Friday Fun Day with Smiles.

Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.
Angela here again to show you what's been going on around here this week to make me smile.

Work in the park continues.

They are also renovating some of the old buildings which belonged to the original owners (everything is now owned by the council). There was a large house originally but like many it was demolished due to it becoming too expensive to maintain.
Hopefully next week I will have more photographs to show you of all the work that is going on.

Construction of the wall has now started at the weir, looking forward to seeing what happens next.

More bricking done. All lovely old recycled bricks.

Can't wait to see it finished.

 

All this makes me so happy to see our gorgeous parks being cared for so that future generations can enjoy them too.

 

Something else that made me smile this week was unpacking my new stash from the Hobbycraft Show at the NEC.

 

Now that's got to make you smile 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 xXx

 

Masterboard For The Craft Barn with Seth Apter stamps.

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

I am here today to show you a card made with a new Masterboard for The Craft Barn using Seth Apter Stamps.

 

 

Just a little peek at the Masterboard.

 

 

Also embossed onto Acetate.

 Stamped onto Shrink plastic too.

 Used Acetate to mount the stars.

Which gave us this!

 

 

 

Full details for making this Masterboard and card are available at The Craft Barn.

 

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

WOYWW # 388 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.

So here is my desk for today!

Though actually it's not but I knew you would like to see some of the goodies I bought back from the Hobbycraft Show at the NEC.

 

The little bottles of paint are by Imagination Crafts. Only half of those are new as I already had some so bought a few more colours.

 

Some new WOW moulds and stamps, Woodware stamps, Lavinia Stamps, dies and a few other things.

I went on the Thursday which seemed quiet in comparison to usual but probably because the Cake International show didn't start until Friday.

 

So this is what my desk actually looks like today.

 

I have been photographing Christmas cards this week so it's covered in the backdrop I use.

Sorry if you've already seen this earlier in the week and if not, hope you like it. I'm trying to get going again with the Christmas cards but keep getting distracted but this is one I tried out and there could well be some more to come.

 

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 card:

made with this Masterboard:

 

I've been having fun with some wax paper to create a lovely background which I then covered with several colours of distress ink.

There are many ways to do this but I chose the simplest method for these cards by just screwing the wax paper then opening it up and ironing it between two sheets of card.

 

 

 

 

I actually made three of these and also flicked water onto the surface which reacts with the distress ink. I blotted this with the white card you can see here to create a mottled texture on both surfaces but quite different. The white card will be used for another project soon.

I used an A3 piece of card for this Maserboard and when complete I cut it in half as seen here.

 

 

Then into ten small pieces as you only need a small amount for each card.

 

 

I used the following dies to complete this card.

 

Obviously you could add any embellishments to this but I decided on the snowflakes and you could of course use printed papers for the background if you don't wish to make your own background papers. Either way this is a fairly quick card and very clean looking too.

It has been deliberately made quite flat as it may well have to be posted.

 I hope you enjoyed watching me make this and I would love to hear your comments about it.

Only another nine to go with this Masterboard!

 

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

 

Angela x

 

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

 

Crafting Musketeers Challenge Blog # 43 Christmas Wishes.

Southern Ridge Trading Company: Christmas.

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.

When we were in the park this week we saw this, a cormorant. We do see them occasionally which means there must be fish in the lake. This one was sat right at the top of this tree which is unusual as they are normally in the water or drying their wings. Maybe he thought he could get a better view of the fish from up there.

 

They seem to have the look of some creature saved from the Stone Age.

I think it's the long neck and beak that makes them look rather primitive. Just the same it makes me smile to see them though I'm not sure the anglers would agree Lol!

 

 

 

It seems to have been a week for birds as the next photo will show.

 

Mr Robin, always got plenty to say!

 

 

My friends in the park.

 

Crow or Rook?

 

New ducks too.

 

 

But not just park stuff because we did have an evening out too!

 

Now that would make anyone smile!

 Fashion show and sales on behalf of Breast Cancer Research.

This little group seem to get everywhere Lol!

 

I must say I did find a little something nice.

 

 So that's it 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

Christmas at The Craft Barn.

Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.
Christmas will be here before we know where we are and soon we will be at the countdown so to prepare for that I have made a new Advent Calendar.

Started by making several Masterboards using Woodware stamps.

 After stamping and embossing, I sprayed the card with white Dylusions spray to give the effect of snow.

 

 

If you would like to see the full details for making this advent calendar just pop over to The Craft Barn Blog where you will find full details.

 

Happy crafting,

 

Angela x