Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #180 New Beginnings.

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.

Jan is hosting our first challenge for the new Year and it's New Beginnings, which could relate to babies, relationships, resolutions, it's up to you.

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 this project I decided to make a New Home card as I believe I may need one soon.
I wanted to use up some pieces of Masterboards and mop up papers and card, so collected together a variety of colours and textures.

 

I then stamped on these with some house stamps from Paper Artsy.

 

Cut out the houses ready to attach them to my backing card.

And punched out some birds using black card.

 

I had this A4 piece of card which I had cleaned one of my brayers on (hate to waste good paint Lol!) and used this for the background.

 

 

I added some extra texture and details using a Tim Holts dotty stencil to add more colour and brick stencil to add cracking gel medium.

 

 

When the card was completely dry I added the details to it.

The birds and the houses were added and I cut out parts of the hose to collage the pieces and then completed the card with Stickles Glitter Glue.

 

 

 All I have to do now is wait for them to move house, I have my fingers crossed but for now:

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 and hope you like my card.

 

 Happy crafting.

Angela x

Favourite Steampunk Projects from 2016

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

Hi all.
Over at SanDee and amelie's, Claudia has started the new challenge for us to show off our favourite Steampunk projects from 2016 so just had to enter some of mine and it's nice to look back at your favourite projects so here goes.

 

The steampunk perambulator  can be found here:

 

My favourite Steampunk shrine was made here:

 

Steampunk canvas here.

 

I know that many of my friends will remember seeing these before but it's nice to look back too.

 

Thanks for looking and happy crafting.

 

Angela xXx

 

I would like to enter these projects in the following challenges:

 

SanDee and amelie's Steampunk Challenges: January "My 3 Personal Favourite from 2016" - Steampunk Industrial

Back to the Craft Barn - Bokeh technique.

Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.
Hi everyone, I'm here to let you know this is another project for the Craft Barn and it's now live.

Been working on a Bokeh technique this week and here's the card I've made. Several techniques used here including, Bokeh, diecutting and stencilling but if you would like to see more details of how I made this card then pop over to The Craft Barn for full details.

 

I would love to hear what you think about my project and any comments will be gratefully received.

Happy crafting,

 

Angela xXx

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

Happy Little Stampers: January 2017 Challenge-Mixed Media Layers.



Stamps and Stencils: January challenge-Swirls, Whirls and Flourishes.



The Mixed Media Monthly: Challenge 32: 'Put a Stencil on It'.


 

Friday Fun Day

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.

No I have not gone completely mad, I know Christmas is over but it feels like it's still here were we are Lol!

Some very nice meals!

And lots of snow.

 

Now I know there are those of you who would not appreciate this but it's just what you need on a French ski holiday though of course it will be nice when it stops and the sun comes out.

 

Father Christmas looks like this now:

 

And as you can see it's still snowing.

 

Added this morning:

 

 

He is there somewhere!!!!

 

 

Hope that makes you smile a little even if it's because you're not here 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.

Angela x

WOYWW 397 # 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!

 

Not my usual desk?

Those of you that know me will probably be able to work this one out.

I am working on the Crazy stamp images by Tim Holtz to try out the new oil pastels but haven't got too much done.

 

 

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 though it may take me a little longer than usual.

Have a great woyww 

and 
happy crafting,

Angela x

Masterboard Monday Left-Overs

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

I'm here today to show you a couple of cards made with left-over Masterboard:

 I continue to have lots of left-over Masterboards and pieces of background card so I've been thinking about ideas of how to use these.

I've made a couple of cards here to show you how I've used them.

 

I started by stamping the card blanks and die cut the flowers, punched the tiny butterflies, then mounted them onto the card. I finished the top card with the addition of a ribbon.

 

Black die cut card and silhouette stamping behind the main image gives nice depth to what is quite a simple card to make.

 

All the stamps and dies used here are by Tim Holtz.

Hope you liked those. If you need a quick card this is one way to do it.

 

 I would love to hear your comments.

 

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

 

Angela x

 

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