Annette Sullivan: Independent Stampin' Up!® Demonstrator, Australia – Providing inspiration for handmade greeting cards
Category: Birthdays
A Happy New Year to all my readers. I hope that 2014 brings you all the opportunities and happiness that you desire. As a bright start to the new year, I have a Retiform technique card to share with you. Retiform basically means netlike. By using some sponges to create the grid like net pattern, … Continue reading Fabulous Florets in Retiform
Today, I have used dry embossing, heat embossing and emboss resist to create this very pretty pink birthday card for my friend Janelle. I started by stamping the Swallowtail in Versamark on Whisper White. I then heat embossed it with Melon Mambo EP, sponged with Wisteria Wonder ink and fussy cut it. Using a two-way … Continue reading Swallowtail Stylish Mambo
Dies, embossing, a few stamped images and a little sponging were all that were required to complete this birthday card. The image panel of Whisper White was cut using one of the Labels Framelits. The bird and grasses from the retired Autumn Days were then stamped using Early Espresso and Baked Brown Sugar. Some light … Continue reading Autumn Days Coastal Pudding
Here is a great example of paper piercing. I used one of the Windows Frames shapes from the Festive Paper Piercing Pack to create three frames on a piece of Whisper White and then stamped the bouquet of flowers from Best of Flowers in two of the frames and a sentiment from Simply Sketched in … Continue reading Best of Flowers Artichoke
A new month, and a new set of challenges for the Splitcoaststampers Creative Crew. The first one is "DSP/Color Focus: Witch's Brew DSP on P 21 of the Holiday Catalog. If you don't have the DSP, use the colour combo: Basic Black, Basic Gray, Pumpkin Pie, Summer Starfruit and Very Vanilla." We don't celebrate Halloween … Continue reading Creative Crew Perfectly Penned Sunburst
Today's elegant birthday card uses the Best of Flowers and the Hostess set Morning Meadow. Midnight Muse and Very Vanilla combine to create a monochromatic look. The Stylish Stripes TIEF from the Holiday Catalogue provides the perfect background for the oval framed flowers and Apothecary Accents Framelit sentiment. The polka dots are from the retired … Continue reading Best of Flowers Midnight Poetry
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