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 way t

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 the petals to gi

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! I

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's August Ban

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 used for a gift ca

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