Christmas Stamping - cottage , church and gnomes

 Here are some of the cards stamped with the 2 jays cottage in the trees and village church. 

and then I did a few cards with the Gnome stamps from Woodware

Christmas Time

 Here are a few cards done with the Christmas time die from JND.

3D cards & more with previous stamps

 Here are some examples of the Polar bear and cottage pop up cards using the papercuts die from creative expressions.

and a couple of other stamped cards using the stained glass window and the peaceful night broken down for use with the slider card die

Christmas Stamping

 Here I have picked the Dove stained glass window which initially I was unsure of using but then found there was so many variations you could do I was pleased with the choice. The second stamp chosen was "peaceful night" which I love. I did this as a single layer, multilayer with flat layers and multi-layered with raised layers.

Jane's tree

 Another new die from JND. A quick card to do that looks very stylish - well I think so anyway!

Penguins and Polar bears

 Just a couple of cards with each of these Sue Wilson dies  shown here. Obviously there is a lot more we could do with these and I'll have a go soon.

More Papercuts

 I know I showed a few of these earlier but I now have 2 boards full of new papercuts so I'm showing them both together since they are samples for October workshops. Great for quick cards and for using lots of background and colouring techniques when you want to spend more time on them.

Papercuts 1 board - fox,snowman,snowmen, birds, tree

Papercuts 2 board - " A child is born", " we three kings", penguins, Santa plus a few from last year at the bottom where I still have the dies for sale.

WORDS

 JND have come up with a set of dies which have words cut into your card as you can see from the examples below. These fit with all of the other dies we have worked with, a number of which are shown below.

Sam's Circles

 This new die from JND is so versatile. You can use it with the matching centre, deer scene and  village scene as well as lots of dies from last year, your flowers, snowflakes, stamped images and all sorts. I will be adding more later but had to stop to move onto other things. However I will return to it!

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.