A message from Annette's Family; It is with great sadness that we share the sudden passing of Annette, the creative heart behind this site. This site will remain online for now as a celebration of her talent and joy she found in sharing and creating.
Author: Annette
Today's card serves two purposes. The first is to show you the first of my last four projects for the Splitcoaststampers Creative Crew Design Team. The second purpose is to show you one of the new special Thinlits Card dies. The challenge: "DSP/Color Focus: Modern Medley or basic black and very vanilla. Check out the … Continue reading Creative Crew: Serene Silhouettes Modern Medley
Flip cards are all the rage at the moment. You can make them in one go with special dies, or use other dies and make them manually. Today, I am using one of the Labels Framelits to make a Christmas card. It is based on one I saw on Darlene DeVries blog. My base card … Continue reading Ornament Keepsakes Indigo Flip
A clean and simple stylish card in more ways than one. I double embossed a piece of Whisper White, firstly with the Stylish Stripes TIEF, and then the Oval Designer Frames TIEF. The bouquet of flowers from Best of Flowers was stamped in Elegant Eggplant on Whisper White, punched out with the Extra Large Oval … Continue reading Best of Flowers Stylish Eggplant
Today's technique is a version of Faux Tile, often known as Pillow Top Background. I created the pillow top by firstly stamping and masking one of the flowers from Flower Shop on Shimmery White card stock with Coastal Cabana ink. I then used the Simply Scored Diagonal Plate to add score lines which were sponged … Continue reading Flower Shop Pillow Top Cabana
Another of my old favourites today. This time it is the Centre Step card. You can get the instructions to make this on my Tutorials page. I made the base with Bermuda Bay. Pool Party pieces were embossed with the Fancy Fan TIEF and added to the side panels. A piece of matching DSP was … Continue reading Field Flowers Bermuda Party Centre Step
Emboss Resist is showcased on my project today. I stamped one of the Serene Silhouettes images in Versamark on Whisper White and heat embossed with White EP. After stamping more of the same image in Rich Razzleberry, I sponged over the panel with Rich Razzleberry and wiped over the embossed area with a paper towel … Continue reading Serene Silhouettes Emboss Resist Razzleberry
