Some watercolouring with one of the Hostess sets that disappears at the end of the month. I stamped a sentiment from Oh Hello and then dry embossed the front of a Naturals Ivory card base with the retired Vine Street TIEF. On watercolour paper, I stamped the swing image and the bicycle image from Summer … Continue reading The end of Summer Afternoon
Category: Dry Embossing
Best of Flowers Pistachio Brown Sugar Rose
Did you see my post the other day showing the Best of Flowers set that is only available for a limited time? This is one of the sets that Stampin' Up! has introduced to celebrate 25 years of making a difference. Some of the stamps are old favourites returning, possibly in a different size, plus … Continue reading Best of Flowers Pistachio Brown Sugar Rose
Fabulous Florets Wisteria Pirouette
Inlaid or embedded embossing is the technique I have used today. Triangular pieces of Wisteria Wonder were added to opposite corners of a piece of Pink Pirouette. Flowers, leaves and sentiment from Fabulous Florets were then stamped between the DSP using Wisteria Wonder and Lucky Limeade ink. The leaves were stamped using a masking technique. … Continue reading Fabulous Florets Wisteria Pirouette
Daydream Medallions Pool Petals
My Primrose Petals Core'dinations card stock turned up today and I couldn't wait to try it out. I took a piece and ran it through the Honeycomb TIEF and lightly sanded it to bring out the core colours. Some images from Daydream Medallions [also a recent purchase] were stamped in Raspberry Ripple and Pool Party … Continue reading Daydream Medallions Pool Petals
Secret Garden Primrose Petals
Secret Garden is a very popular stamp set with matching Framelits. Whilst I was checking out some of my favourite blogs recently, I came across a very pretty clean and simple card using this set on LeeAnn Greff's Flowerbug's Inkspot. I made a few changes to make it my own and created this. I used … Continue reading Secret Garden Primrose Petals
Calypso Box Pleats
This week at the online class at Crafters Anonymous, Kristine showed us how to make a box pleat card. I used a card base of Baja Breeze, with some Calypso Coral DSP. The two step images from Field Flowers were stamped with Calypso Coral and Versmark for the stems. The sentiment is from Memorable Moments. … Continue reading Calypso Box Pleats
Lavender Thoughts 