Rubber Stamping - North Wales

Hello again ladies As promised - some of the cards I received for my birthday this year  As normal for this sort of post I will not be passing comments on each card - they were all amazing.  Some of them were made in such a way that I took some inside photos as well. There are 39 in all - so I will spread that over 3 posts of about a dozen each post. Part 2 & 3 tomorrow. 'Bye for now.

Good afternoon ladies. Today I have another member showcase for you & this time it is Rita of Mold II club who has had a card featured in a recent issue of "Papercraft Essentials" magazine. Well done again Rita & I see you incorporated some of your folk art painting as well in the design. Start of showing you my birthday cards later. 'Bye for now.

Good afternoon lades I hope you are having a good weekend. Today I have a member showcase for you & the card this time is from Clare of Mold club; Clare made this card for her Dad's birthday. She also entered it into 2 challenges where it was a winning card on "I Love Promarkers" & also chosen for the top 5 on "Passion for Promarkers" Well done Clare.  You obviously enjoy using your Promarkers.  I am still, even after quite a long time of having & using them, still not getting the results like those above.  But, I am working on it. I do have another member showcase for you - but need to photograph it first.  So I should be able to show it tomorrow. Come on ladies - anybody else had success they need to tell us about. That's me for today - 'bye for now.

Good afternoon ladies - well as promised I am back again this time with the photos of Mold II project for this month - which was the mdf hearts; These 2 photos are of the front & back of Carolyn's heart.  The silver on the pale blue is really wintry.   I wasn't aware of any of the other ladies having decorated the backs of their hearts so only fronts have been photographed. Rita's heart is a really beautiful wedding heart. I wish I had known about these when our 2 boys got married I would love to have made them (or at least their wives) one.   Hmm - maybe an anniversary? Phyllis has used that lovely die cut peacock on her heart & delicate flowers to compliment the background paper. Elma chose pale shades of blue & pink & that stylised bird die cut is gorgeous. Elizabeth's shades of lilac & contrast texture of feathers works so well. I love the use of the jigsaw piece hanging from the centre. Ann...

Good morning ladies This morning I have the Mold II Show & Tell photos for you. There challenge was a mixed media ATC; Elma has used crumpled tissue paper, a pretty rose topper & gilding to enhance some areas. Such delicate colours Elma. Annette chose a Christmas theme & the use of corrugated card for the star really gives it texture. The reindeer must be called Rudolph as Annette has given him a little red nose. Carolyn chose pastel colours for her ATC - there are shades of pink, lilac etc.  Extremely delicate & again the use of ribbed or corrugated card for texture, & the fibres (Actually the colour is more colour defined in real life) Lin made 2 ATC's as she was not happy with the green one which for some reason the card distorted. The black is fine even though she used the same products.  Those glasses are really cute. Hello!! These aren't ATC's!  No, they aren't but they are Show & Tell cards from a ...

Good morning ladies Popping in quickly before going out for most of the day in order to show you my second heart that I decorated - rather differently to the first one.  Also before going out I will be loading last night's photos onto my computer & will put the Show & Tell photos here later. I covered the heart with black gesso (it took 2 coats), then stamped the sentiment on the right hand side in white gesso.  I have to admit I took a couple of practice attempts on thick card to see how the gesso worked & to see how much I needed on the stamp.  By the way it is important to wash the gesso off as soon as you have stamped.  When I was happy with my technique I stamped it on the heart. Recently I have been playing, again, with air drying clay & made these lovely flowers & leaves (& lots of other pieces). So I painted them with white gesso to make them whiter & then painted them again with white acrylic paint.  After glui...

Good afternoon ladies. Just popping in for a little chat.  I have been preparing things for this evenings meeting of Mold II club - where we will be decorating a heart. So! I have also spent some time finishing another heart I have decorated, in order to take it along tonight.  I have done something a little different.  A photo of it over next couple of days, after I have shown you the photos from the Mold II meeting. Have a good evening 'Bye for now.

