WOYWW 402 # 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!

 

The box is definitely close to explosion!

 

 

I have been trying to catch up with a few projects now that my cold is starting to clear. As yet I can't really show you what I'm making but there are a few clues and also the remains of some dies I used earlier but just haven't got round to packing them away Lol!

I know some of you were interested to see what I was making last week and if you would like to see the finished card just click here. Hope you like it.

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.

Have a great woyww 

and 
happy crafting,

Angela x

Happy Valentine's Day.

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

Just a quick post today and a quick card too!
Been a bit busy trying to catch up with stuff and made this card in about half an hour but don't tell him that Lol!

Happy Valentine's Day to you all.

 

So love this stamp by Carabelle-studio, I thought it was time I used it as it's new but not got round to doing anything with it up to now so here goes.

Stamped it in black and then heat embossed it with clear embossing powder to make it stand out. I made the border with one of my favourite Stitches and Dots by Crescendoh Stamps.

 

The Sentiment die is by Frantic Stamper Inc.

The colour is Cosmic Shimmer Pixie Powders - Lava Red.

The heart dies are by Sara Davies and I finished it off with some yellow Stickles Glitter Glue.

 

Hope you have a lovely Valentines Day

whatever you choose to do.

 

Angela xXx

 

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

Allsorts Challenge - Week 402 Hearts and/or Flowers.

That's Crafty - I Heart You Challenge.

Country View Challenges - Feb 2017 Time Challenge 30 mins or under.

Come and Get It Challenges - Love Is In the Air.

Simply Create Too Challenge - Ch. 124 Love.

SanDee and amelie's Steampunk Challenge - New Stash /Forgotten Stash.

Creative Card Blanche: February - Love is in the Air.

 

 

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #182 Add Some Texture.

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.

  Maike is hosting today and our challenge is Add some Texture.

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

Hope you will join in.
And here is my project for the challenge:

 

I had some left over Masterboard with lovely texture which was produced using Glass Bead Gel from Winsor and Newton. This was then coloured with inks.

 

I cut the Masterboard into several pieces and mounted them onto embossed card then played around with the arrangement.

 

When I was happy with it, I added some die cut flowers and a sentiment die (Tim Holts dies).

 

I finished the card off with gems and ribbon and then mounted everything onto a white card blank.

 

I quite like the clean look of this card which is unusual for me Lol!

Hope you like it too!

Do pop over to see what the rest of the DT have been up to and you are very welcome to join in the challenge.

I look forward to seeing what you come up with.

 Happy crafty card making.

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.  though not much as I've still been full of cold.

One of our little friends came to visit this week and was helping himself to some of the bird food.

I can only guess he was not impressed at me watching him!

Or maybe he just thought "If I can't see her, she can't see me!"

 

I had meant to show you these.

My friends in Ireland sent me these for my birthday.

Now they did make me smile even though I was feeling pretty rubbish.

 

And it looks like spring is on it's way, though it has been quite frosty some mornings here.

 

I had to finish with this!

 Now what do you think they are looking at?

If you look slightly to the left you can see one of my legs.

Just look at their faces Lol!

 

 I was eating these!

 

 

My friend gave me these for my birthday just before we left France and it's only now that I have felt like eating them.

If you look you can see that some of them have pictures of skiers on them.

Needless to say, the dogs didn't get any!

 

 Hope some of that made you smile, sorry you can't test the chocies....whoops! there goes another one!

Yummy Yummy!

 

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 401 # 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!

 

I'm using up some old Masterboard and some nice spotty card.

I will have this finished tomorrow ready for the challenge over at Crafty Cardmakers so if you want to see what I've made you will have to pop back Monday when the new challenge goes live.

Sorry to be a tease!

 

I did make this for my Monday slot, with some new Paper Artsy stamps earlier in the week. If you're interested, it's here just below this posting.

 

 

 

 

I know it's a quick one today but it's better that way really, more time to visit everyone else.

 

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.

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 a card made with this Masterboard:

 

I used a brayer and Paper Artsy Fresco paints to cover the card quickly.

Just keep going until you achieve the effect you want.

You can brayer white onto the paint if it looks too bright it's up to you.

 

I use one colour at a time, rotating the card to apply it evenly around the surface and then move to the next colour and do the same again.

I like fresco paints as some of them are transparent so work well over the top of other colours without blanking them out.

Despite still feeling under the weather I did feel a bit more like having a play but as you will see it took me a while to get my head round it this week.

The first stage was easy as I decided to stamp my new Tracy Scott stamp onto the background papers.

 

Then cut them out......

 

and layered the different colours together.

 

 

And added yellow and purple Stickles Glitter Glue.

 

 

Put these on one side while I thought about the background and this is where it got interesting.

 

I had thought about having a black background and embossing the flowers onto it. I have loads of Cosmic Shimmer embossing powders that have been in the drawer for ages and thought they might do the trick so got them out and had a play.

 

 

Now the only problem with embossing powders is that they behave differently on black card so after an interesting hour I realised the colours were not what I wanted though I do think that this card is going to see some use some time in the future as I love the colours.

 

So I mixed together some of the colours that did match with the Masterboards and this is what I ended up with.

 

I felt it needed a border which I created with an embossing pen and the same powder.

 

 

Perfect but what do you think.

 

At this stage I started positioning the masterboard flowers.

The card was completed with a Mother's Day sentiment, ribbon and a collection of sequins.

Plenty of Masterboard left to play with so you will see it again soon I'm sure.

Hope you like it and I would love to hear your comments.

 

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

 

Angela x