Crafty Cardmakers #222 -' Lots of Layers'

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.

Judy  is hosting today and our challenge is  Lots of Layers .

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:

This is a Christmas card with a difference. 

Created on a Kraft card blank.

Lots of layered trees, die cut deer both using Tim Holtz dies. 

Heat embossed snow which was splattered paint with white embossing powder. 

Die cut tag also with Tim Holtz dies.

A layered sentiment and the matching coloured gems complete the design.

The trees and one part of the layered tag were die cut from this piece of card which had been coloured using Distress Oxides and left-over from an earlier project.

  The other die cut pieces were from this Masterboard which was made using a snowflake stamp and heat embossed with white embossing powder by WOW.

 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:

Stamping Sensations: November-Get ready for Christmas.
Craft Rocket Challenges: Challenge 54 # Christmas is Coming.
Christmas at Sweet Stampin - October challenge - Anything Christmas Goes.
Sparkles Christmas Challenge: 95 # Embossing Heast/Dry.
That's Crafty Challenge Blog: Winter Wonderland challenge.

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.
It's been a bit difficult to get much done as we've been trying to sort out stuff for my parents but I have a few photos that you might find interesting. 

Not sure what was so interesting but Maisie obviously thought there was something in there.

Lots of beautiful pumpkins.

And if you don't know what to do with these how about this....

We found this in the park. Someone has been very imaginative with their art work, it's certainly different and made me smile.

This lady was in the care home where my father is at the moment.

She is quite scary looking but the oldies didn't seem to mind and she has a lovely toothy smile.

There was a funny thing that happened while we there. 

The staff had decorated everywhere with pumpkins, witches, skeletons and spiders.

Outside one of the toilets there was a full size skeleton against the wall. My husband was waiting to leave when one of the residents walked up to him, looked at the skeleton and then said "Is there a queue for the toilet?" 

I don't think she was joking either!

Something else we found in the park this week.

 It is approximately 298 miles from Fife to Lincoln so this little pebble has travelled a bit.

And finally, not something any of us would want to happen.

We had a lot of wind some weeks ago and a tree fell on this bungalow, they have just got round to removing it.

Sorry the photos not too good but took it in the car as we passed.

That is a scary thing to happen I'm sure you will agree.

Stay safe everyone and have a great weekend,

 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 #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.