Happy Valentine's Day.

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

I am here today to show you a card for Valentine's Day.

I started by embossing and die cutting the white card with spotty hearts then a variety of heart dies were used to create the windows. 

I've layered this over a piece of Valentine paper and a sheet of red card for the base.

Next added Stickles glitter glue to some of the white hearts and then enamel dots.

The sentiment is a rub on that has been hanging around for ages just waiting for this moment.

This is an unusual card for me as I don't often do CAS cards but I do like it and hope you do too.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and wishing you a happy Valentine's Day,

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.

Back in the park I showed you this last week.

The workmen have been back again this week.

And they've finished the picnic benches.

These are much better now and they've moved the seating back a bit so that you can actually get your legs in which was almost impossible before unless you were very small.

Looking much nicer now too and no longer surrounded by mud.

As I don't have much else to show you this week I'm taking you round the house to look at the Orchids.

These are really tiny flowers but a beautiful colour.

close-up.

One of my favourites and so pretty.

Same type as the one above but a beautiful deep colour. 

And of course we can't forget the Amaryllis.

Now showing it's pretty face

I love this style though they don't always flower as well as the red variety.

And a few dog funnies to finish obviously!

 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 - 662 - 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!

Been working with resin recently so I'm in the cabin today which is why you're seeing a different desk.

This is without doubt my peaceful space.

In case you're wondering the suitcase holds large sheets of cardboard saved from the bin.

I've been making Geode style Coasters among other things.

These are a few of the finished ones so we're back on my usual desk again.

A couple of examples. 

These will need time to cure completely before they can be used to hold hot cups.

I so enjoy playing with the resin.

I have finished the concertina book.

and details can be found here: with lots more photographs.

Lots to see but hope that was quick enough as you have lots of others to visit.

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 project made with this Masterboard:

If you think the Masterboard looks familiar then you would be right. I scanned it and printed it off again for this project.

I've used a laser printer with this and it looks just as good as the original.

Stamps and stencils are by AAll and Create.

This is the front of the concertina book. 

I glazed the stars which is why they may look a bit shiny.

I made a new background sheet for the stars just by applying Oxide ink with a blending tool and applied some water drips to lift off some of the colour.

Once dry, I stamped and heat embossed the stars.

I couldn't initially decide about the back but chose to use the star stencil with some white ink. More on this to follow.

And this is where I ended up.

I can't apologise but there are lots of photographs here so pleased be prepared for a rather long post!

Front.

As you can see this is a concertina book.

Back.

 Which I like as much as the front and is giving me an idea for another project.

The cover is Kraft card and black Oxide ink through the star stencil.

There was already lots of detail on the masterboard so I tried to keep the embellishments simple.......yes I'm kidding myself Lol!

The sentiments are by AALL and Create too.

A few close-ups.

Several different stamp sets but they all work so well together.

I love the edging stamp and use it lots.

If you are familiar with these stamps you will know that I have trimmed and rearrange some of the parts of the images.

I couldn't decide how I wanted to close this book so I only attached part of the front to the Kraft card so that about one third was left loose and this became the closure.

This allows the back of the folder to be tucked into the opening and I'm pleased to report that it stays there nice and flat.

I certainly enjoyed the process though it was a long one.

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.

Back to the Craft Club last Saturday. 

As you can see we are still ensuring a good distance between the tables.

I decided this was a good chance to finish the concertina book that I'd been working on.

Details will follow on Monday.

Walks in the park obviously and the path around the fountain is back in use again.

The crazy paving is much safer now and looking good.

However this made me smile a bit but not in a good way.

I couldn't understand why they had put these picnic tables in a hollow where the land sinks down and this week they came and dug them out again.

It took all this lot to do it.

I don't understand why they didn't do the job right in the first place.

Quick update on the Amaryllis.

Looks like we'll have some flowers soon.

Other than that Stan went to the vet's Thursday for a scan and we are waiting for some results of some other tests but so far everything is clear.

And of course I've spent some time in the cabin, been busy making resin Geodes and Paper Weights, photos to follow soon.

Any way dog funnies next.

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