Back to the Craft Barn with Carabelle Studios.

Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.
Hi everyone just here to let you know this is another project for the Craft Barn and it's now live.

Been working on a greetings card using a Carabelle stamp set this week and here it is, if you would like to see details of how I made it then pop over to The Craft Barn for full details.

I would love to hear what you think about my project and any comments will be gratefully received.

Happy crafting,

 

Angela xXx

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

Allsorts challenge blog: week 401 Paper Piecing (which is the technique I've used for the main image).

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.
Though actually not much as I am still full of cold but have been for a walk in the park.

They've moved all the fencing from round the new Weir structure and are trying to sort out the flow of water going through it.

We met two guys the other day who were putting a dye into the water to work out which way the water flows down to the weir.
To many people this may just look like a pretty park lake but it's actually an important part of the water control which flows in here from miles away and then into the river Witham.
Because Lincoln is quite low in parts (approx. 20 metres above sea level) it has many flood planes and lakes like this are an important part of preventing flooding.

 

The safety grids have been added so we can see now the water flowing through.

 The work is getting along too with the building of the new visitors centre.

 

These are the gates to the original entrance.

 

So that's it really, hopefully I will have more to show you next week when this stinker cold goes.

 

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 400 # 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 but not just any Workdesk Wednesday! this is the 400th anniversary!!!!
So well done Julia for such a fantastic achievement in continuing to get all these brilliant deskers to show their all !!!!!

And I am here again to show you:
"What's on my Workdesk this very special 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!

 

It looks a bit staged but it's not really. The horrid cold I have means I can't get my head round stuff but did start these two new masterboards.

Who knows maybe I'll get my art head back on sometime this week but at the moment it's blocked up with other stuff!

 

Anyhow these were made with a brayer and lots of acrylic paint and now awaits the next stage.

Hopefully I will have done something with these by next week.

 

So that's me done for today.
I can only apologise if I didn't visit you last week but it's the cold that's to blame, if you leave me a comment I will visit you, it might just be in between medication and sleep Lol!

 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

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #181 Love, Love, Love.

Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.
Hi! back again to tell you that it's time for another challenge over
at Crafty Cardmakers.

Lin is hosting today and our challenge is Love, Love, Love.

As usual you can enter anything you fancy, it doesn't have to just be cards, as long as it meets the challenge, and doesn't exceed the 15 total challenges entered rule! 

Hope you will join in.
And here is my project for the challenge:

 

I made this card using this masterboard:

 

 

I made this using a Tim Holtz Heart stencil, applying distress ink through this to start the design and then Glass Beads Texture Gel by Winsor and Newton. 

Next I sprayed the card with red, lemon and gold inks and finished it off with Treasure Gold gilding wax when dry.

 

I used a variety of dies to cut out the hearts.

 

 

And then started to put the card together. 
I trimmed of a small section at the front side of a black card blank before mounting the front section which was matted and layered with gold, lemon and red card to match with the Masterboard.

 

 

I played around a little with the arrangement of the hearts before deciding where to place them.

 

And then completed the card.

 

And a few photos to show the completed design.

 

 I hope you will pop over to see what the rest of the DT have been up to and maybe join in the challenge.

I look forward to seeing what you come up with too.

 Happy crafty card making.

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.

Not really much fun as I've been made up with cold, obviously some foreign body Lol!

However, I have a few photographs from the holiday which you've not seen so here they are.

Our lovely room.

 

View from the hall way.

 

Which looks out onto the path to the slope where we set off for our skiing each day.

 More gorgeous food.

 The Piste Map.

Showing the area where we skied.

 

Just can't resist photographing the gorgeous churches.

 

This is a smaller one and though it's not clear here it is painted pink.

 

On our way home now and going through the Toll.

 

And without boring you completely here we are at the airport of Grenoble.

 

The weather was lovely when we left France and like this when we reached the UK.

 

The blurring is due to the rain, naturally!

 

It was my birthday this week and I have had lots of nice cards to make me smile even though I have been feeling quite grotty so that was nice.

 

Well I'm off now for some more hot lemon as my cold is choosing not to shift but there you go Lol!

Still I have about six weeks to get better before we go back.

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 399 # 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!

 

Nothing much to show for my return as I've been busy unpacking but these did arrive while we were away so that was a nice surprise to come home to.

 

 

Close-up.

 

 

So that's it really until I get round to playing again, still nice and quick just how the boss likes it!

 

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