A few more toppers on shaped cards

 Just a few more to consider as variations on others done

Shaped cards

 Whilst doing cards for family members I revisited some of the different shaped cards that we can do and used them with various toppers I had that I don't particularly use any more. I have lots of these toppers in the shop so I thought this could be an idea for a workshop. Some I have linked with dies I have. Examples on my board are shown below (sorry for overlap) but there are many more ideas around the shop.

Stamping for March workshops

 I have looked at using  old rubber stamps where I have similar ones still for sale BUT I have used them with the new gold fusion inks. I was comparing the fusion inks with the oxide inks and looking at effects on different cards both for stamping and for backgrounds. A few of these backgrounds were on my previous post.

More dies for March Ideas

 

I looked at trying to use Easter dies in different ways to how we used them last year . (I have sold some of the dies since preparing these but still have the chicks and rabbit at the moment.

March Workshop ideas -with stencils and embossing folders

 I have done a few cards with this tulip stencil which I still have for sale then I decided the slider card we did last year would be a great use of the embossing folder used in January. Plus there are a few other with the dies we have

Stamping for this month

 I hadn't got any new stamps to use this month so I opened a Christmas one which had a bird with lots of hearts - so I thought that was appropriate for this month, I also still had the roses for sale from last year so I have used them again and also dug out some from last year using them.

Embossed flowers from creative expressions

  These don't fit with monthly theme but are good for any occasion and I had a great time with them. They suit different methods to those we used on last month's folders.

and with different colouring...

Die cutting for February

 As usual foe February's workshops our theme is "Hearts for all occasions" - so included valentines, with love, engagement , wedding anniversary, mothers day etc. The die I choose for this month was one from creative expressions which is a heart surrounded by flowers which as usual I have tried to use in different ways. I then looked at older heart dies I had and did a bit more with them.

 and the older dies..

... still working on a few more ideas.

All ideas for January workshops plus a forest of tree boxes

 This is the board for the Januray workshops containing all ideas shown over the last few days .

 The weeks before Christmas I made a number of tree boxes to hold chocolates for table decorations and gifts instead of crackers ( although I did still make crackers for the children). The great thing with the tree boxes was that they were refillable so my 2 eldest grandchildren made their own and then kept going to the tub of chocolates to refill them!!

Clear embossing pads

 I was asked recently when we use our clear pads. The main stamped images have been coloured with embossing powders but backgrounds obtained by using pad for watermark or then going over with mica powders, I also used the pads to create a tile effect with clear embossing powders,

I also used one of the frames from the Christmas dies with this image. ( I have repeated tried to turn this image but it wont come up in that form - sorry!)