Rubber Stamping - North Wales

Good afternoon ladies Here I am back, albeit the next day, with the photos of the Mold II meeting - this time of the project for the evening.  This month is was the little card with "no name".  There are 2 photos for each card, except 1, the outside & the inside. A lovely punched lacy edging to the front overlay.  Lovely basket of flowers, with the pretty paper & flowers continued inside - being viewed through the apertures. Another delicate paper with a lacy edging & ..... With some one layer inking to the edges inside dainty scalloped circles with the aperture. This is the card with just the inside shows & this time a square aperture with a pretty lilac border stamp decorating the edges. Some more of that one layer inking technique & a really lovely butterfly, ,.... the inking continued inside along with a border stamp.  Again a scalloped aperture. For some reason the colour looks different on the front

Good afternoon everyone Well, here I am with the first set of photos from last nights Mold II meeting & their Show & Tell, which this month was a Twinchie but using a sketch;- Here is the sketch It is rectangular rather than square but the idea is easy to use in a square, & here are their cards -  This is a very delicate parchment craft Twinchie, on a silver base.  Very pretty & the ladies are quite interested in being shown how to do that.  So Liz who did this Twinchie is going to show them in the New Year. Isn't that sea gull just cute - unlike his real counterparts.  We have them flying over the house in the mornings - oh my - do they make a row.  Very nice design. I love the colours in these two Twinchies & they interpret the sketch really well.  I have that bird stamp but I haven't as yet cut around it like that. This card as an acetate froont & the sketch is on the outside.  It is more sketch size & shape

Good afternoon ladies A quick pop in to say I have updated the Club Project Photos page with a photo of the canvas project you will be doing with Marie in October. I will add the materials you require for the canvas later in the week, when I have also worked out the programme for the remaining months of the year. Back later with the photos from the Mold II meeting last night. 'Bte for now.

Good afternoon ladies This evening is the August meeting of Mold II club so will have some photos for you - although as usual they will not be here until tomorrow. So that you have something to look at - here is the digital page I did after my day out & visit to Little Moreton Hall - I decided to do the whole page in shades of grey - nothing to do with the book :) - as the building looks so good black & white I changed the coloured photo I had taken.  I am pleased with it. All these pages are going into an album - so I have got some busy printing day ahead of me. Hope you are all well.  More tomorrow with information from tonight's meeting. 'Bye for now.

Good afternoon ladies Well, that's the Bank Holiday weekend almost over & not too nice a day to end it on.  I hope you all managed to find something really nice to do. I have been having a quiet play day today as Bob had to set up some computers for his work this week.  i have been playing with some very clever features on the digital side which I will show you later but first some cards that have been stamped. You will have seen Sympathy cards from me like this before.  It is a very pleasant image & says all it needs to say.  Then inside I can write to suit each sad occasion. This is another birthday card to add to my collection of cards.  I must make some without birthday on as well. It has a diagonal front as you can see & this came about by accident.  I had stamped the image in the bottom left corner & wanted to also stamp one from the top right almost joining up to it.  But, it didn't stamp very well. In a fit of pique I nearly screwed the

Good evening everyone - I hope you have all had a good day. Bob & I went out for the day today & visited Little Moreton Hall - not far from Congleton.  if you haven't been it is really worth a visit. You can have a guided tour or walk around on your own.  It is a very relaxed approach.  As you look at it it doesn't look like it should be standing -but there it is.  I took rather a lot of photos - so there will have to be a scrapbook page - possibly both types - digital & hybrid. The weather stayed nice too - don't think it is going to last for tomorrow though.  Whatever you are doing on the last day of this bank holiday - have fun. That's me for today - very quick pop in.  Night night.

.................. that is, I mean a card to say "Well Done", rather than a card well done. Oh - you know what I mean. Our grand-daughter got her exam results this week & has done rather well, so I have made a card for her to tell her how pleased we are.  She is a very arty girl - so I decided to do a digi card with a slight steampunk theme.   What do you think?  Be kind now!!!   I have a couple of cd's with steampunk images on & they are quite good fun to use.   The other thing I have done today is create a digi page from my visit to Great Budworth with Gareth yesterday;    The right hand half of the page is one of the photographs I took that has been faded into the background - it was a really nice leafy walk which took us round the village. I am off now to make the sympathy card for Bob's brother.  This will be stamped. Hope you are having a good weekend. 'Bye for now.

