Rubber Stamping - North Wales

Good evening ladies The amount of crafting I have done today doesn't take up much time to describe & tell you about. The inserts for the cards have all been sorted - but didn't get stuck in. Bob & I had our lunch today which was at a pub called "The Barn Owl Inn" at Lymm in Cheshire where we had an excellent meal amongst really good company. So! crafting took a back seat today.  Tomorrow morning I am meeting Sue & we are going to take a look at the Celtic Fayre at Broughton, then the afternoon will have to be spent completing those cards before I start on the next batch. So that's my day - perhaps have more to tell you tomorrow. Hope you have all had a good day Night night

Hi Ladies What dreadful weather we have had today - I hope you didn't get caught in it. Well! I have several large piles of Christmas cards on my dining room table all waiting for the inserts to be put in then they are finished. Bob decided he wanted 13 cards to send out & so I gave him some from a card kit I had made up back about early October.  That means I still have some more to make for myself - but that's fine. Now it's time to decide how I make the cards for the family. Tomorrow Bob & I are off to his Naval lunch which will be very nice, then I may have a workshop on Thursday morning but it is not looking too good at the moment.  Starting on Thursday there is a Celtic Christmas Fair at Broughton Retail Park (I expect you have heard about it) - I am hoping to go on Thursday with Sue.  That takes us to Friday when I will probably be back to card making. My knitting is coming on well & I suspect I will finish the scarf tomorrow night....

Good evening ladies All cards I have been working on this week now have the "made by" quote on the back & they have inserts printed but not yet put in.  That is tomorrows job.  Tomorrow I hope to finish making the ones for Bob's work colleagues - well I have to as they will be given out at the Christmas meal on Saturday evening. This afternoon I took one of my "senior" colleagues out to visit another "senior" colleague & spent a couple of very pleasant hours chatting.  It was a rather interesting visit as both ladies have a hearing difficulty & one of them talks quietly.  So guess who ended up being interpreter?  I say interesting it was a couple of times quite amusing as I would have to tell one what the other one said, then a little later the other way round.  Still perhaps I might have hearing problems one day so mustn't laugh. This evening I have been doing some more of my knitting whilst watching TV - it grows really quickl...

Good evening ladies Not a lot to talk about today - but I did reach my goal of making the cards for my monthly lunch group.  I made another 9 cards this afternoon making the total I was aiming for of 30 cards.  I decided against the sparkle - but tomorrow I have to create the inserts. I also finished too late in the afternoon to once again take photos.  I will do it in the morning before I forget or only remember as the light fails. Tomorrow I must return to the cards that I have to send abroad, & finish the cards for those people who work with & for Bob.  This is how I work when things are busy - I sort what I want to do, how I will do it, sort out the stamps, paper etc - then slowly build the finished article.  Yes! it is a little like conveyor belt stamping but at this time of year with so many to make it is the only way - but who is receiving the card is still thought of & a suitable card created & where I feel it needs it - I chang...

Good evening ladies My! what a blowy day - positively rattling all the doors & windows. After the usual weekend shopping trip I had another chance to sit & do some crafting - some more Christmas cards. I made 15 more of those cards for my lunch group - bringing my total up to 21.  So about another dozen should see me right. I haven't taken any photos yet as by the time I decided to stop for the day the light was not good.  Will take some tomorrow.  They are not stamped - but made simply & quickly using some of the loads of stash I have in my craft room.  Actually - I quite enjoyed making them.  What I mean is I enjoyed making them in the manner that I used, which was rather like a conveyor belt system.  I decided on a couple of different layouts & followed those. I was thinking earlier I will probably add a little sparkle to them somewhere as well.  Not a lot - just enough for a little glitter & sparkle. This evening whilst w...

Good evening ladies After some running around this morning I managed to settle down to some card making. In the morning I took some items that I had sorted out, to the Cancer charity shop in Buckley.  I also visited Parkfields Community centre & booked the Mold & Mold II meetings for 2012.  They are holding a coffee morning late January so if any Mold and or Mold II ladies would like to make some cards for them to sell it would be appreciated.  I believe the coffee morning is on the 25th January - but I will confirm later.  If it is then there will be time for you to bring any cards to the meeting in January. Then in the afternoon I completed the cards that I had started a couple of days ago - all now neatly mounted & embellished.  Then I sorted out Christmas stash for the cards for the lunch group that I am making cards for.  Following that & deciding exactly what to do I managed to complete 6 of the cards which leaves around 24 m...

Good evening ladies Do you sometimes get one of those days where you start with a plan then something comes along that changes it, then something else & something else. I had a plan this morning of calls to make, emails to send, meals to sort, hair to wash.  Then time in the craft room. No! part of the way through the tasks I had set myself I needed to ring an lady about visiting her.  She had rung me last night & so I got her to leave her telephone number in order to ring her back with my arrangements.  When I rang her - the number was wrong - I got someone else who was getting a little bit tired of being called for this lady.  No-one else who new this lady did not have her telephone number, neither did a central point I might have been able to get it from.  My brain suddenly kicked in & went to the phone to retrieve the number - why didn't I think of it before.  But no - when she rang she had withheld her number. Agh!  After getting ...

