Masterboard Monday.

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

I am here today to show you a collection of cards made with this Masterboard as promised last week.

I have details about making this Masterboard which can be found here:

Cut out the sections and you have lots of focal images to layer onto your cards.

I've just used three here today.

You are left with a white border so all that's needed is to layer it on a piece of black card, I then layered it again on white card.

I can't resist stamping on the card blank and this one was done with a Tim Holts Distress ink.

And this one with black ink also using the second generation print too. I love this technique as it gives more depth to the imagers.

The sentiments are stamps by Cabarelle.

These were the stamps I used and yes they are wood mounted and very old.

And what a collection. 

If you need some fast cards then this is the one for you.

Better than that I've scanned the original and kept it for later, might even change the colours on the copied pieces.

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.

This was Saturday at the Doncaster Racecourse.

It was a very busy craft show.

Great turn out.

When you get fed up or tired it's quite nice to go outside for some fresh air which looks out at the racecourse.

A few other people had the same idea.

It had rained at some time but the sun had come out again.

Back indoors, Create and Craft were filming.

Not sure what they were selling.

This was the Make and Take section where some of the companies were offering you a chance to use some of their products.

I love these Card-io samples they are great stamps too.

Someone noticed me taking a photo!

Not sure if I've shown you these two before.

This one looks like a rather large Decoupage.

Now it wasn't difficult to find you something funny today and I'm sure this will make you smile.

My hubby took this photo while he was in the car park waiting for me to come back to the car.

If this doesn't make you smile I don't know what will Lol!

It appears that he was having to peer through the plastic to see where he was going.

If you know this man just let him know, he made my day and I hope he got back to his car okay.

Now I think that's enough for today.

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 -737 - 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've been working on a new Masterboard idea and if you want to see more and details for making this the instructions are on the Masterboard Monday Post here:

I went to the Craft show at Doncaster racecourse on Saturday and did buy a few nice items.

And these.

Interesting masks too.

I hope to use some of these soon.

And this is a close-up of this week's Masterboard.

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 technique for making a new Masterboard:

This project is great if you need some quick cards.

Not only that but they are fun to make too.

So we start by getting out that Washi tape that you've had hanging around or any Low Tack Tape. Position this how ever you like. I made some spaces wider than others but it's up to you.

When I feel a bit stuck for an idea I like to make Masterboards, no thinking allowed, forget what you plan to do with it when it's finished and just play with the products. Relax and have fun and before you know it you will have some great toppers for your cards.

So here goes.

No.1 scribble around with a soft pencil, you can rub it with a paper stump to soften the effect.

No. 2 add some watercolour paint or ink. I just added this with a paint brush following the lines of my original scribbles. best to only use three colours and dry between each one.

No.3 Use your black ink with a piece of card or the edge of a small ruler and pick up the colour and add it to the design. Don't worry too much about where it goes. You could use bottle tops for this too and create circles.

Yes it looks messy at this stage! but watch this space.

No. 4 are black splatters.

No.5 add some text by stamping or by hand witha pen that's up to you.

No. 6 was the bird stamp but could be any image.

No. 7 finish with white splatters.

And now remove the tape very carefully pull it towards you keeping it flat against itself so that it doesn't pull any of the surface card or paper away.

You should now have several pieces ready to be trimmed and used as toppers for your cards.

I feel in the mood to make something else like this and that's what happens when you find a great technique but if you pop back next week I should have a card made using this Masterboard.

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.

These were the last few days of us clearing mum's house and as you can see Alfie and Daisy were helping too or so they thought.

This was a role of plastic bags that were meant to hold rubbish but by the time Alfie had finished they were full of holes but he was happy and it kept him busy for a while.

Which then went walk about! with Alfie's help of course.

I took this photograph while I was in the village. 

It's the school that I went to and my mother too so you can guess it's old as my mother was 95 in June. It's a beautiful old building with traditional red bricks which were made in the village. 

My Grandfather worked at the Brickyard which was based at the coal mine which is now closed although they are opencasting for coal. 

The mine was one of the last to close in South Yorkshire though it was still economically viable.

Saturday we went to the park where they were having the summer fair. The stalls are mostly selling on behave of a charity.

There was lots there and it was very busy.

There was entertainment too. 

These were just setting up when we walked the dogs before it all opened.

They had boats too so people could go onto the lake.

They were very organised with all the safety equipment too.

Had to show you this beauty. We saw it when shopping. Some of you know I love my MG and this is quite special as it's an MG A but has obviously had a lot of work done to it.

Beautiful!

Oh! and this is Goose my friend's dog. She is very friendly as you can see and rather large too! I was keeping her company for a while.

That's it really for today so I'll leave you with a couple of Schnauzer funnies.

I think they misunderstood.

Daisy and Alfie probably think this is their names too Lol!

I'm sure my two would love this but keep quiet and then they wont know that it's even possible Lol!

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 - 736 - 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!

Hope you're all having a good week.

The exploding boxes are looking good, quite tidy for a change, other than that not much change on the desk as we've been a bit occupied with stuff for my mother.

A few more Gel plate cards that I'm planning to use next but need to add some stamped detail first.

A few new sentiment stamp collections and one stamp relating to the sea though I don't know what I will be doing with it but I noticed it when ordering the others and liked the look of it so we'll see. 

I have another card to show you.....

Kate Crane stamps. 

The balloon dogs are floating today and if you are interested there are details on my Monday Masterboard post here: this is a fun card to make.

So that's me done for today.

I'm off to the Crafting Live at Doncaster at the weekend so might have something interesting to show you next week.

 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