Rubber Stamping - North Wales

Hi everyone - how is your weekend going? Today I have some photos for you of my pieces of work at the recent Mold II club meeting when we played with alcohol inks; These two pieces are the alcohol ink on acetate & then blown with a straw. The one on the left I have shown before as it was one that I did when preparing for this.  The one on the right looks quite strange & is the piece that I used to show the ladies what to do, but I got asked questions like - can you marble through it with a cocktail stick - answer look at the scratches.  It might have worked better if the inks had not dried a little in the meantime.  Can you add more ink - yes. What happens if you add blending solution - the large circles. I am looking to see if I can draw on these pieces as create more interest - such as flowers etc. These 2 pieces were made with the marbling technique & this is the reverse side of those 2 pieces. I love the randomness of this techn...

Good evening everyone I trust you all had a great weekend. Bob & I had a nice lazy one. After doing the weekly shop on Saturday we popped into a newly found snack bar near us called "Chocks away!".  I had been told about it by one of my ladies in the crochet group.  It is on the edge of Hawarden airport actually within the airport grounds, & you have a great view of the runway whilst eating.  Actually snack bar is not a good enough title it is a small restaurant - & food is great. On Sunday we decided to have a run out into the countryside, & the countryside was truly where we went.  Bob loves taking little roads to see where they go - so despite our rather large car - we got to see some fantastic views. We drove out past Betws-y-Coed up into the hills & all around - lost track of the names of places we went through, & the different weather fronts as well.  We ended up in a little country pub we found recently for a very nice meal the...