Masterboard Monday.

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

I am here today to show you a card made with one of these Masterboards:

You may remember these from last week.

You can find out how I used one of them here:

Balloon Dogs by Kate Crane.

For today I'm showing you one of my favourite techniques to make your stamp images stand out and move around. 

 

I had a piece of the Masterboard left over from last week but it wouldn't just fit the size of card I wanted to use so I decided to rip it down the middle and then attach it to black card to create the background. 

I've also stamped around the edge of the masterboard piece with one of my favourite stitch stamps by Studio Light.

 

If you look closely you can see how I made the balloon dogs float by simply attaching them to strips of clear plastic. This needs to be attached to the back of the background piece before attaching it to the card blank.

The card was completed with Bunting and a Sentiment (Kate Crane stamps), Stickles Glitter glue and strings on the Ballooon Dogs.

        This is such a fun card to make and receive.

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.

I don't have too much to show you as most of this week has been spent clearing my mum's house so I've had a walk round the garden to show you how the plants are coming on.

I don't normally grow plants in pots but decided to have a few flowers this year and they are doing really well.

I have to say they do brighten everywhere up.

The roses look gorgeous and smell beautiful too.

Gorgeous colours.

And just a few more flowers.

Pretty in pink.

And the fruit...

Apples coming on.

And the pears too.

The peas are fattening up nicely.

A walk in the park on Saturday where the running club were having a good time.

The willow seat is coming along well.

And here is Daisy and Alfie out for their walk.

The rest of the week has been spent at my mums clearing stuff and tidying up.

We're getting there but it does feel sad really. 

My parents have lived in this house since it was built about 70 years ago when the village was tiny.

This was my bedroom now completely empty.

I really hope someone nice moves in and looks after the old place like my parents did, they really loved it.

That's enough of the sad part of the week so I've found you some funnies to make us smile.

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 xXx

WOYWW -735 - 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!

Actually two desks.

The first one is in the cabin where I've been using my Gelli plate.

Just a few sample pieces.

Second pulls.

And the card which I made with one of the prints.

More details on my Monday post here:

oo0oo

And then desk no. 2.

Nothing much happenening on this desk today but I know lots of you wanted to see this card finished so here it is with the shrink plastic flowers added.

So what do you think now, this.......

or this......?

I like them both but the flowers work so what do you think?

That's me done for today.

If I'm a bit late getting round to some of you it's because we are still clearing mum's house but I'll get round as soon as I can I promise.

 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 some new Masterboards:

It's ages since I did this but I've been in the cabin playing with acrylic paints and a Gel plate.

The only problem with this technique is that once you get started it's difficult to know when to stop!

A4 card and lots of colour, love it.

These designs are made by adding colour with your fingers just smoothing the colours loosely around without mixing them too much (we don't want brown mush). Leave these to dry before brayering on the white paint thinly. 

While this is wet apply the card and smooth well into place (or use a clean brayer) so that it picks up the colour and then pull the card away. 

I like to turn a corner first to make sure it is picking up the paint.

The piece above and below were second pulls. I love these as they have less detail but still match well with the first pulls. 

There is nearly always some paint left on the plate after the first pull and often you can get another one too.

Third pulls below.

And of course you will want to see what I did with these next.......

I love Kate's little balloon dog so coloured a few more of these as I'm sure we can find a place for one of them.

Beautiful little houses.

I took one of the Gel prints and added a few stenciled and drawn images.

Now it's time to prep the pieces for layering up the design. Having cut the first square to size I have drawn the second size square on the wrong side of the card ready to cut it out.

If you have a rotery cutter like this, cutting the square out is easy.

Place the cutting blade level with the pencil line and cut along until you reach the next corner. 

Do this on all sides and then you can remove the centre piece.

Grunge the edge with scissors and then turn the card over and you can attach it to the black card.

The smaller piece is then layered with a piece of kraft and black card and attached to the base which I did with some 3D dots to give depth.

I stamped my favourite stitch stamp around the edge and then grunged it with scissors.

From there I attached the other images and created the sentiment using my Dymo.

It's not easy to see from here but I have added Stickles Glitter Glue to the windows of the buildings and the dog's eye. 

I've also used clear Glossy Accents over the whole of the dog which I think gives it even more of a balloon look though it's not easy to see that here.

So that's your lot for today and hope you like it.

Watch out there's lots more card left over.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x