New Flowers for August's workshop

  A simple flower die which come as a stem with 2 flowers and 2 flower heads. You saw the use of the flower heads with the circles on my last post.

The Elegant tree

 This die is one from the JND range form crafts too.  The tree has various circular edges that can be used elsewhere. Here I have used them with a new flower that I shall show later.

I enjoyed putting the tree against various backgrounds I had produced and using differnt variations of the circle edge dies that come in this set. This is another of those dies I can keep using - -next I will use it with icicles for Christmas cards.

Summer Holiday workshop ideas

 For those wanting something to do with the children over the summer holidays I have come up with a few ideas for workshops. These are just ideas - the actual items done will depend on age and ability of the children

1, stamping - also involves shrink plastic which my grandchildren love to do

2. Die cutting

3. Flowers and vases

4. booklets

5. Boxes and bags

Using 3D embossing folders

 Another idea for July's workshops is looking at ways of using 3D embossing folders and colouring them with different products. The trouble with many is that I don't like covering them once produced. I also looked at using them both ways round - embossed and debossed designs give different effects

I have also included some try outs which I didn't make up into cards. 

Using Card Candi

 I had a customer ask me what she could do with card candi. I had a number of old cards on show but decided to do some more as an idea for July's workshops. mainly I looked at different flowers we could produce but as you will see I have also I used them for butterflies, caterpillars and ladybirds. They can also be used as roof tiles or on peel offs and stamps with circles in them.

Looks like a couple of cards are missing but they can be seen in store.

A flower & a snail...

 This stamp from Françoise Read I have done in a few different ways for July's workshops with different backgrounds.

Last 3 posts

 You need to read the last 3 posts from today in reverse to get the story for this month's workshops. 

Seaside dreamcatcher

 This was my new stamp for the month , again used with the spray ink backgrounds and this month's stencils plus a die from last summer

New Stencil backgrounds

 Same idea as before - produce backgrounds - this time with stencils (pasted, embossed, inked, spayed) and put them with stamps and stencils which could be used for male cards.

Using sprays that don't spray for backgrounds

 A number of my sprays have blocked so I have looked at alternative ways of using them for backgrounds..

It's Father's Day month so the time of year for male cards (although many are also suitable for females).

I have used different dies and stamps from my stash with the backgrounds produced.