Rubber Stamping - North Wales

Hi everyone I can't remember why I didn't blog yesterday - but Saturday's can be a bit domestic in their make-up, so I don't always craft. Today I have been busy making up samples for a workshop on Tuesday - yes, I know - why so last minute? Well I actually thought I had a sample of each of the cards in my stash - but no - so that is why I have been making them today. The cards are those that fold differently - the ladies who are attending came to a workshop last month & made 3 cards.  They enjoyed it so much they asked for another workshop with more different folding cards. So this week they will be making - Tri-shutter card; Stepper card & Stretch card; Here are the samples; Here are two views of the Tri-shutter card. Photography not good but have sharpened it a little. As you can see I added two little embossed squares as part of the decoration. I have decided I like that so much I will probably make another with more embossed panels...

Good morning everyone Here I am with the photos from the project section of the Mold II meeting on Tuesday evening - where the technique of Triple Time Stamping was shown & tried; I had forgotten to take my camera that evening so these were taken with my mobile.  There seems to be a slight shadow down one side but I have done my best to remove it. Here are the cards made by the ladies; I love this design - the images look like a mix between sea shells & the ying-yang symbol. A lovely black & white card (you know how much I love B&W) & that floral spray is just right coming in from the opposite corners. Such a lovely colour & the partial use of the image for the corners works really well. That stamp was free on a magazine some time ago - in fact I think it was the first set they gave away with the mag. A beautiful butterfly design & the colouring was very pretty & subtle. A great flowing design & I love the w...

Sorry - no crafting done, no photos got ready for the blog - because .............. I have been out most of the day with Nadine.  We  popped over to Lady Heyes & had a good look in each of the different "huts".  I was very good & spent £3.99 on a stamp in Crab Apple Crafts - but - Nadine did better - she didn't spend anything.  Well! not until we got to M&S later. After I got home - Bob returned from work & decided we would have dinner out.  So by the time we had done that & come back & watched a little TV - here I am at just before 10:00 pm. I will do the Mold II project photos tomorrow - I promise. I also have some members news to write up. So! call back tomorrow.  Night night.

Hello everyone - I have just worked out again how to offload my photos from my camera to my computer so we are ready to go. The photos are of their Show & Tell where the theme - was favourite quote; A great tag, it makes a change to see a tag, & the design very apt for the quotation This is a beautiful card with lovely glittery butterflies. I don't think the verse will be too clear - so I am going to reproduce it here "Whisper your wish to a butterfly, and it will fly up to heaven, & make it come true" A lovely delicate design & a very true saying. This is a really cute card & those raindrops are different sizes of sparkly gems - very effective.  The quote was on the inside & I did photograph it but I couldn't get it clear enough - so again I will reproduce it here. " Until the sun comes out again for you, my umbrella is big enough for two" Two very pretty cards using the same quote but ...

Hi everyone - what a lovely day it turned out to be - some sun to cheer us up. This evening was the August meeting for the MoldII club & we had 2 new members tonight which was very good..  So I have photos for you which I will show tomorrow - I managed to forget to take my camera so had to take the photos with my mobile phone.  They seem to have turned out alright I now have to remember how to unload them on to my computer. I made a birthday card today - so I am managing to create something most days & will show that to you a bit later. So that is all the news for today really. More tomorrow - ooh yes - & I should be getting my new glasses tomorrow. I wonder what differences they will make. Night night, sleep well.

.. which is really a practice run on the idea. Hello everyone - how is your weekend going? A couple of days ago I decided it was time to try out one of my ideas for the Christmas cards I will be making. In this recent tidy up I saw a Christmas stamp I hadn't used - it was part of a set & I had used some of the set but not the main image. Here is the card; I can't remember who the stamp is by - but it consists of the wording with a poinsettia set in the middle.  So I stamped & embossed it in gold on white card,  then stamped a second poinsettia.  One of my new sets of frame dies was just the right size - it did pinch off a little of the lower petal of the flower, but when I layered the second flower on top that laid above the frame so it didn't matter.  The next size up frame die I used for the gold card.  I layered the gold card onto the base card, then the white card onto the gold card then the second flower.  I had cut out a couple of...

