Rubber Stamping - North Wales

Hi ladies Well I am feeling quite a bit brighter today - had a better night's sleep.  Still can't move too far from the box of tissues but I think this attack may be one of those 48 hour ones (or near enough). Because it was impossible to do any stamping feeling like this I have sat & created a couple more digital scrapbook pages. This first one is for a challenge blog over at Digitally Sweet - which reminds me - for one of their challenges I entered recently I was one of the featured pages & was given this banner The challenge I entered today is called "Paw"-sitively Digital & of course features my little Yorkshire Terrier - Misty.   Yesterday I created a page featuring a photo of my great-grandparents on my mothers side of the family.  I had recently been in touch with someone on the Internet who has been doing family research & she spotted the name I was researching.  It is not her family but did have a slight link to her husb...

.............. & it is a good thing it is typed chatting 'cos I've dot a dold in de dose. Yes - despite my flu jab I have come down with a cold & in true Gloria fashion I have a cough too.  This very nicely appeared yesterday morning - so sadly we were unable to go out with Bob's grand-daughter after all - we have had to postpone it for a few days.  Also this coming Saturday we are supposed to be meeting some old friends of Bobs that he hasn't seen for a while.  So - I have been wrapped up in cotton wool & dosed to the hilt. to try & be better for that. I did start to feel a bit better this evening but it's just creeping back in again - like it does in the evenings.  I didn't sleep too well last night hoping it will be better tonight. Anyway enough of my ailments - they are nothing compared to what the poor people in the States are dealing with - poor souls.  Let's hope that there aren't too many fatalities - but to lose your home ...

Actually I made two challenge cards but the first one to show you is actually stamped.  It is for the challenge over at Less Is More Challenge Blog. The theme of the challenge is a sketch; A nice clean & simple sketch & here is my take on it. I created a strip of white card with embossed panels, then stamped the 3 images onto white card with black archival ink & cut them out.  As the white strip didn't show against the white card I then layered it onto black card leaving a fairly thin border down the sides.  The small stamps had a border around them which lifts them from the white strip. I then stamped the "With thanks" at the bottom corner. The little square stamps are from CaroLine's .  I had thought to add some colour but then changed my mind & decided to leave it monochrome. The second challenge card is for CD Sunday Challenge Blog where the theme is Beautiful Blue.  Here is my card; I am unsure if this falls in...

Hi ladies Yesterday I spent a few hours with Sue - we popped down to Hobbycraft to check it out as it has had a revamp.  They seem to be doing workshops there too - not sure if they were just for children - although that would possibly be it at the moment because of half term. After spending some money we popped along to Frankie & Benny's for lunch.  A bit of a mistake because as well as the loud music they always play - again, it is half term - & there were rather a lot of children there.  Don't get me wrong I love children to bits - but can someone tell me how so much noise can come from a little body Still it was nice to sit & chat & catch up on news. Thursday afternoon I made some quick Christmas cards - the lick & stick sort as I call them. Last year I made a set of cards for Bob to send out to people he sends to - so as someone had given me this pack I thought I would do them for him to use this year,   So that's 15 actuall...

  Don't forget   Overnight the clocks go back one hour    

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Here I am back again with photos of the other canvas Joanna from Mold club sent this one in after changing it from the way it looked on club night; You may remember the original one that was taken on the night because I told how Joanna lent me that stamp for a challenge I wanted to enter.  The clock with wings has been moved over to the left - which is the better position for it & you can see more of the background, & a little embellishment added in top right. Keep up the good work ladies - more photos please.

Just how much did you enjoy creating those canvases over the last few club nights?  Did you buy some more off Marie to do more creating? Have you got as far as decorating them yet? If the answer to both of the last 2 questions is yes - then send me a photo of what you have done - show them off to everyone.  If you can't manage to send photos - then bring them with you to the next club night & I will photograph them  - then I will put them here.  After all I created this blog for you the club members to showcase your work & what we do on club nights.  When someone has a card published in a magazine I record it here.  If someone wins a competition (providing they tell me about it) I write about it here.  The blog isn't all about what I do - but I will chatter & waffle about craft & anything else as much as you like. The reason for all the above?  I heard that one Mold lady had got the bug & created a couple more - so I g...

