Rubber Stamping - North Wales

Hi everyone Wow! I have had a weird day today - not sure where my crafting head was. After doing the shopping this morning I sat down & worked out how I was going to make my next challenge card.  Found the design, decided on the shape of card, made it. When I signed in to my other blog & started to write it up I discovered I had made it for the wrong blog so I had to go & find which blog the theme was for - only to discover that it was for a stamping blog & I hadn't done any stamping.  Just a few minutes ago I thought I might enter a "cheat" by just stamping a greeting on it - but that didn't seem right.  So it is now part of my collection awaiting the right birthday occasion & person.  I have detailed the whole process over on my blog - but here is the card for you to see. An easel card with a difference.  I decided to stick the right hand flap down flat instead of making it another easel. I am off now to set up the birthday greetin...

Good evening ladies This is a short posting to give you some news about my personal blog.  I have been given a blog award.  Please pop over & take a look.  If my blog is not on your Favourites (& why not!!!!!!! - te he) just click HERE Did you watch the wedding - wasn't it beautiful!  Television does give you some wonderful opportunities that the people waiting in the streets didn't get to see. A couple of things stand out for me - Prince Harry looked back when Kate was walking down the aisle,  & said something to Prince William which looked like "wait & see", then Prince William telling Kate she looked beautiful - that was a clear as clear & finally when they walked out onto the balcony Kate said "Oh Wow".  The sight of all those people really surprised her. I suppose I really should have talked above about the Duke & Duchess of Cambridge -  I don't want to be sent to the Tower for being disrespectful. Needless to s...

Birthday Greetings It's 29 April & a Mold member has a birthday Happy Birthday Jill Have a lovely day  

Our very best wishes to the happy couple

Good evening ladies Today I managed to find two challenges that I thought I would enter.  One is at "Allsorts" where the theme is April Showers, & "My Time to Craft" where the theme is Perfect Pets.  Here is the April Showers photo; I have had this little froggy for sometime & it was time for him to have an outing again. I found quite a few clear flat backed gems that I realised would be suitable for creating raindrops.  Tell me, do you have trouble getting those little gems off the acetate they are stuck on?  Whilst picking them up to place them on the card they kept flying out of the tweezers.  I have no idea where they went either - so I probably have sparkly gems in my hair, stuck to clothes & certainly stuck to the carpet.  Isn't crafting fun? If you want to see the other card just pop over to my blog, by clicking HERE .  There are two new posts - one for the frog card & one for the pets card. The prize for my winning card ...

Good afternoon ladies & once again what a beautiful one.  Will it last to the weekend? OK, so here are the photos from the project as last nights Mold II meeting.  We had a session on easel cards & these are the work in progress cards;  This really is a nice card whichever way it is made - looks good on a mantelpiece. I really enjoy making them myself too.  I have already mentioned that the altered pegs show & tell will appear in early May - after Wednesday 4th in fact. I was knee deep in Easel cards again today as that was the project in my workshop at PBC.  I had seven ladies & they each made the bases of 3 cards, then after a break went on to decorate one or more - much as we did at club night. When I got back from my workshop I had had a delivery from C&C.  I had ordered the Crafters Companion Envelobox maker.  The first item I am going to try is an envelobox for that gatefold card with recessed frame.  So, when I have ...

Hi everyone I have just got in from the Mold II Club night. Tonight our Show & Tell was the Altered Pegs & some really great designs & alterations.  Photos after the first week in May. The project was Easel Cards.  We played with a couple of layouts & then everyone chose one to decorate.  I took photos of the work in progress cards & will be creating a slide show tomorrow. An idea I put to everyone was the possibility of arranging a coach trip somewhere crafty.  One idea was to go to Crab Apple Crafts at Frodsham, as there are other places of interest there - a patchwork embroidery shop, a candle shop, a second hand book shop, various antiques.  I suggested Topaz Crafts (Dawn Bibby) as suggested by ladies at CSNW, & someone said that Topaz was up for sale as Dawn Bibby was going to concentrate on TV.  I will think of some other ideas - it would probably be about September time. That's it for tonight - more tomorrow...