Annette Sullivan: Independent Stampin' Up!® Demonstrator, Australia – Providing inspiration for handmade greeting cards
Category: Thoughts & Prayers
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
A very elegant CAS Sympathy card is my project for today. The Whisper White art panel was stamped with an image and sentiment from Thoughts & Prayers using Bermuda Bay ink, and then embossed with the Fancy Fan TIEF. This was layered onto Basic Black, and then a base of Bermuda Bay. Some small Basic … Continue reading Thoughts and Prayers Bermuda Bay
Always Artichoke and Certainly Celery are the monochromatic colours for this week's Dynamic Duos challenge. Whilst I believe you can never have too much green, I thought I would start with a Naturals White card base for this one. I reverse masked some of the Sizzlits Little Leaves in Certainly Celery to provide some background … Continue reading Monochromatic Dynamic Duos Week
The Colour Challenge at Splitcoaststampers this week uses Lucky Limeade, Primrose Petals and Pink Pirouette. I thought it would work very well with the Sketch Challenge and my new Stippled Blossoms stamps. I embossed the Naturals White card base with the Fancy Fan EF. The Stippled Blossoms is a two step stamp set, so I … Continue reading Lucky Primrose Pirouette Stippled Blossoms
No, we are not talking about Batman and Robin, rather a challenge which is perfect for me. Each week, the Design Team at Dynamic Duos selects two colours to be used for the challenge. Neutrals such as black, white, vanilla, skin colours and kraft are also welcome. Here is this week's challenge. A great monochromatic … Continue reading Dynamic Duos 8
We all know how difficult it is to make a sympathy card when it is actually needed, so I thought I would make a few in advance. I know it sounds a bit creepy, but it is much easier to design them when you are in a better frame of mind. To this end, I … Continue reading Sympathy
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