Annette Sullivan: Independent Stampin' Up!® Demonstrator, Australia – Providing inspiration for handmade greeting cards
Category: Embossing Folders
It is the beginning of a new month, an important one in the Stampin' Up! calendar. Here in Australia, the list of products that will retire at the end of June is now available, and if you are a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, you get to see the new catalogue and order some sneak peek products. … Continue reading Creative Crew Challenge 1 – June 2014
One of the recent trends is to use embossing folders as stamps to create backgrounds for your projects. This week's Technique Challenge [TLC482] on Splitcoaststampers was to use this technique. I used the Petals-a-Plenty TIEF and some Tim Holtz Distress Stains (Fired Brick, Faded Jeans and Dusty Concord) with Watercolor Paper. An image from Thoughts … Continue reading Thoughts and Prayers Calypso Tempting Plum
I had a few friends over recently and showed them how to do one of my favourite techniques - Faux Silk. My first sample uses Perfect Plum, Always Artichoke and Whisper White card stock. I stamped images from Peaceful Petals onto the tissue paper to create the silk look. Extra texture was added to the … Continue reading Peaceful Petals and Beautiful Season Faux Silk
A vintage style card today based on an idea from Pinterest. I used the Shop Around Jumbo Wheel on a piece of Crumb Cake using Crumb Cake ink. I think I need to ink my stamp pad as the result was very light. I then put this piece through the Beautifully Baroque TIEF and then … Continue reading Beautifully Baroque Pirouette Bird
The third of the May challenges is Holiday Focus: "National Photograph Month. Create a card that looks like a photograph by putting a border around your image and making the image glossy. You may use On Film Framelits or make your own, you may use window sheets for glossiness or crystal effects." My 'photograph' card … Continue reading Creative Crew May 2014 Challenge 3
The second of the May challenges is Catalog Focus: "scoring tools. Use all or one of these scoring tools--Simply Scored Tool, Simply Scored Borders Plate and/or Simply Scored Diagonal Plate to add interest to a gatefold card." The top of the Pacific Point base card was put through one of the Labels Framelits to create … Continue reading Creative Crew May 2014 Challenge 2
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