CRACKERS

I've had a great time using the cracker die and decorating it with many of the dies opened for Christmas. It also gave an opportunity to use the flowers from the foam and clay.
 The crackers can be used as pull crackers or as a special presentation box for a gift.
 At the opposite extreme to these my grandson had a great time making them, decorating with drawing, coloured peel offs and stamping on them, then of course there was choosing what goes in them (good job I'd saved unwanted cracker gifts from previous years!)

NOTE I haven't pulled them tight so that a gift can be inserted first.

There are December workshops on these if you wish to have a go or you can pay to cut a few for yourself.

the magic of Christmas

so  Ok this wasn't as magical as I thought when planning workshops. The original idea had been to use anything new that came along but in the end I'd opened so many products for other workshops that I couldn't afford any more.
The new items I did try were with  the foiling machine and one of the creative expressions stamps. Other items on the board were from last year but with dies I still had for sale and a new creative expressions stamp and die.
Anyone doing this workshop gets the choice of these or anything from the other boards.

Backgrounds

I have used various backgrounds made with inks, paints, crystal lacquers, pixie powders, glitter pastes and paints, sprays, marbling etc. these go well with many of the dies we are using this session and a few of the stamps.