Good afternoon everyone. Just dropping in to show you the photos from the Mold meeting on Thursday night.  The project for the evening was the Serendipity 2 technique. You may remember it - we stamped a piece of card with various images in black ink, then coloured the card in different coloured inks & finally cut it up in shapes & put them on a card. Here are the photos; What a pretty background card has been produced & a great use of shapes giving a nice balanced design. I love this design - a bit adventuresome & the use of the branch stamp on the background sets it off nicely. Another nicely balanced design & the lines drawn around the shapes just lifts it from the pink background. A nice clean & simple layout - but I know that the creator thought it was lacking something. Looking at this photo & the fact there is a narrow piece of ribbon on the left hand side I am wondering if I have got this the wrong way up! ...

Good afternoon all - well the sun has finally pushed through today & it is hoped there will some more of it over the weekend - before we get to wet Monday. I have the photos from Mold meeting Show & Tell to show you where the theme was "a favourite quote"; The creator of this card was a little disappointed that she had cleverly used background paper with plasters on to go with the quote.  I think it was delicately done & the clock took our attention.  Great card. A beautiful card, I love the colours & the quote is absolutely brilliant.  Need to find a copy of it. (Done that & saved it for use some time) A lovely delicate card & a beautiful quote which is very true indeed. What a dainty card & again I must have that quote - it is really lovely. Another delicate & pretty card & what a beautiful "friend" quote. Another beautiful card & what a lovely quote - quite uplifting. A r...

Hi everyone not been on long following the Mold meeting this evening. We had a very pleasant evening & I managed to afford them a laugh as I had taken a new bottle of glue along to the meeting - because I couldn't work out how to open the nozzle to use it.  I had tried lots of different things - it's one of these - You can just see the little white tip of the bottle & I knew that was stopping the glue just flowing out - but couldn't work out how to make it flow for me.  I pushed, pulled, took the lid off to see if there was a seal over the top of the bottle.  Then gave up.  So I thought - I will ask my ladies.  How embarrassing - it was simply twist the lid.  Still! they found it funny. So, I have some photos from their Show & Tell & their project & will sort them out in the morning & put them here tomorrow. Just as we left it was raining & I believe that is the forecast for the weekend - but of course it is - it...

Hi everyone More sorting done today - after a trip to Staples for some files to hold my masks & stencils & another for more stamps, plus 3 storage boxes to hold card that was found when unpacking one of those boxes.  The biggest percentage of the card was some that I had been given & is ideal for printing & making card templates from. But I took some time out to make a sample project card - that I should have made a while back.  The first group to make it is Mold at their September meeting.  To check that everything works OK I made this sample out of ready printed card & a topper - but have 2 partially stamped ones on the go too - which I will show when they are finished. Here is the card - It is a wallet card & there are quite a few ways to use it This is it open with just some background paper on the inside. The insert verse can go on this background paper directly, or matted & layered onto other paper / card.  If...

It is 20 August & a MoldII member has a birthday Happy Birthday Annette Have a lovely day

Hi everyone - still slowly sorting through everything.  I got some of the boxes labelled this morning so I know what is in them - even though most of them are transparent & I can see the contents. I took time out from the sorting to make a card from "stuff" or perhaps "stash" is  better word, that was in a box I was looking through. Here is what I gathered together & to this I added peel-off borders & a peel-off "Happy Birthday" along with some gems for bling. Here is the card; I used a cream scalloped square card, a piece of the green background paper & one of the sepia images you can see at the bottom of the first photo.  I coloured the image with pearlescent water colour paints - even painting over the sepia block leaves.  I layered the green panel onto the card, went around the edge with the border peel-offs then brushed some pale pink Distress Ink on the cut out flower image which I cut out with fancy scissors.  Thi...