Today is 26 July & a CSNW club member has a birthday Happy Birthday Grace Have a lovely day

I went to see Liz at the Maelor this afternoon & got there just in time as they were about to move her to Mold hospital. She was already in the discharge ward awaiting the ambulance to transfer her - but they let me in to see her. So if you want to visit Liz - she is now at Mold. Mold II club night tomorrow - so will have some photos for you on Wednesday, & I have a couple of photos of my own work to show you as well. 'Bye for now.  Sleep tight.

Good morning ladies. Today I can show you the card I made for a friend's 60th birthday. You may remember that on Saturday's post I said we were off to her party.  We had a really lovely evening, sitting in their garden amongst friends, colleagues & strangers, & very pleasant it was too. There was lots of food which she had prepared during the day & her husband was on BBQ duty. Very pleasant indeed. Here is the card I made for her; The card was actually black & cream - it looks rather white here.  I die--cut & stamped all the components then layered a piece of black card onto the base card, followed by a cream card that had been embossed.  I then die cut the panel in cream & layered it onto black card that had been cut with the matching outer die on its own. Next I stamped the sentiment & flower spray on cream card & cut it out with a scalloped edge die. Then I used the next size up die & cut a black scalloped...

Good morning ladies Just a short post this morning to show you a card I made this last week.  It's one of the type that we all wish we didn't have to make but nevertheless have to. A sympathy card; I find now, that the lovely dies that are on sale - really help make a simple clean & elegant card suitable for these occasions, & the embossing folders take away the starkness of the base card. Tomorrow I will show you the 60th birthday card I made this last week. 'Bye for now.

Good morning ladies. This morning I have the photos of the project from the Thursday meeting of Mold club. The project was the decorated mdf hearts; Here are their hearts; Joanna went for a Christmas theme to her heart.   I have shown the front & back of this one as it has on it some interesting embellishments that Joanna made herself (using stamps).  I think  have persuaded her to show us how they were made. It doesn't actually take a lot of twisting as Joanna is always happy to show us interesting things.  It will be an extra on one of the meetings. Maureen's heart has this beautiful butterfly as it's focal point & I just love the colours. It looks like Maureen also stamped her ribbon!. Isn't this delicate? Clare covered her heart in some very pale (almost grey patterned) paper & then embellished with flowers stamped on parchment & glitter added to the edges. Yvonne's heart has a really lovely saying on it ...

Good afternoon again ladies & this post I am going to show you the photos from the Mold meeting's Show & Tell cards where the theme was a card using images inspired by the letter R We were a small group last night - just 6 ladies & there are just 3 Show & Tell cards for you to see. Here are the photos; This is Joanna's card, which I have to admit & did say last night - at first I didn't spot the R connection.  But then I picked it up for a closer look & it is of course Raindrops on Roses.  Lovely idea Joanna & love the colours. Yvonne has gone for Robot. I love the little robot topper - he is actually quite cute.  The patterned letters work really well too.  Lovely bright & cheerful card Janet has chosen R for Rose & what a beautiful stylised flower. Janet has also used that stippled effect in the colouring. Are those dots around the flowers part of the stamp Janet or have you added them yourself? ...

Good afternoon ladies & apologies for no blog posts for a couple of days.  You have heard enough about my ailments recently - but I have now for the first time in my life got hay-fever. This is the reason my eyes have been running the last few days.  This has made it difficult to spend anytime at the computer.  So I will try & catch up as quickly as I can. So! first thing is a recent card I made - in fact I made two almost identical - for 2 sets of our friends who decided to move house. Here is one of the cards; I am only showing one is they were too identical to show both.   The house stamp is quite long & could only really go on a DL card.  I stamped it onto some matching card & embossers it with clear EP, then added colour with my water colour paints.  The "Home Sweet Home  stamp came with the house stamp. I layered another piece of cream card onto gold mirri card & then mounted the house on foam pads over that. La...