Rubber Stamping - North Wales

Hello everyone It was the June meeting for CSNW tonight & we were quite a small gathering as several people are on holiday - but we still had a good evening. Tonight we made the large Window tag card - which everyone will gradually get to do, but I don't have any photos as they weren't finished.  They have promised to bring them back in August for me to see - as I will not be at their July meeting as I will be on holiday. Only 22 more days to go! One of the ladies brought in a poster about a series of craft days being run by Debbi Moore of Create & Craft fame & producer of many craft CD's & decoupage etc.  She is travelling around the country & is holding one in Wales not far from all of us.  Now the poster is in my club box so tomorrow I will get it out & post all the information here.  The date is Saturday 9 July. Also today I have been with Helen from Mold II taking photos of her making a particular folded card - wel...

Good evening everyone. Today has been a club preparation today.  Firstly making sure I have everything for CSNW's June meeting tomorrow night.  Also as I am on holiday for their July meeting I have sorted something for them to do in my absence so I have had to make sure I have all that put together as well.  Then of course there are the programmes for August & September. They are done for all three clubs now & as I will not be seeing the Mold II ladies for their June meeting I am preparing the same thing as CSNW for them.  It seemed only right that Mold were given this challenge too - but I don't miss any of their meetings this time - so I will just have to watch them work.  The challenge will be given to them for July. Now I have to start thinking about the months to take us to the end of the year.  I hope to get another retailer visit for the final meeting of the year or something for the evening to be different.  So, watch this space. ...

Good evening ladies Well! we are almost at the end of another bank holiday - I do hope you have all had a good weekend.  We now have a long wait for another one - August, but I am now counting the days down to my holiday.  It starts in 24 days time. Today I have entered three - 3! - challenges with one project, & then another single challenge with another project. Here is the single project; This challenge was over at "Try it on Tuesdays" - where the challenge was - a Scrapling.  I mentioned these a couple of posts ago for another challenge. I first coloured the card with various Distress Inks, & then stamped the images in Archival Black ink.  The tree is from a set by Kanban called Autumn Silhouettes & the words are a new stamp by Lavinia Stamps.  A little black ribbon & faux bow just finished it off. I was a little late sorting this challenge - but decided I had time to do it this afternoon & then post it to the challenge blog...

Hello everyone This last week I entered two blog hops one of them carries on into the middle of next week but the other one finished Friday/Saturday . This morning I found that I had been picked twice & have won some digital stamps - 2 lots in fact - one from each of the blogs my name was drawn on.  It was a blog hop across 14 blogs & you had to collect a word from each one & leave a message.  Then the words had to be put together to make a sentence that the main blog had written. No-one got the sentence exactly right so they did a random draw for the winner. My prizes came from leaving a message on each blog.  When I have received my digi-stamps I will let you know & show them. I don't have any work to show you today as I have only got as far as deciding what I am going to be making & what with.  Hope to have a play tomorrow. Hope you are having a good weekend, at least the sun is out today. Talk again tomorrow. Have fun

Birthday Greetings It's 29 May & a CSNW member has a birthday Happy Birthday Claire have a lovely day 

Today after usual domestic jobs I have joined another blog hop.  It is a great way of getting a chance to look at other crafters work & ideas, Today the blog hop was over at a challenge site called Winter Wonderland where they blog about Christmas - not just cards anything you fancy.  Here is the blog hop logo You don't have to be a blogger to take a look at this one or any that lead off from it- but you would be unable to enter the challenges.  I have checked & it doesn't look like you can enter via email - if you spot that you can then have a go.  In the card challenge section it is always good to go & take a look at how different people interpret a set theme - much like we do with our Show & Tell sessions.  To visit Winter Wonderland click on their logo above. Will be back tomorrow Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Hi everyone I just remembered that I had promised to show you those photos I took of the night sky after Bob told me there were some strange colours & cloud formations.  Here they are; Isn't nature marvellous. That's all I popped in for. Bye for now.