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.

CS63 The Twelve Days of Christmas

For this issue of creative stamping I looked at using different shaped cards. There is a double page of stamps to use, so lots of cards to do.

I like some of these stamps are a lot more than than others but I used them all as not everyone's taste is the same.

Flowers and Snowflakes

Ideas on flowers and snowflakes could intermingle hence the reason I've put them together but once you get started on them it's difficult to stop.
Dies here are from John Next door and creative expressions. ( I forgot to say last post that the bird dies were from Creative expressions)

I do like John's idea of stamping a sheet and then die cutting all in one go as with the poinsettias, although a couple are from the dies without the stamps.

The deer came with the snowflake frame so that cuts across 2 of my planned workshops.

A little bird told me....

…. that Christmas is coming and there are lots of birds around to share it - robins get everywhere stamps and different dies, Then there are the doves which went well with background dies and the special effects paints.

Oh dear... there's a lot of deer around this year

……..and so lots to do with deer stamps and dies.
As you can see I kept trying different backgrounds with the Woodware deer stamps, including lots of ways with pixie powders.
Then there were the dies - "John Next Door " provided the dies with which again I had lots of ideas to play with …...and I still keep thinking of more!

These feature in next weeks workshop - could be Tues afternoon or Weds as advertised, (since I 've been asked to swop Tues for Weds)

Creative Stamping 62 - Winter Woodland

These magazines do seem to be coming round quickly! We have only just done workshops on last issue and now I've had the next one to prepare. This time I've looked at using embossing powders in different ways with the stamps as well as using them with some of the new dies I have been working with.

Lots of other boards are being prepared simultaneously as I plan workshops for the next few months so should have lots more to show soon

Creative Stamping 61

I loved the flowers on this issue which as you can see I've used a number of ways.

Foam flowers and FMM clay flowers

I have been using the foam mentioned earlier for some more flowers and have a workshop this week using them. I thought the clay flowers ( shown earlier ) would add to these although there are many die cut ones we could also add.

The picture frames are done with the special effect paints mentioned on my last post.

Clocks, cogs frames etc with special effect paints.

I used the cosmic shimmer special effect paints initially on photo frames, plant pots etc as seen earlier. The photo frames can be seen with some of the flowers on my next post. I then started usung them with the clocks and cogs, liked the effect so moved onto card frames and lots of new Christmas dies. The results so far are shown below...