Rubber Stamping - North Wales

Good evening everyone.  Is it turning cold again or is it just me? Yesterday I mentioned that I had sorted out a freebie Christmas pack from a magazine in order to make some quick cards.  This morning I settled down & put them together, 7 here are some of the cards; Have you spotted the error in the blue one in the pair above? I have several more photos to show you, which I will do tomorrow, after I get back home from my regular visit to the Oncologist. 'Bye for now.

Good evening everyone. After going for my regular blood test this morning I have had a really successful afternoon with making cards. Firstly I made 4 cards for Bob - so that is his 12 cards completed; These four cards have the same design - the nativity bauble.  I made 2 in silver & 2 in gold. The die was another of those I bought from Ali Express. After these cards I dug out some papers & toppers that had been free on a magazine & are from Tattered Lace.  I chose the cards, how much & which background paper & the topper.  Then I put each one inside it's envelope ready for me to work on tomorrow. The package also included some Christmas stamps from Tattered Lace which are actually quite nice - so they will probably be what I work with next. How do you decide how to make your cards - particularly Christmas?  I start thinking about it towards the end of July by looking at what I already have, then watch for the trends....

Good morning everyone - I hope you are all wrapped up warm if you are out & about. It is really chilly. Did you all have a good weekend?  I had a very pleasant Saturday afternoon & evening spent with my brother on his flying visit. It always cheers me up to see him & have a chat. This week sees a colleague of Bob's reaching an important birthday & so I was tasked with making him a birthday card.  I like if possible to link to the person themselves but this was a little difficult as we were not aware of any particular interests I could use.  Whilst having a peek around Pinterest I spotted an idea that I felt I could tweak for my own use. Here is the card It's straight to the point! I used a 7x5 base white card & some patterned papers from my stash.  They were nice quality papers as they were the ones that I kept when I bought some copies of the Tattered Lace magazine.  It was double-sided so I used the darker pattern for the b...

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Good evening everyone. Today I have had a good card making session.  I thought it was time to make the cards that I make every Christmas for Bob to give out.  Which is usually 12. Having decided on the design I had some die-cutting to do & some stamping.  I actually made 8 cards - 4 in gold & 4 in silver, so still 4 to make. Here are photos of the 2 different colours; The die is one of those that I purchased from Ali-Express. It die-cut beautifully, but is very delicate so I had to be careful taking it out of the die. For it to adhere to the card I meant to use stick it style paper - but forgot for the first few, so gluing them was tricky. The rest went very easily. I cut a piece of white card slightly smaller than the base card then heat embossed the edges to match the die-cut.  It was then simply placed on the base card. That is me for today.  Have a great weekend doing something enjoyable.  I have a flying visit from...

Good morning everyone - it's looking a bit grey out there isn't it? This morning I have the photos from Tuesday's meeting of the Mold II club & they are of their project which was a Tri-fold card with Carolyn. Here are their cards - but first, the 3 sample cards that Carolyn made to give us inspiration; Such lovely designs. I particularly like the way on the pink & blue ones that the design carries across all section of the fold.  I do like the middle one as well - because it is so fresh looking. Now for our handiwork; A festive design from Sue. Again - isn't it nice how the design follows across the card Elma's card with its lovely clean crisp style. That dove looks amazing in the blue against the silvery background. Annette has used one of her cute images on this very festive card.  The red surround really makes the topper pop. Yes, it is really me. I have to hold my hand up & say that I didn...

Good afternoon everyone. This afternoon I have the first set of photos from last night's Mold II meeting & they are of their Show & Tell cards. The Show & Tell last night was a Christmas version of the fold flat double box card that I showed everyone last month. Sue's card - she admitted - was the one that she had made at last month's meeting. Cheeky!.......... but ............. better than me as I didn't do one. Such beautiful papers on Carolyn's card - very festive. I love this crisp & clean design from Elma. Stags, & deers, on Chrisrmas cards has really become very popular. A cute warmly wrapped up snowman for Annette's card. Annette said that he was a sticker that she had in her stash. That Christmas stocking is delightful - I love the colour scheme - from Carol. Beautiful cards ladies. Thank you to Carolyn for taking the photos & sending them to me.  The photos arrived in my email ...

