Crafty Cardmakers Challenge - 250 Love is all you Need.

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.

Maike is hosting today and our challenge # 250 - Love is all you Need. 

As usual you can enter anything you fancy, it doesn't have to be cards, as long as it meets the challenge. 

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

Some of you may be aware that I have two Schnauzers and what can I say "They get everywhere".

These are by Tim Holtz 'Crazy Dogs' stamps and dies.

The deep red hearts are die cut from an Altenew set.

For this Masterboard I used an A4 sheet of card, stamping around and over the edge.

I used three colours of Red Distress ink to stamp the hearts using the Altenew stamp set.

For this style of card we need to leave the centre of the Masterboard clear.

Now we can cut the card into four. 

These four pieces can be trimmed a little to fit a C6 size card blank or layered up to fit a 5"x7" card.

I'm making two cards here as an example of how they can be used.

On one I've used an embossing folder and on the other I've started by die cutting a heart. These dies are also part of the Altenew set.

Remove the heart from the card and keep this for later.

I have left the embossing white but it still shows up well.

The finished card has the heart from the earlier design and I've used this as a topper.

The sentiment is from the same set.

I still have card left for two more cards.

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 with Smiles.

Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.
Angela here again to show you some things that have made me smile this week.

I've been going through a few of the photographs that I took while we were away skiing. I seem to have taken a likeness to reflections. 

If you look closely you can see someone in the background taking this photograph.

This sink is in one of the bars we like to stop at for a drink. It has a likeness of Steampunk I think, certainly industrial looking.

Back at the hotel and a fruity dessert, the white piece is meringue.

The most important meal of the day, breakfast.

I love a boiled egg but rarely have them at home.

This is so civilised! I should do it more often.

The lounge, very pretty and comfortable. This was early in the day and quiet as everyone was getting ready to go out.

I saw this in another bar, love it.

Can't say as I've ever seen a weasel that skies but he's quite cute.

If that's not funny enough I thought we should have a few cartoons relating to skiing so here goes.

You would not believe the number of poles, gloves and Piste maps that we see dropped from the chairlifts but thank goodness I have not seen this happen. 

I shall be very careful in future skiing under the lifts!

Well that's it hope you enjoyed those, they certainly made me smile but maybe you need to be a skier to appreciate them.

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 # 557 - 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!

The desk is looking tidy but that's only because I've just finished playing with some Brushos and the can of Spray starch.

Don't worry I'll show you what I've been up to in a minute.

 But first new stuff.

Altenew stamps and dies.

Alcohol pens from the Works. Great price for all these at only £15.00

These are from the Works too.

And here is what I've been playing with.

These are the mica Sprinkles that go with the Brushos. 

You sprinkle these on top of the Brushos to give a lovely shiny effect. 

                 

Some of the papers I've made and some die cut pieces.

The good thing about using Starch instead of water is that the colours are fixed and will not react with water if they get wet and the card smells nice too.

I am sure to have fun finding uses for these.

I've used the matching stencil to start decorating a card blank and when this is finished I will be adding the die cut pieces though I'm not sure at the moment exactly where I'm going with this one but I will do a post for the instructions when it's completed.

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 quick card made with this Masterboard:
Instructions for making can be found here. If you've not seen this technique already you will love it.

I think this will be the last one using this Masterboard style so you can expect something different very soon.

But for now, here's how I used another of the bubble papers using this Woodware stamp (Love them). 
Make sure the black ink is nice and juicy, I used Versa Fine Clair, 
stamped the design and then heat embossed it with clear powder.

With these collage stamps there is so much detail that you don't need much else so I finished with some Stickles Glitter Glue, done!

Hope you like it.

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 well it's actually more holiday pics.

Chamois. 

They are quite common in the Alps though not usually dressed like this.

More fruity dessert.

Our favourite bar for lunch. 

If you're wondering why it's so quiet it's because everyone was sat outside in the sun!

Crazy weather!

Loads of snow, deep blue sky and lots of sun....heaven.

Same place but outside.

Afternoon tea on the balcony... well that's what I had somebody else had Gin and Tonic!

Balcony view.

Amazing!

I seem to be showing you more of the desserts but they were nice.

One of the menus just to tempt you.

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 #556 - 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!

I'm sorry it's a mess and there's nothing very exciting either!

On the left, sheets of card I've cut up from some boxes and on top of those a case containing brush pens and some Altenew stamps, dies to the back which I think have been there a while.

The can is spray starch for a project I have planned and in front of that is a piste map I brought back from the ski trip which I thought I might us on some journal pages and a little square book that I hope to turn into a scrap book.

In the middle of the desk are some magazines then more stamps to the right of those, baby wipes and the blue box contains lots of tools.

I hope by next week to have found time to clear this and make something with the Altenew flower stamps, I have a plan! which will also include another Masterboard so no surprise there....fingers crossed!

Oh just realised you may have noticed the spotty case at the front which holds some Altenew dies and stencils.

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