Rubber Stamping - North Wales

It's 27 February & a Mold RS Member has a birthday today. Happy Birthday, Yvonne Have a great day

Well! It's me back again. You will remember a few weeks back that I mentioned the project I had set for 2010, which only two ladies carried out. Today I have created a slide show of the photos of Joanna's book (Mold club) - it also includes a photo of the book stood up & open, & the front cover. One other book was made - that was Sheelagh, also of Mold & I am in the process of sorting the photos of her book & it will be put up in a couple of days.  Here is Joanna's book -   I still haven't come up with a project for this year, have I.  Uhm! what can I think of!

Hi again. Back in November - on the 10th I think - I blogged about some members who had won prizes or lucky draws.  One of those was Betty from Mold II club. Betty told us last week that she had written to the magazine - Simply Cards & Papercrafts -  thanking them for the prize & they printed her letter & card.  So here it is - it is not 100% clear as I had to scan the magazine page & it was right on the fold. Good for you Betty

Hi again My goodness you have been busy all of you. I had an email from Joanna saying that she too had won a prize from Abi's Craft & her winning card appears on her blog HERE .  Joanna's card is the one with the large dark heart on it. Well done Joanna - congratulations.

Hi again At the Mold II club meeting on Tuesday Annette told us of how she had won a prize from Papercraft Inspirations magazine. At the start of 2010 Papercraft Inspirations had a free diary issued with it & for each month there was a card challenge.  Annette who keeps a lot of her cards from the stamp club, sent in her Show & Tell card from some time in 2009 when the theme was "Rainy Day".  In the latest issue of the magazine they announced that the winners have been decided & they will receive their prizes soon, & there was "Rainy Day". I popped onto the website & downloaded Annette's card for you to see.  Here it is - apologies for it being slightly blurred. Isn't it cute? Many congratulations Annette.

Hi everyone The next few blogs will be to do with news from members.  These will then be followed by some blogs bringing you all up to date with photos that have been taken.  So all in all with this blog there will be about 6 blogs in total. Rita emailed me a couple of days ago to tell me about a workshop she is arranging for a jewellery workshop.  It is to be held on 21 April from 10am to 4pm in Neston & will cost £35.  The workshop is for 14 people & there are 8 places left.  all materials will be provided & about 4 items will be made.  To see the sort of thing that is being made take a look HERE , and HERE . If you are interested put your details in a comment, or email me & I will pass your names to Rita. If you go please remember to show us what you did.

Hi everyone Thank you to those ladies who said they were not having problems with viewing the slide show.  It would now appear that even though my laptop is new it needs the Adobe Flash Player updating (or possibly even loading). Here  is my next photo update - as the title states - Mold February Show & Tell.  That was from the sketch I provided, & the pictures were taken on Clares camera & then put on a CD for me.  Did I tell you that she left me a cheeky message - challenging me to recycle the CD?  She certainly didn't mean putting it in the bin.  So watch this space. Here is the slide show;  That is it for this posting - off to sort out the next slide show. 'Bye

Hi I have just popped back as I decided to look at the website through my new laptop - wanted to see how the photos looked on a better screen.  But I had a problem - where the slideshow should be was an empty box with a red X in top left-hand corner, also down the right-hand side were some little symbols that look like spanners.  These should only be seen by me when I am working on the page. When I view it through the blog setup it is fine, I do all that work on my netbook. When I go onto the Internet via my netbook & look at the website - everything is ok. I am hoping it is just a wobbly by my new laptop.  I would appreciate some comments please. Thank you.

Hi everyone I am just catching up on loading photos taken at club nights. Remember those toilet roll inners:? Well!  who could forget -  here is the first batch of photos & they are from the Mold meeting; Isn't it amazing what can be done with recycling. I will have more photos tomorrow - hopefully will get up to date. Night night

Hi Mold II ladies There are2 pictures on your club page of the card you will be making in March with Carolyn.  She will also be bringing samples for you to see tonight (22 Feb).

Hi everyone I am still here - but have had several other things to attend to in the last couple of days.  One of them - setting up my new computer & making sure I have the important things copied over.  Of course I needed  Bobs help for some of it. I am now on Windows 7 & Microsoft Word is different - so it is interesting finding my way around the screen.  Anyway! I am getting there. The main reason for popping in now is to put up the photographs on the Mold II Club page for the card they will be making in March. I have more photos to put on the blog & will do that later if I can - photos from Mold club night last week, as I have now picked up the CD that Clare produced for me & also Joanna has sent me the photos of her 2010 project book.  I will probably put those up in two separate blogs. I am out to lunch today with a colleague & then it is Mold II meeting tonight. So! more later.