Hello everyone - here I am with the photos from Mold II's meeting last night. It was Marie's visit to Mold II to show how we are all capable of being artistic & how to make some beautifully decorated canvases. First set of photographs are of the group - once again there were a couple of ladies absent; There, most of the ladies from Mold II club Now you have all (well most of you) met everyone (well most of you) te he Isn't she sweet - I wonder what she is thinking about?  Probably where are my swings,as Annette decided not to use them  Very pretty.  I love this collage style canvas & it was quite surprising how clear the text panel turned out, as Marie said stamping direct onto the canvas doesn't always give good results.  It worked really well this time. I love this piece - that butterfly really was meant for this canvas. This canvas I was told is to have some more work done to it - again the sta...

I have not long been back home following the Mold II meeting this evening. Another good evening with Marie & I have taken photos which I will load on here tomorrow. Once again I am including photos of the ladies working. It was rather fortunate that the caretaker who sets up the room for us is also the husband of the lady who I deal with regarding the hire of the room.  When I mentioned to him about the 15th November & how it affects one of the groups he asked her to come back over with him when we were getting ready to leave. I am putting the results of our discussion into the original post - so that everything stays together. That is my quick pop in for tonight - more tomorrow including photos. Night night.

I have had a "poorly" day today.  Something had upset my system & I couldn't go far from home.  consequently I haven't felt up to very much & wanted to wrap myself in cotton wool today to make sure I am OK for tomorrow evening's meeting. I had put things on my work desk ready to do some crafting too - but never mind tomorrow is another day. So I thought how can I put some pictures on here today -because that does make it nicer to look at, then I remembered I hadn't shown you a couple of photos I took whilst away the other weekend. This beautiful tree is in the grounds of the Chichester crematorium where the ashes of my parents & my aunt have been laid.  With such beautiful colours I just had to photograph it.. This is a close-up of the leaves & I think I will use it as a background paper in one of my digital layouts.  I may have to do more of a close up again to help reduce some of that white space. Then this photo of t...

Birthday Greetings Today is 22 October & a CSNW member has a birthday Happy Birthday Gwenda Have a great day Gwenda

Hi everyone I hope you have had a good weekend - the weather has been good to us hasn't it? I joined another weekly challenge this morning - sorry ladies but it was for a digital scrapbook page not stamping.  But they are really good for me because I am getting my photos into albums.  I have so many that to print them all off & find papers & embellishments & then cut them out & do everything that hybrid scrap booking entails I would never get it all done. That is my excuse & I am sticking to it. There are quite a few occasions & photos that I will be making into scrapbook pages the hybrid way - because I do not have the digital photos anyway.  But the digital route does help me a lot. Here is the one for the challenge The theme for this was a sketch.  I absolutely love these photos of April & there are many more.  The photographer was absolutely brilliant capturing her in so many clever ways.  She took these & so...

Hi I said I would pop back again today with the news I couldn't give yesterday - & I seem to have just made it. Annette who is a member of Mold II has had a card published again in the latest issue (87) of Papercraft Essentials The card was made with the Popcorn the Bear free stamp from issue 85.  Doesn't he make a great Santa? Well done Annette.

Hi - I said I might pop back if I had anything to tell you - & I do have - but I can't show you until tomorrow.  Not because it is a secret but because I can't take the photo at this time - will do so in the morning when the light is better.  It's another member success story. Just had a thought too - as I have just clicked on a comment to publish it.  I hope that every so often you go back over the posts, because occasionally ladies do write comments about the post & not always straight away.   The reason I mention this is because Joanna from Mold club has commented on the photos of last months meeting.  She said something along the lines of how she enjoys looking at the photos here because she doesn't always get the chance to see what other ladies at the meeting have done. So all my wittering is to some perhaps then. Perhaps I should look at getting you all to place your work on a table at the end of the evening - for everyon...

Here I am again - this time with the photos from last nights meeting of the Mold club.  Sadly we were missing quite a few ladies through feeling unwell, being away & other things - so a smallish group to normal. It was of course the meeting with the visit from Marie - to show us how to decorate small canvases.  Once again her enthusiasm for her craft got everybody feeling quite creative & a great evening was had by everyone. Here are the photos of their work & like from the CSNW meeting the first few are of the ladies of Mold whilst they are working. So there you are - now you all know what they look like.  Due to the way they were sat a couple of them appear twice.  Now for their canvases .............. I love these shades of green & isn't it great how you can get depth to the work with the different shades.  Love the paper rose - made from a piece of paper from a book.  Yes! I got stick about that last nig...