Rubber Stamping - North Wales

Good morning everyone I hope you had a good weekend. I have another of my new flower die cards to show you, made at the weekend. The embossed layer was using an embossing folder included in a magazine. I inked it so that the colour went into the de-bossed side - so that it was very delicate. The daisy flower I made from ordinary weight copy paper & coloured them with pink ink. The ivy leaves I made from a lightweight white card & gave them just a hint of pink. It didn't look right with white leaves, or with green ones. I am really pleased with the finish.   I have not put a sentiment until I know who will be receiving it. Have a good day. 'Bye for now.

Hello ladies I am here today with another of my recent cards & this time it has been stamped. The stamps used on this card were part of a freebie set on a magazine some time ago & I hadn't used them for a while. I do love the Macintosh style - it can look clean & simple like this or really full of colour.  The card is a cream scalloped card & the stamping I did in black archival ink & embossed it with clear EP.  I then added a little colour with my pearlescent watercolour paints.  I used a bronze colour. Sometime last week (I think) Lesley from Chocolate Baroque was on Hochanda & showed her Macintosh inspired stamp set.  The samples were both clean & simple & also vibrant colours.  I must try this set with some vibrant colours they looked really good. Still more to show you. 'Bye for now.

Hello everyone. Today I can show you a card I made for a young lady who reached the ripe old age of 40 this year; I used toppers & papers from that Hunkdory kit I won rather a log time ago. The "40" I put inside the card trying to be a little more discreet than usual.  The it is going down slowly - it certainly has gone a long way. Looking through my card photos I find there are several I have made recently that I have not shown you - so they will appear slowly over the next week or so. That's me for today - bye for now.

Good afternoon everyone. This afternoon I am popping in with another of my cards to show you. This one is for our son-in-law who is in the USA.  His birthday isn't until November but I have to get it in the post early as sometimes it takes quite a while.  We sometimes moan about our postal service but theirs isn't too great.  The new home card & little present I sent recently took a couple of weeks to arrive. Here is his birthday card; Sadly because of the mirri card - you can see the reflection of me taking the photo.  I managed to find some royalty free background papers on the Internet to carry the cog pattern to the inside of the card. I liked the way the pattern faded at the bottom - so as I had made a tent fold card this meant when the paper was folded in half the paler end would be where the sentiment was going.  It looked really good.  I didn't photograph it though, I forgot. So of the November birthdays there are - t...

Good evening ladies - can you believe that another weekend is here again already.  I know they are nice to have but they are coming around a bit fast aren't they - the year is rushing by. Today I have a photo of the other card I made with the Renee Mackintosh stamps; Another black card but this time with a green background & using 2 of the corner images & one of the smaller toppers, finished off with some pearls. I haven't made anymore of those cards just yet as I have been preparing the bits & pieces for a special event card that is coming up shortly & I cannot show you that until after the event. Yesterday I had one of my crochet workshops which was a very pleasant way to spend a couple of hours.  But in the morning before going to the workshop I created myself a little "prompt" book for when I do demonstrations, workshops & talks.  I spotted the spiral bound book in The Range when I was there with Caroline.  It is basically a s...

Good evening ladies The card I have to show you tonight is my card to Bob for Valentine's Day; On a separate piece of card I embossed the heart panel - they are along the bottom part of the card. I then die cut a heart, a flourish & the words Valentine & Husband.  The heart was then popped into an embossing folder to add texture.  A red ribbon about one-third of the way up &3 red gems were added & layered onto the scallop edged based card. Amongst the time spent on creating cards - so far this week I have also spent about 2.5 hours each day continuing with the wedding sampler cross stitch I am doing for Elayne & Gareth.  I hadn't touched it for a little while whilst I had this awful cough (especially when it was really bad) as I didn't want to cough all over the sampler.  It has been quite a few years since I have done any cross stitch - so once again I am reminded how little seems to get done at a time.  After 2.5 hours you ...

Hi everyone - this afternoon I have a photo of another card I have made using up one of the basic sample folded corner cards; This one is a 5x7 card rather than the square card.  After a little bit of thinking I remembered I had some offcuts of embossed card in my ""scrap" box - so I got them out & had a play with the layout. I didn't like the seams between them so covered them with lilac peel-off borders.  Then when I had decided what I would make as a topper I bordered the corner fold as well.  The butterfly stamp was one of a set that was on a magazine before Christmas. I stamped in Versamark Ink & heat embossed with gold EP, then coloured the butterfly with my pearlescent watercolour paints.  I decided just before putting it all together that it was lacking something - so I stamped & coloured another butterfly & cut it out. I then used my new Wink of Stella clear crystal pen to add a sparkle & shaped the wings before placing it over...

