Peace - How still we see thee lie card

A Little Town of Bethlehem Peace

Hi All

I created this card for craft day at the Papermill Direct shop in Kendal and I was really pleased with how it turned out.

Embossed in black on beautiful pearlescent card from Papermill Direct, and coloured with pixie powders from creative expressions, they are lovely to work with an create a great shimmer the to card.  Created with a mixture of Jane Gill's sparkly trees stamp and Francoise Read's Peace stamp from Woodware at Creative Expressions.

See the sheen on those pixie powders.

And it all stands up.

First and second generation stamping with the sparkly trees make a good backdrop to the golden tones of the little town of Bethlehem

Turn to the left and see the 3D effect

I hope you like it, I do.

Lesley x

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Ahoy there birthday boy!

Sail Away Birthday Boy

Hi All

Just thought I would show you a few of the cards we have done recently.  This is a great card for people who go yachting, and guys in general.  Created on a white cardstock base card with kraft card accents, and a lovely teal card from papermilldirect embossed with a creative expressions embossing folder. The stamp set is comprehensive and comes from Woodware, designed by Jane Gill. I hope you like it.

Woodware Stamp set by Jane Gill.

There will be more coming soon.

Lesley x

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Merry Christmas

Hi All

For all of you who I didn't manage to get a Christmas Card too by post, here it is in blog format.

Hobby Art Fat Robbin, in Sue Wilson's Snow Globe with Creative Expressions embossing folder.

As lots of you know it was a sad day yesterday as Papermill Direct closed its shop at The Paper Warehouse in Kendal.  A big thank you to Janet, Jane and Abby. 

Looking forward to the new year and a new set of classes at Rowan Tree Crafts in Carnforth.

Wishing you all a very Happy Christmas and hoping to see you all for a wonderful crafty New Year.

Take care

Lesley x

Merry Christmas

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My latest class cards

My latest class

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Here are the class cards from Saturday 14th October's class, using Distress Oxides and Woodware stamps for the baubles, each piece is unique and this got quite messy to do, but the oxides create some lovely colours, very different from Distress Inks.

Woodware Baubles and Distress Oxides

Beautiful Polar Bear Stamp with Pixie Powder Background

The Polar Bear, is one of my favourites of this year's Woodware Christmas stamps, coloured using Copic pens with a creative expression embossing folder, this time using Pixie Powders in the background, these give a beautiful sheen to the background rather like the I imagine northern lights to be. Using the extra pixie powder card behind the sentiment to pull it all together.

 I hope you like them.

Best wishes

Lesley

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Halloween Birthday Cards

Birthday Cards

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This is Emma's Birthday card I had two distinct ideas and I could not decide which to do, so .... This is a beautiful Daisy Mae Stamp Design Stamp from Clare Rowlands, on the outside.

But as Emma studied Forensic Science and Anthropology at Uni, and her Birthday is so close to Halloween - I could not leave it there - so ........ scroll down for the inside, its a bit of a contrast with the outside, so Zoe said "put it in the middle" so I did.

An Autumn Birthday Card for Emma 

This is Sheena Douglass's skeleton die and stamp set from Day of the Dead,
with Chloe's sentiment and the Dutch Doobadoo cobweb stencil in the background.

This card was the third card on my last class, using Pixie Powders to paint the flowers.

That’s all for now folks - take care and see you soon.

Have fun,

Lesley x

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