Cards by John Lockwood

Happy Wednesday, I know that Christmas roses are traditionally white but I love the way they look in a traditional red. I used the Craft Artist flower foam Christmas pack selecting the deeper red and cutting this with my new Christmas Rose die plate. I shaded the petals with black pigment ink which really brings out the colour and intensifies the colour. I prefer using the coloured foam for coloured flowers as its far easier to shade the edges than to colour white to red then try to darken…

Happy Monday, I thought I would share today my Brand New Christmas Rose made with the new Silk White flower moulding foam form Craft Artist for Crafts too. It works so well when coloured with the Verbena dye ink form Izink making, to me at least, like a traditional Christmas Rose. I have used my round bauble die as a base for the flowers and tied these with the shaded ivy stamp and die and my Rose leaves ( cut in the Green Flower foam from the new Christmas colour pack). The foam is 0.6mm…

Happy Monday, Firstly thank you for the wonderful reception to my first launch of Christmas Dies, and an apology for not posting pictures and sneak peeks! I have so many samples of the collection I will be trotting them out over the next weeks and months right up to Christmas. This card uses the Bauble set, the Nativity scenes die set and the elements die plate which makes the stunning mistletoe and point cones as shown ion the top of the bauble. I teamed this with the snowflake lattice from…

Happy Tuesday, I'm starting to slowly get back into blogging everything I am making, Today I am sharing a card that Lights up and has a snowy night background. The background uses acetate and the Izink Pigment Ink Droppers and I thought I would share a technique video I have made for the background. There is also a video showing how the card was made if you like ( or are a glutton for punishment!) The colours I've used are slightly different form those I used on Hochanda as we had stock…