Happy Easter

First of all apologies to those who follow my facebook page since the pictures are the same but unfortunately that's all I have that's new.
My plan last week was to start a springclean of the shop but I ended up making loads of Easter cards for the family. I worked with the JND slider die as you can see and did some variations of the workshop samples shown earlier.

Happy Easter to you all in these difficult times.

Enchanted woodland

The latest creative stamping magazine arrived this week and put paid to my ideas on using this closure time for sorting workroom and shop out. I had pre prepared a lot of backgrounds due tp the fact the all day workshop on this  was due to be this Tuesday - not giving me much preparation time. After using these backgrounds on a number of cards I then looked at using the stamps with different shaped cards and the slider die from John Next Door. Here are the cards I have done so far.... tempted to do more but I really should do some sorting out next week!!

With no more workshops to prepare at the moment I may not be posting very regularly for the next couple of months but will put up any I do do in preparation for the end of lockdown.

Cards for Easter & Spring

Yet  more slider cards here as well as using some of the special effect dies. To make bags for easter eggs I used the heart bag/box die from JND. I also used the stained glass flower dies fromm creative expressions

Slider and other die cut specials

I was playing last week with John Next Door's Slider die and seeing what different types of card I could produce. I then looked at what other die cuts I had to produce different cards and found an accordian die and Stampendous pop ups and pop up accessories. I didn't use John's neverending card die but just did one for myself by scoring.

Butterflies,Dragonflies and Flower Stamping

For this workshop I looked at using the John Next Door media plates, stamps and dies Butterfly & Dragonfly. As usual thinking of different variations I could do with these.
I also used the Woodware sunflower with a couple of inking methods and sprays. Then I looked for previously used stamps of Iris and Teacup collage as alternatives.

Hearts and Flowers

For this workshop I looked at using the heart box die from John Next Door as well as his butterfly hearts. Then I looked at what flowers I could incorporate. I did then also look at other heart dies that could be used. The great thing about these is we can use them for Valentines, anniversary, wedding, engagement, congratulations etc.

Two Jays stamping

This workshop concentrates on different ways with the scenes from 2 jays stamps. I have also put them with various does that  we have used recently/ still got in stock.

These stamps can be used on their own or in combination

Layered background dies

This time I tried some layered. These come with different sizes of holes that layer up to give the pattern. I tried some with 3 dies, 2 dies and 1 die to look t the different effects.
I also looked at the quintessential  die from sue Wilson and the different ways these could be used.

This workshop will be on Tues 21st Jan and Weds 5th February.

Mice Papercuts

Just before Christmas I had a good play with the new mice papercuts. I wasn't going to have any more papercuts but I fell in love with these. All papercuts are brilliant for using with colouring products and different backgrounds. This time I used cosmic shimmer special effect paints as well as a lot of  the opal polishes, pixie powders etc.

Workshops on these are on Weds 22nd JAn, Sat 25th Jan & Tues 28th JAn

Specials

Here are just a few of the specials I have done this year. Doing a little bit more with the dies used earlier.

more to follow... only just realised not photographed all of them!!