Rubber Stamping - North Wales

Good evening everyone Well! what a nice weekend it has been.  Keep this sort of weather up & winter will seem very short. Have you got all your trick & treat goodies sorted for tomorrow night. We have had quite a quiet day today - my copy of craft Stamper arrived in the post yesterday & I curled up & spent some time going through it.  I must say there are a lot of good ideas in it - I have been taken by one technique which I am going to try out for Christmas - so watch this space. This evening we have had Gareth's company for dinner - he has just finished a long stint of working in Germany from Monday to Friday - I am sure he is looking forward to some local travelling for work for a while. Now the title said "Well done Annette" - I am talking of Annette from Mold II.  I also had the latest copy of Papercraft Essentials delivered on Friday & lo & behold there is Annette with one of her cards. You are doing really well Annette & it is

Hi ladies Just popping in for a quick chat.  I am afraid that after my day out yesterday I was quite tired in the evening - I think the driving does it. Anyway I had a very pleasant day out with my neighbour we had been wondering whether to go out on Thursday or Friday & Friday won - which was as it turns out the better of the 2 days.  We drove over to Boundary Mill in Colne - I needed some new bits & pieces of clothing & there is such a cast choice there. After some shopping in which I found the things I wanted & my neighbour had splurged out on a very pretty lacy top we had lunch & a rather long natter.  Then some more looking around the shop & I picked up a few bits & pieces towards Christmas. The journey home was a bit stressful as we caught up quite a backlog of traffic - quite a crawl down the M6.  But all in all a very pleasant day. Today has been a very domestic day - so no crafting done.  Hope to do some tomorrow. Also tomorrow I will hav

Good evening ladies I have today done some stamping.  I was asked by Card-io if I could do something with one of their new stamp sets - so today I sat down for a play. I created two cards - but very straight forward ones yet different.  After finishing them I started to get some more adventurous ideas which I hope to put into practice over the weekend. I am going to put the photo of the black & white version here & then if you want to see the one that is a bit different - pop over to my own blog.  Clicking HERE will take you there. The green background is the cloth that I laid the card on to photograph. It's quite an interesting tree shape & I know lots more can be done with it.  I stamped it & embossed it with white EP onto black card - the little circles have been filled with glue & then fine glitter poured over them.  There is a full description of the stamp set on my blog - the little snowflake rounds that are in the background are actually tree ba

Hello again ladies. Right! here are the photos from last nights project.  We made a little 3-way fold card - which has been made at CSNW as well. I have photographed the cards looking down into them & then the front of the card He's quite a fund little dog isn't he.  I don't know why the bottom photo looks grey when it is blue as can be seen by the top photo. A nice change from Christmas - makes you look forward to next Summer & some picnics A nice colourful picture & as she has a pumpkin at her feet must be suitable for next week. Now the colour on these two photos is really odd & I cannot explain it away.  A really nice crisp clean card as can be seen from the top photo - then the bottom one comes out cream!!!  Also I cannot brighten it any more than I have. This little card needed 3 photos taken as Liz who made it has managed to get some trees on the middle section that lifts up rather than open from the side - so I had to show that. Is

Good morning ladies ............... ooh no! just looked at the time.  Good afternoon ladies. Well, here as promised the photos from last night's Mold II meeting.  They are of the show & Tell where the theme was black & white Christmas cards. This lovely slim card has a tree & a house embossed & then some fine glitter added This really nice card was made by the painter amongst us - Liz - & sometime next year after many requests by the members she is going to show us all how to paint a card I like the way the garland across the top & bottom of this one reflects the garland on the tree This lantern is gorgeous & so effective in the white embossing. I love the cheeky snowmen on this one - it was actually a box This is a really good use of parchment & the embossing on it is very white - I don't know why the camera has made it look creamy.  I have lightened it a bit - but it was whiter than it appears. Some more cheeky snowmen - again an embo

Good evening ladies I have just got in from the Mold II meeting & I do have some photos for you but I will have to leave putting them on the blog until tomorrow morning. We were a smallish group tonight so we got through things a little quicker.  The project was the little 3-way folding card which actually once you have the sections cut out does not take very long to make up. Especially if you know how you are going to decorate it ahead of starting the project. As we finished a little early we sat around discussing future meetings & the ladies came out with quite a few ideas which is very helpful.  What was interesting was that some techniques we were talking about some of the ladies had never tried - because they weren't members when it was tried before.  This just reminded me that every so often it is a good idea to go back over some things. A very nice evening. So more tomorrow about tonight. Sleep well, night night

It is 25 october & a Mold member has a birthday Happy birthday Glenys Have a wonderful day

Hello ladies - Goodness it's been a couple of days since I last wrote - as I often say - where does the time go. On Friday I spent a nice few hours with Caroline & Liz from HSNW.  We met at Inspirations in Bromborough (the artificial flower & decorations wholesalers).  I bought some ribbon & a pretty Christmas decoration that has a tealight beneath it which causes a little ornament to revolve in the heat. Then in the evening we had a visit from Gareth who persuaded us to go out for a meal - so another pleasant couple of hours. On Saturday after the shopping Bob & I went over to Warrington so that Bob could visit a Model Train Exhibition - which was very interesting.  On our country drive home we visited a public house near a canal that we will be visiting at the end of November for a lunch with a Naval Group.  It was a nice day on Saturday so it was very pleasant beside the canal.  So nice in fact - that we stopped there for lunch. That brings us to Sunday

Hello again - here I am back with the photos of the project from Thursday's meeting. Joanna showed us how to make the telescopic card - I have built it into the programme for Mold II & CSNW - but first I had to learn how to do it myself.  I really enjoyed making this little card.  We actually managed to make two cards - well some of us completed two cards.  The first one we made was the square one which of course can also be orientated as a diamond.  these we cut out based on measurements given to us by Joanna.  Then she gave us the circles already cut out - (spoilt weren't we!) - to make a round one.  Two circles one scalloped in three different sizes. Here are the photos - they have all been shows opened up - I will try & remember tomorrow to show you one actually folded up which is of course how the person receiving it will first see it. ; Lovely colours to this one & I love that poinsettia stamp with the pattern around it Santa & snow flakes very fest