Hi everyone - still slowly sorting through everything.  I got some of the boxes labelled this morning so I know what is in them - even though most of them are transparent & I can see the contents. I took time out from the sorting to make a card from "stuff" or perhaps "stash" is  better word, that was in a box I was looking through. Here is what I gathered together & to this I added peel-off borders & a peel-off "Happy Birthday" along with some gems for bling. Here is the card; I used a cream scalloped square card, a piece of the green background paper & one of the sepia images you can see at the bottom of the first photo.  I coloured the image with pearlescent water colour paints - even painting over the sepia block leaves.  I layered the green panel onto the card, went around the edge with the border peel-offs then brushed some pale pink Distress Ink on the cut out flower image which I cut out with fancy scissors.  Thi...

Hi everyone - I hope you have had a good day O dear - I am still having tis problem with the letter h on my laptop.  Only two errors in tis sentence.  Oops! now it is three.  Ha ha - but it is a pain really.  Not sure what I am going to do about it. Anyway - I tought  ( I saw a puddy tat - hmm! - this is really weird) Let's try & get a bit serious now.  Tonight I am going to show you the card I made for Gareth & Elayne on the occasion of their engagement. I used a white 5x5 scalloped edge card with a silver layer on top of which I placed a piece of white card which I had embossed with one of my embossing folders.  It just happened to have hearts on it. I then die cut 2 hearts - one with an embossed pattern to one side & one with lacy cutouts.  The lacy one I cut in white & layered onto a silver heart.  The embossed one I cut & embossed on silver then using a peel off alphabet I laid the name Gareth & ...

I saw Rosemary Merry on C&C this morning make a little card or scrapbook in this style.  I scribbled some notes whilst she was making it but that came out a bit too small for me - so I adjusted the sizes & that was much better. There are 5 photos in all because it gradually unfolds. This is the inside of the whole card.  This is the reverse of the card - the central panel has nothing on it as it is where I would put my hand written message This shows the card with the bottom flap folded up & the top flap folded down Now this one has the right hand flap folded over Here the card is closed completely. I coloured the card with Crushed Olive distress Ink & a blending brush leaving a small area in the centre not coloured.  The greeting in the centre had some Crushed Olive & Wild Honey brushed on it.  The images were stamped with black archival ink, then coloured with watercolour pencils applied with my faithful wa...

Good morning everyone Yes, another card - but this one was made at my Happy Stampers club night last night.  Very much made on the hoof.  It was our birthday meeting last night - we are 17!!!!  I cannot believe that it is 17 years - where has the time gone! Our project was to make a birthday card that featured cake.  Well! not my sort of stamp - but I had a set that was a freebie on a magazine so I took that & some ink & watercolour pencils.  Oh dear - some of the stamps were rather frustrating.  There was one that I think was meant to represent a tablecloth - I couldn't get ink in the middle & as you know I use a stamping mat to assist with the pressure. Anyway I was rescued by Caroline who had one of her texture mats with her which was lacy - so you will see that I used that on a piece of torn paper.  The set had a row of bunting which I thought was cute & was going to use but it wouldn't stick to the block.  That can be re...

Good evening everyone Well despite having to wait around for the gas man today & also having a visit from my brother & nephew I did manage to get a card done. I have lost count - I think this is number 7 - which on my reckoning makes me 3 cards adrift with my attempt to make one a day starting from a week ago Tuesday. So a bit of catching up to do. A complete change of colour for me.  This is another Dimension Stamps image & is the first time I have used it.  I decided I would have some background paper for a change too & looking through a pad I had, I spotted (sorry - no pun intended) this spotty orange paper.  But it is not orange - I don't know what you would call it.  Looking for the colour ink pads to use I found I had 2 in that sort of shade, in fact the darker one is almost identical & it is called Topaz.  Now I made a serious stampers error.  Having painted the image with my trusty water brush & the ink pads I cut ...

Good evening ladies This morning I had a shredding session again, first for a while - it has a strange satisfaction factor.  But isn't it strange how the shredded paper takes up more room in the bags than it did when it was sheets of paper. I also had a very nice young man come round & help me sort the garden - so now at the front it looks like someone who cares lives here. In the afternoon I had a card making session - session makes it sound like I made loads but I actually made just one.  In my defence I also have two images ready stamped for another card. I chose to create another clean & simple monotone card.  The corner images were stamped with an aubergine pigment ink & embossed with clear EP.  The main image was stamped in archival black ink & also embossed with clear EP.  Then I coloured it using the same pigment ink & my water brush & layered onto black card.  Then place on a deckle edged white folded card. ...

Good afternoon ladies Well, day 2 & I have made another card.  It doesn't sound very good really - but if I do one card a day I will have more made than if I do it at ad hoc times.  Of course some cards will have to be done as required but it is nice to have a stock of cards already made. Here is today's card - Both the stamps were part of a magazine freebie but I don't have the information attached to it anymore. I think I might start photographing them with their information card & keep that on file, as I am often asked which set stamps are from. I stamped the corner floral image the sentiment & the little butterfly in black archival ink which I then quickly embossed with clear EP.  The colouring I did with pigment inks & a waterbrush - except for the little bits of yellow, as I do not have a yellow ink pad.  For that I used my Pan Pastels, again using the waterbrush to apply the colour.  The leaves were coloured with an unusual...