Stamped houses and stencils

 I used the new Woodware Dream Home stamp for these cards mixing some with stencils. Other stencils that we have used before I tried with new glossy pastes although they don't come out well on these pictures.

What can we do with the ROXY frame?

 I bought this frame because it was reduced but once i started to cut it I realised there were many possibilities for what could be done I added some embellishments in the form of dragonflies, butterflies and flowers. The steps in my journey are shown below. I still feel this die has a lot more possibilities but felt I needed to leave it for now.

More shaped EAster cards

 Since doing the last post set I have done some more shaped cards as can be seen below. There are also a couple of slider cards.

this last picture shows the inside of slider cards

New Easter dies.

 These new dies came in from creative expressions and I wasn't sure about them at first but then I decided to do them on shaped / novelty cards and liked the effect. Some are here but more will follow.

Stamping for Easter and New Birth

 The crosses on the last post covered Easter and Sympathy but the Woodware stamp "Birds Nest"" covers new birth and Easter. The "Rooster" can cover Easter or anytime. I Tried using different colouring methods on different cards here.

I also used some of the DL stencils used on  January's cards here

Crosses, Frames & Flowers

 Thinking of both Easter and Sympathy with these cards for March's workshops

I also looked at different ways with the Wisteria frame

and then I had another play with die cut flowers

Heart vases

 Just a couple of cards which I added later to last month's collection

With Love - Stamped Roses

 Next I used Jane Gill's new rose stamp in different ways to suit all the Love occasions mentioned on my last post. I tried colouring with different materials some to better effect than others.

And then I added two cards from last years ideas - one stamped inner and heart dies, another using stencil and paste

With Love

 February is a month when workshops are based around the idea of love in its many forms - be it for Valentine's Day, Engagement, Wedding Day, Anniversary, Congratulations, Mothering Sunday or just "With Love". Most of the cards can be adapted to suit any of these occasions.

Starting with die cutting we have the Love Birds, The rose frame and then the bells from before Christmas. Stamped cards will be on my next post.

Using the Dandilion stencil

 Since the stencils I used on previous samples were out of stock at suppliers I thought I ought to redo a few cards using a different slim stencil for this months workshops. Here are the results ..