Rubber Stamping - North Wales

Hi - here I am again. This time with the photos of the project at Mold II meeting last night.  The project was the acetate domed card which has actually proved quite popular amongst each of the clubs.  The acetate did give me a bit of a problem, along with the hall lights, but I think I have done you all credit. Isn't that a lovely cameo image?  This was in pretty shades of pink & grey. I love the peel of dragonflies put on the acetate on this one & that green is a gorgeous shade More dragonflies on the acetate - I think the maker of this one & the one above may have been sat next to each other.  Oh goodness it wasn't last night's terrible twins was it?????????    te he These beautiful flowers don't receive the credit they are due in this photo - the card looked fantastic Doesn't that simple flower image look great under the acetate?  What is that flower - anyone know?  I thought maybe Echinacea Some really pretty - almost watercolour - ro

Good evening ladies What a lovely day it has been - is this a sign of weather to come? Last night at the Mold II meeting the Show & Tell was an ATC with the theme of Fashion.  Here are their great offerings; A great one with shoes & handbag - & girls don't we all need them! Hey - I wish I could get into one of those - aah - those slimmer days so long ago A really pretty dress - in fact I think I used to have one like that ......  is my age showing? I love those boots & the iris folding. Yes I know it is not ATC size - but at least the member concerned tried & now knows what an ATC size is A couple of the ladies made sets of 3 & I changed the rules (which will apply across all clubs in future when the Show & Tell challenges are ATC's)  all 3 were displayed but voted on as 1 unit. I love these older era dresses What a lovely Easel ATC with a great fashion topper.  Looks like it is out of a fashion magazine or from a sewing pattern adver

Hello Ladies I have just returned from the Mold II February meeting where our project for the evening was the acetate domed card. So I have some photos for you but they will have to be shown tomorrow after I have uploaded them - plus there is also the ones from their Show & Tell which was a fashion ATC. Today I made a sample card for the Mold II project next month but didn't have time to photograph it - I will do that tomorrow also & upload it for you to see - on the Projects page. That is me for tonight - more tomorrow.  Sleep well, night night

Good afternoon ladies Well! I have found time today to enter another challenge - this time a stamping one over at Stamptacular Sunday where the theme was based on a photo for inspiration. Here is my card & here is the inspirational photo Aren't they beautiful.  As I look at them now I suppose it was quite a good idea putting the flat back gems on the card - sort of reflects the dew on the petals. The card I used was all from a scrap box - which was still sitting on my desk after making the 2 cards yesterday.  The stamp was part of a free set on a magazine - the first issue of that new(ish) stamping magazine.  The ribbon was white satin ribbon which I coloured using the same Promarkers that I had coloured the little ballerina with.  I was really pleased with this card - I just wish I could get round the not so good photography.  It looks like it is curved & makes it look a little out of shape.  Never mind - practice makes perfect. Hope you have had - or are having

Hi everyone It is 27 February & a Mold member has a birthday Happy Birthday Yvonne Have a wonderful day 

Good evening ladies I hope you have had a really lovely weekend.  The weather has been kind to us hasn't it? Today I made a card for one of the challenges that I try to fairly regularly enter.  The blog is Less Is More .  Today the challenge was called "Don't Scrap It" & the challenge was to use scraps so that they weren't scrapped.  Are you still with me? Anyway here is the card that I entered The coloured strip is from a 6x4 piece that I made quite a long time ago.  It was made using different ink pads & the Color Tool Box Stylus system - a double ended handle & different heads that could be attached to them. The heads were of different shapes - here it is the oval. Then whilst poking around in boxes of scraps & leftovers I also peeked inside my quilling box.  I don't do much these days but inside were these pieces including the little rose style flower.  They just went with the coloured strip & so the clean & simple design j

HiJust popping in to let you know I have raised a new page which you will see at the top of the display. It is the tutorial for leaving a comment on the blog - as I hope to encourage more of you to leave comments on your blog. It was originally a normal post back in 2010 so now lost in all the days of posts. Do pop in & read it & perhaps trying the process out. Expect I will be back later.  Have fun this weekend.

