Gifts

I was looking at what we can do for gifts. There are various things we have done before - washable glitter paints through stencils on fabrics, photo frames with clay flowers, Crackers, but I also thought that some of the foam flower bunches would look good in jars decorated with special effect paints.. There are also the lanterns and tissue boxes etc shown last time. The pencil pots were something we did in our craft group with ideas someone had taken from the internet.

Lanterns

I have been playing with ways of producing lanterns. For the small ones I used the JOHN NEXT DOOR lantern die for the large ones I used his "Sam's Star". The star was used as a single cut, mounted on acetate with lots of little lights the larger used the box die in a similar way to how we made the tissue box and I therefore created depth by putting the trees and deer on the back piece.
This has a tea light inside. I also just wrapped tea lights with the strip dies which was easy and effective.

I shall be doing workshops on these in December

creative stamping 78

The cards I have done with the latest creative stamping have been set in the new dies that we have been using throughout the year. They fall into two categories the winter animals and the scenic cards.

sorry light doesn't seem too good on many of these but I'm sure you get the idea!

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