Hello ladies No crafting to report this weekend - as I took receipt of a new laptop yesterday morning & have been busy - with Bob's help of course  - transferring stuff from my old laptop. I am trying to transfer in small bites of the cherry, to save carrying over any items that are now finished with. The other thing I have had to do is get used to the new Windows setup. Tomorrow I will be collecting a CD that Clare has left at PBC of the photos from Mold club meeting on TThursday.  Then hopefully tomorrow I will be able to put them here. Tomorrow evening is the February meeting for HSNW - so I shall be off to that.  My first meeting not being Chairman - it will be a bit strange. So that has been my weekend - I hope you have all had an enjoyable time. More tomorrow

Good evening ladies I will just correct that title a little - in that, although because of its location we call it Mold & Mold II workshop the ladies from CSNW are very welcome to join the Mold groups. At last nights Mold meeting I did announce that Sue & I had chosen Saturday 30 April, but that I hadn't had Sue confirm that the hall was available.  Today she has confirmed that.  So I will probably email everyone with that information.  More information here as it comes about & at the meetings in March. That is all for today - hopefully more tomorrow.

Where was my head? I forgot to take a raffle prize - but bought one off Clare. I forgot the Show & Tell prize - but bought one off Clare I forgot to take my camera - yes you've got it - well almost - - I borrowed Clares Then on the drive home I realised - I had forgotten to hand out the notes. Ah well, things can only improve after that. So Clare is going to put the photos on a CD for me & as soon as I have them I will put them on the blog. Ooh nearly forgot -----  see happening again - Good evening ladies! We had a pleasant evening with getting more from our inkpads, colouring some tags, sort of in the Tim Holtz style. There were some lovely cards for the Show & Tell, which was a sketch layout this time. So as soon as my head is back in its right state of mind I will blog some more - probably tomorrow. Night night for now.

It's 17th February & a Mold II RS Member has a birthday today. Happy Birthday, Sandra Have a great day

Good afternoon all As I have just got back from dropping my car off for its safety check I thought whilst I was waiting for its return that I would get the photo slide show sorted of the cards I made yesterday, & finished this morning.  So here it is -  I really need to sort out the lighting when taking these - this group was taken on my kitchen work top right by the window - but there stills seems to be a bit of a blue-ish tinge.  Will have to try craft room desk next time,  providing there is enough room. I really do like using the inks on the card - Tim Holtz style.  You know we have been doing something similar for some while but since Tim Holtz came on the scene & really kicked it up a notch or two that's how everyone refers to it.  I enjoy seeing how the different colours used together turn out.  The very dark blue one I put a little too much on in the centre - so I just gently wiped it with a baby wipe & lifted the excess of...

Hi everyone - it's me back again! This afternoon I had a great time catching up on some stamping, but before starting I had to clear my desk a bit.  As I was doing this I uncovered a couple of old items I had taken with me when I gave the two talks recently.  They were items I had stamped at some earlier time & just took them along as samples to show - & I do mean an earlier time.  I think they are from a rubber stamping workshop some time ago.  Anyway I decided it was time they became cards.    Three of them were Christmas ones, stamped with the PSX village scene that has been around ages, & rarely for me had got quite a bit of glitter on.  That is about the only image I use glitter on because it makes the image look frosty.  Having said that one of them I had embossed in gold on black card with gold glitter.  The other card was of an image that I can only describe as "photo-style" - you know the rubber image made up ...

Hi everyone Recently Betty from Mold II club received a draw prize from "Simply Cards & Papercraft" - she sent a thank you card & her card & letter has now been printed in Issue 81 of the magazine.  Well done again Betty. Joanna from Mold club decided on a different birthday present for her mother-in-law.  I will let Joanna tell you all about it - just pop over to her blog by clicking HERE . I have already told you of Annette from Mold II & her "Twinchie", but when she confirmed that it was her, she was just about to send off her entry for the next challenge - so watch this space. That's it for this blog - I could be popping in & out again later.

Well spotted Verena I had got so engrossd in finding things to do - I forgot that you have a visitor in May - Wendy from Card-io. So I will pop into the club page in a moment & update that entry.  I think we will keep the Show & Tell, as that can be done at the end of the evening. My apologies ladies - so I will move whatever it is I have put down for May to the next free month. Back a little later with more blogging.

 Good morning ladies Did you all receive a Valentine's rose this morning.  Yes?  No?  Well! I hope you at least got a card.

Hello ladies Sorry I have missed a couple of days - but things have been very everyday here- domestic - so not so interesting to write about. I have the programme for the next 3 months for all the clubs.  Looking ahead I will be on holiday at the end of June beginning of July & will miss the June meeting for Mold II & the July meeting for CSNW.  So! planning ahead perhaps you ladies can have a think of something to do those evenings - I have already planned the Show & Tell it would just be the project for the evening that would need finding. I have made some cards over the weekend , 3 in total, & will include the photos of them in my end of February slide show, but as they were sympathy cards I will not show them individually. The club pages have been updated - so you can see what is in store for you for up to June.

