Rubber Stamping - North Wales

Good afternoon ladies. This afternoon I am showing you the photos of a second little project that the ladies from Mold II club did at their meeting last Tuesday.  This project was given by Annette - that lovely folded paper Christmas tree.  Here are the photos of the samples Annette made; They are lovely Annette.  This last one looks as if it is in black & white paper - so was it perhaps your show & tell card?  I noticed that there wasn't one amongst the other photos. Tomorrow & Thursday I have rather busy days so I may not get on here to write anything. Then of course it will be Friday & the day of my op - so it will be a few days before I write again.  Take care everyone. Back soon - 'bye for now.

Good morning Just to make sure that you know I will be popping in to your meeting on Wednesday evening. Bob will be with me again - purely because I will during the afternoon have been back to BTW for the results of my MRI. I am not sure how long I will stay - but long enough to show you how to make the U-fold card. See you then.

Good morning everyone Today I have the second set of photos from the Mold II club meeting last Tuesday. For some unknown reason I have shown these the opposite way round to that I normally do, because these photos are of the Show & Tell.  The theme for this card was Christmas Black & White only - although I did say some sparkle was allowed; I love the way you have framed those poinsettias Christine, & doesn't the black on white really show up the detail of the petals. Another card from Christine showing the nativity scene in silhouette. These baubles on Sue's card are absolutely delightful. It is so nice to see them hanging free. What a striking card. I love it Carolyn. Another stunning card, this time from Elizabeth .  That dotty frame really shows the focal image off well. As I have said before about the groups & the show & tell challenges - you never disappoint. I have another set of photos from that meetin

Good morning everyone This morning I have some photos of the project at the Mold II club last Tuesday.  Rita brought in a delightful Christmas Album for them to make.  The photos I have are of the various samples that Rita brought in for the ladies to see. I am not sure if there will be photos of those made by the ladies as they wouldn't have been able to finish them completely during the evening - so perhaps photos will gradually come through later. I hope I have got these together in the right order & correct album; front two inside photos Back  of Album 1 Front Inside pages  of Album 2 Front Back  of album 3 Front Inside pages Back  of Album 4 Front inside pages Back of album 5 I love the little channel adhered to the back of the album for the ribbon to run through - a brilliant idea & I think it would work on cards that are wrapped with a rib

Good afternoon everyone I hope you are having a nice weekend. Before I show you the member showcase I thought I would share with you the fact that my DH has just informed me I had errors in one of my recent posts.  I have just been to take a look & see that on Thursdays "just chatting" post there are words with letters missing & words with extra letters.  I obviously did not spell check that post - so my apologies. Now for the member showcase - which is the one for Annette of Mold II club, whose featured card I couldn't find again to write about.  Annette sent me a copy of the page in an email so I could put it here; I now realise that I had been looking for it again in the Readers Gallery areas of the magazine, when as you can see Annette's card was featured on the Letters Page.  The magazine was the latest issue of Papercraft Essentials. It's a really cute & colourful card Annette.  Well done at being featured again - I wonder what you

Hello again. My second post today is to show you a photo of a card made by Rita - of Mold II club - that was featured in a very recent magazine; A really festive card Rita - well done again. I wonder what your prize will be this time. I also found another item with a card from Annette - also of Mold II club, but now I can't find it again. So I have emailed Annette in the hope she has a copy she can send me.  Plus I have found in my system one of Annette's cards that I don't think I have featured.  So I will check back posts & if not I will show it tomorrow. Keep up the good work Rita & Annette getting our card making on show. 'Bye for now - more tomorrow.

Hi everyone. Well don't things change in a flash. Shortly after writing the post about my hospital datae I got a phone call from the consultants secretary & the datae has been changed agan.  I am now due in on Friday 3 November, after going there on the Tursday afteernoon for a small procedure to help the consultant in the operation. I really don't think it will change now, as I have been for pre-op assesment today which includded what I ca ony describe as a full "mot". So that is the latest news. Back in a few momens with a membr showcase.

Hello again Three posts in one day - that has to be a record!   😉 This time I have photos of the card I made for our daughter-in-law Elayne for her birthday earlier this month. I actually made it at the Honey Doo workshop I attended a little earlier this month.  I made 2 cards that day & as soon as I saw the styles I knew whom I wanted them for.  The main design is stamped on white card with a pale grey ink & coloured in with mica powders used as a paint.  An overlay of parchment / vellum is placed in position & the images over stamped in clear ink & heat embossed with a very very white EP. This was then layered onto silver glitter card, then onto the base white card. This is the image with the parchment / vellum cover lifted showing the colours. The one image was then stamped again on the insert, & the greeting, in the same pale grey ink. A cautionary tip about the insert should you think of doing something like this.  The insert pap

Good afternoon ladies I have just updated the club pages for all 3 clubs with materials lists & the projects photo page with sample photos. Some really lovely projects in store. This brings me up to date with these pages. Will post one of my recent cards a little later on. 'Bye for now.

