WOYWW 319 # 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.

And this is what's on my desk today...

 

Just about to start making a bendy card.

 

One or two new bits that I bought at Doncaster on Saturday, there was more but I have managed to find somewhere to store it.

 

Other than that things aren't much different from last week. I have just finished another canvas but can't show you that yet.

 

So, nice and quick today just how Julia likes it.

And now I'm off to see what everyone else is up to and hope you'll join me.

 

P.S. I'm off to a workshop with Hels Sheridan on Saturday so should have something more interesting to show next week.

 

Have a great woyww and happy crafting,

 

Angela xXx

 

My heartfelt sympathy to Eliza's family, friends and Yoda too. 

 

Masterboard Monday.

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

Hi everyone, Angela here and I have been playing with a rather old technique which many of you may have used when you were at school. This technique is so simple and colours card or paper really quickly, all you need to do is choose the colours you want to use from Art Tissue Paper. This must be Art tissue paper as the type you buy for wrapping gifts is colour fast and we want the colour to run.

This example is the one I used on my frame for That Craft Place challenge last week and you can see it here.

For this first sample I chose a collection of three colours.
Choosing three colours usually works well or a Monochrome colour palette is good but you could do multi coloured designs, just go for it and have a play.

I usually do this on A3 stiff paper or card as it stands up better to the moisture.

• Rip up the tissue or it can be punched out if you prefer more regular shapes.

• Spray the paper or card lightly and lay the tissue paper on top, it gives a better coverage if you overlap these slightly.

• Now spray a little more water over the top and lay on another sheet of paper or card and leave to dry.
• Now remove the top layer of paper and gently lift away the tissue paper revealing the colour.
• The tissue paper can be kept and used for other projects.

• At this stage I like to stamp onto the coloured paper but you may have other ideas too. I used stamps from the Lynne Perrella range by Paper Artsy.

Remember this is a background paper so we don't want to make the design too lively as it will more than likely have a focal image or a larger design on top, it's meant to be a background paper or you can cut it up and use it in other ways too but that's for another project.

So here are more samples of this technique.
This time I used a die to cut the tissue paper and then continued with process.

 

This one was just ripped into long strips.

 

Now all I have to do is decide how to use these!

 Hope you enjoyed this technique.

 

Happy crafting,

 

Angela x

WOYWW 318 # 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.

And this is what's on my desk today...
I have labelled it so if you click on the photo you will be able to see what I have been using this week.
Can't tell too much about the canvas at this stage.

Several of you were asking to see my five sewing machines, sorry but I can only show you four today as one is in the shed outside and I am unable to get to it at the moment.

Anyway here they are:

My most recent machine:

 

Bought this about three years ago to replace my Singer which gave up the ghost after about 45 years of use.

 

One of my older machine:

 

 

A very simple Bernina and quite an old one probably from the 1960's

but still one of the most reliable.

 

 My smallest machine:

Which you have already seen and is only used for sewing paper.

My embroidery machine:

 

Computerised and dedicated embroidery machine.

I have to say I don't use this very often now but who knows!.

 

My Granny of Machines:

 

I have one other machine which I am unable to show you at the moment.

I believe it was bought sometime about 1930- 1940ish and was the machine I first used and belonged to my Grandmother.

It is a  Jones hand machine and looks like this:

 

 

 So that's it, hope you enjoyed looking.

Finally so as not to disappoint anyone.
This is the finished journal cover from last week.

 

One of the sewn strips edging the pages.

 

 

 I must not keep you any longer or I may get into trouble with the boss!

 

Have a great WOYWW

and

Happy crafting,

 

Angela x

 

That Craft Place Challenge needs a Masterboard.

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

And here is my third design for :
That Craft Place Challenge Blog.

Hope you will pop over and join in the challenge and have a look at what my team members have made to inspire you.

For this project we have been asked to use the Theme of Mixed Media Anything Goes!
So can't go wrong there!
And here is my project.

I have used one of the MDF frames that Lisa sells at
That Craft Place shop and also at the Facebook page and it is gorgeous.
If you have chance to go over to That Craft Place and have a look, click on the Facebook button to see even more lovely things.

So here is how I made it and of course I started by making a Masterboard!

