Rubber Stamping - North Wales

Hi everyone. Yesterday I attended a great workshop that was hosted by Clearly Besotted Stamps owner Stephanie - with 2 of her ladies who help her & her husband who not only looked after the stock, but came around the room offering to make tea & coffee for us.  What a star! Stephanie & her team had prepared packs of things for us, which must have taken them ages, & here are the things we made; An Easter card An Easter Gift box, complete with small Easter eggs nestling in paper straw Four greeting cards complete with acetate lid box card one card two card three card four All neatly stored in their box with pretty bow. There was a tag to go with this - but I am not using it. All the designs really clean & simple & a joy to make.  Clearly Besotted have stamps that have matching dies & I had bought some at the October stamp festival, but couldn't get the die cutting done quite right.  But the

Just popping in to say that I have updated the project photos page with photos for April, May & June where applicable.

Today is 31 March & a Mold II member has a birthday Happy Birthday Elma Have a wonderful day

Wishing all the Mum's  a Happy Mothers Day

Hi everyone I hope you have all had a good Saturday especially those of you who went along to the Stamp Festival at Port Sunlight. I didn't go after all - but I am looking forward to my workshop tomorrow with Clearly Besotted. I am sure you all saw their stand (they were at the October festival as well).  So all being well I should have some photos to show you from the workshop - probably just my own work.  I am leaving Bob to see to our dinner for tomorrow - he makes a mean Goulash & that's what we will be having. This afternoon we had a nice surprise visit from Gareth & Elayne & the postman brought me a mothers day card from Gareth for tomorrow. Have a lovely day tomorrow everyone - especially Mum's, grandmothers. Night night. More tomorrow.

Just popping in quickly to say that I have some photos to add to the project photos page & I will probably do this tomorrow.  Still have a couple of photos to actually take for this. Also over the weekend I will show you some photos of work done by ladies on my Thursday workshop for mixed media - just in case you think you might like to try this at a club night. To all of you that are going to the stamp festival tomorrow - have a great time - don't spend too much - I will want to hear about your purchases at the next club nights. Whatever else you are doing also - have a great weekend. Night night.

Good morning everyone - & bit dull looking isn't it? I am popping in this morning with a couple of items of news from our members - actually it is only one member - so I will put both items here; The crafter today is Betty from Mold II club & she sent me a photo of a card she had made for her son-in-law; Betty said she had watched some paper folding on Create & Craft & that it had brought back memories from crafting in the past. The second part of Betty's news is photos of flowers that she had made & brought along to Tuesday's meeting for us all to see.  You may remember a post a little while back when I spoke about the fuchsia die?  Well, all these flowers were made with that one die; This is the contents of the little box full of flowers Betty brought along & the next few photos are close ups of the various groups. Aren't they lovely?  I am so envious - as I have the die & just have not

Hi everyone & a good evening - although it is night time now. I have for you the photos from the project at Mold II evening on Tuesday.  The project was learning about paper casting by using wet toilet tissue (yes - I know - fund isn't it - so you sort of wonder what else I might come up with?) Mold & CSNW did this some time ago I am not sure why it has take me so long to do this with Mold II.  So here are the photos of the items they produced - I shall pop in a comment every so often to describe something - but mainly it is a photo view. There were one or two things which worked rather well & I will pick those out; image from embossing folder Couldn't get this any clearer - I think it is a flower stamp once the effect with this stamp (including using ink) was noticed quite a few ladies borrowed it so there will be some more views of this image.   Sorry about no further c

Hi - I am back again with some photos of two paintings.  These paintings were done by Liz from Mold II club & were on display in an exhibition recently. A beautiful sea scene ( or possibly it may have been a lake).  The clouds & the light on the water are so realistic. Ah now you cannot go wrong with fuchsia's can you? What a beautiful painting. Well done Liz - they are just lovely. Oops! I think I may have spelt fuchsia's wrong in the last post - sorry!

Good afternoon everyone. I am sorry I didn't blog last night - but I got in from the Mold II meeting & got involved in a TV programme & forgot the time. We had a brilliant meeting last night - very happy meeting - very giggly meeting too - I suspect because the 3 ladies with a birthday this month were all sat in a row together.  Great fun. The Show & Tell theme was to make an ATC using some embossing - mainly from the embossing session last month. Here are the photos; These ATC's are absolutely stunning - beautiful colours over embossed mirri card. So beautifully delicate set of ATC's I love those pretty Dufex corners. Some ATC's from our painter member with some basic zentangling on them as well. Love the shapes. These too are so delicate & beautiful.  The flowers were made from the recently discussed fuschia cutter. A lovely spring like trio of Easter ATC's. The Easter chicks are so cute & the centr

Today is 26 March & a Mold II member has a birthday Happy Birthday Rita Have a wonderful day

Hi everyone - sorry but the update I did recently to the Mold project - round robin book - is changed again. Originally I had the colour combination wrong on Rhiannon's book - so I corrected it.  But we have found that one of the ladies in the same group had made her base book & one page contained details of who was in the group & their topics.  I don't want her to spoil the book by changing things.  So .................. Rhiannon's colour scheme is ......... Blue, Pink & CREAM Sorry for the confusion & I will re-correct it on the mold project page. Bye for now.

Hi everyone This is definitely the last posting today. I have another card featured in a magazine from Rita of Mold II club.  Rita had emailed it to me, but at first I couldn't download it - so she sent it again.  When I received the one via Annette - the Easter Bunny - I thought it was the same one.  But no - Rita has been featured twice.  Here is the card that Rita sent me which I eventually managed to download; Well done Rita - you are doing well in the magazines. Makes you think of spring this card & it is just around the corner. Cone on ladies - why don't more of you join in - you never know what you might receive. That's me for this weekend. Night night.