Rubber Stamping - North Wales

Good afternoon all & what a grey day it is too, although I believe it is still quite warm. I said in yesterdays post that I had to complete my card I made at Tuesday night Mold II club meeting.  So, this morning I did just that.................. The little embellishments were part of the booklet that the papers came from - so they are colour  co-ordinated. This card will not be going to anyone as I didn't make a very good job of the cutting & folding despite Carolyn's very precise written instructions & demo. It's a poor master who blames his tools - but at the moment I do not work so well in the evening.  So I will keep that one as a sample & make another one taking more care.  I rather fancy making some of my Christmas cards from that design. Thank you Carolyn.  I enjoyed that card. Well, the weekend is here again I do hope you have some nice things planned - of course its the last weekend before the children go back to school so

Good afternoon ladies I hope you are having a good day. This afternoon I have the second set of photos from Tuesday's Mold II club meeting.  This time they are of their project cards.  The project was brought to us by Carolyn from her never ending pot of card ideas.  It is another version of the Step Card. The first card is one of the samples that Carolyn brought along for us to see...... ...... a beautiful elegant Christmas card. Annette A Christmas card from Annette as well Love the blue it is really striking Carol A really charming card from Carol.  That beautiful bouquet goes so well with the delicate floral background paper Cathy What a delicate, clean & crisp card Cathy has made. That flower spray is really lovely Chris Butterflies & Birds decorate this pretty card from Chris. That butterfly is the perfect colour for that beautiful background paper. Dot What a little cutie on Dot's card, along with that lo

Good afternoon everyone - where has that sun gone? Never mind grab yourself a nice cup of tea & have a look at the first set of photos from last night's Mold II club meeting. This set of photos are of their show & tell cards.  The card was to be from a sketch with the theme open. Here is the sketch You will notice when you look at the cards that were made that several ladies spotted a similarity of this sketch with a certain craft item. I hold my hands up & admit I didn't spot it & it was just perfect. Anyway here are their cards Carol I love Carol's interpretation of the wavy line using that pretty border punch. Such delicate colours too. Cathy Look carefully at Cathy's card & you can see the black wavy line in her design. This has to be the most colourful card we have in quite a while.   It is stunning! Chris I love this beautiful marbled paper Chris has used & the colour scheme. The black a

Good afternoon ladies & gents. This afternoon I have another of my "using my stash" cards.  This one gave me problems I hadn't prepared for - but I did get one made.  Now I have to decide whether I really like it or not. The stash piece used this time was the piece in the top left-hand corner of this photo. A little piece of encaustic wax work The first problem was trying to stamp on it - I was going to put some grasses stamped in black on the right-hand edge.  Well! actually I did stamp the grasses - but the stamp slipped - so messy. Next step was to try & remove the ink whilst it was wet - but no  - even messier.  So I trimmed the end piece off & also cut away a little of the sky. Here is the almost finished card.  Only almost because I haven't added a greeting. I rounded the corners of both the image & the Kraft card layer. Then with what I thought was careful positioning I stamped the grasses on the white card.  

Hi everyone I hope you are having a great Bank Holiday weekend, & that you are at home or locally so that you are not stuck in those awful traffic jams. So, that card yesterday ............................ .................... what did sitting looking at it achieve? Well, I did create a card & now I have to decide which way up I prefer.  Decisions, decisions all the time!! Here it is in both orientations; Side fold Top fold As you can see I decided to cut the piece up, & cut it on the diagonal.  I then layered it onto black card cutting it out with a narrow border. After attaching it to the card I noticed that I had a choice of which way up to have it.  I will make that choice when I come to use it.  Also I haven't put a greeting on it as I thought I would also do that when I come to use it.  One idea I had was to stamp the greeting on a small strip of vellum & emboss in white EP, placing it across the middle & hopefully t

Good afternoon everyone - well, not quite so hot & sunny yet today as the weather man said - but we live in hope. A little while back I showed the following photo; Just some of the bits & pieces I have lying around, that I have decided must get used or I lose them.  At the same time I showed you a card I had made using the spotty card. This time I have used the flowery card at bottom left.  But I am not sure about it so haven't got so far as turning it in to a card.  Although I must say that when I took the photo a little earlier I liked it a little more. I trimmed the piece down & coloured the flowers & leaves with mica powders by Honey Doo, using a water brush. I also had to outline the petals with a fine liner pen as they got rather lost. I think the main thing is how I use it - so its thinking cap on today & then see. Also, a little earlier I updated the projects photo page with the card that Mold club will be making in September.

Good morning ladies & any gents who may be reading this. This morning I have the second set of photos from the Mold club meeting last Thursday.  This time they are of the project for the evening. This project was given to us by Rachel - it at first glance has a similarity to the one we did the previous month, but once you look closer it is quite different.  We were thoroughly spoilt as Rachel brought us in a card each, along with the necessary other pieces. Here are their cards - there will be 2 photos for each one showing outside & inside; Janet A brilliant card for someone of a certain age? I love Janet's image. The image is also longer than the other cards as you will see  so it shows how flexible the design is. Joan Two cards from Joan Oh that little figure is so cute & I love the sentiment that Joan has chosen for this card. and card number 2 - another great image & Joan does such lovely colouring on her cards.

Today is 20 August and a Mold II club member has a birthday Have a great day, Annette, on your special birthday

Good afternoon everyone I trust you all had a great weekend. This afternoon I have the first set of photos from the Mold club meeting last Thursday.  They are of their Show & Tell for the evening where the theme was a design from a sketch & the colour scheme of violet, pink & blue. Here is the sketch.................................. .................. & here are their cards; Janet A lovely mix of the 3 colours in the background papers &  then Janet used similar on the really delicate butterflies. Joanna  A really lovely combination of papers from Joanna's card, both in texture & colour. Joanna asked us all the question about colour - is that front panel - violet? Lynn Lynn's found a piece of a project we did many moons ago to use on her card. Using damp kitchen roll - or toilet roll - paper in layers & then stamps impressed into it She has heat embossed her piece & because of the paper texture it almost l