woyww - 763 - 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!

This was actually last week.

Following the Collage Kickstart.

Two colours plus black and white and lots of different papers.

And this is today.

My first go at making the collage grids and loving it.

 

With an addition of some stencilling and scribbling but more to follow.

That has been a great way to start the new year but what do you think?

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 Review of 2023.

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

I am here today to show you another project from last year made with this Masterboard:

Those of you who follow me regularly will know how much I love making Retiform designs.

It's slightly different doing this on an A3 sheet of card but if you find it too much you can do this on smaller card too but when using a technique to make cards I like to use A3 so there's plenty to play with later.

And once that's completed you're ready to add the detail using stamps and stencils.

I used some Carabelle stamps by Kate Crane here.

I think I love this stage as much as making the cards.

And when that's completed what next?

Look closely, the one on the right has different colours.

And yet more.

I scan the original Masterboard and then put it onto Picasa which is a photo editing program and allows you to alter colours too.

And when you've played with that, the card is next.

More Carabelle and Kate Crane stamps.

This was one I made for Christmas which just shows how adaptable they are.

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.

The lake is filling up in the park and causing the Dyke 

to fill up with water too.

It's interesting that a large part of Lincolnshire is actually 5 metres below Sea Level though not the area where we live which is slightly above.

We appear to have more lakes now than usual.

But the swans are getting on well.

You may remember that last week I said that part of the A1 had closed well this week it was the turn of Dunham Bridge which goes over the Trent and joins Nottinghamshire and Linconshire. It's difficult to see the toll booths but they are actually right at the top and not covered by water and the river was below them but not any more!

We will not be going that way on Monday to see my mum!

Later in the week this was shown on the news that some mad person thought they could drive through the water and over the bridge......they did not manage it! Crazy!

The last news relating to Dunham Bridge is that they do not know when it will be able to reopen.

I think we need to finish with a few smiles.

That could easily be Alfie.

Possibly Daisy!

Could be either of them!

This is happenening to me at this very moment Lol! Hee! Hee!

Have a great weekend everyone, stay safe 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 - 762 - What's On Your Workdesk Wednesdasy.

 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.

My desk for today!

I have been playing with the new foil machine but most of my time has been spent making collage papers for a project I have in mind.

I have spent some time watching Catherine Rains Collage Kickstart which has helped with some ideas and included some of my own techniques too.

And when things got really messy I moved into the cabin.

I have had so much fun playing with some old paints which really need to be used up before they dry up.

I never feel very enthusiastic at this time of the year so this has helped lots.

I'm sure you'll get to see more of this later.

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 review 2023.

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

More views of what I got up to last year here today.

I love this technique for making Masterboards and will almost certainly be using it again.

I'm calling it Grid Masterboards.

This was a combination of stamping, smoching and free drawing.

I stamped directly onto the card blank before adding pieces of the Materboard as the focal image.

Just add a sentiment and you have a lots of great cards.

 I used some really old, half forgotten wood mounted stamps which is even better.

Now this technique can be used with any colours you like so I have another one here for you with much brighter colours.

And you can apply the tape in diffierent places to alter the size and shape of the finished pieces.

These were done with Kate Crane stamps and Carabelle stencils.

One of my favourite stamps by Kate has to be the Balloon Dog.

And so it appeared again and again on my cards.

I think that's enough for today but more to follow soon.

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.

Now what could this be?

Someone was excited to see what was inside!

French cheese from the Cheese Lady.

In case you're interested this is the address.

Excellent packaging and very quick delivery.

A nice evening with my friend and her family.

Here we are together.

Her eldest daughter had not arrived when we came here in 1988 so I didn't meet either of them for a few weeks.

Hubby had his birthday on Tuesday so we were back over here again for a curry.

Wednesday was a funneral for a family member but he was in his 90's and had a good life and everyone had lots of smiles as well as tears.

Many of you will have heard about the amount of rain that has flooded parts of Nottingham. 

We go through Nottingham county to get to the crematorium and we were lucky as they had to close part of the A1 dual carriageway but we got past it just as they were arriving to close it so still manged to get there on time.

Just a few funnies to finish which show the real character of Schnauzers....

The worrying thing is that they even look as though they are enjoying being dressed up!

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