Hi everyone what a lovely day.  It is so good to see the sunshine helps keep the winter at bay a little longer.  Mind you it is a bit chilly out. Today I have another recently made birthday card to show you.  This time it is the one I made for one of our daughters-in-law, Elayne, who had a birthday about a week ago. Here is her card; I used a white 5 x 7 card blank & the design was stamped onto black card with Versamark ink & then heat embossed with silver EP.  This was layered onto a piece of silver card & then on to the card blank. I stamped again some of the flowers on white card with the silver EP, then cut them out & glued in place over the design.  The sentiment was white embossed on black card & layered onto white card.  Some nice sheer ribbon wrapped down the edge with the bow tied at the bottom for a change, to finish. I made one almost identical for a club night Show & Tell challenge much earlier in the year ...

Good evening everyone I hope you have been having an excellent weekend. Today I have a photo of a birthday card I made this week for our Son-in-law, which has to be made fairly early as it has to go out to the USA.  Just hope we have posted it in time. Whilst I was wondering what to make Bob mentioned that he (our son-in-law) liked the Beatles.  I have a die of a Juke-box which I bought a couple of years ago in order to make a card for my brother who actually has one. So then it was how to incorporate something about the Beatles. Here are 2 photos - the first one is the different elements laid out on my desk, then the second one is the finished card., I die-cut the juke box in black card & also the little music border.  On the Internet I found a royalty free piece of sheet music & printed that.  The coloured card in the photo is one of the sheets from the workshop last week decorated with Brusho crystals. The finished card. I used a 5x7 ...

Good afternoon everyone I do hope your weekend is going well. This afternoon I have the photos from the Mold meeting project for you.  This project was with me & was the Impossible Card; This is Sheelagh's card in very delicate shades of grey/blue Love this floral paper with rich blue background.  It's always nice to see someone take a slightly different approach to a card.  Here Lynn has used 2 thinner supports across the card rather than one wider one. A beautiful flower stamp adorns Janet's card. I love the colour scheme. Some nice complimentary papers on Rhiannon's card & I just love that sentiment on the topper. This one is Mair's card with a very pretty background paper which really sets that butterfly embellishment off. Rachel went for a different approach with the decorating of her card. It really is good when people experiment - you don't have to do exactly as it is shown. Christmas theme o...

Good afternoon everyone & what a lovely day it is to be sure. I have just come in from a really nice morning spent with Sue.  We popped over to Gordale Garden Centre on the Wirral where we had a sandwich, coffee & natter.  It's amazing the topics you cover when you have a good time to sit & chat. This afternoon I have the photos of the Show & Tell project from last nights Mold meeting.  The project was to decorate some wooden plaques that Rachel had given everyone to play with.  In the first photo you will see the sort of thing I mean.  Joanna who has been looking after the meetings for me was struck down with a very bad cold so didn't come to the meeting but sent me a photo of what she had made.  So that is the first photo in the set; This is the sheet I received from Joanna. It shows the heart plaque as she had received.  The second photo shows it painted black using a cosmic shimmer product.  In the next photo she h...

Good .afternoon everyone.  Today I have a couple of photos related to that workshop I attended & they are of the tile that I was disappointed in, & my remedy to over come it. Here is my tile; The crinkles are the texture of the tile. As you can see the tissue tore rather badly right over the text & a couple of other places.  I was so pleased with my piece of Brusho'd tissue paper too. What am I going to do to remedy it? Well back in August I bought 2 packets of really beautiful paper napkins ---- I think this denim background one would be ideal to go over the top of my coloured tissue. I am going to give that a go over the weekend.  So! watch this space. This evening I am off to the October meeting for the Mold group - so hope to have photos of their work over the weekend. The tomorrow I am meeting up with Sue - I think we are ging to pop over to Gordale GGarden Centre for a good old natter.