Good evening everyone Well I didn't get around to what I call "paper crafting" today after all.  Paper crafting covers everything I do to do with paper, card & all the embellishments. This morning I had another one of my crochet workshops - which is going very well - they have now learnt 4 stitches & how to make patterns from those stitches, shaping plus working in rounds as well as rows.  Then during the afternoon I drove over to the Wirral to a shop I knew of to buy the Friendly Plastic for future club evenings, as this is a product we will be working with one evening very soon.  Unfortunately they had stopped selling it, so it was back home to look for it on the Internet.  Which I was able to do. After that I spent time working on the next three months of your club programme, which I think I have sorted & must now get typed up.  I will put it on the club pages as soon as it is ready & it will cover April, May &  June.  ...

Good morning everyone Just popping in quickly to add a little more information to yesterdays blog regarding CaroLnes digi stamps.  I had a thought first thing this morning that some people might not know anything about digi art so here is a little more about it. When you purchase digital art through a download as Caroline is doing - you purchase the package & download it into your PC - you then have the images to use over & over again.  It is not like buying a package in a shop & once you have used it you have to go & buy more.  It is just like all the crafting CD's that are available - you buy the CD then have the artwork for ever to use over & over. If all of you clever ladies already knew all this I apologise but thought it best to write it here. I will be back again later

Good evening ladies I am sorry I didn't blog last night but the WI meeting that I gave a talk at was a later start & finish one so by the time I got home I was just a little too tired to blog. The talk went well & a couple of the ladies had done some stamping & one lady recognised me from Port Sunlight - so fame at last!  I am so pleased that I organised my demonstrations the way I did as it made the whole thing run better & smoother, but left room for a little digression if I felt inclined.  I usually end my talks with a shrink plastic demo.  I have the most delightful teddy bear stamp which I always use.  At the talk last week it went very smoothly - but last night - ooooh no.  The image curled & curled & refused to open out.  Fortunately I had taken along some pieces that I had done previously.  At least they saw it shrink & thought it very amusing when I talked to the piece telling it to "behave yourself in front of ...

Hi all Well it probably hasn't been quiet in all the stamping world - but it has been in mine. Today was supposed to be a day out with Sue - but in the end I went round to Sue's house & we sat & nattered, about various crafting things of course.  As it would have been my day for driving I have to say I was a little relieved when Sue asked if I would mind not going out.  Even driving to Sue I was blown about.  But I was also sad as the reason for staying in was due to one of Sue's dogs being under the weather.  She was taking her to the vet later in the afternoon Anyway one of the things we chatted about was the Saturday workshop that we are going to organise for you, deciding on when & what.  It looks like Sue's part of the day will be linked to paper making.  I still have to think about mine - I have several ideas in mind but I have to make sure they can be made in the time we give for the workshops.  It will almost definitely be...

The answer to that question is yes, after all who wants to go out in that weather.  Certainly not me. So what did  I do?  Well, I made a card & a tag.  Both items were my entries for two challenge sites that I like to participate in. I am going to show my entry for Theme Thursday here, as although it does have only one word on it, it has been stamped.  If you would like to see the other entry & read my blog - well, just click HERE . The challenge at Theme Thursday was to make something to do with "family".  I had a good look amongst my stamps but couldn't say that any of them particularly shouted family at me.  Ooh, does that mean i have more stamps to buy?  So, in the end i went for an actual family & printed off a family photograph, an old one, onto ordinary copier paper.  I didn't want the image to be crisp & precise. I decided it was also time to make another tag so that was the second decision made....

Good evening I didn't get any crafting done after all today, as something else needed my attention. But during the morning I decided to go onto the Craft Stamper website to see when the latest issue was due out.  It was out yesterday.  Whilst there I had a good browse & ended up on the Web extra section looking at the gallery of Twinchies that had been the subject of one of their monthly swaps. Then there was a name I recognised - Annette Jones .  So was this the Annette Jones of Mold II club?   I took the liberty of copying the picture in order to insert it here.  Annette is it yours? It is really beautiful.  Do leave a comment to say if it is yours, Annette & I will keep my fingers crossed til then. In case you are not aware what a Twinchie is - well it's just like an Inchie (which we have learnt about in one of our meetings) but bigger - it's a 2" square.  Hmm! I feel a Show & Tell coming on...

