Rocking Your World Friday

It's Friday and on Friday there is the meme on Celtic House called Rocking Your World which is
'the moment to step back and take stock of your week, to work out the positives, the things that have made life more bearable and to celebrate these facts. Pop a post together, come back and link each Friday and let's share our positives around. It's a great therapy and stops life slipping through our fingers or spending too much time dwelling on the negatives. Not sure if it's for you - give it a go - you'll never know until you try!'

So this week
I went to the Festival of Quilts with Nicky and bought some new goodies.

Fabric with maps printed on.

Thermofax screens of seed heads.

I went to an unusal wedding party at Roger's sailing club where the bride and groom hosted a mini regatta and Roger sailed his new dinghy.

I had another Skype call with Naomi.

I did lots of work for 12 Months in View for the next few months so I am really up-to-date.  Here's a sneak peek.

Until next week, thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Little Details

Carolyn has a weekly meme on Thursdays called Messy Little Details.  Find out about it here.  Why don't you join in?

I've chosen this week's offering particularly for Carolyn because I know how fond she is of rust!

Thanks for stopping by
Bernice

Embossing

On 12 Months in View today the technique challenge is Rubber Band Embossing.

Which is fine! Until you find that there's only one rubber band in the whole house!  Still needs must.

I have a very small roller which doesn't need to be taken apart so tried that first.  The problem with it, is that the roller is spongey so the rubber band sank into it a bit.

Here I had pressed on too hard.

Here I managed to do it with less pressure.

I tried tying string around a brayer but that only worked once because of the way I tied the string!

I decided I would try with card instead.  This might have worked better if I had more than one rubber band!

Then I tried string wrapped round card.

Finally I inked all my samples with Distress Inks and stuck them in my journal.

I may never use this technique again, but I love to try out new things so that I can count the idea in or discard it.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice