More Dies and Embossing Folders

I know you have seen some of these before but I have added lots more to the board since.
I think the Christmas rose works better with flower foam than card. Deep embossing folders from creative expressions work well with the new opal polishes.
This workshop is on  Tuesday 5th November

The latest dies and stamps.

 These are dies and stamps that I have had in the shop and used after doing the other boards, so a mixture of things. The products are Sam's Star and the       polar animals from JND and the stamp is the river deer used with various die settings
The workshops are on Weds 30th Oct and Tues 26th November.

A little bit of all sorts

Theses cards use a mixture of stamping, stencilling and die cutting. I have used stencils and masks with different pastes and other method.
This workshop is on tomorrow Tuesday and is repeated next month on Weds 13th November

creative Stamping 77 - Silhouette Scenes

I used these silhouettes with different die settings. It went against the grain a bit to use black for snowmen and snowballs but when I tried white they didn't stand out very well ( I even tried colouring the white embossed children but not sure about it... ) anyway I have left them so you can see what not to do and you can see the contrast with the black embossed images.

Cards using items in the "John Next Door " Box set

This was a very popular box set from Practical publishing. Since there were papers in the kit I used some papers (whereas we are usually producing our own backgrounds) BUT not the papers in the kit since I had to borrow the stamps, die and embossing folders from a customer having sold all the others!

Remembering the true meaning of Christmas

Here are a few cards using the Nativity dies from John Next Door. A few may reappear where I have taken pictures of different combination as I have been working on them.

Creative stamping 76 - "Festive Florals"

 I only had a few orders for this issue and so haven't done as many cards as usual. There were fewer main images but lots of extra foliage with this set of stamps. So here are the few cards I have done with these before I moved onto the John Next Door box set coming next.....

Christmas stamping - scenes

 I tried a few ideas with some of the new stamps in. The black bauble was adapted from an idea I saw John Lockwood do, but I tried it with two different white inkpads and as a quickie card or a more special card.

You'll note I have also tried setting them in various doe cut frames as well as using the cut and emboss folders.

Woodware stamping

I have only just started these so there will be more to follow but here are a few ideas on using these stamps.

Christmas papercuts

I have been working on lots of different workshops at the same time recently in preparation for the Christmas season so what you see now will have more additions in the weeks ahead.

Papercuts have been popular this year and each time we do them we concentrate on different background methods. A lot of these have been done with the IZink pigment reinkers but there are also examples with alcohol inks - a sparkly addition to last times, sprays overstamped and spray not working - so using the spray stick to create patterns so I don't waste them, plus some of the new  deep embossing folders.

and a reminder of some of the others we still have for sale.
I thought the fairy on the moon with the stars could also be used for Christmas