Crafty Cardmakers Challenge # 179 - Christmas with a Twist.

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.

Kim is hosting our final challenge of 2016. We would love to see your Christmas creations, but there is a twist which we would love you to play; we want to see your non traditional Christmas projects. Anything quirky and unusual and not typically thought of as Christmas would be fabulous please. You can play along with a normal Christmas creation if you prefer, but we hope that many of you will play the twist and inspire us with different ideas!  As usual you can enter anything you fancy, it doesn't have to be just cards as long as it meets the challenge and does not exceed the 15 total challenges entered rule!

We are sponsored for our final challenge of the year by:

 

WOODWARE CRAFT COLLECTION

With a prize of £12 to spend at your favourite Woodware stockist, either on line or in store.

And here is my card for this challenge featuring Maisie and Stanley the crazy dogs Lol!

 

 

 

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 card in the following challenges:
Country View Crafts Challenges: Dec 16 - Christmas.
Crimbo Crackers: Challenge 121-Non Traditional Christmas.
Sparkles Monthly challenges: Challenge#86 Christmas is Coming.
QKR Stampede: 221- Non Traditional Christmas Colours.
Creative Corner Challenge: Christmas Time.
Addicted to Stamps: Challenge 137- Christmas.
Crafty Catz: Challenge#350 Christmas card-non Traditional Colours.
A vintage Journey: December Challenge - Winter Magic.

 

Friday Fun Day with Smiles

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.

More walks in the park.
The strange looking duck is still around. He seems to like it here. Can you see his tuft?

 

The Kingfisher is back though I apologise as this is not a very good photo as he caught me by surprise.

 

 

The work on the weir is coming to an end, not much more to do.

 

 

 Quite a nice day and all the ducks were making the most of it.

 

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

Back at The Craft Barn: Birthday card.

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

Hi everyone just here to let you know this is another project for the Craft Barn and it's now live and it would be great if you could pop over and take a look where you will find instructions for making the collaged Masterboard and stamped card. There's a real mixture of techniques here including dies and mop-up cloths.

 

This is how I started by using lots of left-over Masterboards.

 

If you would like to see the full details for making this collaged card        just pop over to The Craft Barn Blog where you will find full details.

 

Happy crafting,

 

Angela x

 

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

 

Crafty Creations Challenges # 330 #Masculine.

Love 2 Create Challenge Blog: Anything Creative/ Mixed Media Goes.

 

 

WOYWW 392 # 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!
And yes it's a mess! What more can I say!

 

I'm in the middle of a new project, can't say what yet. I've done a few recently and they will all be available soon.

Look at that box Lol! definitely got to be near exploding stage I think!

 

I am using stencils at the moment and they are Tim Holtz, various pastes. The cards are some birthday ones that I've made. I will showcase some of those if anyone's interested. They are some of my quick cards, one layer with die-cut embellishments.

Sorry not had time yet to do anything with the nail varnish which is annoying me as I know exactly what I plan to do with them.

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 as I only managed to do return visits last week but I will always visit you if you visit me, it just was a busy week.

Have a great woyww 

and 
happy crafting,

Angela x

Masterboard Monday

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

I am here today to show you how I have used up some left-over Masterboard:
You may remember seeing me use this Masterboard before:

When I made this:

 

 

As I still have quite a bit left I decided to cover some tags and here is one of them. I wonder if you can see that the brown trees are actually the waste from cutting out the original ones for the bag above.

 

 

And a close-up.

The white splatter was done using Pebeo Brilliant White Artist Marker and the Noel and the labels are Tim Holtz Thinlits dies.

 

I'm thinking this might make a good topper for a card too so we will see.

 

In case you wondered these are the stamps I used on this Masterboard.

 

I would love to hear your comments.

 

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

 

Angela x

Friday Fun Day with Smiles.

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.

More brick work today, it's all coming along nicely.

 

They have started on the bandstand too as some kind people decide to set the roof on fire some time ago so the council are replacing it.

 

Someone is keeping his eye on the proceedings!

Maisie and Stan watched over the replacement of the pond net this week too.

 

 

The worst bit is getting the old net off but I always forget this!

 

Next we have to place lengths of wood across to support the net until it is secured.

And there we are all done which is good because it's turned cooler here and the fish can now settle down for the winter.

Maisie has come to inspect!

Now she has sent for Stan.

Obviously not impressed they have decided it's time to find something more interesting Lol!

 

 Have a great weekend everyone and

 thanks for stopping by.

 

 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