WOYWW - 575 # What's On You 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've not got as much done this week as I had hoped and I've scheduled this post as we are expecting my mum to be going home this week so if I'm a bit late getting round please excuse me. I will get to you even if it's tomorrow. 

On the left side is a half made card and my birthday diary where I list all the birthday dates. Behind those are some dies and pens and my daylight lamp.

On the right is a spray bottle, baby wet ones, box of tools and towards the back a tub of crackle glaze by Prima and some Windsor and Newton Sand Texture Gel.

I have only got round to adding Gesso to the pebbles and crackle glaze to the tube box but I'll get there soon. If you look carefully to the right there is a small brown box with a sweet little ATC poking out.

Since taking the photographs I've done this too so now you know where I'm going with these pebbles can't wait to get chance to start painting these.

As promised I have a photograph of some of the work I've finished using the postage stamp Masterboard.

This is the one I showed you last week and here is one of the new ones.

The tutorial and more photographs can be found 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

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 had a relaxing day trimming the postage stamp collection.

Then attached them to an A3 sheet of card. So that I would get a good arrangement I sorted them first into sets.

                         I spread each set in turn around the card.

And this is where I ended up, then scanned the masterboard at A4.

Next I decorated the card blanks.

I used colours from the postage stamps, gold and blues.

Using a Woodware stamp I went over the front and back of the white card blanks using Tim Holtz Distress inks.

Next, I used a Woodware stamp to create these tags.

I've finished the tags slightly different for each card mainly because I couldn't decide what to use.

And then had fun putting everything together. 

With this one I added a few coloured gems, some Stickles Glitter Glue and the blue ribbon. I actually left the white border on the scanned piece and edged it with blue ink.

Also altered the position of the masterboard too.

Couldn't resist going round the back, just love doing this it just makes the card that much more special.

So there we are all complete and now I'm off to try something similar with my collection of Christmas postage stamps.

There is one more version of this card which you can find here if you missed it.

I would love to hear your comments.

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.

 What do you suppose this is!

If you have a dog you might have guessed.

Here she is again waiting patiently.

And what a mess we have here.

 Still at least it's all outside and easy to clean up.

And in the park the Cygnets are doing well.

And the Art Ninjas have been adding a bit of happiness around the park too. 
Loving these. 

Dogs seem to have been the main subject today so naturally we'll finish with some dog type funnies.

Let me reassure you this is not allowed at my house though I'm sure it could happen given half a chance!

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 - 574 # 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!

A collection of dies clutter the left side and my tub of gloves.  

An envelope holds bits of left over Masterboard and behind them another of those tube boxes which I've just started decorating.

On the right hand side nothing much has changed though you can just see a Weiredfish label which I thought I might keep though I have no idea why!

Just to the back are a couple of new pebbles.

Now what do you see.

I'll tell you next week what I plan to make with them.

But this week you can see this.

The first card made with the postage stamps that I showed you last week.

The sentiment is by Altenew and the tag and stamped images by Woodware.

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

The Artistic Stamper Guest Designer.

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

So pleased to have been asked to be a guest designer for one month over at The Artistic Stamper and to show you the project I've made.
The Challenge theme for this month is Retro and I hope you will pop over and join in.

I thought The Girl with the Clock gave a nice Retro feel to the card and of course the cogs are great for the background.

The stamps that I've used here are all by the Artistic Stamper

and I've listed them below.

Now you know me so we have to begin with a Masterboard.

Not only is the card Retro style but I've also used a Retro technique that I've not used for ages.

 For the first stage in making the Masterboard I've stamped with guess what! 

Vaseline.

The old ones are still the best and it creates a great ghostly masking technique.

Next apply Oxide ink to your craft mat and pick up the colours drying between shades.

Then lots of stamped images to complete the design and we're on to the card blanks which I've folded to make a Z fold.

Chosen my layering card next.

And prepared the card that I would use to stamp the main image by darkening it with more ink so it stands out against the background.

I've used another of the Artistic stamper stamps for the border and then added some zigzags and squiggles with a fine line pen.

And here is the card again all layered up.

I stamped the lady twice, once onto the coloured card and cut away her arms, head and the outer section of the clock.

Then stamped once on white card which I coloured lightly around the arms and face and added glitter glue to the clock and the dress, once that was dry I glazed over it with Glossy Accents.

I've also stamped a sentiment inside the card and a few enamel dots complete the design.

The stamps used are:

Journaling Words set2

Stitches

Girl with Clock

Tick Tock

Inks are Tim Holtz Oxides.
Fine Line Pen.
Enamel Dots.
Stickles Glitter Glue.
Glossy Accents.

 Hope you enjoyed watching me make this card.

Any comments are very much appreciated.

Have a lovely crafty week and don't forget to pop over to 
The Artistic Stamper for the challenge.

Angela xXx

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge - 258 Weddings

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.

Jackie is hosting today and our challenge is Weddings.

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:

I've used a 'Stamps By Me' stamp for this card.

I made this Masterboard some time ago when I was just playing with some ink and gilding foil sheets. I finished the design by adding white dots around the foiled lines and that was it the card just sat in my folder until now.

The stamp has matching dies which is always much better than having to fussy cut the image.

I stamped and die cut two of the main images so that I could cut out the flowers on one of them to use later.

The stamp also comes with some single flowers which I used on the layering card. Next I added a doily which I trimmed once it was glued onto the layering card and then attached this to the card blank.

I cut a piece of the Masterboard and layered this with a narrow piece of the pink card and then attached it.

I used the same pink card and die cut two frames which I arranged and glued down. I felt this would help the cake to stand out more.

Before attaching the cake I added some shadow to give a little more depth to the image.

To complete the design I finished it with  Stickles Glitter Glue and a die cut sentiment.

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