WOYWW #492 - 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!

Actually it's not as I've tidied all this away but I knew that you would want to see some of the new stuff so here it is from my shopping at the NEC (for all my friends not in the UK it stands for the National Exhibition Centre).

New moulds from the Powertex company.

Christmas dies.

Artist MDF Trading Coins and patterned tape.

New bits and pieces for my needle felting projects.

Gorgeous new stamps which some of you will have seen already. My first card using these is here.

New paint by Paper Artsy.

 A mixture of stamps and stencils.

 Couldn't resist this fabric though no idea as yet what I shall do with it.
It reminds me of some work done by Pablo Picasso.

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 some left-over bits of Masterboard and some lovely new stamps.

I bought these at the NEC Hobbycraft Show and I love them.

Great stamps that give lovely clear images.

I always have bits and pieces of left -over card from earlier projects and it's a shame not to use them.

So this is my first card using these stamps.

I had a feeling that these might just work as a Christmas card.

Left-over background mounted onto some pale blue card and a white card blank.

The houses were stamped onto black and white card then heat embossed, fussy cut and layered together to create a 3D effect.

Sentiment ribbon, a few die cut snowflakes highlighted with gems and some black Stickles Glitter glue for the smoke completed the card.

So I'm off to play some more. Not sure how this will work but stamping on some left-over pieces of Christmas paper which I will then fussy cut to add to the design but you will have to wait and see how this works out.

One last look and I'm off.

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:

Stamping Sensations: November - Get Ready for Christmas.

4 Crafty Chicks challenge Blog #427 Christmas.

Craft Rocket Challenges: Challenge 54 # Christmas is Coming.

Christmas at Sweet Stampin - October challenge - Anything Christmas Goes.

Sparkles Christmas Challenge: 95 #Embossing Heat/Dry.

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.

Starting last Saturday I joined some lovely ladies at a Craft Club which definitely brought lots of smiles to my face.
My first visit and it certainly wont be the last.

I decided to spend some time making Christmas cards and I wasn't the only one.

Walking dogs in the park.

 

The swans were having a good preen.

 

Their baby is all grown up.

Some gardening too.

 

This was a lovely day though it has cooled down since then.

 

 Look at that tidy hedge, no I didn't do it!

 

One of the remaining roses.

 

 A slightly different view of the garden and dogs.

  

Maisie searching for apples.

 

The pond is all tidy too now.

Gardening jobs done is enough to make anyone happy.

 

Another walk in the park.

 

We were being watched here.

 

 

 Some of the original railing. These are really lovely and so pleased they have survived.

 

And yesterday I went to the NEC.

 

How gorgeous is this!

Lovely patchwork wall hanging.

 

Lots of crafty stuff going on.

 

 

More poppies.

 

The brilliant Mr Richard Box!

If you're interested in machine embroidery you can't help but know what fantastic work he produces.

 

Gorgeous new stamps.

Designed and made in the UK which has to be good!

Naturally I had to buy some of these and I'm sure you will be seeing my efforts with these soon.

If you're going to the NEC for the Craft event you must pop along and meet Nigel and Andi who can be found at the Decopatch stand.

 

 So that's it really though I have been busy doing other stuff too like washing, ironing...well you know all the boring stuff.

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.

WOYWW #491 - 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!

 

Actually this was Monday.

 

And this was Tuesday.

 

Painting pebbles for Halloween which are now bagged up and ready to hide though I will have to keep one or two of my favourites.

 

As soon as I've cleared these it's back to the Christmas cards again.

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

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge # 221 - Explosion of colour.

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.

Angela (me of course!) is hosting today and our challenge is Explosion of Colour, bet this will be fun!  

As usual you can enter anything you fancy, it doesn't have to be cards, as long as it meets the challenge. 

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

 

If this doesn't explode with colour I don't know what does.

I started this card by stamping onto the black card blank with Distress oxides.

 

I used the die above to cut the squares from a Masterboard made earlier using Gel medium through a stencil and then adding Pixie and Brusho powders.

These squares can be difficult to position so I applied glue to them before attaching to the card.

Pull the die gently away from the card which leaves the squares glued down in exactly the right place leaving just the edges still attached to the die.

How easy is that.

 

I used a Tim Holtz text die and a white and black pen to add dots around the squares to add interest.

 

Quite a mixture of techniques today but pleased with the finished card.

 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 too.

 Happy crafty card making.

Angela x

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:
Die Cutting Divas - Challenge #393 - Anything Goes.
The Corrosive Challenge Blog. Challenge 10: Anything Goes in October.
QKR Stampede. Challenge 319: Anything Goes.

 

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.

Lots of visiting my parents but managed to get some gardening done too.
This little Acer Bonsai has lost all it's leaves now but I think it's when they are bare like this that you are able to see just how much it looks like the full size tree.
It has a great shape with well proportioned branches and a lovely thick, well shaped trunk.

 

I am particularly fond of this tree as it was dug up and potted for me by the late and very knowledgeable Harry Tomlinson. 
If you live in the UK the Bonsai garden has now been taken over by his sons. It is called Greenwood Gardens and is on the Ollerton Road, Arnold, Nottingham.
I have to say that when I go there I come away feeling so relaxed, it's just a lovely place to visit though it might be because I usually come away with a lovely tree too!

Now do you remember this?

 

Well I have been busy putting all the boxes in. Think I shall definitely need some labels though.

 

There doesn't seem to be a lot here this week but you can be sure that we've been busy.

 

 

 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.