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.
I don't have a lot to show you this week as I've either been busy trying to finish sorting the cabin or sorting stuff foe mum but here goes anyway.

I have spent some time picking strawberries....lots of them!

And we did call in at the fish farm on the way home from my mum's and this lovely jumped in the bag.

Obviously dog walking continues and the willows are bushing out after their massive trim.

Look at these! Only just enough room for everyone here.

And now we're off again.

You can only just see these two but they have tufty heads, not sure what type  they are.

And finally the cygnets. Mum has been teaching them how to get rid of those downy feathers.

Not a lot today but think these's enough to bring a smile.

I'm off walking today so I'll get round to see you all when I get back.

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- 576 # What's On Your Workdesk Wedesday.

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 have got a few things going on and seem to be flitting from one to another but did get the car finished which you can see at the back of the picture.

It's meant to be my little green MGB GT, I guess it's near enough.

 I got some of those sticky sheets that ShazWolf told us about but not done anything with them yet.

Then you can see my old iron at the back which I use for weighting stuff down.

I've got a new journal and because I can never decide what to do in them (it's the blank page thing!) I am playing with some techniques and will later decide how to complete the pages.

  So I've had a play with a couple of pages so far and you can see some old brass weights which belonged to hubbies dad. He used to be a butcher when weighing was done the old way with weights.

 Sorry think I confused some of you last week the second was a card but I photographed it open so you could see the back and some people that saw it thought it was a box so sorry for that.
Here it is again:

So that's me done for today though I have posted a new concertina book on Monday and if you missed it you can find it here, you might like the idea.

 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 -259 Masculine.

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.

Margaret is hosting today and our challenge is Masculine .

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 actually think this could be useful for other occasions too like an autumn birthday or even a female that likes gardening maybe.

All of these stamps and dies were freebies from magazines and I love the leaves which I have die cut from some more of my Brusho papers and I think it really works.

I finished the card with a little puddle effect under the wellies using Stickles Glitter Glue.

 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 

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.

Lots of lovely Artistic Stamper stamps.

For this project I've made a Concertina Book.

Here you can see the front and back covers.

And just in case the recipient wants to add a few notes I've made some journaling pages for the back.

And lots of fun pages for the inside. 

As a retired Textiles teacher I really enjoyed using these stamps.

Added a little pocket and journaling tag.

Couldn't resist having a play with the stitches too.

And so to the process of making the Masterboards. 

No.1

Smooshed some colour on to an A3 sheet of card.

Love this lacy stamp to add interest to the design.

I just added it by dabbing it in places. If you roll up the edges and then stamp you wont get any lines appearing.

I stamped and heat embossed some of the button stamps then carried on adding colour and more lace stamping to complete the design.

NO. 2

I used a ghosting technique for this masterboard by stamping and heat embossing the sewing machine stamp and then adding colour with a blending tool.

As you add more colour and stamping it becomes easier to see the images.

When it's complete iron off the embossing and the design comes to life.

At this stage I joined the envelopes together to make the concertina.

I've used some real lace on the design which I grunged up a little with ink.

The small pages which were cut up from an A3 sheet started as the mop up card and I've used it as part of the layering process. 

And the finished book again all layered up.

The stamps used for this project are:

Tick Tock

Stitches

Journaling Words Set2

Lace Background

Button Border

Dressmaking

Thanks for stopping by and wishing you a happy creative week.
Don't forget to pop over to The Artistic Stamper, I look forward to seeing your designs. 

Angela xXx

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.

Hi all, remember I showed you Maisie waiting patiently for her hair cut 

well this is how she looks now but she is refusing to look at the camera, again!

And here is Stan after his haircut.

 Another one that wont look at me but very smart I'm sure you'll agree.

Maisie and Stan are used to having their hair sheared by the groomer so they are fairly well behaved unless of course I make a mistake and pull a knot but it's always better to brush well before starting.

Of course you might know that I had no sooner done this than the weather changed which might be why Maisie is refusing to look at me!

I noticed this while I was in the garden, what a beauty!

Loving the pretty flowers too.

My cacti are doing well after their winter rest in the Aviary ( no birds in there now). It is well insulated so they are happy in there through the winter.

Please excuse the strange spacing as the new blogger system was not playing nicely! and I had to go back to the original.

The apples and pears are doing well too.

In the park this week.

The local Care Home were having a charity run.

Proud father.

The babies are growing all the time.

And a few dog funnies to finish.

Now this easy could be my two. Stan even knows when you open the washing machine that it usually means she's going out.

                           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