Rubber Stamping - North Wales

........ finally. I pulled out on of  my stand-by stamps that I like using because I thought that would kick start me again.  I stamped it 3 times & coloured in 2 of the images then created 2 cards with them.  Here they are; The background paper I had printed to use in a digital design but it went so well with the flowers I used it for this card instead.  I decided to stamp the image on a separate piece of card & cut around it.  When I looked at it laying on the card front I thought it reminded me of a pocket - so I put it on sticky pads leaving the front open.  Then I created a little tag & inked it with Distress Ink Victorian Velvet which I also went around the edge of the background paper with too.  I then created a little tag & added some pink ribbon.  The tag will have a sentiment stamped on it when I decide what to use it for. The image was coloured in with water colour pencils & a water brush. This is the s...

Good evening ladies Well today I had a good day as described above. A few times a year Happy Stampers North West Club have all-day workshops & today was one of them.  I think I have already said previously that the retailer giving us our workshop today was Snazzys. Before I forget they will be at the Art Stamps festival in Wrexham in July - do go & see them - they are the people I bought my Pan Pastels from. The main subject of our workshop was Distress Inks & various ways to use them.  The morning session was the part I enjoyed the most - mainly due to the fact that during the afternoon I did start to feel rather tired.  As well as some spare toppers & stamped images I made 3 cards.  They will definitely end up as birthday cards to give out.  A nice round off to the day was the fact that I won the raffle - a nice Crafty Individuals pad & a set of clear unmounted stamps by Papermania called "Birdsong".  I am really looking fo...