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 have used lots of red Tim Holtz Oxides for this Masterboard. As it's February and nearly Valentine's Day these colours seemed like the right ones to choose right!

 

 

This masterboard couldn't be simpler. 

Just take your favourite inks and a brayer. Roll the brayer over the ink pad and then onto the card horizontally and vertically. I repeated this and then sprayed water onto the left over ink on the brayer which gives a more splattered effect and more interesting texture.

 

Next some stencilling for added detail.

 

Just keep applying the brayer and stencilling until you're happy with the finish.

I don't want too much detail on this piece as I may add more effects after cutting up sections for the next stage but went ahead and added one more stencil pattern.

 

I have kept the colours similar so as not to overdo the detail as I may add to it later.

 

 

And now it's time to play.

 

I've started by cutting up part of the Masterboard but don't worry I'm not going to finish all this today.

 

 

Just in case you're interested I have cut the tag book using this die set.

 

 

 

You may remember me using this set before if not you can see it here:
 

For this first card I have used the Tim Holtz Kraft-Core to layer the Masterboard.

 

I have had this for some time and no idea why it has taken me so long to use it!
 

As if that's not bad enough this is another Tim product which has been sitting waiting but it's out of the packet now.

 

And so to the first finished project, a card today.

I've used the Masterboard and the Kraft card to die cut and layer up the heart and the background. The arrow was brown kraft card and I rubbed gold gilding wax onto the feather and arrow. Finished it with the Valentine sentiment.

 

 

I completed the inside with a sentiment and some small hearts.

 

Hope you like it.

 

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy Valentine's Day,

Angela x

 

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

 

Allsorts challenge Week 715 - A/G with option All about Hearts  winners 24th Feb.

 

Dragonfly Dreams: February Challenge - Love finishes 3rd March

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 fairly quiet week except for this.....

These guys have been coming over us almost every day recently, guess they are preparing for the new season especially as they have new pilots but that's another story!

They may look nice but they are also very noisy. They often fly quite low as they pass as they are on their way home as they go over us or speeding up ready to do a manoeuver.

 Now what is it they say?

 

It's a Dog's life!

 

 

 

Well we have two very lazy dogs!

 

 

If this is a dog's life it can't be too bad!

 

Just a few Schnauzer smiles to finish.

 

I'm sure this is not a good idea!

 

Very schnauzerish face this one.

 

 

Schnauzers are far too intelligent for their own good.

 

Except this one Hee! Hee!

 

And this is how they see themselves.

 

I know next week will not be so quiet especially friday but I'll do my best to get round everyone.

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 - 714 - What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday.

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

Hi Workdesk friends. 
We are here for another Wednesday at the Workdesk and here is:
"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 am actually working on a new Masterboard so I have an excuse for the exploding boxes filling out again!

 

For anyone wondering, that is an Optrex bottle at the back of the desk as I've had a sore eye but it's much better now.

 

 

I am trying to use some of that older stuff. 

Might even get round to using that Stretch Card Template and the wax seals. 

There's some red card from a Valentine kit and tucked behind it there's a heart stencil by Dylusions.

 

No idea what I will use this for but it looks lovely and yes it's new but arrived with the food shopping so doesn't count right!

Finally.........

 

I know that some of you wanted to see what was inside the journal last week so here is the January page.

 

 

Mostly based on time.

If you would like to see how I made it by all means pop over to 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

Monday is ' Use it or lose it'.

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

I am here today to show you a new page on an old journal:

 

I've had this for some time and it's time to start filling it right?

 

 

I'm going to use some of my favourite techniques to decorate these pages.

 

 

After adding the inks to the stamping block and spraying gently with water, turn it over and press firmly but gently to the page.

You soon know how much pressure is needed when you've done this once. 

Next I splattered the surface with watered down ink and stamped these clocks in two places on the page only inking part of the stamp each time.

 

This stamp is by AALL and Create.

 

 

Next I added some torn paper tissue which just happened to have a clock design on it. I've had those for ages and knew they would be useful some time. Tim Holtz ephemera cards, had these for a while too.

So far so good I think.

 

The layering was really coming together at this stage so I added a clock face by Stamperia including the hands which were attached with a brad. The little wings were cut out from an old magazine by Debbi Moore called Shaby Chic. I positioned these before attaching the clock face.

 

Now these really are old but very useful so I spent some time looking through them and found the perfect sentiment for this project.

 

I've also added a little shading around the clocks and cards to give them depth and that's it all finished.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

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.

Saturday was definitely my fun day at the Craft Club.

I helped my friend to try out some New stamps by 'Stamps By Me'.

These are layering stamps.

The piece above was hand drawn and is quite beautiful.

Very pretty flowers.

About now everyone stopped for lunch as this was actually our Christmas party as we don't meet in December so we have it in January.

Lots of interesting projects on the go

but not sure what this is!

Pretty lace effect.

Handmade bag too.

 

 

It just goes on.

 

 

Busy desks too.

 

Daisy and Alfie trying to behave but don't know how long that will last.

Dogs always do things that you don't expect and these two are no exception.

This is actually a cat basket that I won in a raffle and I've used it to store the dog toys but it seems that Alfie thinks it's his.

He began by removing all the toys.

And then settled down for a nap!

Until he got fed up and then found something else to play with.

I bet if I wanted him to go in the basket he wouldn't!

 

That's about it for today so......

Just a few funnies to finish:

I've found a few Schnauzer cartoons this week.

Schnauzer looking sad, probably been up to something he shouldn't! Typical!

 

 

May look sweet but he's probably just took this from your garden!

 

 

And all over the carpet!

 

 

 

He's probably wearing a mask so no one will recognise him when he gets up to no good!

This one is not a cartoon but thought it would make you smile. 

I'm off now to see what my two are up to!

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 - 713 - What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday.

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

Hi Workdesk friends. 
We are here for another Wednesday at the Workdesk and here is:
"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!

Now that looks better, been having a sort out and the box has survived without explosion but I did get another one to support it. Thought I could put the stash in there that I'm using at the moment.

 

 

I have been working in the new journal and I will be showing you soon what I made for January!

 

Fingers crossed there will be something new for February too.

However I also have a different desk:

 

This was Saturday at the Craft Club. Now how tidy is that!

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