I was asked about a method I had used on these by a customer just before Christmas so since I still have 3 different dies to sell I thought I'd do another workshop on them. These are old ideas resurrected - I will be doing some more when I go back into the shop, but as you can see lots of different methods can be used with these dies.
I had a customer say she hadn't done marbling with inks and shaving foam so I thought this would be another idea to resurrect .
Then I thought of using paints on a gel plate - another idea where we need to do lots a t a time
I then found some old cards using these. (I'll do some new ones later but I've not been to the shop the last few weeks with Christmas etc.)
Inspired by a picture I saw with a metal embellishment in the centre i set about die cutting some metal and colouring with alcohol inks, then setting them in frames.
I also looked up some previous work done with metal using stencils and stamps. There are more samples I just need to sort them out!
To take a break from card making I got into needle felting some gnomes ( I had bought a kit for these whilst on holiday with nothing taken to do). I then tried adjusting the technique for Santas and a gnome and a tree. Need to work on these a little more but they are a good project to do in the company of others.
Each year I have used a new die from JND with his box die to produce a lantern cube. This year we hadn't got 2 layers as in the previous 2 years so I put colooured parchment behind instead of acetate which gives a lovely effect.
I have a stack in the shop of the different lanterns done and alongside these I have used different inks to decorate a bottle to put light inside.
and then I decorated a couple of boxes I had cut ready to add small gifts. Plus of course there is the decoration with3 poinsettias on top of the lanterns which could be used for all sorts.
I showed you last month the winter scene cards but to make them special I 3D'd them. They look great but I don't think the picture does them justice.
I found these lovely stamps on the crafts too website and purchased them for the shop. I then had to have a play with them for additional workshop cards. Some you may have seen in other settings where i was showing the frames in different uses
Inspired by the stepper die JND have bought out I have done some cards with this die but others using the idea and the strip dies most of which are also from JND. Some ideas worked better than others and there are improvements I would make but when things don't work it acts as a discussion point for workshops.
I picked out the gnome with a tree to try out since the tree could be separated from the gnome and used in different ways as shown below
