Crafty Cardmakers Challenge -259 Masculine.

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.

Margaret is hosting today and our challenge is Masculine .

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:

I actually think this could be useful for other occasions too like an autumn birthday or even a female that likes gardening maybe.

All of these stamps and dies were freebies from magazines and I love the leaves which I have die cut from some more of my Brusho papers and I think it really works.

I finished the card with a little puddle effect under the wellies using Stickles Glitter Glue.

 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 

The Artistic Stamper Guest Designer.

Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.
So pleased to have been asked to be a guest designer for one month over at The Artistic Stamper and to show you the project I've made.
The Challenge theme for this month is Retro and I hope you will pop over and join in.

Lots of lovely Artistic Stamper stamps.

For this project I've made a Concertina Book.

Here you can see the front and back covers.

And just in case the recipient wants to add a few notes I've made some journaling pages for the back.

And lots of fun pages for the inside. 

As a retired Textiles teacher I really enjoyed using these stamps.

Added a little pocket and journaling tag.

Couldn't resist having a play with the stitches too.

And so to the process of making the Masterboards. 

No.1

Smooshed some colour on to an A3 sheet of card.

Love this lacy stamp to add interest to the design.

I just added it by dabbing it in places. If you roll up the edges and then stamp you wont get any lines appearing.

I stamped and heat embossed some of the button stamps then carried on adding colour and more lace stamping to complete the design.

NO. 2

I used a ghosting technique for this masterboard by stamping and heat embossing the sewing machine stamp and then adding colour with a blending tool.

As you add more colour and stamping it becomes easier to see the images.

When it's complete iron off the embossing and the design comes to life.

At this stage I joined the envelopes together to make the concertina.

I've used some real lace on the design which I grunged up a little with ink.

The small pages which were cut up from an A3 sheet started as the mop up card and I've used it as part of the layering process. 

And the finished book again all layered up.

The stamps used for this project are:

Tick Tock

Stitches

Journaling Words Set2

Lace Background

Button Border

Dressmaking

Thanks for stopping by and wishing you a happy creative week.
Don't forget to pop over to The Artistic Stamper, I look forward to seeing your designs. 

Angela xXx

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.

Hi all, remember I showed you Maisie waiting patiently for her hair cut 

well this is how she looks now but she is refusing to look at the camera, again!

And here is Stan after his haircut.

 Another one that wont look at me but very smart I'm sure you'll agree.

Maisie and Stan are used to having their hair sheared by the groomer so they are fairly well behaved unless of course I make a mistake and pull a knot but it's always better to brush well before starting.

Of course you might know that I had no sooner done this than the weather changed which might be why Maisie is refusing to look at me!

I noticed this while I was in the garden, what a beauty!

Loving the pretty flowers too.

My cacti are doing well after their winter rest in the Aviary ( no birds in there now). It is well insulated so they are happy in there through the winter.

Please excuse the strange spacing as the new blogger system was not playing nicely! and I had to go back to the original.

The apples and pears are doing well too.

In the park this week.

The local Care Home were having a charity run.

Proud father.

The babies are growing all the time.

And a few dog funnies to finish.

Now this easy could be my two. Stan even knows when you open the washing machine that it usually means she's going out.

                           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 - 575 # What's On You 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've not got as much done this week as I had hoped and I've scheduled this post as we are expecting my mum to be going home this week so if I'm a bit late getting round please excuse me. I will get to you even if it's tomorrow. 

On the left side is a half made card and my birthday diary where I list all the birthday dates. Behind those are some dies and pens and my daylight lamp.

On the right is a spray bottle, baby wet ones, box of tools and towards the back a tub of crackle glaze by Prima and some Windsor and Newton Sand Texture Gel.

I have only got round to adding Gesso to the pebbles and crackle glaze to the tube box but I'll get there soon. If you look carefully to the right there is a small brown box with a sweet little ATC poking out.

Since taking the photographs I've done this too so now you know where I'm going with these pebbles can't wait to get chance to start painting these.

As promised I have a photograph of some of the work I've finished using the postage stamp Masterboard.

This is the one I showed you last week and here is one of the new ones.

The tutorial and more photographs can be found here.

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 had a relaxing day trimming the postage stamp collection.

Then attached them to an A3 sheet of card. So that I would get a good arrangement I sorted them first into sets.

                         I spread each set in turn around the card.

And this is where I ended up, then scanned the masterboard at A4.

Next I decorated the card blanks.

I used colours from the postage stamps, gold and blues.

Using a Woodware stamp I went over the front and back of the white card blanks using Tim Holtz Distress inks.

Next, I used a Woodware stamp to create these tags.

I've finished the tags slightly different for each card mainly because I couldn't decide what to use.

And then had fun putting everything together. 

With this one I added a few coloured gems, some Stickles Glitter Glue and the blue ribbon. I actually left the white border on the scanned piece and edged it with blue ink.

Also altered the position of the masterboard too.

Couldn't resist going round the back, just love doing this it just makes the card that much more special.

So there we are all complete and now I'm off to try something similar with my collection of Christmas postage stamps.

There is one more version of this card which you can find here if you missed it.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x