WOYWW - 531 - 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 playing with some Altenew stamps today, trying to work out the exact layering for each piece. 

They make it sound easy but with four pieces to layer on top of each other if they are not exactly right they don't die cut correctly. Still I'll get there I'm sure.

They certainly are pretty!

Most of the things on the desk are about the same as last week apart from this.

You might have noticed it just on the left. I'm certainly going to have fun with this.

I'm guessing some of you out there will know what to do with it and if you don't you'll just have to wait and see what happens!

Sorry for being a tease but it's only just arrived.

I also have a post below this one that you might like as my project for Country View Crafts is live today and you can find it here.

 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

Country View Crafts Guest Designer.

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

I am here today to show you a Concertina Book made with.....Yes it's a  Masterboard though I realise it's not Monday! 
This is a little extra this week as I have been asked by Susan at Country View Crafts to be one of their Guest Designers and of course I said yes.

The theme for this month is Texture and I'm sure you will want to pop over and see what the Design Team have come up with and maybe join in the Challenge but first of all I would like to show you what I've made and here it is.

A Concertina Book.

I started with this pretty awful looking mop up card. I can never resist taking a piece of spare card to any left over ink on my craft mat.

So believe me this is not just a piece of mucky paper Lol!

I added more layers of Distress Oxides Sprays to start building up the colours.

And using the same colours in the Distress Ink range I started stamping using text stamps and the base of my glue stick.

More stamping with the circle stamp but keeping the colours within the range because there will be more fun to add later!

This close-up gives you a better idea of the detail so far.

All that lovely Masterboard and what does she do but chops it all up Lol!

 Now the fun begins as I am about to add some Texture you can really feel and see.

I so love this and if you've used Vilene interfacing it's basically the same thing.

Paint it first and then apply heat with your heat gun and watch the magic. 

So much gorgeous bubbling but don't forget to stop before it disintegrates. 

The next type of texture is simple too, just apply crackle glaze through a stencil and leave to dry, love it.

Gorgeous texture!

A few die cut plants and spiders. Some of the ferns were decorated with Nail Art beads which are quite small and very useful.

And a cobweb, love this die. 

Add some embossing ink and powder to the die cut piece then heat it up. I love the finish which is much nicer than just having die cut card.

Now we're ready to start putting everything together.
You may have wondered what the puffy fabric was going to be used for well that's the stone around the edge of my pond and I've applied a gilding sheet to resemble the water fall.

With the inner pages I added some stamping before adding the die cuts. The stamps used here are by Lavinia Stamps.

Then it's just a matter of adding any little extras to complete the design. I included some Glitter glue in places.

At this stage I also added some sentiments which were stamped in black Archival ink and then heat embossed.

For the inner page sentiments I used several Paper Artsy stamp sets.

And the front page, this woodblock stamp by Dovecraft.

I also added some small copper brads along the top of the front page and a small butterfly which I made by stamping a Chocolate Baroque stamp onto shrink plastic, coloured it with felt tip pens and then heated to shrink it.

Just a quick look now at the inner pages where I added little extras to complete the design such as Glitter glue and some more shrink plastic charms. 

My dear friend Diana Taylor made some ATCs with a similar theme and it tempted me to make this concertina book.

If you've never seen her blog you are missing a treat and can find her here.

I hope you've enjoyed watching me make this and please do pop over to see what the DT have come up with for this challenge.

Many thanks for stopping by 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:

This is actually left-over from an earlier project and was stamped using this ink.

I used the green blue and purple side for this this design though I think there are signs of a little bit of pink too.

I have had these inks for years and I can tell you they are still Big and Juicy! I love them.

I have also stamped the card blank and it's probably easier to see the colours here. I applied the ink and sprayed the stamp with water before stamping with it. I have done a few of these to use later.

This is the stamp I used by Sam Poole, love it.

 I wont leave it any longer, here is the finished card.

I've layered up a small piece of the Masterboard with some matching card and cut out a Tim Holtz pocket watch then stamped on this using this stamp by Lisa Horton.

This is actually a Steampunk set but the sentiments are great for all kinds of occasions. 

 As you can see here it stamps really well too. 

It may not be obvious that I used the clock stamp on the die cut. 

I applied the ink to the clock with a blending tool and then using the clock stamp, sprayed it lightly with water and applied it to the colour, left it for a minute or two and then pulled it away which removed some of the ink. 

This technique is often called Faux bleaching.

If you look closely you can see the images on the stamp.

 Then I thought it would be nice to apply the stamp inside the card too.

The Birthday sentiment is by Woodware.

  To finish the card, I added some enamel dots and some cord to the pocket watch.

I think this would probably be a good card for a man.

 So that's your lot, hope you enjoyed looking at the process. I would be really pleased if you could leave me a comment no matter how small.

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.

Saturday saw us back at the Craft Club again.

 Making cards today. 

I decided to try this one on White and Kraft card, well......just because I could!

This is where we started.

These were completed by some of the other ladies in the group.

How gorgeous are they and such an easy technique.

I kind of thought it might be an idea for a Christmas card.

This card was made by one of our ladies who went to the Altenew workshop at Coventry recently.

The design is done with one of their new stencils and stamps.

 Despite the rain on Saturday we braved it on Sunday to go to the Heckington Village show near Sleaford.
Just a few pics this week and then maybe a few more next week, too much of a good thing as they say!

Sadly this is what we found when we arrived.

Despite all the hot weather we've been having in the UK it rained on the Saturday and by Sunday there was a lot of mud but no problem as we went in wellies and Maisie and Stan had their rain coats though I'm pleased to say it didn't rain at all on the Sunday that we were there.

And everyone put a smile on despite the cloudy weather.

I spoke to this gentleman. His wife had just rung asking when he would be home as several bales of hay had just been delivered!

The children were enjoying this, learning how to be bell ringers.

Great collection of bicycles.

The Indians were around somewhere.

Found the chief later as he'd gone indoors to display some artifacts, can't blame him really.

At least everyone kept on smiling despite the weather though I have to say a bit of sun would have been nice.

I do have more photographs to show you but will save them until next week.

For now....

  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