Hi again Having mentioned your 2010 project in the earlier posting I thought I had better come back & talk about my 2010 project & it's progress. You may, or of course you may not remember or perhaps even know about it. It was to be a non-stamping project, although I was going to include stamping if I could. My challenge to myself was to take a photograph a day.  Then I was going to make a scrapbook of those photos - but digitally. Well the start of the year went well & I did start my digital scrapbook pages.  There are still quite a few photos that have not been turned into pages yet.  But of course the photo-per-day idea went out of the window about the last week in May for quite a while.  So as I was not going to give up on the project, I have had to adapt it a little.  It will still be my 2010 photography journal - but not on a day by day basis.  Those photos that were taken on specific days I am going to continue to get ...

Good Saturday morning to you all Now that I have visited each of the clubs for the first time this year I can write a post that makes the statement above - in the title. "What can it mean?" -  I am sure you are asking yourselves. Well! It means that only 2 members throughout the three clubs remembered the 2010 project.  If you have remembered it & carried it out but didn't mention it at your club meeting then please let me know at the next meeting. I will then write a post amending that statement. By the way - I realise that any new members to the clubs that started after - say May - would probably not know about it. What was the project?  You all agreed to create a journal about the club meetings through the year.  It was suggested that you put in it your Show & Tell & also the meeting projects plus any notes and/or comments you wished to include.  Depending on the size of your journal the inclusions could be minia...

Good evening all Well that gale is still with us.  My meeting this morning was in Deganwy.  A friend picked me up to save us taking two cars & boy was I glad she was driving.  Not very pleasant at all - the car really got buffeted about. I managed after the meeting to come home & make a card that suited two challenges.  If you click HERE you can read about it but I am also going to put a photo here. I have decided as well that it will be the Show & Tell card for the April meetings & the way it will work is -  I will give you written instructions & then you make one at home.  Not everyone reads the blog or has Internet but as I entered it for a challenge i did have to say something about the way i made it - so you will get a sneak preview of how it is made.  Which gives you an advantage over the others.  i had thought of making it one of the projects - but when new designs come out you need to learn about the as soon as...

Hello again ladies What a perfectly awful evening.  If that wind blows much harder I can see our little home being at the bottom of the hill in Asda's car park. Now that all three of the clubs have had their first 2011 meeting & I have mentioned at each one my ideas etc I thought I would put the information here. First  - the meetings themselves.  We have been running with the same format since the clubs started & I see no point in changing it, but thought I could add a little "spice" or added interest?  So I have introduced a change to the Show & Tell - where you will put your cards on a table at the front of the room at the start of the meeting & place underneath them your names (which I will have typed out on a piece of card) - these names will be in a little plastic box.  Then at some point in the evening everyone will come up & vote for the three nicest cards.  Voting will be done by placing a button against each of the ch...

Hello hello hello We had a very good evening at CSNW last night & after all the business type things that I had to go through we got on with the Toilet Roll inner tag album. Because of the amount of time spent on business we didn't get to making any of the tags, but everyone had covered their rolls - so I do hope they will be brought back next month for me to see & especially so that I can photograph them. We did have a lot of catching up to do as we hadn't met since the November meeting - 3 whole months ago!!! I have some photos here of the Show & Tell which was using those 2 strips of cream card.  I am not sure how but I haven't got pictures of them all - there was certainly one with a picture of 2 horses - that's not amongst them.  So if you read this blog & your picture is not on the slide show, bring it back in March I will put it up here then.  I also have to apologise to Claire who made the card with the big cream flower in the mi...

Hi again I was watching a recorded programme from Create & Craft this morning.  One of Sheena Douglas's hours.  Whilst doing her demos she came out with several hints & tips particularly to do with Promarkers & Aquacolour markers.  So, before I forgot them I thought I would pop them here for you all. 1.    Promarkers give best results on smooth paper & card.  (Of course C&C do sell super smooth card & paper)  I have some & it is very good. 2.    Promarkers dry too quickly to use directly on your stamps 3.    Promarkers must not be used with images stamped with Stazon - use an ink like - Versafine. 4.    If you don't have a range of the same colour - just gently go over the image again with the same colour for a darker shade.  5.    Aquacolour Markers give best results on water-colour paper.  (Obvious really I suppose) 6. ...

Hi everyone Just popped in to let you know I have popped some future events on the Events page/. Back later

It's 2nd February & a Mold RS Member has a birthday today . Happy Birthday, Elaine Have a great day

Hello CSNW ladies I know I am seeing you all tomorrow night - but thought I would just pop in with special news for you. I have been talking (via email) to Wendy & Martin of Card-io about another date for them to visit you after the planned one for December was cancelled due to the weather.  They are coming to visit you for your May meeting.  I will add it now to your club page. I think that's about 10 days before the May Stamp Festival too.

Hi everyone Just popping in to put up the slide show of all the cards I made during January.  Not all of them are stamped - but if you remember - I was trying to use up my stash.  That effort will continue through each month. You may have seen some of them before - perhaps when I put them up single or over on my personal blog.  But here they are - all 37 of them.  Not bad for one month.  Hope to pop back later.