Rubber Stamping - North Wales

Good morning ladies I do hope you have had a good weekend. Today the showcase is once again from Rita of Mold II club who has a letter along with photos of her work published recently in Card Making & PaperCraft magazine; The photo from the magazine page does not show the cards - actually they are calendars - very well, so Rita sent me her own photos of the actual project.  So now we can get a closer look; Very nice Rita.  You do like making your calendars don't you? That is me for today ladies. Must get on with some birthday cards that are due in the next week or so. 'Bye for now.  Enjoy this sunshine whilst we have it.

Hi everyone. Today I have another member showcase for you - this time it is Joanna from Mold club. Joanna has continued playing with the Bokeh technique that she showed the 2 Mold clubs recently & sent me this great photo I really like this design isn't it lovely?   Here is what Joanna said about it in her email; "It's not perfect but not bad for a first attempt. My white pigment ink wouldn't show when I stamped with it so I had to use Versamark which I couldn't see so the pattern isn't regular enough. I  also outlined with my stardust sparkle pen to lightly define the circles.  I stamped through the acetate stencil used for the bokeh background. Has potential I think" I definitely agree Joanna.  By the way when Joanna says "first attempt" she is referring to the stamping through the acetate circle. Hope your weekend has started well everyone. 'Bye for now.

............... the clocks go back tonight or rather early tomorrow morning.

Good afternoon everyone Do you remember sometime back I showed you a photo of a rather large piece of Zentangle work?  It was created by Lois, who is the daughter of Rachel, one of the Mold club ladies. Well she has created another one, & again it is based on herself.  Take a look & you will see what I mean; This is a life size drawing.  I think she laid down on the floor & someone in her family drew around her.  Lois then filled the shape with zentangle patterns. In this photo you cannot clearly see the patterns so I am going to ask her Rachel to take some close ups of the patterns & then show them here.  I have no idea how long it took Lois - but she is obviously smitten with zentangle. Well done Lois.  If you do anymore please let us see them. 'Bye for now Have a great weekend.

Good morning everyone This morning it is member showcase time & once again it is for Rita of Mold II club. Rita has recently had one of her cards published & here it is; That card must make Carolyn happy too as it is the design she showed Mold II ladies & myself recently, which allowed me to take it to the other 2 clubs. Well done once again Rita.  Keep up the good work. I will be back again later with another showcase - but with a little difference

Good afternoon ladies. This session I have the second set of photos from Tuesday night's Mold II meeting & they are of their project for the evening - which was discovering the technique of Bokeh with Joanna from Mold club. There are quite a lot of photos to show you - so depending on your system - these could take a little while to load.  Although having said that I think most computers these days are much better at handling this sort of load. Elma used some lovely pastel colours then added the flourish & words in black. She also created a nice layered card with it. Christine made 2 lovely backgrounds & added the angels to one of them.  Also Christine chose to use the edge masking technique to create the white border around her pattern. Betty created 2 cards & also used the masking tape to create the white border. Silhouette stamps really work well with this background Annette also created 2 backgrounds & layered them

I have just been into the Projects Photo page & added 2 more samples of the box frame card that Carolyn is going to be showing Mold & Mold II club in November. Don't worry CSNW ladies - I will show you in the New Year.

Good afternoon everyone. The set of photos I have for you this afternoon is of the Show & Tell cards from the Mold II club meeting last night. The card was to be for a child & I had handed out a sketch to create it from, but I didn't put the sketch on the blog.  I think because I thought of it at the last moment.   It was basically a card with 3 panels on the front & then a topper to one side.  So some cards were made with the sketch & some were not. But not to worry we had some great cards to look at; Elma's card in shades of blue has this lovely little fairy on the topper. On the back of the card was a blue silhouette fairy die-cut.     Betty had several children in her family to make cards for - so a nice selection from her. I do like those Gorjuss stamps - they are so cute. Annette has created a Minion's card for Harry who is a fan of the Minions. What a great card - I really like the one-eyed character. Sue has

Good morning ladies Over the last few days I have been putting the finishing touches to the items created on the Ali Reeve workshop I attended the day after the stamp festival. I took photos of the work in progress & showed them to you shortly afterwards. This was one of them; This is the completed card; It's a bit different from my usual style - but then that is what craft is all about - trying new things.  At first I put the layers on a white card - but the stamped white card isn't actually white, so it looked wrong.  I thought black would be too heavy & I would have had to put another layer on as well. I didn't have any ready made purple / lilac card but the green was sitting on my desk from when I was trying to decide on one of my Christmas cards.  I think it works quite well. Tonight is the meeting of Mold II club when they will be trying out the Bokeh technique with Joanna from Mold club, so it's time to get the box ready & NOT

Good evening everyone I hope you all had a good weekend. I have another of my recently made cards to show you.  This time it is for a colleague who is leaving the area to start a very new venture.  So I was called upon to make him a card from the group; Whilst wondering what sort of statement to make on the front of the card I remembered that a little while ago he had said to me that it was "time to move on".    Which means that when I spotted this clock card amongst the remains of a Hunkydory package that I won some time last year - or was it 2014! - that it seemed to be just what I needed.   Plus I had recently bought a set of Tim Holtz stamps at the festival that had a clock amongst them so I felt the 2 would go well together.  Consequently the message to put on the front of the card just fell into place. The other stamps in that Tim Holtz set - its just called "Vintage Things" - include an old telephone, an old typewriter  an old electric fan.  

Hi everyone. Do you remember a short while back that I wrote about a problem with one of my Edge'able Dies from Crafters Companion? I finally had a response from them & the lady suggested that I had the wrong sandwich -- I had told her what I had used - in fact I told her 2 methods I had tried.  Anyway, this afternoon I have tried her method, & I ran the die through the Gemini twice before changing the plates to do the embossing. Still the same result - not a good cut, no embossing visible & took me 10 mutes to get all the bits out of the die. Sheelagh of Mold club had commented on the post asking if I had tried using wax paper between the die & the card.  So I took Sheelagh's suggestion after trying the above.  At least the die released from the card quite a lot easier.  But still no embossing & it also still took some time to get the residue out of the die. So another email has gone off to them explaining todays attempts & asking if there is

Good afternoon ladies Well! what a great workshop that was.  I thoroughly enjoyed myself & yet I didn't actually do any crafting.  I just showed some things then kept an eye on everyone. The CSNW ladies were joined by Graces' sister Amy & also by 2 members from Mold club - they were Lynn who brought her friend Jan along with her & Rhiannon whose sister Gretta came as well.. Sadly one of the CSNW ladies Joan - had been taken poorly & had to cancel.  We missed your company Joan & hope you will soon be fit & well again.  Hope to see you at club on  2 November. Here is the group hard at work Look at all their craft stuff under the tables.  I did give out quite a comprehensive list of things that would be needed & also stated that I would be bringing loads with me as well.  But I have to say quite of a few of you ladies at the workshop came complete with Gesso.  So, initially I was a bit worried you already knew what to do. As I do