creative stamping 24 - In Bloom

You get an extra post this week since I hadn't shown the pictures for this week's workshops. I have had a busy few days finishing these since the magazine only came in at the end of last week. Once again I have used some of our new die cuts with them.
 I have used the Elizabeth Craft Lattice tag in a couple of ways and one of the pivot cards The pink die cuts are from the Sue Wilson range.

The next post will be on boats and bikes at the end of the week.

Jewellery & Embellishments from die cuts

I have had a play with the dies from Elizabeth craft and their shimmer sheets to create pendants etc that could be used in any situation.

Then I used Nellie's bracelet dies. Nellie has produced some imitation leather which gives a lovely soft bracelet (the black one) but I also used them with felt (red bits) and foam. These will be great for using with the children as well as yourselves.

I have put a wokshop down for this week but also one in half term so that anyone who wants to bring children or granchildren along to craft with them can

Dreamweaver stencils with Stampendous products

This week, inspired by the fact that Stampendous has now purchased Dreamweaver stencils I decided to plan my stencil workshop around using products from both companies. I started with the celtic cross stencil and putting "Seasonings" embossing enamel over and heating but not fully so that some texture shows. I just love these crosses.

I have then used backgrounds prepared using the stampendous "Creative Palette" and old paints (emulsions &acrylics), and then pasted the stencil using various types of paste including sludge paste (a mixture of all your odds and ends of paste). over this I have either used mica powders ( Dreamweavers metallic f/x) or various elements of the frantage powders etc, The paste is a great holder for the frantage elements. The frantage powders are heated.
I love this idea but feel some are better than others with colours and backgrounds chosen. I will try and get more examples before the workshop.

I have been busy with workshops this week but managed to try some ideas for the dies with matching stamps workshop. The stamps and dies are from creative expressions. Some are new and some are from last year.

The other workshop for this week is using the dies for shaped cards. We have used the stepper card die  a few times recently so I collated a few ideas as shown across the top of this picture. New is the lattice tag die which can be seen better on my last post. Then we have pivot and accordion cards from last year. Hopefully there will be time to do more variations with these before the workshop.

The final  picture show a combination of the above and includes all of the items we will be using this week.

from last year

Last week I was busy preparing for our demo weekend. Below are some of the things we did with the new products. The first was using the lattice tag from Elizabeth Craft designs in different ways. I didn't have time to get too elaborate but I wanted to show different ways of using his die set.

Then I looked at using some of the new dies from creative expressions.

and then I played with the Cornflower die to see what different flowers I could make. (excluding daisy which was a different die!)

This week I've been working on the "Cards for Spring & Easter" workshop ready for the next 2 weeks.
I have used the leabilities Daffodil die in other ways to those which appeared earlier and I have also included the Celtic cross stencil from Dreamweaver which I just love. I then used the creative stamping "Rural Springtime" stamps. The oval die used is from Creative Expressions

Next week I'm getting ready for our demo weekend on 28th & 29th. Do hope you can come along. Details on my website www.llindas.co.uk

I've been busy this week with workshops and then spending my free time working on my project for Dreamwaver Accreditation2. That will be shared with you later. So no new cards of mine to show you but since it was my birthday last weekend I thought I'd share the many handmade cards I've received form friends and customers. Thankyou to you all - they are lovely.

I am now working on cards for Spring & Easter using creative stamping - Rural Springtime plus dies & stencils, so that will be next week's picture.

This week I have been getting ready for next weeks workshop "Say it with flowers". Rather than making lots of 3D flowers this time I have looked at different sources of flowers. We have the lovely new Woodware poppy stamp, the daffodil die from Lea bilities, the Joy Rose (good for when you want a flat die cut image) and stencils using mica colouring - with the addition of dies also coloured with mica.

and then just in case these don't suit... I've pulled together some ideas from previous recent workshops in case they were missed before. Lets face it flowers appear on many of the cards whatever their theme, so we can always pull out extra ideas.

Hi
I've been busy lately with the trade show at the NEC where we go for 3 days and then I had a few days in Skipton doing the "Dreamweaver stencil Accreditation 2 course". In between there has not been a lot of time for doing lots of cards but I have come up with a few ideas for the creative stamping 22 - New Beginnings, where I used a lot of the sheets I had done in preparation for the tonal cards using sprays, inks, micas, metallic gilding wax etc. - as shown below.

I have also been looking at what we will be covering on this weeks stencil course. We are using double stencils, embossing powders, multi methods etc,

and then we will look at using stencils with metal

Although it is best to do the course from the beginning  for comprehensive coverage, people are welcome to dip in and out as they please

More with the stencils this week, I have done the art deco rose card 3 different ways using embossing and sparkle texture paste - couldn't decide which I liked best!.

After using the texture paste I moved to dreamweaver metallic pastes and mica powders. There are 2 methods for these as illustrated by the 2 cards below.

I also used the micas for colouring machine embossed images as shown with the large rose last week. I;m afraid I haven't mounted up the pieces done with the other stencils yet,
These methods  - ways with mica and stencils/masks plus using sparkle texture paste will form the basis of the next stencil workshop coming soon.See website for details www.llindas.co.uk