Hello ladies Well where did that lovely sunshine go?  Although I have to admit it did turn out a little better during the afternoon. Today I had a really nice day with our daughter-in-law & as I said yesterday we were off to Lady Heyes Centre in Frodsham mainly for me to visit the cake decorating shop there. I had a very successful visit to the shop - the lady there was most helpful especially where the sugar paste tulips were concerned - although I am still not sure that is what my god-daughter is going to have.  \but anyway I am prepared if she does want them.  We also - well would you expect otherwise - a peek into Crab Apple Crafts.  actually I was very good I bought 2 packets of small diameter doilies.  To be truthful that was because I really felt I couldn't walk out without buying anything.  I also picked up there March workshop list - I just fancy doing something for "Me". Nadine & I went to the little restaurant there for our lunch & I bumped i

Good afternoon ladies Yes I managed to do some card making as well as sorting my Promarkers - but still need to redesign my desk. Talking of my desk - this is what part of it looked like this morning before I started crafting I had got as far as using my little Sizzix Sidekick & some corner dies as I had an idea for a challenge card.  You can just see the corner pieces laid on a white card behind the Sidekick.  The papers at the side are left over from the CD Sunday challenge that I entered. So this morning I cleared the desk space to make the card & here it is The trickiest part was applying glue to the corners & then attaching them as straight as I could.  The sentiment looks black but it is in fact a deep purple.  The idea was inspired by the lovely corner stamps of Barbara Grey (or is it Gray). This card was for the challenge over at Less is More - I think the blog name speaks for itself. I also made a couple of cards out of the rather badly stamped fantasy

Good evening ladies Before I tell you about my day I must welcome some new followers.  I spotted today that there are now 10 followers - so welcome to Stella, Jeanette, Sheelagh & Patricia.  Thank you for becoming followers & I hope you enjoy your visits. So! today - well I had a very nice time out with Sue.  The first thing we did was pop along to Burley Dam & take a nose at their new Craft Centre that had opened on Saturday.  A bit disappointing!  They have a very nice open large space but as yet not much stock in it & what stock they have there are only small amounts.  I know it is early days - but they didn't even have the stock from one of the biggest suppliers of craft items - Docrafts.  There was a big empty space with a notice saying that Docraft stock would be coming shortly.  Might have been wiser to wait until that stock was there?  Still who I am to know. Having had a good look around the rest of the garden centre we stopped for lunch & had a lo

Good evening ladies Today I have attended a really nice lunch in Llandudno for a Ladies Group I use to be involved with - it was really nice to chat to people I hadn't seen for a while & find out what they had been doing.  Getting ready for it, driving to & from it took up most of the day so no crafting done today. Last night I was at the HSNW February meeting & our "project" for the evening was to make a card which was to be given to one of the members for selling for charity.  I am not very good at making cards "to order" - I like to sit & think about what I will be doing & also what for.  So I wasn't particularly looking forward to it.  The club was supplying the card & we had to take everything else. I took one stamp, some distress inks & brushes & basic tools.  Ooh yes & because I actually had given it some thought before going I took some black card.  I don't take my camera to the HSNW club night so when I h

Hello again ladies Over the weekend I decided to go back to doing some more digital scrapbook pages.  I am still designing & printing the pages from my 2010 project of "A Photo a Day".  Of course that project got knocked on the head when I was somewhat indisposed - so missed quite a few days.  Sadly I also didn't really get back to it.  But I have decided to do as many as I have taken & then just pick photos taken on certain days during the late 2010 days through to current time & see if I can at least fill 365 days. Here is one of the pages I worked on at the weekend As you can see it is for 25 February & that was during 2010.  The garden centre down at Daleside in Hawarden had been putting some really nice displays in their entrance.  I loved this one of a garden being set up complete with scarecrow.  So I asked if I could photograph - which they allowed.  Everything you see on the page is placed as individual elements - the background, frame ivy,

Good afternoon ladies I do hope you have had a good weekend & did lots of lovely things. Today I have photos for you of cards that Annette of Mold II has had published.  This time they are both in  the latest issue of Papercraft Essentials - one was in the "Your Cards" section & the other in "Your Letters" which you will clearly be able to see as I managed to include the letter too. This is a very pretty delicate card and here is a lovely winter card, the one that went in complete with the letter. Once again - well done Annette.  You & Betty really keep those magazine going with your cards! I will be back again in a moment with what I have been up to.

