Once again I thought these could be used for Christmas or other cards. They can have faces or not, cream topping or not. I then tried different products for the toppings including fluffy stuff, flock, pearly stuff etc. I also used different products to colour the mugs and different backgrounds.
since I can't access my website where this usually goes I decided to put it on my blog and facebook page in hope of reaching people
LLindas
Greetings Cards & Craft Accessories
Main St. Laneham Notts. DN220NG
01777 228775 (07702058435) www.llindas.co.uk llindasblog.blogspot.co.uk
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SEPTEMBER NEWSLETTER 2022
Hi Everyone
Hope you are all well and after a nice summer that you are getting
ready to start crafting again.
I have been planning for the Christmas season. Both creative
expressions and crafts too have been showing new designs during June, July
& August and I’ve bought some bits ready to try out.
I have also been looking at some
of the discounted dies I bought last month and how to use them so hopefully I
can inspire you to buy as some customers have done already.
As usual if you are making a special journey please ring first to check
I’m open.
I know times are difficult for many at the moment but I am afraid that
I will have to put up the price of workshops to help pay for increased expenses
and heating costs. Workshops have been at their current level for many years
now and I should have put them up before to meet expenses. The new cost will
therefore be £6 per hour. I will still give discount of your purchases at the
workshop so if you spend a lot you can get the increase back. (As an interim offer
if you come this month and no heating is required, I will charge £5 per
hour)
SEPTEMBER WORKSHOPS
I have been looking at what we can do for those who want to start
Christmas and those who don’t so we have…
Stencils –
with sprays – positive and negative images. blogpost 27/8/22
Assorted backgrounds using new
sprays, pixie powders , gilding polishes, inks, gilding flakes, glitter etc.
These are used with..
Dies –
mainly papercuts but also deer Blogpost 31/8/22
Stamps –
Novelty mugs – +assorted colouring, flock, fluffy stuff, pearl accents etc. Blogpost 2/9/22
AS usual you can book workshops
for you and your friends anytime which is mutually convenient but there are
also SEPTEMBER WORKSHOP DATES for those who wish to come with others. Do ask if
you wish a change of date though.
Saturday 3rd September 1 30 – 4 30
Tuesday 6th September 1 30 – 4 30
Thursday 22nd September 10 – 12 30
Wednesday 28th September 1 30 – 4 30
PLEASE RING (on 01777 228775) or email me llindas.laneham@gmail.com to get a
booking. Morning workshops are 2 ½ hrs for £15 pp and afternoons 3hr for £18
pp. (Unless special offers apply) plus you get a discount of 10% on all non
reduced* goods purchased that day up to 2/3 of the course fee.
I look forward to seeing you
soon
LInda
Knowing September is a time when some people want to start Christmas cards and others don't I thought if we looked at different backgrounds we can produce and then they can be used with either Christmas papercuts or others.
I have used sprays (different sorts), gilding polishes, pixie powders, inks, gilding flakes, glitter & micro beads plus our waste build up sheets.
September's use of stencils revolves around using them with sprays to get a positive and negative image.
We used this idea on a workshop this week and you can see customer variations on my facebook page
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Different sorts of spray were used to compare results - hence the 2 similar swirls.
These are mainly papercuts. The horse was a new die, the hummingbird we had last year and the thistle is an old die but new to us. I have looked at colouring images with simple backgrounds and keeping plain images against a prepared background ( Pixie powders & my clean up sheets).
I decided to use "Things we see in the countryside" as a theme for August.
The Country Lane house stamp I have done in various ways- black ink, brown ink, different coloured ink & different coloured embossing powders. This was so that we could compare different effects.
I then looked at some other stamps we have used in the past ( I still have the gate for sale so that features a lot) and I also looked at combining gate with the new country lane house.
This month I have looked at pasting large stencils and then using the pasted image with embossing powders
This time I used crackle paste over the pasted image
Not a large stencil this time but double pasted again. This time with translucent paste over yellow matt paste which had been coloured.
I was recently asked about a picture on display which has scenes made from embossing powders so I thought I'd include them in August Workshop Ideas. Original Ideas came from Fran @ Stampendous. They are a good way of using up old embossing powders although I start with a clear UTEE base.
Since our gardens are full of flowers I felt I had to do some more. It was also a chance to try out some of the newer flowers dies we have in.
Stamped flowers were shown recently
new flower cards....
ON looking at what we should revisit this month I decided on the media plates since they go well with the flowers on our garden theme for the month.
