Rubber Stamping - North Wales

Good morning ladies This morning I have a member showcase for you where someone responded to my question about "what did you make with your pieces from our techniques evenings". The response was from Sheelagh of Mold club & here is her card; The technique behind this card is Encaustic Wax - a technique we looked into quite a while ago.  Sheelagh said that she didn't really take to it at the time, but thought she would try using this piece.   It looks great Sheelagh & on closer inspection I can see that a 12-year old is the lucky recipient of this card. I am sure they will love it.  I have tried very hard to see what the name actually is - but the more I enlarge the photo the more indistinct it becomes. Thank you Sheelagh for sending this in. So! come on ladies - let us see your work.

Good morning everyone Today I have a member showcase for you & this time it is Annette from Mold II club who has one of her cards featured in a recent magazine; Annette used a champagne glass die that was a free gift on the magazine. Well done again Annette.

So! what did you do with your pieces of Brusho Paints play? Well, good afternoon everyone - this afternoon I have some photos for you sent in from Lynn of Mold club who has used some of her pieces & sent me the photos; On this card Lynn has used the 2 pieces created using a stencil, where you get a positive & a negative image. They look good together. This is really pretty. It looks like the flowers have been stamped directly onto the background. Lynn didn't send any details so I cannot be sure.  She may have stamped them, cut them out, then glued them on top. Another pretty card, with the flowers stamped & cut from another Brusho's decorated piece.   Lovely idea. Thank you for sending the photos in Lynn it is so good to see what happens after the club night.  I hope more of you will create something & send me a photo.  Or bring the card into your next meeting & I will photograph it. Hope your weekend is going well.  Ano

Birthday greetings It is 27 February  & a Mold club member has a birthday I hope it is just that Yvonne Happy Birthday

Good afternoon everyone - well here I am again with more photos from this weeks meeting of the Mold II club.   This set is of their play with Brusho Crystal Paints; Elma produced several backgrounds & added stamping to one piece making it into a card. Although Elma had a good play she said it was not for her but she enjoyed trying the technique Carolyn managed to stamp on all her pieces & she said that with the purple butterflies on the right, in the second photo she will probably cut the lower one out & 3-d it over the other one. Liz made 2 pretty spatter backgrounds & then decorated the panels with peel offs. They are going to look good on a card Liz. Dot also managed to stamp on her pieces - the silhouette stamps certainly suits this product. The large piece in the second photo Dot had pre-stamped at home, as she had done a little reading about Brushos on the Internet & brought that in ready to add the paints. I

Good morning ladies - especially the ladies of Mold II club 2015 Project It was decided at Tuesday's meeting that everyone is ready to do the tag swap  from the 2015 Project. So, if you missed the meeting this is to pass that information to you - bring in your tags to the March meeting & your folders or books if you have finished those too. Our project that evening will not take long - so time can be given to showing the tags & allowing me time to photograph them in their sets before being exchanged. I look forward to it. Now! have I finished mine?

Good afternoon ladies Here I am with the first set of photos from last night's Mold II club meeting.  This set is of their Show & Tell cards where the theme or challenge was to make a card using, and/or depicting anything to do with the letter R. Here are their cards; The first card is by Betty & her theme was R for Rose. I love this one-layer style its very pretty (although Betty admitted that due to smudges it is in fact not one layer - but the intention was there in the first place). Great colours. Annette's choice is R for Romance Aren't they just adorable - lovely clean & crisp card. Liz also chose R for Rose & what a beauty it is too. Elma's R was for Roaming & reflects a trip to France. The collage picture is matted onto a map - great idea. Elizabeth made 2 cards - the top one is R for Rocking Horse. & I know that she decorated inside & the back which I should have remembered & pho

TO READ FUTURE POSTS - SCROLL DOWN Good morning everyone. An Important announcement about the above project This post will stay at the top of the screen for a couple of weeks - to make sure everyone sees it. If you know of a club member who doesn't read the blog please pass this message on. I have had several calls & emails about the project & some of you are worrying that you won't be finished for your next club night. I don't offer these projects to get you stressed out - it s supposed to be enjoyable - eve fun!  So if you are behind (or perhaps haven't started yet) - don't worry.  I think it is important that all the tags come in together in order for the swap to take place.  So at your first meeting we will just check o progress.  Then agree a month for everyone to bring in their tags (& books if you have made those as well) & do the swap & admire everyone's work. I have joined in this project - so I am making do

Good afternoon everyone Today I have a card to show you that I made back in January & had forgotten to show it to you. As you can see it was for someones special birthday. The base is a white card onto which I had embossed the flourish & oval frame embossing folder. The "Happy Birthday" & the "60" fitted inside the oval just right.  The HB was heat embossed in silver & I am sorry to say that the 60 was a silver peel-off.  Sadly the embossing folder left a line beneath the embossing so I put the card on my score board & accentuated the line & added a second one to make it part of the design. The flower with the swirl was from a freebie set on an earlier magazine & the embossing folder was part of the freebie too.  I stamped the flower 3 times along the lower part of the card in silver EP then stamped it 3 times on floral paper.  The flowers were then cut out & placed over the stamped image. Oops! I have just spotted that

Hi everyone Just popping in quickly today to show you how I finished a recent card that I had made & showed to you - HERE . I looked through my various little pads of background papers & found one that was just the right colour to go with the colours in the butterfly. The paper is glued to the back of the front of the card (does that make sense?) & then the insert placed as usual inside the card. Today I have been having a good sort out of drawers & boxes that haven't been looked inside for a while.   That's me for tonight. Night night, sleep well.

Hi - it's me again. I was just looking through the blog for something when I noticed that in the previous post about Mold photos - there was a photo missing. It's right at the end where I show the samples I worked on - this one was missing; The flowers on the left I had merely painted with the Brushos, having first stamped & embossed them in white EP.  I did this to show another way the Brushos can be used - but also because I was hoping to make a background that they would look good on.  I didn't get that far. The dragonfly - I am pleased with. It was just a scrap of ard with the blue paint on so I stamped the dragonfly in black archival ink.  Then I took a little of the yellow paint & tipped it on my kraft sheet then picked it up with a water brush - turning it into watercolour paint. Very carefully I coloured sections of the wings & body & of course because the base was blue when I painted with yellow it turned it green.  But also it changed

Good morning everyone & a nice blustery day it is too. Should get the washing dry. Right - onto Mold photos.  This time they are of the play that the ladies had on Thursday when I introduced Brusho Crystal Paints.  I say introduced because one or two ladies had already got them, & a couple had a different product but the end use the same. I did provide some watercolour card, some glossy card & some plain white card - I am not sure how many used those items, but anyway pieces of card were cut up & play began. Very briefly - Brusho Crystal Paints come in powder form & when it meets water all sorts of magic happens. The first set of work is from Joan Look carefully ladies & use your imagination on how these would be used. I can see flowers. Joan also made ....... ....... this card with one of her pieces.  This is what I mean about imagination. Doesn't that look like some tall yellow flowers in amongst grasses? Next is Rhiannon&#