Annette Sullivan: Independent Stampin' Up!® Demonstrator, Australia – Providing inspiration for handmade greeting cards
Category: Greetings of the Season
As a Stampin' Up! Independent Demonstrator, I get lots of 'perks' including a discount on product purchases, seeing the catalogues and ordering products before the general public. This weekend, I placed an order from the new Holiday Catalogue which goes live on 28 August. There are some wonderful new products which I will show you … Continue reading Corner Garden for Christmas
The third challenge is Holiday Focus: "Celebrate your favourite holiday with a new technique!" Christmas is a wonderful time of giving and my favourite holiday. I am using the tent card as the new technique, following the SCS tutorial here. I have one of the retiring Naturals Composition Specialty DSP for the base card. After … Continue reading Creative Crew Challenge 3 – June 2014
I have a couple of clean and simple, one layer Christmas cards for you today. They have been made using the Bordered Sentiment technique from Splitcoaststampers and the now retired Watercolor Winter stamp set. The first card is made with Whisper White card stock with the bottom edges rounded. The holly has been inked with … Continue reading Watercolor Winter Bordered Sentiment
Today's card also uses the MDS version of Santa's List. The Santa image was cut with a Window Frames Framelit and cut into four pieces to emulate a window. I then placed it on a piece of Cherry Cobbler. A sentiment was also added and then the Cherry Cobbler was embossed with the Square Lattice … Continue reading Santa’s List Window Frame Cobbler
Another Christmas card today. This one uses the MDS version of Santa's List. Onto a base of Naturals Ivory, I added a piece of Soft Suede embossed with the Argyle TIEF. The Santa image was cut with a circle die and sponged with Soft Suede. Dazzling Details added some sparkle on the cuffs and hat. … Continue reading Santa’s List Argyle Suede
You may think it is too early to start on your Christmas cards, but I have found that by making a few each month, it does not become a massive task at the end of the year. Today's card uses some of the new Watercolor Wonder Designer Washi Tape and the Faux Letterpress technique. Using … Continue reading Greetings of the Season Washi Sugar
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