CARDS DESIGNED BY BERYL FOR OUR WORKSHOP AT BUXTON

We had a wonderful time on our residential Christmas Card workshop at The Lee Wood in Buxton. Good company, wonderful food in lovely surroundings and of course Christmas Cards.

CARDS DESIGNED BY BERYL FOR OUR WORKSHOP AT BUXTON

This card  consists of all Little Claire items, red spotty paper and the Driving Home for Christmas stamp and also their step card.

CARDS DESIGNED BY BERYL FOR OUR WORKSHOP AT BUXTON

I used a Clarity stamp for this card and stamped  the bauble using fantasy film and put silver fibres and glitter in between the film, then cut it out carefully and using photo glue placed it on top of the original stamped image. I again used the Marianne snow flake punch  to decorate the card putting some silver card  behind  to high light it, finished again with a ribbon bow.

CARDS DESIGNED BY BERYL FOR OUR WORKSHOP AT BUXTON

I love this button and bow wreath, I used a peel off for the wreath and covered it with red and green buttons, peel off glittery dots of different sizes and finished with a red bow at the top. I edged the stripey paper with glittery peel off strips.

CARDS DESIGNED BY BERYL FOR OUR WORKSHOP AT BUXTON

This is a step card purchased from Which Craft, the stamps that I used are Pepper's Christmas Party with matching paper pad. I stamped the images then mounted them on Shiny red card.

CARDS DESIGNED BY BERYL FOR OUR WORKSHOP AT BUXTON

This card I made using a Little Claire stamp, I used their red spotty paper also.I put the snow scene behind window shutters, mounted on some shiny red card cut using a Nestability die. The white snow flake panel across the bottom is a Marianne punch and I finished it off with some red chiffon ribbon.

Margaret and Beryl's Residential Workshop at Buxton

Beryl and myself hosted another residential workshop - once again at the Lee Wood Hotel, Buxton.  Eleven ladies joined us and we had a great time: meeting up for lunch and shopping on Friday before heading to the hotel for a rest before dinner.  After a lovely meal we had a Christmas quiz before retiring to get some rest ready for the workshop next day.  Beryl and myself each did a 21/2 hour Workshop and had designed some 'special' Christmas cards.  It was a very enjoyable day with lots of socialising and laughter along with making some lovely cards. 

Margaret's cards designed for Buxton residential Workshop - Girl with Candle

I love this cute stamp by Penny Johnson which I have stamped onto a Nestability shape.  I coloured the image with promarkers and added matching papers and a border to the back of the shaped card.  I added snowflake paper to the front side panels and two trees cut and embossed from a Marianne die.

Margaret's cards designed for Buxton residential Workshop - Glitter scene

For this card I cut an aperture in white glitter card and backed it with silver card.  I cut and embossed the Marianne frame and added a stamped snow scene which has been glittered and mounted onto silver card.  The front card has been joined at the spine to a piece of pearlised backing card and finished with double ribbon and greeting.

Margaret's Cards designed for Buxton residential Workshop - Trees

Credit for this card goes to Paula at Which Craft - the tree stamp and papers were bought from Which Craft and the card was adapted from Paula's original idea.  I love the colours of the papers which are double-sided and I have stamped the trees onto the blue spotted side before cutting them out, shaping them and mounting them with silicone glue.

Margaret's cards designed for Buxton residential Workshop - Shutter card

The shutter card uses die-cut images from a Papermania pad to which I have added mounts cut from Nestabilities and matching card.

Margaret's Cards designed for Buxton residential workshop - Noel

I designed this easel card using a Noel stamp from Barbara Grey with a smaller Christmas scene stamp inside the O.  The flourishes and holly was coloured using promarkers and I added pearls coloured with red permanent marker for the berries.