Michele's Mag Review, Maria & Karen's Workshop cards and shopping !!

Maria & Karen's Workshop Cards

Maria's 

Robin : Cut in Black card 2 times, Sticky sheet in between and then loads of

Gilding Flakes which went absolutely everywhere Lol. Some of the others

coloured in the leaves and the Robin but I left it as it was because I liked

the outcome :-)  Hope you like them

Bonsai : Embossed 1 in  White card, Cut out 1 in Black card. Used paint from 

I think was Phil Martin's , to the Embossed card and then stuck down the Black

Cutout over it. Loved this way so will try to make some more with other dies.

Butterfly : Cut 3 times in different coloured cards and then with a sticky

sheet behind chosen the one for the frame and then stuck some of the

others back in plus some glitter or whats not in between. It was a sticky

business, just ask Karen Lol, but I liked doing this one.

Hummingbird & Poinsettia. : Cut 2 times each, stuck together with Acetate

in between and then with CS Lacquer mixed with different medium and maybe

some glitter etc.  I like the dies but not this way of doing it, they did not

come out very well.

Karen's

Karen's cards where made pretty much the same as Maria's above, such incredible results and it sounds as though you both had a fantastic day at the workshop.  

Thanks for sharing your cards ladies xxxx

Michele's Magazine Review

Papercraft Essentials issue 148 comes with a lovely stamp set & embossing folder plus some bonus papers. There's great inspiration inside on how to use the free gifts.

Diecutting Essentials issue 26 comes with a free floral/foliage dies plus some sentiment stamps. There's a lovely sample card in the magazine that's a Christmas card which show how versatile this die is.

Simply Cards & Papercraft issue 165 comes with a Bird die plus matching stamps. I think this will be a very useful set and there's two features in the magazine with very different ideas using this free gift.

Close up of the free gift.

Detailed explanation on the reverse side.

 Cardmaking & Papercraft issue 172 comes with Flower Fairies kit, lovely but not my taste.

There's a great feature using Circle dies-or you could substitute punches.

That's all for now, see you again at the end of the month.

Love, Michele

 Craft Shopping

Brenda's shopping is all Stampin'Up!, Two beautiful stamp sets, the 6 new colour ink pads, Woodland Embossing Folder an amazing 6x6 paper collection and 'In Colour' card packs.

I am really excited to see what you make with these fantastic products, thank you for your continued support xxx

Val went on a shopping Spree when she came back to the UK for the weekend, you bought some fantastic die sets, the magazine's are an amazing source of inspiration, you will make some amazing backgrounds with those Pixie Powders and stamps.

Thank you for sharing your shopping Val XXX

Karen's Shopping

This is what I bought on Wednesday

Two Woodware stamps - faux Misti here I come
3 pigment stains to do the acetate idea on the stained glass windows (humming bird and Poinsettia)
1 CS Lacquer (for use with the stains) I was hoping to use glossy accents but the lacquer is a lot runnier
1 Pixie Powder
1 pack of double sided sticky - I must start playing with my gilding flakes!
1 CS mica paint set

A fantastic selection of craft goodies Karen, I look forward to seeing your cards XXX

Well this is a mammoth post this week, but I wanted to share as much as I could of the craft things you shared this week, anything I missed I will share next week.

Thank you all so much for taking part in the blog, the weekends are all about sharing your work, I absolutely love sharing everything you send in, thank you once again XXX

Love and hugs to all,

Sandra 

xxxxxxx