Rubber Stamping - North Wales

Good evening ladies Another week begins & for me it meant some more time spent on shredding our old paperwork, it seems to be never ending.  But prior to doing that I spent some time preparing some more of our wedding paperwork - the front of the invitations, which will also match menu's etc. Tomorrow I am having a day out with my neighbour Sylvia.  Not sure where we are going I guess it depends on the weather. Sylvia's suggestion was stick a pin in the map.  Might do that. So not a lot to report really, but there are some birthdays coming up that will need cards.  One of them is for my nephew - so need to think of what to do for that one.  Perhaps tomorrow needs to be about inspiration. Have a great evening - more tomorrow. 'Bye for now

Good afternoon ladies How has your weekend been going? Enjoyable I hope. As you know from my posting on Friday I did not after all go to the Stamp festival in Wrexham on Saturday.  Is there somebody who went to it that would like to do a little write up for me?  Just send it in email & I will include it.  If you have photos - even better.  Remember this blog is for you - so if you do have things you would like to tell us about - just do it please. Bob & I had a great visit to the family history day we went to.  When he told me about it I wasn't sure how big an event it was.  It turned out to be the church of the area opening for the day & letting people have access to the original record books about baptisms, marriages & deaths.  They also had local census information.  Going through the record books we managed to tie up some loose ends on Bob's tree.  It is quite fascinating seeing the original records because you see your ancestors handwriting where they

Good evening everyone. Well at lunch time our post arrived & fortunately it included my latest copy of the Papercraft Essentials magazine.  Which, fortunately means I have something crafty to blog about. Reason I am pleased?  All day I have been shredding old & very old paperwork & taking it to the tip along with old cardboard boxes.  Very boring stuff to write about. In the magazine is a card that had been sent in by our Annette of Mold II club; The image used was a stamp that was free with the magazine a few issues back. It's really pretty Annette well done.  I was beginning to think we weren't going to see your name in print again.  These magazines are giving us some rally nice free stamps these days. I shall be looking really closely at the other magazines that are due to see if anyone else has sent a card in.  Come along ladies, you can do it. I expect at this moment you are all sitting down watching the opening ceremony of the Olympics.  W

Hello ladies I am just popping in to say that I have updated the projects page with photos of the card that I do not have a name for.  Here is a little look at the front - but you will need to go to the Projects page for the other views. More use of my favourite one layer stamping. Amongst the Mold II project photos that I posted yesterday was this one .... & I said that I hadn't found out how it had been made.  Carolyn, whose card it is left a comment under yesterdays post - but I thought I would also include it here. "Hi Gloria, the double oval card in shades of green was mine. I put down an oval perspex shape, it was from a set I'd won at the club years ago (for tearing paper shapes I think.), I inked around it, then put down 1 of Dot's scalloped oval templates and inked within the shape, then I stamped inside it and lightly brushed all over the card. et voilà! Regards Carolyn on  Mold II meeting photos - part 2 Thank you Carolyn it is

Birthday Greetings Today is 26 July & a SNW member has a birthday Happy Birthday Grace have a lovely day 

Hello again - here I am with the photos of the project from last night's Mold II meeting.  As at the other clubs it was using the technique of one layer stamping.  I like this technique, as I think I have said before, I do like the clean & simple finishes & this one works really well.  Once again, at the start I demonstrated 2 ways to use the technique - creating the look of layered torn paper on the folded edge & a torn aperture shape for a focal image.  As always the ladies tried these & also put their own slant on things & some of them were quite prolific too.  Take a look - Doesn't that "torn paper look" show off the vase of flowers well?  Very nice. This card shows that it doesn't have to be white card - colour works well too - giving this card a vintage look. The central colour was produced by using postage notes to create the shape.  The straight lines to the background gives an even fresher look & the image comi

Good morning everyone! Last night was the July meeting for Mold II & this first post for today is of their Show & Tell cards where the subject was Twinchies.   Mold II is the last of the clubs to make these & across all clubs I have been very impressed by the results & the decision by some ladies to present them on a card.  This is what I like when you put your own interpretation onto things.  Here are their photos; Four very different twinchies all made by the same person.  During the meeting, Annette who made these, mentioned that the free stamps that are on the Craft Stamper magazine are just right for twinchies. Another group of four, made by the same person.  As you look at these you can see that if recreated a little bigger make perfect toppers.  Mind you, I did mention on a previous post that if twinchies were then layered & matted on to other card - they would become toppers. A lone twinchie - beautifully clean & simple design &

Hello ladies - what a beautiful day! I have been busy with domestic chores the last couple of days - so not really anything interesting to blog about.  But I like to write something as often as I can so I thought I would show you some of the tall ship photos that I took in St Malo at the end of our holiday.  They were all very beautiful & made me think of the TV programme the Onedin Line. There was a total of 44 ships in the harbour quite a spectacle. I was supposed to have a scrapbooking workshop tomorrow but it has had to be cancelled due to lack of people attending & it looks like Wednesdays workshop won't take place either. Still, tomorrow it is the July meeting for the Mold II group - so on Wednesday I should have some crafting photos for you. Today I have found out the date of a visit to the UK of my childhood friend - who has lived in Australia for a long long time.  I haven't seen her for well over 40 years but have managed to have a couple of te

Hello, here I am again. This time the project photos - which was One Layer Stamping.  This technique is a way to make it look like there are multiple layers - when there isn't it.  But great images can be created - & it works wonders for the posting of them too. These colours have been graded really well so it looks like 4 layers.  The simple flower image & sentiment complete a lovely card. This is so fresh & delightful After trying the borders an experiment with shapes.  There are so many ways it works.  Love that lizard image.  Now, there is a special name for it. Ooh - there he is again.  Now this one is like one I showed you from the CSNW ladies. is it a white card with pink & blue torn papers or a pink & blue card with a piece of torn white paper.  Hmm! A very clever use of this technique & the image just belongs in the middle.   Now, that border looks like a piece of torn designer paper.  Very nice indeed..