CS34 - Festive Fun

I've done a few cards with the stamps  from the latest creative stamping magazine. Fortunately they sent me a copy of the stamps early so I could do the samples but I'm still waiting for the actual magazines to arrive! Anyway it's down for tomorrows workshop so I thought I ought to publish the cards I've done. More will follow when I get more inspired. I like some of these a lot more than others but they are all here since peoples tastes vary.

Cards from August workshop customers

First a few variations on the creative stamping cards

Then I'd had a request to  do some basic quilling from a customer. In the old days when all we had were circles and ovals to mount quilled pieces onto they looked fairly plain but nowadays we have our dies and embossing folders to set them off.
These are what the ladies produced...

Stampendous birds, penguins and cottages - multi ways

Again I looked at how many ways I could use this stamp and die set. A couple of the cards are what I did with Fran on our retailer workshop. (sorry about pictures will redo soon but since workshop coming up I wanted to get them out)

After playing with these I moved to the penguins form the stencil, die and stamp sets and tried them with flock, glitter, embossing pastes, stencilled colour and added frantage snow etc.

I still had some cottages on the shelf so I thought it would be great to turn them into winter cottages.

As usual more to follow when I get more time to play.

Multiways with Creative Expression dies

Looking back I can't believe its been over a month since I last posted. Where does the time go????

Anyway I've been busy over the last month working on how many things I can do with one die or stamp in preparation for the Christmas workshops. Some pictures have not come out too well so I'll have to redo them and post later.

Here are some of the ways with the striplet dies -  plain, glitter, foil, gilding flakes etc.

and then I looked at using the Christmas Rose in slightly different ways. I have also used the metallic gilding polishes for my backgrounds which I have then embossed and left sanded or plain.

 The double gemini die of holly and poinsettia was cut after a sale but I only had these two samples to work with as I'd sold them all. I now have them in again so will be working on more ideas this week.

creative stamping 32- Summer in the garden

We got the stamps for this magazine issue early this time so I have been able to get some cards  done before the arrival of the magazine which arrived today.
Inspiration came from the Sue Wilson shadow box dies but I thought I wonder what we could do with die sets we already have - and then of course I had to use the latest favourite product - metallic gilding polishes with them! and then use up the cut out pieces.....

A few more floral variations

I tried playing withe the Maggie die I'd had on the shelf a while as well as more ways with the sweetheart flower die

Baby cards

With the arrival of our new Grandson this week I needed to sort out a baby card. Lacking inspiration I took all the baby related bits I could find and started to set about seeing how I could use them. These are the results

Thinking the spares would make me top heavy for boys in the shop I then did  a couple of girl cards to make up for it.

Creative stamping 31 - customer workshop variations

Just to share with you a few variations of my cards that were done on the workshop. We looked at using the new pixie powders from cosmic shimmer as well as doing more with their metallic guilding polishes and colour core inks

Variations added to workshop boards.

 Pixie powder background to the castle die.

  This workshop card variation was done by a customer using one of my marble backgound sheets

 This unfinished card was done using an idea from John lockwood where a coloured background is turned pearlescent using the pearl metallic gilding polish. (picture not good but it shows the sheen)

 Another variation of a John Lockwood idea using metallic gilding polishes.

 This is a variation on an idea shown by one of our reps Sharon Bramley, using the butterfly wings for flowers.

Then I tried a number of variations using the sweetheart flower die from creative expressions. (The "Many thanks" card was one we did on a retailer workshop with Sue Wilson)

Sea scenes driftwood by customers

Just a couple of variations to show you. Unfortunately I didn't get a chance to take pictures of the others.