September workshop cards- Christmas or not?

 I have spilt up the new products so that we cover different ones each  month. I am continuing with workshops for 1 or 2 only to enable social distancing and  so instead of producing  a program participants ring me to book and tell me what they want to do from that months choice.

September choices ( cards which can be Christmas or not) include cards from the last 2 posts - "Moonlit Gathering" (25th August) which is stamping,  and the sue wilson dies ( Aug 7th). Then there are the two below "Four Seasons" using  a die by John Lockwood and a couple of paper panda dies - the deer and the bunny.  In this selection we look at using different embossing powders, backgrounds with reinker pigment inks as well as the usual inkpads, gilding polishes etc.

Moonlit Gathering

 Creative expressions have released a new range of stamps from Designer boutique. I took 1 of them "Moonlit Gathering " and proceeded to see how many different ways I could use it. This is the start..

Sue Wilson Christmas dies

Again having an early play with some of the dies. Whilst working with the gilding polishes I have had a sheets I keep using as a backing workable sheet and over time this has built up to a great backing sheet as you can see used behind the snowflake lady and the large mosaic star

burst.

Christmas Papercuts

I don't usually start Christmas cards till September but since we had these dies in early I decided I would have an initial play. These are fairly basic cards the fancier ones will follow, but I wanted to get a feel for the dies before deciding which I needed to order more of.

more papercuts

Another board I forgot to post was the new papercraft images. I have only tried 2 if these the Owl and the Hare but I did try them with a new 3D daisy embossing folder. Other new products I tried with this set were the chalk polishes and the opal blaze polish.

Papercraft Edgers

Just looking through  my posts I noticed that there were a couple of boards I'd done during lockdown that I don't seem to have published. One of these is the papercraft edgers featuring the Seahorse, The Dolphins and The Bee. The Rose is similar but from a different firm.

I have used pixie powders and special effect paints on many of the cards.

Multi layered dies

Over the last 2 weeks I have been playing with the square and harlequin multilayered dies from Presscut (as shown on Tv by John Lockwood). These are great as you can use 1,2 or 3 dies together - cut &/or embossed in such a variety of ways. The cut out bits are useful for paper piecing or making you own patterns. They can also be used with a variety of different embellishments or left as they are.

Flowers & Bees

This week I started to look at using the Chloe box set which had arrived just before lockdown. There were many great examples in the magazine so trying to come up with something different after weeks of not doing many cards was more difficult but here are my first attempts at using what was in the box.

I have now moved to some sewing projects so will have to have another attempt at these later

More layered papercuts

This week  I played with the new layered papercuts which I'd had in - the owl, badger, hedgehog and cockerel. For each die I cut it in 2 contrasting colours ( there are 4 dies in each set) and I cut some from card to leave a border which could be built up, and some altogether so that they would fit inside one another for a flat card. I left some plain with the 2 colour cards and others I coloured in with metallic gilding polishes.

New Papercuts plus....

With the lockdown I had weeks of not making any cards while I did my stocktaking, cleaned and sorted everything in the shop and then spent over 4 weeks on the workroom. I have gone through every cupboard and box and been ruthless (for me!) in throwing things out.
I restarted card making with the new papercuts dies and here are the results of the last few days.

the last couple here need finishing, but they show the use of cosmic shimmer special effect paints.