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.

Most of my spare time this week has been spent crafting and walking in the park.

Looking for Fungi this week and found a few unusual specimens.

Even in the winter there are plenty fungi to be seen.

These are massive but difficult to photograph as they are quite high up on the tree.

Also this tree is right against the lake so needed to be careful.

If you're wondering why I'm photographing these, you will have to wait a while to find out.

The willow seat is looking a bit sad at the moment but guess it wont be long before the leaves come back.

The sun came out even though it's still chilly and our friends are making the most of it.

Alfie likes it here at the bottom of the stairs as the sun comes in through the window. It doesn't look that comfy but he likes it. 

No idea where Daisy is, probably up to something.

Think that's about it for this week so I'll leave you with a few funnies.

I'm sure all dogs would like to do this given half a chance.

Here! Here!

Time for bed.

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 - 822 - 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 Sarah's Craft Shed and our host Sarah will explain.

So here is my desk for today!

The exploding box is surviving so far.

I don't think there's anything new here apart from the finished C. cards.

I have made several of these now in different colours and will probably move onto something different before next week.

As part of my 'Use it or Lose it' campaign I've mounted them onto some old Holographic card.

  Sorry it's a bit shiny in parts.

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 - ' Use it or Lose it'

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

I am here today to show you a card made with left-over Masterboards and decorative papers:

An old stamp set from Woodware.

Normally I would have finished these Christmas cards before now, I like to make a few at the beginning of the new year but been away and then had a stinker of a cold so got a bit behind with it.

I've applied colour to the card with a blending tool and splattered water over it to give the faux bleach effect then stamped the main part of the design.

These Stamp really well too.

I added some of the tiny leaf stamps around the edge and in the centre, some in matching colours to the background and some in black.

They are so pretty.

Then attached the circles which I had punched out to fit. You can get a die to match the circles but using a punch is quicker because of the number needed. 

Use a fairly large scoring tool to create a curved shape to the circle and attach them using silicone glue (Pinflair works well). 

And a sentiment which came with the set.

More of my 'Use it or Lose it' campaign as I mounted the finished design onto some Holographic card which has been in the cupboard for years!

Some stickles glitter glue to finish, well I think it's finished but we'll see.

This is just the start of these cards and there will be more ideas soon.

My tip: cut out lots of circles before starting, things move along much quicker.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x

Friday Fun Day

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.

Great fun at the Craft Club on Saturday.

And here is our Sandra introducing the project.

We take this in turns. 

If you have an idea that the others might like we do it as a lesson.

And these are some of what were made, they are so sweet.

The cats are free from Printable Heaven.

And my desk for the day.........

Look at those cute ears.

If that's not enough her's Alfie and Daisy.

She doesn't usually sit there but the sun was shining through the door so Alfie had to move over so she could do a bit of sunbathing.

That's it really so we'll finish with a few funnies.......

Hope you enjoyed those.

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 - 821 - 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 Sarah's Craft Shed and our host Sarah will explain.

So here is my desk for today!

My desk for this week is just full of Christmas cards but don't worry I'm moving on soon but got a few made which will make things easier later in the year. I'm managing so far not to have an exploding box!

More cards using the Woodware stamp. I'll be posting all the details soon.

I've been trying this style of card with different colours.

Thought you might like this desk too though actually Saturday at the Craft Club.

This was a project from one of the club members. 

Who wouldn't love these cute cats and dogs.

Anyway, 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 Review of 2024

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

I am here today to show you some cards that I had fun with last year with a mechanism:

I've had these papers for ages by Craft O'clock.

They are great fun cards to make.

These papers are by Stamperia.

The mechanism can be done length or width ways.

These papers are a magazine freebie.

I have done some mixed media and resin projects this year too.

That was so much fun to make.

Caught up with some older craft kits too.

And a large collection of Artist trading cards.

I'm hoping that this will be the last of the reviews and there will be new stuff next week but it's good to look back.

I would love to hear your comments.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting.

Angela x