Butterflies from JND

 Jon next door recently bought out a set of stamps and dies of butterfles which can be used together or on their own in other projects. There was also a butterfly frame. Again this will be part of what is on offer in August for workshops.

Papercut Birds

 Yet more lovely papercuts - this time of birds. Here are a few of the examoles I have done ready for August's workshops. Colour birds or backgrounds or both!

Focus on Dies and Embossing folders

 This month's focus on workshop looks at different ways of using a die and embossing folder. For those doing a free gift workshop I have used a nestability die that can also be used as a flower and a standard embossing folder. For others we can use any nesting die and separate flowers as well as looking at the methods with deep embossing folders. Ideas are to show uses rather than making intricate cards.

Ways with dies look at using them for partial cutting (easel card), shaker cards, tunnel cards etc as well as standard matting and layering and using them to make flowers. 

The embossing folders are used with various inking methods and pastes with debossed images. They are also used on acetate, parchment, color core cardstock etc. as well as using them with  adie to get an embossed centre.

Baby box

 to celebrate the arrival of our first granddaughter (after 3 boys) I made a memory box with pictures and info about the baby on the inside card.

STENCILS

 Over the last few weeks we have been doing a "Focus on Stencils" double workshop. Initially we focused on what we could do with plain glossy coloured paste to change it's appearance. The idea was then to move onto other methods but we ran out of time so the "NON paste" options I will cover as a workshop this month. We will look at using stencils like we would solid stamps with inking and using embossing powders.

These are cards and samples of what we can do with glossy paste and a single die.

The next set are those we are covering in this month's workshops which don't use paste just inks and powders - again how many ideas can we do with 1 stencil. The beauty of a stencils over a stamp is that we can turn it over for reflected image.

and then the bottom line shows using different pastes, although I have only briefly covered these.

Some kinetic Cards - shutter and slider

 The shutter cards are shown in detail on the 2nd Jan 2021 post but here is a reminder of full board since we are covering these in July's workshops.

We will also revisit the slider cards from last year which I know a number of people missed

I have done a few other kinetic cards - sorry missed out on photographing these but the above 2 are my favourite methods at the moment.

Stampcuts for June's workshops

 Sorry to anyone waiting to see what is on offer for June workshops that I didn't put these up earlier. As I said the Animal transport can be seen in the February blogs

I have used just one of Sue Wilson's stampcuts in a variety of different ways to explore what use we can get out of it.

I have also used some of the stencil words and numbers from "John Next Door"s range

June workshop cards

 So sorry just realised I hadn't put these on.

The 3d animal transport cards can be seen on 1st & 28th Feb blogs. I'm afraid I can't find the stampcuts so will take some more tomorrow

May Workshop cards

  Assuming we can start workshops later this month  and since there will only be 2 weeks left in the month I have picked ideas that extend what we were doing last year with new dies / ideas, so w few samples will have been shown before.

Background Dies - Board 1

The last but 1 two rows show some of the new dies I have tried out recently. The top two rows and bottom row show images you may have seen last autumn.

Paper Panda dies at the top of Board2 show new additions to the deer done last year but still using backgrounds with embossing powders although I have coloured some with mica magic

The bottom rows here are using different backgrounds - alcohol inks, sprays, and waste buildup sheets

JND's 4 seasons die on Board 3 was used for Christmas but these concentrate on use in other seasons and using them with stamps as well as dies in the background.

Easter Cards

 The cards I have worked on this month have all been Easter cards for me to send. I used a mixture of dies I had cut ready for workshops that never happened and a creative expressions cross I had just bought. Otherwise I've just been stocktaking whilst we are closed. Looking forward to getting back to normal next month... hopefully!!

I must remember to put the plain tablecloth on before taking pictures so they stand out from background !!