself!

 

 

 

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 withtoo.

 Happy crafty card making.

Angela x

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:
Morgan's Art World: Challenge 16 #Add 3 of Something.
QKR Challenge: 203# Things with Wings.
Try It On Tuesday: Use your Leftovers and Scraps.
Stamps and Stencils: Time to take Flight.
Love to Create Challenge 16: Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes.
The Artisitic Stamper: August Challenge - Anything Goes.