Work shop christmas cards

These are what I've made at Craft Inspirations workshops, with Shirley as ever showing us all what to do.

Image is from Stampendous 'Holy Night' and was heat embossed with clear embossing powder after being stamped with Adirondak 'Pitch Black' ink. Unfortunately I don't know what paper was used.  Circles cut with nesties, while the green card was edged with EK Success 'Scalloped Scallop' border punch.

This is ideal for kids to send to their friends.  Images are from Pink Gem Designs, and sold individually, 'Nativity Donkey' 'Nativity Milly' and 'Nativity Max'.  They were painted with Cosmic Shimmers, except for Max's robe, which had been paper pieced. Again I don't know what paper had been used. Star and circles were cut with nesties, sentiment is a holograpic peel off.

I enjoyed making this one, a good old traditional card.  The flowers are Christmas Roses, and even though we coloured them in the wrong colour, they still look good! They're from the U-Mount unmounted stamp range and contains 7 stamps. Coloured with distress inks.

For the first time since I've been going to the workshops, I used decoupage.  The image is by Flowersoft 'Festive Teddies'.  Polar White flowersoft was used as snow while 'Ice Crystals' cuttlebug embossing folder was used for the left hand side panel.  Sentiment from craftwork cards.

'Winter Mimi' from Pink Gem Designs. Paper from Cosmo Cricket 'Silly Chilly' Mimi painted in Cosmic Shimmers, but dress was paper pieced.  Polar white flowersoft used on ear muffs, dress and pom poms. Nesties used for circles, EK Success 'Alpine' border punch used on the pink & red card.  Nesties die for the snowflakes.  Sentiment from Craftwork Cards.

Images from Penny Black T for Transparent '....In A Pear Tree' stamped with Adirondak 'Pitch Black' ink, then embossed with clear powder.  Circles cut with nesties.  Again I don't know what paper was used.  Memo to self: ask what paper is being used at workshops. Tear drop shaped peel offs were stuck on the tree as pears and on the tails of the partridges.

Partridges same as above, painted with Cosmic Shimmers.  Lettering done on cricut using Base Camp 2.5 inches on shadow. Branches were made with a Pine branch punch, may have been a McGill punch.

Caught up at last

I've finally caught up with getting cards on here.....note to self 'don't let them pile up again'

Went to The Range at Coventry today as I wanted to get some crafty stuff, it was the first time we'd been to this branch, the other branch we visited was in Poole. I have to say that the craft section here was smaller than the one at Poole. Got myself an A3 portfolio to put cards that I make at craft class, plus I've got it into my head that when I make a card for someone, to make two, one of which will go in the folder. Tomorrow I'm off to Ikea to get some shelving for Shane's room (for his lego models) as he loves the fact that I've got lime green ones in my craft room. Talking of my craft room, I think I need to take everything out and start again, it's in such a mess, it's a box room so it really does need to be kept tidy.
Luckily the drawers are on wheels, so they can be wheeled into my bedroom.

Anyways, heres the cards.

I fell in love with this card when I saw it on the Butterfly Kisses stand earlier this year at the NEC. I made it the other week for an 80th birthday, I didn't put the age on as I thought that would spoil it, plus the recipent was going to have loads of cards with her age on. The image is from Penny Black 'Flying Stars' and was first stamped on to white card stock, then heat embossed using silver detail powder on to black cardstock that had been cut with a nestie.


The slider cat card was made at a class with Shirley at Craft Inspirations and when I find the instructions on how to make it, I'll put them on here. The images are from Woodware ' Forbes and Friends JGCL506' and a masking technique was used when positioning the cats. We then used watercolour pencils on them.



The second cat card was very very easy as you can probably see. Cats were stamped on to checked (baby) paper, cut and stuck on to card stock, circular aperture was done using a nestie, with a smaller circle hanging from a brad.


These two were done the other week, again with Shirley. The masking technique was used with Penny Black clear stamps 'Enjoy', and Adirondak ink, the colours used were red pepper, sunset orange and pool and Versafine 'Crimson Red. The images were stamped using Versafine 'Onyx Black'. Fiskars border punch 'Scalloped Lace' was used on the top card. Greeting from Craftwork Cards, and circles were cut using Nesties.


Another two cards done at Craft Inspirations with Shirley. Numerals were cut with a cricut cartridge (not sure which one) they were layered to have the same rigidness as chipboard. The male card was done using Woodware clear stamps FRCL008 'Cheers'. The grey card is Core'dinations, that was cuttlebugged with the 'Houndstooth' embossing folder and then sanded over. The image was then coloured in using Sakura 'Stardust' pens. Circles were done using nesties. The female card had papers, punched flowers and card candy from Craftwork Cards, as were the greetings on both cards. Numbers was edged with stickles. Double sided spotty ribbon is from Bo Bunny.

Before I go to bed.....

I thought I may as well put these on.

Kanban pyramid topper and dufex decoupage, I cuttlebugged one of the black cards with the 'Swiss Dots' folder then used stickles on the dots.
Box and book card was made from an Arty Farty template. The card for the box was from my stash.

Penny Black 'Gathering' and 'Berry Branch' were used on these two, made in a work shop at Craft Inspirations The second card was made by masking, and both were designed by Shirley. The inks used were Adirondak.

You can't tell, but the one on the left was glitter card and looks really nice, the photo doesn't do it justice. I actually saw this card at the craft shop I go to, Craft Inspirations, Sutton Coldfield, but I don't know who made it. Louise, owner of the shop very kindly let me take a photo. I don't normally copy cards, that seems pointless as I get great pleasure (as does every crafter) from doing my own original designs, but I just loved what the maker had done with it. The snowman and greeting were by Kanban