Rubber Stamping - North Wales

Good evening everyone - I do hope you have all had a great weekend. Tonight I have a member showcase from Joanna of Mold club.  She has sent me a photo of one of the "demo" cards she made whilst showing the club how to do the Northern Lights technique - after she has made it into a card for a friends anniversary; I think, Joanna, this is the best one so far that you have done.  Because for me the problem has been how to interpret those lovely flowing & moving shapes that the northern lights make & I think you are pretty near with this one. You can almost imagine those shapes swirling across the night sky. It is obviously down to the blending of the colours & these here certainly meet that criteria. Ooh! now I have to go & practise more............. & more!!!!!! 'Bye for now.

Hi everyone - how is your weekend going? Today I have some photos for you of my pieces of work at the recent Mold II club meeting when we played with alcohol inks; These two pieces are the alcohol ink on acetate & then blown with a straw. The one on the left I have shown before as it was one that I did when preparing for this.  The one on the right looks quite strange & is the piece that I used to show the ladies what to do, but I got asked questions like - can you marble through it with a cocktail stick - answer look at the scratches.  It might have worked better if the inks had not dried a little in the meantime.  Can you add more ink - yes. What happens if you add blending solution - the large circles. I am looking to see if I can draw on these pieces as create more interest - such as flowers etc. These 2 pieces were made with the marbling technique & this is the reverse side of those 2 pieces. I love the randomness of this techn...

Good evening everyone & before I settle down for the evening I am popping in with another member showcase as promised.  The member this time is Elma from Mold II club. Now there is a little story behind this card.  Elma made the card for a show & tell & mentioned to Annette that she didn't want it & was going to throw it away.  Annette asked her not to do that so Elma said "You have it then" & gave it to Annette.  Annette felt that it was a good card for the magazines - so she eventually sent it off to them with a covering letter (as if written by Elma) along with Elma's details. It was published in the latest issue of Papercraft Essentials - the same issue as Rita in the last post; We were all disappointed that they didn't actually publish Elma's name - but we know it is her card - as it was included in this post HERE , back in October 2014. Well done Elma & a big thank you to Annette. Have a great weekend. 'Bye ...

Good morning everyone.  I hope you have nice things planned for this final bank holiday of the year & that the weather will stay "nice" for us all. This morning I have a member showcase for you & it is for Rita of Mold II who has had a card featured recently in Papercraft Essentials; Well done again Rita - keep up the good work. Right I will be back again later today with another member showcase, but in the meantime after lunch I am off to the Daleside Garden Centre for some plants & to meet up with Sue for a coffee & a chat. 'Bye for now.

Good afternoon all. Well!  that is another part of my wedding outfit sorted - have just got back from Cheshire Oaks where I popped into Jacques Vert where Nadine had seen just what I needed.  My shoes & bag. Anyway enough about me - the final set of photos from the Mold II meeting on Tuesday night. These are the photos of the second project we did using alcohol inks.  The main tool / ingredient was a tub of cold water.  The effect - marbling! Annette Carolyn Dot Elma Lin Liz Now! there are some names missing from this line-up, so I wondering if where I have put multiple photos with a persons name that I have made a mistake.  If so I apologise.  I am sure someone will put me straight on the detail. Now the only thing that doesn't show in these photos is that you actually get double-sided designs. That would have just been a bit too much to photograph.  I am looking forward ...

Good afternoon ladies & hello again today. This post I have the photos from the first project we worked on last night.  The evening was spent trying a couple of new techniques - well new to the club projects anyway - with alcohol inks. I think both projects were fun to do & you just didn't know how things were going to turn out.  The first project was using the inks on acetate & the important tool - was - a STRAW!.  Now it doesn't take too much thought to realise that where a straw is involved there is going to be either drinking or blowing. Whilst these are called alcohol inks - they certainly aren't for drinking - so it had to be blowing. You can get some great backgrounds (as you will see) - but if your droplets turn into good shapes you can be more artistic (as you will also see).  Of course I wasn't inside the ladies heads so don't know if the shapes were created casually or deliberately to create a shape.  Here we go - have a look & s...

Good morning ladies. I am here with the first set of photos from last nights meeting of Mold II club. This set is of their Show & Tell cards where the theme was a card with "Mainly Words". I love it when I set this sort of challenge to see how it is interpreted by everyone & the results are certainly variable & that will occur because if I don't give you any hints you have no idea what is actually in MY mind. Anyway - on to Mold II's interpretation; Annette chose a very current set of words for her card, accompanied by a nice swirly background. Betty got carried away using up the backgrounds she made from the "Tissue" technique last month, & made four cards. Everyone liked the way, on the third card, the gaps between the tissue strips looked like clouds. A very delicate choice of colours by Carolyn & even the flowers & butterflies have words on them. Great background stamp. Elizabeth cre...

Good evening everyone. Just popping in quickly before taking myself off to bed - to say that we had a great evening this evening at the Mold II meeting & tomorrow I will have some photos for you of their Show & Tell cards & also the 2 projects we did. Hopefully also I will have the photos of my efforts in the Northern Lights techniques - plus I have 2 member showcases to show you as well.  They won't all appear tomorrow but it gives me something to write about over the next few days. In the afternoon I have to go back to the Doctor to find out the results of my "breathing" tests. Should be interesting - will let you know how I got on. More tomorrow.  Sleep well.

Good evening everyone.  I hope you all had a great weekend. I have not had a crafty weekend this weekend, & therefore have not taken photos of my attempts at the Northern Lights technique, I have a poorly husband again.  This time he has a slipped disc - so getting around & other things are difficult.  Plus to be fair to him he is an awful lot of pain.  He is currently on pain killers & tomorrow has to ring up for a lumbar x-ray.  He cannot drive at the moment so I am having to do the running around.  I am afraid after doing that I cannot seem to get my craft mojo working.  But I will try tomorrow - plus tomorrow evening is the August meeting for Mold II club. So after that there will be photos to show you & perhaps my mojo will have kicked in. In the moments I have sat down I have done some more work on Family History & once I get into that I am afraid time really flies. Also this week I must apply some time to the cross stit...

Good morning everyone. This morning I have the second set of photos from the Mold meeting to show you & this time it is of their project for the evening. I got to have a play on Thursday as well as the evening was taken by Joanna - who showed us the technique called - Northern Lights. Here are the photos & they have all come out so well I am not going to make any individual comments - they all just speak for themselves; Clare Fiona Janet Joan (Brown) Sorry Joan - you made 3 cards but one of them the photo was too blurry. I must have moved as I took the photo. Lynn Mair Maureen  Rachel Rhiannon Yvonne Ladies - they are fantastic.  This will whet the appetites of the other 2 clubs, won't it! I said at the top of the post that I too took part, but didn't take photos of my work Thursday night. I will do that & show them in the next post. H...