More Ideas with Media plates

The John Lockwood media plates feature in all of my workshop boards and I have left some Christmas ideas out to show yet more uses of these plates but here are just a few extra to those shown before.

The Plant World

This workshop board incorporates fungi, flowers and leaves using woodware stamps and creative expression dies plus dreamweaver stencils so lots going on and as usual I keep trying out new ideas.

CS 51 Vintage Springtime

These are the first few cards I have done getting ready for the next round of workshops. I'm not ever so happy with them - it takes a while to get back into the swing of things after a break doesn't it? -  so I  will do a few more before the all day workshop but I have made a start ready for next week

Received Handmade Christmas Cards

I have just realised how long it has been since I last posted anything. That of course was due to Christmas and 3 week of shop closure during which time I didn't make a single card.
I did take a photo of cards from customers and friends that I thought I could share with you. The intention was to send this last week but other things took over....

I am now working on the next round of workshop boards so there should be other initial samples coming through soon.

A Winter Village

I was looking at how to use the tando creative houses I have on the shelf in the shop and wondering what to do. I remembered I'd seen  a village done at the show where I decided to buy these so set about trying to create one. It still needs some finishing ouches and perhaps more houses but this is where I am at so far

Two different views - as I say - it is a work in progress but the houses could be part of the December greyboard workshop

Stencils

These are a few of the stencil ideas we have used in Christmas workshops this season

Techniques include embossing paste in various ways as well as machine embossing and then colouring. I also tried using metallic gilding polishes in 2 ways for the centre top card

what can we do with1 die

Here are a couple of boards with various ideas on using one die.
I have used the star frame on one set and the birch trees on another - just to show some versatility

to make sure we can get our money's worth

Stamping with more Woodware stamps

Well since I haven't been busy with customers I had to open two new stamps I had on the shelf didn't I???? and then play with them again  using different products that we sell.

Loved these baubles which I have done with inks. media plates and gilding polishes

 All of the poinsettias were done with pixie powders in different ways

and then there was the snowman.....

I was told I ought to have a facebook page for my business - something I've never been interested in before but I went ahead at the weekend (with the help of my future daughter in law) so you may find more to interest you there. I called it " LLindas cards and crafts" rather than my full shop title "LLindas Greetings Cards and Craft Accessories" which always seems a mouthful but this may have been a mistake as I see here are lots more Lindas cards etc. about. SO remember the double L. Don't know if I can change it - will have to see...

Book covers from a workshop

 I recently had a family to do the bookcovers similar to the tando creative package I'd used but they just wanted to cover cheap notebooks they had purchased.
My examples include my kit book and my handmade book .

Then the next pictures are of the book covers done by the girls using these techniques on their books

they did a good job and we covered loads of techniques that they could use elsewhere.

I will do this as part of one of the mixed media type workshops in December if anyone else is interested. (Note -  It took 2x2hr workshops to complete these)

Uing Media Plates & Press to Impress

I've been carried away with stamping at the moment and using these new products from John Lockwood and Crafts too. Great for quick cards as some of my samples show - or I've done similar designs mounted - better but not so good for mass production.
I used these with the last creative stamping magazine also so more examples are there and my extra stamping for winter scenes will include a lot of these.
It's just a great chance to play......