Annette Sullivan: Independent Stampin' Up!® Demonstrator, Australia – Providing inspiration for handmade greeting cards
Category: Christmas
The Traditions of St Nick DSP was used to create a couple of Offset Gate Fold cards for Christmas. The first card has a Real Red base and the second one has a Wild Wheat base, Start with a standard card base of 21cm x 14.8cm (8½" x 5½"). Instead of scoring at 5.25cm (2-1/8") … Continue reading Offset Gate Fold Cards for Christmas
Here is another version of the four square side flap fancy fold card. (See the other one here.) The Thick Very Vanilla card base is 29.7cm x 10.5cm scored at 14.8cm, Fold on the score line and cut off a piece 4.3cm on the right hand side of the front (10.5cm from the left hand … Continue reading Four Square Side Flap Fancy Fold card for Christmas
I couldn't resist using my first ever Christmas stamp set - City of David to create this Angled Fold Card. Supplies: Stamp Set: City of David Cardstock: Pretty Peacock, Very Vanilla, Lights Aglow Specialty DSP Ink: Pretty Peacock Accessories: Decorative Circle Punch, 2" Circle Punch, Handmade Tag Punch You can download the PDF file with … Continue reading Creating an Angled Fold Card for Christmas
Looking to create a very handmade Christmas card? Grab some sponge daubers, watercolor paper and ink pads and you are ready to go. Use a pencil and lightly outline the tree shape. Take a few different green ink pads (Old Olive, Shaded Spruce and Soft Sea Foam) with some sponge daubers and gradually fill in … Continue reading Create a Christmas Tree with Sponge Daubers
Today's cards are a CASE from the 2023 September-December Mini Catalogue using the Night Divine Dies and Christmas Classics Stamp Set. The sentiments on both cards were Clear Embossed on the DSP and then sponged with Whisper White Craft ink to create an Emboss Resist look. Check out the inside of the cards and the … Continue reading CASEing the Catalogue with Christmas Nativity Cards
You may have heard of One Sheet Wonders where you can create a group of cards from one sheet of DSP. The latest version of this is the Stack, Cut & Shuffle Technique. For this technique you use three sheets of 6" x 6" DSP and create three different cards. For the first two sets … Continue reading How to build up your card stash quickly using the Stack, Cut & Shuffle Technique
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