As promised I finished (?) the die cut board (but will try out more ideas later! since one could just go on and on). The tree pivot I have done in 3 ways - countryside trees, Christmas tree and quickie card - just to show the versatility of the die.  We then have some of the new Marianne dies with creative palette (stampendous) background. I've then mixed about dies from a variety of sources including the creative expressions dies.

 The trees have been cut from wood veneer on a roll (Woodware).

I really must get on with creative stamping this week. Last week I had 3 workshops and then when I put time aside I really had to play with the stencils instead!! so perhaps that will be next.

This week I have been working with some of the new dies from the Sue Wilson collection ready for Wednesday's workshop. I did have a panic on Thursday when my Joy Machine broke but Peter from Crafts too was very helpful and not only is he sending me the bits to repair the machine but  he managed to get a new machine out to me for Friday so that I could use it on the demo weekend. This time I have tried the crossover machine from Cheery Lynn which is designed for paper and fabric, so if anyone wants to see it do pop in.

The double glitter techniques works really well with PEACE and the stencil sheets from Woodware / stix 2 are really useful for this. The tree stamp has been transformed into a winter scene using stampendous embossing powders - chunky white and vintage blue tinsel. The die set works really well with shadow techniques - what I love about these dies is the different sized outline frame and the separate internal decoration. Words are Cheery Lyn. Cats are Marianne,

I have almost finished the other die cutting workshop board featuring the tree pivot and other new (& old) dies, so that will be my next offering. After that I need to work on the new creative stamping - classic Christmas set!

 This week I have been working with the new Woodware Christmas stamps and some of the Stampendous stamps and products (creative palette - great for using up old paints!, frantage powders, glitters etc.). The board isn't finished but this is where I have got to so far

 Some things you will have seen on the retailer workshop board I posted earlier but others have been adapted.
To see these and more do come along to the shop  where we are having a demo weekend this weekend - see details of this and workshops  on my website www.llindas.co.uk.

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This week I'm going to show you the metal board since this is a workshop we have coming up. Some of these are done with stamps, others with stencils. Colour is added / taken away with alcohol inks, staz on, acrylic paints and sanding. are done on plain metal and others on coloured metal.

This week I have been trying to work out what to buy in and use for workshops from the new products that are available and looking towards Christmas. Some new stock has arrived today so i.t will be all out now to try things and come up with ideas. I'm holding a demo weekend on Sept 13th , 14th to show some of these. More details along with September newsletter and autumn workshop list should be on website www.llindas.co.uk  by tomorrow evening all being well

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Sorry about the mistakes last week. I was cooking dinner whilst doing the post and had to rush off at the end! I'll try to be better today.
First cards show some attempts at a card for my sons birthday next week. The ship was taken from a card I had done for the men's workshop and the bike at the ice cream / wine bar was adapted from those done for the creative stamping workshop since it seemed to go with his recent holiday adventures.

 

Other cards I have been working on were for the"more things to do with Masks" workshop

 where I looked at using  the sparkle paste, mica powders etc.

This weeks flower workshop will also include poppies, then next is the "Working with Metal"  pictures to follow soon

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I meant to post the pictures from our retailer workshops last week but  didn't get round to it so I'll show you them now. The first board is what we did at the Woodware retailer training using Woodware products &  new stamps from Jane Gill and Francoise Read. We also did workshops with Fran from Stampendous showing her new stamps, matching die cuts, creative palette and new frantage products. Lin Brown did the metal workshop using dreamweaver stencils.

Then I went to creative expressions retailer training where we used an assortment of cosmic shimmer products for the decoration below these included chalk paints,crackle, shimmer paints, glitter pastes, silk glitter, die cuts, masks etc.

  after that it was lokkiking at what the new cricut explore can do. We each had a go and looked at how it set up the different layers. I was last and tired by this stage so I just have a simple 2 layered rose.

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Sorry it's been so long since I last posted. I have been on two retailer training events since last posting. We had a great time at Woodware and then I had a session with cosmic shimmer products at creative expressions. I'll show you the pictures of the projects done on next posting (no pictures yet - thought I'd done them but apparently haven't so need to wait till I go back down to the shop). After these we had our village summer fayre which I was heavily involved in but now that's gone I did have last week being able to do some cards again.
I have been working with the latest set of stamps from Creative Stamping - Cafe Riviera. Still more to do as not so happy with some of the ideas but this is what I have tried so far,

 sorry not a brilliant picture - was 3rd attempt! but you should be able to get the idea. Come into the shop to view them or book for the workshop- all day on 19th August and pm on 26th.
We have multibuy offers on in the shop this week to make room for Christmas stock so do pay us a visit if you are local.

This week I've been working with some new papers and bargain packs I got from Craftstyle. I have used them with the Cordoba die and I also opened the classic rose  from Sue Wilson collection. These will form part of the "All sorts of Flowers " workshop.

This workshop will look at die cut flowers cut with dies and precut sheets as on RH side below

  as well as  stencil flowers - zentangled and stencilled colour

stamped images - although I'm not entirely happy with these and need to do some more with these stamps

 
 I have also included peel off flowers although these are from an old board

The Poppy - A Time to Remember

Tape stencil (LL3023)  to strip of card and emboss with regular paste. Leave to dry then apply stencil again and apply colour with brushes from inkpads with a rouging method. Add clouds using the Picasso tool (LL332) and blue ink.

On a square of card stamp some of Jane’s grasses. (any will do this one is JGS272) Two images will be needed to cover the card, try to position so there isn’t a gap. You need a faint image so use second impression stamping (as I did with the black grasses) or a paler ink (I used peeled paint distress ink on the green card).

You do NOT want a perfect image – a few gaps are best so that the poppy will fill the spaces.

Place stencil over gaps in grasses and ink through the flowers and a bit of the stalk. Clean stencil after each colour so that it doesn’t transfer. Move about until you have poppies scattered all over the field. Use a micron pen for the small black dots. Add a touch of black to base of poppy heads.

Make a hinged card with the full stencil image mounted on the hinge and fix the mounted square to the open part of the card.

An alternative version was in black and red. The black needs to be second impression stamping so that it is not too bold. This time I used JGS273

On the black card I went over the dried images with versamark and clear embossing powder – both in the field and on the side panel.

Why not visit the Woodware Blog to see what the girls have come up with?

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The Poppy
Just some more ideas. I have set full instructions for the Poppy which will appear on Woodware's blog on Sunday but here are some more ideas

This one is the Dreamweaver Tall poppy. I used green paste and then glitter on top

 This one is a Woodware stamp stamped in white then coloured although that doesn't seem to be showing up well. The same poppy head is used as the small flower head below but also Woodwares large single poppy/

I used the stencil again here on a cross card thinking of " in memorium" - have wondered about putting the central oval onto plain wood effect card thinking of the crosses we get with a poppy in the middle

Then finally I used the spellbinders poppy die cut against adistress ink background