Rubber Stamping - North Wales

Good morning everyone & another nice morning it is too. Well I have solved the problem I was having yesterday with uploading photos.  Just had to approach it from another direction. So they are now all loaded into my blog so that I can link them to the challenges - three all in one day. The first one was for a blog called Theme Thursday & their challenge for this week was - Pink.  Its for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  So I found some pretty pink papers (they look lilac in the photo - but they are pink) - that had been in an early issue of Making Cards & designed by Nancy Watts, from which I made a tag.  I had bought a little pink button with a heart on it to include - but the pink was so different that I didn't use it.  The sentiment is the word Believe - it doesn't show up too well though.  It is one of those block style peel-offs with the lettering cut out. Here is the tag - The next project was for the challenge over at Tag You're I...

Do you get those days when things do start out OK, then sort of go wrong.  Well that was me today. Oops nearly forgot - hello everyone. This afternoon I sat at my work desk ready to create a mock up of a card I wanted to show you & also to put in for one of my challenges.  I had seen someone make one on Create & Craft but hadn't been watching with full concentration.  On that basis I needed to make - as I said above - a mock up.  The other idea was to turn it into a tutorial here by taking pictures at different stages of the process. That as it happens was not the difficult part. The problem started when I was doing some of the final stamping.  I was stamping the holly border on one of the toppers when the clear stamp fell off the acrylic block onto the craft mat.  Ink side down of course. But - it didn't just fall on the craft mat did it.  No! it fell on my work. I didn't worry too much (ooh that's a porkie), as it wa...