Here I am again ladies I am still mystified about no photos for the show & tell last night - I really thought I took them - but I don't recall anything going wrong when I loaded them onto my laptop.  A real mystery. Anyway, now for the photos of the project last night which was the puffed image. What a lovely bear - not the best photo - but look at his tummy you can see it is puffy Everybody loves this mouse - he pops up a lot - I have got him but haven't used him yet Aah! Tatty Ted - the light coming in from the left really help to show up his roundness This lily looks really good - almost looks like a bit of quilting Kimono's work really well with this technique.  The technique is a bit awkward to photograph though so this does not show as good as it was. I don't know what this little character is called but the technique works well with him too A different colourway for this pretty kimono This was a tricky image to use as the petals are independent

 Good evening again ladies Just popping back to the missed photos from last night - if you cannot photograph them but have a printer/scanner & can scan & save them then email them - that too would be useful.  What am I like. Before I forget - if you pop back to the entry on Thursday where I mentioned Burley Dam & it's new craft shop - you will see that a comment has been left.  When I first read it I couldn't think what it meant - then the brain kicked in.  Very good Joanna. So back to the matter in hand - the cards that were brought back of the January project which was the acetate domed card I had these images from "Making Cards" Magazine - they are really nice to work with This is sooo cute! I forgot to ask if the sentiment was one stamp or alphabet stamps to make the sentiment Love the catch to keep the opening section closed You can see the acetate in each of them & the domes were of different heights.  My sample had the "card"

Hi Mold ladies I have just loaded the photos from last night only to find I didn't appear to take the Show & Tell cards.  I think what happened was I took the photos of the project from January then the photos from the evenings project & said the items to my left were finished & could be taken which of course included the Show & Tell. So! the plea is - if you happen to hang on to them could you bring them back in March for me to photograph - but of course as they were based on St David's Day you may want to send them to someone. Of course if you are technically mended - you could photograph you card & email the photo. I will keep my fingers crossed that some of you will be able to bring them back Perhaps I will eventually remember to bring my brain with me to these meetings??!!! I will be back shortly with the photos I  did take. 'Bye

Hi ladies I have just returned from the Mold February meeting where we took on the technique of the puffed image. I have quite a lot of photos for you but they won't get loaded until tomorrow.  There are 3 photos of cards made last month with the acetate dome; photos of tonight's Show & Tell & also of tonight's project. All three clubs have now done this project & I think you all seemed to enjoy doing it & also pleasantly surprised at how good it looked no matter what subject you chose as your image.  I do hope you will all try it again some time & experiment with the inks & card you use.  Let me know how they turn out. Tomorrow I am meeting my friend Caroline at Inspirations, the florist wholesalers on the Wirral & I suspect we will then move to one garden centre or another for lunch & some good nattering. Talking of Garden Centres - on the A41 there is a garden centre call "Burley Dam" - I understand they are opening a cr

Good evening ladies Scrap booking - that was the subject of today's workshop down at PBC & it went very well with a very enthusiastic group of ladies & a young girl (daughter of one of the ladies).  None of them had brought photos with them - so we used some fashion type toppers as the photographs & went from there. so it was more a demo page that they produced today - but it was refreshing to have questions being asked & ideas given to each other.  Someone would come across a sheet of paper & realise that it wet well with what one of the other ladies was doing.  That is what crafting is all about.  Anyway the outcome was that at the end of the workshops they all wanted to attend another in which they bring along their photos & materials. I had looked out different types of albums or "books" that I had created to show that it didn't have to be a big album & there was quite a bit of interest shown in having a workshop on making an album.

Hi everyone Just chatting ............. that seems the best title for most of my posts doesn't it. Today I had a really good day out with Nadine - our daughter-in-law.  Originally we were going to go to the Lady Heyes Craft Centre because they have a good Sugarcraft shop there - but it doesn't open on a Tuesday I discovered when I looked them up on the Internet.  So I decided we would go somewhere I hadn't been for a while -  I was fairly certain Nadine hadn't been.  We went to Blakemere Craft Centre (out on the A556/A49 junction).  They don't have a Sugarcraft shop but we had a good look round at what they did have.  One shop that really intrigued me was the bead shop & they hold workshops.  I have for a long time wanted to do bead weaving.  Somewhere in that very deep dark craft stash that I often refer to I do have an Indian Bead Loom.  I had one many years (or should I say moons) ago & I do not remember what happened to it - but I did enjoy using it.