Good evening ladies I am sorry I didn't post last night but I had a fairly busy day & didn't get any crafting done. The main thing I wanted to do yesterday was to pop to the craft shop in Llandudno & pick up some supplies for a workshop I have next week - which is definitely going ahead.  I am doing black & white Christmas & there are 5 people on it.  I knew - well I thought I did - that the shop would have black & white Christmas peeloffs which I could use.  I was very disappointed with their selection & that great Christmas Shop that they had next door has been cut down in size & wasn't very good at all.  Still I got some black cards to use & a couple of peeloffs - I think I have some others left over from the last time I did this workshop. I was disappointed with the shop in general too - it wasn't so good as before - well I didn't think so. After I left there I popped into Tweedmill as I wanted to find a top to go with some

............... yes another digital one not a stamped one.  Sorry! In fact I made 2. Anyway, Good afternoon ladies & how are you all. I don't think I have mentioned before but we have had 2 wasps nests in our house.  Well, actually one in the garden & one in the roof of the kitchen extension.  The man helping with the garden discovered that one by getting stung.  Fortunately he did not have an allergy to wasp stings.  The other one, I had a pretty good feeling it was there somewhere as I could hear them when I was in the craft room.  Then one of the warm days last week I opened the window for fresh air & could see them going in & out between the roof tiles just a little way below the window.  Yesterday the man from the Council came & injected the garden nest but said he couldn't do the kitchen roof one.  He recommended someone to do it & they came this morning.  He has recommended I don't use the craft room until tomorrow when it will be safe t

Good morning everyone Yes, another card - but this one was made at my Happy Stampers club night last night.  Very much made on the hoof.  It was our birthday meeting last night - we are 17!!!!  I cannot believe that it is 17 years - where has the time gone! Our project was to make a birthday card that featured cake.  Well! not my sort of stamp - but I had a set that was a freebie on a magazine so I took that & some ink & watercolour pencils.  Oh dear - some of the stamps were rather frustrating.  There was one that I think was meant to represent a tablecloth - I couldn't get ink in the middle & as you know I use a stamping mat to assist with the pressure. Anyway I was rescued by Caroline who had one of her texture mats with her which was lacy - so you will see that I used that on a piece of torn paper.  The set had a row of bunting which I thought was cute & was going to use but it wouldn't stick to the block.  That can be remedied for the future. Anyway h

Good afternoon ladies Well, I have managed another card for my collection - I think that makes it 9.  I don't seem to make them at the weekends, so I am possibly closer to the number I should have made than I thought,.  But I am not going to worry too much about it or it becomes a chore. When I last used this stamp for a card I had stamped a couple of extras, so looking at them I decided perhaps I would make a gate-fold card with them both on rather than think about making 2 cards.  To cut the oval shapes I dug out my Coluzzle cutting templates which haven't been out for a while.  After cutting the 2 images in ovals & laying them on the card I noticed that they were different whites.  Now! I was already in an unhappy state of mind (which I will explain later) so this didn't help.  Anyway I remembered my "dotty" stamp & went round the edges with that & some blue ink & voila difference gone.  Well, not so noticeable actually. Here is

Today is 20 August & a Mold II member has a birthday Happy Birthday Annette Have a lovely day

As it is now 10:30 at night - this bit of information could be too late. I was just on a feature within facebook & noticed messages from very irate people who attempted to go to Donnington Craft Show today.  Even though they had prepaid tickets they could not get in. It appears to have been well over-subscribed plus notices to say tickets would be available on the door. There are tales of thousands in the queue. They were only letting people in as people came out & it appears they were asking people inside to leave as soon as they had made their purchases. If people came out they could only get back in by re-joining the queue - which would take hours.  Evidently the journey was also taking hours, especially close to the centre. I think Create & Craft are going to have a lot of explaining & apologising to do. I do hope none of you ladies have been caught up in this today, & will keep my fingers crossed that you feel the need to have a read of the blog before

Hello again, how is your weekend going. As I sit here putting the photos on the blog the sun has decided to shine & the bells of the local church are ringing out so I guess someone is getting married.  Let's hope the sun continues to shine until after the wedding. The project for the evening was the rocker card brought to us by Carolyn of Mold II. A lovely Christmas version & there is some glitter on it - I think if I remember right it is on the lettering. Now, here is that delightful image again.  It is from the freebie set I spoke about a while back.  I think quite a lot of ladies had bought that magazine.  The wrap has been coated with a glaze which is very effective. A lovely poppy image & the border one is so suitable & compliments it exactly.  Very pretty card. Aah - Tatty Ted & a fairy cake.  (Yes I know it is possibly called a cup cake for the image - but I prefer fairy cake). Lovely baby card. This is soooo sweet.  W

Hello ladies Here I am with the first set of photos from the Mold meeting last Thursday, where the theme for the Show & Tell was a Twinchie but using a sketch. This is the sketch A lovely gold & purple Twinchie - very rich looking.  Quite a lot going on in a small space but doesn't look overloaded. A beautiful floral music Twinchie.  The elements of the sketch are seen through the flowers.  Lovely. Some clever punching & layering to follow the sketch A beautiful image.  The mother of pearl sort of appearance to the background paper really sets it off. Here the Twinchie is on a card which also reflects the sketch.  Very clever combination I think, & makes a lovely Christmas card. That's the Show & Tell for the evening.  Being holiday time there are fewer entries than normal.  I will be back shortly with the photos of the evening's project. 'Bye for now.