Category: Embossing Folders

Masculine Bookmark

Masculine Bookmark

A challenge from Crafter's Anonymous to make a bookmark. I thought I would make mine with a masculine theme. I have used my new Open Sea set for the images and created a collage effect on Very Vanilla card stock using Crumb Cake pastels and ink, and Soft Suede ink. The fancy corners were punched … Continue reading Masculine Bookmark →

Bleaching

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 →

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 →

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 →

Distressing Essentials

I purchased the Distressing Essentials kit a while ago, and have not yet had much of a play with it. My sister, Helen and I decided to see what we could do with it. So, over the next few days, I will show you some of our creative attempts at distressing. Our first attempt uses … Continue reading Distressing Essentials →