• First start by making the Masterboard using a sheet of A3 cartridge paper as it needs to be quite strong (you could use card too).
• I coloured the cartridge paper using a very old technique I often used with children.
• Rip up several sheets of coloured tissue paper ( got mine from Lisa at That Craft Place).
• Spray the cartridge paper lightly with water and lay the tissue paper on top (this must be art tissue paper which is not colour fast).
• I usually spray again over the top and lay another sheet of cartridge over it so you end up with two coloured masterboards.

 

This is what you can expect to get.

 

And here is one I have stamped onto using distress inks and several Lynne Perrella stamps.

 

Next choose a stamp for the main image and heat emboss this on quality stamping card.

I have used a Lynne Perrella stamp for this: (LPC028)

 

And the next bit...

I could apologise for all these photos but I'm not going to Lol!!!

 

Take the oval back piece, place it, draw round it.

 

 

Then cut it out.

 

Stamp the image again, this time onto the  Masterboard and heat emboss.

By doing this it makes it easier when cutting out the image stamped on the white card as you do not need to try and cut round the small sections like the earrings.

 

 

I coloured the image stamped on white card with alcohol pens and cut round the solid areas and attached it to the Masterboard. The small orange squares at the top were added and then Stickles glues and 3D glazes to the face to bring out the detail.

 

 

Next start with the frame (gorgeous frame from Lisa at That Craft Place), gradually building up the texture using Grunge paste.

 

 

The stencil for this was also from
That Craft Place .

 

 

And here is the frame ready for the next stage.

To do this I covered the frame in black Gesso and then rubbed on various colours of Treasure Gold, Lisa sells this too.

It's probably easier to say what she doesn't sell as she stocks loads of stuff.

 

 

Now for the fun part, putting it all together.

I kept on looking at this and just couldn't decide what was missing but it just needed something else...

 

 

So I added some gems around the frame and liked it better, hope you do too.

(I probably should say "Spot the Difference" at this stage).

 

 

Here you can see the texture on the frame more clearly though unfortunately not the Stickles but they are there!.

 

 

Really hope you like this and it would be good if you could pop over and join in the challenge at That Craft Place blog.

 

 Leave me a comment if you have time, I will always visit you back if I know where you are.

I look forward to seeing your entries for the challenge.

Click here to enter.

Back soon and happy crafting,

Angela xXx

 

I am entering this project in the following challenges:

July's Challenge - Anything Goes at Rhedd's Creative Spirit

We love to Create Craft Challenge # 14- Anything Mixed Media/Creative/Inky Goes
Craft Stamper - Take it Make It Challenge for July:
 "Take a Stamp" Anything goes
Altered Eclectics: July Challenge - Mixed Media/Altered Art

 

 

The Mirror Crack'd Challenge.

Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.
Here we are again for another challenge at The Mirror Crack'd and this month it's to decorate a Canvas.

Hope you like mine........ I have named it:
 

Beyond Time.

 

Instead of a physical prize this month we would like to offer our Winner a Guest Designer spot for a future challenge.

 

So here we go.......

I started by covering the canvas with Gesso and then applied some Tim Holtz tissue paper which I screwed up to produce texture and glued this down.

Next I added some grunge paste through a stencil and covered parts of it with embossing powder and heated this. I allowed everything to dry and then applied a thin covering of stain to the canvas and then attached some embellishments, including cogs, frame, birds, pen nibs etc.

These were allowed to dry before adding more gesso to seal everything and then further paint can be applied.


Once this was dry I added some Treasure Gold which makes the detail pop out.
I also screwed in a door pull at the top.

And here is the finished Canvas.

I hope you will pop over and see what my DT members have made for your delight.
I look forward to seeing your entries for the challenge which you will find by clicking here: challenge.

Thanks for stopping by
and happy Crafting,

 

Angela xXx

I am entering this canvas in the following challenges:

July's Challenge - Anything Goes at Rhedd's Creative Spirit.

We love to Create Craft Challenge # 14- Anything Mixed Media/Creative/Inky Goes
Altered Eclectics Challenge for July - Mixed Media/Altered Art

 

WOYWW 317 # 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 what it's all about.

And this is what's on my desk today...

 

This is one of my five sewing machines but is only used for sewing paper stuff.

 

This is the Masterboard Gloria sent me for June and I should have the project finished by now Lol! Oh Well!!

 

The grey sketchbook will have the Masterboard mounted on the front when completed.

The sheet at the front is the map for the papercraft show I went to at the weekend.

 

I will post the finished journal cover when completed.

 

So that's it really, nice and quick just how we like it.

 

Happy woyww and hoping you have a great crafty week, 

 

Angela xXx