Rubber Stamping - North Wales

First made that is - not first received. This happened more by accident than design.  Whilst having a crafty morning I realised that I did not have a sample of the card that CSNW will be making in May & it is their April meeting on Wednesday.  So, I thought I had better make one.  The first box I looked in for inspiration had a printout left over from a Christmas card I had designed last year through Serif, so I decided to use that. The card is a diorama card & here it is; Because I needed to make this one a little quicker I did not use the template that Carolyn of Mold II had given me - you may remember the wedding card & anniversary card I made using it - it had fancy sides. The main image in the card is printed directly onto the background & then I printed just the topper twice & decoupaged it, cutting the bow out of the second copy.  I still have some peel-offs in a box (I don't use them much these days but they are always handy...

Good afternoon everyone I am popping in to show you another of my Christmas card designs; This design uses the same embossed card front but this time has a gold embossed star image on it topped with a bow.  (This bow looks like it is about to fall off - I better check it before I use it).  I also embossed in gold the word Joy above & below the image.  The star was cut out & then placed on foam pads. So that is my Show & Tell for today.  More later.

Good evening I thought it was time I showed you some photos of the different styles of stamped Christmas cards I have been making recently. This is the first one; I have embossed the front of a scalloped edge card with an embossing folder that has snowflakes bordering an open plaque.  Amongst my collection of Christmas stamps that I do not recall using before, was this lacy Christmas tree.  I stamped & embossed in gold then cut them out.  A couple of gems to add some sparkle & mounted on foam pads.  The word Noel was stamped above & below & also embossed in gold. There are two more to show you & I will save them for other posts. Tomorrow is the final 2014 meeting for the CSNW ladies, & as I am not 100% yet Bob is going to be driving me over.  He does spoil me doesn't he.  So Thursday there will be photos from the meeting. More tomorrow.  'Bye for now.

Good morning - I have just remembered I still have one of my Hunkdory Christmas cards to show you & when things quieten down here I will have to make some more from the kit. Nice & simple - just the topper raised on sticky pads & a peel off greeting.  The border at the bottom is part of the background paper. That's my quick visit - 'bye for now.

Hi everyone I thought I would pop in & tell you about some good magazine offers at the moment - just in case you hadn't seen them; Simply Cards & Papercrafts has a free Christmas Bauble die from the Crafters Companion Die'sire range. Card Making & Papercraft along with Quick Cards Made Easy are on offer (at least in Asda they are) of the 2 magazines for £7 as well as that Card Making & Papercrafts has a free gift - a Christmas Card making pack from Hunkydory with background sheets & topper sheets only - no cards. Quick Cards Made Easy has a free gift of some Christmas stamps which have Christmas Baubles, holly Sprays & a word stamp. Later today my brother is going to be with us on a rather quick visit - he is only staying the one night - so I won't be able to blog later this evening as I mainly do, so that is why I am here now.  The spare bed is in my craft room. Also I thought I would try out the free card making pack.  I have made 4 ca...

.. which is really a practice run on the idea. Hello everyone - how is your weekend going? A couple of days ago I decided it was time to try out one of my ideas for the Christmas cards I will be making. In this recent tidy up I saw a Christmas stamp I hadn't used - it was part of a set & I had used some of the set but not the main image. Here is the card; I can't remember who the stamp is by - but it consists of the wording with a poinsettia set in the middle.  So I stamped & embossed it in gold on white card,  then stamped a second poinsettia.  One of my new sets of frame dies was just the right size - it did pinch off a little of the lower petal of the flower, but when I layered the second flower on top that laid above the frame so it didn't matter.  The next size up frame die I used for the gold card.  I layered the gold card onto the base card, then the white card onto the gold card then the second flower.  I had cut out a couple of...

Good evening everyone This afternoon I took some of my Christmas cards to the next stage & added the toppers to the base card; When I was looking among my ribbon boxes (yes I have more than one) for the ribbons to use I got a bit fed up with the mess they had got into.  So I left the cards for a while & sorted the ribbons. I now have two boxes that contain reels of ribbon - both large & small & also 12 poly-bags that contain lengths of ribbon.  I was amazed at the different colours I had collected over time & it was quite interesting sorting them out - remembering why & when I had bought them. Red seems the biggest selection in this set.  The colours in this group are - red, green, gold, cream, burgundy & festive. In this group the colours are - white, blue, lilac/purple, yellow/orange, pink & black I also found a few strings of tiny beads - well they are not beads actually - not sure how to describe them...

Here I am with the question of the anonymous Christmas card Did you give this card to me? There is a lot of work in this card it was in a white envelope with just my name on it.  Sadly because I put all the cards the various club members gave on the table when I got home - I cannot be sure which club I brought it home from.  So please if it is your card send me a message so that I can write inside who it is from.  If no-one responds through the blog I will ask at the clubs meetings in January. Bob & I returned hone this evening after a really lovely few hours with our friends chatting, over a really good meal at the Cheshire Cat, for me to arrive home to some very sad news of the passing of a colleague. You just never know when life is going to throw these things at you - I am absolutely devastated it was so unexpected.  My thoughts are with his family & those of many others who may lose friends & loved ones at this or any time....

Yes another Christmas card with that lovely flourish Christmas Tree. This time I have embossed it in silver rather than gold - to make a change & added some silver ribbon at the side & the smaller Merry Christmas greeting.  The greeting that goes with the tree was too big this time as I made a lightly smaller card.  I have entered it into a blog challenge where the theme was Glamour & Glitz in a clean & simple design. You can see more about it on my personal blog. That's it - just thought I would pop back & show you.

Over the last couple of weeks I haven't shown much of my stamping - this is mainly because I have been busy making the Christmas Cards I give to each of you - so I don't want to show them beforehand. Today I made one large card which as I say in the title of the post is a variation on one I have already done. When I made this card before I decorated it vertically with gold ribbon - this time I embossed the vertical & horizontal lines twice leaving a .5cm gap between them, then laid the narrow gold peel off border between the scored lines.  I added a couple of gold gems for bling, a greeting & 2 of the star bursts on the side. I have decided to make another of these cards - again slightly different - to enter a challenge where they want clean & simple but with bling.   Tomorrow I will have the photos of the Show & Tell from tonight's Mold II meeting.  The photos from the project will not be shown until after Mold's meeting which is this T...