Rubber Stamping - North Wales

Good evening everyone What another lovely weekend it has been - OK not scorching hot but dry & pleasant. I managed to "bump into" quite a few of you on Saturday at the above show.  It was much better this year wasn't it?  Mike had finally managed to get more retailers & a few more bigger names.  Sue & I took a fairly leisurely wander round, stopping & chatting to everyone - most pleasant. I was very good & although I said I wasn't going to buy anything - no I said I didn't need to buy anything - I did spend a little money.  My biggest outlay was for 5 A4 plastic boxes which are going to be great to divide up all my A4 papers.  I am going to divide them up into types - you know -Christmas, Floral, Masculine & any other type I have.  That way I think they will get used quicker because I will actually know what I have got. Did you see the stand for "HobbyFun"?  It was the one selling beautiful fine fabrics by the metre or i...

Good afternoon ladies Yes! it is afternoon not evening.  I haven't achieved the crafting I wanted to today after all, but I have had another good sort out.  They are never ending these sort outs. I have put some items together for Clare to help raise money for MS & I have also sorted my stash - or some of it at least - into boxes suitable for the various workshops I do at PBC.  Since the garden centre bought the shop out I have to provide materials for workshops.  I can buy from the shop at a discount - but I might as well use what is building up in my cupboards.  So I have picked out suitable paper & card for the next few card workshops & got them into boxes & folders.  Mind you they are still sitting on the bed beside my craft desk - but easy steps I say. Also today I have got "my man that does" in doing some weeding, thinning & putting in my new plants, so cups of tea have had to be made.  This means I cannot settle to ...

Good evening ladies Well now what have I been up to! I didn't mention in yesterdays blog that I had had a very good workshop in the morning.  There were only two ladies on it which we don't normally do (there has to be a minimum of three) - but I knew that one of the ladies had tried several workshops & they hadn't taken place due to lack of support.  So I let this one go ahead.  The Project was the card gift box that I showed on my blog recently.  Because there were only two ladies the project went a little quicker so I was able to add a small item on the end - a pop up card for holding gift cards (you know the one that shops give out that look like credit cards).  All in all it was a very pleasant morning. Today it was another tidy day of the craft desk & sorting out projects I need to do next.  I have some quickie cards to make up - Christmas ones - for my fundraising efforts.  So will probably sit & do some of those tomorrow. The...

Hi, it's me back again I rather liked putting the photos of the show & tell on the blog in that manner it gave me a chance to comment about them whilst they were on the screen.  I think that is the way I will go all the time now & if there are lots of photos they will go up in several parts. Here we are with the evenings project this time, & it had been requested that one evening we try a scrapbook page.  A couple of ladies had never tried this craft & a couple had dabbled - but the results are great.  Bear in mind some of them are still work in progress & might not be fixed down or have more embellishments to go on. The one on the left has made the most of a favourite stamp.                                              ...

Hello ladies Because of the change to how I display the photos from club meetings now I am going to write about those from Mold II in two posts.  This first one will be of the show & tell - which was for cards with newspaper in the design.  Funny how they were all to do with flowers!   I think it is because the trend at the moment is for the shabby look & if you cut out flower shapes & use distress inks on them it works really well.   Doesn't the black one with the peel offs over newspaper look good - I would never have thought of that. The tall thin one on the right at the bottom has had a resist technique used on it over the newspaper.  We are going to be shown how that was done.                 A really good show of cards. Right I am off now to write up their project photos. Be back in a short while.

Hello ladies Tonight's meeting of Mold II has not taken place at this point in time.  I thought I would do a little blogging as I sit here having my lunch. This morning I had a sort through some scrapbook papers as tonight we are creating a scrapbook page.  I thought I would look out a couple of photo's that I haven't scrap booked yet & some papers etc to go with them.  I was also going to look out some 12 x 12 papers to take with me should anyone like to use them.  So what photos should I use.  Well when I opened a drawer that I know had photos in that are not in albums of any kind I found the very thing & strangely we had been talking about them at the weekend.  Gareth's graduation day.  For the purpose of the page this evening I scanned the couple of photos I was going to use in case Gareth would like the originals.  I had to laugh as I looked through the box of photos - I took them & I know it is not a good  enough excuse b...

Birthday Greetings It's 26 July & a CSNW member has a birthday Happy Birthday Grace Have a lovely birthday

Good evening ladies I trust you all had a lovely weekend - was the weather great!  We had a quiet weekend due to Bob's damaged toe.  When he damaged it he also took a bit of a bashing in his body - so has had a rather painful weekend. Also due to the damage to his toe I have had to dress it everyday & he can't get a show on. Not to worry though I had some admin work to get up to date so I did that.  I write an e-letter for HSNW club members about the months meeting - this goes out to members who didn't make the meeting to keep them informed.  This month I was including some photographs as I found it easier to do that to show them how to make something rather than just write in words.  Today I have been out with our daughter-in-law Nadine.  We went over to Bromborough to visit the silk flower wholesale shop/  It's not just flowers they sell.  I was pricing up candles as prior to next Christmas, not this - next, I am demonstrating decorati...

It's me again. Here we go let's see how tidy I can show the remaining photos;     There!  I don't think I have left anyone out.  It was tricky trying to insert them neatly & keep track of what I had already shown. Just a couple of comments.  The last 2 photos - the one on the right is a close up of the floral display behind the acetate of the card on the left.  The little zig zag card was presented in the little box above it which had a paper band around it with Happy Birthday on it. Oh & the one with the candles?  Yes! there are 70! Many of the cards had my age on it - most of them very subtly -  once again thank you very much. Right time to make some dinner & feed Bob who is suffering at the moment due to having knocked his big toe on one foot.  Rather nastily actually.   More tomorrow.  Hope you are having a good weekend. Ooh, nearly forgot - next Saturday (30th) is the Wrexham Stamp Fes...

Here I am again - with more cards.  I am not sure whether this post will contain the remainder or if I might have to do a part four.  Let us see what happens.  I hope you are still with me on this - More on the way

Good afternoon ladies ........... ooh sorry .............. & Gareth Right let me see if I can show you the next set of cards a little neater than before.   That is a little neater than before - well I hope it will be when you view it.  The trick appeared to be putting images that were the same size together.  I laid it out will 2 rows with 3 photos in & then one photo on its own.  But I have just popped to look at a preview & the top row has 3, the second row has 2 with a gap & then there are 2 on separate rows.  Still at least you get to see the cards. So now I am off to see how many photos I can put together on the next post.  There are quite a few square ones so I will probably put those next.  Then there may have to be a page for the different shaped ones.

Hello again ladies Here we are then - finally part one of my beautiful birthday cards to share with you.  Don't forget click on the photo to get a larger view.                              That's the first 12 - more in the next post. Putting them in like this takes a bit longer so I will have to prepare in advance in future, especially if there is quite a few to show. NOTE - I have just taken a preview of the page before posting & the photos are all over the place - I would be interested in hearing how they appear on your display.  I obviously need to give this more thought.