Rubber Stamping - North Wales

Hello again Well, this time I am here with the featured card made by Annette of Mold II, which Rita very kindly sent me a photo of. That is beautiful Annette - that looks like the freebie Lavinia stamp from a magazine recently, & as usual I have not used mine yet. I really must pull my finger out. Well done Annette. That's me for now - 'bye.

Hello everyone A big thank you to Rita of MoldII who has sent me a photo of her latest 2 cards to be featured in a magazine & she also sent me a photo of Annette's card which I will put in the next post. Here are Rita's 2 cards; I love the panels on this card very colourful Here I go with another question .............. Rita, should there be something off to the right of the photo - or is it just the fold in the magazine? Aah! those lovely little pop-up box cards. I love the small doll in this one - I wonder how flat it lies. Well done Rita - they are lovely.

Hi Before I go to bed thought I would post the photo of the prize that Rita of MoldII won recently; A brilliant Indigo Blu stamp - well done Rita. Now all you other club ladies, you make great cards too - why not send them off to the magazines - you never know what you might win.  Good luck.

Hello everyone Sorry I have not been here for 3 days - on the blog that is. It has been a bit of a strange couple of days.  Bob had 2 hospital trips - to do with his shingles attack & also a scan that he had had before which hadn't been visibly clear - so had to be done again.  These visits took up quite a bit of each day - but I am pleased to say the scan is clear. The other visit was to a pain clinic to do with the discomfort & pain left over from the shingles.  The specialist has altered his medication to see if that will help.  Plus for the last 4 days I have had on & off migraine attacks & they mean that I can't sit looking at the screen all that long, as I get those flashing lights which obscure my vision. It seems like everything is being thrown at me at the moment.  I am hoping if my head isn't too bad tomorrow I may manage to get some crafting done - I hope so. I did manage to have a day out with Nadine yesterday - we did a lit...

Good morning everyone Goodness I can't believe that Thursday was the last time I posted something - what on earth have I been doing.  Well I am afraid the heat got to me & I found it very hard to sit at anything for any length of time.  My craft room despite the windows being open was rather warm & not conducive to crafting. I did manage to find a cooler time - or perhaps I should say - less hot time, in order to do a little more in the garden, but not much. The members showcase I have for you today is Annette of Mold II who has another of her cards featured in a magazine.  Here it is - Well done Annette At the Mold II meeting last Tuesday Rita said that she had a card in the magazine too - but I can't find it Rita. Can you let me have a photo of it - perhaps I don't have the right magazine. That is all I have popped in for right now - may be back later.  Hope you are having a great weekend.'Bye for now.

Its 26 July & a CSNW member has a birthday Happy Birthday Grace have a lovely day.

Good morning, as I am hoping that it will be another nice day today & perhaps a little cooler in the early part of the morning I have written this post yesterday & scheduled it for this morning. The photos today are of the project for Mold II's meeting on Tuesday.  The theme was the technique of "Thumping"  The results with this technique can vary quite a lot - sometimes solid style stamps work better than outline ones - then other times it's the other way round.  Depends on the stamp.  The important thing is to not just add colour direct with a pen - but to use the thumping technique.  There is a difference.  Here are the photos; This technique really enhances the hair on this image - very effective It hasn't show up quite so well on this one. Some serious card making took place here - all 3 made by the same person - Rita in fact. Lovely clean & simple styles. Three really nice examples using the outline ...

Good afternoon - another very warm day. I had hoped to get out in the back garden - but it's just a bit too warm out there at the moment.  I think tomorrow morning might be better. I have the photos from Mold II's meeting last night & the first set is of their Show & Tell.  The theme this month was a card made in black & yellow with just a little white or neutral.  Here they are - but just to point out - a couple of cards look blue, but they are definitely black - I can only assume it is the lighting in the room that changes it; This is a lovely classic style card & the little butterfly in the silhouettes hair can be raised up. A lovely clean & simple card - beautiful - stylish. Wow! this is really good & different.  The medallion is a 3-d black peel-off layered onto yellow card & the petals have been zentangled along with the border around the card. This colour scheme was just crying out for silhouettes ...

Hi everyone - isn't it warm even this late? I haven't been in long after the Mold II club meeting this evening - it was warm in the centre.  We had a really nice meeting there were a couple of people missing, but it is that time of year isn't it! I will have photos from the meeting for you tomorrow. This morning I had a workshop down at the Garden Centre - 3 ladies on it & we made cards with different folds.  It's the first workshop outside of crochet that I have done for quite a while & it was most enjoyable. The ladies enjoyed it so much they have booked to come on another one in September - so I have to sort out 3 more cards. I mentioned yesterday that Bob & I had lazed about at the weekend, but I forgot to mention that we did pop out for a meal on Saturday evening & Russ & Nadine joined us - really nice evening. Anyway as it is rather warm in my craft room right now I will make this do for this evening - as I said - back tomorrow with pho...

Hi everyone I hope you had a great weekend.  Bob & I just lazed about - it was wonderful.  Kick started by a discussion with Joanna of Mold club I started a new book - the 8th in a series.  The author - should that be authoress - is Diana Gabaldon & the books go by the title of Outlander series.  It is a great series  I discovered them some 6 years ago - maybe even a little more.  Extreme outline - a lady in Scotland in more or less the current time walks into a stone circle & gets whisked back to the 1700's. Any way as well as doing some reading I also did a lot of Internet surfing via my tablet, sitting in my summerhouse.  Way to live!  Right at the end of the day I found I could talk to my tablet.  No, I haven't lost my marbles as I am sure a lot of you with tablets know that you can do this.  Several times yesterday I was keying things in or putting my finger on a link & not getting through - which was so frustratin...

Just that - RIP - James Garner A great actor I drooled over him in Rockford Files &  Maverick Mind you, I couldn't believe it when they said he was 86 - where have the years gone!

Good mo...........oops, no it's good afternoon.  Where has the time gone. So, here I am with the second set of photos from the Mold meeting on Thursday evening.  The project was given to us by Joanna & is a "blocks card". I think it could be described as a stage on from the Tri-fold card we made a couple of years ago & Joanna has already spotted a slight deviation to this one & I have seen another one - so could be 2 more projects there. Here are the photos; Doesn't this red & black look great - it is going to someone who has successfully completed a course. Owls are still very popular - isn't he cute? No! I haven't photographed this one upside down - the creator got a little confused somewhere. But hey - who says it's wrong & anyway the design is beautiful. More owls - I love this clean design This one is just a little blurry, sorry - but you can still see the design. Really nice & bright....

Good afternoon & here I am with the first set of photos from last nights Mold meeting which are of their Show & Tell where the theme was cards with unusual folds. This theme gave me 2 problems - firstly the cards would probably have to be picked up if the folds were structural or part of the internal part of the card & secondly - how was I going to do them justice in the photographs.  Well we got round the first point easily - everyone was very careful how they handled the cards & if they had inky fingers asked someone else to hold the cards for them.  For the second part - well we will see; They look so cute snuggled up together don't they The front of this card has 3 sections - the top portion lifts up & the 2 bottom portions open like a door. In order for you to see, I have opened it up & flipped it over. I believe it is called a dutch fold. A great little footballer - wonder what his thoughts are after the recent matches?...