20 September gift boxes

Black gift bag

Use templates to cut and crease black and red. Apply gold gilding wax to outside of black card. Stick together with red backed tape or glue. Make 2 holes for ribbon. Stick bow and Velcro tab on.

White box

Use templates to cut and crease card. Stick together with red backed tape or glue. Use silver thread for tag.

Orange flowers

Stamp onto patterned blue card with white embossing powder. Plain blue goes under the frame.

White flower on blue

Frosty sky colour cloud to white square, dry then stamp lightly pattern with clear embossing powder and heat. Edges of sentiment cloudy blue ink, foam pads under square and sentiment.

Sports

Cricket ball cardinal red, rugby ball walnut and henna. Rounders bat caramel, tennis racket and small ball apple or green shoot, gloves mustard. Edges of picture and balls hickory smoke ink.

13 September Stamping and sparkle medium

Football

On large black circle find centre, place black hexagon over centre, leave a little gap between each hexagon and add white, fill in edges with black and trim. Edges of ball and sentiment hickory smoke ink. Use 2 strands of string to place around white layer. Foam pads under ball.

Butterfly

Stamp butterfly with gold embossing powder and cut out. Edges antique linen ink, foam pads under oval and butterfly. Cut wings off dragonfly peel off.

Brown and gold

Secure card and stencil with masking tape, mask off one row of pattern all around, apply sparkle medium remove stencil and leave to dry. Edges antique linen ink.

Friend pink flower

Stamp sentiment with silver embossing powder and flower with white, cut out flower. Edges Victorian velvet ink and stardust stickles to flower.

6 September General cards

Tree

Stamp tree with rich cocoa memento ink add sakura clear pen to branches. Cut out leaves. Stencil pattern with rusty hinge ink. Edges walnut stain ink. Pads under sentiment and leaves.

Cross

Stamp and emboss sentiment with silver. Cloudy blue ink to edges. Foam pads under sentiment and cross.

Flowers on script background

Stamp text through mask with black memento ink, add brilliance ink pads in crimson, lavender and sky blue. Stamp flowers with black memento ink and colour flowers trick or treat pink and leaves marsh green.

Shoe card

Leaves marsh green, shoe pastel blue, flowers lilac and cardinal red. Sakura clear pen to give sparkle on the shoe, stardust stickles to flower centres. Edges versa mark plumeria ink.

Purple flowers

Cut out and shape petals put gem in flower centres.

5 July Gilding Flakes

Dog rose

Stick double sided sticky under corners, trim to fit then apply gilding flakes. Stick cream rose buds onto green stems. Foam pads under flowers and stardust stickles to flower centres.

Butterfly

Add gilding flakes to red backed tape. Stamp and emboss butterfly with pale green embossing powder then cut out, gunmetal stickles butterfly body. Dampen edges of mulberry paper and tear edges.

Church Window

Put black velum die cut, and both papers under the window. Wavy edge of card hickory smoke ink.

Bow card

Stamp and emboss with sticky embossing powder add gilding flakes. Edges bundled sage ink. Stardust stickles to embossed background.

Trainers

Shoes 454 (blue) and burnt orange. Laces sleigh bell yellow, soles ice grey 2, use a sharp pencil to define edges between colours. Spotty mask with hickory smoke and scattered straw ink, edges scattered straw ink.

28 June Honeycombe

Tree

Stamp tree with black ink onto white rectangle. Edges of tree and honeycomb scattered straw ink.

Pink and green honeycomb

Foam pads under flower and sentiment. Edges tattered rose ink.

Rusty flower in honeycomb

Cut between petals and shape petals, edges gathered twigs ink, stardust stickles to flower centre. Peel off dots to 4 outside honeycomb shapes.

Heart Flower

Shape hearts then stick to scrap card pointed end in, foam pads under flower and sentiment. Gold peel off dots to border, large gem to flower centre.

Lillies

Leaves marsh green, small flowers sunflower yellow, large heatwave. Sakura clear pen to flower centres. Edges rusty hinge ink.

21 June Over the edge cards

Pink flowers

Leaves marsh green, flowers trick or treat pink, pole pastel blue or frozen lake. Edges cloudy blue Adirondack ink. Sakura clear pen to flowers.

Daffodil

Tulip yellow and bright orange edge of trumpet. Leaves marsh green. Sakura clear pen to flower centre. Gems to corners and border Edges hickory smoke ink.

Stamped Happy birthday

Stamp and emboss with pale green powder. Cream velum goes under corners. Place on card then trim to fit. Edges antique linen ink. Foam pads under sentiment.

Vase

Cut out vase, foam pads down centre of vase and under sentiment. Edges forest moss green ink. Stick white flowers to green stems.

Tools

Stick burgundy handles onto grey tools. Very lightly sand embossed layer then add silver gilding wax. Use 4 cutouts from cog to make corners. Foam pads under saw only.

14 June Glue and embossing backgrounds

Cream Flower

Stick black card to base of plate apply PVA glue then sprinkle with copper, black and enchanted gold embossing powder, heat until it bubbles and melts.

Use red backed tape to stick to card.

Lighthouse

Stick white card to base of plate then add PVA glue sprinkle with blue and silver pearl embossing powder, heat until it bubbles and melts. Use red backed tape to stick to card. cut out lighthouse, berry red and sunflower yellow and ice grey 2 for rocks. Curl lighthouse and place tiny pieces of foam pads down centre of back. Use fluffy stuff around rocks.

Birthday Cake

Anniversary glasses

Edges of white layer hickory smoke ink. Gems to flower centres.

Red background

Black peel off blobs to flower centres.