Yes, bleaching it is. Today's technique uses heat embossing and bleaching in the outlines of the image. I started with a piece of Wild Wasabi cardstock, stamped the floral image from Elements of Style using Versamark, then heat embossed it with black embossing powder. When it was cool, I used an Aquapainter to pick up … Continue reading Bleaching
Author: Annette
SUO Challenge
The SUO Challenges site recently came to my attention whilst checking out some of my regular blogs. This week their challenge is birthday cards. I needed a bright card for a little boy, so here is my entry. I have used a couple of retired sets, More Monkey Accessories and Choo Choo, together with a … Continue reading SUO Challenge
21st Birthday
I can't believe that it is 10 days since I posted to our blog. The time seems to have flown. Anyway, here is my creation for my niece's 21st birthday. Hope you had a great time Stacie. Sorry I couldn't make it to the celebrations. I have used Champagne Shimmer Paint mixed with Isocol to … Continue reading 21st Birthday
Circles, Circles Everywhere
Today I am trying a one layer card based on the One Layer Wednesday challenge at Simplicity. These are the rules for this week's challenge OLW78: 1. A one-layer card is defined as a single sheet of card stock folded in half. No other layers of card stock allowed! 2. Use at least FIVE circles … Continue reading Circles, Circles Everywhere
Colourful Owl
A break from the distressing look today to participate in a Splitcoaststampers Colour Challenge. This week the colours are Soft Suede, Daffodil Delight and Poppy Parade. The Tasteful Trim Bigz XL Die was used to cut a wave with some patterned Poppy Parade DSP from the Just Add Cake DSP pack. The wave was then … Continue reading Colourful Owl
More Distressing
Following on from yesterday's post, this is our second attempt at vintage/distressing. This time we stamped the roses from Elements of Style in Soft Suede ink on Very Vanilla card stock. Daffodil Delight and Always Artichoke were used to colour the image which was then run through the Vintage Wallpaper EF and highlighted with Tea … Continue reading More Distressing
