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.

Fun in the park. 

More tree felling. 

This was Tuesday and they had cut back some branches.

and this was Wednesday and the men had arrived.

I can't say how much they had cut down as I went walking on Thursday.

This is Aubourn near Lincoln. Nice church.

There are some lovely villages around this area.

Pretty thistles.

And a lovely house set back from the road, I could live there.

Sheep obviously! I like them because they have black faces, not so keen on the ones with white faces.

They never moved so we didn't seem to bother them.

The hole in the ceiling is now bigger and nearly ready to be re plastered.

Bet you can guess what this is ?

This is what I spent my time doing last Sunday.

The dogs went for their annual check up on Wednesday and Maisie has to go back next week to have a lump checked out, don't think she will be very impressed with that!

Can't leave you without some dog funnies.

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.

Have a great weekend.

Angela x

WOYWW -580 # 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!

In the centre is a new magazine with free die and next to it on the left are the moulded pieces for the tube box. 

To the right is a tub of Gesso, a box full of ...well all sorts of gloves and cleaning cloths, the little red spotty box has some paper clay in it. 

The box to the side of that has card with numbers and letters and below it the all important Huggies.

On the left side of the magazine the box holds some moulded pieces waiting to be added to the tube box.

The box next to it holds lots of sample pieces.

Since we were thinking about all those UFOs I've been sorting some boxes hoping to use up some half made projects and found these.

I originally put these together as samples but thought it would be nice to make some of them into cards.

One of my favourite techniques that I've not done for ages. I've stamped the Tim Holtz stamp onto black card and embossed it with gold powder and then stamped into UTEE which had glitter flakes and mica powder mixed in it.

When the UTEE has cooled and set I've glued it to the heat embossed card so that parts of the stamped image are still showing.

Same idea again using half of the stamped UTEE which was coloured with mica when cool.

Who knows I might even get these made into something soon.

You may notice that to the left of this is a new exploding box full of stuff, let's hope it doesn't explode!

  So that's me done for today.
Sorry still not got round to using the salad spinner as I've been a bit distracted with a few things but don't worry I will show you when I get round to it. 
If you would like to see one of the things I've been distracted with it's here.

 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 to show you a card made with this Masterboard (two actually, spoiling you today).

Smooshing and stencilling ( AALL and Create stencils and stamps) to create the Masterboards.

And a little stamping in the same colours.

As these inks react with water I couldn't resist some faux bleaching too. Just spray with water and dab away the ink.

This first Masterboard is quite delicate in the colours I've used.

And the inks are quite old but some of my favourites and yes they are still very juicy.

As this is quite a long post I thought you might like to see the finished cards before we go any further.

Stamping with black on these colours really makes the images pop especially the dots.

And so to the second Masterboard.

Made again using the same smooshing, stencils and stamps. The inks are darker this time so the faux bleaching shows up much better.

And more juicy inks.

At this stage I used an AALL and Create stamp twice on two A4 sheet leaving me with two without stamping.

Couldn't resist stamping on some more of the old book pages too.

The cards were completed by using the plain Masterboards as the first layer then a white card followed by the stamped image which had been edged with matching ink. 

Also added a ripped piece from the old book pages, a spotlight circle, leaves and a sentiment from the other Masterboard then some Stickles Glitter glue on some of the dots and the Teasel. 

The plain Masterboards were also used to create the sentiment and image for the inside of the cards.

Same design just the other way round with the Masterboards.

One more look at the two cards together.

Didn't want to waste the left-over bits so I've stuck them in my Art Journal though not sure what the next stage will be so watch this space.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting.

I would love to hear your comments.

Happy crafting,

Angela x

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

Country View crafts - July 2020 - Do What Makes You Happy.

A Vintage Journey July 2020 - Watercolour Wonders.

Try it On Tuesday - Use Book Pages.

Dragon fly Dreams: No Pattened Papers.

Allsorts challenge blog: I spy with my little eye something beginning with B - Book pages and black Big and Juicy ink stamping.

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.

Happy days in the garden.

Always a great time of the year when the fish are active and the pond is full of life.

A nice surprise arrived on the doorstep.

 Full of goodies from decoart.

How much fun I am going to have with these.

They are a prize that I won on-line.

It's a great collection.

I have to say they are very generous.

I know that some of you liked my little MG pebble

and this is where the idea came from.

Meet the real Mustard.

 This is her 40th year with us.
She is beautiful to drive but there is no power steering so I have good muscle tone in my arms Lol!
It could have been changed but we've tried to keep her as close as possible to the original spec.

Of course I can't leave you without a little walk round the garden.

The wisteria is flowering again.

The Hydrangea are looking good.

And the beautiful roses.

  I like these but  not sure what they are called.

Apples doing well.

Looks like we will have pears this year now I've netted them.

 Found a few damsons too.

In the park the cygnets are getting bigger everyday though rather ugly at this stage.

Look closely, what does this remind you off?
I'll tell you what I think next week.

 So that's how they do it!

Back again soon.

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