Good morning everyone. Last night it was the October meeting of the Mold II club & I popped in for a short while - well short, but long enough to watch Rita do the basic demonstration of the project she was showing during the evening. Rita provided all the materials & even though I wasn't staying she gave me a set too, along with notes.  It is a very interesting little project & I look forward to seeing how everyone did last night. My  main reason for going was to pass on to the ladies the news of my current health problem, as they had not been at the workshop when I had made the announcement.  Now that I have spoken to them you are all aware of things. I am happy to keep you up to date with my progress but will not be going into any details & stating here what it is - you already know. The first of which is that it looks like I will be going into hospital on 7 November - not a long stay, & I hope the recovery part will not be too long either. I am sorry t

Hi everyone Just popping in quickly to let you know that I gave a link to our blog to Elizabeth so that she could see the photos from the workshop. She has also given me a link to her blog - clicking on the URL below will take you to her actual blog about our workshop;    http://elizabethr-thecraftyrobin.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/lots-of-fun-indigoblu-style.html Why not go & take a peek. Why not bookmark it & keep a regular eye on her work. Back later. 'Bye PS - just noticed that Joanna has left a comment about this on Saturdays post.

Hello again everyone. When I checked my emails this morning I had one from Sheelagh of Mold club with a photo of another u-fold card she had made. Her message said; "Hello, I only managed to get the large card done on Thursday but I had bought a stamp from Clare and I have a friend whose birthday is on 11th November and I had already decided to do a poppy card so I used the new stamp and did the smaller size card. Quite pleased with it!! Sheelagh" Here is Sheelagh's card; That is really pretty Sheelagh I am sure your friend will love it - thank you for sending me the photo. If anyone else makes another of these U-fold cards, please send me photos. In fact you should all know by now that I love receiving photos of your cards & putting them here on the blog for others to see. 'Bye!

Good morning everyone - I hope you are having a good weekend. Today I have the second set of photos from the Mold club meeting on Thursday last & they are of the project for the evening. As I said inn an earlier post - I was not at this meeting. Carolyn of Mold II came to the meeting & showed everyone how to make her U-Fold card; This card by Joan uses the currently popular Nordic style Christmas papers. Really nice card & very Christmassy. I love the delicate colours to Janet's card & that focal point is really pretty. Love these colours & the verse focal point is really elegant. I like the way Rhiannon has raised her band a little higher than the bottom of the card. Another delicate patterned card this time from Clare. Love the colours. Wow, Sheelagh what wonderful colours - a really dramatic & beautiful card. This is Lynn's card - I seem to have chopped off her name card when reducing the photo a little fo

Good morning everyone. This morning I have photos from 3 of the club members who attended the 14 October workshop showing what they have done with their master board project. In case you are not sure what a master board is - it is this.  You turn a plain piece of paper or card into a background paper by inking, painting, stamping all over it, whatever your creative hobby is. Use pen ends, plastic cards to create lines & circles & many more objects & shapes.  From the master board you cut shapes to decorate cards or art journals pages etc. As well as sitting down to specifically create a page, another way is add to a sheet as you create other items. For example - too much ink or paint left on your craft sheet - use it on your master board.  Still got ink on your stamp & you don't need to stamp it on the project you are making - do a second generation stamping on your master board.  Eventually you will have a great piece of card to work with. First it is Annette

Good afternoon ladies This afternoon I have for you the photos of the Mold Show & Tell from last night's meeting (Thursday 19th) & thanks go to Joanna for taking them for me, as I was not at the meeting. The theme fr the Show & Tell was Christmas cards in black & white only - oh yes & I did say that a little sparkle would be OK too. Well, once again you didn't disappoint. So much so that I am not sure I can leave comments after each one as it would get rather repetitive.  Perhaps just pointing out anything different or special! I hope the sparkle on the topper shows up in this photo. Joan - is that Glitter Kiss you have used? Mair showed us what the design would look like in colour too. Great frame centre piece - I have a couple like that for birthday & thinking of you Wow! that is different for Christmas. Love the sentiment Take a look at the next photo - showing a bird-eye view. There's a lot o