Annette Sullivan: Independent Stampin' Up!® Demonstrator, Australia – Providing inspiration for handmade greeting cards
Category: Elements of Style
This week at the online class at Crafter's Anonymous, we made this refillable tissue box gift pack. I used Naturals Ivory for the base and stamped it in Night of Navy with the flourish from Elements of Style. My ribbon embellishment, made with Night of Navy 5/8" grosgrain ribbon and an Antique Brad is a … Continue reading Refillable Tissue Box Gift Pack
Another great sketch this week at Splitcoaststampers. As I still have more of my Wax Paper Resist pieces, I thought this would make a great background for the sketch. I have made a vintage style CAS card. The base is Naturals Ivory, and the background panels are Very Vanilla (with the wax paper run through … Continue reading Sketch Challenge
Today I am combining an old technique with sketch challenges from Splitcoaststampers for the past two weeks. The technique is known variously as Wax Paper Resist or Wax Paper Embossing Resist. It is quite simple: Take a piece of waxed paper and emboss it with your favourite embossing folder. Cut two pieces of a neutral … Continue reading Wax Paper Resist
Today I have combined a pretty technique known as Delft Tile with this week's Sketch Challenge on Splitcoaststampers. The base card and ink used is Pacific Point. A piece of Whisper White was scored into 3cm squares and then stamped with the floral image from Elements of Style. The edges of the tiles were sponged, … Continue reading Delft Tile
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
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
Lavender Thoughts 