Cards for men

 There have been a lot of ideas for men on the last two issues of creative stamping but I thought I needed to look for something else. I know you have seen the stained glass windows before but I thought they fitted in well here. The Good sport creative stamping didn't have football in so I've included cards done with this woodware stamp as well as the woodware wine stamp. More boats with the sailing boat stencil and glitter kiss, and the galleon stencil and pastes. The guitar was a stencil and silver paste but the background is stamped and inked
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CS56 A Good Sport

I found coming up with ideas for the latest creative stamping magazine difficult as I am not at all into any sports. Walking is my only form of exercise!
Anyway with around 12 sports to cover these are what I came up with.

some need modifying a bit but that can be done workshop time.

All sorts of Home

Stamping clarity house with media plate backgrounds, colourful woodware stamps, mushroom stampendous house was the start of this workshops cards. After that it was the city scene from Creative expressions and a window / door frame that  we also used last year. I am also working on a windmill but that's not finished at the moment.

The funky houses at the bottom are greyboard shapes that have been decorated and put on a painted background. The middle dark card was where I was practising with cosmic shimmer patina effect paints

Assorted Flowers

I've been busy trying to get some new workshop boards started but having been suffering with a really bad cold for the last 2 weeks progress has been slow.
The flowers this time have included a solid stamp image form woodware which I have tried with different inks - so 1 set is using oxides and another IZink. I plan to try other when time allows to show differences between the inkpads.
The die is the poppy frame from creative expressions. This frame is lovely for any flowers as well as the image that comes with the set.
I then treated myself to a foiling machine and used some of the practice samples as backgrounds for more flowers.
Looking at new ways of using the stencils with inking and stamping over

Happy Easter

Ok so this should have come out a few weeks ago but I have been so busy I just don't seem to have had the chance so to wish you all a Happy Easter I have the Easter board and an additional card done for my sons family.

You'll notice some of the Easter board contained spring flowers from an earlier workshop but they seemed appropriate

Creative Stamping 54 "Life's An Adventure"

Just a few idea with these magazine stamps. I'd also had a request about creating scenes which is why I have incorporated them on some of the cards
The ship effect were looking at the difference one gets when using different products for sea and sky.

New Stained glass dies

I've been trying a few different methods with the 2 new stained glass dies from Sue Wilson as shown below

There are loads of thing that can be done with this collection of dies, above are just a few. Other methods & Dies have been shown in previous postings

workshop cards

I've been busy lately with visiting the trade show and then having 3 workshops last week, so I've not had time to make cards I did take a few pictures of cards done at the workshops and so I thought I'd share those with you. I usually put these on my face book page "LLindas Greetings Cards and Crafts Accessories" so there might be some duplication this week.

In The Animal Kingdom

 This title was to encompass all sorts of animals, from dinosaurs to butterflies.
The dinosaurs were put on magnetic backgrounds which attached to the card via other bits of magnet which were the scraps used as boulders on the background. I also used the hills and clouds die from Sue Wilson on these cards.
Lots of others involved rabbits - preparation for Easter??? and other Woodware animal stamps
I then used some media plate backgounds for cat dies etc. and some double stencil work for the Elephant and butterfly.

Love

I always do love at this time of year ready for Valentines Day but no one usually wants that so they cover Weddings, Anniversaries, Engagement etc. I tried using the heart media plate on these ( the single heart card is on then media plates board) and also I used the poinsettia die  for the flowers to see how it looked. Stamps are Woodware. I have others half done on my desk but haven't finished them yet and with workshops coming up soon thought I ought to get some of the ideas out there.

The bottom card uses dreamweaver stencils