Needle felted decorations

 To take a break from card making I got into needle felting some gnomes ( I had bought a kit for these whilst on holiday with nothing taken to do). I then tried adjusting the technique  for Santas and a gnome and a tree. Need to work on these a little more but they are a good project to do in the company of others.

Decorations for Christmas

 Each year I have used a new die from JND with his box die to produce a lantern cube. This year we hadn't got 2 layers as in the previous 2 years so I put colooured parchment behind instead of acetate which gives a lovely effect.

I have a stack in the shop of the different lanterns done and alongside these I have used different inks to decorate a bottle to put light inside.

and then I decorated a couple of boxes I had cut ready to add small gifts. Plus of course there is the decoration with3 poinsettias on top of the lanterns which could be used for all sorts.

Some special cards

 I showed you last month the winter scene cards but to make them special I 3D'd them. They look great but I don't think the picture does them justice.

I then looked at some of the double edger papercuts and tried them with the stepper idea from JND

and then I noticed that I hadn't shown the large snowflakes which a number of people have already done at a workshop

Winter Stamps from Nellie

 I found these lovely stamps on the crafts too website and purchased them for the shop. I then had to  have a play with them for additional workshop cards. Some you may have seen in other settings where i was showing the frames in different uses

Trees and frames

 Once again these are 2 new dies from JND which I have tried in a number of ways.

Stepper cards

 Inspired by the stepper die  JND have bought out I have done some cards with this die but others using the idea and the strip dies most of  which are also from JND. Some ideas worked better than others and there are improvements I would make but when things don't work it acts as a discussion point for workshops.

Woodware Gnomes

 I picked out the gnome with a tree  to try out since the tree could be separated from the gnome and used in different ways as shown below

JND Christmas dies

 I missed out on getting some of the new dies but looking at what I had left to sell I decided to see what else I could do with them. Here are the results so far. I have done some more but obviously forgot to take the pictures  so they will follow later.

Double Edger papercuts

 I tried a few ideas with the new double edger papercuts as you can see below. Love using these and there will be more ideas later

FLOWERS

 I have also been asked about making flowers. Many of these ideas you will have seen before. Some are from card others from flower foam and a few from clay.

I find these are the sort of thing it is useful to make a number in advance so they are ready for any project I want to put them on