Hi ladies - it's me again Good evening. No crafting was carried out in this house today - but out in the big wide world there was Christmas shopping.  Oh my gosh - I really must have aged since last Christmas - I only went to Sealand Road, Greyhound Retail Park & I ended up absolutely whacked. The one thing that struck me was most of the shops carried the same items - there was not a lot of choice - I guess price was the deciding factor.  But if you shopped by price factor alone you would have to start Christmas shopping about August.  Most of the main presents I want to buy will probably be bought online - but strangely despite the earlier remarks I do like to browse the shops. I said no crafting was carried out but I did purchase something for me to craft.  I am making a brief return to knitting for one of my presents.  When it is safe to do so I will tell you more about it - so watch this space. Tomorrow I have designated as another craft da...

Here I am again This time with the project photos from Mold II's meeting.  The project was a tag window card - which both Mold & CSNW made a little while ago. When it was time to show Mold II what the card was like I could not find my sample & I still cannot find my sample.  I found another template so their design is slightly different & they made the card "blind" so to speak as I didn't have time to make up a sample for them.  Here are the photos; I am so sorry about the glare on the acetate on this one Towards the end of taking these photographs I found if I stood the cards against my camera case I could avoid the glare A very delicate shade of green & the little flower looks lovely peeping through the window A really nice "gift" look to this one with the greeting on the paper that was used I just love Tatty Teddy - isn't he cute Wow! She is really sophisticated isn't she A lovely design that has been water coloured How ma...

Good afternoon ladies Here I am with the first set of photographs for last night Mold II meeting.  They are of the Show & Tell which was a Christmas ATC - this lovely blue & white one was painted by our in club artist Liz this lovely blue frosty design is one of three that had a slight difference between them which I didn't spot - so sorry to Elizabeth who made them Oooh what a happy little snowman the second photo above shows this ATC group closed which when opened surprises us with a 2012 calendar.  Great idea. Very delicate mono-chrome tag shaped ATC I can never remember if this style is art-deco or art nouveau very stylish Aaah! isn't that lovely.  That stamp is really cute & looks great on this ATC A chilly looking glittering penguin - love his hat if you sit very quiet you can almost here them singing Hello! it's that happy snowman again.  Fancy two people choosing to use him. he looks really good on this easel ATC Right, that's t...

Good evening ladies Well! I have just got home after another great evening with Mold II club.  I have photos of the show & tell and also the project for the evening - but will load those tomorrow. There are several stages to loading the photos & if I do them late in the evening I am more likely to make mistakes.  First I load them onto my net-book computer, from the camera.  Next I run them through a photographic package to crop & trim, take out any defects in my photography that I can.  Then finally reduce the size & copy them into their own folder. The very last stage is writing the post then inserting the photos as I go & sometimes the size needs re-adjusting again.  Plus of course any chatting I want to do. So tomorrow morning when I am fresh is the best time. Hope you have had a good evening. More tomorrow.  Night night

Good afternoon ladies Did anyone spot my "deliberate" mistake in yesterdays posting? No? - oh that's good.  Still I must own up to losing track of things.  I said that this morning I would put the other photos from the Mold meeting on the blog this morning.  Well! I had already done it.  Just as I was starting to type this posting I had a little niggling feeling at the back of my mind - so popped out ^ checked the blog & there they were. Anyway, I have made some more cards today - this time a couple of birthday cards.  Tomorrow I have to make the Christmas cards that are going abroad - I meant to start them some days ago.  I know what I am doing but hadn't started them properly.  Then it is Bob's daughters wedding anniversary on the 12 December, so I must get on & make them a card & get it in the post as they live in the USA.  Also a week Saturday it is Bob's Company "do" so I have to make 6 cards for those attending.  Have ...

Good evening Ladies I have just got home after the HSNW final meeting for 2011.  On our last meeting we don't have any crafting - we have a buffet & quizzes etc - so a fun evening.  We also have a free Christmas raffle there the same as I do for our clubs here. We were given an extra task this year - which sadly not many entered - & that was to write a poem as the 12 days of Christmas but using stamping products.  The winning entry was very good.  I won the prize for one of the quizzes - so that made me very happy. I have been busy with cards & Christmassy things today & didn't leave myself enough time to put the project photos on here for Molds last meeting.  I do apologise & will put them on tomorrow morning sometime. Tomorrow night is the last meeting for Mold II - so there will be photos from there to load as well which I will probably do on Wednesday. I forgot to take a photo of my lucky dip[ card for HSNW -but I am intending t...

Good evening ladies I do hope you have had a good weekend. Now, first - the remaining photos from Mold meeting last Thursday.  This time it is of the project for the evening, my 3-way card I am going where possible to show you the outside then a sort of inside view of each one; A nice phantasy bird in pretty shades of pink An elegant lady image with beautiful dot card - I think this card was a lilac shade. Sometimes they come out a bit blue in the photos. A really elegant black on cream design finished with a lovely verse "We make a living by what we get; We make a life by what we give"  Winston Churchll I like the simplicity of the front of this one with the colourful surprise inside Ah - we have seen this lady & this lovely paper before.  Looks like some sharing took place here Some lovely bright pink flowers Another elegant lady image & I do love these "coffee & cream" colours A happy little snowman family with a lovely lilac sn...